Chapter 427: The Queen is so kind!

After Xu Ge'er and his seven brothers had played for a while and got tired, he looked around and asked, "Hey, where's my dad? ... Hey, where's my mom?"

Why are my parents nowhere to be seen?

Grandma Wei smiled meaningfully, took her grandson's hand, and wiped the sweat off his forehead: "Xu'er, sleep with grandma tonight."

Xu Ge'er happily agreed, asked the maid to feed him some water, and then ran off to play crazy with his brothers.

According to custom, people stay up until midnight to celebrate the New Year.

But Yu Yonghuai held an official position, and Wei Pozi and Li Chunhua also had imperial decrees, so they all had to go to the palace to pay their respects to the Emperor and Empress on the first day of the New Year, and the vigil ended before midnight.

Everyone went back to their respective courtyards to rest.

Xingxing also returned to her own small courtyard with a large amount of New Year's gift money in her pocket.

Xingxing is the youngest in the Yu family, except for Bang'er, Mian'er, and Xu'er. Almost all the family members gave her the New Year's gift this year.

Grandma Da Xi gave Xing Xing a bottle of her freshly prepared pills, Old Lady Liu gave Xing Xing a small gold lock, Grandma Wei and Old Man Yu gave her a heavy gold necklace, and the aunt and the others each gave her a handful of golden melon seeds. In addition, even the brothers Huai Ge'er and Bai Ge'er prepared New Year's gifts for Xing Xing.

Even Bang'er, Mian'er and Xu'er, who were younger than Xingxing, came to Xingxing with equally heavy New Year's money, wanting to give it all to their sister.

As usual, Xingxing hugged and kissed each of her younger brothers several times, and picked out a small golden melon seed from their New Year's money, as a way of showing her filial piety to her elder sister.

Xingxing is young and can only give the three little ones some money.

She had prepared it early on and gave each of her three younger brothers the deed to a small farm as a New Year's gift.

The aunties all thought that Xingxing's age-old money was too much, but Xingxing said seriously: "Boys will get married in the future. I am helping them save money for their wives!"

Mrs. Wei also waved her hand and said, "It's okay, it's Xingxing's good intention. It's a good thing for the brothers to have their own businesses. When they are older, let them use their own estates as training. We can't raise a playboy in our Yu family."

The aunts and uncles thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. When Xingxing got married, they would definitely give her a thick dowry.

It was snowing on New Year's Eve. Before dawn, Mrs. Wei and Li Chunhua put on the formal attire according to their official rank and went to the capital with Yu Yonghuai.

Both Mrs. Wei and Li Chunhua's legs were shaking with nervousness.

Even though they had attended several banquets in the past six months and met many dignitaries, the people they were going to meet today were the two most important people in the world!

Instead, Yu Yonghuai came to comfort them: "Mother, grandmother, don't worry, the emperor and the queen are both very good people, just relax."

When Mrs. Wei and Li Chunhua came out of the palace, both of them looked a little strange.

However, Yu Yonghuai was invited to attend the banquet by the emperor, so Wei Pozi and Li Chunhua returned to Yu's house in a carriage as if their souls were floating in the air.

Xingxing had been waiting in the main courtyard. Seeing that her grandmother and her aunt had returned safely, she quickly instructed the maid to bring over the soup that had been heating up on the stove. In order not to lose manners in front of Yu, Mrs. Wei and Li Chunhua had not eaten or drunk much in the morning.

Xingxing was busy taking Li Chunhua's pulse. She heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that Li Chunhua's pulse was very stable.

"Grandma, what's wrong with you?" Xingxing stretched out her little hand and waved it in front of Mrs. Wei.

Mrs. Wei came back to her senses and said quietly, "I just remember what happened in the palace before, and I still don't dare to believe it."

Xingxing became even more curious, and shook Mrs. Wei's hand with a look of "Tell me, tell me" on her face.

Not only Xingxing, but all the women in the room looked at Grandma Wei with curiosity.

They wanted to know, what does the emperor look like?

What does the Queen look like?

Only Da Xi Si Po took the hot tea and took a sip without any concern.

After drinking a bowl of hot soup, Mrs. Wei came back to her senses and told her family about their experiences in the palace.

Mrs. Wei was a lady of the third rank, and Li Chunhua was a lady of the fifth rank. Among the ladies from other official positions who came to pay their respects to the empress, their ranks were almost indistinguishable from the rest.

But Yu Yonghuai was famous. As soon as Wei Pozi and Li Chunhua entered the palace, many ladies from other official positions secretly looked at them.

Later, Mrs. Wei didn't know which family she had offended. There was a wife of a first-rank marquis who said some ambiguous words that were not quite right. Anyway, Mrs. Wei could tell that the words were directed at them.

Mrs. Wei didn't dare to think about what would happen next.

The empress, who was as beautiful as a fairy concubine, walked out from the back of the palace and said a few words to the marquis's wife in a neither light nor heavy manner.

Mrs. Wei still remembers that the marquis's face turned as red as a monkey's butt one moment and as white as a ghost the next. It was such a relief!

When Mrs. Wei recalled this, Li Chunhua suddenly slapped her thigh and said, "I remember now. The lady of the Marquis of Linyang should be the lady of the Marquis of Linyang! When the Empress spoke, I was so nervous that I couldn't hear clearly because my ears were buzzing! Now that I think about it, it should be the lady of the Marquis of Linyang!"

As soon as the Linyang Marquis Mansion was mentioned, Mrs. Wei finally understood: "It turns out that he is from the Linyang Marquis Mansion! No wonder!"

The Linyang Marquis' Mansion had originally been at odds with the Yu family because of the haughty daughter of the Marquis.

It's just that Yu Yonghuai was very popular in the capital at that time, and the Linyang Marquis' Mansion was reprimanded by the higher-ups because of Old Lady Liu's letter. Therefore, in the past six months, the Linyang Marquis' Mansion did not cause any trouble to the Yu family.

The wife of Marquis Linyang probably wanted to bully Wei Pozi and Li Chunhua verbally, but she didn't expect that the Empress would hear it.

What was even more unexpected was that the Empress would actually make the decision on behalf of Wei Pozi Li Chunhua and the others.

After knowing that the Marquis’ wife who was scolded by the Empress was the Marquis’ wife of Linyang, Mrs. Wei became even more excited: “…The Empress is so nice! She is so pretty and so kind! After the Empress told me about the Marquis’ wife of Linyang, she called me up and asked me a lot of questions! I couldn’t believe that the Empress would ask about our country affairs in such detail, asking us whether our harvest was good, and whether we would burn incense and worship Buddha if we encountered any problems while in the country! My God, the Empress is so kind!”

Li Chunhua nodded frantically.

Although the Empress did not ask her, ever since the Empress asked her mother-in-law alone, the wives of the powerful ministers standing in the palace no longer dared to look down on them! Especially the wife of the Marquis of Linyang, her face was uglier than crying!

Thinking about it now, Li Chunhua still felt like she was in a dream!