Chapter 758, the date is set
On the second day of June, Daohua sent someone to deliver a jar of rose water to Prince Ping as promised.
Because it was food, Daohua specifically told Qin Xiaoliu to make sure to hand it over to Huai'en. If anyone else in the palace wanted to keep it, she would rather destroy it than leave it behind.
So, on a hot day, Huai En, sweating profusely, walked into Prince Ping's study holding a jar of rose water.
Seeing him like this, Prince Ping couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"
Huai En handed over the rose water with a wry smile, and then explained what had happened.
Prince Ping listened, looked at the porcelain jar, and laughed, "That girl is very efficient. She brought it to me so quickly."
Huai En smiled and said, "Master, you are the future father-in-law of the county lady, so she naturally has to pay more attention to you. Besides, you praised the county lady so much in front of others yesterday, so she has to show her filial piety."
Prince Ping laughed and said nothing.
The reason why I praised that girl yesterday was, firstly, to give face to my brother the emperor; secondly, I didn’t want outsiders to laugh at the palace; thirdly, it was because of the previous hardship we had experienced.
It’s hard to say how much he likes that girl.
However, he no longer objected to her becoming his daughter-in-law.
Prince Ping asked Huai En to open the porcelain jar, poured out a cup of rose fragrance, took a sip, and said with satisfaction: "Yan girl still has some good points."
Just then, Xiao Yechen came over.
Prince Ping immediately smiled and asked Huai En to serve him a cup of rose water: "This is your sister-in-law's filial piety to me. You can try it too. It tastes pretty good."
Xiao Yechen took a sip and said with a smile, "It is indeed delicious to be praised by my father." Then he looked at Huai En and asked with a smile, "You are sweating so much, what have you been doing?"
Huai En looked up at Xiao Yechen and thought to himself, the eldest master really came here to send the county lady rose perfume.
Before Huai En could speak, Prince Ping said, "He went to get the rose scented dew."
Xiao Yechen suddenly understood: "So that's how it is. I just came back from outside and heard the servants at the gatehouse saying that the servants of the Yan family don't trust them and don't want them to deliver things to the mansion. They insist on Huai En."
As he spoke, he paused and glanced at Prince Ping who was drinking the fragrant dew with his head down.
"If you ask me, this Princess Shengping is a bit too overbearing. She hasn't even entered the house yet, but she's already ordering people around my father around. It's okay for her to be disrespectful to my mother, but why is she treating my father like this too? Is she relying on my second brother's favor?"
The cold fragrant dew suddenly slid into Prince Ping's stomach, making him shudder. He felt a little cold in his heart at this moment, not knowing whether it was because of the coldness of the fragrant dew or the sudden realization of the imperceptible hostility of the eldest son of a concubine towards the legitimate son.
Suddenly, some fragments kept flashing through his mind. It seemed that every time his legitimate son did something, Ma and his eldest son would appear in time, say something to provoke his anger, and then...
He and his eldest son pushed each other further and further away step by step.
Seeing Prince Ping looking at him with a strange expression he had never seen before, Xiao Yechen panicked and asked nervously, "Father, did I say something wrong?"
Prince Ping slowly put down the fragrant dew and looked at his eldest son, who had been spoiled since childhood, with some complicated feelings. Could it be that, as his royal brother said, his favor had fueled the ambitions of Ma and her son?
"You're overthinking it. I have something else to do here. Please leave first."
Xiao Yechen seemed to be hesitant to speak, but when he saw Prince Ping had turned his back with his hands behind his back, he left the room anxiously.
Prince Ping stood in front of the window and watched his eldest son leave. Recalling what Yan Yatou had said yesterday, accusing him of mistreating his legitimate son, he became irritated and couldn't calm down.
"You just said that the Yan family's servants would rather destroy the porcelain jar than give it to anyone else?"
Huai En noticed that Prince Ping was in a bad mood, nodded, and didn't dare to say anything else.
Prince Ping took a deep breath. Even his daughter-in-law who had not yet married into the family avoided Ma and her son like the plague. It was obvious how much his legitimate son was afraid of them.
After a long silence, Prince Ping ordered Huai'en to find the map of the palace courtyard.
Huai'en was puzzled, but didn't dare to ask any more questions, so he quickly went to find a map of the palace courtyard.
Prince Ping looked at the blueprint silently. Finally, he drew a line on it with a pen and said to Huai En, "Take this blueprint to Ye Yang later and tell him that the land east of the palace will be used to build his new house. Let him build it according to his own wishes!"
Huai En quickly glanced at the blueprint and was shocked to see that Prince Ping had allocated half of the palace to the young prince.
If this is cleaned up, it will be much larger than the main hall of the palace!
Is the prince going to confirm the young prince's position as the crown prince?
Huai En did not dare to delay and personally delivered the drawings to Xiao Yeyang.
After seeing the drawings, Xiao Yeyang was also puzzled. Why was his father suddenly so nice to him?
Defu went to inquire about it and found out that apart from Daohua sending a can of rose perfume, nothing else had happened. Xiao Yeyang became even more puzzled.
Could it be that his father was bribed by Daohua's jar of rose water?
Too lazy to think too much, Xiao Yeyang lowered his head to look at the blueprint of the palace. It's no wonder that these blueprints came at the right time. Yesterday, when he came of age, his uncle the emperor sent someone to inform him that the wedding date had been set.
He and Daohua will definitely have to return to the palace to get married, so it would be better to prepare the new house as soon as possible.
After leaving the yamen, Xiao Yeyang took the blueprints and went to Yan's house. Since his father was so generous this time, he would not be polite. Their new house would naturally be decorated according to Daohua's wishes.
"Such a large place is all for us?!"
Looking at the area marked out by Prince Ping, Daohua looked at Xiao Yeyang in surprise.
Xiao Yeyang laughed and said, "It's just half of the palace, is there any need to be so surprised? Well, take a good look at the blueprint. This is where we will live in the future. If you have any changes you want to make, outline them and I'll ask Defu to do it."
Hearing Xiao Yeyang say this, Daohua immediately rubbed his hands in anticipation: "I have to think about this carefully."
Xiao Yeyang smiled and said, "You can take your time to think about it, but it has to be done before November. The Emperor's uncle asked the Imperial Astronomical Observatory to calculate the date, and our wedding is set for December. When I came here, I had already informed the old lady and my uncle and aunt about it."
Daohua looked at Xiao Yeyang in surprise: "How come I don't know?"
Xiao Yeyang smiled and said, "Didn't I tell you now?"
Daohua was silent for a moment: "This December?"
Xiao Yeyang walked over to her and sat down, then asked with a smile, "What's with that expression? Do you think you've been waiting too long? I think I've been waiting a bit too long too."
Upon hearing this, Daohua immediately glared at Xiao Yeyang: "Who complains it's taking too long? I complain it's too fast!" Then she lowered her head to look at the drawings.
Girls are always shy when talking about getting married. Xiao Yeyang was worried that Daohua would feel embarrassed, so he didn't dare to joke with her. He just smiled and watched her scribbling on the drawings.
"Xiao Yeyang, can I build a wall to separate the East Courtyard from the Main Courtyard?"
"Can!"
"Wouldn't that be a bit too obvious?"
"What's so obvious about it? The disagreement between Ma and her son is known to everyone in the capital. Let's keep them separate. Out of sight, out of mind. This way, it will be easier for you to manage the servants after you get married."
"Since you said so, I will really change it."
"Change it! If anything happens, I'll take care of it." If it wasn't so uncomfortable living outside, he really didn't want to live in the palace with Daohua. There were so many troubles and problems.
"Well, after I finish revising the blueprint, you'd better show it to your father first."
(End of this chapter)
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