"Wait, wait."
Jiang Yao followed Yun Mo eagerly. The two had been out of the capital for quite some time when they heard shouts from behind.
Jiang Yao initially thought it was Jiang He who had come to capture her, and she was so frightened that she ordered the coachman to walk faster. However, when Gu Qingchen caught up with Jiang Yao, panting heavily, Jiang Yao quickly ran down and exclaimed, "Achen, it's you!"
"Cousin, you left too quickly, without even saying goodbye to my brother and me."
Gu Qingchen's expression was somewhat somber. "My uncle sent someone to tell me, cousin, don't rush off yet. Let's go to Lingzhou to pay our respects to our maternal grandparents."
"Ancestor worship?"
Jiang Yao looked at Gu Qingchen in front of her, her eyes flickering slightly, "Didn't Father say anything else to you?"
"My uncle only told us to go back to Lingzhou to pay our respects."
Gu Qingchen and Jiang Yao look different; one resembles Jiang He, and the other resembles Jiang Yu.
"Cousin, do you think Grandpa and Grandma will laugh when they see us like this?"
Gu Qingchen shook his head. "After we finish paying respects to our ancestors, cousin, you can go wherever you want."
"Really?"
Jiang Yao was somewhat surprised that her father hadn't sent anyone to stop her.
"It's absolutely true. I'm standing right in front of my cousin now, what else could she possibly not believe?"
Seeing this, Jiang Yao turned to Yun Mo beside her and said, "Master, let's go to Lingzhou first. Ah Chen and I will go and kowtow to Grandfather and Grandmother."
"good."
Yunmo naturally wouldn't refuse, and the group turned and headed towards Lingzhou.
Gu Qingchen finally had a chance to leave the capital, and he was so excited that he was like a little sparrow, making Jiang Yao's head throb.
"Master, do you have a headache? If so, you can drink some calming tea."
Yun Mo was a little taken aback by Jiang Yao's words.
To be honest, Yunmo is still in a daze. Jiang Yao came over early this morning and said she wanted to go sightseeing with him.
Before he could even refuse, a little girl appeared behind him.
Then came another young prince of noble status.
"I'm fine."
Yunmo smiled and glanced at the chattering Gu Qingchen. "Your Highness's temperament is quite similar to that of the Princess back then. I'm afraid the Princess has forgotten what she looked like back then?"
"I wasn't like this before!"
Jiang Yao immediately became unhappy upon hearing this, and Gu Qingchen also leaned over, saying, "Brother Yunmo, tell me about my cousin's past."
"Gu Qingchen!"
"When the princess was little, she loved to eat candied hawthorns. Whenever she left the Dingyuan Marquis's mansion, she couldn't take her eyes off the stalls on both sides of the street."
"So my cousin is like that too!"
Because of Yunmo's few words, the siblings immediately started mocking each other. Even Gu Qingchen rarely saw Jiang Yao like this, and he started playing with her directly.
And so, the group chatted and laughed all the way, and soon arrived in Lingzhou.
......
"We'll stay here for the night and go to pay respects to my grandfather and grandmother tomorrow."
In a makeshift courtyard, several people sat at a stone table in the yard, and Jiang Yao looked at the fine wine in her glass with shining eyes.
Fine wine, fine wine.
"This wine is for my own consumption; the princess and the prince cannot drink it." Yun Mo slowly took the wine cups away from Jiang Yao and Gu Qingchen, immediately receiving two puzzled looks.
"Tomorrow you will burn incense and offer sacrifices. If you drink alcohol, be careful that you will be scolded to your face."
Who insulted them? In this whole world, who would dare point fingers and insult two people...?
Both of them shuddered involuntarily. Well, saving their lives was the priority.
Thanks to Yunmo's reminder, when Jiang Yao and Gu Qingchen opened the door the next day and saw the two people standing outside, Gu Qingchen quietly took a few steps back.
"Father, Mother, what brings you here?"
"I heard from your uncle that you and Yaoyao are coming to Lingzhou to pay respects to your maternal grandparents, so your father and I have also come to Lingzhou to visit."
Jiang Yu glanced at Yun Mo following behind her, then at Jiang Yao who remained silent, a meaningful look flashing in her eyes.
Gu Lin immediately understood Jiang Yu's meaning, and pulled Yun Mo aside. A Yu was worried about Yao Yao following Yun Mo.
Let him take a look.
"Oh, Uncle, you..." Jiang Yao saw Yun Mo being taken away and hurriedly reached out to stop him, but was stopped by Jiang Yu. "Yao Yao, come on, I'll take you to pay respects to your grandfather and grandmother."
In front of the memorial tablets of the old Marquis of Dingyuan and his wife.
Jiang Yao and Gu Qingchen kowtowed three times earnestly. Jiang Yu, who was standing to the side, watched the two kowtowing, her eyes welling up with tears.
“Father, Mother, your daughter has brought the children to see you.” Jiang Yu’s voice was choked with emotion. “Ayan is too busy with court affairs to come, so Yaoyao and Achen have come to keep you two company.”
“Grandfather, Grandmother, it’s me, Yao Yao. I have some good news to tell you.” Jiang Yao said respectfully, “I passed the imperial examination with top honors and became the first female top scholar in Dayu. I have not disgraced the Jiang family.”
"Father and Mother both said that when you were still alive, you always said that the Jiang family was a family of military generals, but now your granddaughter has proven to the whole world that our Jiang family can produce a top scholar!"
"Grandfather, Grandmother, it's me, A-Chen. I don't have any good news to bring you two." Gu Qingchen scratched his neck a little embarrassedly, "But I'm studying hard and practicing martial arts, and I'm growing up well."
"And my elder brother, he asked me to pass on a message to you two elders, saying that he is governing Dayu very well now." Gu Qingchen changed the subject, "However, my brother has always been jealous of my cousin and me, saying that he doesn't look as much like the Empress Dowager, and he's afraid that you two elders will prefer my cousin and me."
Hearing Gu Qingchen's silly grin, Jiang Yu was also amused.
After the ancestral worship ceremony.
"Gu Qingchen, if Ayan finds out you're tattling here, you'll be in big trouble," Jiang Yu couldn't help but say. Gu Qingchen immediately covered his bottom, "Mother, please, please don't tell my brother."
"Then I'll tell my cousin."
Jiang Yao also burst out laughing, and Gu Qingchen immediately started making a scene, causing everyone to bend over with laughter.
That's wonderful, Father and Mother. Can you see? We're all doing very well.
The children are doing well too.
[End of article]
It's a pleasure to have met everyone in this book. The mountains aren't high, and the roads aren't far; see you in the next book!
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