After Liu Qingyun arrived at the Huo family, the people in Jingning Marquis' Mansion also knew about Liu Qingyun's visit.
"I'll go pick him up." said Princess Zhaoyang.
With people like the Huo family, who knows what kind of trouble they will cause.
Princess Zhaoyang didn't mean to prevent Liu Qingyun from going, but rather that the people in Huo Bo's residence were simply not good people. Previously, the people in Huo Bo's residence had repeatedly used the so-called filial piety to pressure Liu Qingyun and Liu Jia.
Under such circumstances, Princess Zhaoyang thought it would be safer to step forward on her own.
"Okay." Mother Liu nodded, "It's hard for you."
"It's nothing to worry about," Princess Zhaoyang said with a smile. "I'll go and see. If they don't treat him badly, then it's fine. If they do, I'll be there just in time."
Princess Zhaoyang believed that as a stepmother, she should do something, and she didn't think it mattered what others thought of her.
At the Huo Mansion, Uncle Huo was in good health, and nothing had happened to him. Uncle Huo hadn't mentioned asking Liu Qingyun to come over, but when he learned that Liu Qingyun was coming to see him, he felt something was wrong.
"This child misses his mother." Mrs. Huo said hurriedly when she saw Uncle Huo.
"Isn't the uncle sick?" When Liu Qingyun heard this, he knew that Mrs. Huo was lying and he was not thinking about the eldest Mrs. Huo at all.
Liu Qingyun knew that Da Huo was staying at the manor, and he thought it was a good idea as Da Huo would not get in the way of others.
Uncle Huo looked at Liu Qingyun, then at Mrs. Huo. "Did your grandmother say I was sick?"
"Yes." Liu Qingyun nodded. "She told me at the school gate that you were sick and asked me to come over. I said I wanted to go back home, but she wouldn't let me go."
Liu Qingyun told the truth. If he didn't say it, how could others know it?
"Uncle." Madam Huo had never expected Liu Qingyun to say such a thing. Liu Qingyun had indeed not grown up by her side. This child had no understanding for her at all.
Mrs. Huo had been staying at the manor for so long, and Mrs. Huo had always wanted to rescue her. However, she simply didn't have the ability to do so, so Mrs. Huo had no choice but to stay at the manor.
After such a long time, Uncle Huo still has no intention of letting the eldest Huo come out.
If Mrs. Huo didn't think of a solution, she thought Mrs. Huo would really go crazy.
"Our daughter has been at the farm for a long time and has realized her mistake," Mrs. Huo said. "The child must miss his mother, and Jia Jie'er too."
Just at this moment, someone came to report that Princess Zhaoyang had arrived.
Mrs. Huo was surprised. How could Princess Zhaoyang come so soon? She had originally planned to take Liu Qingyun directly to the farm to show him how difficult life was for the Huo family.
Liu Qingyun will definitely soften his heart!
Unfortunately, Liu Qingyun refused to cooperate and did not ride in the same carriage with her, so she could not take Liu Qingyun to the manor. Mrs. Huo had no choice but to take Liu Qingyun to Huo Bo's mansion. She originally wanted to send someone to the manor, but the people from Jingning Marquis's mansion said they were taking the wrong route.
If the road is wrong, the driver from Jingning Marquis Mansion will not take the wrong road.
This left Mrs. Huo helpless. She said that Uncle Huo had gone to the farm to recuperate. However, the people in Jingning Marquis's Mansion did not believe her, saying that if they left the capital, they would have to inform the Liu family first, otherwise they would not be allowed to leave.
"Why did Princess Zhaoyang come so soon?" Mrs. Huo muttered.
"Let the princess in quickly," said Mr. Huo. They couldn't let anyone stay outside; that would be rude. They were members of the royal family, not ordinary people.
When Princess Zhaoyang came to the living room, Liu Qingyun immediately walked up to her.
"Mother." Liu Qingyun said respectfully.
"Your grandmother specially cooked two dishes today, saying that she would eat them together when you return." Princess Zhaoyang looked at Liu Qingyun, "Wait a minute, I want to talk to your grandfather and the others."
Princess Zhaoyang looked at Uncle Huo and asked, "Is Uncle Huo in good health?"
"Not bad." Uncle Huo wondered if someone had already told Princess Zhaoyang about those things. How could he say that his health was not good? "Since the Marquis's wife has already ordered the meal, let Yun Ge'er go back with the princess earlier, and don't keep the Marquis's wife waiting for too long."
"In that case, I will take Yun'er back." Princess Zhaoyang specifically asked that question, wanting to give the Huo family a warning. These people shouldn't think that the Jingning Marquisate is easy to bully. The Huo family didn't take advantage of the Jingning Marquisate when it was in trouble, but the eldest Huo family and Liu Yanjing did divorce.
How could a daughter who had been divorced and remarried have the right to expect her previous son to care about her? Besides, Mrs. Huo was not about to die.
Princess Zhaoyang didn't want the Huo Bo Mansion to do this from time to time. "Next time, when someone asks you to leave, you should also think carefully and don't always follow them."
"Yes." Liu Qingyun nodded.
Princess Zhaoyang didn't say anything else. She just left with Liu Qingyun.
After Princess Zhaoyang and Liu Qingyun left, Uncle Huo looked at Madam Huo coldly.
"Who told you to bring Brother Yun here?" Uncle Huo asked, "And you said you were sick? Are you cursing me?"
Uncle Huo didn't want to get involved in the affairs of Marquis Jingning's Mansion, nor did he think about letting Liu Qingyun come back.
"Actually... let him come over. He can play with his cousins." Madam Huo said, "Princess Zhaoyang arrived before I could even finish my words."
"It's because you tricked her here. If you hadn't tricked her, how could Princess Zhaoyang have come here?" said Uncle Huo.
After a while, someone came to report that the imperial physician from the palace had arrived. The physician was invited by Princess Zhaoyang and said that Master Huo was ill, so the physician should give Master Huo a good look.
Princess Zhaoyang was not afraid that the imperial physician had been bribed by the Huo Bo family, so she came here in person. If the imperial physician dared to speak nonsense, then there would be no need for him to stay in the Imperial Hospital.
"Look at what you have done." Uncle Huo said angrily.
When the imperial physician came, Mr. Huo said that he was not sick and that it was a waste of time for the imperial physician to come.
"Since I'm already here, I should probably check Master's pulse," the imperial physician said. "I can't just go back like this."
"..." Uncle Huo had no choice but to ask the imperial physician to take his pulse.
Uncle Huo knew that from today on, everyone would know that he had feigned illness to trick Liu Qingyun into coming. Regardless of whether Mrs. Huo had started this, everyone would blame Uncle Huo.
This made Mr. Huo feel very uncomfortable. He had endured it for so long and had punished Mrs. Huo, but Mrs. Huo was still like this. What could Mr. Huo say? This wife had no memory at all.
After the imperial physician left, Mr. Huo looked at Mrs. Huo coldly.
"From today on, you will stay in the Buddhist temple and don't need to leave the house." Mr. Huo couldn't stand Mrs. Huo who always caused trouble for him.
Whenever Uncle Huo thought Mrs. Huo was quiet, she would run out. Mrs. Huo always made all kinds of troubles. When something happened, Mrs. Huo would act very quiet again, as if she didn't dare to embarrass Uncle Huo. After a while, Mrs. Huo would continue to make trouble.
How could Mr. Huo tolerate this? He simply told Mrs. Huo not to leave the house. Since his eldest son and his wife were married, he could let his daughter-in-law take charge of the household and go out to attend banquets. There was no need to let Mrs. Huo go out.
Liu Qingyun and Princess Zhaoyang sat in the carriage together, and Liu Qingyun briefly described the situation at that time.
"She was shouting so loudly that everyone around knew about it, so I had no choice but to go over there," said Liu Qingyun.
"You can go to the Huo family," Princess Zhaoyang said. "We're not forbidding you to go, but you need someone to accompany you. It's impossible for you to go with just one person."
When Liu Qingyun was studying at the academy, the Marquis of Jingning's residence did not arrange for many people to accompany Liu Qingyun, just a servant. When Liu Qingyun took the carriage to Huo Bo's residence, the servant went back to the Marquis of Jingning's residence to inform him of the news.
After the servant came back, only the coachman driving the carriage accompanied Liu Qingyun to the Marquis' Mansion.
Many people knew that the eldest Huo had once injured Lord Ouyang with a pair of scissors. The people in Jingning Marquis's residence were also worried that Liu Qingyun would encounter various problems when he arrived at the Huo family. If Liu Qingyun was injured, and accidentally lost his life, what would happen to others?
The Huo family is not the kind of people who are calm and peaceful. When they get angry, they can kill people.
Lord Ouyang almost lost his life at the time. Everyone outside knew about it. The doctor said that if he had been a little more off, Lord Ouyang would have been beyond saving.
"In the future, if something happens to your mother, we won't stop you from going," Princess Zhaoyang said. "She's still at the farm. Your grandmother probably wants you to go to the uncle's house and ask your grandfather to release your mother."
"Grandfather will never let her out." Liu Qingyun understood this. The Huo family had hurt Lord Ouyang and had brought shame upon the Huo family's daughters. The Huo family would never let the Huo family leave the manor. "Next time, go home first."
Liu Qingyun thought that with this lesson, he would go home first next time, and no one would dare to say anything. The people in Huo Bo's Mansion had deceived them more than once or twice, so they couldn't be deceived all the time.
"Yes." Princess Zhaoyang nodded.
Princess Zhaoyang hadn't gotten pregnant yet, and she wasn't in a rush to get pregnant. She just wanted her stepson to study hard and her stepdaughter to be happy. As for Liu Yanjing, he treated her very well.
Princess Zhaoyang's ex-husband was very kind to her at first and was very attached to her, but after a while, he was not so attached to her anymore, but he was still very good at pleasing her. However, Liu Yanjing did not always try to please Princess Zhaoyang and was not so humble, so Princess Zhaoyang thought Liu Yanjing was very good.
In fact, her ex-husband didn't really try to please her. He only said a few words to comfort her when his relatives annoyed him. After he coaxed her, he still wanted her to help those people. He never really considered her at all.
This made Princess Zhaoyang very angry, but she could still endure it. Later, when she found out that her ex-husband had a mistress outside and had a child, she could no longer endure it.
"Originally, your grandmother was going to come, so I said I'd come instead," Princess Zhaoyang said. "I'm a princess, so my status is different. I can handle it."
"Thank you, mother." Liu Qingyun was very grateful to Princess Zhaoyang. If it were anyone else, they would definitely not want to interfere in this matter. If a stepmother interfered in such a matter, she would probably be criticized.
Even if Princess Zhaoyang was a person of such status, others would still say that she was using her status to bully others.
At the Marquis of Jingning's Mansion, Liu Yulian learned that Liu Qingyun was taken to Uncle Huo's Mansion by Mrs. Huo. She was still wondering why Mrs. Huo always wanted Liu Qingyun to go there.
"We've been back in the capital for quite some time." Liu Yulian sat next to her mother. "She hasn't even thought about being nice to Yun Ge'er and the others. She's just been thinking about what Yun Ge and the others do, and she likes to pressure them with filial piety."
"That's right." Liu's mother said, "That's why he wasn't allowed to stay there any longer. Your sister-in-law went to pick him up."
"That's fine." Liu Yulian cracked melon seeds, "It's just hard on my sister-in-law."
"Your sister-in-law has a good temper." Mother Liu was thinking about the days when Princess Zhaoyang married into the Marquis of Jingning's Mansion. Princess Zhaoyang took care of everything properly, and Princess Zhaoyang would never say that the Marquis of Jingning's Mansion was too poor.
Princess Zhaoyang herself had quite a bit of dowry, so at least her courtyard could have more things to display. However, Princess Zhaoyang didn't add too many things, lest her courtyard look too good.
"The man before your sister-in-law also didn't know how to cherish." Liu's mother sighed, "It's not that a woman can't have children even if she hasn't given birth for a few years. Sometimes it's just that fate hasn't arrived yet."
Liu's mother believed that Princess Zhaoyang's ex-husband was wrong for being so eager to keep a mistress. It was fine for a man to take a concubine, but it was illegal to keep a mistress.
"The same will happen when you get married," said Liu's mother. "You are still young, so there is no need to rush into having children. Having children so young is not good for a woman's health."
Liu's mother wanted to keep Liu Yulian for two more years after she reached the age of marriage. She didn't want her daughter to get married so early. If her daughter got married, how could her family prevent her son-in-law from consummating the marriage with her so early? It would be better for her to marry later.
If He Xiyuan knew what Liu's mother was thinking, he would cry.
At the Duke of Chengguo's mansion, He Xiyuan was looking at the mathematics book written by Liu Yulian. Liu Yulian had given it to him to read, and he copied it to see if there were any mistakes. He knew some of the symbols in it; Liu Yulian had taught him before.
When He Xichen came to see He Xiyuan, he saw the thin math book. The content of the math book was not particularly complicated, but there were some special symbols on it that He Xichen could not understand.
"Is this arithmetic?" He Xichen asked.
"Yes, Sister Lian said it's a math book," He Xiyuan said. "She sorted out some content and asked me to help proofread it. Since it's cold and everyone likes to stay at home, I'll read more of these books."
He Xiyuan wanted to proofread the book with Liu Yulian, but the weather was cold recently and the New Year was approaching. Sister Lian had rarely been to the library, and He Xiyuan didn't want to ask Liu Yulian to go there. He thought that when spring came, they could stay together to edit the book.
He didn't understand some symbols very well, but Sister Lian did.
He Xiyuan's mind flashed with the scene of him and Sister Lian sitting together, the two of them chatting and laughing from time to time.
"This book is suitable for children to study." He Xiyuan said, "There are multiplication formulas and a table at the back."
"Multiplication?" He Xichen knew about multiplication; it was also a form of arithmetic, but they hadn't really considered whether or not to express it. They usually talked about doubling and tripling, but no one really did that.
When we do arithmetic, don't we just use an abacus to calculate?
He Xichen just looked at it and didn't say much. He didn't understand much about it anyway.
He Xichen has been very busy recently.
The Third Prince handed the list of people left by the Cen family to the Emperor, who then handed it to the Crown Prince, who then asked He Xichen to do this. He Xichen had stood on the Crown Prince's side in his early years, and after his legs healed and he was named the Crown Prince, he naturally worked even harder on these matters.
He Xichen knew that he had to support the Duke's Mansion, and He Xiyuan was no longer concerned about these people. He Xichen thought that his younger brother had a good temper, so his younger brother did not think about the position of the prince.
"Yes." He Xiyuan nodded. "Sister Lian also said she would make sugar with beets and sugarcane. She will send some over once she makes it."
"It's New Year's Day, and you're still sending candy?" He Xichen said.
"It's just the day before the Lunar New Year, so it's still possible to give it as a gift," He Xiyuan said. "Sister Lian said she was busy with other things before and hadn't thought about making candy. Recently, she's been editing a book and said she wanted to combine work and rest, so she tried making some candy."
He Xiyuan knew his sister Lian was planning to research sugar and promote methods for making better sugar. Lian had said that many things could be made better. He Xiyuan shared that feeling: learning never ends, and he needed to work hard.
"Those candies are different from ordinary candies. They are sweeter." He Xiyuan said.
"I don't think it's the sugar that's sweet, it's the people who are sweet." He Xichen said, "You two are so close before you get married. When you get married, will you stick together?"
"Sister Lian will definitely not let me cling to her." He Xiyuan sighed, "Sister Lian has to do other things, and I'm not a very smart person. Sometimes I'm even clumsy."
"..." He Xichen's mouth curled up slightly. It was not smart for someone who won the third place in the imperial examination to tell him.
Haha, He Xichen wondered what was wrong with his younger brother.
The third branch of the Liu family, Feng Guanjing and Liu Yanyuan, haven't been very happy lately. The shop hasn't made much money. Concubine Chai isn't one to put money before her. After arriving in the capital, she's been thinking about not dressing too shabbily.
It was almost Chinese New Year, and Aunt Chai wanted to buy a couple of nice-looking dresses, made of good fabric and in nice styles. However, finding someone to make the dresses cost money, and good fabric also cost money.
Where did Feng Guanjing and Liu Yanyuan get so many good things and so much money?
"It's just two sets of clothes, look how distressed you are." Aunt Chai wanted to make clothes. She saw some money in the shop earlier and took it away. Now she let her son and daughter-in-law arrange the making of clothes for her. "Other people are so filial, but you two are so stingy."
Feng Guanjing didn't want to deduct the money because she was pregnant. But Aunt Chai didn't care whether she was pregnant or not. She just wanted new clothes and asked her to visit Feng's house.
When a pregnant woman visits her parents' home, does it mean that she wants them to prepare more food to nourish her body?
Feng Guanjing really couldn't do such a thing. They had stayed in the Feng family for so long before, and she was already embarrassed. She also asked Mrs. Feng Er to give some money to help them buy a shop. Feng Guanjing couldn't always let her family subsidize her.
"If you want to make clothes, just do it." Feng Guanjing couldn't stop him, so she could only ignore it and not be annoyed. She simply walked away.
"With your wife being like this, she will definitely ride on my head when she gives birth to a child." Aunt Chai was dissatisfied.
"Could you please be less talkative?" Liu Yanyuan said, "She's pregnant. Please don't make her angry. I'm afraid..."
Liu Yanyuan was afraid that Feng Guanjing would miscarry again. That was his own flesh and blood, and he was not willing to let Feng Guanjing have a miscarriage. Even if they didn't make as much money, they could still support their child.
"What are you afraid of? She's not the only woman in the world." Aunt Chai believed that she was not Aunt Qing and it was impossible for her to be controlled by her daughter-in-law.
That Su Qiuya likes to talk about divorce, and Aunt Chai doesn't allow her daughter-in-law to do the same. Now that her daughter-in-law is pregnant, she can't even think about getting involved in those things.
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