At the Duke of Cheng's mansion, the old lady was staring at her eldest grandson. Seeing that her grandson's legs had truly healed, her eyes lit up. She used to love this grandson very much, but it was only after He Xichen's legs became disabled that she started to pay more attention to He Xiyuan.
Even so, the old lady couldn't bear to see He Xichen suffer any more grievances. In He Xichen's marriage, the people who originally thought highly of He Xichen later found other people, which made the old lady very unhappy.
The old lady was unwilling to arrange a marriage for He Xichen casually. If she did, how would she live in the future?
"My legs are thanks to my future sister-in-law." He Xichen didn't hide anything. "Her brother, Liu Yanjing, injured his legs and feet. He traveled all the way to the northwest and they didn't get better. It happened that she had read a lot, so she studied hard. She picked herbs and did embroidery herself every day, and she managed to create these wonderful ointments."
"Is it Sister Lian?" asked Lady Chengguo.
"It's her." He Xichen nodded, "She is a very smart person."
After hearing this, the old lady quickly said, "Then she is indeed worthy of your brother. In the future, if you get married, you and your wife must treat them better."
Oh, Liu Yulian healed the legs of her most important grandson so that he could stand up.
The old lady thought that she could just hold Liu Yulian in high esteem, and she wouldn't even think about He Xiyuan marrying someone else. She hadn't thought about that when the Liu family restored their title. Now that Liu Yulian had healed He Xichen's legs, the Chengguo Mansion had to hold her in high esteem even more.
"Don't worry, this old woman of mine is not blind. From now on, she will be our family's great benefactor," the old lady said. She looked at the wife of Duke Chengguo. "Their family's confiscated property has not been returned, and they probably don't have much money on hand. You don't need to give them any money. Just give them our farm on the outskirts of the city."
The old lady thought she was not a stingy person. Liu Yulian had done such a big thing, and it would not be in her style if she didn't thank her.
"She also made an invulnerable armor for Xiyuan. This piece of armor would cost at least a thousand taels. For someone else, it might cost tens of thousands of taels." He Xichen deliberately said this in front of the old lady.
He Xichen knew that the old lady in their family was a snob, and that she loved him and He Xiyuan very much. After Liu Yulian did so much, the old lady knew that she would definitely treat Liu Yulian very well in the future.
The old lady was just that kind of person. She wasn't one to hate evil, but she was protective of others and knew how to be grateful. Of course, the favor had to be big enough. If it was just a small favor, the old lady wouldn't have protected someone so desperately.
"It's worth spending, it's worth spending." The old lady asked, "Invulnerable, really?"
"Yes, on our way back from the northwest, Prince Su was assassinated. He was wearing that armor and was stabbed in the arm, but he was not injured." He Xichen said, "Grandma, Brother Yuan and the young lady from the Liu family are a perfect match. If Brother Yuan had not abandoned literature and pursued martial arts, my grandson's leg would probably not have been healed, and this good marriage would have been lost."
"Alright, alright, it's all because of my old age and blurry eyes," the old lady said. "Since she's so kind, you should be nice to her. By the way, if you want to send a gift... send some silver to Yuan-ge'er."
"Well, he had previously given hundreds of taels of silver to his fiancée. He still got the advantage. That armor is a life-saving thing." He Xichen said.
"Okay, no need to say this anymore. I understand, I understand." How could the old lady not know what her eldest grandson meant? The eldest grandson wanted her to understand that it was their Chengguo Mansion that owed Liu Yulian.
This was fine. The old lady wanted to avoid causing trouble for Liu Yulian in the future and be more accommodating to her. When Liu Yulian married into the Duke's Mansion, she would definitely treat this granddaughter-in-law well.
The old lady couldn't help but think that since Liu Yulian was so smart, the child born to Liu Yulian and He Xiyuan should be good. This was also good. Liu Yulian helped the family so much, and in the future, the relationship between the two brothers He Xichen and He Xiyuan would definitely be very good.
As for the silver given to He Xiyuan by the Chengguo Mansion and to whom He Xiyuan gave it, that was all He Xiyuan's business.
"It just so happens that I have a few sets of headdresses over there, I'll give one over there too." The old lady thought, she could even put some money down on the headdress. She couldn't let the girl spend so much money on these things for nothing. Although giving silver as a gift was tacky, it was still very useful when she was away from home.
Duke Chengguo was in a very good mood when he saw his eldest son's legs had healed. He had never been so happy before. He had originally thought that if his eldest son's legs were gone in a few years, he would ask for an imperial decree to make He Xiyuan the crown prince.
Now that the eldest son's legs are healed, the position of crown prince will still belong to him.
"Okay, okay." Duke Chengguo thought that the eldest son was much more mature and stable than the second son. He did not say that the second son ran to the northwest, not because he could not do that, but because the second son was really not suitable to be the crown prince.
When they were raising their second son, they did not let him bear so much responsibility.
He Xiyuan did that because he wanted He Xichen to get better and become the crown prince.
"Everything will be fine in the future." He Xichen said.
Over the years, He Xichen sometimes felt sad that his leg had not healed, and he knew that the people at home were also very worried about him.
The eldest son of the Chengguo Mansion had recovered from his injuries, so the wife of the Chengguo Mansion and the old lady naturally wanted to arrange a good marriage for He Xichen. However, they could no longer visit the man who had been hiding from them, fearing that he would force their daughter to marry He Xichen.
When Mrs. Huo learned that the eldest son of Duke Chengguo's mansion had recovered from his injuries, she frowned.
She remembered that He Xichen's legs had not been healed in his previous life, and later, He Xiyuan disappeared. The Chengguo Mansion was to train He Xichen's legitimate son, and He Xichen's marriage was not to a powerful woman, but to an old maid.
The girl was the legitimate daughter of a general, and she wanted to marry He Xichen. Therefore, the girl never got engaged. Her family couldn't persuade her, so they finally went to the Duke of Cheng's mansion.
This general's rank was fourth rank, and his family was not as good as the Duke of Cheng's. The general was worried that his daughter would not live well if she married into the Duke of Cheng's family, so he did not want her to marry there and wanted her to marry someone else.
But my daughter just doesn't want to marry anyone else, and the situation remains deadlocked.
Mrs. Huo thought that He Xiyuan was a fool, why did he disappear? Later... She once suspected that the young general with a scar on his face was He Xiyuan, but the young general's name was not He Xiyuan, and he did not get close to the Chengguo Mansion.
In fact, He Xiyuan did not want to be the crown prince in his previous life, nor did he want to cancel the engagement. Even if his family compromised and did not allow him to cancel the engagement, he still did not want to be the crown prince. He thought that even if his brother's leg could not be healed, he could still have children.
If He Xiyuan became the crown prince, there would be other troubles in the future. One compromise would lead to countless compromises. They could let him take a concubine and force Liu Yulian to leave step by step.
Letting He Xichen's son be the crown prince would be the best choice.
Mrs. Huo didn't know about these things. Coupled with the scars on He Xiyuan's face from the previous injury, Mrs. Huo thought that even if he was a general, few women would be willing to follow him, as he looked so ugly. The young general must be a man who liked beautiful women, which was why he fell in love with Liu Yulian.
The young general was really good to Liu Yulian. He pampered her in every way and also helped the eldest wife of the Liu family.
Mrs. Huo thought that the general didn't take a concubine because no girl wanted to be with him. In other words, Liu Yulian wanted to get some benefits from him, so she married the general.
During the time that Da Huo married into the Ouyang family, even though she behaved well towards the legitimate son and daughter left by the original wife, these two children were unwilling to get close to her.
Old Madam Ouyang told her grandchildren not to approach the eldest Huo. It wasn't that she thought the eldest Huo was bad, but rather that she came from a baron's mansion and had once been a young lady of a marquis's mansion. Such a person was inevitably a bit arrogant, and even if she didn't find her stepson or stepdaughter so offensive, she certainly wouldn't want to look at them any more.
Just now, Mrs. Huo's stepdaughter fell in the yard and hit her head. The doctor said that the girl must be taken good care of, otherwise it would easily leave scars.
Old Madam Ouyang didn't think Mrs. Huo was bad to her granddaughter, but she also thought that Mrs. Huo didn't like her granddaughter very much, and the others just followed suit and didn't pay as much attention to her granddaughter. If the servants didn't serve people wholeheartedly, wouldn't it be troublesome?
"You don't have to watch them." Old Madam Ouyang said directly to Mrs. Huo.
Madam Ouyang really didn't like her original daughter-in-law, believing her status was too low. This didn't mean she would be mean to her grandchildren. Madam Ouyang thought it was normal for the eldest Huo family to not pay much attention to the two children, so there was no need for them to keep an eye on them.
"It would be better if you two had children sooner rather than later." Old Madam Ouyang said, "Women, you still have to have your own children."
Old Madam Ouyang seemed to be thinking about the Da Huo family. She was thinking that if the Da Huo family could really give birth to a son, then it wouldn't be a bad idea to raise more of the Da Huo family's sons. You have to know that the Da Huo family originally came from a marquis's mansion and had given birth to a pair of children for the Jingning Marquisate. So if the Da Huo family gave birth to a son for the Ouyang family, wouldn't that son be related to the children of the Jingning Marquisate?
"Mother." Mrs. Huo originally thought that the old lady would say something bad about her, but she didn't expect the old lady to say this.
"Children just make trouble a little, so just let them stay with me." Old Madam Ouyang said, "You don't have to worry too much about them."
"Since mother said so, I will listen to her." Mrs. Huo did not like her step-sons and step-daughters. She did not like her own children in her previous life. Later she even thought that it was because she could not let go of her children that she did not listen to her biological mother and divorce, which led to her living such a miserable life.
Da Huo didn't dare to think about the Jingning Marquis' Mansion. Father Liu became the Jingning Marquis again, but she couldn't go back.
In the northwest, Liu Qingyun had been studying very hard recently. He knew that his aunt had been able to come up with so many ideas because she read so many books. It was clear that reading was very useful, but it all depended on how hard they worked.
"Aunt." Liu Qingyun came back and went to see Liu Yulian. He happened to see Liu Yulian sitting in the yard embroidering.
"I'm back." Liu Yulian put down the needle and thread in her hand.
"I'm going to visit my classmates in a couple of days." Liu Qingyun had made an appointment with them. "It's a bit far, in the countryside."
"How many of you are going?" Liu Yulian asked. "Let's go in a carriage. We'll prepare some food for you."
"There was another person who went with us," Liu Qingyun replied. "He studied very hard and walked a long way every day. He probably thought we were kind to him and gave him cakes, so he invited us over."
Liu Qingyun thought that classmate was very good. His teacher and family had always told him not to underestimate others. Even if someone's status was low, if they worked hard, that was also good.
"Okay." Liu Yulian nodded. "Prepare some more things. We can also invite them to our house to play some other day."
"Okay." Liu Qingyun walked to Liu Yulian's side, "Auntie, do you want to embroider mandarin ducks playing in the water?"
"Why do you say it's mandarin ducks playing in the water?" Of course, what Liu Yulian embroidered was not mandarin ducks playing in the water. She had only embroidered a little bit, so it was impossible to tell what the pattern was.
"Aunt is engaged." Liu Qingyun said.
"Even if you're engaged, you don't necessarily have to embroider a pattern like this," Liu Yulian said. "Embroider a cute kitten."
"Do you want to sell it?" Liu Qingyun asked.
"For your sister to play with." Liu Yulian didn't plan to keep selling embroidery work. It would be enough to sell one or two pieces occasionally.
There was no such thing as plush stuff in this era, so Liu Yulian used those silk threads to make stuffed ...
Previously, Liu Yulian made several sets of stuffed animal backpacks with the twelve zodiac animals.
People in the northwest weren't that wealthy, so few could afford to spend a fortune on these things. Later, some people even copied them, but Liu Yulian simply stopped making them and selling them.
"Sister will get cut." Liu Qingyun thought that his sister sometimes liked to use scissors to cut, and cut the flowers and plants in the yard into an ugly shape.
Yao Liu Qingyun said that since her younger sister was so young, she shouldn't touch the scissors too much. But her younger sister always found ways to get the scissors and took them away when no one was paying attention. Then, her younger sister would destroy the flowers and plants.
My sister also said that she would definitely make the flowers and plants grow better.
Come on, Liu Qingyun didn’t see that the flowers and plants in the yard were growing better, he just saw that they were about to wither.
"If Auntie wants to give a gift, she should give a real kitten." Liu Qingyun said, "That way, the kitten won't be damaged by the haircuts."
“…” Liu Yulian blinked, but the kitten would become a bald cat.
"Aunt's embroidery is so good, it can be sold for a lot of money." Liu Qingyun said with a serious face, "My sister is so young, we can't let her waste it like that."
"Who should we give it to?" Liu Yulian asked.
"Aunt, you can keep it as a dowry." Liu Qingyun didn't think of asking Liu Yulian to give him anything.
"It's still early." Liu Yulian said.
"It will be quick." Liu Qingyun said, "It's not like my aunt has done a lot."
"You should just concentrate on your studies," Liu Yulian said. "Tomorrow morning, have someone kill the chickens and ducks, and bring over two fish. Also bring some dried fruits and cakes, so you don't eat them all."
Some families would prepare something for their sons to do well in school and not embarrass themselves in front of their classmates. They might kill chickens and ducks in the yard, or do other things.
Of course, they would not take action before anyone arrived, lest they kill the chickens and ducks before anyone arrived, which would be the family's property.
Liu Yulian said that, not worried that the family would think they looked down on country folk. If they really did look down on them, they wouldn't have gotten so close.
"I'll listen to my aunt." Liu Qingyun nodded.
The business of the second branch of the Liu family's shop was not bad, but the money they made was certainly not as much as that of the first branch, whose title had been restored.
Su Qiuya wasn't as enthusiastic about calculating money as before. They still earned too little, but there was nothing they could do. They still had to wait for Liu Yanbo to finish his studies and become successful. Then their family's life would be even better. There was no need for them to envy others.
Liu Yanbo is a bastard's son, and it is not easy for a bastard to make a living.
"Aunt Chai and Sister Fang come to the town often." Su Qiuya said to Liu Yanbo.
The two of them stayed in the room, and Su Qiuya said things that she shouldn't say in front of Liu Yanyuan and his wife.
"They just want to go to the main house. If the main house ignores them, they will go to the door from time to time." Su Qiuya said, "They just want to make trouble if the main house pays attention to them even once."
"Don't pay attention to them." Liu Yanbo said, "My third brother and his wife are quite diligent."
"Well, if they weren't hardworking, we wouldn't be able to keep using them." Su Qiuya said, "Fang Jie'er's marriage hasn't been settled yet, so it's difficult."
"It's not difficult." Liu Yanbo shook his head. "Even though the main house didn't let them in, many people know that Fang Jie'er is a concubine's daughter of the Marquis's Mansion. Even if she was separated, she is still her father's daughter. There are always a few people who think she is still useful and want to marry her."
It would be better to go around and find the magistrate's relatives, or other scholars.
In short, Liu Fang is not short of someone to marry.
As for what kind of family Liu Fang can marry, whether she can marry well, and whether she can live a smoother life in the future, it all depends on who the third house chooses for her.
"You're right." Su Qiuya thought about it carefully, and it was indeed so. "Broken bones are connected to tendons. If something really happens to them, it's unlikely that the eldest wife will just ignore it."
"The eldest wife may not care, but others just don't know about it." Liu Yanbo said, "We originally discussed the possibility of splitting up when eldest brother's legs weren't healed yet. If it weren't for my younger sister's ability to earn money and researching those ointments for him, he might have been ruined."
In this case, how could the eldest wife not have resentment towards these other branches?
The eldest wife usually didn't interact much with these other wives, so she didn't show any anger or bother them. This was all superficial. If they really had problems and came to the eldest wife for help, she wouldn't necessarily help them. She might think that their lives weren't in danger and that they were fine.
"My fourth brother lost money gambling before and went to the first wife. In the end, it was my fourth brother's wife who solved the problem." Liu Yanbo didn't put his hope on the first wife. "We still have to work hard on our own. Later, I will take the imperial examination and let you become a royal consort."
"It doesn't matter whether you have an imperial edict or not. Even if you just pass the exam and become a scholar, that's fine. You can be a teacher, teach, and have students all over the world." Su Qiuya said.
Su Qiuya always treats Liu Yanbo like this, not putting too much pressure on him, which makes him feel comfortable.
However, the next day, Su Qiuya and her friends could no longer run the shop. Someone came to take over the shop and said they would not rent it to them.
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