Chapter 307 The Southern Tour Must Include Daiyu
Yuan Hongqu smiled gently.
"How can a child's growth process be complete without the participation of their biological father!"
"Granny..." Daiyu burst into laughter through her tears, "I'm not a child anymore!"
"No matter how old you get, in your father's eyes you will always be a child."
"I'll go quietly and give Father a surprise," Daiyu said playfully.
"When Father sees me, he will be very surprised."
“I advise you not to. If your father had known earlier that you would be in the southern tour group, he would have been full of anticipation every day and would have had such a long period of happiness.”
Yuan Hongqu smiled and stretched out her arms to gesture, then said...
"If you suddenly appear in front of him, his joy will only last this long."
She stretched out her thumb and forefinger to indicate a span of length.
Daiyu paused for a moment, then thought about it and it seemed to be true.
Yuan Hongqu would often create small surprises for Daiyu, but these were all minor things, and most of them were decided on the spot.
However, this kind of long-term event would cause too many surprises, and Yuan Hongqu always felt that there was no need to create any more surprises.
The idea that Daiyu could accompany the emperor on the southern tour was proposed directly to him by Yuan Hongqu.
However, Yuan Hongqu did not reveal anything until she received a definite answer.
If the Emperor suddenly loses his mind and refuses to agree to this, Yuan Hongqu really has no way to resolve the matter.
Fortunately, the Emperor agreed.
This sends a signal to the outside world that as long as you do your job well, there is a possibility that some things can be accommodated.
She had only received a letter from the Empress that morning, confirming that Daiyu was in the southern tour group, which was why she told Daiyu about it.
Yuan Hongqu knew that although Daiyu was very young when she left Yangzhou, she had not seen much of the scenery of Yangzhou, such as the Twenty-Four Bridges, the Slender West Lake, and the Daming Temple. Daiyu's impression of these places was only in her poems and lyrics, and she had no other knowledge of them.
But that was her homeland, the place where she was born, where all of Daiyu's and her mother's memories resided.
Yuan Hongqu had started planning long ago. Jiangnan was a wealthy region, so it wouldn't be easy to achieve remarkable results.
So she once again used her spatial abilities to transform the rice.
Besides tens of thousands of kilograms of rice seeds, she also did a series of other things.
But little did they expect that this one incident alone would be enough to send Daiyu to Yangzhou.
Yuan Hongqu could only keep other matters to herself for now, and would disclose them one by one when necessary in the future.
Daiyu's face flushed slightly with excitement, and she couldn't hide the smile on her lips.
“Grandma, I’ll write to Father right now, and he’ll be happy from the moment he receives the letter until he sees me.”
After hearing Yuan Hongqu's words, she quickly changed her mind and instantly felt that it would be best to tell Lin Ruhai.
Yuan Hongqu nodded, "You told Lord Lin in advance, so he's starting preparations now. When you arrive in Yangzhou two months from now, it won't catch him off guard, and everything will be ready. Otherwise, if you suddenly appear and nothing is prepared, it would be unfair to you."
“What you say is true, but… are you sure I can go to Yangzhou with the southern inspection team?”
Daiyu was also afraid that if she wrote a letter to her father, something else might happen in the capital and she wouldn't be able to go to Jiangnan with him, which would only disappoint her father.
"Don't worry, this matter is set in stone and there will be no change. Unless the southern tour is canceled, you will definitely go with the Emperor on his southern tour."
Yuan Hongqu said firmly.
During this southern tour, the emperor and empress went together. Daiyu was in the tour group, and her role was not just to visit her family. She was also responsible for explaining the local customs and traditions to the empress along the way and for recording the people's lives.
This was not a difficult task for Daiyu.
Although the carriages didn't travel fast, they only covered forty li (about 20 kilometers) in a morning, and they didn't need to rest along the way.
"Daiyu, why are you all so slow? We've been playing under that tree for quite a while now!"
As soon as the Lin family's carriage arrived at the camp, Liu Qianrou came to greet them.
She rode over on horseback, half an hour faster than the Lin family's carriage. After arriving at the camp, she played shuttlecock under a tree with several girls she knew.
"Count me in for shuttlecock kicking!"
Daiyu smiled; it had been a long time since she had played shuttlecock. The area under the tree looked very cool and refreshing, perfect for them to play.
Daiyu got off the carriage, stretched her legs, and followed Liu Qianrou to the base of the big tree.
This tree is so big that it takes several people to hug it.
The branches are thick and the leaves are lush.
It was very cool under the trees, and several families pitched their tents there.
Daiyu felt she had tried her best, but she knew that Yuan Hongqu would definitely not allow her family to pitch their tent under the shade of the tree.
It's early summer now, and thunder usually precedes the rain.
If it doesn't rain, it's fine, but if there's thunder and rain, then these tents under the trees will be sitting ducks. Are they just waiting to be struck by lightning?
Daiyu and the others had only been kicking for a short while when they saw several fast horses approaching from a distance.
Those riding on it did not resemble students of the academy.
Dust was flying everywhere on the road.
The horses, seeing the rows of tents in the distance, showed no sign of stopping; in fact, they sped up, seemingly eager to leave as quickly as possible.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they stepped into the camp area, the Imperial Guards stopped them.
"The road here is blocked. You should take the side path," the leader of the Imperial Guards explained.
"Hehe, which important person has come out this time? The road is completely blocked. Even if we don't go this way, others will still have to come. This road is the only way for people to travel north and south."
The leader was extremely disdainful.
He travels this road less than ten times a year, but this is the first time he has seen so many tents on both sides of the road.
Such matters should normally be handled by the steward, but the steward did not appear, and it seemed that the conflict between the Imperial Guards and those people was about to escalate.
Yuan Hongqu summoned the head of the guards accompanying the Lin family and had Xiangtao give him a purse.
"Send it to these people. We'll cover the losses they incurred due to their detour. Let's not cause any more trouble."
The people on horseback were covered in dust and dressed in tattered clothes, as if they had been traveling for a long time.
The guards delivered the silver, and when they saw that they could get silver by taking a slightly longer route, they immediately thought that walking a few more miles was no problem at all!
The leader took the silver and then looked around.
Tents were almost everywhere, and wisps of smoke were rising from some of them.
If it weren't for that big tree in the middle, he would have thought he was back in the desert.
He thanked her and was about to ride away when he glanced at her from afar and suddenly saw Yuan Hongqu beside the carriage. His heart stirred slightly.
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