Song Wan and Gu Yan hurried into the hall, where Li Yu was concentrating on reviewing memorials with his head down.
After not seeing each other for a few years, Li Yu is no longer the chubby-faced baby he used to be. Now he is a thirteen-year-old boy, as tall and slender as a bamboo or pine tree.
"Ayu?" Song Wan almost didn't recognize him and thought that someone else had become the emperor.
The person in a higher position heard a familiar voice that he had not heard for a long time and looked up in surprise. After seeing who was coming, he immediately put down the red pen and ran down.
"Sister Wan, you're finally back!"
Song Wan looked at the boy who was almost as tall as herself and suddenly sighed, "Ayu, what good food have you been eating these past few years to make you grow so fast?"
She had never been starved in her life, and had grown normally, she would be at least 1.7 meters tall, 10 centimeters taller than in the apocalypse.
Unexpectedly, I was caught up by a thirteen-year-old kid.
"Ayu, wouldn't it be better if you grew up faster?" Li Yu tilted his head and smiled.
From an increasingly majestic emperor, he turned into a simple boy who acted like a spoiled child with his older brothers and sisters.
"I'm not saying it's bad, I just suddenly feel like I've been eating for nothing these past few years." Song Wan pinched his arm, her eyes lighting up, "You've built up some pretty good muscles."
Li Yu raised the corner of his mouth at the compliment, but then thought of something and snorted, "Sister Wan said she would teach me Qinggong, but in the end she left without saying goodbye."
After being criticized, Song Wan scratched her head and tried to make amends, "Of course I want to teach you, this is not, this is not..."
"Not what?" Li Yu asked.
"It was him!" Song Wan blamed everything on the man beside her, "It was your second brother who was bored and kidnapped me."
Gu Yan smiled anxiously, willing to take the blame, "It's my fault."
Li Yu: "...I'm thirteen, not a three-year-old child."
"That's right, you're not a three-year-old child. Don't take this kind of thing too seriously!" Song Wan patted his shoulder and said, "Look, we came to see you as soon as we returned to Beijing, didn't we?"
Li Yu was awkward, "Where's the gift?"
"I've asked Xiao Jinzi to deliver the gift to your bedroom. You can read it before you go to sleep tonight." Song Wan grabbed his arm and said, "Now, you just need to take a break. Then your second brother and I will take you out to play."
Hearing that they were going to leave the palace, Li Yu's heart was moved. "Where to?"
In the past few years, apart from occasionally investigating corrupt officials, he has left the palace only a few times.
"Let's go to the farm in the suburbs and teach you some Qinggong." Song Wan heard about it when he returned to Beijing. Except for the day when he stopped writing on New Year's Eve, he spent the rest of the time dealing with state affairs. It's pitiful that he is so tired at such a young age.
So she suddenly decided to take her furry children out of the palace for a two-day trip.
As expected, after Song Wan said that, Li Yu was visibly happy, "Then I'll go change into some casual clothes!"
Song Wan looked at Li Yu, who was running away without the composure of a king, and sighed, "Ayu is so pitiful. Not only does he have to work all year round, but he also has to be trapped in the palace for the rest of his life."
Gu Yan patted her head anxiously, "This is his responsibility as an emperor. The people of the world need him."
After Li Yu changed his clothes, the three of them quietly went out from the north gate and headed straight for Xiaoyao Manor on the outskirts of Song Wan. Next to the manor was a mountain range stretching for dozens of miles, and there was basically everything there.
Song Wan had chased tigers, ridden lions, played hide-and-seek with wolves, and when she got hungry, she asked the eagles in the sky to help her catch rabbits.
So today she took Li Yu to play these entertainment activities again, from the afternoon to the evening of the next day, and Gu Yan had hurriedly asked for the day off for him.
Song Wan takes them out for fun, and Gu Yanji is naturally in charge of cooking. After traveling all over the country in recent years, not only have Apple and Orange's cooking skills improved, but Gu Yanji's cooking skills have also improved.
Since the popularity of chili peppers in cooking, almost every household in Dai Viet now grows some. With Song Wan's reminder, everyone has learned to make sauce with chili peppers. Adding a little chili sauce every time you stir-fry makes it delicious and goes well with rice.
Some people smelled business opportunities and started various chili sauce businesses. Yun Zhuo was one of them, and as a result, he made a lot of money again.
In Zhuangzi's kitchen, Gu Yan quickly tied on an apron. The rice had already been simmered in advance, and now he was ready to cook.
On the bench next to them, Song Wan and Li Yu sat obediently, staring at Gu Yanji without blinking.
Li Yu was a little worried, "Sister Wan, are you sure my second brother can do it?"
Song Wan nodded firmly, "Your second brother's cooking is delicious. You're in for a treat today."
"Come to think of it, I haven't even eaten it." Li Yu said with some regret.
After hearing what he said, Song Wan thought for a moment and took out a piece of peach blossom cake from her purse. "Here, this is also made by your second brother."
"Second brother can also make pastries?" Li Yu felt that after not seeing his second brother for a few years, he almost didn't recognize him. Was this still the great general who once dominated the battlefield?
"Yes, in addition to pastries, he can also cook and fry. He will make whatever I want to eat." Song Wan spoke the truth, completely unaware of what she was showing off.
Li Yu took a bite of the osmanthus cake and found it too sweet, just like what she said.
He stared at the remaining half piece of osmanthus cake in his hand, thinking that this must have been made by his second brother specially for Sister Awan, with double the sugar added, and only Sister Awan liked to eat it.
Although there were only three of them eating, Gu Yanji still prepared eight dishes.
They are basically meat dishes, chicken stewed with potatoes, cold beef, spicy boiled fish, lamb skewers, braised pork, a dish of spicy stir-fried cabbage, and finally shredded pork and egg soup.
In addition to stewed rice, the staple foods also include steamed buns and roasted sweet potatoes.
Li Yu had eaten sweet potatoes before, but this was the first time he had eaten roasted ones.
The imperial chefs in the palace all cooked according to traditional recipes and would never think of or dare to use new methods.
"I'm telling you, chop the braised pork into small pieces with a knife like I did, then split the steamed bun in half, put the chopped braised pork in there, and stuff it with some chili sauce." Song Wan demonstrated to Li Yu, "That's a successful roujiamo!"
Song Wan can eat seven of this size at a time.
It was the first time for Li Yu to eat like this. The first thing he tasted was the spicy sauce. He was not used to such a distinct taste yet. Then he tasted the steamed buns mixed with gravy, and finally the soft and glutinous braised pork. He accidentally ate three of them.
When his stomach felt slightly full, Li Yucai realized that he had barely touched the other dishes.
Li Yu had a lot of fun during his two days at Zhuangzi. He not only learned some martial arts skills but also ate a lot of delicious food.
This made him feel as if he was back to the beginning, when he was still the third young master of the Gu family.
Song Wan also promised him that as long as she was in the capital, she would take him out to play once a month.
Li Yu returned to the palace before sunset. The news that he was not in the palace had spread to the residences of princes and ministers in the capital as early as yesterday after he left the palace.
Less than two hours after Princess Xiaoyao returned to the capital, word spread in the palace that the emperor did not need to attend the morning court. It was said that Princess Xiaoyao and General Gu had taken the emperor to a farm in the suburbs for two days of fun.
Now, there is only one person in the court who has such an honor, Princess Xiaoyao. There is nothing they can do about it, because the emperor really favors Princess Xiaoyao. They even think that if Princess Xiaoyao wants to sit on the supreme position one day, the emperor may be willing to give it to her.
After returning to the palace, Li Yu couldn't wait to see the gift Song Wan prepared for him.
In the bedroom, Zhang Fuzheng came in with a calming soup. Li Yu asked him to put it aside first because he found that the gift looked like a few scrolls, and it would be bad if the paper got wet.
Zhang Fuzheng responded, then moved the tranquilizing soup further away and asked, "Is Your Majesty looking at the gift prepared by Princess Xiaoyao?"
"Well, Eunuch Fu, come over and take a look." It is not an exaggeration to say that in this palace, the only one who is sincere to Li Yu is Zhang Fuzheng.
Li Yu opened a scroll, his eyes moving from top to bottom, from the initial anticipation to the gradual realization, and finally to the touch and joy that had nowhere to go.
The paintings above are indeed paintings, but they are not ordinary paintings. They are all interesting things that happened to Song Wan and Gu Yanji when they were traveling in the mountains and rivers in recent years.
Song Wan asked Gu Yan to quickly pick up the interesting paintings. There were text annotations and what they had said at the time next to each painting.
After finishing the first drawing, Song Wan felt that it looked very similar to the serialized comics of later generations, so he added text annotations at the end, making it a true ancient comic.
A whole box of scrolls, enough to read for a long time.
Seeing these, Zhang Fuzheng couldn't help but admire Princess Xiaoyao's intelligence. Only she could think of such a thoughtful and innovative gift. He was glad that the Song and Gu families were chosen by the late emperor.
In addition to the scroll, there was also a letter with only a few short sentences on it, but it successfully made Li Yu laugh.
It says: You will be able to get married in a few years, so hurry up and give birth to an heir so that you can travel with us!
In a blink of an eye, the day for going out of the palace for a trip arrived. Li Yu waited in the palace for most of the day, but no one showed up.
Just as he was wondering if Song Wan and Gu Yanji had run away again, Xiao Jinzi came in to report, "Your Majesty, word came from Xiaoyao Palace that the princess is unwell and will not be going to the manor today."
Hearing the words "feeling unwell", Li Yu quickly stood up from the dragon throne and asked anxiously, "Who hurt you?"
In Li Yu's impression, Song Wan has always been an omnipotent and powerful existence, and no one can hurt her.
Xiao Jinzi hurriedly said, "No one is here. It's just that the princess is pregnant and needs to take care of the baby."
"Are you saying Sister Wan is pregnant?" Li Yu was pleasantly surprised. "Is it a girl?"
Little Jinzi wanted to cry but couldn't. "Your Majesty, the baby hasn't been born yet, and the doctor can't tell."
Li Yu paced back and forth, "No, I have to go and take a look. Oh, and I heard that pregnant women are badmouthed. Go get someone to prepare two boxes of gold to take with me. Maybe seeing the gold will make Sister Wan feel less uncomfortable."
Xiao Jinzi was shocked. It turned out that gold could cure women’s pregnancy and oral problems?
Inside the Xiaoyao Palace, Song Wan was being watched by seven or eight people, not allowing her to leave the couch. She felt helpless and said, "I'm really fine. I just fell over a lot."
"You've even seen blood, and you're still saying it's okay." Qi, who had hurried over, said angrily, "You're already an adult, how could you not notice that your body is different from usual?"
Song Wan shook her head honestly, "Except for the fact that my appetite has increased, there's no difference."
"It's all my fault. Ah Wan's period was several days late, but I didn't think about it." Gu Yan hurriedly took the blame, "It's not Ah Wan's fault."
Gu Yanji was very scared. If an accident really happened, he would never be able to let it go and forgive himself in his life.
"Grandma, it was Hehe's fault. Hehe shouldn't have let my aunt do a somersault." Hehe tugged at Qi's hand. The little person was short and stocky, with a chubby body wrapped in a brocade robe. His chubby face and pouting mouth made him look so pitiful.
"Grandma, Lanlan has seen it too, and Lanlan is also wrong. You can just scold my brother instead of scolding my aunt."
The overbearing yet naturally clueless He He nodded heavily, "Sister is right, if Grandma wants to scold me, just scold me."
"Grandma, Azhen was wrong." Little Song Zhen frowned bitterly.
Qi glared at her little grandson unhappily. How could he be even more stupid than his father? He didn't even know that he was sold out by his own sister.
In the past six months, these kids have especially loved coming to their aunt Song Wan. Song Wan also likes these kids very much and often performs whip-waving and somersaults for them. Unexpectedly, something went wrong while she was doing somersaults and she almost drowned the kids.
Qi was no longer angry when she was surrounded by several boys begging for mercy. Her daughter's pregnancy was a happy event. You know, since they got married, countless eyes have been staring at her daughter's belly.
It has been four years. If it weren't for the fear of her daughter's strength, those rumors would have been exposed long ago.
"You." Madam Qi tapped Song Wan's forehead, "From now on, you must stay at home and take care of your pregnancy. You are not allowed to go anywhere."
Song Wan knew she was wrong and could only obey, "Oh."
Qi asked her son-in-law to look after her daughter, and then she took the children home herself and then came back to take care of them.
After they left, Song Wan curled up on the couch and sighed, "Everyone's gone. It's so boring."
Gu Yan hurried over with the freshly brewed abortion-preserving medicine. "You're still saying it's boring. I'm almost scared to death."
When Song Wan smelled the medicine, her brows were almost wrinkled into caterpillars, "Gu Yan is anxious, can I not take the medicine?"
"No, the doctor said that this pregnancy-maintaining medicine must be taken for three consecutive days." Gu Yan refused bluntly and had no intention of backing down.
"I'm really fine. It's staying safe in my stomach now." Song Wan touched her belly. "I just used my mental power to hold it back."
Gu Yan was unmoved: "Come, drink the medicine."
Song Wan snorted, made a bitter face, pinched her nose and drank it in one gulp.
Gu Yan hurriedly took the jujube paste cake that she had prepared long ago and stuffed it into her mouth, "Sweet mouth."
Song Wan held it in her mouth for a while, chewed it, and swallowed it. "It's still bitter."
"Is it bitter? Let me try it."
Song Wan was just about to reply, "If you didn't tell me earlier, she would have drunk it all."
As soon as she opened her mouth, Gu Yan quickly blocked it with her lips.
Gu Yan hurriedly cleared the taste of medicine from her mouth before stopping.
"Is it still bitter?"
Song Wan shook her head, her lips swollen from being kissed, "But another kiss? It's not satisfying."
Gu Yan was anxious: "......"
"Oh right, the doctor said it's only a month old, so it must have been on this couch a month ago." Song Wan pointed at the couch beneath her and suddenly said excitedly, "The time when I was on top of you."
Gu Yan was anxious: "......"
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