"If you don't even think much of the heir of the Marquis of Fu'an's mansion, then it'll be quite difficult to find someone in the capital who is as outstanding as you." After hearing Hong Xiaoduo's words, Lord Wei sighed.
Upon hearing this, Hong Xiaoduo immediately smiled: "Uncle and Aunt, please don't misunderstand. It's not a matter of whether I like it or not. I really haven't considered marriage."
As I mentioned before, I don't know if it's because of a head injury or something else, but I have amnesia. I don't know where I live or who lives in my family.
What if my family has already arranged a marriage for me?
Upon hearing this, Wei Junpei and his wife realized that this was indeed the case, and there was no reason to give one daughter to two families.
Qi looked at Hong Xiaoduo with immediate pity. After nodding, Lord Wei suddenly realized something and looked at Hong Xiaoduo, asking, "Didn't it say so on your travel permit? Could it be..."
Inside the study were Hong Xiaoduo, Kaiyang, and Lord Wei and his wife. So Hong Xiaoduo simply told the truth: "Well, the travel permit is fake. Someone I knew made it for me before, but I was afraid that if something happened, it would implicate him, so I made a new one myself. The seal was carved from a radish."
"I did it myself." Lord Wei's hand, which was stroking his beard, became so excited that he plucked out two hairs from his beard.
Whether it was the first time he met Hong Xiaoduo or this time when they met again, he had never imagined that she would be traveling with seven children she had casually rescued, and that she would have to deal with the issue of travel permits.
He knew she was a good person, of course, but forging a travel permit was a violation of the laws of Fengliang Kingdom, a very serious matter.
But look at how casually she told me this. The key point is that she knew that forging travel permits was a serious problem and was afraid of implicating that kind person!
"Ahem, since you helped the Emperor get Empress Gao out of trouble this time, and also helped receive foreign envoys and pointed out the dangers of opium, why don't I go and explain the situation to the Emperor privately and ask him to help you solve this problem?"
"With His Majesty's help, you've found the right path, and you'll have no worries about the future." Lord Wei quickly offered his advice.
"There's no need to go through all that trouble. Letting the emperor solve this problem might not be a good thing. Wouldn't that just be handing him leverage over me?"
"Uncle and Aunt, you can keep this to yourselves. Don't worry about us, everything will be alright." Hong Xiaoduo quickly reassured the two elders when she saw their worried expressions.
Hearing her say that, Lord Wei and his wife thought about it and felt that it made sense. With her abilities, what family could possibly have a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl who could enter the Golden Palace and help the court out of a predicament?
"Girl, are you really sure you're leaving the day after tomorrow?" Lord Wei couldn't help but ask again. Seeing that Hong Xiaoduo nodded, he immediately looked at his grandson.
"Not bad. It seems my grandson has accepted it calmly," Lord Wei secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Uncle and Aunt, although we're not going to the palace tomorrow, I'm still taking Kaiyang out to have some fun for the day," Hong Xiaoduo greeted them with a grin, not feeling at all that there was anything wrong with what she was doing.
"Then shall I ask the kitchen to prepare some snacks?" Madam Qi asked considerately, without showing any displeasure.
My precious grandson is so lucky to have this girl. He even went out to have some fun for a day. If he stayed in the capital, he would go out to have fun every day, just like her and Kaiyang.
“Grandmother, no need. Uncle Yuefan said he will prepare everything. Uncle Yuefan is also leaving the day after tomorrow. He said he doesn’t know when we will see each other again, so let’s get together again tomorrow.” This time it was Kaiyang who responded.
After Hong Xiaoduo led Kaiyang away from the study, Lord Wei muttered to himself, "When I go to the palace tomorrow, I'll remind the Emperor that I haven't given her the reward money yet."
After returning to her room and washing up, Hong Xiaoduo lay on the bed and remembered that Princess Fenglin had given her several robes, and she hadn't yet returned the favor.
So, Hong Xiaoduo entered the space. She remembered that there was a lipstick-making kit on the cabinet. It was because Old Man Luo was afraid that she would be bored, so he asked young girls what kind of pastimes were popular now. They told her that it was popular to DIY handmade soaps, lipsticks and the like.
Sure enough, I found it. Inside were various pure natural essential oils, molds, and other materials.
After opening her computer and finding a tutorial, Hong Xiaoduo started making rose-flavored, orange-flavored, jasmine-flavored, and so on.
Several colors of lipstick were also made.
She had also made some handmade soap, which all needed to solidify, so she didn't wait in the space. She took a tube of finished lipstick out of the space, opened her eyes, and looked at the thing in her hand by the moonlight. Hong Xiaoduo smiled. It really could be taken out of the space. Not bad, otherwise all her work would have been for nothing.
However, she did try to bring the snail rice noodles out, but she didn't manage to take them with her.
The next morning, just after breakfast, the gatekeeper came to say that the carriage from the Dong family residence was waiting outside.
Watching Hong Xiaoduo and Kaiyang leave excitedly, Madam Qi and her daughter-in-law Madam Hua hurried to the kitchen to see if the dried meat and dried fish they were making were ready.
Kaiyang said that when he first met his grandfather, he gave them a food box, which his older brothers, sisters and cousins all loved to eat.
They did the same thing when Hong Xiaoduo left a few days ago. This time, they figured since she wouldn't have to carry it on her back, and there was a carriage, they might as well do a little more.
That afternoon, someone from the palace came. It was Eunuch Fu again, bringing rewards, and this time in pairs: one set of gold notes worth three thousand taels of gold, and another set worth one thousand taels of gold.
The three thousand taels of gold were bestowed by His Majesty, and the one thousand taels of gold were given by the Empress.
Upon learning that Hong Xiaoduo was not in the mansion and it was uncertain when she would return, Eunuch Fu was in a bad mood when he left.
Princess Fenglin of the Marquis of Fu'an was also in a bad mood. Looking at her son practicing calligraphy at his desk, she got angry: "Jing'er, why have you been so free these past few days? You're not even going to the palace, just staying in the manor? If you really like someone, go for it! If you miss this opportunity, you'll miss it for life."
"You are my child, how can you be in no way as good as your mother?"
Mu Rongjing put down his pen, admiring his handwriting, and said, "Mother, didn't Madam Wei already send someone to tell you the result? Why are you still not giving up?"
"Hey, you brat, who told you that? How do you know? Never mind that, look at that good-for-nothing boy from the Dong family. He can pester her all the time. Why can't you learn from him?" Princess Fenglin got even angrier when she mentioned this, frustrated by her son's lack of ambition.
"Mother, please don't worry about your son's affairs," Murong Jing said helplessly to the princess.
Seeing her son's reaction, Princess Fenglin angrily turned and left, saying, "I'm just being nosy. What do I care if you grow old alone? The Mu family doesn't need another one like you to carry on the family line." Watching his mother leave indignantly, Mu Rongjing sighed.
He knew his mother's good intentions perfectly well, but he wasn't even sure if his feelings for her were romantic love, the kind between a man and a woman...
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