Ajiao divided the tender corn into three parts, one to eat at home, one to her aunt's house, and one to her Duke Liguo's Mansion.

This kind of cheap thing is given to someone who is really good friends, so everyone can try it out together, without any attempt, and it is not even a favor. If you send it to someone with a weak relationship, people may not be able to look down on it.

In the evening of that day, Cui Niang cooked a large pot. The water from the pot boiled corn was tender, yellow and sweet, and it tasted delicious when chewed. Even Xiao Chujin was divided into small pieces. After chewing, she pointed to the plates containing corn on the dining table and shouted, but she couldn't eat enough.

After dinner, Ajiao followed Cui Niang to the kitchen and told Cui Niang that Ye Changsheng wanted to marry her because he didn't know whether the elders of the Ye family could accept Ajiao's arrangement.

Cui Niang had heard her brother mention it, and her brother explained it more, saying that the wife's arrangements were for her own good. In addition to not having to get up early and go to the capital and go to bed late, Cui Niang lives in the Zhao family and does not have to deal with her father-in-law, mother-in-law, and sister-in-law. Even if the Ye family is a easy-to-get-in-law, and Cui Niang will definitely not feel comfortable living in the Zhao family.

Perhaps this is a bit of a bully of the Ye family, but Cui Niang is qualified to choose. She looks good and is also a maid who is favored by the fifth-rank Beijing official. The Ye family's family's family is just a small farmyard with two acres of thin land and a mule cart. If Ye Changsheng had not been for his appearance, Zhou Zheng was kind-hearted and the Ye family was in charge of the land for his wife, how could the wife consider Ye Changsheng?

So, Cui Niang understood that the wife was all for her own good.

Having said that, Ye Changsheng is the eldest son of the Ye family. It seems inappropriate to leave his parents and his wife to live alone outside. However, Ye Changsheng does not rent a house by himself, but wants to move to the home of a fifth-rank official. If he has a child in the future, the child may be able to study and improve with the little master of the Zhao family! A good thing that many people can't ask for can't be obtained. If the Ye family gave up this good opportunity because of that rigid idea, it means that the elders of the Ye family have water in their heads. If this is true, Cui Niang doesn't want to marry yet!

"If they do it, when I go back to the Ye family with him during the holidays, I will definitely be diligent and filial to my parents-in-law. I will never put any questions about the maids of the official family. If they don't, let's forget about the marriage. There are so many good men outside, so I can only marry their Ye family." Cui Niang wore an apron and said while brushing the pot. She really didn't care much about the result of the discussion of the Ye family.

Gillian felt relieved when she saw that she was so open-minded.

But at night, Jiao couldn't sleep a little, worried that the Ye family would really not want to do so, so she caused some trouble to Cui Niang for nothing.

Zhao Yanping hugged her and said, "You have good intentions. Everything else depends on fate. If this doesn't work, let's choose a better one for Cui Niang."

Gillian leaned against her man and fell asleep slowly.

What surprised Gillian was that the next morning, Ye Zhuangtou came to Shizi Lane to reply and said happily that their family was grateful for the matchmaking of his wife.

On the way home yesterday, Ye Zhuangtou was also worried about my mother and his wife was unwilling to do so. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were indeed a little awkward, but when he thought about the benefits of getting married with the Zhao family, he would definitely not be able to escape the position of the thirty acres of land. For the sake of this floor, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law nodded.

Gillian breathed a sigh of relief, and this thing was not in vain.

Although it was agreed that Cui Niang would live in the Zhao family after marriage, and the wedding would be held at the Ye family. After all, the Ye family would have to invite relatives and friends, the house would have to be rested, and all kinds of things should be prepared. After Ye Zhuangtou turned over the calendar, he came to discuss with Ajiao and asked if he could set the wedding date in the first month of next year.

Gillian is mainly concerned with the convenience of the Ye family. Anyway, the Zhao family is easy to talk about. It is enough to prepare a wedding dress for Cui Niang, add some dowry, and then buy two tables of banquets for her master and servant to have fun.

Cui Niang's marriage is certain, and Gillian is free again and just concentrate on taking care of her daughter.

In the winter months, it snowed for two days in the capital. After the weather cleared, Gillian took Meng Zhao and Xiao Chujin to visit Duke Li's Mansion to visit Duke Lu.

Lu Taigong will be seventy next year. At this time, the old men can live to sixty. It is a happy event for Duke Lu to be tough at this age. Duke Lu’s mansion is ready to celebrate his 70th birthday. Duke Lu’s birthday is in May, and Duke’s mansion has already prepared in advance. Duke Lu is a clean official, but Duke’s mansion has a strong family and is one of the famous families in the capital.

Meng Zhao and Lu Jun took Xiao Chujin to build a snowman. Gillian and Mei sat in the warm chalet and chatted. As they were chatting, Gillian suddenly realized that there were quite a lot of people who would invite a birthday next year: Lu Taigong celebrated seventy, Chunqing emperor celebrated sixty, and Gillian's mother-in-law Liu celebrated fifty.

"In addition to this, there is another big event in the palace next year." Mei said quietly to Gillian, "I heard the news that there will be a draft in the harem after the New Year."

Gillian's chin is about to fall off, Emperor Chunqing is about to be sixty, and she is still a talent show?

Mei deliberately wanted to see her stupid appearance. After she got her wish, she explained with a smile: "It's not the emperor's choice, but the emperor's grandson. If you don't mention the emperor's grandson in Prince Huai and Prince Jian's mansion, there are two masters in the East Palace, the prince and the second master are all old enough."

Gillian recalled for a moment in her heart. If she remembered correctly, after this year, the prince would be twenty years old, and the second master of the grandson Zhang, who was born in Taisun Concubine Zhang, was sixteen. It is indeed the age to talk about marriage. In comparison, Zhao Yanping is only three years younger than the prince. The prince is almost holding a grandson, and his daughter is only two years old, but she is still a silly year old. By the way, the little princess born to Miss Xiangyun is a few months younger. I don’t know what the prince in the East Palace would think when he sees his toddler sister.

"Speaking of this, the prince got married early enough." Gillian sighed in a low voice.

Mei handed her a meaningful look.

Empress Xie did not just remember the third prince in her name. She gave the third prince the title of legitimate son. Naturally, she had to let the third prince serve for the Xie family. The best way was to marry. But at that time, there was only one girl in the Xie family, who was five years older than the third prince. Empress Xie could bear it if she didn't let the third prince marry her 18-year-old niece at the age of thirteen.

Not only that, when other princes get married, they are the ones who are the two concubines on both sides. Only when Prince Xuan got married was there, there was only one princess. When the princess successfully gave birth to the eldest son, the concubine Zhang was arranged to enter the mansion and then gave some beauties to Prince Xuan one after another, which is the current crown prince.

Gillian heard a lot of royal affairs here at Mei, and I will tell you to Zhao Yanping tonight.

Zhao Yanping only heard the complexity of the royal family. It seemed that every step of everyone was related to power and interests. The more this happened, the more Zhao Yanping felt sorry for his sister. He seemed to have gone from a civilian girl to a prince concubine who enjoyed wealth and glory. But while his sister was envied by ordinary people, she became a thorn in the eyes of many people?

The closer they were to that position, the more they were walking on thin ice. The prince was cautious in his words and deeds in the court, let alone them.

At this year's New Year's Eve palace banquet, Zhao Yanping, Jiao Jiao and Liu received an invitation again.

There was no queen in the harem, and Concubine Hui, the mother of King Huai, and Concubine Xian, the mother of King Jian, co-hosted the palace banquet in the harem.

Gillian and Liu were still in the back seat. They followed the women in front of them to the hall to the hall to pay their respects to the second concubine. When the princess was celebrating the ceremony, they thought they could be taken to the table like they did last year, but Concubine Hui actually praised the prince's concubine Zhao in front of the wife inside and outside for his contribution to the royal family, and then summoned his family's family to come forward.

The prince's concubine Zhao is Zhao Xiangyun, and her family's family is her mother Liu and her sister-in-law Ajiao.

This was completely beyond the expectation of Ajiao and his mother-in-law. Liu subconsciously looked at his daughter-in-law. Seeing that his mother-in-law was like this, Ajiao did not dare to show panic. She handed her mother-in-law a comforting look. The mother-in-law and his daughter-in-law followed a path given by the wife in front and lowered her eyes and walked forward.

After being granted the title of the wife of the imperial decree, he learned all the rules in the palace in advance. Liu really wanted to see her daughter sitting behind the crown princess, but she was even more afraid of embarrassing her daughter, so she abides by the etiquette in the palace and did not dare to make any mistakes. She and Jiao went to court Hui, Xian, and Crown Princess in a regular manner.

Concubine Hui looked at her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for a while before she let them go to waive the gift.

Both Jiao and her mother-in-law looked down at Hui Fei's feet.

"Mrs. I have a good appearance. No wonder she was able to give birth to a beauty like Prince Concubine." Concubine Hui praised Liu with a smile.

Liu was nervously not sure what to say.

This is in line with her identity. If she is generous, it will make the noble ladies around her strange.

Concubine Hui just wanted to instigate the Crown Princess and the most favored Crown Princess of the Eastern Palace to just click on it. If you do too much, it will be unsatisfactory to the emperor's ears.

After praising Liu, Concubine Hui asked the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to step down.

Liu still couldn't help but glanced at her daughter before. She didn't look at her now. When she arrived at the seat, she was so far away that she couldn't see clearly.

Zhao Xiangyun sat behind the crown princess and looked at her mother with a faint smile. Her sister-in-law stepped back. When she saw her mother looking over, she just smiled slightly deeper and had no extra expression. She felt uncomfortable and had not had time to see her sister-in-law's appearance clearly. She had already returned to the group of women.

She still smiled slightly.

After returning to the back, Gillian was shocked by this incident. She had no time to think about what Concubine Hui had. It was just the first time to face the empresses in the palace close-up and the first time she received the gaze of so many noble ladies, she was so panicked that she dared not move around. How did Miss Xiangyun survive so many years?

In this palace, everyone was laughing, but it seemed like a net was hanging there, ready to pounce on the person who made mistakes at any time, so that people would not dare to relax.

Finally, Gillian took a sneak peek at Miss Xiangyun. Her eyes were very useful, but she could only see the general outline of her eyebrows and eyes, knowing that it was a beauty.

After the banquet, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law walked out stiffly, stayed in the carriage, blocking the peeping, and then Liu suddenly leaned against Gillian's shoulder and choked up.

Zhao Yanping just saw that the two of them looked wrong. At this moment, his mother actually burst into tears. Zhao Yanping asked Gillian in a deep voice: "What's wrong?"

While hugging her mother-in-law, she explained to him in a low voice. The palace banquet lasted for so long, and Gillian had already thought about the intention of Concubine Hui. She was trying to give Miss Xiangyun a decent look, but in fact she pushed Miss Xiangyun to the forefront and deliberately stimulated the Crown Princess, the other Crown Princess, and even the two of them.

Liu regretted it very much: "If I had known this, I would have stayed at home tonight with illness. If I didn't enter the palace, Xiangyun would have lost all the trouble."

Jiao thought to herself, who would have expected this before going out, and the family was looking forward to seeing each other from afar at the palace banquet.

Zhao Yan glanced at the car window, as if he could see the majestic palace through the curtains.

This matter has indeed caused trouble for the family and my sister, but it is not a big deal. With the favor my sister received from the prince, Huifei mentioned it or not, those who should be jealous of her sister will be jealous of her.

"Mom, don't blame yourself. If you don't come, they will have other ways to deal with their sister. You don't have to worry. My sister has been with the prince for so many years and has never seen any storms. She has her own solutions."

Zhao Yanping said slowly, both to comfort her mother and to trust her sister.
Chapter completed!