Fortunate Life of the Rural Beauty

The two chatted for a while. Chu Hua pursed his lips and smiled, hugged Chen Afu's arm and said, "My grandmother asked me to ask if my sister-in-law's third sister is engaged now..."

After hearing this, Chen Afu really wanted to take action and put on airs. The old Xie family saw that the rebellion was about to be successful, and that the daughter of the Chu family became the future prince. Chen Shiying was very important to the prince and might become an official in the capital. It seemed that they sent someone to investigate Chen Yuqing. This is me asking to marry her again.

However, Chen Afu really didn't have the confidence to act like one. Xie Wuye, Xie Feng, has already won the imperial examination in Qiu Wei this year. Although he is a bit dark, he is tall and has a dignified appearance. If the older Chen Yuqing misses this person, I am afraid that she will never find another youngster with such a good family background, appearance, talent, and character.

She smiled and said, "My father and mother also sent a letter a while ago, saying that there are some good families and they are still considering it. They probably haven't decided yet..."

Chu Hua hurriedly said, "Oh, please hurry up and send someone to deliver a letter to Mr. Chen. Don't make a reservation first, otherwise my fifth uncle will miss it." The reason why he hasn't gotten engaged at this age is because he wants to take the imperial examination, and the elders want him to find a daughter from a civil servant's family. If it were a daughter from a military officer's family, I'm afraid the decision would have been made long ago."

Chen Afu nodded and said with a smile, "Okay, I will write a letter tonight and have it sent to Dingzhou Prefecture tomorrow."

Chu Hua gossiped again, "I heard from my father-in-law that there are rumors in the court that Mr. Chen will return to the capital as an official after the new year. He will definitely be a minister. I just don't know whether it will be the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of Personnel."

Chen Afu said helplessly, "Things that haven't been revealed yet are spread like this again. My father was unlucky that year, and it was because it was spread so many times that it aroused the dissatisfaction of caring people..."

This year, the area under the jurisdiction of Dingzhou Prefecture has another bumper harvest. The yields of rice, wheat, corn, sweet potatoes and other crops are much higher than in other places.

The emperor and the prince were overjoyed and wanted to make full use of Chen Shiying. Especially the prince, whether it is based on Chen Shiying's talent and character, or based on the Chu family and Chen Afu, he wants to reuse Chen Shiying.

Chen Afu has received reliable information from Xiao Shiyi that Chen Shiying will work as a minister in the Ministry of Industry in a few years. Although the Ministry of Personnel has greater power, Chen Afu still hopes that Chen Shiying will go to the Ministry of Works. One is that there are too many people competing in the bureaucracy. Compared with some people, Chen Shiying's qualifications are too junior, and he is easily criticized for standing in the way of others. Another reason is that if Chen Shiying did a solid job in the Ministry of Industry, it would be easier to be promoted to minister than in the Ministry of Personnel or the Ministry of Household Affairs.

In the evening, Lord Chu came to Zhuxuan with a group of children. He was wearing an old slate blue straight jacket, with an ebony hairpin tied on his head. He was holding Xiao Yu'er in one hand and Sister Yi in the other. Brother Yu and Brother Ming were holding his lapel, and Chu Hanyan was holding Xie Heng's hand. hands ahead of him. Several children were making noises, but Lord Chu was not impatient at all.

Seeing him like this, Chu Hua burst into tears. Thinking of my father in the past, how heroic and energetic he was. He became a second-rank official just after he turned thirty. But since he was set up by that woman and became the consort, he was forced to interrupt his official career and his wife and children were separated. Now even though the second prince and his party were beaten down and the ninth prince was helped up, they were still pinned down by the emperor. He is only forty-four years old this year, in the prime of life, but he can only enjoy taking care of children at home...

After seeing Lord Chu like this, Chu Hua let go of everything he had done before.

"Dad..." Chu Hua called out, then choked with tears and was speechless.

Lord Chu saw that his daughter, who had ignored him for many years, finally called him, with a look of distress in her eyes. His nose also felt a little sour, and he pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled, "My daughter, Hua'er."

Seeing that their father and daughter had reconciled, Chen Afu was also happy. People were sent to invite the old marquis, the third lady, mother and son to Zhuxuan for dinner.

Before dinner, Xie Ling came again. Lord Chu was so happy that he took his father and son-in-law to drink a lot of wine.

In the next few days, Chen Afu started busy preparing for the treat on the 20th.

On the morning of October 18th, light snow actually fell from the sky. This was the first snow since autumn. Lord Chu stood in front of the window and watched for a while, and then asked someone to bring him a cloak. Then he went out with a sullen face, got on the carriage and went to Baoguo Temple to pick up Rong Zhao.

Seeing the Marquis of Chu whom he hadn't seen for a long time, Rong Zhao instinctively wanted to blame him. Why didn't he come to the temple to see her after such a long time? Could he still be thinking about that bitch? But seeing his cold eyes and tight lips, the words that came out of his mouth became, "Chu Lang, it's so cold today, why did you come in person?"

This attitude is really low.

Lord Chu was stunned and said, "Well, let's go." He walked out of the house first, but instead of riding in a carriage, he got on a horse.

Rong Zhao looked at Lord Chu on the horse, and then at the snowflakes floating in the sky. She knew that it was because he didn't want to ride in the same carriage with her that he would ride a horse no matter how cold the weather was. In front of so many guards and servants around, she really couldn't find the words to ask him to ride in the carriage. He had no choice but to bite his lip and get into the carriage.

The Marquis of Chu sent Rong Zhao back to the room and said, "Princess, please have a good rest. I will go to the study room outside."

As soon as he turned around, Rong Zhao grabbed his sleeve and said flatteringly, "Chu Lang, during these times in the temple, apart from copying sutras and chanting Buddhist scriptures, I was thinking about the past..."

"What happened in the past?" A trace of sarcasm slipped from the corner of Mr. Chu's lips, and he stood down.

Rong Zhao said, "Yes, what happened in the past. Chu Lang, I did something wrong in the past. I shouldn't have listened to the second brother, and I shouldn't have designed you like that to make you lose face... But what should I do? Once I make a big mistake You can't change it even if you want to." He said in a soft voice, "Chu Lang, I really like you, and I even want you to be my pillow. That's why I made such a wrong move. I fell into the trap of the second child and made my father resent me. Chu Lang, they say that once a couple is married, a hundred days of kindness will come. We have been husband and wife for more than ten years, and we have had sweet times. Can you let go of your resentment towards me? Shall we live a good life in the future? The doctor said that my health is still good and I can still have children. Chu Lang, I want to give you a child. Don’t worry, even if I give birth to a boy, I will not compete with Xuan’er for the title of heir apparent. "

This was the method Rong Zhao had thought up in the temple - to show weakness. Now, she and her mother-in-law had completely lost the emperor's favor, and they were even more disliked by the prince. The emperor is her biological father and may not be cruel enough to ask her to become a monk. But the prince succeeded to the throne, and she had only one destiny, which was to become a monk.

She didn't want to become a monk, and the few months she spent in the monastery made her extremely uncomfortable.