Fortunate Life of the Rural Beauty

Four days later, after receiving the news, Jiang took Chen Yuqing's four siblings back to the capital. They knew that they might live in the capital for a long time in the future, so many of their belongings were moved here.

Chen Afu took the child back to have a meal, but did not go to see Chen Yuhui. When she thought about it, Chen Yuhui was hopeless and she didn't want to have anything to do with her again.

On the 16th, the Xie Mansion officially invited a matchmaker to come to the house to negotiate a match. Chen Jia agreed, and Chen Yuqing and Xie Feng finally got engaged.

Jiang was extremely happy. Xie Feng's family background, character, talent and learning are undoubtedly the best young people that have been mentioned to Chen Yuqing in so many years, better than all the young people before him. She was very grateful to Chen Afu and Chu Hua, because these two people secretly promoted this marriage.

On the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, when people were immersed in the joy of celebrating the new year, the emperor passed away.

The new emperor announced that a grand funeral would be held for the late emperor. All civil and military officials in the capital paid their condolences and cried. Officials at a certain level had to fast for three days and were not allowed to go home. Women of the third rank or above in the capital have to go to the palace to mourn for three days. They enter the palace in the morning and leave the palace in the evening.

This sad news made the Empress Dowager extremely sad. Her already healthy body passed away again on the second day of the first lunar month. The funeral ceremony of the late emperor was not completely over yet, and the royal family ushered in a second funeral ceremony.

The Empress Dowager passed away, leaving the third lady heartbroken and fainting from crying several times. Chen Afu always took care of her, comforted her, and stayed with her in the palace for three days.

On the night of the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, after the mourning was over, Chen Afu helped the pale third lady out of the palace.

Chu Fourth Master Chu Lingwei was waiting outside the palace gate. Chu Lingwei burst into tears when he saw the third lady who was almost out of shape. He stepped forward to support her and said, "My condolences, mother's day, my great-grandmother's soul in heaven will be sad if you act like this."

After handing the third lady to Chu Lingwei, Chen Afu finally breathed a sigh of relief. She has been extremely anxious these days because she has three children aged one to two at home. Thinking of them crying and crying at night, Chen Afu's heart bleeds.

Back at the Hou Mansion, Chen Afu went directly to Anrong Hall. I heard from Chu Lingwei that these four children are living in Anrong Hall with their grandfather these days.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw Chu Hanyan sitting on the brocade stool and turning flower ropes with Luo Mei. The three children were playing with the animal house. Lord Chu was sitting aside and watching them.

As soon as their mother came back, several children rushed towards her. The two brothers each hugged their mother's legs and called "Mother". Chu Hanyan held Xiao Yu'er who was on an unstable stake. Xiao Yu'er looked up at her mother and cried, feeling extremely wronged.

Chen Afu picked up Xiao Yu'er and said, "Good boy, mother is back."

She said goodbye to Lord Chu and led the children back to Zhuxuan.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, a grand enthronement ceremony was held. Li Zeping officially ascended the throne, and Hongnian was renamed the first year of Qingguan. Empress Feng Dan is the empress dowager, and the former crown princess is the empress. Several princes who were not crowned kings were also crowned kings and given mansions. The eleventh prince Li Zetai was granted the title of king. The second prince's younger brother, the eighth prince, was granted the title of Prince Su and sent to guard the imperial mausoleum. He was never allowed to enter the capital.

Chen Afu was very happy when he heard that Xiao Eleven had married the king and would move out after the mansion was renovated. From now on, I see him more often.

Chen Shiying was also officially appointed as the Right Minister of the Ministry of Industry. One of his main tasks was to manage farming and farming.

At the end of February, the remnants of the Second Prince's party were basically cleared out. If the circumstances are serious, all males over the age of seven will be exterminated, and the female family members may be confiscated to the Jiaofang Department or allowed to be prostitutes. For minor cases, the person involved will be executed and the remaining family members will be exiled for three thousand miles. As for the He family, the crime was relatively minor. Except for He, who was all beheaded, the rest were exiled to Qiongzhou.

It is said that He Quan saw his old wife and his eldest son for the last time before he died, and asked his old wife to agree to divorce his second daughter-in-law and save the child in her belly. When his old wife told him that Chen Yuhui's child had been aborted by her son and the emperor had sentenced them to divorce, she cried loudly.

The Ma family's case is serious, and the owner's family will deal with it accordingly. As Chu Hanyan's maternal family was just a relative, the family was sentenced to exile in the North and allowed to become a military household. They are much better than the people who were exiled in Qiongzhou, and maybe the emperor will not necessarily think of them in terms of the future and the princess's face.

Chen Afu felt that after all, that family was related to Chu Hanyan by blood, so he shouldn't leave it alone. He asked Luo Fang to give a lot of money to the escorting sergeant, and asked him to help take care of it. He also gave her grandfather some money and medicinal materials in the name of Chu Hanyan to make their life easier in the future.

Perhaps the only one who dares to help the exiles is the future Princess He. Everyone knows that He Wangye is the most favored by the Queen Mother and the Emperor.

February 27th is Prince He's ninth birthday, and the Queen Mother will definitely celebrate his birthday. Chen Afu made a birthday cake early in the morning and sent it to the palace. Also sent in was a set of underwear made by Chen Afu himself and a beautiful blue bracelet knitted by Chu Hanyan.

What Chen Afu didn't expect was that he and the prince would actually come to Chu Mansion that evening.

Chen Afu was happy and puzzled, and asked, "Why did you leave the palace?"

Prince He came over and leaned beside her and said, "Since my father died, my mother spent most of her time studying Buddhism. I could only see her before 6 hours ago. If it weren't for my brother and I suffering so much. My mother-in-law wants to become a monk..." His eyes were a little red, and he calmed down and said, "I want to eat minced pork noodles with soybean paste made by my mother-in-law, so here they are."

After hearing this, Chen Afu smiled and went to the backyard to make miscellaneous noodles. He also asked people to go to Anrong Hall to pick up a few children, and then invited the third lady and Chu Lingzhi to Zhuxuan to eat longevity noodles to celebrate the birthday of the prince. Because there was no preparation and the time was short, we did not accept all the invitations.

Prince He waved his arm to Chu Hanyan again, and the beautiful blue chain on his wrist was extremely conspicuous. He smiled and said, "My sister's hands are getting better and better, and this chain is so beautifully woven."

Chu Hanyan smiled and said, "Your Majesty likes it, I will knit a few more for you in the future." Then she added, "Mother said that next year I can learn to embroider, and then I can embroider handkerchiefs and purses for Your Majesty."

Prince He was even more happy after hearing this and said, "Okay, I'll wait."

When the lanterns first came on, a large basin of noodles and several large bowls of savory seeds were placed on the Kang table in the east room. Chen Afu prepared several kinds of sautee, including minced meat, scrambled eggs with leeks, stewed chicken with fragrant rut, and shrimps in ginger sauce.

Prince He smiled and said, "I only eat noodles with minced pork and mixed sauce, and no noodles are as delicious as it."

Chen Afu helped him mix a bowl, and he asked for it again after he finished eating. Chen Afu mixed another half a bowl for him, and then refused to allow him to eat any more, saying that it would be difficult to digest noodles if he ate too much at night.

Seeing that Wang Ye liked it, the two brothers had to eat mixed noodles, and half of their faces were stained.

Before Chen Afu could take out the handkerchief, he and Wangye took out the silk handkerchief and wiped it for them, coaxing, "Slow down, there are more. Only the three of us like these noodles."