Yanran pouted, "I'm just tired, I need to rest! Work and rest should go hand in hand!"
The Prince of Jin didn't understand. "What mission? Don't overwork yourself."
He was strict with his children.
But when his child sets high standards for himself, he can't help but feel sorry for him.
Tang Zhuyun laughed and said, "I didn't arrange it for her. Yanran, you tell me yourself."
Yanran: "Don't even mention it, it's all because of Cui Xiaoqiu!"
Before she left, Cui Xiaoqiu played the victim.
The gist of it is that everyone says, "Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles," and he longs for the outside world, but he is unable to go out because of his family and health, especially his poor health.
Yanran is so loyal!
She immediately patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, I'm here. I've been out and seen it, and it's the same as what you've seen!"
Cui Xiaoqiu was deeply moved. "Yanran, you are my best friend in this life."
"Of course, we're doing great!"
"Unchanging for life!"
"Unchanged, unchanged!"
Yanran still felt depressed when she thought about this.
Indeed, one should not make decisions when one is overconfident, as it is easy to make impulsive decisions and dig a hole for oneself.
"... So now, I draw the places we go through every day for him, and I also have to write down the local customs and traditions for him..."
Yanran stretched out her hand to Prince of Jin with a pitiful look on her face. "Father, look, there are calluses on my fingers."
Prince of Jin: "Then ignore him."
Tang Zhuyun wondered to herself, was she overthinking it?
Why did she feel like these sesame dumplings were trying to get attention?
Just like that, Yanran can forget him?
Whenever I pick up a pen, the name "Cui Xiaoqiu" immediately comes to mind.
Yanran wrote him a letter, which gave him a reason to reply; in this way, the two could not lose contact.
Young man, you're really good!
Yanran sighed, "I already promised him, and it's a promise I can't keep. Besides, he's really in a bad situation, unlike me, who has an enlightened father and a beautiful mother."
Tang Zhuyun: Are you sure it's appropriate to compliment my looks here?
A son doesn't dislike his mother for being ugly, so why would Cui Xiaoqiu dislike his Madam Cui for being unattractive?
Besides, whether someone is good-looking or not, inner beauty is what truly matters, isn't it?
However, I was still secretly pleased.
After thinking for a moment, the Prince of Jin said, "There's no need for such trouble. I'll just have someone send him a good map."
Tang Zhuyun: "..."
That's absolutely amazing!
Cui Xiaoqiu was about to cry.
Yanran was instantly delighted and clapped her hands, saying, "That's great! Father is so clever! But Father, do you have any more detailed information, including local customs and traditions?"
The Prince of Jin said, "I will also have a copy of the *Annals of the Record of Great Zhou * sent to him."
Yanran: "That's great! How come I didn't think of that?"
She was finally free.
Tang Zhuyun: "How many letters have you written to Cui Xiaoqiu before?"
"I wrote such a thick book," Yanran gestured, "It was so hard for me. But now it's all good, I don't need to bind it before sending it to him!"
Tang Zhuyun: "... You didn't give him any of the things you wrote before?"
"No," Yanran said matter-of-factly. "Delivering letters back and forth is time-consuming, laborious, and expensive. I'll just give them to him all at once after I've finished writing them."
But now it's all good; we don't have to write it down or give it to each other anymore.
Tang Zhuyun: "Okay."
Poor Cui Xiaoqiu.
Although you are intelligent and resourceful, you can't withstand the simple-minded and brutal Prince of Jin and Yanran quirky father-daughter duo, Yanran.
Their carefully laid plans are about to fall through.
Yanran put down a large stone and said happily, "Father, Mother, you eat first, I'll go take some to my brother."
After she left, Xiu'er suddenly burst into laughter, drawing the attention of Prince of Jin and Tang Zhuyun.
"Xiu'er, what are you laughing at?" Tang Zhuyun asked.
Xiu'er laughed as she said, "I'm laughing at Cui Xiaoqiu! That cunning little brat, trying to tie Yanran down. Well, look what happened!"
She was actually really looking forward to seeing Cui Xiaoqiu's expression when she received the map and the "Chronicles of the Record of Great Zhou".
Tang Zhuyun rolled her eyes. "You reacted really quickly."
Pregnancy makes you stupid for three years. Even someone as smart and quick-witted as Xiu'er is so slow to react now.
Xiu'er: "Your Majesty, I just realized something. Can I say this in front of Yanran? Wouldn't that be helping Cui Xiaoqiu remind Yanran?"
The two children are childhood sweethearts, and at least Yanran certainly hasn't thought too much about it.
She's not stupid; she wants Yanran to think about things from a different perspective.
Tang Zhuyun: "... Actually, no, they're just kids."
Xiu'er: "Your children never seem to grow up. Have you forgotten that the late Emperor had a son so early on!"
Tang Zhuyun: "..."
To be honest, she really didn't know.
Meeting her questioning gaze, the Prince of Jin nodded.
By all accounts, that was his imperial uncle.
However, her birth mother was of low status and withdrew from the struggle for the throne early on; it was for this reason that she was able to die a peaceful death.
"Boys and girls shouldn't sit together after the age of seven; the ancients didn't just say that casually," Xiu'er said. "Anyway, I think it's not that Cui Xiaoqiu is incompetent, it's that the Cui Family is incompetent."
Tang Zhuyun laughed and said, "They don't want to form a marriage alliance with us either!"
Xiu'er: "That's true. But it's okay, it's fine if we look down on each other!"
Tang Zhuyun told her to take some beef back and eat it with Nanny Jing, and then talk to Prince of Jin while eating.
"I remember the little lamb that Your Highness gave me. May I ask what Your Highness's motives were in tying a big red flower on it?"
Prince of Jin: "Eat your flesh!"
Tang Zhuyun laughed loudly, "So I understood correctly, the prince just wants me to kill and eat him."
The Prince of Jin did not want to speak.
"But Xiu'er just said that the late emperor received his early education when he was still a prince... Why didn't you?"
The alarm bells immediately went off in the Prince of Jin's mind.
This world is truly unfair.
Why can women prove they were virgins, but men can't?
This is something that cannot be explained at all.
That's outrageous! He's so innocent!
"Oh," Tang Zhuyun muttered to herself, "Because you hadn't returned to the palace yet, and by the time you did, you were too old to arrange things for yourself?"
Prince of Jin: "Hmm."
That's what she thinks.
In fact, the emperor had assigned him two palace maids, but he was too busy later and forgot about them after bringing them back to his residence.
He was only thinking about the Xiao Family's affairs; he had no time for those other thoughts.
He couldn't remember who those two people were, nor did he know if they left the manor afterward.
It seems I should write a letter next time to have someone check. If the person is in the manor, I should send them away as soon as possible to avoid causing trouble.
Tang Zhuyun: "Oh, how pitiful."
"What, you still have regrets?" Prince of Jin gritted his teeth.
Tang Zhuyun smiled smugly, "No regrets, I'm happy. Look at my face, it's practically screaming 'I got a bargain'."
After dinner, Tang Zhuyun paced back and forth in the room to aid digestion.
The Prince of Jin was worried that she was cold, so he put eight braziers in the room. Now she felt like she was turning into roast meat.
"I'll open the window."
Tang Zhuyun opened the window a crack and stood in front of it to look down.
Oh dear, it's snowing.
I don't know when it started snowing, but the windowsills outside are covered with a thick layer of snow.
"That's normal. It often snows heavily in the Northwest in March," the Prince of Jin said dismissively. "Don't let the wind blow on you, it's cold."
"Am I seeing things?" Tang Zhuyun blinked. "Why do I feel like there's a dark figure on the road outside?"