Chapter 525 526 Old Friend

When Li Yu and his wife returned home, Zhou Jia told Li Yu about Chu Yuhao letting Yang Yang go to the palace to accompany him. He looked at her and said, "Yu'er, His Majesty asked me to come back to discuss with you. What do you think? "

Li Yu looked at Yang Yang, who was lying on the bamboo couch, sleeping side by side with the twins, and nodded: "I think the prince has a pretty good character. He is not like some children from noble families who are arrogant and domineering. Yang'er entered the palace." It’s the Emperor’s wish to accompany you to study, and you can’t go home only once every ten and a half months, so let him go!”

Zhou Jia also looked at his three sons and said, "I think so too. Your Majesty doesn't have many heirs now. He has two sons and one daughter. The prince is the daughter of the empress, the three-year-old prince and the two-year-old princess are both the sons of Concubine Shu. We will just follow His Majesty’s instructions and we won’t be afraid of falling into party disputes.”

Li Yu nodded, "Your Majesty is in the prime of life. We can just obey the holy orders. We don't want to visit the king, so this is good. You must not get close to those officials who form cliques for personal gain."

Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu, kissed her on the temples, and said with a smile, "Yeah! I listen to my wife."

Li Yu looked at his flattering look and laughed, "Yue'er will be as sweet as honey from now on. You and the children will sleep for a while, and I will take them to make wine."

"Go back later!" Zhou Jia hugged Li Yuwen for a while before letting her go.

Li Yu came out of the room and saw someone putting grapes under the eaves of the corridor.

Xinghua said to Li Yu: "Madam, the financial manager said that you want to make fruit wine from these grapes, so I put them here."

Li Yu nodded, "Carry the grapes to the well and bring out a larger jar."

"Hey!" Xinghua responded crisply, and she and Mrs. Zhang carried the grapes to the well.

Mrs. Liu carried a wine jar to the well and said to Li Yu with a smile: "Madam, the wine jar is here. Do you plan to make fruit wine?"

"There are a lot of grapes in the village. Rinse the grapes and dry them. Then get some crushed rock sugar and call me when they are dry."

"Okay, you go and rest for a while. When it's done, we'll call you." Mrs. Liu responded.

As soon as Li Yu returned to the main courtyard, Aunt Yang entered the courtyard with an invitation and said with a smile: "Madam, Prince Fujun has married again. I am sending a wedding invitation to invite you and me to the banquet. I heard that Prince Fujun has newly married." This princess is only in her teens, about the same age as Prince Fu’s youngest concubine.”

Li Yu took the invitation and saw that it was written on the second day of September. He was curious about what kind of family was willing to marry his daughter to an old man in his sixties.

"Whose lady is it?" Li Yu asked.

Grandma Yang smiled and said: "I heard that she was a concubine from a family named Yu. Her father was a minor official. During the Dragon Boat Festival, Prince Fujun went out and his horse was frightened by a mad cow from a farmer's family. This minor official saved Fujun. The king, somehow became the father-in-law of the king of Fujun."

Li Yu smiled and said, "Okay, it's only two days since the second day of the Lunar New Year. Who sent those wine and cakes?"

"She is the wife of General Shen Wu. Mrs. Wu said that she would go to Maple Leaf Mountain in the east of the city on the ninth day of the lunar month. Would you like to go? She also sent chrysanthemum wine and Double Ninth Festival cakes."

The ninth day of the lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival. People plant dogwood trees, eat Double Ninth Cake, and drink chrysanthemum wine. “Have you prepared the Double Ninth Cake and chrysanthemum wine at home?

"Get ready, all the gifts have been sent out."

"Okay, there are many elderly people in our family. On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, grandma will take them to eat crabs and drink chrysanthemum wine to have a good time."

After hearing this, Nanny Yang laughed, "That's a good relationship. On that day I will take them to drink wine and admire the chrysanthemums in the back garden. Madam, will you go to Maple Leaf Mountain?"

Li Yu thought that Zhou Jia had not been to the hot spring village outside the city when he came back, "No, on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, we will go to the hot spring village outside the city. You go back to Mrs. Wu, and I will invite her to play next time."

"Yes, I will go back to Mrs. Wu right now." Nanny Yang bowed and retreated.

After dinner, Mrs. Liu came to ask Li Yu to teach them how to make wine.

Li Yu went to the kitchen, and took a few people to crush the grapes, put them into the wine vat with the skins on, sprinkle a layer of rock sugar, then put the grapes, and sealed the wine vat after they were done.

"Let it ferment in the house for a month. Then filter it through fine gauze. Leave it for another month and you can drink it."

Mrs. Liu smiled and said, "Madam, why don't you come back and see us again in a month?"

Li Yu nodded and returned to the main courtyard. Zhou Jia read the invitation sent by Prince Fu's family, looked at Li Yu and said, "Yu'er, do you know who the princess of Prince Fu is marrying?"

"I heard that she is a concubine named Xiaoguan. What's wrong?" Li Yu asked strangely.

Zhou Jia looked at Li Yu and said, "She is the concubine of Yu County Lieutenant."

The news surprised Li Yu, "Ah! Has Lieutenant Yu been transferred to Kyoto to serve?"

"The Yu County Lieutenant was at odds with the county magistrate of Qingchuan. Not long after we left, he abandoned his official position and returned to Qingzhou. I heard that he opened a bodyguard bureau in partnership with others. When he was escorting the bodyguard car to Beijing, he happened to save Prince Fu."

Zhou Jia paused for a moment, "You know, the concubine of his family is restless. She hooked up with Prince Fu for some unknown reason. I heard that colleagues in the yamen said that Prince Fu dotes on her."

"How do you know this?" Li Yu looked at Zhou Jia in surprise after hearing this, "You guys gossip about this in the yamen! Why have you never told me about it?"

Zhou Jia laughed after hearing this, "I'll just listen to them. If you like it, I'll come back and tell you."

Li Yu smiled and sat next to Zhou Jia. He could not imagine what a group of sanctimonious ancient officials were gossiping about.

"Then what do you do? Tell me."

"The official business was done, and after lunch, everyone sat in the garden behind the Yamen with tea in hand. Some people said who was forced to kneel on the pedal by the madam last night, whose grape trellis fell down, and whose concubine was fighting with the madam. , a certain young man pawned his family’s antiques in order to support the actor..."

Li Yu laughed when he heard this, "I always thought that you were all serious in the yamen, each doing your own thing. I didn't expect that you would gossip like women."

"Most of the time, they are still polite. You know those people are flattering and suppressing others. Many people just maintain the superficial harmony."

"Yu'er, Yuxian Lieutenant took Queen Fujun to the Yamen to look for me. I thought he had evil intentions and ignored him. Later, Prince Fujun found him a job in the army at Jingzhao Yamen."

Li Yu knew from what happened to Mrs. Tang that Yu Xianwei was not a good person, and that Yu Yan, like her aunt, was a person who wanted to go to Shu. If Prince Fu married such a woman and returned home, he would not leave the Luan family. Far.

"It's right to ignore such a person with evil intentions. His concubine is not a kind person either. We have no contact with their family, so we just pretend we don't know her."

"My wife and I want to go together."

Zhou Jia stood up and took Li Yu, "Let's tell Yang'er about entering the palace as a companion."