When Cheng Dashan was sick, Zhuhua and Yinhua had both gone to serve the disease. Sun didn't like to bother them, saying that there were servants in the mansion and they didn't need them to do it themselves, but he always fed Cheng Dashan himself. Even when Cheng Dashan was seriously ill, he refused to drink medicine. If Sun hadn't been feeding him, he wouldn't drink it. He would rely more on Sun, and if Sun was not in front of him for a moment, he would be angry with others.

When he was dying, he called his children in one by one to speak. He told Chanzi to be just a few family arrangements, and asked him to be filial to Sun; what he told Yinhua was to let her be wronged outside and not to hold back, as the family would help her support her.

But I didn't say much to Zhuhua, and just asked, "Are you satisfied with this marriage?"

"I am satisfied, no matter how good I am, there will be nothing." Zhuhua replied choked.

"That's good." Cheng Dashan finally breathed a sigh of relief, patted her hands, and let her go out.

After that, Sun was always with him and whispering to him. I don’t know what the two of them said. Not long after, Sun asked the children to come in with red eyes and let Cheng Dashan see them for the last time. He looked at the room of children and grandchildren, then looked at Sun again, and finally passed away with a smile.

Jinhua rushed to Chang'an without getting in. She didn't expect Cheng Dashan to walk so suddenly. She communicated with Chang'an a few days ago, and they also said that the disease was not important, but that it would be better if she got older. When she received the next letter, she said she didn't know if she could survive the end of the New Year.

She felt bad in her premonition, so she packed up her things and rushed back to Chang'an with Yueyue. When she arrived at the Marquis of Zhongguo's Mansion, she saw a piece of mourning outside the mansion, and knew that she was late. Yueyue helped Jinhua, who had been crying after dismounting the horse, and Yinhua and Zhuhua entered the house. Seeing that Jinhua arrived, they hugged her and cried again.

Zhuhua did not really regard Cheng Dashan as her father at the beginning. She was disgusted with the instinct of "father". Like many fathers in this era, Cheng Dashan handed over the raising of children to his wife, especially his daughter. However, Cheng Dashan has been very kind to her in some small places. He would want to give her pocket money secretly, advise her to eat more, and quietly contributed to the marriage she thought she wanted.

She was so angry that he must have remembered it, especially afterwards that she was imprisoned. When family gathered, he would often look at Zhuhua carefully, for fear that she would not live well in the Pingwang Mansion or be angry at the royal family. Now he finally didn't have to worry anymore, and he didn't have to worry about his children anymore.

After Cheng Dashan passed away, his intestines were also worried. He would help his spirits back to his hometown and stay there for three years. Naturally, Sun would go back with him. Zhuhua heard this and planned to go back with them, but was stopped by Sun.

"You are the royal wife, what's going on with us?"

"Don't the elder sister go with her?"

"How is your elder sister like this? She can't go back to Liangzhou now, so she went to our hometown with us for a while. Besides, with your elder sister and intestines, you are worried about what you have. Tuantuan and Yuanyuan are pregnant with children, so you, the one who is a mother, leave them alone."

Yuanyuan was just found out that she was pregnant a few days ago, and Zhuhua really couldn't ignore her. After thinking about it, she had to listen to Sun's words, but secretly told Jinhua to ask her to send a letter immediately if there was anything wrong, and Jinhua naturally agreed.

After seeing off Fu Ling back home, Chanzi and others, Zhuhua fell ill after returning to the palace, and even Meng was not attentive to the confinement period. Just as she was busy with Cheng Dashan's funeral, Meng gave birth to a son. Her mother knew that Princess Ping and Princess Wanning, who lived close to each other, didn't care about Meng. Princess Beichuan next to her never contacted Meng again, so she came to take care of her daughter himself and lived in the house for a while, and did not leave until the child was full of the month.

At first, Meng thought that her mother was worried that she had no elders to take care of her. Later, she saw her taking care of the child but looked worried, and she felt a little bad.

"Mother, is there something wrong with your husband?" One day, Meng suddenly asked after she fell asleep.

Mrs. Meng was stunned for a moment and forced a smile and said, "It's nothing. Don't listen to others' nonsense. Your son-in-law will be back home soon."

"In August, my husband sent a message saying that he had driven the thief from the border, but the court had not yet concluded the matter of handling the Western Yue, so my husband was stationed outside. After August, my husband did not enter Beijing again, as for the matter of the Western Yue... "

The emperor planned to withdraw troops from the Xiyue border, but the King of Beichuan did not agree. The two sides had been arguing in the court for a long time. At present, the border situation was getting flat. Some generals sent to reinforcements at the beginning of the year moved back to the court first. Among these people, there should be the Prince of Nanyang. Although the people around her were hiding from her, she guessed what had happened from their expressions.

Mrs. Meng knew that her daughter had always been smart, but she still said: "You should raise your children with peace of mind. Maybe your son-in-law will come back in a few days."

Meng refused to comment, looking down at her sleeping son with red eyes.

Yuan Tai did move back to the court with the army. On the way, he heard the news of the death of Zhongguo Hou, so he led a team of people to go to Zhongguo Hou Ling to burn incense for him. When he was a child, he often followed Zhuhua to the Hou's mansion, and Zhongguo Hou even hugged him. However, a team of people encountered an ambush shortly after leaving the brigade, and Yuan Tai also lost his trace.

When King Ping received the news, he told the emperor about this matter and sent someone to inquire. He did not dare to tell Zhuhua, for fear that Zhuhua, who had already lost his father, would be sad for Yuan Tai's affairs at that time. When the funeral of Zhongguo Hou ended, Zhuhua fell ill again, and he would be even more difficult to speak.

After Cheng Dashan was seriously ill, he had been in the capital and heard about this from King Ping. He originally wanted to take someone to find Yuan Tai's whereabouts, but King Ping did not let him go. Instead, he entrusted Qin Dalang who had returned home with Jinhua. Qin Dalang had a close relationship with Yuan Tai. After hearing what Ping Wang said, he responded to this matter.

Zhuhua, who was seriously ill, never knew about this. After she became an adult, she had never been sick for so long. Although she had not been bedridden, she had been resting in the house from the twelfth lunar month to the beginning of spring, and the mansion had not been able to live a good life for many years. During these days when she was sick, King Ping also took leave to accompany her at home, and took over all the chores at home. Apart from looking at the script, he did not allow her to do too many things.

It was almost the first month of the year when Qiu Chu saw that she was in good looks, so he joked about rumors outside. Because she had been sick for a long time, some people in Chang'an City said that she was in short order. Some people believed it and showed kindness to Prince Ping and said that the girls in the family were willing to recommend pillows and mats, and some were willing to serve the medicine in front of Princess Ping. Zhuhua laughed angry when she heard this, she was complaining that she had a long life.

"What did the prince say?"

Qiu Chu was waiting for Zhuhua to ask this, and immediately said with a respectful look on his face: "The prince will immediately let someone kill them all."

"Boom away? Isn't that good?" Zhuhua said with her lips, her fingers gently tapping the rhythm on the bed.

"The princess is soft-hearted. According to the servants, people should go to these people's houses to promote their behavior, and also make the ladies who are willing to recommend pillows and mattresses famous."

"If you come up with a bad idea, just drive it away. If you have such a thing in the future, you have to tell me the first time that it is boring for me to stay in the house all day." Zhuhua sighed.

"Yes, even if the princess doesn't give orders, I will also pay attention to what's happening outside."

"You are smart, go get some money to drink."

"Yes, thank you for the reward."

When Qiuchu went down to receive the reward, Zhuhua was still thinking about this, but she did not mention a word in front of King Ping. However, her illness, which was already half cured, would be cured in just a few days. After the illness was cured, she went to Anguo Hou’s Mansion to visit Tuantuan, who was about to give birth. Tuantuan didn’t know about Yuan Tai’s disappearance, and when she saw her mother coming, she talked about some unimportant things.

The Anguo Hou Mansion was originally in the mourning period and wanted to leave the guests behind closed doors, but Zhuhua was also mourning, so she didn't pay much attention to it. After seeing her eldest daughter, she went to see her second daughter again. The round month was not big. I heard that Zhuhua came and took the initiative to walk out of the yard to greet her.

 

;"What are you doing when you come out? It's windy outside, so why don't you stay in the house?"

"It's really boring to stay all day, just go out for a walk."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhuhua looked at her, "You have changed your temperament? Didn't you like staying in the house the most?"

"Oh, since I was pregnant with this child, I somehow felt very energetic and wanted to get up and walk around. I think I must be a boy."

"Good boys, all of our boys are sweeter than girls."

"Not." Yuanyuan said, then looked at her daughter who was about to tear her account book, and hurriedly stepped forward and took it off.

When Biya saw that the toys were gone, she burst into tears.

"You are still crying. If you really tore the account book, I will cry." Yuanyuan said, not caring about her daughter's miserable crying. She turned to talk to Zhuhua for a while. When her daughter cried less and looked at them curiously, Yuanyuan turned to scold her for a few words, and scolded her again.

"In this way, you were really much more obedient when you were young." Zhuhua sighed.

"Yes, I would rather have a lazy person than give birth to a quarrel, as it would make people feel uneasy. My husband is in accordance with her in everything, and I can only do the discipline." Yuanyuan sighed. After giving birth, she was not as lazy as before, and she also realized the difficulty of being a mother.

Chao Zhuhua glanced at him and Yuanyuan couldn't help but say, "Mom, your blessing is so good."

"You kid, what are you talking nonsense?" Zhuhua stroked Yunshang and said.

"The main reason is that the children are born well, they are very well-behaved, and they all look to you. They are not like Qingqing, they are just like here to collect debts."

"I can't stand it now? When she gets older and you're upset."

Yuanyuan had no choice but to reach out and touched her slightly raised belly, saying, "I hope this child can be more obedient."

"You can read more books now, or this child can really be calm."

"I don't look like this, this is probably more noisy than Qingqing." When she thought of this, she was worried. Why couldn't her child be as obsessed with being lazy and making money like her?

After the two talked for a while, Zhuhua went back. On the way back, she turned to the restaurant to buy the most famous roasted pigeon in the building. Pingwang liked to eat this dish and occasionally came to the restaurant with Zhuhua to taste it. After Tuan Renyuan and got married, the two would sometimes eat in the restaurant outside, and sometimes they would visit some small stalls.

After thinking about it carefully, Zhuhua became pregnant shortly after the two got married, and it was rare for them to go out alone. During the days after the engagement, the two would not often date on the street, and they did not come out together more often in the past few years. Ping Wang also accompanied Zhuhua to the bookstore to pick up those words, the cloth shop, and the cloth shop to pick up the price-cut fabrics, and the decoration shop to see if there is any new appearance.

She likes the days when the two of them live peacefully. She doesn't have to take airs to avoid him like before. After a while, when every family gets married, she is afraid that she will have to stay at home to take care of her grandson.

When he got home in the evening, Pingwang saw the dishes added on the table, so he held Zhuhua's hand and looked at her with a touching look on his face.

"The meat is not numb, eat it soon, it will be cold." Zhuhua urged.

After hearing this, King Ping reluctantly let go of his hand, picked up a chopstick dish for Zhuhua, and then started eating. Zhuhua laughed secretly and ate half a bowl of supper.

She didn't know about Yuan Tai at this moment. She thought that she was mourning and it was not convenient for her to visit Meng's newborn child, so she didn't know that Meng was getting thinner for Yuan Tai's affairs. By the time she found out, it was already March.

That day, when she was about to go to bed, she heard Xiao Lin knocking on the door outside and saying that a guest had arrived. Ping Wang quickly sat up and left the house in a coat. Zhuhua thought that this was wrong. Although she didn't want to explore too much, she still changed her clothes and followed her out. When she arrived outside the yard, she saw Qin Dalang with injuries on her body.

"Lele? What's going on? Aren't you in your hometown with your mother?"

"Go out to play and encounter something." Qin Dalang smiled and called him.

Zhuhua looked at him suspiciously, walked towards the yard where Yuan Tai had lived before, and arrived at the study room in the yard, and it seemed that the room was in a mess. She was about to step forward, Yuan Tai walked out of the room.

"Auntie, I encountered something outside and asked Dalang for help."

With the candlelight behind him, Zhuhua saw that he was also injured, but because of the dim candlelight, he did not look blue in his face. He thought that Zhuhua was not hurt, and he didn't ask any more questions.

"It's good to come back, go and apply medicine first."

"yes."

Seeing that Zhuhua had hidden it, Qin Dalang quickly walked into the study. Zhuhua thought about it and asked Qiuchu to help him. He returned to the room and waited quietly. In the second half of the night, Qiuchu saw that the candlelight in the inner room was still lit, so he went inside and looked at her carefully.

"Forget it, you don't need to say anything." Zhuhua said quietly, looking towards Qiuchu, knowing that Qiuchu must have received the instructions from King Ping, and would only say some light words to comfort her.

"Princess, don't worry, it's not hurting the vital points." Qiu Chu said with a flashing look. The injuries that hurt the vital points have almost healed, and she is not a lie. She is afraid that Zhuhua will think about this again, Qiu Chu immediately raised another topic, "Princess, I heard that when the prince comes back, he will bring back a girl."

"girl?"

"Aged fifteen or sixteen, very beautiful."

"Go and Haosheng to make arrangements." Zhuhua ordered, and after Qiuchu left, she sighed deeply. She was afraid that she would not be able to help with the outside, so she could only keep some snacks on these trivial matters.

Shortly after Qiuchu left, King Ping came in. Seeing that Zhuhua was still awake, he went up to the front and honestly told him that he was attacked and disappeared on the way back to Beijing. He only hid the dangerous part of it, and also mentioned the girl he brought home by Yuantai.

"That is the daughter of a farmer, named Liu Shanhua. It was her brother who saved Yuan Tai. Now that her family is dead, Yuan Tai will bring her over. See if there is a suitable family, marry her."

"I see."

Yuan Tai rested for a midnight, and the next day he went to the palace to meet the saint, then went to the Ministry of War, and finally returned to the county prince's mansion. Meng already knew the news of his safe return in the morning, so he cheered up and arranged the affairs and waited for him to return home. Yuan Tai returned to his long-lost home and saw his wife and his son who was less than half a year old waiting for him, and his heart was full of passion. At least he survived and had his own legitimate son, and no one could move casually in the future.

When Meng saw the wounds of all sizes on his body at night, she cried again, and asked Yuan Tai to say some words of comfort to coax her. He knew that Meng had never felt at ease these days, and felt sorry for her hardships. He simply said about life, but did not mention Liu Shanhua, but only said that she was rescued by farmers. Meng was not the one who liked to follow the root of the matter. When she saw his safety, she felt relieved and did not have the heart to ask too much.

Zhuhua was very concerned about Liu Shanhua and asked the people who went to serve to pay more attention to her behavior. A few days later, the little girl who sent her to serve said that the girl was a shallow-eyed person. She always wanted to touch the decorations in the room. Now they didn't need to whisk the few expensive ornaments in the guest room. Liu Shanhua also asked the little girl about Yuan Tai's identity, thinking that she was the young master in this mansion, and was asking him openly and secretly if he had married. The little girl replied that she had already gotten married, but she looked at the answer and did not make Liu Shanhua give up.

Zhuhua knew it and knew it, so she asked Qiuyun to find a good family for the girl so that the girl would not be fascinated by wealth and eyes stuck to Yuan Tai. When there was news from Qiuyun, she asked someone to invite Liu Shanhua over to meet her.
Chapter completed!