Yun Chou recalled that in his last life, King Ping Xi was unmarried until he was in his thirties or forties.
She had never heard of Concubine Yin looking at concubines for King Pingxi.
Of course, it was also possible that in her previous life she had rarely left the door of the Xie family, so naturally she didn't know about these royal matters.
She couldn't help but think of the two children from the Pingxi King's residence.
Obviously, I had seen you not long ago, but it felt as if I hadn't seen you for a long, long time, and my thoughts came up like a tidal wave.
She also didn't understand why she was thinking about these two children, as if they should have had some kind of bond in a previous life ...
Yunchu returned to Xie's house just as Chen Defu came to hand over the account book.
It had been more than half a month since the ice store had opened, and the ledger showed that it had made close to forty thousand taels of silver.
As we move into June and the temperatures continue to rise, the price of ice will go up a bit and you will only make more money then.
"Mistress, the summer courtyard has been set up." Chen Defu bowed and said, "Tomorrow we will be able to open the doors to welcome the people, is there anything else that you need to explain, ma'am?"
The summer vacation courtyard is the place mentioned by Yun Chu before to provide summer vacation for the people without any compensation, opened in the name of Yun family, and every afternoon when it is the hottest time, ice is placed all over the four sides of the courtyard, so that the common people who can't afford to buy the ice can also dispel some of the heat of the peak summer.
Yun Chu pondered for a moment or two before saying, "Prepare some more herbal tea to put in the courtyard, so that the people who need it can take it on their own."
Chen De Fu nodded and went to do it.
In the past few days, the business of the ice store had gotten better and better, and it would not be an exaggeration to describe it as a day-to-day business.
Luckily, she had asked people to open a few more ice stores in advance to spread out the clientele, or she didn't know how many people would be attracted to her.
Meanwhile, Xie Jingyu gradually began to get busy.
Originally, because he offended the Marquis of Xuanwu, many of his official duties were dispatched by Lord Yu.
And now that he had jumped to become the future father-in-law of Prince Anjing, King Anjing and Marquis Xuanwu, which was the lesser of the two, there was no need to make a choice at all, and more and more people came to flatter him.
The gloom that had previously hung over the Xie family's head seemed to have just dissipated.
Although the old lady does not like Yun Chu, but also admire this grandson-in-law from the bottom of her heart, if it is not Yun Chu expects things like God, their Xie family which can leap into the royal relatives.
After Ping's sister formally becomes the princess, their entire Xie family will be on another level, no longer from the former people to pinch the small family.
Yunchu had received invitations from some of the ladies who handed her door, and she had refused them all on the pretext that she was busy organizing the wedding.
While busy looking at the ledger, I saw Listening Frost hurriedly come in from the doorway, "Madam, someone from the palace has come."
It turned out that Princess De had sent a Rehabilitation Sister to come and specialize in teaching Xie Ping some of the rules of the palace.
A smile appeared on Xie Ping's face, the fact that Consort De could do this showed that she accepted her as her future daughter-in-law, and she would definitely not let Consort De down.
She bowed to the Paying Sister who had come in a regular manner, "I'll be troubling Paying Sister in the future."
"Old slave a subordinate, can't afford to be the master's salute." Sister Fu avoids her salute and raises her eyes to say, "Eldest Miss Xie's posture for this salute is not right, after entering the palace if you greet the Empress Emperor with such a stance, you will inevitably be punished."
Yunchu took over and said, "How can an ordinary family have the opportunity to enter the palace, I have also neglected to teach Ping Sister these, but also ask Sister Pay to teach them carefully, it is a small matter for our Xie family to be condemned, but I am afraid that it will even involve Auntie De and Prince Anjing."
Sister Fu lowered her eyes, "Don't worry, Mrs. Xie, the old slave came to the Xie family just to teach the future Princess Anjing these manners, if Miss Xie can't learn it in one day, the old slave will live in the Xie residence in one day."
Yunchu nodded her head and asked someone to go and arrange a place for Sister Fu to stay, in the east wing of Xie Ping's courtyard.
She calculated in her heart, three months after the wedding, that Xie Ping can do about half a month of Anjing Wangfei, hard work to learn the etiquette is not in vain.
Xie Ping did work hard.
She thought that learning etiquette in the palace was just like studying, who knew that it would be so difficult.
When she got up early in the morning, Sister Fu made her stand in the pavilion with a book on her head and two plates in her hands for a full hour before she could do so.
After standing, it is to learn to walk, how simple to walk, but pay the grandmother to let her legs between the middle of a fruit, walking, the fruit can not fall, can not be clamped broken, if wrong, then start over, until she walks the hem of the skirt no longer have a hint of shaking, pay the grandmother only reluctantly satisfied.
In the process, Sister Fu even hit her with a ruler from time to time.
Her arms were so red from all the pumping that she didn't even dare touch them, and she continued to learn to walk on an empty stomach.
At the end of the day's instruction, Sister Fu placed a blackened bowl of medicine in front of Xie Ping, "Eldest Miss Xie, drink this bowl of medicine."
Xie Ping smelled the disgusting odor and frowned, "What is this?"
"Abortion medicine." Sister Fu indifferently said, "After a man and a woman have intercourse, they can conceive in seven days, and by drinking this bowl of medicine, Eldest Miss Xie will not be able to conceive a body."
In the Anjing royal residence, any woman would be fed the child-avoidance soup in the early morning of the day after she and the king shared a room.
So many days late, only abortifacients can be given.
Xie Ping's face stiffened.
She and King Anjing had not reached that final step, and she would not have been pregnant at all.
"Eldest Miss Xie and King Anjing are not married, if she gets pregnant before the wedding, won't it be a disgrace to our king?" Sister Fu coldly said, "Besides, Eldest Miss Xie has not reached maturity yet, so she is not fit to carry a body, drink it."
Xie Ping bit her lip, "Don't worry, Sister, I won't cause any of these scandals."
She knew that whether it was a child-avoiding soup or an abortifacient, it would affect a woman's body terribly, and she was afraid that it would be hard for her to get pregnant again like her mother, and she couldn't drink this medicine.
Sister Fu stared at her coldly, and seeing that she had no intention of drinking the medicine, she directly stepped forward and cupped her chin.
"The old slave is offended."
A bowl of pitch-black medicine was poured down Xie Ping's throat, and she choked and coughed, clutching at her throat, "Fu, Sister Fu, you taught me the rules, how can you be so unruly yourself ...I, I'm the future Princess Anjing, how dare you be so rude!"
"You are still the First Miss Xie Family now." Sister Fu took a step back, "When Eldest Miss Xie becomes Princess Anjing in the future, the old slave will be at your disposal."
Xie Ping coughed so hard that tears came out of her eyes.
This was still in the Xie family, and a lackey dared to force her to do something she didn't want to do.
When she married into the Anjing royal family later, and went to the land of Consort De, would there still be room for her to speak?
Does a lackey dare to ride over her and bully her?
Xie Ping bit her lower lip and got up to go to the inner room, picking at her throat and desperately trying to vomit out the medicine.
But it was all in vain.
What happened in Xie Ping's yard naturally reached Yun Chu's ears.
She shook her head, "This is just the beginning."
It is nothing to be embarrassed by the Sisters, but to marry into the Anjing King's House later on and have something happen to the Anjing King would be the real doom and gloom.
Just as she was thinking, looking up, she saw Xie Jingyu walk into the Sheng Residence.
A moon white shirt, elegant temperament, he walked broadly, enough to see that the mood was very good.