The first day of March in the fifteenth year of Yongkang is a good time to travel. Emperor Yongkang visited Beijing for the third time.
The crown prince was ordered to supervise the country. The minister Jian Yi was ordered to give instructions to Yang Shiqi, and Liang Qian, the minister of the imperial court and praised Liang Qian, was appointed to assist the prince in supervising the country.
It clearly stipulates the powers that the prince can exercise in supervising the country, "Only civil and military duties, paying tribute from all barbarians, and dispatching border dispatches, please go ahead, and I don't need to hear about it."
Apart from this, the prince can handle all other civil affairs by himself.
Later history records that the prince's supervision of the country this time was the longest among the six supervisions of the prince. Emperor Yongkang never returned to Nanjing after setting off from the capital until he opened the new capital.
Emperor Yongkang visited the north and took away a group of young concubines from the harem, and the palace walls suddenly became lonely.
Huo Xi remembered that she had promised her aunt to bring Xiao Yu'er to the palace to stay with her for a few days, so she took Xiao Yu'er into the palace.
Concubine Zhang was indeed very happy. She was no longer young. Emperor Yongkang never took her with him during his several northern tours. He only said that she had a high position and left her to help with the palace affairs.
As soon as Xiao Yu'er entered the palace, Concubine Zhang ignored all the palace affairs and spent the entire day wandering around the palace with Xiao Yu'er. Everywhere he wanted to go and everything he wanted to eat was satisfied.
The palace had not heard the sound of children crying and laughing for many years. Once the little fisher was gone, he became a little bully. Protected by the imperial concubine, no one in the palace and eunuchs dared to mess with him.
He wandered around various palaces, palaces, imperial gardens, back lakes, royal gardens... Wherever he wanted to go, there were plenty of people to accompany him, and he simply enjoyed himself.
On March 16, Huo Xi’s maternal grandfather’s family returned to Jiangnan from exile.
Huo Xi got the news early and took a boat to the dock to greet him.
The whole family met each other with tears in their eyes.
"Sister Ning, my son..."
Huo Xi hugged her grandparents and cried. Ma couldn't stop crying, thinking that she would never see her sister Ning again, but she didn't expect that the whole family would be reunited again.
"First uncle and second uncle, first aunt and second aunt..."
"Hey, Sister Ning!" The two aunts held her hands and kept holding on. "It's a long way to the right. I thought it would be difficult to see each other again in this life. I didn't expect that we would see each other again one day, and that we could meet in the south of the Yangtze River.
See."
Jiangnan, the capital, they are back again.
The family cried together on the pier. After seeing each other for a few years, the cousins from the past have already started their own families, and there is no trace of their childhood.
"These are Sister Ning and Nian'er's adoptive parents, I'm giving you gifts on behalf of my poor daughter..."
"Old lady, you can't help me!" Yang and Huo Erhuai hurried to help her.
"You deserve this gift. If it weren't for you, neither of my grandchildren would be alive."
Yang and Huo Erhuai refused to accept their words, so Li Shimian asked Li Dian to accept Li Dianzang and give them gifts.
Yang and Huo Erhuai were so panicked that they were at a loss. "We have no choice but to do anything. We regard our two children as our own children and we really don't dare to bear such a big gift."
After all, they didn't stop Li Dianshou's brother from giving a gift to the couple on behalf of his sister.
Yang helped Ma and said, "Nian'er went on an expedition last month and couldn't come to greet you. When he comes back, let him kowtow to you."
Ma clapped Yang's hand and nodded: "Nian'er is filial, and his grandfather and I are looking forward to his safe return. Our grandparents and grandchildren always meet each other, and it will be much easier to meet this time."
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"No. Liuhe is very close to the capital. If you take a quick boat, you can get there in just half a day."
The maternal grandparents did not want to stay in the capital, so Huo Xi built a village for them in Liuhe Town near the capital and settled them temporarily in the village.
Here, the little Yu'er stared at the pair of foreign ancestors curiously, and was held in the arms of Ma and others. Before Huo Xi could say a naughty word about his son, Shao Ji sent his grandson Shao Geng to salute her.
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Huo Xi tried to avoid her, but Shao Ji and his wife held her down, "Are you going to accept our courtesy?"
"How dare you."
"Then let me, my grandson, give you a gift. If it weren't for your help in planning, our old bones would still be in the exile village. I'm afraid they would have to be buried there and never have the chance to return to Beijing."
Supported by his granddaughter Dong Chuxue, Shao Ji and his old wife looked excited and returned to the capital, as if they were in another world.
Huo Xi accepted Shao Geng's courtesy and exchanged a few words with her cousin-in-law. Seeing that her grandfather was unwilling to go to Beijing, she arranged for them to transfer to a smaller boat traveling on the inland river and go to Liuhe Town.
The Zhuangzi in Liuhe Town covers an area of more than 200 acres, which is not a small place. There are fields, mountains, slopes, and woods in the Zhuangzi. There is also a small lake full of lotus flowers, pavilions and pavilions built, and the scenery is very good. Field stems
There were also mulberry trees planted beside it, and there was a silkworm room to raise silkworms. Li Shimian and others saw it and were very happy.
This will be their home from now on.
It only takes half an hour to take a boat from the small pier in Zhuangzi to Liuhe Town, and it only takes half a day to get to the capital.
Very close and convenient.
There are servants, farmers, courtyards, and hot springs in Zhuangzi, which are very popular with Li Shimian and Ma. "Sister Ning is very attentive. My grandmother likes this Zhuangzi very much."
"Little Yuer likes it too!"
"Haha, that's good. Little Yu'er also likes it. Then I'll stay with my great-grandmother in the village for a while."
"good!"
Without waiting for Huo Xi to speak, the kid agreed on his own. Huo Xi couldn't help but laugh. But originally, she was planning to stay with her grandparents in the village for a few more days.
The whole family is reunited and has endless things to talk about. Cousins and sisters see each other again, and it seems like they have returned to the old days, where they have a warm and affectionate family time.
When Shangyong met, the cousins were not yet married. Now the Li family has three grandchildren and one grandson. Xiao Yuer and Li Sheng, who are about the same age as him, soon got to play together.
"Sheng'er and the others seem to have adapted well to this journey. Ever since I learned that you were setting off, I have been worried about the fact that the children are too young and something will happen to them along the way."
Huo Xi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the children were well, lively and cute.
The two aunts then replied with a smile: "We were worried and walked slowly on the road, but we never thought that they were better than us adults. They didn't even cry much along the way. They didn't faint or vomit. We adults were there."
I vomited several times on the boat and was so dizzy that I couldn't recover for several days, but Sheng'er was running happily around the bow and stern of the boat."
Li Shimian sighed with emotion, "Although they were born in an exile village, they have a natural affinity with Jiangnan in their hearts and have adapted better than us adults."
Huo Xi felt relieved when she saw that her maternal grandparents were in good health and looked better than they had seen a few years ago.
"I didn't expect Mingyue's husband to come back with her. I thought she would stay there."
Second aunt Cui sighed: "Our whole family has returned, leaving her alone. When can we see each other again? Your second uncle and I were worried. Unexpectedly, our son-in-law's family was so open-minded that they allowed him to follow us back.
Jiangnan.”
Miao said: "Is the south of the Yangtze River not better than the land of Sichuan and Sichuan? In the future, when they have children, it will naturally be the south of the Yangtze River that has a better future. It is better for the in-laws to think openly and let Mingyue and her husband come back with us."