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  "Is this the younger sister? She's really lovely!" The woman in the bright red monkey fur coat said with a hint of sarcasm from afar.

  "Who is this?" Chu Ke asked with a smile, turning her head to ask Zhu Yuxuan, who looked impatient.

  Zhu Yicheng paused for a moment before saying, "Elder sister," He saw Chu Keqian hastily winking at him repeatedly, so he pretended to think for a moment and said, "What was it called again?"

  Before the aunt's face changed, Chu Kei had already burst out laughing and playfully hit him, pulling his chest clothes and shaking him: "Husband..." She dragged out her voice and said: "Why say that?" She leaned into Zhu Yu Xun's arms, turned around and smiled at her cousin: "Cousin, don't mind." She spoke to her in a serious and polite manner.

  Can't you see that I'm furious?! Just now, I was so angry that my face turned red in an instant. Now, seeing her deliberately making this expression, I'm even more furious to the point of being on the verge of fainting!

  The two behind hastily interrupted: "Sister and cousin are in a good mood, coming to enjoy the snowy scenery despite the snow."

  "Look at you two, so carefree and joyful! Yesterday, strolling in the garden, today, admiring the snow scenery... what more entertainment can a girl ask for? I'm really envious of you both! Although I'm the one who lives in this mansion, I've only just arrived, and compared to your long stay here, I'm like a guest. You two are so familiar with this garden, laughing and playing together, it's all so natural... but if I were to do the same, wouldn't I be scolded by outsiders for being too forward?!" She smiled at them: "Sisters, there really are people in this world who are shameless like that! Do you know what I mean?"

  Zhu Yichan was also annoyed by the three sisters. Moreover, he was afraid that Chu Ke would not recognize their temperament and suffer a loss, so he had intended to help her out. But now, looking at his own wife, who was the one suffering a loss? He smiled with his hands in his sleeves, enjoying the joke.

  The three sisters' faces turned red and green, their cousin looked at her brother with a smile in his eyes, but felt even more bitter in her heart. Her cousin had always been cold and distant, she had never seen him like this before!

  Knowing that she and her siblings are arguing here, how can her brother-in-law help herself in front of her siblings? Even if she wins the argument, it doesn't make sense. But when a woman encounters such a situation, how many can bear not to argue for two sentences?

  The elder sister couldn't help but show off her eloquence in front of her younger brother, and coldly said: "This bride is indeed a lady from the Hanlin Mansion, with a sharp tongue that's no worse than those rural matchmakers!"

  "Is it possible that you've met a rural matchmaker?" Chu Ke asked back without hesitation, raising her head to glance at Zhu Yuexun with an expression of sudden realization. She nodded and muttered to herself as she counted on her fingers: "Master is eighteen years old this year, and the new year is approaching. That means he's already nineteen years old...and Master's older sister should be over twenty years old too..." Her eyes widened in shock as she stared at her older sister: "A twenty-year-old spinster really can't afford to delay any longer! Even if it's a rural matchmaker, if the family they're introducing is decent, Older Sister will just have to make do and agree. Otherwise, she'll be laughed at for not being able to get married!"

  My older cousin is really going to get angry! She shouted in a commanding tone: "Don't be nonsense!"

  "What nonsense? What are you talking about? Which sentence is nonsense? The matchmaker from the countryside? This sentence seems to be said by my cousin. Or maybe my cousin is actually not twenty, but nineteen years old - zero months? Well, that's okay if I'm talking nonsense, but, cousin... knew how anxious she was to get married last time, I really thought she was already twenty years old..." Chu Keqi leaned into Zhu Yuxuan's arms with a wronged expression. Whispering: "I really thought my cousin was already twenty years old." Emphasizing again.

  Every time she hears someone say "twenty years old", her heart skips a beat! She can't bear to see her flirting with her brother, and even more unbearable is seeing her brother's eyes fixed on her with a smile.

  She's now stuttering and not fluent, with only anger left in her mind, saying something that can't be said, making a fool of herself here, getting angry and turning to leave! In a hurry, she slipped and almost fell, if it wasn't for the quick-witted maid by her side who caught her, this joke would have been even bigger!

  The two female cousins looked at each other and saw that this sister-in-law was a very overbearing person. They exchanged a glance, forced out a smile, and said: "We'll leave first." Then they quickly followed their cousin.

  Chu Ke'er laughed and shouted from behind: "Sisters, stay well in the mansion, don't rush to leave! Sister-in-law, I just arrived, and I was worried that the days would be dull and boring!" Watching them hurry away, she gathered her strength and shouted one last time: "It's just right for you all to accompany me to dispel my boredom!"

  Chu Ke'er shouted at the few people who were running away, then turned her head to look at Zhu Yuxuan with a pleased expression. But she didn't see him, and was startled. She heard laughter coming from below her feet, and quickly looked down to see that Zhu Yuxuan had already laughed so hard he was holding his stomach and squatting on the ground. At this moment, he finally burst out laughing loudly, saying: "Ah...I'm going to die from laughter...my intestines are all tangled up..."

  Chu Xue hastily reached out to support him: "Don't laugh so hard that your wound splits open... is it really that funny?"

  There were several maidservants behind her who were also laughing uncontrollably, but they didn't dare to be too loud and had to stifle their voices, it was really laughter that hurt their intestines.

  Chu Ke'ai pulled Zhu Yi Chen up, and he laughed for a long time before stopping. Chu Ke'ai saw that he was happy, so she felt quite happy too, smiling with pursed lips as they walked forward together. Zhu Yi Chen simply stretched out his hand to pull her into his arms as they walked, laughing and saying to her: "I finally understand the meaning of what I said that time..."

  "Which one?"

  "It was during the time at Qingyun Mountain's An Hall, when I got sick that one time, saying I wouldn't eat humble pie, being overbearing... At that time, I was still muttering to myself, having asked many people before who all said I was timid and weak-willed, wondering when I became an overbearing person, now I've finally seen it..."

  Chu Kei's face was intentionally stern: "Now that you've seen it, don't regret it later!"

  "Overjoyed and no time for regret!"

  "Really?"

  "Really!"

  Chu Xue changed her expression from anger to joy, struggled free from his hand and said: "Let's just walk properly, isn't this a big garden? What if we run into the mothers-in-law?"

  "With such heavy snow, they won't come out." Zhu Yichen said, finally unable to dissuade her, and simply walked hand in hand.

  Walking across the corridor above the lotus pond. Along the path, after passing through a bamboo forest, there is another large area of pavilions and buildings. Zhu Yuxuan led her into one of them, where two old women were warming themselves around a bronze stove, seeing the two enter, they hastily stood up to pay their respects at the door, Chu Keqi was quite curious, such a big garden, if all the houses had stoves lit, it would obviously be impossible. But why did this room have a stove lit, warm as spring?

  Zhu Yichan pointed to her, and she suddenly realized that the house had several small tables, long-legged wooden racks or flower racks, on which were placed a few pots of peonies. It turned out that this house was lit with a heater, specifically for these few pots of peonies.

  "Some were gifts from others, and some were purchased specifically, all of which are very rare varieties." said Zhu Yichen.

  Chu Xue looked at it and felt that there was nothing special about it. Her ancestor, the Empress Dowager, also liked peonies, but she had seen them so many times before that she found them too gaudy and common.

  Zhu Yichan looked at her and knew she didn't like it, so he smiled and said: "Our yard also has a flower house, not as delicate as this one, but the flowers inside are pretty good in my opinion, want to take a look?"

  Women are very interested in flowers and grasses. Chu Ke heard it and nodded immediately.

  Two more came out, walked along the corridor and passed four or five doors to return to their own yard. Zhu Yuheng directly pulled her to the flower house in the garden. Chu Keqi was stunned as soon as she entered. Various flowers were blooming here, indeed not as delicate as the other side, but there were more flowers than the other side, and they were not arranged so carefully, however many of them were well-grown, and the blooming flowers were very peculiar. They were roses, yet they had blue flowers, which looked exceptionally delightful.

  "These are also flowers from the sea, if you like them, I'll ask those who go out to sea to bring back any rare varieties they see."

  Chu Ke smiled and nodded: "Okay!" She went to smell the blue rose, Zhu Yi Zhen used the scissors placed on the edge of the shelf to cut off a branch, came over and pinned it in her hair.

  On the third day, the two of them went to bid farewell to Zheng Fei and Ce Fei, then boarded their carriage to return to Beijing. Chu Ke had a new blue rose pinned on her hair.

  She brought Jing'er and Zi Guo, two maidservants, while Qing Guo and Bai Guo stayed in the mansion to tidy up their belongings, familiarizing themselves with the surroundings.

  Because it was snowing on the road, we walked relatively slowly and didn't arrive home until after noon. The gatekeeper stretched his neck to look outside, and as soon as he saw the horse carriage rushing in from the alley entrance, he immediately passed on the message: "They're back! Third Miss and Third Master are back!"

  The people inside shouted to come in, and the gatekeeper immediately opened the door. Three or four servants ran out from behind, wiped away the snow that had fallen on the mounting stone at the entrance, and then stood far away to one side.

  The carriage stopped, Zhu Yichen got out of the car first, Jing Er and Zi Guo followed down, supporting Chu Keqi to get off the car. The butler was already waiting at the door and came up to smile and bow to Zhu Yichen: "Young master is here! Young lady is back! Old master has been waiting for half a day, please come in quickly!"

  Several people followed him inside, the housekeeper led the way in front, Chu Kei did not see anyone come to greet his wife, so he continued to follow the housekeeper and arrived at Lao Yezi's side with Zhu Yuxuan.

  Mr. Chu was indeed anxiously waiting, and upon hearing the servant report their arrival, he stood with his hands behind his back under the eaves of the house, waiting. Chu Nan stood to his right, equally anxious.

  Chu Xue and Zhu Yi Chen hastily took a few steps back, Zhu Yi Chen was about to kneel down when Chu Nan rushed over and held him up: "Go inside, go inside! We'll talk after we're inside." Then he turned his head to say to Chu Xue: "Xue, you come in too!"

  The two of them looked at Chu Nancai and couldn't help but feel suspicious in their hearts.

  As expected, as soon as they entered the house, Chunan didn't even wait for the servant to bring in tea before he immediately drove them out. The two of them hadn't even had a chance to pay their respects and didn't dare sit down, they could only stand there stupidly looking at Chunan who was getting more and more agitated. It wasn't until Old Man Chu sighed and opened his mouth that the mystery was solved: "Father already knows..."

  Chu Ke and Zhu Yi Chen stared at each other, and Old Man Chu seemed to be explaining as he said: "I'm looking at my father... I really can't bear to deceive him, he even has white hair..."

  Chu Nan's eyes were already red-rimmed as he looked at his daughter and son-in-law, his voice trembling with the question: "Is it true... Huihuan... is it really..."

  Zhu Yichan hastily nodded: "Yes, Father-in-law, this is true."

  Actually, Lao Ye Zi had already told Chu Nan that he believed him, but asking his daughter and son-in-law was like a final confirmation. At this moment, hearing their affirmative answer, it was as if all the tendons in his body had been pulled out, and he fell back into his chair.

  The old man shook his head, and then called the maid to come in and pour tea for the children who had returned from afar. The maid lowered her head and didn't dare look at the disheveled master, quickly served the tea and retreated.

  Zhu Yicheng and Chu Keqian finally gave each other a proper bow.

  He got up after kowtowing, sat down again, and the old man asked: "Did you see Huihuan on the other side?"

  Zhu Yichan nodded: "I've seen him, he's changed his surname back to Chu. This time, he asked me and Grandfather to give him a name. His courtesy name... was given by the Empress Dowager, it's called Tuo."

  As soon as Chu Nan heard 'Madam Yue', she seemed to be unable to hold back anymore, and turned her head away to secretly wipe away a tear.

  Chu Xue didn't say anything from start to finish.

  "Alright, it's fine if you change it back... the name, the name..." He stood up shakily. The Chu family boy's name, the boy he had been longing for over a decade, he had already thought of hundreds of names, but now couldn't think of a single one. He paced anxiously around the room, muttering to himself: "Name... name..." Suddenly remembering something, he asked: "Are they alright? Where do they live? Is it far from Shuo City? Are there any dangers?"

  Chu Nancai suddenly remembered, forgetting his manners, and rushed over to say: "That's right! Duke De Xing sent three or four groups of people to investigate this side before and after. The duchess came first and stayed here for a day, saying she still had to go that way!"

  Zhu Yichan nodded and said, "The princess has already been there. I told her that we will help find it." He looked at Chu Lao Yezi and replied, "My mother-in-law and brother are both well. They live in a town not far from Shuo State. The house is ready and looks good. Living on our side, Grandfather and Father-in-law can rest assured. I have arranged for guards to protect the surroundings. We have already visited the house and found nothing lacking."

  "Oh, well then..." said the old man.

  "Has the king's wife gone to their place? They... snatched my son away and still haven't let him go!" He said in a rage, his eyes reddening again: "This group of wicked women, wicked women!" It was unclear who he was cursing.

  The old man sighed and said: "It's come to this, there's no use blaming them. They've done evil deeds, their lifespan won't be long either... it's as if they're repaying the debt for our child..."

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