Two days later, Zhulan envied Zhou Shuren, who attended the banquet and met Princess Aruna.
As soon as Zhou Shuren entered the room, Zhulan asked anxiously, "Is this princess really beautiful?"
Zhou Shuren was suddenly asked and took a while to react. "As a minister, it is not appropriate for me to stare at the princess's face. Although I don't have the confidence to look at her, she is indeed a rare beauty."
Zhulan's envious eyes made Zhou Shuren want to laugh, "If you want to meet, you will see each other sooner or later."
Zhulan rolled her eyes in her heart. It would be difficult for her to meet him. Even if the princess entered the palace in the future, it would be difficult for her to see him either.
Zhou Shuren changed his clothes and came out. Seeing his wife sighing, he was happy to hear a piece of news from her, "Aruna will enter the palace on an auspicious day in half a month."
Zhulan exclaimed, "So fast."
Zhou Shuren sat down and said, "It's just a political interest. For the emperor, it's just one more person in the palace."
Zhulan sighed. This princess was just a friendly bargaining chip pushed forward by the foreign tribes. No one cared about what the princess thought.
Zhulan thought of the previous dynasty again. Although the previous dynasty ended up being incompetent, no princess was married far away in exchange for peace and benefits.
Zhulan said, "There was no princess married in the previous dynasty. There was no princess when the emperor was retired. Now the emperor has a princess. Do you think it will happen?"
Zhou Shuren shook his head and said firmly, "No, the emperor would not marry a princess even if he had one, and the emperor would be even more so. The emperor destroyed the previous dynasty and will only do better than the previous dynasty. The emperor would not use women to exchange for peace to win over nearby countries, and the emperor's most perfect heir would not do that either."
Both the emperor and the retired emperor are proud men. They would rather shed blood than marry off a princess. This is their principle.
Moreover, this princess sent by a foreign tribe was just a decoration in the harem and would not have any children in the future. In fact, the emperor did not want to accept her at first, but after much consideration, he realized that it was out of ambition that the emperor wanted to open an inland trade route.
Zhulan changed the subject, "I've almost packed up my things at home, so I can send them over tomorrow."
"My wife has worked hard these days."
Zhulan took out the blueprint of the new house and unfolded it, saying, "Mingyun will be back from the exam and will be getting married next year. I have chosen a yard for this child. Take a look."
Zhou Shuren looked at the spot his wife pointed to and said, "It's near the front yard."
Zhulan nodded, "Yes, the children of the eldest wife are all in this area. When we divide the family property among the other wives in the future, the children of the eldest wife can also move."
Zhou Shuren, "You arranged it very well."
Zhulan rolled up the blueprint and said with emotion, "Mingyun is getting married in the blink of an eye."
Zhou Shuren could no longer recall what his eldest grandson looked like when he was a child. All he could think about was how he looked like now. "Yes, the children have all grown up. Time has passed quickly. Yu Shuang is now a big girl."
"I can't bear to let my granddaughter marry off too early. Liu Feng isn't that old anyway, so it's good for her to wait a few years and study hard."
Zhou Shuren nodded in agreement. Marrying and getting married are different. One is to add population to the family, the other is to add population to others.
Zhulan said this, but in her heart she was planning to go to the second house tomorrow to see the dowry that Changyi and his wife had saved for Yushuang.
The next day, Zhou Shuren went to court. There was no important event in the morning court. Zhou Shuren's attention was more focused on the prince. Ever since the ceremony of establishing the prince, the little prince has followed the emperor to court every day.
The young prince listened attentively, and he remembered even the smallest details in his heart. He felt someone was watching him, and when he turned his head slightly, he spotted Lord Zhou.
The little prince blinked and looked at Lord Zhou's face again. He remembered that his father said Lord Zhou was a treasure. He went to check Lord Zhou specially and found out that Lord Zhou was really amazing. He hoped that Lord Zhou could live a few more years.
Zhou Shuren didn't expect the little prince to be so sensitive. He was not embarrassed about being discovered, but he felt that the little prince looked at him in a wrong way. Why was he looking at his face
After the morning court session, Zhou Shuren could still see the little prince looking back at him as he walked. Qiu Yan asked in a low voice, "Why is the prince looking at you all the time?"
Zhou Shuren was also confused, "I don't know."
Li Zhao came over and said, "I heard that the emperor wants to choose a master for the prince."
Zhou Shuren uttered an "ah". Since it wasn't him, he didn't care. "Really?"
Li Zhao asked doubtfully: "You don't know?"
"I should know?"
Li Zhaozhen thought Zhou Shuren should know this. Everyone knew that the emperor went to the Ministry of Revenue from time to time. Seeing that Zhou Shuren really didn't care, he should not be faking it. He looked left and right and saw that there was no one around him, so he said, "There are many people eyeing this position!"
As the new emperor's teacher, his status will rise as the new emperor ascends the throne. How many people will envy him!
Zhou Shuren, "Why are you looking at me like that?"
Li Zhao smiled, "Whether you really don't know or not, many people think you were chosen."
Zhou Shuren, "...I really don't know."
Li Zhao also noticed that the little prince kept looking at Zhou Shuren, and patted Zhou Shuren on the shoulder, "Many people saw what the prince did just now."
Zhou Shuren thought to himself, if time could go back, he would definitely not look blindly, because the result of looking blindly was a pot falling from the sky.
After leaving the palace, Qiu Yan hesitated to speak, and Zhou Shuren said with a wooden face, "It definitely won't be me."
Qiu Yan: "Oh."
Zhou Shuren, “… .”
This answer was so perfunctory that even Qiu Yan was thinking too much about it. One can imagine how much misunderstanding the prince's actions today had caused.
Inside the palace, the Emperor asked the Crown Prince, "Why do you keep staring at Lord Zhou in the court?"
The prince said honestly, "I hope Lord Zhou can live a long life, but Lord Zhou looks old, so I couldn't help but look at him a few more times out of worry."
Your Majesty, “… .”
Fortunately, Zhou Shuren didn't know what his son was thinking, but his son caused quite a bit of misunderstanding.
The emperor knew that many people wanted to be the prince's teacher, and as long as there was interest, there would be disputes.
At the Zhou family, Zhulan looked at the list that Zhao had brought out, feeling somewhat dazed, "Are these all the dowry for Yushuang?"
Zhao nodded, "Mother, all the ones above are all."
Zhulan really underestimated her second son's ability to make money. Now that the gems and other items on the list were omitted, the fields and shops alone were dazzling. "Where did you get so much money?"
Zhao curved her eyes and said, "Mother, my husband got a batch of gems. Later, we discussed and sold some of them. We had money, so we bought shops and fields."
Zhulan looked at the dowry list carefully again. The list was biased towards silver and money. There was nothing she could do about it. In terms of antiques, calligraphy and paintings, the second wife could not compare with the third and fourth wives.
Zhao looked at the long dowry list. She was very proud. She had two daughters. "Mom, do you want to see Yudie's dowry list?"
Well, she meant to show off a bit, to show off that she and her husband could save so much dowry for their daughter.
Zhulan nodded and looked carefully at Yudie's dowry list. Yudie was still young and did not have as much as Yushuang, but some of the things that Yushuang had, Yudie also had.
Afterwards, Zhulan went to the eldest house and got Yu Lu's dowry list. Fortunately, the eldest couple only had one daughter.
After looking at the dowry list for her granddaughters, Zhulan already knew in what direction to increase their dowries.