Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 2052: Chapter 2053: Take It Back?

An Yiqi laughed and said, ”Mother, don’t worry, I know my limits. After all, she’s the daughter of a meritorious official. I’ll just tease her a bit, see her get angry, and satisfy my little wicked pleasure, then that’s it.”

Little wicked pleasure...

An Jing paused for a moment before saying, ”I’ll leave you be. Your father and I are going to see your fourth brother. Wen Ya came earlier because your sixth brother was injured. I didn’t really get to talk to Wen Ya properly before letting her go find your fourth brother. While it’s still light outside, I’ll go have a chat with her.”

”Then you go ahead, Mother.”

”Mhm.”

...

While An Jing was chatting with Wang Wenya, she invited Wang Wenya to stay for dinner. After dinner, An Jing had someone escort Wang Wenya back to the Prime Minister’s residence.

The next day, after breakfast, An Jing and Xiao Changyi began to have the Ministry of Rites prepare for Su Yixing, An Yiqing, and An Yiyun’s grand weddings on the 28th of the first month next year.

The weddings of three princes required a lot of preparations. As soon as the Ministry of Rites received the orders, they immediately began preparations, not daring to delay even a little, for fear of any mishap during the grand weddings.

Since the Slayer Tower couldn’t be openly acknowledged, Huo Qingyi married Su Yixing under the guise of the adopted daughter of the Great General Meng Zhuqing.

Ye Zhi was already seen as An Jing’s sworn sister, so Gong Le marrying An Yiqing naturally assumed the identity of An Jing’s sworn sister’s daughter.

As for Wang Wenya, since Wang Youbao was now the Prime Minister, she naturally married An Yiyun as the Prime Minister’s daughter.

Neither Gong Le nor Huo Qingyi could marry out of the Slayer Tower, so they would depart from the Imperial City’s posthouse.

Meanwhile, An Yiqing, Gong Le, Gong Juechen, and Ye Zhi had already set out for the Imperial City.

Because Gong Juechen and Ye Zhi prepared a lot of dowry for Gong Le, it was not until the end of November that the four of them arrived in the Imperial City.

When An Yiqing was at the Slayer Tower and hadn’t set out for the Imperial City, he received a letter informing him that Su Yixing had already married Huo Qingyi. An Yiqing was furious, so upon returning to the Imperial City and seeing Su Yixing, he settled accounts with his second brother.

But since it was his own second brother, An Yiqing couldn’t really harm Su Yixing. He only demanded many rare and precious items from Su Yixing as compensation.

Seeing his originally full little private vault in the Royal Palace suddenly lose half of its treasures, Su Yixing felt as if someone had carved away a lot of his flesh, feeling very distressed.

Huo Qingyi, seeing this, pressed her lips together, hesitated for a long time, and finally spoke to comfort him: ”Husband, in the future, the Slayer Tower will be yours. The treasures of the Slayer Tower far exceed these that you’ve lost.”

”Although what you say is right, I still feel pained. I accumulated those little by little, and now my elder brother didn’t touch a thing, yet this younger brother took away half,” Su Yixing’s mood was still somewhat unsettled.

”Then... should I go retrieve them?” Huo Qingyi tentatively asked.

Su Yixing just glanced at her, then looked back at his half-empty little private vault, sorrowfully saying, ”All my items weren’t seized; they were voluntarily given to me, which is how I accumulated so much. And now you’re actually saying to go seize them?”

Huo Qingyi fell silent immediately. Not to seize them meant she had no other way.

”Forget it,” Su Yixing said to himself, ”just consider it a wedding gift for Yueyue and him.”

Upon hearing Su Yixing mention Gong Le, Huo Qingyi’s heart ached.

Although Huo Qingyi’s face remained normal, Su Yixing naturally didn’t notice anything amiss with her. He just quickly recovered his mood, then, after closing his little private vault’s door and returning to the room with Huo Qingyi, he smiled and asked, ”In two months, we’ll hold another wedding ceremony. It’s going to be a big wedding. Aren’t you excited?”