Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 2524: Chapter 2525: Return to Tianyun (91)

In the past, the Royal Family’s bloodline might as well have been invisible. It had always been the imperial family running the country, which left everyone feeling insecure. Now you could say the Royal Family and the imperial family are ruling together, and their relationship is especially harmonious and smooth, so naturally people feel much more confident about the future.

On the tenth day after returning to the Imperial City, Ye Zhi finally couldn’t stand being cooped up in the Royal Palace anymore and had to go out for a stroll.

An Jing chuckled and said, ”Go, go, go. I just happen to want to go out and wander around too, see what the Imperial City looks like now.”

Then An Jing, Su Changyi, Ye Zhi, and Gong Juechen slipped out of the palace in plain clothes. It was just the four of them, with no attendants along.

Su Changyi was sixty-six now, and An Jing would turn sixty in a bit over two months. Even though they both looked like they were only in their early fifties, compared to when they were young, they really had aged quite a bit, so naturally no one recognized them. An Jing and Su Changyi found that wonderfully relaxing.

Gong Juechen was two years younger than Su Changyi and was already sixty-four; Ye Zhi was nineteen days younger than An Jing, which meant she was almost sixty too.

Even though all four of them were at that age, they were in excellent health and had no trouble at all strolling down the main streets of the Imperial City.

An Jing and Ye Zhi kept buying and buying, while Su Changyi and Gong Juechen either followed along to pay or trailed behind them carrying everything they bought.

”I haven’t had this feeling in ages, it’s awesome!” Walking along the streets of the Imperial City, Ye Zhi exclaimed in high spirits.

An Jing laughed and said, ”When we were about to come back, I still couldn’t bear to leave our old home. Now, I don’t feel reluctant at all. It actually feels really nice here in the Imperial City.”

Ye Zhi teased, ”Boss, you really are getting on in years now. They say the older people get, the more they like lively places—totally talking about you.”

An Jing wasn’t annoyed, her face still full of smiles. ”Listen to you. I’m not that much older than you, just a dozen days or so. If I’m an old lady, then you are too.”

Gong Juechen cut in with a roguish grin, ”Even if my Zhizhi is an old lady, I still won’t dislike her.”

Ye Zhi gave him a playful shove. ”You dare say I’m old? You’re four years older than me! You’re the real decrepit old man here!”

”Looking as suave and handsome as I do, Zhizhi, do you really have the heart to call me a decrepit old man?”

”You are a decrepit old man!”

Gong Juechen didn’t argue and just grinned shamelessly again. ”Even if I’m a decrepit old man, I’m still your husband.”

”Tch.” Ye Zhi clicked her tongue and ignored him, turning instead to Su Changyi. ”Brother-in-law hasn’t changed at all. Boss, if you didn’t talk to him, do you believe he could go his whole life without saying a word?”

An Jing laughed and pushed her. ”Oh, get lost! Don’t you make fun of my husband! My husband just can’t be bothered with you two—you’re way too childish!”

Ye Zhi said bluntly, ”Sometimes I think you’re even more childish than we are, but he still bothers with you.”

”Why? Because my husband likes me! He spoils me!” An Jing answered smugly, all pleased with herself.

Ye Zhi immediately hugged one of Gong Juechen’s arms. ”My husband likes me too! He spoils me!”

Gong Juechen at once nodded hard and shamelessly echoed, ”Yes, yes, yes, I just like you, I just spoil you!”

Ye Zhi instantly gave him a side-eye. ”Then what about your little sister?”

Before Gong Juechen could speak, An Jing looped her arm through one of Su Changyi’s and burst out laughing. ”Ye Zi, are you jealous of Se Se now?”

Ye Zhi hadn’t spoken yet when they heard Gong Juechen let out a heavy sigh and say, ”It couldn’t be helped. My sister, that Lanlan rascal, is especially good at spending money. If I don’t bring her along and spoil her a bit, how pitiful would my little sister be? But don’t you all think it’s strange? Lanlan spends money like that—where does all that money of his even go?”