In Huangxian, the news of the capital was not returned, and Chai Yan and Yan Xuehuai had to stay in Huangxian for the time being.

At this time in the capital, Qi Wei could not resist Li Qiniang and finally accompanied her and Xiaoman to leave Wisteria Villa.

The reason why Li Qiniang was in a hurry to come back was because she received a letter from Mrs. Ye.

Mrs. Ye is ready to come to the capital!

Since learning that Fusheng and Zhou Wanqian were engaged, Mrs. Ye has been hesitating whether to come to the capital.

The mansion in Shizi Hutong is her home for her and her children and grandchildren. She has been waiting for her son and grandson there for many years.

The grandson came back, but the son was still missing. Mrs. Ye still wanted to wait until the day she died.

When Fusheng and Zhou Wanqian were engaged, Li Qiniang wrote a letter to Mrs. Ye, one to tell Mrs. Ye that Fusheng was engaged, and the other to tell Mrs. Ye about the news that Fusheng was going to work as a servant in Jinwuwei.

The Jinwu Guard is one of the twelve guards. Most of the time, they follow the emperor. Those who can enter the Jinwu Guard are mostly royal families and noble children.

Fusheng has a family background and is a school-like school. However, he grew up in a good house when he was young. He followed Qi Wei to the military camp a little older. He was very smart, but his intelligence was useless in studying. He was not interested in studying. Although Qi Wei asked his husband to teach him, he never forced him. Mrs. Ye had won the exam for Fusheng. When it comes to studying, Fusheng was far inferior to Xiaoman. Mrs. Ye also stopped thinking about letting Fusheng take the imperial examination.

Fusheng got engaged, and he was an adult. Mrs. Ye was more worried about her grandson's future. Fusheng had an official position, but that was a military position. It was fine before. Now Fusheng recognized his ancestors and was the only remaining seedling in the Ouyang family. Qi Wei could throw Qi Ying to Sun Erzhuang to polish his experience, but he was reluctant to let Fusheng guard the border.

Now that he learned that his grandson had gone to Jinwuwei to work as a servant, Mrs. Ye breathed a sigh of relief and was in a good mood.

Li Qiniang didn't know that Fusheng was going to Tarta, and Qi Wei didn't dare to let her know. She just said that she had official duties. After finishing this errand, she went to Jinwuwei to work as a job and stayed in the capital in the future and would not be sent out again.

Li Qiniang never thought about Tarpit. Of course, not only her, but even Xiaoman didn't think about it.

Li Qiniang guessed that Fusheng could finish his errands in as many as three months or as few as two months. He made a big reservation when he came back, and he could also make the date of the wedding.

But Mrs. Ye is still in Pingcheng, and Li Qiniang is still thinking about it. When Fusheng comes back, he will discuss it. When he sees it, he will take Mrs. Ye to the capital, or will the couple get married in Pingcheng.

Li Qiniang never expected that Mrs. Ye would come by herself and didn't even call him. The letter Li Qiniang received was sent from Pingcheng more than ten days ago. At that time, Mrs. Ye had already left Pingcheng.

Li Qiniang did not have any leisure time and stayed in Wisteria Villa. The day after receiving the letter, she returned to the Duke's Mansion.

"I don't know when Fusheng will come back. By the way, why did he have such a long time to do this job? Sister Huai has returned from the palace and left the capital, but he hasn't come back yet."

Although Li Qiniang complained, she did not ask Qi Fu to urge her. Since she was on a business trip, she could not urge her.

When she first arrived at Wisteria Villa, Li Qiniang was very happy and could not smell the meat and had no appetite. Once she suddenly said she wanted to eat cold noodles. The chef made cold noodles. Li Qiniang frowned after taking a bite.

She has been cooking for others for half her life and never picky about food, but now she can't help it and can't eat anything she doesn't want to eat.

I didn't want to eat cold noodles anymore and wanted to eat wild vegetables. Fortunately, there were a lot of wild vegetables on the hillside behind Wisteria Villa. Qi Wei called a tenant who knew wild vegetables and took Xiaoman to dig wild vegetables. The father and son were sweating all over, and brought back a basket of wild vegetables.

This was not enough, so Qi Wei asked someone to go to a nearby village to invite an old doctor to identify the wild vegetables one by one, and then let the pregnant woman eat them before letting them cook in the kitchen.

In the next few days, Li Qiniang recognized wild vegetables, cold dishes, stir-fry, make fillings, cook porridge, and make soup. Xiaoman quietly comforted her and said, "Will the little brother give birth to a look of vegetables?"

Fortunately, Li Qiniang's state of joy has eased and she can gradually eat meat, but this wild vegetable is still her favorite.

It is not possible to eat wild vegetables in the capital. Although I brought a lot of them back, it was only a few days long. The first thing Qi Wei did when he returned to the capital was to let someone buy wild vegetables outside the city.

Then Qi Wei went into the palace to meet the emperor.

Seeing Qi Wei's bronzed skin, the emperor asked, "Did you go to the field to do your job?"

Qi Wei smiled: "I didn't go down to the field. I just took my child to the edge of the field to take a look. The reason why I was tanned is because I go to dig wild vegetables every day."

Wild vegetables?

The emperor had never eaten wild vegetables. He knew that wild vegetables could be eaten, and he knew that poor families would use wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, but he just knew.

When wealthy families come to spring, they will buy some wild vegetables to change their taste, but neither the secret residence nor the palace nor the kitchen will buy wild vegetables.

The noble people have a delicate stomach and intestines. If this kind of vulgar ingredients is wrong with the noble people, they may be a death sentence.

Therefore, the emperor thought Qi Wei and his son digging wild vegetables were very novel.

When he went to Chaoyang Palace in the evening, the emperor told the queen about this.

"I have asked, it turns out that Mrs. Li wanted to eat wild vegetables, so Duke Ding took his son to dig wild vegetables himself."

Queen...

She also wanted to try wild vegetables and let the emperor dig wild vegetables? Forget it, she might as well expect her sons to bring them back when they go hunting.

Of course, it is to take it, not to count on the sons to dig.

However, Li Qiniang is pregnant, which is a happy event.

The queen was very happy. She hoped that the people in Dingguo Duke's mansion would be prosperous, and that was all Xiaoqi's help. Xiaoqi's help, that is, the prince's help.

Li Qiniang was about to hand over the sign to the palace. Before the sign was handed over, the queen's reward was sent over. The eunuch who accompanied her smiled and said, "The Queen was very happy to learn that the wife of Dingguo was happy. Let the wife of Dingguo be well recuperated. When she is healthy, she will come to the palace to thank her for her."

After seeing off the people in the palace, before Li Qiniang sat down, Wen Xiu and Lu Ying'er came over.

When the two left, Li Qiniang could no longer help and lay on the table and started crying.

She learned about the news of Guozi's death.

Qi Wei was in the front yard and rushed over after hearing the news. Cai Bo’s grandson finally had a whereabouts, but the person was no longer there.

Li Qiniang raised her tears: "I want to hold a funeral for Guozi and set him up a tomb."

Although Li Qiniang returned the contract to Caibo before going to Pingcheng, Caibo still regarded herself as a slave of the Li family. If Li Qiniang didn't mention it, Caibo would never have funerals for her grandson in the owner's house.

Qi Wei knew that the matter of Guozi has always been Li Qiniang's knot. It would be fine if Guozi came back safely, but Guozi is dead now.

"Okay, I agree, it's just that Qingping Lane is Jay Huai'er's house, and the funeral cannot be handled there. Do you still remember my house? Just handle it there."

The house that Qi Wei mentioned was the place where the Qi family lived when they came to the capital. It was one of the ancestral properties of the Qi family. They would not sell it until they had to. It was different from the houses that Li Qiniang had, so Qi Wei chose it and held a funeral for the pot.

Li Qiniang had no objection. If Cai Bo asked Cai Bo to mourn her grandson in Qingping Lane, Cai Bo would not agree.

Qi Wei said again: "I'll ask someone to choose a cemetery for Guozi."

"Well, okay, just choose to be near the capital. Cai Bo will be buried there a hundred years later." Li Qiniang did not object. Cai Bo served the Li family for two generations. She wanted to provide Cai Bo with her old age and see her off.

Qi Wei reminded: "You can rest assured to keep your health in the mansion and leave the funeral to others. I think Xia Erjie is fine. If she can't do it, I will transfer a manager from the front yard to help."

Li Qiniang is self-aware. She is now powerless. She remembers that when she was pregnant with Yan Xue, she had no obstacles and would go to the stove to cook dishes in person at any time.

So the elderly often say that it is not wrong to have children while they are young. She is only in her early thirties now and doesn’t think anything is wrong. Now that she is pregnant, she finds that the difference is still very big.

The Duke's Mansion sent a manager, and the second sister of Xia asked Bai Lan for help. Two days later, a white banner was hung in the old house of Qi's family.

The neighbors around were still wondering at first that there was a funeral in the Duke of Dingguo’s Mansion? Why didn’t they handle the funeral in the mansion and wanted to come here?

Besides, there are only a few people in the Duke of Dingguo Mansion, all of them are living well.

After inquiring, I found out that it turned out to be the grandson of the old servant of the Duke's wife.

The servants were all envious. This was a blessing for several lifetimes. Whose slaves died and didn’t find a place to bury them casually. If they were lucky, they would just enjoy the thin skin coffin.

Look at this person, not only can he have a beautiful funeral in his master's house, but it is said that even the cemetery was bought by the master. I was so envious, and I could only envy him.

Yan Xuehuai didn't know that Li Qiniang had returned to the capital, and she didn't know about the funeral of the pot.

Chai Yan asked the capital to investigate the matter, but today there was a result and the secret letter was sent to Huang County.

After reading it, Chai Yan went into the inner room and handed the letter to Yan Xuehuai who was reading the anime book.

Strictly speaking, this is not a letter, it is just a list.

Yan Xuehuai looked at Chai Yan, a little puzzled. It was just a list. Why did she see it? Could it be that there are people she knows on the list?

Chai Yan nodded and affirmed her question.

Yan Xuehuai looked down on the names of those people one by one. The list was very detailed. The dead people made notes, indicating when they died and how they died. The people who changed their names also made notes, and also indicating when they changed their names and what they changed.

It is common for eunuchs to change their names. For example, Wei Ming’s godsons and grandsons all followed him and changed their names. Not only did they change their names, but they also changed their surnames.

Wei Ming is from Bai Qiu, so there are several people with the surname Wei on this page-long list, all of which are changed after Wei Ming.

In addition to Wei, there were more than a dozen people who had changed their names. Among these people, some of them recognized other eunuchs as their godfathers, and some of them had their original names that were not decent enough and changed their names after entering the palace.

Especially the second situation is very common in the palace. Almost all those who come to be eunuchs are born in miserable origins.

The family is poor, the parents are illiterate, and the relatives around them are not literate. In addition, there is a saying that bad names are easy to support. Therefore, even if you give birth to a son, your names are still random. After entering the palace, you have to serve the nobles. Even if you cannot serve the nobles, you will inevitably walk in front of the nobles, worrying that your name will taint the nobles' ears. Many eunuchs will change their names after entering the palace.

For example, this one is called Lu Goudan, changed its name to Lu Xifu; and this one is called Zuo Tieguo, changed its name to Zuo Zhixue; and the one is called Gao Changchuan, changed its name to Gao Baozhong, and the one was called Xu Xiaogou, changed its name to Xu Huaiyi.

Xu Huaiyi?

Yan Xuehuai was suddenly stunned, Xu Huaiyi?

She raised her head, pointed to the name of the person on the paper, and asked, "This Xu Huaiyi is that Xu Huaiyi?"

Chai Yan nodded: "In the past twenty years, there has been only one Xu Huaiyi in the palace, which is Xu Huaiyi, the former Feiyu Guard Supervisor."

Yan Xuehuai looked at Chai Yan, lowered her head and continued to look at the list in her hand. After reading the first one, she looked at the second one, followed by the third one.

The third picture was full of dead people's names. She looked at them one by one, and soon, she saw a familiar name.

Wang Huai!

Wang Huai is dead!

Wang Huai's name was recorded at the back of his name. He was ten years old and died after death and had never entered the palace.

Ten years old, ten years old!

Yan Xuehuai took out the one with Xu Huaiyi's name from the paper in his hand. Xu Huaiyi was ten years old when he was purged. Look at the year again. In the same year, Wang Huai was purged and Xu Xiaogou was purged. Wang Huai died. Xu Xiaogou entered the palace. Wang Huai wrote it on the death list, and Xu Xiaogou became Xu Huaiyi!
To be continued...