After I got into the drama, I led the plot astray

Li Jin was also very happy to see Yi Ping. This girl has this ability. No matter where she goes, she can always be liked.

Li Jin smiled and said to Yi Ping, "Oh, Ping girl is here too? I heard that Lord Du wants to adopt you as his goddaughter. These days Lord Du has been preparing for the family recognition banquet, so he doesn't even have to attend the morning court. It's fine to adopt a goddaughter, but he doesn't even have to attend the morning court. I want to adopt one too, so that Lord Du will be envious."

Yiping smiled and said nothing.

Li Jin said angrily, "Such a sensible and docile daughter was taken by Lord Du first. I am really pissed off."

Li Jin and Lu Yin had no children, and in order to take Lu Yin's feelings into consideration, Li Jin never dared to mention taking a concubine or a concubine in front of Lu Yin. Now that he saw Du Feilong wanted to adopt Yi Ping as his goddaughter, he realized belatedly that he could actually adopt a child to take care of himself in his old age.

However, it is rare to find a daughter like Yi Ping who knows his background so well and is so well-behaved and capable. Li Jin even had the idea of ​​snatching the daughter from Lord Du.

Seeing that it was getting late, I quickly said, "We still have to go to the palace to visit the Seventh Prince. If you have anything to do, please leave first. Goodbye."

After saying that, I took Yiping and left.

Carriages from outside were not allowed to enter the palace, so Yiping and I had to walk into the palace.

If the emperor or empress summoned me, they might prepare a sedan chair for me, but I entered the palace by myself, so no one would prepare a sedan chair or a carriage for me.

It would probably take less than an hour to walk from the main gate to the harem. I feel so tired just thinking about it.

I could tell from the look in Gongsun Wen's eyes that he really wanted to beat me up, so it was best for me to leave.

I have a shining gold medal, so it is very easy for me to enter the palace. The Royal Guards will not stop me at all.

After entering the palace, I saw dozens of horses tied under the high palace walls. I was so happy that I shamelessly asked the imperial guards guarding the gate to borrow a horse. But they refused to lend it to me, saying that these horses were temporarily dispatched for missions and the use of each horse was recorded and non-military personnel were not allowed to use them.

No wonder Wei Chang once said that I was not qualified to ride in a carriage or on a horse. It was not nonsense.

Within the walls of this imperial city, something like "qualification" is really important.

Yiping and I had no choice but to carry the food boxes and walk towards the harem step by step.

There were eunuchs sweeping the snow on the main road in the palace every moment, so it was not difficult to walk.

But it was really too far away. Looking at the unattainable road to the harem, Yiping and I wanted to back out.

As we were walking, we were doubting our fate when we saw a horse-drawn carriage coming towards us not far away.

This carriage was the only one we saw after walking for so long since entering the palace. Yiping and I were still guessing which palace's concubine was going to travel.

But when the carriage got closer, I felt very familiar with it. It turned out to be the carriage used by the catering department to deliver food!

We waved our hands quickly, and the carriage soon stopped beside us, but the driver was not the familiar Jiang Laiyin!

I was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help asking, "Isn't this the carriage of the Catering Department? Where is Brother Jiang?"

The driver of the carriage was a young eunuch, who looked to be no more than sixteen or seventeen years old. He was probably in a hurry to deliver the food, as his forehead was covered with a layer of sweat in such a cold day.

The young eunuch wiped the sweat from his forehead, bowed to me, and said, "Your Excellency, Manager Jiang fell seriously ill not long ago and passed away a few days ago."

"Dead?" Yiping and I were both shocked when we heard this. Jiang Laiyin was only in his thirties, how could he have died?

"Yes, sir, Manager Jiang passed away very quickly, and many errands had to be assigned to others. I was transferred to the Food Department from somewhere else, and have only taken over for less than two days. I can't even tell which way is which. Look, I've taken the wrong road again and I'm hurrying back." The young eunuch said anxiously.

It's probably impossible to get a ride. It's good enough that this confused little eunuch didn't lose himself, and we still want him to give us a ride.

The young eunuch waved at us, whipped the horse whip, and the carriage drove out with a "swoosh".

I looked at the carriage going away and couldn't help but sigh deeply.

Yi Ping also sighed along with me.

We both looked at each other and sighed deeply at the same time.

Yi Ping said with some sadness: "I can't believe that Brother Jiang passed away just like that. He was such a good person."

I looked at the vast expanse of white palaces in the distance, with layers upon layers of palaces that stretched as far as the eye could see. I couldn't help but sigh and say, "How deep is the courtyard, with willow trees covered in smoke and curtains of countless layers."

Yi Ping looked up at me in confusion and asked, "Is that a poem? What does it mean?"

I said, "After entering this palace gate, do you feel as if you are entering a deep sea?"

Yi Ping nodded and said, "Yes, although this palace is big, I feel like it is a cage everywhere. I can't even talk or walk freely."

I nodded in agreement and said, "That's why they say the courtyard is so deep."

Yi Ping looked as if he had suddenly realized something and said, "I understand the meaning of this poem."

Yiping didn't have much education, and the few words she knew were all thanks to her grandfather's enlightenment when she was a child. If Yiping could marry into a good family and become the mistress of the house in the future, it would be almost impossible for her to rule the backyard with just the few words she knew. If she couldn't even read the account book, she would just become a joke.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but say to Yi Ping, "Third sister, you are so smart, don't spend your time on making shoes in the future. When you have time, practice calligraphy and read more books. Although you don't need to take the exam for a scholar or a juren, you should at least be able to read the account books, know how to make reasonable arrangements, and know how to increase income and reduce expenditure. Only in this way can you become a powerful mistress and no one dares to shake your position."

Yi Ping turned her head and looked at me, and said seriously: "I just want to marry an ordinary person in the future. I don't want to be a mistress, and I don't want to be like my mother, who married a general and died without even being able to keep the child."

I was choked and speechless.

The harm caused by Zhao Zhenyuan, this negative example, was so profound that even the twelve-year-old Yi Ping knew that she must never marry such a man in the future.

I could only say patiently, "If you meet someone you like in the future, and he is not an ordinary person, but not only has a distinguished family background, but also has a lot of money, and he is gentle, considerate, and understanding to you, will you marry him?"

Yi Ping was a little confused by the question.

Seeing that the "fish" had taken the bait, I quickly added two more baits and said, "Look, even you don't dare to say that you will marry an ordinary person in the future. Your fate is in the hands of God. It is not up to us to decide who we meet and who we marry. If you don't prepare yourself from now on, even if you meet the rich man you want to marry in the future, you will not dare to marry him because of your inferiority complex."