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

I had to say, "It's just a birthday. Even if I don't have jewelry or new clothes, I'm still very happy to be with you. Okay, don't be angry. It's not good to make yourself angry."

Yi Ping said stubbornly: "You are the queen, how can you celebrate your birthday without new jewelry and new clothes? But that guest is so abominable, he wants to leave everything and doesn't leave anything for me."

I just wanted to laugh when I heard that. I have never seen a boss who feels aggrieved after selling his goods.

Seeing that I was still laughing, Yi Ping said unhappily, "It's too late to rush to make a batch of new jewelry, and you're still laughing! And that batch of fabric was specially found by me when Uncle Lu went to Jiangnan to find it, and it was snatched away by others before I even put it on. How can I not be angry?"

Lu Chuan is no longer the housekeeper of our house, but the general manager in charge of all the shops.

I had no choice but to comfort him, "Okay, don't be angry. There should be some good fabrics in the palace. I'll ask someone to get them. And I don't want a big celebration for my birthday. We can just have a meal together as a family."

Yi Ping rolled his eyes and said, "Even if you don't want to make a big deal, I'm afraid someone won't agree."

I asked in confusion, "I have the final say on my birthday, how can I let others decide?"

Yi Ping put down the bowl of soup in her hand, glanced at me, and said, "You are the queen, and the palace will definitely ask about your birthday. Then it will not be up to you to decide."

I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard this. This damn identity of the empress is really annoying. There are many things that she really can't make the decision on her own. It's all up to Zheng Yan to decide.

I frowned and said, "My birthday is still a few days away. Let's wait and see if anyone from the palace will come to ask about it. If not, we can set up a banquet at home and invite the Du family to come and have a meal together."

Yi Ping said, "Okay, you decide. I'll ask the chef to make a menu. You can pick out the dishes you like and have them prepared for you."

If we invite the Du family, it will become an external banquet, and some etiquette must be observed.

I nodded and said, "Okay, go ahead and do it, but remember to keep a low profile. I'm not in good health, and I'm afraid I won't be able to handle too many people."

I always use my health as an excuse to avoid doing many things, but in fact I just don't want to deal with some people and things.

My living in the Duke's Mansion has already attracted a lot of criticism. If Zhao Zhenyuan hadn't been strong enough, these rumors would have driven me to death long ago.

As we were talking, the butler came running over to say that someone had sent me a carriage full of things and asked me if I wanted it delivered to the backyard.

People nowadays are really generous when giving gifts, often giving a whole carriage.

I was a little confused as to who had sent it, so I asked the housekeeper, "Do you know if it was sent by Keren?"

The housekeeper ran so fast that sweat broke out on his forehead.

He wiped his sweat and said, "I don't know, but the person who brought it said that as long as the queen looks at the things in the carriage, she will know who he is."

He even played mysterious.

I stood up and said, "Let's go and have a look."

The carriage was still parked in the front yard, so we went there.

In front of the front door of the hall was parked a very ordinary horse-drawn carriage, which was obviously a carriage used for business. The carriage was simply surrounded by tarpaulin. The horse was old and thin, and it had fallen asleep while standing after the carriage had stopped for a while. The coachman had gray hair, and although he looked strong, he was obviously not young. He was wearing a coarse cloth shirt and coarse cotton shoes with a lot of mud on his shoes. It was obvious that he had just finished a business outside the city and took this business without stopping to deliver the goods to the house.

Seeing that I had been looking at him, the groom came up to me and said, "Miss, a guest asked me to deliver something to his house. Please take a look."

After the coachman finished speaking, he went to lift the tarpaulin curtain.

When the linoleum was lifted, I was stunned!

An ordinary carriage was actually filled with jewelry boxes, fine fabrics and high-quality medicinal herbs!

When Yi Ping saw the pieces of cloth, he couldn't help but exclaimed: "Aren't these pieces of cloth the finest silk that I asked Uncle Lu to find in the south of the Yangtze River?"

Yi Ping seemed to have thought of something, and hurried over to open the neatly arranged jewelry boxes. It turned out to be the new jewelry that Xingyaoxuan had hurriedly made!

Yi Ping was a little stupefied and said, "What's going on? Are all the jewelry and fabrics that were sold returned?"

The groom took out a list from his pocket and handed it to me, saying, "Miss, this is the list made by the customer. Please take a look. If there is nothing wrong, please sign it and let me go back to report."

I took the list and was dazzled by the amount of things on it. The most prominent items were a bushel of South China Sea pearls, 10,000 taels of gold, and 100,000 taels of silver notes...

If I accepted the things in this carriage, I would immediately become a super rich woman.

I frowned as I looked at the list. Yi Ping leaned over and took a look at the list. He was also a little speechless and said, "Who on earth is this? This isn't a gift, is it? This is a gift of family property?"

I pushed Yiping's head away, returned the list to the driver and said, "These things are too valuable. I can't accept them. You can take them back."

When the driver heard this, he said quickly, "I dare not take these things back. The guest said that if the young lady refused to accept them, she would accept them after seeing these things."

After the driver finished speaking, he took a portrait from the carriage and handed it to me, saying, "Please open it and have a look, young lady."

I took the portrait and opened it, and it turned out to be the self-portrait I sent to Xihe Kingdom as a gift to Ankang!

My hand shook and the portrait fell to the ground with a thud.

The driver was so frightened that he quickly picked up the portrait and said in a hurry, "Oh, young lady, please don't damage the portrait. The guest has said that this portrait must be returned to him. If it is damaged, I will be held responsible."

Yi Ping saw that I was so surprised that my hands were shaking. He was so scared that he quickly supported me and said, "Second sister, second sister, what happened to you?"

I closed my eyes to calm myself, then opened them and said, "Have someone count the items and send them to my yard so the driver can report back."

Yi Ping glanced at the carriage and said, "These things have unknown origins. Can we really accept them?"

I nodded and said, "It's okay, I already know who sent it, let someone count it."

I asked Yiping to give the driver some change and then returned to my yard.

Looking at the various items such as jewelry that were constantly being moved into my house, I felt a little dazed. I didn't expect that Ankang actually returned to Dayu!

No wonder the figure I saw in Wangyue Tower that day looked so much like him. It was not that I was seeing things, it was that he really came back!

But what does it mean that he gave me so many things at once but didn’t show up?