Fast Passage

On the way back to Beijing, accompanied by the hawking sounds outside the carriage, Ye Qingli stared with round eyes, looking through the curtain at the bustling street market outside.

She saw people selling sugar figurines and candied haws, street jugglers, pottery figurines, cakes, tall restaurants, and shops along the street. It was a lively scene she had never seen before.

Watching her looking at the outside world like a kitten, Li Yu only felt that she was cute and felt infinite pity in his heart.

He stopped the carriage, got off and stopped in front of each shop, then came to see Ye Qingli with his arms full of food.

The young man pushed the food in front of the girl and said generously with bright eyes.

"Eat it, it's my treat."

Looking at the young man's bright smile, Ye Qingli was reluctant to refuse, but she really couldn't eat so much.

As if sensing the girl's embarrassment, Li Yu took half of the food. Afterwards, Qingli watched the bustling capital while eating snacks she had never tasted before.

When they arrived at the prime minister's residence, the young man looked at the girl with his peach blossom eyes and spoke every word seriously.

"You will be my prince consort from now on. Remember, no one in the entire Daxi has the right to bully you except me. If someone bullies you in the future, you must fight back. If you can't beat them, let Ling Lan report it to me. Do you understand?"

Li Yu's voice was quite loud and everyone who came to greet him in the Prime Minister's Mansion heard it. The Prime Minister and his wife looked a little unhappy, but they did not dare to show any abnormality.

They knew that the Seventh Prince was trying to warn them, so it seemed that Ye Qingli would have to be well-served in the Prime Minister's Mansion for the next few days.

Ye Qingli nodded obediently. Li Yu left Ling Lan, the guard assigned to him by his father, to Ye Qingli, and then returned to the Seventh Prince's Mansion.

"Miss Third, this is Aunt Ding. She's retired from the palace and is here to teach you some rules and etiquette."

Aunt Qi, with a smile on her face, came to Ye Qingli with an old woman who looked a bit arrogant.

When the teaching nanny saw Ye Qingli in plain clothes without even a hairpin, she concluded that he was not favored and could not even show courtesy. She directly criticized Ye Qingli's sitting posture with a very unhelpful tone. Even Nanny Qi realized that something was wrong.

Ling Lan then placed a sword across Madam Ding's neck and said in a cold voice, "You are disrespecting the princess and committing treason. You will receive ten blows."

Afterwards, she beat Madam Ding with ten boards in front of Madam Qi and other servants in the prime minister's residence. She cried and begged for mercy, and finally fainted.

Frightened, Madam Qi and the others quickly dragged the unconscious Madam Ding away.

I originally thought that the new Third Miss would be easy to control, but the Seventh Prince protected her like the apple of his eye and even sent a fierce star to protect her.

Now the servants in the Prime Minister's Mansion didn't dare to get close to him for no reason.

No one working in the Third Young Lady's courtyard dared to cheat or act cunningly.

The Prime Minister was also helpless. Ling Lan used to be a member of the royal guard. He was the emperor's man and he couldn't afford to offend him. He could only complain to Ye Qingli occasionally when chatting about family matters.

The wedding date is approaching, and Ye Qingli wants to show her best side to Li Yu, so she asks Ling Lan.

"Do I really not need to learn the rules?"

Ling Lan could only repeat Li Yu's original words, "The Seventh Prince said that from now on, the Seventh Prince's Mansion will only have the Seventh Prince and the Seventh Prince's Consort. You don't have to learn any rules. Do whatever you like."

Although Ye Qingli has been in the nunnery for many years, he is not indifferent to worldly affairs. Doesn't this sentence mean that he will only marry me?

Ye Qingli's ears flushed red, thinking that maybe she had misheard, or Ling Lan had misrepresented her. After all, as far as she knew, wealthy families all had three wives and four concubines.