Ye Youlan's daily life of traveling through time

Several people looked at Ruoyun. Ruoyun knew that she had spoken out of turn. Anyway, they were not outsiders, so she told them about Ren Yue and Li Zong hugging each other in the academy.

"How shameless!" Chen Xiaoling cursed. "He's just like his father. Why didn't I see that before?"

Miaoyu looked at Ye Youlan: "It's a good thing you didn't marry him."

Ye Youlan laughed, "Stop, stop. I'm very happy now. Don't mention the past. I now suspect I was mentally ill at the time. How could I have thought of marrying him? It's truly a stain on my life."

Chen Xiaoling smiled and said, "Let's talk about something happy. You should hurry up and get pregnant. Then you can have a baby together next year and arrange a marriage for the child."

Ruoyun shook her head and smiled: "Do you think having a child is something you can do just by wanting it?"

"Yeah, having a baby depends on fate. I'm still recovering from my illness, so I don't think there's any hope this year."

"One by one, you're all thinking about getting married before you're married, and then having children after you're married. After you have one child, you're thinking about having another. Then you raise the child, find a wife for the child, and then you have grandchildren, and then you find wives for the grandchildren. This is how you spend your life. How boring."

"Ye Youlan, everyone's life is like this. Do you think you can escape it? The best childbearing period for women is these few years. Men can still have children when they are eighty years old. If you can't have children by then, he will still find a young girl to bear children for him."

Ye Youlan nodded: "What you said makes sense. Anyway, I won't have any children, at least not in the next few years."

Princess Yong'an rarely saw them again, so she insisted on keeping them at her house for dinner. After dinner, they drank tea and chatted until the evening before they all went back.

Ye Youlan returned to the palace and saw Xiaomei coming out with a cane. She asked the maid to help her down to rest.

"Princess, I'm fine."

"Wait until you lose your crutches. Go back and have some rest. If I see you again, I'll deduct your monthly salary."

Ye Youlan returned to the courtyard, but the Seventh Prince was not at home. She called the guards, and the guards said that the Seventh Prince had gone out for something and would probably be back in an hour.

Ye Youlan asked the guards to call in Madam Zhao. She had always been accustomed to ordering Xiaomei around, and she didn't care about appearances, so besides Li Yi, Xiaomei and a few secret guards were the only ones serving in the inner courtyard.

Now Xiaomei's leg is inconvenient and Li Yi's arm is injured, so he must consider adding a few more people.

Nanny Zhao was in charge of training the maids. She recommended two maids to the princess. They were sisters, twelve or thirteen years old, one named Dingxiang and the other Dingyu.

Ye Youlan was very satisfied to see that the two girls were well-behaved with pretty eyes and eyebrows. However, she was a little confused as the two sisters looked so similar. How could she tell them apart?

"I'm taller, I'm the older sister Dingxiang. She's shorter than me, she's the younger sister Dingyu."

"But when you two stand together, there's no noticeable difference in height. How about this? One of you stays and talks about your own strengths."

Ding Xiang pursed her lips and said, "Princess, please test us!"

"Can you read?"

"I can recognize a few words from the teacher in the mansion."

"Can you do needlework?"

"My sister and I also work in the embroidery room when we have free time. Last month, we got the highest dividend."

"What would you do if you encountered an assassin?"

"I will protect the princess to the death just like Sister Xiaomei did."

"What kind of man do you want to find in the future?"

Ding Xiang blushed, "I haven't thought about it. I'll leave it to the princess to decide."

Ye Youlan looked at her sister, who was a little slow and said embarrassedly, "I haven't thought about it."

"How about this, you go to Xiaomei and listen to her advice. Whoever she recommends will stay in the inner courtyard, and whoever she doesn't recommend will go back and continue doing what you came here to do."

In the end, Xiaomei recommended her sister, which was the same choice as Ye Youlan's.

When the Seventh Prince came back, he saw a new maid in the room. Dingxiang hurriedly saluted the prince. The prince remained silent. She retreated in a panic and stood at the door, patting her chest: Why is the prince so scary?

Ye Youlan poured him some tea and said with a smile, "Look how scared you made her. This is the new girl, Ding Xiang. She's a twin, and she has a younger sister named Ding Yu."

"Where's Xiaomei? Is her leg still not healed?"

"If Xiaomei knew that the prince cared so much about her, she would be so touched. She just came over here with a cane, but I sent her back."

Ye Youlan asked him why he went out again today?

"I'm going to the palace."

Ye Youlan was slightly surprised: "Is it the Emperor who is looking for you, or is it the Empress Dowager?"

The Seventh Prince felt a little more comfortable after taking off his outer clothes.

"Because of the Qiu Yang incident, Jinghua Academy replaced half of its staff. Ren Qishan was so angry that he was bedridden for half a month and couldn't even say a word. The Emperor asked me to privately fund the rise of other academies so that Jinghua Academy wouldn't dominate this year's Autumn Examination."

"Then the money is also paid by the palace? That won't do. We can't let the emperor get away with it."

"The Emperor will pay half from his private treasury, and the palace will pay the other half. I agree."

"You've already agreed, what else can I say? I support you, but which academies do you plan to support? I think I've only heard of Jinghua Academy in the capital."

“In fact, Jinghua Academy is the most famous, but there are also some smaller academies with good educational quality, such as Qingshan Academy and Nanfeng Academy.”

"The Emperor is quite clever. He didn't uproot the problem all at once, but instead boiled the frog in warm water. By the time Ren Qishan realized the problem, it was too late to remedy it."

"The people from Jinghua Academy are entrenched in every department of the imperial court. They are so intertwined that even a single move could cause unrest in the entire court. Now we need to train our own talents to insert them into various departments and slowly replace them. In a short period of three to five years, or a long period of seven to eight years, and with some coordinated actions during normal times, we can basically eliminate their influence."

Ye Youlan nodded: "Your Highness has become more and more mature. You knew that the Liangcheng ambush was a conspiracy behind the scenes by Ren Qishan and his gang, but you did not directly kill him. Instead, you considered the stability of the country. You have grown up."

"You're right. Revenge on someone isn't simply about taking their life. It's about making them watch as they gradually lose everything they worked so hard to gain, falling from a peak to a cliff. Making their life a living hell."

"If you want to support Qingshan and Nanfeng Academy, it's best to keep a low profile. The Autumn Examination is less than two months away. If you want to make the academy famous, you can go to the countryside to select outstanding poor students, provide them with food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, and let them make a splash in the Autumn Examination. Then recruiting students won't be a problem. Of course, when selecting outstanding students, you should also look for outstanding teachers and offer them high salaries."

"Your method is very useful. I will arrange it right away."

"The descendants of the soldiers who died in the Liangcheng ambush may also have outstanding individuals. They can be given priority for admission to the academy. It would also be best if the academy's buildings were renovated. A beautiful environment would be more suitable for studying."

The Seventh Prince hugged Ye Youlan and kissed her hard on the face: "I'll listen to you."

Ye Youlan pushed his arm away: "What are you still standing there for? Go do it!"