Ye Youlan's daily life of traveling through time

She was once young, beautiful, and favored by the emperor.

When she gave birth to her first prince, the current emperor, she was the most glorious and dazzling woman in the entire harem.

But one day, the emperor brought back another woman and two children, one over one year old and the other only two months old.

When the emperor was on vacation in the palace, a minister sent a woman to him. The emperor waited until she gave birth to a child before bringing the woman and the child back to the palace and giving them a legitimate status. This was a huge blow to the queen who was sitting high in the sky.

She forced herself to pretend to be magnanimous and maintain her decency, but the harem was like flowers blooming, with the emperor giving birth to a new one every year, either a son or a princess.

By the time she became pregnant again, the emperor already had six sons and seven princesses.

After she became pregnant, she suffered from severe morning sickness. The emperor would come to see her at first, but gradually he stopped coming and sometimes asked the palace maids to bring her some supplements.

She was very sad, so she invited her good sister, Yilan, who was five years younger than her and was seventeen years old at the time, to the palace to keep her company. Unexpectedly, the emperor came here more frequently, and his eyes always glanced at Yilan intentionally or unintentionally, which made her jealous and crazy.

So when she heard the news that the emperor intended to make Yilan his concubine, she found Li Da, tarnished Yilan's innocence, and broke off with Yilan from then on.

On the day of childbirth, she and Concubine Li gave birth at the same time. She had already arranged people through Ren Qishan and was waiting for the baby to be born. If Concubine Li gave birth to a baby girl, she could live, but if it was a baby boy, he must die.

She had a difficult delivery that day and the baby girl she gave birth to was dead, so she switched the babies. Concubine Li suffered a heavy hemorrhage and both mother and daughter died.

Concubine Li was the emperor's most beloved concubine. Because of Concubine Li's death, the emperor was depressed for a long time.

One day, Ren Qishan suddenly resigned to establish an academy to cultivate talents for Da Chu. From then on, he bid farewell to officialdom and devoted himself to cultivating talents. In less than three years, Jinghua Academy became the most prestigious academy in Da Chu. Later generations jokingly called it the small court of Da Chu because half of the officials in the court came from this academy.

After the Seventh Prince was born, the Emperor stopped favoring the Queen.

The queen felt the crisis, so she began to find ways to help her son ascend the throne.

Ten years ago, the previous emperor passed away and the throne was passed to the new emperor. As for what happened in the meantime, only the empress dowager knew.

The Queen Mother felt very tired, so she asked the palace maid to send some supplements to the palace.

News soon arrived from Jingnan Kingdom that a new store had opened, and even the Second Prince of Jingnan Kingdom sent a flower basket. The Zhang family's caravan had specially formed a new caravan to travel back and forth between the capital and Jingnan Kingdom.

Qin Yurou's silk shop benefited from this, Madam Chang's herbal medicine shop was very popular, and Da Chu's new furniture was also in high demand. Madam Chang was very happy and didn't even ask for Qin Yurou's investment money, but directly gave her 5% of the shares.

Several other ladies invited Mrs. Chang to have tea, but Mrs. Chang said she was busy because she was holding the God of Wealth!

A shrewd lady heard that Mrs. Chang had made a fortune by doing business with Qin Yurou, so several of them came to her house to please her. Qin Yurou sneered and directly refused them entry.

Qin Yurou stopped Li Zong from kneeling in the Buddhist temple and asked him to go to the Tzu Chi Hall next to the county government office to distribute porridge every day after he got off work in the palace.

"Am I crazy?"

"You're not crazy, but your image has been ruined a long time ago. You must repair it now. Go to the Tzu Chi Hall to give out porridge, reshape your image, and change other people's impression of you. Otherwise, your official career will be over. It's your choice!"

Li Zong had no choice but to agree.

"One pot of porridge every day. Don't be lazy. Go home after giving alms. For the time being, you are not allowed to go to restaurants or teahouses. Also, don't wear brightly colored clothes."

Li Zong knew that it was useless to refute, so he could only do as he was told.

The full moon party for the Ye family’s grandson was very grand, with dozens of tables set up for the banquet.

Ye Youlan went to see her sister-in-law and saw that she was pale and weak, looking very haggard lying there.

Ye Youlan went over to sit by the bed, and her sister-in-law asked the maid to bring her a stool.

"Stay away from me, don't let it affect you and the child."

Ye Youlan looked at her sister-in-law distressedly: "Is it worth it for you to risk your life to give birth to a child?"

The sister-in-law smiled bitterly: "It's worth it."

"Sister-in-law, don't risk your life no matter how hard you try. Take good care of yourself and don't get any postpartum illness."

The eldest sister-in-law asked the wet nurse to bring the child over and show it to the aunt.

The maid came back and said, "The young master was carried to the front, and the guests all praised him for being chubby and well-looking."

Ye Youlan held her sister-in-law's hand and said, "Look, now everyone only sees the child, not the mother."

"But I'm very happy, really happy."

Ye Youlan did not go to the front to eat. She went back to her room to rest. After a while, the Seventh Prince came.

"You didn't eat the feast?"

"I ate it, but I was afraid of smelling like alcohol."

Ye Youlan smiled, stroking her belly and said, "Fortunately, this child only tortured me for a month. Now I no longer have morning sickness, and my appetite is good. When I get fat like a ball, you are not allowed to look down on me."

The Seventh Prince gestured with his hands: "Is he really this fat?"

"How many pregnancies does it take to get this fat? Are you looking for a fight?"

"I'm just trying to cheer you up. Pregnant women must be in a good mood so that the child will have a good temper."

Ye Youlan leaned against the bed and asked the Seventh Prince when the room next door would be repaired.

"Why, you want to come back and live here?"

"I don't want to make it too extravagant when renovating it. Just a simple four-courtyard house will do. This way, we can sell it when we leave the capital."

The Seventh Prince looked at Ye Youlan with deep affection: "Have you really thought it through?"

"Of course I have thought about it, otherwise why would I work so hard to make money?"

"Okay, let's try to leave here when the child is three years old."

Li Zong's daily porridge distribution at the Tzu Chi Hall was effective. At first everyone laughed at him, but after he persisted for a month, everyone began to praise him and even looked at him with admiration.

Li Zong then changed his visit to once every two days, then once every five days, and finally several times a month. Qin Yurou donated twenty taels of silver to the Tzu Chi Hall every month for distributing porridge.

Ye Youlan commented that Qin Yurou understands public relations, and using charity to whitewash herself is an eternal magic formula.

Qin Yurou and Mrs. Chang attended various banquets hosted by women. No matter who tried to find out, they kept their mouths shut and did not reveal any information.

So the women tried another way and asked their husbands to please Li Zong and get information from him.

Li Zong could only laugh it off, because he had no idea what Qin Yurou, the housekeeper, was doing every day. So when someone stuffed money into his hand, he quickly dropped it like a hot potato. Every failure is a lesson learned; the same mistake must not be made again.

The Queen Mother found him, threw one thousand taels of silver to him, and then threw a piece of paper at him.

"This is the shop under the name of the Ren family. I'm giving it to your wife to take care of any business. When your father was alive, he took a lot of money from me. One year, he took five thousand taels of silver from me, but there are receipts for all of it."