It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Since arriving in Dongtai County, the governor's wife has been taking Fu Nulang with her to visit people or attend various banquets every day.

Baoqin, Tingying and other maids followed, leaving Jiang Yan alone in the yard to guard and work.

Fortunately, as long as she could go out, Miss Fu was very easy to talk to and agreed to let the maid outside to come into the yard to work when she was out.

Therefore, Jiang Yan has a new work partner these days - Chunying.

Chunying was one of the maids prepared in advance by the magistrate of Dongtai County to prevent the staff of various prefectures from being unprepared for their travels and causing inconvenience in their lives or movements.

When Jiang Yan met her for the first time, he felt that she was quiet and had a low presence, but she was very efficient at work.

And when Jiang Yan made her a bowl of water while working, the strangeness between them seemed to be unilaterally eliminated.

Chunying started talking so enthusiastically that Jiang Yan was frightened.

Fortunately, although Chunying talked a lot, she only shared various widely circulated gossips in Dongtai County and did not try to dig into the privacy of Jiang Yan himself or the Fang governor's mansion.

Jiang Yan was also very happy to hear this, and gradually let down her guard as they got along.

As the two chatted more and more, the gossip spread to the officials from various prefectures who came to celebrate the old emperor's birthday.

Of course, for safety reasons, Chunying never specifically mentioned which official the protagonist was, but simply used "a gentleman" instead.

That day, Chunying finished her work quickly and sat in the yard chatting in low voices with Jiang Yan.

First, let’s talk about what happened on the day when the old emperor celebrated his birthday.

"The day before yesterday, during the celebration of His Majesty's fiftieth birthday, a gentleman drank excessively and returned home drunk. His wife scolded him and sent him to sleep in the gatehouse."

"Drinking too much is bad. Not only does it make you feel nauseous, it's also harmful to your health." Jiang Yan frowned in disdain. "But why did you go to the gatehouse? Adults usually sleep in the front yard or the study, right?"

"That's the key!" Chunying clapped her hands. "Do you know why that gentleman was punished? If he was just drunk, it wouldn't have happened like this.

But I heard that after getting drunk at your majesty's dinner, that gentleman accidentally grabbed the eldest prince's sleeve and wouldn't let go, loudly boasting to him about the beauty of his daughter, and lamenting the hardships of marriage.

Jiang Yan couldn't come up with a suitable response. Rather than believing it was an unintentional act, she felt that this was a means for the lord to send the girl into the royal family.

"No one stopped it?" Jiang Yan was puzzled. This was at His Majesty's dinner party.

Chunying also knew what most people were thinking, and added: "That master has no other girls in his family, only a young sister who has just returned home as a widow. She is over 28 years old and does not match the age of the other princes.

Your Majesty is also aware of this, so he just treats it as drunken talk and has no intention of interfering. He even enjoys watching the ministers and the eldest prince laugh at each other."

Jiang Yan felt sympathy for the girl who was forced to commit social suicide. Fortunately, no one took it seriously, so she could just ignore it.

"At most, I'll be teased and embarrassed for a few days, but I can get over it if I just bear with it."

"So that's how it is. I never expected that the eldest prince would actually be interested in the beauty that the adult had mentioned.

In front of everyone, I made an agreement with that gentleman, asking him to bring the girl home to see me."

Jiang Yan was speechless, and in his heart he was madly complaining about how unreliable that adult was.

Although the Northern Jin Dynasty did not impose strict restrictions on women's chastity and did not require them to be faithful to one man, the girl in his family was a newly widowed woman. If she kept looking for another partner, wouldn't she make enemies?

Besides, the eldest prince is now 23 years old and has already started a family. What if... why can't he let his girl have a few days of leisure?

No wonder his wife wants to punish him.