After rebirth, the abstinent prince wants to marry me every day

Today is New Year's Eve, and Zhu Qing'an heard the continuous sound of firecrackers early in the morning.

Although there were no firecrackers in the palace, all that could be seen was the joyous red color. The moment Zhu Qing'an opened her eyes, she was caught by Bian Jingsheng and kissed hard.

"But did the sound of firecrackers wake you up?" Bian Jingsheng asked in a hoarse voice, looking at Zhu Qingan who had just woken up. She looked like a confused deer in the woods, extremely cute and innocent.

"I went to bed too early last night and couldn't fall asleep!" Zhu Qing'an prepared to get up.

Bian Jingsheng hurriedly supported Zhu Qing'an's waist so that she could sit up, and then took out the clothes that the palace maids had already warmed up and put them on Zhu Qing'an himself.

After breakfast, Zhu Qing'an followed Bian Jingsheng to pay their respects to the Empress Dowager and Old Madam Bian.

Unexpectedly, both old people gave Zhu Qing'an a thick red envelope. Zhu Qing'an was holding the red envelope, feeling both amused and helpless.

"I'm already so old, and you still prepare red envelopes for me!" Zhu Qing'an looked helpless. She wore a festive red cotton coat today, and she looked chubby and cute, which made the empress dowager and old lady Bian like her.

"No matter how old you are, you are still a child in our hearts. Even if you have your own children in the future, the red envelopes that belong to you will still be kept for you!" Old Lady Bian smiled. Looking at Zhu Qing'an, she seemed to see her sweet and soft granddaughter. Presumably, her granddaughter would be able to pay New Year's greetings to her on next New Year's Eve. Whenever she thought of that picture, Old Lady Bian felt so happy.

"I also prepared a red envelope for you, but the empress dowager and mother got to it first!" Bian Jingsheng stuffed a red envelope into Zhu Qing'an's hand.

"Are you ready too?" Zhu Qing'an was helpless, but he could also feel that everyone seemed to treat him like a child.

Zhu Qing'an accepted it. To her, it didn't matter how much money was in the red envelope. What mattered was that everyone's thoughtfulness was very rare.

Everyone had breakfast together. Bian Jingsheng supported Zhu Qingan, and the palace servants quickly brought a chair. Then Zhu Qingan saw that Bian Jingsheng was actually pasting Spring Festival couplets himself.

"The words on it..." Zhu Qing'an looked at the vigorous handwriting on the Spring Festival couplets and felt very familiar.

"This was written by the Queen Mother herself!" Bian Jingsheng said as he pasted paste on the back of the Spring Festival couplets and began to stick them at the palace gate.

He was tall and strong. If a palace servant came to paste the Spring Festival couplets, he would probably need to bring a chair, but he could just stretch out his arms to paste the couplets.

Zhu Qing'an looked at this scene and suddenly felt that the palace, which everyone said was cold, seemed to have become more lively. It was no longer a cage, but more like a home.

"How's the pasting?" asked Bian Jingsheng.

"Move a little to the left, yes! Just right!" Zhu Qingan sat on a fur-covered chair, holding a hot water bottle in his hand, and was directing Bian Jingsheng to post Spring Festival couplets.

Bian Jingsheng, who was being ordered around, didn't show any impatience at all. He just did what Zhu Qing'an said with a smile. Occasionally, he would look back at Zhu Qing'an with love in his eyes.

The palace maids serving below looked at this scene and couldn't help but lower their heads and smile knowingly.

The imperial palace used to be filled with deception and scheming. If the palace servants were not careful, they would get beaten at best and lose their lives at worst.

But now, the palace maids all stayed voluntarily. The queen was kind, and the errands were easy. Even if they did make a small mistake, the queen would not punish them too harshly. Although the emperor was much stricter, he never interfered in the affairs of the harem.

In fact, the lives of palace servants in the imperial palace used to be even less valuable than livestock. If they got sick and died, they died. But now, if a palace servant had a headache or a fever, they could ask the imperial physician to come and check their pulse, and they didn't even have to spend money to get medicine.

Many palace people were silently grateful to the Queen in their hearts, and were even more careful and respectful when doing their duties.

"Jingsheng has become more humane since he had Qing'an!" Inside the Cining Palace, the Empress Dowager and Old Lady Bian were sitting opposite each other by the window, each of them holding a pair of scissors and cutting paper-cuts.

"A good emperor must understand emotions! Jingsheng now has all the qualities an emperor should have!" The Queen Mother casually cut out a little rabbit.

Since the Empress Dowager entered the Eastern Palace, then entered the palace as Queen, and later became the Empress Dowager, she has never experienced the joy of being a girl on New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Eve, she once had to meet with a constant stream of concubines and court ladies. She had endless palace duties to attend to and endless flattery to listen to, and her face was stiff from the day's work.

But now, she is in the palace, with her close friends and relatives by her side. She can even sit here comfortably, cutting paper-cuts like the elders of ordinary families, which is very pleasant.

"You taught me well! In my opinion, Jingsheng is far inferior to you. I remember after the palace coup, Jingsheng once told me that in his heart, you are the one who should sit on the throne the most!" Old Lady Bian had a tiger haircut and looked at her friend who was no longer young. She said frankly and regretfully, "You have amazing talent. Your means and strategies are the best in the world. If you could sit on the throne, I'm afraid it would be even better!"

The Queen Mother listened and smiled with relief.

"If I really wanted to sit in that position, I would have done it all these years ago! It's not that I think women can't sit on the throne, but I think as long as it's good for the people, anyone can sit in that position!" The Queen Mother looked at Bian Jingsheng who was pasting Spring Festival couplets. "What's more, compared to me, Jingsheng has made great military achievements, so sitting in that position is more popular. And now I also have the power to govern the country, there is nothing to regret!"

She never had any ambitions. Even when she first came to this era, she even thought about giving up and being a noble lady with no worries about food and drink. After all, the family background of the Wen'an Marquis was not bad.

But later, she saw how many women of her age were struggling in the mud and how the people were living in dire straits, so she stood up.

If she doesn't stand up, who will?

She was a lady from a prominent family, she came from the distant future, and she had mature and advanced ideas, so even though she hated arranged marriages the most, even though she hated having the same husband as someone else, she still compromised.

Because only when she has enough power and controls everything can she change the status quo.

"Everything is slowly getting better. Even if we get old and pass away, we still have them!" Old Madam Bian patted the back of the empress dowager's hand and looked at Bian Jingsheng and Zhu Qing'an outside the window with pride in her eyes.

"Yes, Qing'an did a great job of settling the refugees outside the city a few days ago, which surprised me!" The Queen Mother even sighed.

She and Bian Jingsheng were still arguing with the court officials about the refugee issue in the court, but they didn't expect that Zhu Qing'an in the rear had already appeased the refugees, and not a single refugee had died so far.

"Qing'an has a charitable heart and she is not weak. With Jingsheng in front and her behind, the Xuanlong Kingdom will only get better and better!" Old Lady Bian said firmly.

"What are you doing?" Zhu Qingan's shy voice suddenly came from outside the window.

The two looked outside and saw Bian Jingsheng directly picked up Zhu Qing'an, bent down and kissed Zhu Qing'an's forehead, pious and sincere.

The palace maids wanted to bury their heads under the floor tiles, but the Queen Mother and Old Lady Bian smiled at each other.

After pasting the Spring Festival couplets, Bian Jingsheng accompanied Zhu Qingan to paste window flowers. There was no government affairs today, so Bian Jingsheng accompanied Zhu Qingan to do everything that ordinary people would do on New Year's Eve.

Even in the afternoon, Bian Jingsheng accompanied Zhu Qing'an to make dumplings in preparation for the New Year's Eve dinner.

"Your wrapping is so ugly! Go away!" Zhu Qingan said with disgust.

Although Bian Jingsheng is both talented in literature and martial arts, the dumplings he makes are simply terrible. If they were put into the pot, they would probably fall apart.

Bian Jingsheng felt disliked, so he walked out with his hands behind his back.

"Are they angry?" The Queen Mother looked at them with a worried look on her face, fearing that the couple would have a quarrel.

"What's there to be angry about, Qing'an? Don't take it to heart!" Old Lady Bian quickly consoled him, feeling somewhat resentful towards her son. Her son was usually very patient with Zhu Qing'an, so what had happened today?

Zhu Qingan smiled, pretending to be relaxed, but he was no longer in the mood to continue making dumplings.

She also didn't understand what happened to Bian Jingsheng. He was not like this before. Could it be that her words were inappropriate?

Zhu Qing'an thought that she would have a good talk with Bian Jingsheng when he came back. She didn't want anything to hinder their relationship.

Before Zhu Qing'an could dwell on this for long, he heard footsteps.

She quickly raised her head and saw that there were many people following Bian Jingsheng.

Her father, Marquis Wen'an, Qu, Zhu Baiwei and Zhu Yiqing, and even her second cousin were there, not to mention the fifth princess, Zhong Yi, Song Nian, and even Yang Chaoyan was invited into the palace.

"Greetings to the Empress Dowager, Madam Bian, and the Empress!" Everyone saluted.

At this time, Bian Jingsheng came to Zhu Qingan and put his arm around her shoulders. "This is your first time celebrating the New Year in the palace. I was afraid you would feel lonely, so I invited everyone to celebrate the New Year together in the palace!"

Bian Jingsheng knew that although Zhu Qing'an didn't say it, she was still thinking about her family and friends. Especially during the Chinese New Year, when everyone was accompanied by their families and it was lively and cheerful, Zhu Qing'an must have felt very lost staying in the palace, even with him and the Queen Mother.

So Bian Jingsheng asked for the opinions of Marquis Wen'an and others yesterday, wanting to bring them into the palace. Fortunately, Marquis Wen'an was very concerned about his daughter and agreed directly.

"Father and Mother! Everyone, get up quickly!" Zhu Qing'an called out hurriedly, the joy on his face unable to be suppressed.

Wen Anhou's family and everyone else sat down. Fortunately, everyone was familiar with the place. After sitting down, the women began to help make dumplings.

The men sat aside and started peeling walnuts and peanuts. Even though Bian Jingsheng was an emperor, he did not put on airs at this time.

"Fortunately, His Majesty allowed us to celebrate the New Year in the palace. Otherwise, it would be too lonely for Song Nian and I to celebrate the New Year alone!" Zhong Yi was making dumplings, but she was clumsy. It was the Fifth Princess beside her who taught her.

"You still have the Prime Minister, but I am really alone. I am quite sad!" The fifth princess's face was full of joy.

As a royal princess, she had no family affection at all. In the past, she just had a casual New Year's Eve dinner with the servants in the mansion.

"Why don't you find a prince consort? I heard that many young men from aristocratic families are pursuing you!" Zhong Yi joked.

These words immediately aroused everyone's interest, even Yang Chaoyan, who was taking Zhu Qing'an's pulse, turned his gaze.

"I have many suitors but failed. It's just that those people only care about my looks or my identity as a princess. It's really boring! If we are not in love with each other, I would rather not get married! Anyway, my mother is open-minded and will definitely not urge me!" The fifth princess said coquettishly.

The Queen Mother nodded. "Of course. Marriage is a major event in a woman's life, so naturally you have to be willing! If you don't want to, there's nothing wrong with being alone. I heard that you've been running a girls' school very well recently!"

The fifth princess felt a little embarrassed when she heard her mother's praise.

"No, everyone came to help, and I didn't do much! It's just that now that I have something to do, I feel that life has become more meaningful! Seeing those girls who used to know nothing but can now distinguish right from wrong, I feel so relieved!" The fifth princess smiled.

The fifth princess now has lost her princess airs and is now gentle and calm.

"You are really amazing! You have given those girls who originally had no chance to study the opportunity to do so, and you have also taught many girls the basic principles of life!" Zhong Yi praised.

Today, Zhong Yi is still a female general, in charge of the Imperial Guards. Many people were dissatisfied at the beginning, but Zhong Yi did a great job and no one could find any fault with her.

"I'm not that great. It's Miss Yang who is great! Miss Yang has saved so many girls who were suffering from illnesses!" The fifth princess said very modestly.

Yang Chaoyan waved her hands hurriedly. "I'm just doing my duty as a doctor. If it weren't for the Empress's support, I wouldn't be able to open my clinic!"

Everyone seems to be complimenting each other, but in fact they all recognize each other in their hearts.

Today, everyone is sitting together. Although they are all women, they are different from ordinary women. Because they have their own things to do and everything they want to work hard for, instead of just thinking about love all day long.

They were talking about fellow women who were helping each other more and who had their own names instead of being called Mrs. So-and-so.

So what if they are women? They can be empress dowagers sitting high in the court, they can be soldiers fighting in the battlefield, they can be queens who soothe people's hearts, they can be princesses who teach knowledge, they can be generals who control military power, and they can also be doctors who practice medicine and save lives.

They have infinite possibilities. Perhaps they are the only ones in the current Xuanlong Kingdom, and there are very few of them.

But they all believe that in the future, there will be thousands and thousands of them standing up.

The Queen Mother looked at the scene in front of her and felt her chest burning hot. Everything she thought was impossible was now slowly unfolding before her eyes.

All the compromises, contributions and efforts I made have now received the best rewards.

The constraints that the woman who once hurt her the most are now being broken down layer by layer. The woman will one day become an independent individual with flesh and blood and thoughts.