Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

Yu Miaoqi hugged her daughter, feeling a little touched: "Look at you, you're a mother now, how come you're still so good at acting cute?"

Yinyin leaned against her and refused to get up: "No matter how old I am, I am still my mother's daughter."

Yu Miaoqi felt as if she had returned to the days before Yinyin got married, when the mother and daughter were together. She couldn't help but say, "Let's do it another day. I didn't even tell your older brother and the others when I went out today."

“That’s easy,” Yin Yin said. “Just send someone to the mansion to tell my brother. Mother is with me, so what could he possibly worry about? Besides, Mother has everything she needs in this courtyard. She doesn’t even need to go back to pack her clothes; she can just have someone bring them over.”

Yu Miaoqi was tugged at by her sleeve and acted coquettishly for a while, but she couldn't resist her offensive and nodded in agreement.

Yinyin cheered and quickly called over Dongxin, who had returned to serve her after her marriage: "Dongxin, go and tell my elder brother that I want Mother to stay for a few days. Let him handle the affairs of the manor."

Dongxin agreed and left the mansion, while Yu Miaoqi watched Yinyin make arrangements happily.

A little while later, Yinyin called someone over with a plate of wooden plaques: "Mother, take a look and see what you'd like for lunch."

Looking at the small wooden plaques on the tray in front of her, Yu Miaoqi laughed and said, "Did you bring the restaurant's menus home with you?"

Yinyin nodded: "It's so hard to think about what to eat every day. It's better to prepare recipes based on the ingredients for each day, and then just randomly decide what to eat. That's more fun and interesting."

"It's only because Mother is here today that we've brought it out like this. We usually have other ways to choose from."

"Oh?" Yu Miaoqi became interested. "Tell me, what other methods are there?"

Yinyin took her hand and led her to a room next to the study.

Once inside, Yu Miaoqi discovered that there were many trinkets displayed there.

Yinyin explained to her, "This dart is used in conjunction with that target. I won't explain this pitch-pot game or the sandbags over there to you, Mom. The horizontal bar on this round turntable is the pointer."

Yu Miaoqi was a smart person. After Yinyin explained it briefly, she understood what it meant: "Are all these toys for you to use to choose what to eat?"

“No, that’s not it,” Yin Yin said seriously. “Choosing food is just one of their functions. Can’t they play with it themselves in their spare time?”

"Now that I'm playing these games, my skills in darts, ring toss, and pitch-pot have all improved. Mother, would you like to have a contest with me later?"

“Okay,” Yu Miaoqi followed Yin Yin and no longer maintained the dignified and composed demeanor of the First Madam, but instead became a bit more lively.

She looked around the room and finally settled on the spinning wheel. After all, she could play with the other things later, but the spinning wheel wouldn't be very interesting after this while, so she decided to use it to decide what to eat today.

Anyway, there wasn't a single dish that Yin Yin had brought out that she or Yin Yin didn't like, and it didn't matter which ones were served.

Using this method, the two quickly decided on their lunch for the day. Considering the hot weather, Yin Yin also ordered an extra dish of cold lotus root salad and mung bean soup.

However, when the mung bean soup was served, Yu Miaoqi refused to let her drink it: "Mung beans are cold in nature, and you should not drink them now. If you want to drink it, you might as well cook some red bean soup."

Yin Yin never forgot to study medicine in either of her lives, so how could she not know that mung beans are cold in nature? When Yu Miaoqi wasn't around, she was very careful about what she ate; mung bean soup was never served, and the one prepared in the kitchen was specifically for Gu Anzhi.

Today, Yin Yin specially ordered this mung bean soup to be delivered. Besides the fact that Yu Miao Qi can drink it, it was also to make her think that Yin Yin is young and greedy for food, and doesn't understand many trivial things, so that she would be more willing to stay in the Prince's mansion a little longer.

After hearing her words, Yin Yin obediently placed the ladled mung bean soup in front of Yu Miaoqi: "It's good that Mother was here to remind me."

In the evening, Zhan Zheng came with Gu Anzhi. He came in person to reassure Yu Miaoqi and let her feel at ease staying there.

Yu Miaoqi had already intended to do so, so she readily agreed and stayed at the Prince's residence for nearly a month before returning home.

When they returned, Yu Miaoqi, who was used to playing with Yinyin and Xiao Bei'an, was still a little unaccustomed to it. Fortunately, Yinyin had mentioned that her estate was almost finished, and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, when Bei'an was older, they could stay at the estate again while the weather was neither too hot nor too cold.

As for her previous dissatisfaction with the Wang family, after so much time had passed, Yu Miaoqi was too lazy to think about it anymore.

Seeing that Wang Yingqing was managing her affairs well, Yu Miaoqi decided not to take it back. After all, she would be going out again in a few days, and it would be troublesome to keep changing the person in charge. Therefore, she only stepped in to oversee things for Wang Yingqing when problems arose.

With Gu Anzhi's arrival, Yinyin finally understood what the emperor had been struggling with back then.

Logically, when the emperor ordered the construction of the Northern Army, he should have transferred some elite troops from various places and stuffed in many sons of noble families and young officials.

But the Union Army today is not like that. While there are experienced elite soldiers in the Union Army, they only make up a small portion; the vast majority are inexperienced new recruits.

“It seems His Majesty has high hopes for you,” Yin Yin said to Gu Anzhi. “If you fail to train, your chances of gaining military power in the future will be very limited. But if you succeed, this Northern Army may become your trusted force, and your military flag can be raised from now on.”

Gu Anzhi understood this principle and was filled with ambition, so he developed many training programs for the Northern Army.

When Yinyin went to his study, she looked at some of the things and finally couldn't help but give him some advice.

"Since you're going to lead troops, shouldn't you figure out how to get your men to obey you?"

“We need to think about it carefully,” Gu Anzhi said thoughtfully, and then made some changes.

Seeing that he had his own ideas, Yin Yin stopped there and didn't say anything more.

When they returned to the main courtyard, Dongxin came looking for them: "Your Highness, the scenery on the estate has been mostly repaired, but the planted flowers and trees are not in very good condition yet. Some places need to grow a little longer."

Plants don't grow like clay. You can't just make them grow into whatever shape you want them to be. Only after enough time and careful pruning can you achieve a satisfactory appearance.

Yinyin already knew all this, and simply nodded and said she understood. Seeing that Dongxin seemed to have something else to say, she asked, "Is there anything else?"

Dongxin said, "The estate is now two or three times larger than before, and we're not quite enough manpower as we used to. In the past, we always borrowed from you, young master, but now... shouldn't Your Highness select some new people?"