Quick Transmigration: Survive to the End

Yin Yin was at a loss for words when he said that. After thinking for a while, she replied and sent the letter in accordance with the policy of the late emperor.

The new emperor knew about this, but he didn't cause them any trouble. He didn't plan to go to war with the Ming Dynasty for the time being.

After two or three years of turmoil in the capital, things finally calmed down, and all the power in the court returned to the emperor's hands.

Fu Yuanzhou said to Yin Yin, "Yin Yin, you see, I was right, wasn't I?"

Yinyin stared at him for a long time: "You seem to know the Emperor quite well!"

“How could it not be deep?” Fu Yuanzhou deliberately appeared vulnerable in front of her. “When I was in the palace, I suffered a lot at his hands. With his unpredictable temper, only outsiders thought he was a good person.”

Yinyin pretended to be distressed and hugged him, saying, "Luckily we're far away."

“That’s right,” Fu Yuanzhou hugged Yin Yin back, his vulnerability gone, replaced by a smile. “There’s nothing to worry about right now, shall we go out and admire the flowers?”

"Where do you want to go?" Yinyin asked. "At this time of year, I wonder if the wild chrysanthemums in the valley have bloomed yet."

“They’re blooming!” Fu Yuanzhou said immediately. “I sent someone to check, and they said they’re already in bloom, but they’ll be in full bloom in the next few days. We can go and have some fun right in time.”

He had already arranged for this to be taken care of, so Yinyin naturally wouldn't refuse. She told someone to prepare the necessary items so they could leave early the next morning.

But as fate would have it, just before the family left, they ran into an imperial envoy from the capital who was there to deliver a decree.

Fu Yuanzhou could not hide his regret, but he could only accept the imperial decree.

"What did you say?" Fu Yuanzhou picked at his ear, pretending not to understand, and said, "Say it again to me in a simpler way."

The eunuch delivering the imperial decree said in a good-natured manner, "His Majesty is worried that there are no good teachers in the fiefdoms, which will delay the education of the princes. He has ordered that all the princes' sons come to the capital to study at the Hongwen Academy."

"Your Highness, please do not delay your journey to the capital."

Yinyin looked at the imperial edict but didn't want to accept it. She and Fu Yuanzhou only had this one child, and she couldn't bear to let him leave her side and go to the capital alone.

Besides, she taught them perfectly well herself. If the emperor's men ruined her glutinous rice balls when she goes to the capital tomorrow, who will she complain to?

Tangyuan looked left and right behind them, and finally stepped forward to receive the imperial decree. In a naive tone, she asked, "Mother, my uncle wants me to go to the capital to study. Will you and Father go with me to accompany me?"

“Yes, yes,” Fu Yuanzhou immediately asked the eunuch, “Does the Emperor permit it?”

The eunuch clearly hadn't expected to encounter this problem, and after a moment of hesitation, he replied, "This... I'm afraid we'll have to ask His Majesty to know."

“Of course, of course,” Fu Yuanzhou immediately ordered someone to bring him pen and ink. “I will write a memorial to the Emperor right now, requesting that he allow me to serve as his tutor.”

Fu Yuanzhou continued writing without stopping, fanned the ink to dry, and then handed the memorial to the eunuch, sincerely saying, "You must deliver this to the Emperor!"

Before the eunuch could react, he was led to the horses with the memorial in his hand.

Good heavens, this is the reward for his early morning rush into the city.

Instead of being treated as honored guests, given a proper bath and rest, and then being respectfully escorted away with the young prince, they were immediately sent back to the capital!

The eunuch had no choice but to leave with the memorial in his hand, since the Yangliao Prince and his family hadn't refused or disobeyed the imperial decree.

Yin Yin and Fu Yuanzhou had no idea what the eunuch who delivered the imperial decree was thinking, but their mood for going out was completely ruined.

"Father, Mother, don't worry," Tangyuan reassured them like a little adult, "It's just going to the capital to study. My uncle will feel at ease if I'm in the capital while you're in Yangliao!"

Yinyin touched his face tenderly: "You're still so young, of course your mother is worried about you."

Fu Yuanzhou nodded in agreement: "Our family isn't together, and we have to rely on you leaving home at such a young age to have a stable life. How can your mother and I live comfortably like this!"

Tangyuan blinked her eyes, then suddenly smiled, holding her father's hand in one hand and her mother's hand in the other: "But there's no use thinking about it now. Uncle Huang has already issued the decree, so it can't be changed. Let's go out and enjoy the flowers instead."

"My mother said that the flowers are in full bloom and we should not let them go to waste."

That makes sense. Although I'm not in the mood, my son is going to Beijing, and who knows when he'll be back. Now that everything's ready, I should probably go.

After returning from viewing the flowers, Yinyin was drawing a picture in the study as a memento, while Fu Yuanzhou kept pacing around her, which was quite annoying.

Yinyin put the pen aside: "You're making me dizzy, don't you feel uncomfortable?"

Fu Yuanzhou then reluctantly sat down next to Yin Yin: "I couldn't sit still because I was feeling upset. Yin Yin, I have a feeling that the Emperor won't agree, what should I do?"

“What else can we do?” Yinyin glanced at him. “We should just go to the capital more often.”

Fu Yuanzhou was dumbfounded: "Huh? You're leaving me all alone at home?"

Fu Yuanzhou immediately felt a little aggrieved: "So I'm the only one in a hurry, while you've already thought everything through!"

Yinyin didn't tell him that she really wanted to live half in Yangliao and half in the capital.

Anyway, her family has a business in the capital, so she can take advantage of the time she spends there to develop it properly. That way, her time in the capital won't be wasted.

Of course, even if that's what she thought, Yin Yin couldn't say it like that. She could only coax him: "Even if the Emperor doesn't agree, you can write a memorial at the end of the year saying that you miss your family and go to the capital to pay your respects to the Emperor. Can the Emperor refuse every time?"

"Once you get to the capital, the roads are icy. You really intend to leave right after the New Year?"

Fu Yuanzhou's eyes lit up, and he continued, "The roads are slippery and difficult to travel on snowy days, so we have to go to the capital by at least October. Sometimes the thaw is late, and we can't set off until February or March. If we take a look at the flowers, we can be together as a family for at least half a year."

“Even if the Emperor doesn’t allow me to return to the capital to pay my respects every time, it’s not impossible to go once every year or two.”

Yinyin nodded: "If the Emperor agrees, you can go even more frequently."

Fu Yuanzhou nodded, feeling as if the sky had cleared and the water had become calmer: "I'll write more memorials to the Emperor, and eventually I'll annoy him enough to make him summon me to the capital."

Fu Yuanzhou immediately spread out the paper and began writing a letter using the ink that Yin Yin had on hand.

Seeing that he was putting in such a rare effort, Yinyin quietly moved the inkstone closer to him.

In any case, in the emperor's eyes, Fu Yuanzhou was not a smart person. Now he only had a lot of trouble with the children and wrote a lot of letters. He was not afraid that the emperor would get angry and do something bad to him.

This reinforced his persona in the eyes of the emperor and his court officials, minimizing his threat and putting everyone at ease.

Yinyin picked up her pen again and continued sketching the autumn outing picture on the table.

The flowers and scenery in the painting are beautifully depicted, and the figures are even more meticulously drawn, with the eyebrows, eyes, and folds in the clothes rendered very realistically.

She envisioned the painting being completed, intending to take it directly to the capital, have it framed, and hang it up.

Even when they weren't in the capital, Tangyuan wouldn't forget what they looked like.

Although, given Xiao Tangyuan's intelligence, Yin Yin felt she didn't need to worry about this.