After the arranged marriage, she farms and survives under the tutelage of the villainous boss.

"Are you my invited retainers, or have you always been with Xie Shuheng?"

“If we send you all to the province one by one to investigate in advance, we won’t find out a single thing.”

"He even praised him to my face? Your monthly allowance is given to you by Xie Shuheng?"

"..."

They all scratched their heads, unsure of what to say.

The main problem is that the fourth prince wants to hear the truth, insisting on telling everything in detail, but then he gets upset.

Emotions are like a young girl's, sometimes good, sometimes bad.

The young lady had menstruation, but the fourth prince did not, yet his situation was even more complicated than that of a young lady.

The retainers who followed him looked exhausted, as if they hadn't had a proper rest for half a month, and appeared to be on the verge of collapse.

Xie Chengze was in the midst of a rage.

At this moment, Jiang Zhiwan and Xu Ping'an walked over, Jiang Zhiwan looking timid: "Why does this young master keep asking about Lord Xie?"

"Who I'm asking about is none of your business!" Xie Chengze hated it most when others told him what to do.

Especially this young lady, she started coming over as soon as she had some kind of relationship with her.

They really think they're something special!

Having already gone through so much, Jiang Zhiwan had long forgotten what dignity meant, so she quickly said, "I'm just curious! Because Lord Xie is indeed very popular in our province. Everyone knows about him just like the people around you."

"But I know something different. I don't know anything about this man's military campaigns; I'm just a woman. But the woman he married is my second sister!"

"..." Upon hearing this, Xie Chengze became interested.

"Is it?"

"Is that the village woman?"

Xie Chengze laughed out loud when he heard this.

Now, when those princes in the royal family talk about marriage and having children, or about religious principles and laws, the story of Xie Shuheng marrying a country woman as his wife is widely circulated.

They all looked quite disdainful.

Everyone felt that Xie Shuheng had fallen from grace.

At this moment, Jiang Zhiwan continued, "My younger sister is named Jiang Zhiyun. You can find out if you ask around and you'll know we're family."

“This is my husband, Xu Ping’an.”

Xu Ping'an bowed to Xie Chengze: "I am willing to answer this young man's question."

……

Jiang Zhiyun was unaware that Jiang Zhiwan and Xu Pingan had already spread rumors about her.

She was still busy with brewing.

These past two days have been so busy that my little cellar is already full.

I was thinking of digging another one, but it was too late.

The only solution is to give the neighbor more money and let the fermenting wine stay at the neighbor's house.

Jiang Zhiyun smiled and said, "When the wine is brewed, I will take it out and put some medicinal herbs in it, or even jujubes. Jujubes come out in autumn, so we can brew jujube wine next autumn. It will be sweet."

The words were spoken by Jiang Zhiyun, while saliva flowed from Zhang's mouth.

Zhang wiped her mouth and said, "Yunniang, what you're saying makes my mouth water."

"I love drinking all kinds of fruit wines."

Xiuhe laughed helplessly: "We've been following you for so long, who doesn't know you like to drink fruit wine!"

"This is a love that goes to the bone."

Zhang wasn't ashamed at all: "Sharing happiness is worse than enjoying it alone. From now on, we'll just cook what we need and eat it ourselves."

"Don't you think it's good to just eat and drink like this every day?"

"A letter has arrived! A letter has arrived!"

Jiang Cheng rushed in anxiously from outside. "A letter has arrived from the capital!"

"It's handwritten, handwritten!"

Jiang Zhiyun looked over in surprise. As if preordained, Zhang Shi took the letter and nodded with trembling hands: "It is a letter from the Empress Dowager."

"Grandma Yu!"

"I reckon it was written a long time ago, but it took too long to get here. They said they probably lost quite a few..."

Jiang Cheng spoke happily, and everyone crowded around, wanting to hear Zhang Shi read aloud.

Zhang unfolded the envelope.

"Greetings! Haha. Grandma Yu's handwriting is still so delicate, she's doing it on purpose, just showing off how well she writes."

"See, this guy still says he misses us, doesn't he?"

Grandma Yu said that the pear blossoms in the capital were in bloom and that she wanted to pick some to cook.

The palace maids were all very surprised, thinking that the Empress Dowager was unreasonable and deliberately trying to harm people.

The people in the emperor's harem were even more boring. They all avoided her when they saw her, being extremely respectful, and talked about many trivial things.

I asked Zhang about learning tea ceremony, and incidentally, I also wrote a book on tea ceremony and included it in the book.

“Zhang, you like to secretly learn from my tea ceremony books. I, this old woman, will rewrite one for you. You can read it all by yourself. It’ll kill you. If you can’t answer a question when I ask you, I’ll just give you a good whack with a hammer.”

"Take good care of our Yunniang."

"Also, I miss everyone."

When Zhang read this, her eyes welled up with tears.

Although they talked about trivial things, with only an occasional sentimental remark.

Zhang was in terrible pain right here.

At this moment, Jiang Zhiyun said, "Mother, don't cry."

She said she wouldn't cry, but Jiang Zhiyun was actually shedding tears too.

Zhang and Granny Yu used to have the worst arguments; they would always quarrel whenever they met.

Zhang used to have difficulty speaking.

She's so quick and efficient now; it's fortunate that Grandma Yu always scolds her.

It felt like we weren't used to her being gone for a while. Even now, thinking back, I still feel a sense of emptiness around me.

Zhang said, "Yunniang! The palace is a lonely place, a place that confines women for their entire lives. They may enjoy endless wealth and glory, but if they had a choice, who wouldn't want to be freer outside?"

"At least, starving to death is one's own choice. In the palace, even if something happens, one will have to live in the cold palace."

"I wonder how many women have been driven mad by that palace."

Jiang Zhiyun thought she was worried about the Empress Dowager.

He comforted her, saying, "It's alright. The Empress Dowager is sensible and resourceful. As long as she can live her own life well, we shouldn't cause her any trouble."

“But the Empress Dowager, she will definitely live.” Zhang nodded.

"She killed all the beauties in the late emperor's harem last time, how could she not survive?"

"..." Yunniang didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

This statement, though crude, is true.

"It's perfectly normal for her to be alive, and she should be alive. She deserves to live to be a hundred. When our family goes to Beijing, we'll bring her over to argue with me."

I've written to her to tell her you're pregnant. She'll probably find out in a few months.

“Before, her biggest concern was your belly.”

Jiang Zhiyun asked, "What if it was a girl?"

"It's good that a girl was born!" Zhang said. "Aren't you and the Empress Dowager both women? Are we inferior to men?"

"When the time comes, we'll teach them, they'll take over our work, and we'll find someone to marry into the family so the whole family can still live a stable life."