The Emperor, with more men than women, made me his mistress.

"Ah Yuan, didn't I just say that whether or not we can have children should be left to nature?" Besides, her current body is still quite young, so there's really no rush to have children.

Upon hearing Yue Li's words, Jin Chenyuan understood her meaning. From now on, neither she nor her future husband would use contraception; when or whose child she conceived would be left to fate.

Although he didn't receive a promise, Jin Chenyuan was somewhat disappointed, but he thought that he was the only one by Yue Li's side now.

Jin Chenyuan felt that whether his little princess could come to his side soon depended on himself.

Thinking this, Jin Chenyuan whispered in Yue Li's ear, "Li Bao, in order for our little princess to come to our side as soon as possible, you will have to work harder in the future."

Yue Li blushed at Jin Chenyuan's words and glanced at him sideways.

She thought to herself: This guy keeps calling me a little princess, doesn't he know that children are the hardest to raise?

Jin Chenyuan's estate on the outskirts of the capital was not far away, and the two chatted and laughed in the carriage, and time passed quickly.

As the carriage stopped, Qingyun's voice rang out from outside, "Master, we have arrived at the Princess's estate."

As soon as the two alighted from the carriage, they saw a middle-aged man they didn't recognize leading several people to greet them at the gate of the manor. Upon seeing Yue Li and Jin Chenyuan alight from the carriage, the group immediately knelt down a short distance away from the two and said in unison, "Welcome, Your Highness and Your Highness's Consort. We, your servants, pay our respects to Your Highness and Your Highness's Consort."

"Get up."

"Thank you, Your Highness and Your Highness." The group thanked them in unison and then stood up.

Finally, the middle-aged man stepped forward respectfully and said, "Would Your Highness and Princess like to rest in your residence first, or would you like to explore the various parts of the estate?"

Seeing Yue Li's curious expression, Jin Chenyuan said, "Let's look around."

"Then this servant will lead the way for Your Highness and Your Highness's wife," said the middle-aged man, who was also the head of the estate.

"No need, you can go and do your work. I'll take the Queen for a stroll around the estate." Jin Chenyuan didn't want a stranger standing next to him and Yue Li while they were together.

Upon hearing the prince's words, the head of the farm immediately replied, "Yes, this servant takes his leave."

After the head of the farmhouse left, Yue Li looked at the huge farmhouse in front of her and said, "This is the hot spring farm you mentioned, where we can stay for a few days in the winter? This place is way too big!"

Just now, Yue Li was by the carriage window and couldn't see it very clearly. Only after getting off did she realize that the hot spring estate Jin Chenyuan mentioned covered at least several hundred acres.

Is this what people often say, that poverty limited her imagination?

When she heard Jin Chenyuan mention a hot spring resort in the suburbs of Beijing, she thought it was just a resort with a few dozen acres at most, but she didn't expect it to be hundreds of acres in size.

"Well, land is cheaper in the suburbs of Beijing, so we built a bigger one. But it's more convenient that way. We've also planted a lot of fruit trees on this estate. I'll take you to see them after we're settled in, okay?" Jin Chenyuan said casually, as if the hundreds of acres of land were free.

"Were all the fruits we ate at the manor these past few days grown on this estate?"

The variety of fruit here is too limited. In the past few days, she has mostly eaten apples and loquats, and cherries and lychees twice. It was Jin Chenyuan who had them transported from elsewhere by fast horse, kept frozen in ice chests.

In this sweltering heat, there isn't even a watermelon here.

"Yes, they were grown by the fruit farmers in the village. Apples and loquats are the most plentiful at this time of year. If A-Li wants to eat other fruits, I'll send someone to look around." The two walked towards the village, looking at the scenery along the way.

Meanwhile, Qingyun and the others had already begun moving the things the two had brought into the manor and tidying up the courtyard where the two would be staying.

"No need." She just wanted some chilled watermelon, but according to Jin Chenyuan, watermelons hadn't even been discovered in this dynasty.

Jin Chenyuan and Yue Li hadn't been strolling around the estate for long when Yue Li asked to return to her courtyard.

After all, Yue Li knew in her heart that she had not come to the manor for leisure, but had important matters to attend to.

Back in the courtyard where they would be staying, Yue Li looked at the courtyard, which was mostly tidied up, and asked Feng Chuan to find her a set of clothes that would be convenient for going into the mountains.

Upon hearing Yue Li's words, Jin Chenyuan knew that she was planning to go into the mountains. Instead of trying to dissuade her, he asked Feng Chuan to find him a light robe after Feng Chuan had found clothes for Yue Li.

Before long, both of them were dressed in narrow-sleeved clothes. Yue Li also took off her skirt and changed into simple women's clothing. She also took off the hair ornaments and hairpins in her hair and asked Jin Chenyuan to tie her hair into a man's bun.

When the two finished changing their clothes and went out, Jin Chenyuan brought all the guards he had brought with him, leaving only Feng Chuan and Feng Yan, who had been brought by Yue Li, in the courtyard to pack up the remaining things that had not been packed.

Jin Chenyuan's hot spring resort is not far from the mountains, but it is not close to Qingshan Village.

Yue Li glanced at Qingshan Village, where only the outline of the village could be seen in the distance, then turned around and followed the path worn into the ground up the mountain with Jin Chenyuan and the others.

At the foot of the mountain, she didn't notice it, but the further she went, the more she could sense that the spiritual energy on the mountain was becoming denser. She even vaguely felt that the spiritual energy in this mountain was much denser than the spiritual energy in the mountain behind Qingshan Village that she used to live on.

Qingyun and the others had no idea what their two masters were going to do on the mountain at this time.

Jin Chenyuan only knew that, on the surface, Yue Li said she was looking for the tea tree.

As for doing it secretly?

Clearly, Yue Li was trying to keep it from him, so he didn't press the matter further.

And so, Yue Li led the group east and west, sometimes using a stick to poke at the tall grass.

"Ah Li, just tell me what you're planning to do. What if a snake comes out of the bushes?" Jin Chenyuan watched Yue Li's actions with a pounding heart.

This is the time when snakes, insects, and rodents are most active in the mountains, and Yue Li's reckless running around really scared him.

Knowing that the spiritual energy on this mountain was suitable for cultivation, Yue Li should have led them back. After all, by leading them, she couldn't go deeper into the mountain to explore.

But after all, we've already come all this way, and we've only been in the mountains for a short time. It would seem a bit strange to go out again now.

"Hey, what's that?" At this moment, the group had reached the middle of the mountain.

Except for Yue Li, who still had the mind to search around, everyone else in their group was on edge.

After all, once you enter the inner circle, who knows where a large beast might suddenly jump out from?

However, upon hearing Yue Li's words, everyone instinctively looked over.

In the bushes that Yue Li had parted, on a patch of low grass, the branches and vines of a plant were intertwined, and among the vines were round, ball-like green things.

"Haha, we've found something great today!" Yue Li was overjoyed. At first, she couldn't quite believe what she was seeing, but after she crawled into the bushes and her hand actually touched the familiar watermelon that she had just been talking about, she dared to be sure.