The Ruixue, which had been falling for a day, gradually subsided.
Under the light of the red lanterns, three or five crystal clear snowflakes were falling in the sky.
Qi Yun stood under the corridor with a dignified manner, smiling sweetly and retracting her beautiful eyes staring at the dark sky.
"Phew, this heavy snow has finally stopped."
Qi Yun murmured to herself, pulled the light yellow cloak on her body, and hurried towards the study in the inner courtyard with light steps.
Qi Yun walked all the way to the outside of the study, looked at the shadowy and flickering candlelight in the study, and gently knocked on the door a few times.
"Who is it?"
As soon as there was a knock on the door, Young Master Liu's questioning voice came from the study.
"My husband is my concubine."
"Yun'er, it's cold outside, come in with some."
"Yes, I know."
Qi Yun responded softly, gently opened the door, and walked into the study with light steps.
Liu Mingzhi raised his head and glanced at Qi Yun, then chuckled and put down the ink pen in his hand.
"Yun'er, is it time for dinner?"
Qi Yun closed the door, walked to the desk with a smile, and sat down on the chair next to her elegantly.
"Yes, my sister had already ordered the kitchen to prepare dinner half an hour ago.
Husband, are you having dinner at home, or are you going to have dinner with Sister Jie'er and Sister He Shu?"
Liu Mingzhi pondered for a moment, then reached out to pick up the cooled tea on the side. Just as he was about to bring it to his mouth, he was stopped by Qi Yun.
Qi Yun Jiaoyan reluctantly took the tea cup from her husband's hand, stood up and walked towards the stove next to her.
"Husband, this tea is already cold, so you don't have to worry about drinking it and ruining your stomach.
Wait a moment, I will give you a drink before you drink."
Liu Mingzhi stood up, stretched out, and walked happily towards Qi Yun.
"Yun'er, how's the weather outside?"
"Before I came to the study, all the lanterns in the house had been lit. In about half an hour, it will be completely dark."
Qi Yun answered sweetly while passing the pleasant tea in front of her husband.
Young Master Liu smiled lightly and took the tea cup, turning sideways and looking out the half-opened window.
"How is the snowstorm? Has it stopped?"
"Scattered snowflakes fall from time to time, but it has stopped."
Liu Mingzhi blew the tea in the cup, and his face suddenly showed a sense of relief.
"Just stop it, just stop it."
Qi Yun leaned her waist and picked up an empty teacup, lifted the teapot and poured herself a cup of freshly brewed fragrant tea.
"Husband, you haven't answered me yet."
Liu Mingzhi sipped the tea leaves at the corner of his mouth and looked at the beauty with surprised eyes.
"Huh? What?"
When Qi Yun saw her husband's confused look, she rolled her eyes angrily.
"Are you too busy? I asked you just now whether you would like to stay at home for dinner or go to Sister Jie'er and Sister He Shu for dinner."
Liu Mingzhi frowned and thought to himself, then pointed in the direction of the prince's old residence.
"Yun'er, when our family was in the East Palace during the day, my husband had already told Jie'er and Shu'er that he was going to their place for dinner.
If I don't go as my husband, I will make the two sisters wait in vain."
Qi Yun chuckled and nodded, and said softly: "That's true, but what about the reception banquet here for father and mother?
Husband, as the head of the family, it seems a bit inappropriate not to be here, right?"
"Yun'er, the old man, my mother, my father-in-law and my mother-in-law, they are all exhausted from traveling and traveling all the way. They are probably exhausted both physically and mentally.
In this case, what they need is to rest early.
Believe it or not, no matter how sumptuous our feast is, they can't eat much."
Qi Yun took a sip of tea and glanced towards the west garden of the inner courtyard with a smile through the door and window of the study.
"That's true. After they get home, if they have a good rest for an afternoon, their spirits will be full.
Unfortunately, before they had time to take a good rest, something happened again about Jingyao girl giving birth."
Liu Mingzhi placed the bottomed tea cup on the table, chewed the tea leaves in his mouth, returned to the desk and sat down again.
"When you are having dinner later, just tell the old man, father-in-law and the others, that you can go to the sisters Jie'er and Shu'er for me."
"Okay, I know what to do.
Husband, haven’t you finished your work yet?”
Qi Yun held the tea cup in her hand and walked towards the desk with smooth steps.
Liu Mingzhi fiddled with the candle next to him with scissors, and picked up the paperwork on the table with a complicated expression.
"Most of the documents have been approved, but there is still a situation on one document, and I can't make up my mind for a long time.
Before Yun'er rushed to the study, I had been thinking about the contents of this document for a long time."
Seeing her husband's frown, Qi Yun put down the teacup in her hand and reached out to take the document from Young Master Liu's hand.
"Come, let me take a look at what kind of situation is reported in the document. It actually makes you, husband, so embarrassed."
Liu Mingzhi leaned happily on the chair, put his arms around the beautiful lady's waist, held her in his arms and sat down.
"Aren't you afraid that others will say that you, the master of the harem, are interfering in politics without authorization?"
Qi Yun raised her head and smiled brightly at Young Master Liu, and then held up the documents in her hands grandly.
"As long as you don't care, husband, I won't bother to pay attention to what others say behind my back!
Besides, haven’t you asked me to help you with paperwork a few times in the past?”
Liu Mingzhi curled up the beauty's hair scattered around her earlobe with his fingers, brought it to the tip of his nose with a smile and took a deep breath.
"Well, Yun'er, your hair still smells as good as before."
"Come on, it's been a long time since you went to my concubine's place to rest."
"Yun'er, my husband was resting at your place ten days ago, okay?"
"You also said that you went four days ago.
Not seeing each other for one day is like three autumns. Do you understand?"
Young Master Liu's face froze, and he sighed with a twitching corner of his mouth.
"Oh, I don't know if it's a blessing or a disaster for me to marry a bunch of monsters like you sisters."
"Virtue, typical of being good when you get an advantage."
Qi Yun glanced at Young Master Liu with a charming expression, and silently moved her gaze to the document in her hand.
Seeing this, Liu Mingzhi said nothing more and gently rested his chin on the beauty's shoulder, silently smelling the fragrant fragrance of Qi Yun's body.
Soon.
Qi Yun'e frowned slightly and closed the document in her hand, looking sideways at her husband.
"Husband, this..."
"How about it, after reading the contents of the document, is there any way to help my husband solve his problems?"
When Qi Yun heard her husband's question, she shook her head silently.
"The situation is too complicated, and I can't think of any good solution at the moment."
Liu Mingzhi breathed a sigh of relief, took the document in the beauty's hand and threw it directly on the desk.
"Forget it if you can't think of it. It's better for me to think about the solution for my husband."
"Husband, I will think about it after I get back and think about whether there is any good way."
"Okay, but don't worry too much about this matter."
"Yeah, yeah, I know.
By the way, husband, I have one more thing I want to tell you."
"Huh? What's the matter?"
"Husband, it's like this. After you came to the study during the day, my sisters talked about..."
Qi Yun changed into a comfortable position, and in a soft voice, she roughly recounted to Young Master Liu the things that her sisters had said to each other during the day.
"Husband, the situation is like this. My sisters have been discussing it for a long time, but they haven't made up their mind yet.
Husband, what do you think? Should we invite those guests who are far away or not?"
Young Master Liu heard Qi Yun's somewhat tangled tone and said directly without thinking: "What's so embarrassing about this? Of course I won't invite you."
"Ah? Are you not inviting everyone?"
"Now, everyone who lives in the capital or in various prefectures within the capital is invited.
Those who are too far away will not be invited."
Qi Yun heard her husband's words, and said with a tangled face: "But, after all, they are your old subordinates, husband, and they are brothers who have followed you through life and death for many years!
It would be inappropriate not to invite them to such a big happy event like the birth of a child."
Young Master Liu gently straightened his waist, reached out and picked up Qi Yun's teacup and took a sip.
"Inappropriate? What's inappropriate? I don't invite them to the banquet. It's for their own good and for their sake.
The north wind is howling, the weather is severely cold, and the roads are blocked by heavy snow, making it difficult to travel by car.
In this kind of weather, it’s just a full moon banquet. What’s the big deal whether you eat it or not?
Is the life of the family more important? Or is it more important to have a banquet?"
"The reason why my sisters are in trouble is because they are afraid that they will complain after they find out about this matter.
After all, His Royal Highness the Prince is delighted with the birth of Longzi, and the matter of Fengnu cannot be hidden."
"Yun'er, you sisters, just relax.
Anyone who dares to complain behind his back will have to eat a meal of military sticks first if I don't let them eat at the banquet.
Damn it, you rebelled against them."
Qi Yun looked at her husband Zhengran's expression and nodded immediately.
"Well, since you said so, husband, I know what to do."
"Yun'er."
"Hey, husband, tell me."
"As for the full moon banquet, you sisters can just take care of it.
As for those relatives and friends who cannot have a banquet due to the weather, when the weather improves, my husband will write a letter telling them the reasons."
"Hey, I know.
By the way, where are our grandparents, uncles, and aunts from Donghai? Are they not invited either?"
"I won't invite you. It's too far away and it's not enough to bother them."
"Okay, tomorrow I will tell my husband what you mean to my parents."
Liu Mingzhi put down the tea cup in his hand, as if he had thought of something.
"correct."
"Hmm? Husband?"
"Our thirteenth aunt Bai Ling'er, she has to be invited over."
"Husband, where is Thirteenth Aunt now?"
"Mingzhou is quite close to the capital."
"Thirteenth Aunt is in Mingzhou, so she really needs to be invited."
"That's the general situation. You sisters just make arrangements."
"Yeah, yeah, I understand."
As soon as Qi Yun finished speaking, there was a knock on the door in the study.
Young Master Liu immediately raised his eyebrows and looked up towards the door.
"who?"
"Hey hey hey, smelly daddy, it's me.
You are the cutest, most beloved baby girl."
Young Master Liu listened to the little cutie's smiling voice and shook his head angrily.
"Stinky girl, what's the matter?"
"Stinky daddy, the food is ready. Yue'er is here to call you and Aunt Yun'er to have dinner."
Young Master Liu put down the tea cup in his hand and gently patted the beautiful woman in his arms on her buttocks.
"Yun'er, get up."
Qi Yun nodded slightly and quickly stood up and straightened her clothes.
Liu Mingzhi stood up and carefully packed the documents on the desk.
"Stinky girl, come in."
"Hey, here we come."
The door opened in response, and the little cutie walked into the study with her head in the air.
"Dad, aunt, Yue'er didn't disturb your good things, did it?"
Qi Yun's pretty face turned red and she glared at the little cutie angrily.
"Smelly girl, what are you talking about?"
The little cutie walked to Qi Yun's side with a smile, reached out and took her arm and shook it gently a few times.
"Aunt Yun, Yue'er, isn't this just in case?
Yue'er, I'm not married yet, what if I see something I shouldn't see!"
When Qi Yun heard the little cutie's teasing words, her already blushing face suddenly turned even redder.
"Smelly girl, I'm so ashamed."
Young Master Liu packed up the documents on the desk, walked up to the little cutie, raised his hand and flicked her tender forehead hard.
"Smelly girl, do you still have the nerve to say that you haven't gotten married yet?
If you continue to be so shameless, it won't be surprising if you can get married in the future.
Look at how you look now, does it look like what a daughter’s family should look like?”
"Hey young!"
The little cutie groaned in pain, rubbed her forehead, and quickly hid behind Qi Yun.
The little cutie hid behind Qi Yun, made a face arrogantly, and said in a cooing voice: "Huh! What's wrong with being so thick-skinned?"
Didn’t you learn it from your stinky old man? Or else, like father, like daughter?
Compared with your face.
I’m still far behind, girl!”
Although Mr. Liu didn't hear clearly what the little cutie was talking about, he could guess it from her expression.
This stinky girl definitely didn't have anything nice to say.
Young Master Liu immediately glared at the little cutie: "Smelly girl, what did you say?"
The little cutie's delicate body trembled, and her eyes wandered away.
"No...it's nothing? Yue'er said, Dad, you are right.
If Yue'er knows about it, Yue'er will definitely correct it."