Chapter 211: Chapter 211

The Princely Heir did not sit down. He stepped forward and knelt in front of Prince Luling’s parents, saying, "Your son is useless, making you worry."

"Get up and speak. You haven’t done anything wrong, so why are you kneeling?" Prince Luling pulled the Princely Heir up.

"When you’re told to sit, just sit!" the Princess Consort also said.

The Princely Heir didn’t sit down. He lowered his head, "Father, Mother, yesterday I... divorced the Xue Family, failing to find you a good daughter-in-law. It’s my fault for being useless."

"What’s the big deal? If you’re divorced, you’re divorced. If she loves to leave, then let her leave. Won’t you just marry another one? Such is life. If the family can build a house, it can get you another wife in the future! We can also find wives for the second and third sons!" Prince Luling waved his hand indifferently, speaking dismissively.

"If the sky wants to rain, and a wife wants to walk away, if she refuses to live with you, you can’t force her to stay. Let her leave, and the family will be quiet." The Princess Consort had been troubled by the noise of the Xue Family for months, and now felt much more at ease with her departure.

These two children stayed in the North Courtyard every day and showed no desire to seek out the Xue Family!

Guoguo even refused to call her mother!

No matter how others taught, Guoguo simply wouldn’t call the Xue Family mother and would turn away whenever she saw her.

It shows how badly the Xue Family failed as a mother.

Thinking about how even the children despised the Xue Family made the Princess Consort angry.

The Princely Heir never expected his parents to be unsurprised by his decision, "Father, Mother, you don’t object?"

"What does it matter if we object? It’s not that you don’t want her; it’s that she doesn’t want you!" Prince Luling remained calm, "The Xue Family left last night."

The Princely Heir was even more surprised, "She... she just left? Did she see Guoguo and Jingjing?"

When the children were mentioned, the Princess Consort became angrier, "It’s better if she didn’t see them. If she did, would these two children even survive?"

The Princely Heir didn’t understand what the Princess Consort was saying, "Mother? Why are you saying this?"

"Why do you think? Hmph!" The Princess Consort sneered coldly.

She told the Princely Heir about the time when Wanwan and the Xue Family had visited.

"If it weren’t for Yuzhu arriving in time, who knows what would have happened to Guoguo..." The Princess Consort was so angry she couldn’t continue, "No wonder this child wouldn’t call her mother. Look at the things she’s done! She must have often mistreated Guoguo."

The Princess Consort regretted leaving Guoguo alone in the room.

"It’s my fault for not managing the Xue Family well, making you worried, Father and Mother." The Princely Heir looked ashamed.

"Enough, don’t talk about that anymore. She’s not a child—why would she need your guidance?" The Princess Consort said, "People should look forward. This matter ends here; it’s not to be mentioned again. Your father and I have agreed on this. We’ll act like she never existed. She can live her wealthy life, and we’ll live our poor life."

The Princely Heir nodded, "I’ll go see Jingjing and Guoguo."

"They’re sleeping in the room. Go ahead and take a look." The Princess Consort pointed towards the bedroom.

The Princely Heir entered the room, and on the small bed inside, one child slept on each side.

At this hour, the sky was just getting light, and the two children were sleeping soundly.

The Princely Heir touched Li Jing’s small head and caressed Guoguo’s face.

Guoguo was a light sleeper; as soon as the Princely Heir’s hand touched her face, she opened her eyes. She sweetly smiled at the Princely Heir, revealing four small white teeth, "Dad."

Her lower teeth had grown while they were in the Capital. This month, it was unclear when two upper teeth had grown in.

The Princely Heir felt a deep sense of guilt in his heart, realizing he hadn’t shown enough concern for his daughter.

"Good girl, Guoguo." The Princely Heir brushed Guoguo’s hair from her forehead.

Guoguo, like her sisters, was born with a head full of black hair.

Guoguo reached out to grab the Princely Heir’s finger, still smiling and repeating, "Dad, Dad."

The Princely Heir smiled, "Want to get up? Alright, alright, Dad will dress you."

Guoguo was delighted, turning over on the small bed and sitting up.

Her clumsy movements made the Princely Heir smile involuntarily.

Guoguo was even more cheerful, clapping her small hands and constantly calling for Dad.

The Princely Heir shook out Guoguo’s little dress and helped her put it on.

Guoguo stayed quiet, allowing the Princely Heir to lift her arms and legs, having her sit or stand as needed, showing not a hint of impatience.

Her little dress also had pink butterfly ribbons on it.

After the Princely Heir tied them, Guoguo admired them for a moment before looking up and giving him a sweet smile.

So quiet and well-behaved, it made one’s heart ache.

The Princely Heir remembered that his son, Li Jing, was never this well-behaved when he was young.

When Li Jing was Guoguo’s age, he would crawl all over the bed as soon as he opened his eyes.

Changing a diaper required three people to hold down his arms and legs, while another changed him.

Dressing him was like catching a suspect.

The nanny would go to get clothes, and as soon as she turned around, Li Jing would have disappeared.

He would crawl under the bed to silently play or crawl into a cabinet to lie down.

It took two nannies to subdue him.

One holds his arms and legs down, another dresses him.

Sometimes, after finally dressing him, he takes his clothes off within moments.

In the icy winter, he would crawl around everywhere, bare-bottomed.

It can really make people furious.

These things never happened with Guoguo.

"Come, let’s go outside and play." The Princely Heir carried Guoguo to the outer room.

Princess Consort Luling extended her hands to take Guoguo, smiling, "Guoguo looks so lovely today."

Guoguo seemed to understand the compliment, revealing her little white teeth and smiling again.

"Look, the child is doing well, stop worrying unnecessarily, focus on your tasks." Princess Consort Luling comforted the Princely Heir.

Causing their parents to worry, how could the Princely Heir not pull himself together? "Yes, Mother."

The Second Young Master and Second Princess, as usual, got up early, packing their wares to go to the market. The Great Princess knew the Second Princess’s business was doing well, so she went along to help.

The Second Princess was generous, whoever helped would share in the profits.

This was much easier than digging for herbal medicine, and the Great Princess was quite willing to help.

Li Yuzhu didn’t go out; she was worried about the Princely Heir.

After arranging the family’s breakfast, Li Yuzhu asked the Princely Heir about today’s plan for the fields.

As long as people are busy, they won’t overthink.

The Princely Heir said, "The dry field has been plowed, all the seedlings have been transplanted, I also bought some grain seeds from the village and scattered them all, so there’s no need to manage the dry fields further. Next, I am planning to sort out the marshland opposite our home, create several acres of paddy fields, and in the future, our family’s grain can be completely self-sufficient."

This was the suggestion Li Yuzhu initially gave to the family.

Back when the house was chosen here, she had mentioned turning barren land into vegetable and dry cropland, and converting marshland into fish ponds and paddy fields.

That marshland, Li Xing’an and the Second Young Master only dug a few dozen square feet of small ponds for netting wild fish and shrimp, and didn’t fully develop it.

Now that the Princely Heir spoke of his plan, Li Yuzhu smiled and said, "That’s a great idea. Today, your third brother is also home; you two brothers should discuss the specifics."

The Princely Heir nodded, "I’ll go to talk to Old Third about this."

Li Yuzhu smiled, "Go ahead, Big Brother."

The Princely Heir went to find Old Third Li Xing’an.

Li Yuzhu organized the recently dug up herbal medicine.

She thought, the Second Princess’s shop is quite large, should she split out half to sell her medicine pills?

She worried that being young, no one would come to buy if she set up a stall.

People prefer to hire older doctors, the older they are, the more popular they become.

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Building a reputation was likely very difficult.

In short, this matter was quite troubling.

Suddenly, the bell at the kitchen door rang; someone had arrived.

Li Yuzhu collected her thoughts and ran to the house door to open it.

A mule cart was parked at the door, and Miss Chai stood outside, beaming.

"Oh? Miss Chai is here? Please come in." Li Yuzhu invited her in.

Miss Chai smiled and said, "I think it’s best if we don’t call each other by our family names anymore, it feels too formal, let’s just use our names. You call me E Ying, I’ll call you Yuzhu."

Li Yuzhu smiled, "Alright."

Miss Chai waved to her own driver, "Quickly bring the things inside."

"You’re just here to play, why bring things?" Li Yuzhu laughed, looking towards the mule cart.

She saw the driver unload several embroidered boxes, also bringing down two large wine jars.

"These boxes of snacks are for you sisters and Jingjing, this little dress is something I made for Guoguo, these dried red dates are for Aunt, they’re from the jujube tree behind my house; although they’re last year’s dates, they’ve kept well. These two jars of wine are for Uncle and your brothers." Miss Chai laughed, "This wine is osmanthus rice brew produced locally, quite famous, and was even chosen as a tribute."

She took an embroidered box from the driver’s hand, opening it to reveal a lotus pink little girl’s dress.

"Does Guoguo color? I saw it on some family’s little girl, and she looked great in this kind of dress, so I bought this fabric to make one." She said, somewhat embarrassedly laughing, "I’m not great at sewing, please don’t mock me."

"How could I? It’s beautiful." Li Yuzhu took the dress and looked at it, "This is top-grade Su Jin, Guoguo will surely love it."

Miss Chai pursed her lips, then pulled Li Yuzhu aside, whispering, "Actually, I came to ask Aunt for a favor."

Li Yuzhu laughed, "You can speak plainly; my mother likes you very much, she’ll be happy to help."

"My brother wants to take me to the county for an arranged marriage meeting, I don’t want to go, but I couldn’t find anyone to help, so I came to ask Aunt." Miss Chai sighed, "I’ve just recovered from illness for only a few days, can I really go out for matchmaking? Isn’t this just inviting humiliation? But my brother won’t listen, insisting on taking me."