Since receiving the pardon order, the Fu family and his party set out from the West Sea day and night, and finally entered Beijing on the 29th. Fu Qingchu had been waiting at the door of Fu's house for a long time. He saw the carriage approaching from a distance, and he went to greet it before it stopped.
"Unworthy daughter Fu Qingchu, please bow down to your mother." Fu Qingchu knelt in front of the car, tears streaming down his face.
Mrs. Chen was helped out of the car. Before she could stand still, she started crying. She hurriedly helped her daughter: "My son, get up quickly."
The mother and daughter shed tears before saying a word, hugging each other and crying. The whole family got out of the car and cried bitterly around Fu Qingchu when they thought about everything that had happened over the past year.
Lu Man couldn't help but be moved when he saw it, and advised: "This is a happy event, don't cry anymore, it's cold outside, please go inside first."
Fu Qingchu stopped crying and helped his mother into the house.
Situ Ce had already arranged for people to clean up the house, and the furnishings at home were as before. Mrs. Chen couldn't help but bring back memories after reading it, and she couldn't help but shed tears.
Fu Qingchu helped his mother sit down and comforted her: "It will be fine in the future. Don't be too sad, mother."
Mrs. Chen held her daughter's hand, choked with sobs, and waited for a while before saying, "Thank you for your hard work."
Touching his mother's rough hands, Fu Qingchu felt a burst of sadness and hurriedly shook his head and said, "My daughter is not working hard."
Accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger. How could Mrs. Chen not know her daughter's hard work? She looked at her daughter with a distressed expression, then turned to Lu Man beside her and said, "Girl, can you stay in Qingchu tonight?"
Lu Man looked at Mrs. Chen who was in tears and Fu Qingchu who looked sad, and said with a smile: "I will go back to the palace and report to Your Majesty."
Hearing this, a smile appeared on Mrs. Chen's face, "I would like to ask the girl to report back to Your Majesty. I will come to the palace tomorrow to express my gratitude."
Lu Man smiled and said yes, and did not want to disturb the Fu family's family reunion, so she said to Fu Qingchu: "Sister, I will go back to the palace tonight to report to Your Majesty."
Fu Qingchu nodded and said yes, sending Lu Man out.
Seeing that the people in the palace were gone, Fu Qingchu's younger sisters and brothers gathered around, hugged Fu Qingchu and cried loudly. Fu Qingchu held one in each hand, crying and saying that it would be good to come back.
"Stop crying, are you hungry on the road? Wash your hands and eat quickly." Fu Qingchu touched his cousin's head and said with a smile.
The little kids' emotions came and went quickly. When they heard that they could eat, they each went to their mothers and said they wanted to eat.
Fu Qingchu looked up and saw his mother just standing with tears in her eyes. He came up to her with a smile and said, "Come on, let's go to dinner together. My daughter still has a lot to say to her mother. She won't have the energy to listen without eating."
Hearing this, Mrs. Chen couldn't help laughing, "Okay."
After dinner, Fu Qingchu helped his mother wash and go to bed. He had just finished washing and got into his mother's quilt. She hugged her mother and sniffed her mother's scent, "My mother smells so good."
Mrs. Chen couldn't help laughing, "Where is the fragrance?"
"It's my mother's unique fragrance that no one else has."
Mrs. Chen smiled and touched her daughter's head, "It's still the same as when she was a child."
She leaned into her mother's arms and said with a smile: "No matter how old she is, she is still my mother's daughter."
Mrs. Chen patted her daughter's back gently, as if she was coaxing her to sleep when she was a child, "Thank you for your hard work this past year."
"The frontier is bitterly cold, and my mother has suffered." Speaking of this, Fu Qingchu couldn't help but feel a little sad, "It's because my daughter is incompetent and can't save her from the sea of suffering as soon as possible."
"What are you talking about?" Mrs. Chen wiped the tears on her face, "My precious daughter is already amazing."
"In the future, our family will never be separated again." She hugged her mother and sounded very aggrieved.
Mrs. Chen smiled and said, "We won't separate."
"I want to be with grandma every day."
Mrs. Chen couldn't help but laugh out loud and nodded her nose, "I accompany my mother every day. Should I not be on duty or not get married?"
"I don't want to accompany my grandma when I'm not on business." Fu Qingchu said with a smile.
Speaking of this, Mrs. Chen couldn't help but be curious, "I heard from the pardon order that you saved His Majesty, but I didn't dare to ask about what happened along the way."
Fu Qingchu thought about it and told Mrs. Chen one by one the cause and effect of the matter, as well as Situ Li's rebellion. After hearing this, Mrs. Chen felt terrified and sighed repeatedly.
"If General Xu hadn't arrived in time, I might not have been able to see you." Mrs. Chen looked at her daughter with a distressed expression.
Fu Qingchu smiled and said indifferently, "It's all over. This kind of thing won't happen again in the future."
Mrs. Chen nodded and sighed: "The human tragedy of fratricide has become commonplace in an imperial family."
"Everyone wants to be the emperor, but there is only one throne, so there will only be fratricide." Fu Qingchu sighed, not daring to think about the future.
"You should be careful when you are around His Majesty. If in the future..." Mrs. Chen thought for a while and did not continue.
"What if it is?" Fu Qingchu asked curiously.
"For my mother's sake, I think that in the future, when the prince seizes the legitimate heir, you must not make the same mistake as our family." Mrs. Chen smiled, "But think about it, how many years will it take for you to leave the palace?"
Hearing this, Fu Qingchu felt a little emotional for a moment. She might not be able to leave the palace in this life. But it was difficult to explain her current identity to her mother, so she had to say: "Yes, how many years will it take? Let's live the present moment first and think about the future later."
She talked to her mother for a long time. Mrs. Chen was so tired from traveling all the way that she fell asleep after a while. She tucked her mother into bed with a smile, and fell asleep while holding her mother in her arms.
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Mrs. Chen originally wanted to go to the palace the next day to thank her, but a decree came from the palace saying that it was not necessary. In addition, he also gave some extra food and asked Li Ping to deliver it himself.
The Fu family knelt down to thank the emperor for his kindness. Li Ping smiled and helped Mrs. Chen to stand up, "Madam has been tired all the way. His Majesty has specially decreed that the family should accompany Mrs. Chen during the New Year."
Hearing this, the whole Fu family was very happy. Fu Qingchu smiled and asked, "How many days have you promised?"
Li Ping was a little embarrassed, "Your Majesty didn't say clearly, three days?"
"Only three days?"
"Oh, my wife, three days is enough. If your Majesty is angry, I will have to ask you to go back tonight." Li Ping said with a smile.
Mrs. Chen smiled and tugged on Fu Qingchu's sleeve, "I would like to ask my father-in-law to thank Your Majesty on my behalf."
Li Ping smiled and said, "Then I won't disturb Sheren and his family during the Chinese New Year. I'll say goodbye."
"Father-in-law, walk slowly."
Li Ping winked at Fu Qingchu, and Fu Qingchu followed him. Li Ping then whispered: "Your Majesty allows Sheren to celebrate the New Year at home, but it's better to go back early. The Queen Mother has recently been talking about asking Your Majesty and the Queen to have a child. It's the New Year." They say they are going to be locked up in one room. What kind of temperament does our Queen have? The two of them will probably only quarrel every day. Sheren should go back early, otherwise the two of them will quarrel like black-eyed chickens."
Hearing this, Fu Qingchu couldn't help laughing, "I'll go back on the second day of the junior high school. You need to persuade both parties. If the queen gets angry and can't be coaxed, neither you nor your majesty can think of anything better."
"Absolutely."
After bidding farewell to Li Ping, Fu Qingchu made New Year's Eve dinner with his family. His cousin Fu Qingran said that he had learned a dish in Xihai and it was very delicious, so he wanted to cook it for Fu Qingchu. The other sisters and brothers also stepped forward to help. Fu Qingchu sat by the fire and watched them busy with a smile.
The family worked hard all afternoon and finally served the New Year's Eve dinner on the table. After experiencing this, the whole family was extremely excited and wished for peace and success in the coming year.
After dinner, Mrs. Chen chatted with her sisters-in-law, while Fu Qingchu and his brothers and sisters set off fireworks at the door.
"Third sister, get out of the way. Fu Bingze has thrown the firecracker at your feet." The little sister Fu Qingning shouted at the top of her lungs. Fu Qingran hurriedly pulled Fu Qingchu to the side and accidentally bumped into someone.
"Sorry, sorry." Fu Qingran apologized hurriedly.
"Is it okay if I'm sorry?"
Fu Qingran wondered where such a stingy person could come from. She looked up and saw Lu Yunzhou looking at her two sisters with a smile on his face. He couldn't help but shout excitedly: "Brother Yunzhou."
Lu Yunzhou smiled and said, "We haven't seen each other for a few years. Qingran has grown into a big girl."
"When did you come back?" Fu Qingran asked with a smile.
"It's earlier than you." Lu Yunzhou smiled and turned to look at Fu Qingchu, "I saw that you were setting off fireworks at the door and it was very lively, so I came over to take a look."
"Let's put it together." Fu Qingchu said with a smile.
Lu Yunzhou took the small firework in her hand and said yes with a smile.
At this time, the lanterns are lit and the sound of firecrackers is heard, bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new. Because of Lu Yunzhou's participation, the little brothers and sisters of the Fu family moved out all the big firecrackers that they dared not set off, covering their ears excitedly and looking at the gorgeous night sky. Fire trees and silver flowers illuminate the night sky.
The fireworks were clearly extinguished, and Fu Qingchu's heart was full of peace and success. Lu Yunzhou looked at her, his eyes full of indescribable emotions.
He thought that Fu Qingchu was lying to him when he said he loved Situ Ce and that he couldn't help it. But when Situ Ce said that she would be his king in the future, he realized how naive he was. All he could give her was love that seemed affectionate but was actually useless, while Situ Ce gave her everything she wanted, even the world.
Situ Ce was hired by the country, so what else could he fight for?
"Brother Yunzhou, why are you unhappy?" Fu Bingze took Lu Yunzhou's hand and raised his head and asked.
Lu Yunzhou held the little baby's hand and smiled: "No."
"You didn't even laugh, the sisters all laughed." Fu Qingning looked at him and said seriously.
"You didn't take out your fireworks, of course I'm not happy." Lu Yunzhou laughed.
When the two little kids heard this, they hurriedly said that they still had some at home, and took Lu Yunzhou to get them.
"You...do you have to finish it tonight?" Fu Qingran shouted after him.
Fu Qingchu couldn't help but smile and called to his cousin: "They can let go as much as they want. It's rare for someone to let them go."
"Oh, Mr. Fu is very wealthy. He can spend as much as he wants."
When Fu Qingchu heard this, he saw Cheng Hehe walking out of the fireworks with a smile, followed by Situ Ce with a smile on his face. She couldn't help but her heart skipped a beat and she asked in disbelief: "Why are you here?"
"Is there anywhere in the world that I can't go to?" Cheng Shehe said with a smile.
"Shouldn't I stay with the Queen Mother on New Year's Eve?" Fu Qingchu looked confused.
"The Queen Mother sent us away. In order to let some people have a good New Year, I, this girl, proposed to go out for a stroll, and by chance I ended up at your house."
What a coincidence.
Fu Qingchu turned to look at Situ Ce, surprised and embarrassed at the same time, "My family must be scared to death."
"Let's take a look and leave." Situ Ce smiled.
How could Fu Qingchu be willing to let him stand in the cold wind for longer? He sighed and said with a smile: "Forget it, I won't be scared to death."
Cheng Hehe couldn't help but laugh, and stepped forward to hold Fu Qingchu's arm, "Are there any more fireworks from just now?"
Situ Ce followed behind, smiling and saying nothing.
