I’m the Farmgirl You Can’t Mess With
Chapter 1055 - Chapter 1055 Preparation

Chapter 1055: Preparation Chapter 1055: Preparation Editor: Atlas Studios The older the children were, the more trouble they caused.

Whenever they were at home, there was never a moment of peace.

Things were only quieter when they were away at school.

Hence, she didn’t dare to let them take leave and come back.

Seeing that Mu Yangling was no longer lonely, Qi Haoran was satisfied.

He stood up and said, “Go and fetch our little girl and Little Leopard back.

We’ll set off for the capital in two months and Little Madam Xia still has a lot of things to pack.” As their older brothers were away at school, the twins could only follow the four-year-old Little Fu around.

So, they spent half the day playing in the Fan Residence next door.

Fan Zijin had been in office in Guangzhou for five years and had done well in the assessment.

As such, he had just been promoted to be the Left Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and from a Grade 4 magistrate to a Grade 3A Assistant Minister.

Even if a regional official was transferred back to the capital while their ranks remained unchanged, it was already considered a huge promotion.

Thus, it could be said to be a huge promotion Even though Fan Zijin was promoted two grades at once from Grade 4 to Grade 3A, no one dared to object.

Because of him, sea trade had been developing vigorously, and the agriculture and fishing industry in Guangdong had also developed rapidly.

From the taxes collected by Guangdong every year, it was obvious that he would definitely be promoted.

However, because of his status, the higher-ups did not dare to snatch his credit, and he was given every bit of credit that he earned.

Fan Zijin was going to be transferred back, so Prince Rong naturally wouldn’t stay in Guangzhou anymore.

Back then, he had turned down the role of the marshal of the army and the commander of the Forbidden Troops, instead coming to this remote village to be a navy general all because of the Duke of Peaceful State.

Now that the pirates had been eliminated and the navy was strong, it was meaningless for him to stay here any longer.

More importantly, due to the elevated chaos in Great Jin, the generals in the imperial court were restless and yearned to attack Great Jin.

Prince Rong had to return to the capital no matter what.

Hence, with a single edict from the Emperor, Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin would soon return to the capital.

Qi Haoran had already handed over the matters in the navy government office to Zhou Zhou and Assistant Commander Wang, so the handover was very easy.

However, Fan Zijin had to wait for his successor, the new magistrate of Guangdong, to come and hand over some important matters.

Hence, he could only set off in two months.

This time, the two families did not want to leave separately, so they packed their things at the same time.

However, Mu Yangling was used to delegating such tasks.

After handing the matter to Spring and Rain, she pondered about the girls’ school’s matters in the small study room.

It was Qi Haoran who reminded her that Nanny Xia from the Fan Residence had been in poor health recently.

Due to this, Little Madam Xia had to attend to all matters and look after the three children herself.

She must be very busy.

After all, Little Madam Xia was the same as Mu Yangling.

She was also used to delegating tasks to the servants.

Now that she had to take over the family matters all of a sudden, she probably was not used to it.

Mu Yangling quickly called Winter over.

“Let’s go over and see if there’s anything we can help her with.” Mu Yangling was right.

Little Madam Xia was indeed so busy that her head was spinning.

Although she had been managing the family matters all these years, it hadn’t been difficult with Nanny Xia’s help.

However, now that Nanny Xia was suddenly sick, she immediately felt a heavy burden on her shoulders.

With the three children running around the house, bumping into her from time to time, it made her feel even more dizzy.

However, she had always been gentle and soft.

She was magnanimous to her servants, let alone to the three children.

When Mu Yangling arrived, Little Leopard was rushing into Little Madam Xia’s arms like a gust of wind.

Seeing this, Mu Yangling quickly grabbed the back of his collar and picked him up.

Still in a daze, Little Leopard subconsciously reached out and hugged his mother’s hand.

Hanging in the air, he started kicking his legs.

Finding it quite fun, he simply hung on his mother’s arm and started swinging.

The corners of Mu Yangling’s lips twitched.

She placed him on the ground and patted his butt.

“Stop fooling around.

Your aunt is busy with things.

Go to the garden to play with your older brother and younger sister.” Just then, Little Fu brought Baozhu over and held Little Leopard’s hand.

“Brother, let’s go to the garden to pick flowers for Sister.” When Little Leopard heard that they were going to the garden to play, he ran to the front first.

From time to time, he would turn around and wave at the two of them, urging them to hurry up.

Little Fu held Baozhu’s hand and ran up to chase after him.

A group of servants and servant girls followed behind.

Seeing that they had left, Little Madam Xia heaved a sigh of relief and sighed at Mu Yangling.

“I’ve only been taking care of the three of them for half a month and I already feel extremely tired.

How do you make the kids so obedient when they’re with you?” The children of the two families were mainly taught by Mu Yangling, so other than school, the Qi Residence was the place where the children hung out the most.

As soon as the five children returned from school, Mu Yangling gathered eight children at once.

Even with just one sentence from each of them, one’s ears would go numb.

Only Mu Yangling had the ability to make them quiet down and talk or play quietly, but even so, it was noisy enough.

Mu Yangling joked, “That’s because they know that they’ll be beaten up if they anger me.

If you’re a little fiercer, they’ll definitely listen to you.

If you think there are enough children now, there will only be more when we return to the capital.

Little Treasure has already written to Little Bear and the others to discuss it.

When we return to the capital, they’re going to the West Mountain to hunt together.

Excluding the fifth and sixth princes who are too young, there’s already 11 of them, enough to form a class.” At the mention of the prince, Little Madam Xia hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice, “Is it a good idea for us to be so close to the princes?” Mu Yangling said nonchalantly, “The Second Prince is being raised in our house.

It’s not a big deal.

They’re cousins, so there’s no need to care about that.” Little Madam Xia and Mu Yangling had long become best friends, so she confided in Mu Yangling some things that she couldn’t say to Fan Zijin.

She leaned close to Mu Yangling’s ear and whispered, “There’s the thing about fighting for the throne, right?

I’m just afraid that there’ll be entanglement in the future if they get too close.” Little Madam Xia felt that the royal family situation she was seeing now was very different from what she had been taught in the past.

In the past, she had always heard that kinship between father-and-son and brothers didn’t exist in the royal family.

In the fight for the throne, blood flowed like a river and sacrifices of lives were inevitable.

As subjects, they only had to be loyal to the Emperor.

Unless necessary, one mustn’t get involved in the competition for the throne.

When the Second Prince stayed in Guangzhou, Little Madam Xia had wanted to remind Mu Yangling, but she had found it hard to broach the topic.

Now that they were talking about the Second Prince, Little Madam Xia couldn’t help but mention it.

Mu Yangling didn’t reprimand Little Madam Xia.

Instead, she lowered her voice and said, “If it were any other prince, we should definitely avoid this.

However, I don’t think there’s a need to do so with Little Treasure.” Mu Yangling sighed and said, “I watched Little Treasure grow up and I know His Majesty’s character.

I’m confident that they won’t kill each other.

If that day really comes, Haoran’s heart will definitely ache.

Even if he knows that he will be crushed, he will definitely stop the killing from happening.

In that case, why don’t we get involved from the beginning?” What Mu Yangling did not say was that given Zijin and Haoran’s relationship, if Haoran got involved, Zijin would definitely jump in as well despite knowing that it was a trap.

Neither of their families would be able to escape.

Perhaps it was also because of this that the two cousins had never stopped Mu Yangling from writing to the princes about history and various principles of life through the messenger pigeon.

There were some things that the teachers of the princes could not say explicitly.

And if their Royal Father said it, they would think too much.

However, when told via their aunt, the young princes would only treat it as a story and listen to reason.