The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 621 - 632: You Must Also Go to the Imperial Palace

Chapter 621: Chapter 632: You Must Also Go to the Imperial Palace

She had grown so big that, apart from the annual Dragon Raising Head Day when she ventured beyond the city walls to offer sacrifices to the Dragon King and Dragon Mother, and the Plum Blossom Festival of the last two years, she had never left Beijing.

She hardly dared to think about going to the countryside.

Gu Youyou said, "Do you want to visit the place where your father spent his childhood?"

"Of course, I do," Lin Qianqing was so excited she could hardly speak, "Have you been there?" After saying this, she hurriedly added, "You lived there when you were a child; you must have been there."

Whether little Youyou had been there or not, Gu Youyou didn’t know, but she hadn’t, merely saying, "I lived in the neighboring village and haven’t been there since I fell ill. I don’t remember much about my childhood. Your uncle has been serving diligently before the Emperor all these years, only to achieve his current status. I heard that since he entered Beijing, he has never gone back. You... we could think of a way, like going home for an ancestral ritual, perhaps?"

With Gu Youyou’s reminder, Lin Qianqing felt like she had an epiphany, saying, "Yes, an ancestral ritual. If my father can’t leave, we can do it on his behalf, can’t we?"

"Right, but we have to include Shenxing."

Lin Qianqing’s face fell, and she said faintly, "Then... let’s talk about it later."

Having been in the Lin Residence for so long, Gu Youyou naturally understood the intricacies involved.

This girl was nice, but she didn’t care much for her half-siblings born from concubines.

This brother didn’t have a concubine mother; he was raised by his aunt. By rights, having grown up together with him, she should have been quite fond of him, but she just wasn’t.

It’s probably because her aunt would complain that Lin Qianqing wasn’t a son who could inherit the Lin Residence, blaming herself for not having a son, and resenting the fact that the grand Lin Family would end up in the hands of a bastard child.

On the surface, the aunt treated Lin Shenxing as if he were her own, but who knew what she really thought.

It was about time, and Lin Qianqing stood up, saying, "You go to the clinic. I need to attend to those two wet nurses. Oh, it’s killing me."

Gu Youyou also stood up, lightly dusting herself off, and they walked outside together.

"The wet nurses are teaching you, so why are you serving them?"

"Isn’t it essentially serving them? They pretend to be the Empress and the imperial concubines, and we, mere mortals, are to practice palace etiquette with them."

Hearing this, Gu Youyou laughed out loud, but upon seeing her stern eyes shooting over, she hastily swallowed the schadenfreude words that were about to escape her lips.

Gu Youyou sympathetically said, "The wet nurses are too unreasonable."

Only then did her facial expression improve a bit, saying, "Indeed, they come every year, every single year..."

"Every year?" I exclaim, "Does palace etiquette change every year?"

"Not that!" Lin Qianqing said somewhat embarrassedly, "It’s just me... I forgot what I learned last year, and I didn’t do well, so my mother fears I’d embarrass myself in the Imperial Palace, and that’s why the wet nurses come to tutor me every year."

Uh...

Well, I have nothing to say to that.

...

With two days remaining until the Empress’s birthday, Gu Youyou was pulled into her aunt’s courtyard, who said, "Don’t go to the clinic these next two days, instead, follow your cousin and learn the palace etiquette."

"Me?" Gu Youyou pointed to the tip of her nose, wondering why I need to learn? Just looking at my cousin’s woeful little eyes told me how troublesome it was to enter the Imperial Palace.

Her aunt looked at her earnestly, her words leaving no room for rebuttal, "Indeed, you must learn because you also have to go."

"... That doesn’t seem too appropriate, does it?" The Imperial Palace was such a grand place where people had the least rights, and Gu Youyou wasn’t ready, nor had she thought about going so soon.

"You must go. That is also what your uncle wishes," the aunt said, her words leaving no room for objection.

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