Traveled through time and became the darling of the whole family

In the following days, everyone was proceeding step by step. Ye Ziyu's newly opened shop was almost finished, and Lin Yun's pens were also almost made. Although they were still not as good as modern pens, they were still passable. When Lin Yun saw the set of pen and eraser, he was very excited and clamored to take one back. Ye Ziyu had no choice but to give one to him.

There were still some clothes left in Ye Jiaxuan's clothing store, so Ye Ziyu did not let Ye Jiaxuan continue preparing. She asked Ye Jiaxuan to give the clothing-making methods and people to Ye Quanyong to assist him in making clothes for the soldiers, and to divide the profits to subsidize military use as agreed before.

Under the guidance of Ye Ziyu, Ye Qingyin and Ling Bingqing can now slide freely on the ice. Liu Zhizhi tried to learn it several times, but because her sense of balance is so poor, she still needs someone to support her before she can slide.

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"Ayu, look, I brought you another list." Ling Bingqing came over with a few slips of paper. The weather was good these days, so Ye Ziyu and Ye Qingyin asked the maids to put the things out in the sun, and they also built a small shed in the yard.

Ye Ziyu took the paper from Ling Bingqing and flipped through it. "Didn't I tell Madam Ling to tell the other ladies to go to Qingshui Tea House to place their orders?" Ever since Madam Ling hosted a banquet last time, the ladies who attended the banquet thought the pastries were delicious after tasting them, and they all asked which shop they bought them from. At first, Madam Ling took the order first, but as more and more people came, Ye Ziyu asked Ling Bingqing to tell Madam Ling that next time they could tell the other ladies to go to Qingshui Tea House to place their orders so as not to disturb her.

"I told you, but my mother never gets tired of it. She can't sit still. When someone comes to place an order, she'll chat with them." Ling Bingqing sat down and took a sip of tea. "Hey, what are you guys playing? It doesn't look like Go."

"This is Gobang. Ayu taught me. It's quite fun." Ye Qingyin replied.

"Sister, please teach Aqing, and then you guys can play first. I'll go take care of these orders." Ye Ziyu stood up and made way.

Ling Bingqing sat down, and then Ye Qingyin explained the rules of the game of Go to Ling Bingqing, and the two began to play against each other.

"Ayin, are you all going to the palace banquet tomorrow?" Ling Bingqing asked.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, tomorrow will be New Year’s Eve.

"Let's go. In the past, I would participate with Dad and my brothers. This year, Mom and Ayu will also go." Ye Qingyin said while thinking.

"In that case, I'll go too." Ling Bingqing said.

"You never went before?" Ye Qingyin asked in surprise. Officials must attend the palace banquet, and they also need to bring their families. Generally, all family members must attend, unless they are not in good health, such as Jiang Xu in the past few years, then they can take leave and not attend. But she didn't expect Ling Bingqing to never attend. After all, they were not familiar with each other before. She just sat in her seat when she went, and didn't pay attention to others.

"Yes, banquets are so boring. We just watch the show and we can't eat first. We have to wait for the emperor to eat first. We drink and talk all the time and we can't even eat enough."

"But, your father and your mother..."

"They scold me every year, but I do it every year. Anyway, they can't find me if I run away. I will go home after they go to the party."

"What about the Emperor?"

"You've been going to banquets for so many years, but didn't you notice that I didn't go?" Ling Bingqing asked back.

Ye Qingyin nodded.

"So, the emperor may or may not have discovered it, but he didn't explain it. The people the emperor really wanted to gather at the palace banquet were not us juniors, but his ministers."

"You have a point. I just sit there every year." Ye Qingyin made a move, "You lose."

"Oops, while I was chatting with you, I didn't notice that you already have four. Come on, come on." Ling Bingqing collected the fruit.

Ye Qingyin smiled and helped collect the pieces, "You are already very good. You can play so many with me in your first hand. When I first learned from Ayu, Ayu won in just a few moves."

"Really? I'm so awesome. I'm going to play with Ayu later. Where is Ayu? Why is it taking so long?"

"I'm keeping accounts. Come on." Ye Qingyin made a gesture of invitation.

Ling Bingqing started to make the first move, "Ayu is so amazing, he can even keep accounts?"

Hearing this, Ye Qingyin raised her eyes and looked at Ling Bingqing. Ling Bingqing felt a little embarrassed being stared at, "What's wrong?"

"Aqing doesn't know how to keep accounts?" Ye Qingyin asked.

"I... I haven't learned it well." Ling Bingqing said embarrassedly. She had never been interested in things like bookkeeping and housework since she was a child. When Tao Ling sent her to school, she tried every way to skip classes, and if she couldn't skip, she would sleep in class, so she didn't know any of these.

"Hehe, it's okay. It's not too late to learn now. Ayu also started learning recently, but Ayu is really smart. She learned it after only one teaching." Ye Qingyin looked proud.

"I know, I know. Ayu is the smartest. She thinks a lot, learns quickly, and is pretty too." Ling Bingqing agreed.

"That's not."

Ling Bingqing shook her head. Ye Qingyin was simply a complete sister-con. She liked everything about her sister and couldn't stand hearing anything that her sister didn't like. Some time ago, a young lady on the street said something bad about Ye Ziyu out of jealousy. Ye Qingyin responded to the girl without saying a word. The girl was thin-skinned and ran away crying after hearing what Ye Qingyin said. Since then, Ling Bingqing and Liu Zhizhi truly realized how much Ye Qingyin loved Ye Ziyu.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Get down quickly." Ye Qingyin urged.

After Ye Ziyu finished her work, she came out and looked at Ye Qingyin with a smug look on her face, while Ling Bingqing had a worried look on her face and walked towards them, "What's going on?"

"Ayu, I'm always just a little bit away from beating Ayin, just that little bit." Ling Bingqing pinched her two fingers together.

"Ayu, I'm awesome, right?" Ever since Ye Qingyin learned how to play Go, she lost to Ye Ziyu every time she played with her, which dealt a serious blow to her self-confidence. So whenever she had free time, she would drag Ye Ziyu to play, thinking that she must win at all costs.

Today was like usual, she lost all afternoon, but she didn't expect that after Ling Bingqing came, she kept winning. She felt that her skills had improved a lot.

Ye Ziyu smiled, "You just learned it today, it's amazing that you can play like this." Ye Ziyu walked closer and saw their chess pieces. Ling Bingqing was blocking Ye Qingyin at every step.

"Yeah, yeah, I just told Aqing that she is much better than I was on the first day."

“But why do I always lose?”

"This can only be understood but not explained." Ye Ziyu pretended to be mysterious. How could she win after she taught you all the ways to win? "I'm going to go find Zhizhi. Do you want to continue playing chess together?"

"Play chess."

"I'll go with you."

The two said in unison.

"Ayu is going to find Zhizhi, why are you following her? Come on and continue playing chess with me. I must win today."

"I haven't seen Zhizhi for a long time. I'll go with Ayu. We'll go another day."

"What do you mean it's been a long time? We just met the day before yesterday." Before Ling Bingqing could finish her words, Ye Qingyin had already stood up and pulled Ye Ziyu away. Ling Bingqing gave up and followed them.