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In March, the Qingbo River sparkles, and the willow trees on both sides sway in the wind, their reflections in the water contrasting with the blue sky and white clouds in the water.

There is a section of road from Tongyifang to Changxing Lane that runs along the bank of Qingbo River.

Xie Zhichan and Pei Yi have been married for three days, and today is the day they return to their parents' home.

When Xie Zhichan heard the birds singing outside, she lifted the curtain and looked inside, wanting to see what the difference was between the swallows of the Jin Dynasty and the swallows she had seen in her previous life.

The sound of horse hooves startled the swallows on the willow branches. They flew over the treetops, skimmed across the water, and flew to the opposite shore.

How free! This was the ideal that she had not realized in her previous life.

Pei Yi sat in the carriage, looking at the ruby-embellished chrysanthemum with a hundred stamens and green jade on the back of Xie Zhichan's head. He felt inexplicably unhappy and asked her, "What are you looking at, Princess?"

Xie Zhichan, who was chasing the flying swallows and imagining freedom, was suddenly brought back to reality by the voice of "Crown Prince's Consort".

She didn't know what Pei Yi was thinking. After the tea ceremony that day and returning to Tingxueju, Xie Zhichan asked Pei Yi to call her Miss Xie when no one was around, but Pei Yi insisted on the title of "Crown Prince's Consort".

Being interrupted from her thoughts, she felt inexplicably unhappy, and without even turning her head, she just said, "Look at the swallows."

Pei Yi saw that she was absent-minded, so he continued to ask, "What's so good about Yan Zi? Why don't you play chess with me, Princess?"

When Xie Zhichan heard about playing chess, he turned around and glared at Pei Yi.

This bastard dares to mention playing chess!

During these three days, Xie Zhichan briefly explained to Pei Yi the treatment principles for his illness. Naturally, she did not tell him shocking terms such as stem cell culture and surgical implantation. She only said that a drug needed to be developed to promote the regrowth and reconnection of his broken spinal nerves. This drug had a key ingredient, and she had asked someone to find it, so he just needed to wait for some time.

Pei Yi was not in a hurry after hearing what Xie Zhichan said, but it was inconvenient for him to go out. Xie Zhichan had to stay by his side to take care of him. The two of them sat in the room, facing each other in silence, and were also bored.

Pei Yi originally invited Xie Zhichan to play chess, but Xie Zhichan refused Pei Yi on the first day. After staying in the study and memorizing several chess books, Xie Zhichan was full of confidence and wanted to play a few games with Pei Yi on the second day. However, the chess books were static, while the chess moves were dynamic. Pei Yi often won seven out of ten games and she won three.

Although Pei Yi said that her chess skills were already great, the problem was that she thought she could be invincible and took the initiative to propose a bet that she would pay the opponent one or two taels of silver for each chess piece she lost.

In just two days, she had lost all the one thousand taels of nursing fees that Pei Yi gave her.

She had to accept the loss, and even after she paid back the money, she couldn't refuse Pei Yi's request to take care of him.

Pei Yi touched his nose. He actually just didn't like the fact that she only left him the back of her head and completely ignored his condition.

He tried to test it out: "How about just playing chess and not gambling?"

Seeing that Xie Zhichan remained indifferent, he took out a small box from the small couch in the carriage.

When he opened the box, he saw a pile of silver bills neatly stacked inside, the top one had a face value of one hundred taels.

Pei Yi patted the banknotes in the box and said with a smile, "Princess, here are 10,000 taels. Aren't you tempted at all?"

Xie Zhichan looked at the 10,000 taels of silver in the box, swallowed his saliva, and suddenly had an idea. He said, "Why don't we play another game?"

Pei Yi knew that this little fox was a money-grubber by nature, and he immediately became interested and asked, "What are you playing?"

Xie Zhichan smiled mysteriously, reached into her sleeve, and with a thought, she took out a deck of cards that she treasured in her office drawer from the space and said, "This game is called Landlord Fight."

After a pause, he raised his eyebrows and said, "New game, do you dare to play it?"

Pei Yi picked up a card with a little golden-haired man on it. He asked Xie Zhichan, "What is this? Where did you get it?"

Xie Zhichan blinked his eyes and said, "This is called playing cards, and it comes from Southeast Asia."

Pei Yi was suspicious and asked, "How come you have things from Nanyang?"

Xie Zhichan blinked again and said, "My maternal grandfather's family was exiled to Lingnan. The merchants there had some trade in goods with Southeast Asia. After they settled down, they would send some gifts to my mother in Beijing every year. This was one of them."

After that, not wanting Pei Yi to ask any more questions, he just said, "Do you want to play or not? If not, forget it."

Pei Yi knew that she was not telling the truth, but since he accepted her contract, he had already accepted that she was a person with secrets. He did not continue to press her and only replied: "Play. But you have to tell me how to play this first?"

So, Xie Zhichan spread the cards on the small table and told Pei Yi the corresponding name of each pattern.

Pei Yi can play Mahjong, and he learned every card of poker very quickly by analogy. Only the rules of Landlord took him some time to learn.

Then Pei Yi and Xie Zhichan started playing landlord game in the carriage.

At the beginning, Pei Yi lost three times in a row, and then he would occasionally win a hand from Xie Zhichan. The silver bills in the box piled up more and more in front of Xie Zhichan. Every time Xie Zhichan shuffled the cards, he would touch a handful of silver bills first, under the pretext of getting some good fortune first.

Pei Yi saw that the corners of her mouth unconsciously rose, her eyes were full of stars, and she looked like a little fox who was too proud of herself. He felt that she was very lively and cute.

Even though the banknotes in the box were getting less and less, he didn't feel sad at all.

So, Danfeng and Xiao Liu'er, who were sitting on the shaft of the carriage, heard confusing shouts from the two masters such as "want it", "no", "can't afford it", "pass", "there is one left" etc.

This shout accompanied them all the way until the carriage arrived at the Duke of Weiguo's Mansion, and it was still circulating in their minds.

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After all, it was the Prince of Yan and the Princess who were returning home, so the Duke of Weiguo brought everyone in the mansion to greet them at the gate early in the morning.

Xie Zhichan happily put the banknotes into his arms, stepped on the small ladder and got off the carriage. Dan Feng then placed a wooden board on top of the small ladder, got on the carriage, and pushed Pei Yi's wheelchair down.

When Xie's mother saw Xie Zhichan, she saw that her face was rosy and she didn't look sad at all. She thought that she must be living well in Prince Yan's Mansion, and she couldn't help but smile with relief.

But when she saw Pei Yi being pushed off the carriage by Dan Feng, the smile on her face disappeared. She showed some sadness and clenched the embroidered handkerchief in her hand.

Duke Wei, Aunt Yang, and Old Madam Xie were all very happy to see Pei Yi, and hurriedly led everyone to make way in the middle.

Duke Wei called Pei Yi and said, "Prince, please come in."

Pei Yi looked at the knee-high threshold of the gate, raised his eyebrows and glanced at Duke Weiguo, sneering: "It seems that Duke Weiguo only says he welcomes me, but he doesn't even want me to enter the threshold of his mansion."

Duke Weiguo felt sweat on his forehead and bowed to apologize, "It was the careless mistake of the housekeeper. I will have the threshold removed after today. You are welcome to come anytime in the future."

When Xie Zhichan saw the Duke of Wei bowing and nodding, he felt that as the first generation Duke of Wei who was a founding hero, he might not be able to hold his coffin down.

This knee-high porch is a characteristic of the door lintels of wealthy families, symbolizing the family status of the nobility. The first generation of Duke Wei spent his entire life in military service to earn such a high threshold, and her stepfather said to tear it down.

Unable to bear it any longer, Xie Zhichan walked to the carriage, took down the wooden board on the ladder, laid it on the doorstep, and said to Pei Yi, "Can we come in now?"

Pei Yi smiled and glanced at Xie Zhichan, and said, "Thank you, Crown Prince Consort. You are considerate of me."

Afterwards, he let Dan Feng push him into the gate of the Duke of Weiguo's Mansion.