The eldest sister was reborn and the younger sister traveled through time. I just want to survive.

"Miss, if you really want to try, you can try. After all, Master Qing and Miss Mingxin are old enough to start education, and their backgrounds are special, so it's not good to delay them." Yin Xia changed the subject, "Miss, why did you suddenly want to start education for these children early?"

Yan Muxi curled her lips and said, "I just think they are having too much fun playing every day, so I want to find something for them to do."

Yin Xia: “…”

My young lady must have so much free time that she wants to make things difficult for the little kid.

Yan Muxi was indeed quite free. Qiuzhu was in charge of the workshop and the dock, and Yinxia was in charge of the mansion. On the third day after Dongyu returned to the island, he went back to the island barracks to train the little dark guards. She was the only one who had nothing to do. After being busy for a long time, she suddenly had some free time. She was not used to it.

However, after only a few days of adapting, Yan Muxi let himself go and adapted to the life of a parasite.

I sleep until I wake up naturally every day, eat whatever I want, and occasionally take the little ones and dogs to play in the sea or climb the mountains. My life is as comfortable as it can be.

The enlightenment plan did not succeed after all. Qingger and Anan were too lively and could not sit still. Mingxin adapted to the life on the island and her original lively personality came out. She was not a quiet and bookish person either. In the end, Kangkang was the only obedient baby who could sit still.

Because of the black poison she took during pregnancy, Kang Kang's skin color has not yet returned to normal. Yan Muxi loves her son the most and is reluctant to let him use his brain at such a young age. Therefore, the baby died in the womb before the enlightenment plan officially started.

Happy and pleasant times always pass by especially quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year. Yan Muxi's pleasant and good mood came to an abrupt end because of Minghui's arrival.

On the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, Minghui, who had safely sent Yan Muyun back to the northern border, returned to Hua Island and brought news from outside.

Not long after retaking Yancheng, Gu Yunting and Yu Wantai led their troops northward. In just half a year, they had captured three cities in North Vietnam in succession.

The imperial court issued two decrees, ordering Gu Yunting to lead the reinforcements back to the capital to accept the imperial reward. However, both imperial decrees were sent back to Luodu intact.

King Rong died of illness a month ago. On the eighth day after King Rong was buried in the royal tomb, Yu Wantai proclaimed himself King Dingbei in the northwest, which was tantamount to open rebellion against the court.

The imperial court issued a notice angrily denouncing Yu Wantai, Gu Yunting and Wu Dagui as traitors and rebels, and would send troops to attack and punish them soon.

The Northwest quickly issued a counterattack announcement, making public several imperial edicts issued by Emperor Yuanjing, and claiming that the court had not supplied food and military supplies to the Dingbei Army for a year, nor had it allocated money to help the disaster-stricken people in the Northwest.

The imperial court abandoned the lives of the Dingbei Army and the people of the Northwest and ignored them. Prince Rong's son Yu Wantai proclaimed himself king to save the Northwest Army and people from danger and to uphold justice.

Although Prince Rong had given up his military power for more than 20 years, his prestige in the northwest had not completely disappeared. Therefore, Yu Wantai's self-proclaimed king in Dafeng did not cause much turmoil. Emperor Yuanjing was extremely incompetent and had lost the support of the people. It seemed abnormal that the world was not in chaos now.

Compared to the news that Yu Wantai proclaimed himself king, Yan Muxi was more saddened by the death of the old King Rong.

As a family member for nearly three years, old Prince Rong had treated her with the love and care of an elder, and had talked to her like a close friend regardless of age difference. Now, when she suddenly heard that he was gone, it was impossible not to feel sad.

Not wanting Minghui to worry, she suppressed her sadness and asked about something else, "Is the old lady of the Yan family still alive?"

"Alive, but just holding on to his breath, it's no different from being dead." Minghui hesitated for a moment before continuing, "There's something I didn't want to tell you, but it's not appropriate to hide it from you... You and your mother are in trouble."

"Something happened?" Yan Muxi shouted in surprise, then quickly lowered her voice, "What happened to my mother? Does Grandpa know?"

Minghui sighed deeply, "Half a month ago, I passed by Luodu and happened to run into the prince's wedding. I wanted to take the opportunity to visit your mother, so I went to the Yan Mansion to have a wedding banquet. Your mother fainted for no reason at the wedding banquet. I thought it was a sudden emergency, but I didn't expect that your mother was actually poisoned by a rare chronic internal poisoning. She has been poisoned for a year."

"What kind of poison has my mother been poisoned by? Can't Aunt Ming cure it?" Yan Muxi asked anxiously.

Minghui shook her head. "No, even if I could make an antidote, your mother has already been poisoned, and I can't wait too long."

Yan Muxi sensed something was wrong. Aunt Ming and A'niang were as close as sisters. If A'niang's life was in danger, Aunt Ming would never abandon her and return to Huadao.

"Then is my mother's life in danger?"

"Not yet. Man'er was poisoned by a chronic poison from the Western Regions. She needs to take the antidote regularly to save her life. Your father has the antidote and said he can handle it without my intervention. But I think something is wrong. Man'er is just a woman in the back house. Who wants to poison her? What's the purpose?"

Minghui looked at Yan Muxi and saw that she was frowning and silent. She then told him her plan, "I want to go back to Luodu after the New Year and think carefully about the poison in your mother's body. Maybe I can make an antidote."

Yan Muxi was silent for a long time, and the sorrow in his heart turned into a sigh, "Ah~ Aunt Ming has worked so hard. For me and my mother, you have no time to rest and worry... Please keep my mother's poisoning a secret, and don't let my grandfather know."

Seeing her face turn pale in an instant, Minghui advised distressedly, "We are all family, there is no need to be so polite. Besides, I am afraid that the old man cannot hide the fact that your mother was poisoned. Your grandfather has placed people next to your mother, and he may have known about it by now."

"No matter whether Grandpa knows about it or not, just assume that he doesn't know. Let's celebrate the New Year with great joy first, and then make plans later!" Yan Muxi closed his eyes weakly, and opened them again after a few breaths.

It is easy to tell that the person who poisoned A'niang was targeting either Yan Yongchen or her.

But no matter who she was targeting, she couldn't escape the connection. Would Yan Yongchen back down and compromise because of his feelings for A Niang? Obviously not.

How could a person who is unscrupulous and only cares about revenge be held back by love?

But she couldn't just watch her mother die. Even if she could pretend to be deaf and dumb and act as if nothing happened, her grandfather couldn't just turn a blind eye.

Where there is weakness there will be ties, and she can't escape.

With two more children in the mansion, this year's New Year's Festival is more lively than in previous years, and the mansion is filled with children's laughter and joy.

Yan Muxi used to feel it was noisy sometimes, but now she knows that peace and quiet are rare, and she feels that the playful sounds she hears are more pleasant than the sounds of nature.

On New Year's Eve, when several children heard Dongyu say that they wanted to stay up all night to welcome the New Year, they also clamored to stay up all night too.

As a result, before the hour of Hai, they all began to doze off like chicks pecking at rice.

"Hey! The Nian beast is coming~" Dongyu suddenly let out a strange cry, and the little ones sitting in a row on the benches shivered at the same time, and most of the sleepyheads were scared away.