Chapter 1146: Chapter 969, Amusent Park
Yan Yile’s situation did not cause much upheaval for Daohua and Yan Wenxiu in faraway Xiliang, but in Lanwuwei, Yan Yihuan was quite worried. However, now that she was soone else’s wife, there was little she could do about her younger sister’s divorce.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, Daohua started to get busy with her son’s third birthday celebration.
The little guy’s birthday wasn’t celebrated in a grand manner, it was just inviting so close friends over to gather.
As her son grew older and beca more active, Daohua racked her brains to draw up modern children’s playground equipnt and gave the drawings to the craftsn in the residence to see if they could make them.
When the craftsn confird that they could make a wooden combined slide, Daohua imdiately marked off a courtyard to build the amusent park.
Swimming pool, sand area, combined slide, trampoline, seesaw, climbing wall, climbing net, and so on, as long as they could be made and could be made safely, Daohua arranged for them all.
On May 11, Daozi woke up early in the morning and before he even washed up, he was pulling Daohua, clamoring to go to the amusent park.
Daozi knew his mother was building the amusent park for him, and he had been looking forward to it. Unfortunately, his mother said that the amusent park was his third birthday gift and he had to be three years old to enter.
“Mom, let’s go to the amusent park.”
Daohua took the handkerchief from the maid’s hand to wipe her son’s face: “My ancestor, your grandmother and Grandpa Chu are all waiting for you to eat longevity noodles. Do you want them to wait hungry?”
Daozi hesitated for a mont and negotiated with Daohua: “Then let’s hurry up and eat noodles, and go to the amusent park right after.”
Daohua smiled and nodded: “Okay.”
After agreeing with his mother, Daozi went to pull Xiao Yeyang: “Daddy, hurry up, you’re dragging your feet too much.”
Xiao Yeyang, who was rinsing his mouth, heard this and responded, not too pleased: “I didn’t complain about you dragging your feet, but you are complaining about .”
Daozi hugged Xiao Yeyang’s legs: “Daddy, hurry up, we can’t let the ancestors wait, they’ll get hungry.”
Xiao Yeyang couldn’t help but laugh: “You little rascal, now you even know how to find excuses for yourself.”
After Daohua and Xiao Yeyang got ready, Daozi eagerly pulled the two of them toward the Gujian Courtyard.
“Our Daozi is three years old!”
Gu Jian, Guo Ruoi, and Chu Lang all smiled and gave Daozi presents, which he happily accepted and then handed them to the maid behind him, urging everyone to hurry up and eat noodles.
After breakfast, Daozi pulled Daohua to go to the amusent park.
Building the amusent park was not a low-key affair; marking off the courtyard and hiring craftsn, the hamring went on for months, so even Gu Jian and others were curious.
Thus, everyone followed Daohua and her son to check out the amusent park.
“Wow~”
Seeing the colorful amusent park, Daozi was full of wonder, pulling Daohua and jumping around, the joy overflowing.
Even Xiao Yeyang and the other adults, seeing these unfamiliar amusent facilities, were full of surprise and curiosity.
Daohua led her son, introducing each one.
“Mom, what is this?”
“This is a slide.”
With each introduction, Daohua took her son to play on it once.
Daozi had strong mimicking skills; he learned many things after playing just once.
Guo Ruoi stood in front of the climbing wall, sowhat worried: “Could it be unsafe?”
Daohua smiled and said: “This climbing wall is made quite low, and the incline is also very slight. With the maids and old won watching, it’s fine. When Daozi grows up a bit, we can make the climbing wall higher and the incline steeper.”
Xiao Yeyang also followed by saying, “Boys are not so delicate; they need to move around more.”
Seeing that Guo Ruoi was still worried, Chu Lang smiled and said, “Alright, stop worrying. The toys that Yan girl made are all for Daozi to play with. Compared to martial arts training, this is much more relaxed.”
“Before martial arts training, letting Daozi exercise his body is good too.”
While the two were speaking, Daozi was already playing on the seesaw with the nanny’s daughter, Qiao.
Seeing her son happy, Daohua smiled and said, “In the future, Daozi can also invite his friends to co over and play at our house.”
Daozi quickly nodded, “Sure, sure.”
Since the amusent park was built, Daozi stopped chasing ducks and started bringing Qiao to the park to play every day.
Xiao Yeyang noticed that his son had few playmates, so after discussing it with Daohua, he selected four little boys from the children of the servants to accompany him.
With companions to play with, Daozi beca even happier.
Listening to his son’s loud laughter, Xiao Yeyang murmured, “Let this rascal play for another year. When he turns four, it’s ti for him to start studying and training in martial arts.”
Hearing this, Daohua quietly sympathized with her son, as being the Little Prince isn’t easy.
…
In the blink of an eye, it was June.
At the end of June, Han Xinran ca to the Prince Residence again to find Daohua: “Fourth Sister got a divorce!”
Daohua wasn’t very surprised. Although Yan Yile is very self-centered, she isn’t stupid. The fact that Feng Shuo could beat her until she miscarried shows his lack of affection for her.
Although a divorce carries a bad reputation, it’s still better than staying with the Feng Family.
With unloving in-laws and a heartless husband, staying in the Feng Family, even if they didn’t dare to go too far out of respect for the Yan Family, her life would still be miserable.
Daohua said, “Since it’s Yile’s own choice, we should just respect it.”
Han Xinran nodded, paused, and then added, “The divorce wasn’t very smooth. The Feng Family didn’t want to split.”
Daohua wasn’t surprised by this either.
No matter what, even though the Yan Family’s influence is diminishing, it is still connected to the peaceful Prince Residence. She holds the title of Princess Consort, and her brothers are all doing well; no one would want to lose this connection.
Han Xinran continued, “But the people from the Feng Family clearly didn’t expect that Fourth Sister was so determined to leave. Feng Shuo treating his legal wife like that for a concubine already indicated that he was favoring the concubine over the wife.”
“The Feng Family prides itself on being a family of principles and did not want to make this public. Moreover, after our father personally spoke with Master Feng once, Fourth Sister was then able to successfully obtain the divorce papers.”
Saying this, she glanced at Daohua.
“Although both our families have kept it quiet, there’s still quite a bit of gossip around the capital.”
“The Feng Family has a good public reputation and since Fourth Sister married up, the rumors…mostly speak ill of Fourth Sister.”
The reputation of the Yan Family was ultimately impacted.
Daohua didn’t say much. In this era, getting a divorce was still considered very radical. If not for the support of the main branch of the Yan Family, Yan Yile would have nearly no chance of getting a divorce, nor the courage to do so.
Han Xinran said, “I hope these rumors dissipate soon. Fourth Sister is still young, and once she recuperates, she can still find another respectable family to marry into.”
Daohua didn’t want to continue this topic and instead asked, “Last year, didn’t Second Brother place third in the imperial examination and start working at the Imperial College?”
Han Xinran nodded, “Speaking of which, it was the Feng Family who found the connections for him. Now that Yile and Feng Shuo are divorced, it’s sowhat awkward for my second younger brother to stay at the Imperial College.”
Daohua: “…Indeed.”
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