The Farm Girl's Charismatic Fortune-Chapter 363 - 359 The Mission Arrives

Yan Jiaojiao explained what she intended to embroider.

"You have to embroider so much?"

Yan Jiaojiao, "The wedding garments for your grand marriage will be prepared by the palace, but you should make some of your own intimate clothing, right? There are also pillowcases—my mother said that the pillowcases for a couple and the dragon and phoenix blankets should be embroidered by oneself too. You also need to embroider a pair of shoes for the Empress Dowager and His Majesty, and a sachet for the Crown Prince and Crown Princess Consort."

Upon hearing this, Ruo Xuan thought to herself, If I have to embroider all of this, especially alongside Yan Jiaojiao, under her watchful eye, I couldn’t finish in a hundred years!

Then she transmitted a message to Xuanyuan Que, "Brother Xuanyuan, what kind of bridegroom’s wedding attire and undergarments would you like? I’ll make them for you."

As for the bridegroom’s happy attire, simply sewing it together was enough; no pattern was required.

Upon hearing that, Xuanyuan Que immediately said, "There’s no need, you don’t have to make it."

Could she even make clothes that were wearable? Didn’t she have any self-awareness?

Such tasks were always prepared by the palace embroideresses.

This lazy flower, she had been learning embroidery for more than a decade and still hadn’t mastered it.

Xuanyuan Que was impressed!

Every year for her birthday, he loved to give her clothes, but each year the clothes had countless flaws; if there were no flaws, they wouldn’t fit, always requiring him to redo them.

Upon hearing his response, Ruo Xuan immediately said, "Okay then! Then it’ll trouble you to embroider all the items. Jiaojiao said pillowcases, dragon and phoenix blankets, intimate clothing, and all those need to be made by oneself. Plus, for the Empress Dowager, His Majesty..."

Ruo Xuan relayed to Xuanyuan Que all the items Yan Jiaojiao said had to be made by hand.

"For the shoes you are to make for the Empress Dowager and His Majesty, you embroider the uppers, and after you finish, I’ll sew the soles on. For the sachet for my Crown Prince brother and Crown Princess Consort sister-in-law, once you finish embroidering, I’ll sew it into a sachet, I can’t let you do everything."

Heh, this was Xuanyuan Que’s response.

He had thought she was seriously planning to make a set of clothes for herself, but she was just angling for him to help.

To have him embroider her entire dowry.

After speaking with Xuanyuan Que, Ruo Xuan said to Yan Jiaojiao, "I won’t be able to join you in embroidering the dowry; Brother Xuanyuan has promised to do the embroidery, and by then I’ll just need to add a couple of stitches."

Yan Jiaojiao was so envious!

She had just remembered that Xuanbao once said, all the clothes she wore were gifted by Xuanyuan Que.

"Cousin number nine is so nice to you."

Ruo Xuan, "Isn’t young master Zhou nice to you?"

Yan Jiaojiao thought about it, "He is nice, but he doesn’t do embroidery, he can’t make clothes for me."

Ruo Xuan, "Everyone has their different strengths. I’m not skilled at embroidery, so he has to do it."

Yan Jiaojiao thought to herself, there couldn’t be many men in the world skilled at embroidery!

Cousin number nine could, but it was only because he had taken care of Xuanbao from an early age and learned it for her.

But a man like cousin number nine, you wouldn’t be able to find a second one in the world.

Zhou Ludong is the normal one!

So Yan Jiaojiao was also satisfied.

Then, Yan Jiaojiao brought up the matter of His Majesty granting Gao Yan to Xuanyuan Jie.

She was already betrothed and did not need to participate in this selection, so she was unaware of what had transpired.

Yet, she knew that Xuanyuan Jie was fond of Xuanbao and that Gao Yan always proclaimed she did not wish to marry in this life.

How could these two have been matched?

Ruo Xuan, "It was a fortunate misfire."

Ruo Xuan left unsaid another phrase, which was ’first marry, then love.’

"What do you mean a fortunate misfire? What happened?"

Ruo Xuan explained the situation.

Upon hearing this, Yan Jiaojiao said, "Isn’t that too coincidental? Do you think Xuanyuan Jie might go to the palace and ask the Empress Dowager to cancel the engagement?"

Ruo Xuan, "I don’t know, but even if he tried, it wouldn’t work."

All she knew was that he couldn’t undo it; how it would unfold, she didn’t know.

After all, if it worked, where would the ’first marry, then love’ come from?

"Poor Gao Yan."

Ruo Xuan didn’t understand, "Why poor her?"

Xuanyuan Jie is the second son of the Prince An Residence, a scion of the dragon and the phoenix. Although he isn’t the eldest son and doesn’t have the right to inherit the princely title...

But Xuanyuan Jie’s career fortune is about to rise.

In the future, he will be made a king on his own merits, and his face suggests that he is someone who dotes on and fears his wife.

Whoever becomes his wife will be happy and blessed with wealth and honor for life.

Yan Jiaojiao, "Is it not pitiful to marry someone who doesn’t like you? If Xuanyuan Jie doesn’t call off the engagement, I think Gao Yan will come to you for help in explaining the situation to the Empress Dowager."

Yan Jiaojiao wasn’t wrong—Gao Yan waited for two days but the decree to call off the engagement didn’t come.

So she couldn’t help but come to Ruo Xuan.

Ruo Xuan said directly, "Xuanyuan Jie went to see the Empress Dowager, and the Empress Dowager does not agree to call off the engagement."

Gao Yan incredulously asked, "Why does the Empress Dowager not agree?"

Ruo Xuan replied, "Because the Empress Dowager said calling off the engagement would be bad for your reputation."

"I don’t mind having a bad reputation! Xuanbao, could you please go and speak to the Empress Dowager on my behalf?"

Ruo Xuan said, "It’s too late."

Gao Yan didn’t understand, "Why is it too late?"

Ruo Xuan explained, "Last night, Xuanyuan Jie left the capital with Prince An and headed to the Northern Border."

Gao Yan was startled, "There’s a conflict at the Northern Border?"

As soon as she spoke, she realized she shouldn’t inquire about military affairs, and immediately said, "You don’t have to tell me! Pretend I never asked."

Ruo Xuan, "..."

Gao Yan thought to herself, in this case, she could only wait for him to return before calling off the engagement.

Now that Xuanyuan Jie had gone to the Northern Border, her attempt to call off the engagement would not only be disagreed upon by the Empress Dowager but might even displease her and the Emperor, which could ruin her father’s future!

*

Ruo Xuan’s marriage was settled.

The Ruo Family was both happy and reluctant; they hadn’t expected Xuanbao to grow up so quickly and be ready to marry.

But despite their reluctance, the family knew they needed to start working hard to earn money for Ruo Xuan’s dowry.

Even though the date was not set, a dowry usually required a year to prepare.

However, over the years, the Ruo Family had earned a substantial fortune, but what they could offer Xuanbao still seemed insufficient.

Mrs. Liu knew her daughter’s needlework was not up to par. It didn’t matter when she was a young lady, but as a wife, that wouldn’t do.

In life, nothing is more important than the basic necessities of clothing, food, shelter, and transportation.

She wanted to teach her daughter needlework again, so that at the very least, she could make their own intimate clothes, right?

Yet after teaching her for a month, Ruo Xuan’s improvement was minimal, and Mrs. Liu almost gave up. After all, there were plenty of seamstresses in the palace; if worse came to worst, she could arrange for two maids skilled in needlework to accompany her as part of the dowry, which was definitely easier than teaching her daughter.

But Mrs. Liu believed her daughter was so smart that she could definitely learn, and so she persisted.

Ruo Xuan was almost at her wit’s end. If being good at needlework was a prerequisite for marriage, she felt like calling off the engagement just to avoid learning it!

That night, Ruo Xuan was accustomed to talking with Xuanyuan Que before going to sleep. Unable to bear it any longer, she sought his help, "Xuanyuan Brother, is there a way to get my mother to give up on teaching me needlework? I don’t want to learn it."

Xuanyuan Que was looking at astrological charts and said, "Do you want to leave the capital?"

Ruo Xuan immediately perked up, "Go where?"

Xuanyuan Que replied, "Nanzhou."

Upon hearing this, Ruo Xuan ran to the window and looked up at the stars, "Is there a conflict in Nanzhou too? Isn’t the Northern Border the only place with conflict?"

She didn’t see it coming!

Xuanyuan Que said, "Not just the Northern Border and Nanzhou, but the Western Frontier will soon see conflict too. Four nations are uniting their forces to try to carve up Xuanyuan."

After a decade of peace and prosperity, Xuanyuan Country had become a big, fat piece of meat.

Ruo Xuan asserted, "Then I must go!"

She had long known that the Divine Lord Xuanyuan reincarnated as a mortal must have a mission.

The Divine Monarch was a war god meant to battle across the world and pacify the four seas!

Of course, she had a mission too. Ruo Xuan felt her mission should be to trip up the Divine Monarch Xuanyuan, after all, she had no great abilities but had many tricks up her sleeve.

She was best at tripping others up!

The Demon Lord was an example. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com