Raising a wife? The mistress of the Hou family divorced and remarried her younger uncle

Chapter 225 Fiefdom
The girls in the Su family all have some similarities in appearance.

Yun Zhizhou recognized them clearly at a glance. The third girl was a concubine's daughter and looked like the King of Huainan. The twin sisters Su Qingwan also had the shadow of the King of Huainan in their eyebrows.

Instantly, Yun Zhizhou's eyes were red, and he hurriedly bowed to pay his respects. According to common sense, based on seniority, it should be Su Qingwan who bowed to him, but now Su Qingwan was the Princess of Huainan, and was already the most noble woman in Huainan.

"Xiaowu, how have you been these years?"

Yun Zhizhou's voice was slightly choked. He had a deep friendship with the Huainan Palace, firstly because of their marriage relationship, and secondly because of the political exchanges, which made him frequently go in and out of the palace. The third girl was very much loved and was raised by the princess since she was a child, and she was treated as her own daughter. Yun Zhizhou had meals in the palace more often than the prince who was often away on military campaigns, so he was very close to the women in the palace.

"Okay, since I fled Huainan, I have been living in the Southwest Prince's Mansion. The Southwest Prince treats me very well!" Su Qingwan smiled and welcomed Yun Zhizhou into the flower hall.

Although the flower hall that Chen Feng had just cleaned up was a little simple, it was still suitable for entertaining guests.

Ever since the Huainan King was rehabilitated, Yun Zhizhou had been looking forward to whether the direct bloodline of the Huainan King's Palace would return one day. He never thought that today would be his last day.

He was full of questions and wanted to ask Su Qingwan if there were any other people alive in the palace besides her? The accident happened so suddenly that there was no time to rescue them. He could only watch the Huainan Palace fall to pieces. The feeling of powerlessness was still engraved in his heart. No one could save the situation.

Yun Zhizhou looked solemn and said, "I have to write a letter immediately and send it to the capital. When the princess returns to Huainan, the palace will restore the rules, but I am worried that the court will not allow the princess to take over Huainan easily."

Now, this is the perfect time for the court to completely take over the Huainan fiefdom. After the Huainan clan was killed, Huainan was directly under the jurisdiction of the southwest because it was close to the southwest. The court has always taken a laissez-faire attitude towards Huainan, and the southwest must be willing to cut off. But the tricky thing is that there are no male heirs in the palace now, only the princess is left.

"The princess can consider marrying a son-in-law and giving birth to a child. This way, he can be named the crown prince and continue the bloodline of the royal palace." Yun Zhizhou thought for a moment and quickly came up with a plan.

Su Qingwan couldn't help but smile when she heard this, and said, "That's not necessary. My eldest brother left behind a posthumous child who is still alive. In a few days, he will come back, and our Huainan lineage... will have successors."

"Eldest brother's son?" Yun Zhizhou lost his composure immediately after hearing this. He almost dropped the teacup in his hand. His eyes instantly turned red. "Really?"

This news was more exciting than knowing that Su Qingwan was still alive. A direct descendant, and of pure direct bloodline, the eldest son of the prince, it was simply God's favor to Huainan.

"God will not abandon Huainan!" Yun Zhizhou was so excited that he almost knelt down and kowtowed to the sky, tears welling up in his eyes, crying very miserably, "Xiao Wu, are you sure that is the blood of your elder brother?"

Su Qingwan nodded confidently, "You will recognize him when you see him. He looks exactly like your brother when he was seventeen or eighteen years old." Nian Qing had already guessed his own life experience, but it would still take some time to fully accept it.

He has written to Su Qingwan, expressing his wish to travel around the world and relax during this period. Su Qingwan did not force it. She knew in her heart that Nianqing would eventually come back, which was also the wish of the eldest princess. Since the eldest princess could not become the empress, she hoped that Nianqing could return to her fiefdom. With her in the court, it was only a matter of time for Huainan to restore its former glory. Yun Zhizhou was impatient at this moment and wanted to write a memorial immediately to restore the regulations of the Huainan fiefdom. Su Qingwan seemed much calmer and was not in a hurry. She planned to wait until Nianqing returned to Huainan.

She would test the waters step by step first, and quietly spread the news that the young princess of the King of Huainan was still alive. On her way back to Huainan, she had already written a letter to the King of Southwest, informing him that he would dispatch a guard team. The palace needed to reorganize its own guard team, and before the new guard team was built, she urgently needed a troop to protect her own safety.

Su Qingwan had already made plans in her mind. Seeing this, Yun Zhizhou stopped trying to persuade her. He was worried that Su Qingwan didn't understand the complicated situation in Huainan City, so he introduced it in detail. Compared with more than a decade ago, Huainan today is already a world apart. Fortunately, only twelve years have passed, and Huainan's foundation was strong enough to barely hold on.

But it will take some time to restore its former prosperity.

The news of the return of the young princess of Huainan spread quickly throughout Huainan City like a gust of wind. Relatives who had some connection with the Huainan Palace in the past handed in visiting cards one after another.

In fact, there are only a few members of Su Qingwan's clan left now. Those with close blood ties have almost been slaughtered, and the remaining ones are those with more distant blood ties.

Su Qingwan responded to these visiting cards one by one and received the clan members who came to visit. Her appearance was the most powerful proof of her identity, and with Yun Zhizhou accompanying her, those clan members who originally wanted to watch the fun or wait and see the situation suddenly changed their attitudes 180 degrees after learning that the prince had a bloodline alive and would take over Huainan in the future.

Su Qingwan didn't care about this. Apart from receiving clan members, she was fully devoted to repairing the palace, renovating the ancestral tomb, and building the ancestral hall.

After being busy with these things for half a month, the palace gradually regained its former atmosphere and popularity. The Xie family transferred a group of people from Jiangnan, including servants to serve Su Qingwan, as well as personnel from the caravan and escort agency, intending to resume trade activities in Huainan. Su Qingwan also wrote a letter to Xilin Yongxuan, planning to rebuild the trade route between Huainan and Xilin.

But if we want to open up this trade route, the first task is to solve the problem of rampant horse bandits.

This group of horse bandits is not easy to deal with. Yun Zhizhou said that he was incompetent and had not been able to deal with them for several years. Not only that, the horse bandits were increasing in number, now numbering tens of thousands, and were entrenched in different hilltops. They would come to the city every now and then to burn, kill, loot and do whatever they wanted. The government had no way to deal with them. There were too few guards in the city and the horse bandits were rampant. They could only recruit them, and a head-on confrontation would not work.

"Recruitment?" Su Qingwan shook her head. "We in Huainan gained our momentum through fighting!"

"How can we fight against tens of thousands of bandits?" Yun Zhizhou hesitated. Su Qingwan smiled and said, "Don't worry. People who can fight will arrive soon."

She is urging Nian Qing to come.

The first battle in Huainan must be fought by the future King of Huainan. This is the best opportunity for Nianqing to accumulate prestige.

She was waiting for Nianqing.