Empress of Fortune: A Farm Girl’s Rise

Chapter 648: Chapter 635: Are You Afraid? Chapter 648: Chapter 635: Are You Afraid? Naturally, a wife’s cooking is the best.

While in the capital city, although he was dressed in fine clothes and ate refined food every day, in Chu Jinnian’s view, the food tasted just like chewing wax, often unable to swallow it.

Eating a bowl of plain soup noodles here, he felt it was an indescribable delicacy.

“How long do you plan to stay this time?” Zhuang Qingning asked as she propped her chin.

“At least a year,” Chu Jinnian smiled and quickly placed the cutlery he had just used into the washbasin, washed it himself, dried it with a dish towel, and placed it on the nearby dish rack.

“That long?” Zhuang Qingning was somewhat surprised.

“Do you think the time is too long? I feel it’s a bit short. I plan to request the Emperor to extend my leave after our wedding is done,” Chu Jinnian responded with a laugh.

“It’s not that I think it’s too long, but considering your numerous responsibilities in Beijing and at the Ministry of Justice, it’s peculiar that the emperor would grant you this long of a leave,” she noted wryly.

“Because I asked the Empress and the Emperor for a marriage grant, and I also requested a year leave to prepare for the wedding,” Chu Jinnian replied. “Previously, both the Empress and the Emperor were concerned about my unwillingness to marry. Now that I’m willing to marry, they are overjoyed with happiness and overlook the other matters.”