"That's great. Lin'er is so happy. Lin'er has a father, a mother, a queen, and a younger brother. Lin'er is the happiest child in the world." Fu Changlin was extremely happy.
Xia Ranshuang saw that her children and grandchildren were very harmonious. When she heard Heng'er say the word "brother", she was also very excited, "Jin'er has added another son to our old Fu family? Her belly is really promising. My mother had to have three daughters to give birth to you, Jin'er."
What a blessing. She will be back next month? She was in confinement twice and the Ai family ignored her and left her to face it alone. As a mother-in-law, I feel really sorry..."
"Are you sorry?" Fu Jingheng interrupted his mother sharply, "Which absurd ancient book is this joke told to me specifically?"
Xia Ranshuang's shoulders trembled, and her face, which was still full of joy, suddenly froze, "Heng'er, the Ai family is really sorry...Why are you picky about every word?"
"Kiss the little baby." Fu Jingheng gently kissed the little guy's forehead, patted his son's back, and squeezed his son's tender hands, "Ask Zhou Yuan and Sister Zhao to take you outside to shoot arrows.
Be careful not to cut your little hands with the bow rope. After my father has spoken to my grandmother, he will teach you archery."
For the past ten months, Chang Lin had been taken care of by Wen Jin's apprentice Zhou Baolin and wet nurse Zhao Jieer. After hearing this, Chang Lin knew that his father and grandmother had something to say, so he went out sensibly.
When Lao Mo saw that the emperor and the queen mother wanted to talk, he sent all the maids away, leaving the emperor, the queen mother, Zi Shu and Lao Mo in the room.
Seeing that her son was in a bad mood, Xia Ranshuang never paid her off. She kept smiling and pointed to the dining table over there. There were already meals on the table, including simple home-cooked dishes, fried pork with kale, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and spring rolls.
For these very ordinary dishes, she prepared some drinks that her son liked. She knew that her son had always been frugal, and he might have developed the habit of frugality because he was used to suffering as a child. She cooked these with her own hands.
Let’s talk about it after dinner. Zishu, you can join us and take your seats. Zishu, your mother, please.”
Zi Shu didn't move either, remembering how the Queen Mother drove his mother back to the Shen Mansion in a small broken sedan chair, and politely said: "Empress Dowager, I will go back to the Mansion later. My mother is waiting for me to come home for dinner."
"How do you get along with Hua Nan, the female detective from Dali Temple?"
"Back to the Queen Mother. Zi Shu is planning to break off the engagement with Hua Nan. In the past two years, she has found that it is not suitable for her and we cannot continue to delay her," Shen said.
"Um. This..." Xia Ranshuang stopped asking and said, "Sit down, the Ai family has prepared everything, and we are just having dinner here. You are welcome, Zi Shu. Heng'er, please take a seat first. If you don't want to take a seat,
, Zi Shu, why are you embarrassed? You two accompany the Aijia to have a meal together. Heng'er, Heng'er, the Aijia has prepared the Sangluo wine that you like to drink."
"I quit drinking." Fu Jingheng said indifferently.
"Heng'er..." Xia Ranshuang's tone was very humble. She hadn't eaten with Heng'er for about twenty years. She still remembered that when Heng'er was a child, she especially liked the spring rolls she made. Heng'er loved to move when she was a child.
I took the spring rolls and chased after him to feed him, for fear that he would knock himself while running.
"I'm not here to eat." Fu Jingheng interrupted coldly. He promised to settle Wenjin's family first when Wenjin came back. "Don't bother. Sit down. Say a few words and leave after asking me."
Xia Ranshuang's eyes turned red and she almost shed tears. Aunt Xiang also felt sorry for the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother asked Aunt Xiang to help her sit down on the soft couch next to Fu Jingcheng. She knew what she had done. Sheng'er probably did it for Jin'er's sake.
From the mother clan, "Okay, you can ask."
"Did you ask Lou Shucai to be released from death row and ask Old Xue to help her become the wife of Xue Mansion?" Fu Jingheng asked directly, "Don't ask me to ask twice. What do you ask me? Just go straight."
"Heng'er, Aijia is your mother. You can't speak so heartlessly and rudely. It hurts people's hearts. Can't Aijia say a few more words to you, son?"
"Grandma is my mother. Giving kindness is better than cultivating kindness. You are a stranger who cannot distinguish between right and wrong, good and evil." Fu Jingheng narrowed his eyes, "You are taking a roundabout way and challenging my patience."
"Okay, Mother, I won't ask you to ask twice. It was the Ai family who did it. It was the Ai family who personally sent Lou Shucai to the death row and returned Lou Shucai back to the Xue Mansion." Xia Ranshuang saw that her son had lost all her patience, so she stopped talking in circles, "That's because
..."
Fu Jingheng became angry when he heard this, and slapped his hand on the table. The jade ring made a sharp collision with the table, "What else did you do! To her mother, his brother, her sister! What did you do to my child's grandmother, uncle and
What did auntie do?"
Xia Ranshuang's shoulders trembled suddenly when she was shocked by the crisp sound, "The Ai family asked Lao Xue to invite Su Yuyan out of the Xue Mansion and settle her in the countryside. The Ai family asked Lao Xue to straighten the second house and make the second house's son his legitimate son. They also personally
The second-in-command of the Imperial College, Gao Yan, was ordered to call Yu Zhen, and Bao Yin dropped out of school. The Ai family followed Lou Shujing's 'instructions' to marry Bao Yin to a faraway husband's family. Lou Shujing and the others said that marrying close would not work, and that they would have to marry in a remote and poor country."
"Lou Shujing 'ordered'? Did I hear it wrong? You said the word "order"? Are you a maid, a servant, a slave?" Fu Jingheng felt extremely ridiculous, "Who is she, and why can I give you orders? A sycophant gave it to my father.
Is the bed-warming thing for a lowly embryo worthy of being ordered to my biological mother? Don’t be too ridiculous! What have you done to offend me! I have been honest all my life, how could I have such a useless mother like you!"
"Everything the Ai family does is for you, Heng'er!" Xia Ranshuang tried to explain, "Listen to the Queen Mother and explain in detail."
"For me? For my sake, you ignored justice and allowed the murderer who harmed the common people to cause trouble? For my sake, you betrothed a thirteen-year-old girl, the sister of the woman I love, to a sixty-year-old official in a remote village? Ridiculous
." Fu Jingheng stood up and said, "For me, you forced my favorite talent Yu Zhen to work as a coolie at the dock? Xia Ranshuang, you are embarrassed to say it, but I am embarrassed to hear it. My brows are frowning in pain."
"What do you call Aijia?" Queen Mother Xia was stunned and heartbroken.
"Xia Ranshuang."
"Why don't you call Aijia by her first name? Aijia is your mother."
"You are not worthy of being a mother." Fu Jingheng said solemnly.
Xia Ranshuang's heart felt as if a knife was piercing her heart, and she choked with sobs: "It takes ten months to conceive, and once you give birth, how can the Ai family not be worthy of a mother? You made a lot of mistakes, and the Ai family gave birth to you."
Fu Jingheng saw that Queen Mother Xia's eyes were red, and he said displeasedly: "Don't be so hypocritical. I don't want to hear you cry."
Xia Ranshuang took the handkerchief from her mother's hand, opened her eyes, wiped them, and said, "Okay. Mother, don't cry. Don't be angry. Mother, don't cry anymore."
Fu Jingheng curled his fingers, looked at Xia Ranshuang's red eyes, was startled, hurriedly looked away, and asked, "Where is Baoyin's betrothed?"