Ah Luo muttered secretly in her heart and said, "Did you come here specifically to see me?"
Aunt Ding choked with sobs and answered yes, her vision quickly blurred by tears.
The women A Luo has seen since she was a child are all confident and strong people. For example, her mother, Gu Shanchang, and the seemingly delicate Lin Weiwei are also people who are soft on the outside and strong on the inside.
Ah Luo has never seen a woman who shed tears as often as Aunt Ding.
For a moment, Ah Luo felt both new and a little dissatisfied.
"Don't Aunt Ding like me?" A Luo asked bluntly: "Why do you cry when you see me?"
Aunt Ding hurriedly wiped her tears with her sleeves: "Princess, I misunderstood. I love her so much that I am crying with joy."
Ah Luo reluctantly accepted this explanation and said in an old-fashioned way: "I don't like people crying. If you are happy, just smile more."
Aunt Ding was so emotional that she couldn't control herself at all, and her tears rolled down her face again.
A Luo: "..."
Ah Luo had a headache, so she turned around and asked Yu Wan quietly: "Why is she crying again?"
Yu Wan looked embarrassed and responded quietly: "I don't know either."
After she married into the Xie family, she only met Aunt Ding twice, and knew nothing about Aunt Ding's temperament. For some reason, the entire Xie family kept silent about Aunt Ding.
As the biological mother of Queen Xie, Aunt Ding never showed up in public. Xie Mingxi summoned the Xu family and Sun family to the palace, but never summoned Aunt Ding. These signs are enough to show that the mother and daughter Xie Mingxi and Aunt Ding are very alienated.
indifferent.
Ah Luo had some sympathy for the weak. Aunt Ding kept crying, but Ah Luo didn't blame her. She just waited silently.
When Aunt Ding calmed down a little and her tears began to fade away, Ah Luo opened her mouth again: "Aunt Ding came to see me specially. Do you want to ask about your mother?"
Aunt Ding shook her head first, and after a moment, nodded again.
A Luo said patiently: "My mother spends two hours every day dealing with palace affairs, and the rest of her time is mostly used to accompany and teach me. Also, the imperial grandmother has been recovering from illness, and my mother will visit her every day."
"When the queen mother has free time, she will also call some female relatives into the palace to speak to show her grace. My great-grandmother and eldest aunt often come to the palace."
"Does Aunt Ding also want to go to the palace and meet my mother?"
Aunt Ding had been listening silently. When she heard the last sentence, Aunt Ding's whole body trembled and she shook her head without thinking: "No need."
A Luo: "..."
Why does the queen’s own mother not want to see the queen at all?
Little Ah Luo was full of doubts. She resisted the urge to ask questions and said with a small face: "If you want to enter the palace, just tell your great-grandmother. Just don't want to."
A six-year-old child speaks and behaves like a little adult, with sharp thoughts and eloquent words. It is really rare!
This shows how attentive Xie Mingxi is in teaching her daughter.
Aunt Ding looked at the smart, confident and calm A Luo and lost her mind for a moment. The appearance of Xie Mingxi when she was young flashed in her mind.
Before Xie Mingxi was ten years old, she was gentle, filial, and most obedient. After a little coaxing from her, Xie Mingxi would listen to her in everything. The real turning point began when she was ten years old, when she begged Xie Mingxi to take the exam for Xie Yunxi.
…
The future and the past did not disappear with the passage of time, but became more vivid and clear. It gave her a clear glimpse of her selfishness and despicability in the past...
She completely broke her daughter's heart.
Therefore, she also completely lost Xie Mingxi as her daughter.
There was another strong astringency in Aunt Ding's nose. She resisted the urge to cry again and said softly: "I am satisfied that I can see the princess today. I don't dare to expect to enter the palace anymore."
"When Her Royal Highness the Princess returns to the palace, there is no need to mention that she has met me. This will avoid upsetting the Queen."
Aunt Ding glanced at A Luo reluctantly, bowed and left.
…
Why does my mother get upset when mentioning Aunt Ding?
A Luo returned to the palace full of doubts.
Xie Mingxi asked with a smile: "I went to Xie's Mansion today and met your cousin, right?"
A'luo nodded: "I saw it. My cousin was all red, like a little monkey. I pinched her little face, and she started crying. I was shocked."
Xie Mingxi laughed: "You have been practicing martial arts recently, and your hands are not weak. The baby is just three days old, and his skin is so delicate that it cannot withstand your hard squeeze."
Xie Mingxi always had a smile on weekdays. Now she was chatting softly with A Luo, and her eyebrows became softer.
Mom is so gentle and amiable, why doesn’t Aunt Ding dare to come to see her?
"A Luo, why are you looking at me like this?" Xie Mingxi was keenly aware of A Luo's strangeness: "Who did you see in Xie's Mansion today?"
A Luo hesitated for a moment, then whispered: "I went to Chunjin Pavilion today, and met Aunt Ding in Chunjin Pavilion."
Xie Mingxi's smile suddenly faded.
When I mentioned Aunt Ding, my mother was really upset.
Ah Luo couldn't understand the complicated world of adults, so she frowned and asked, "Mom, is Aunt Ding your biological mother?"
Xie Mingxi nodded: "Yes."
"Why have you never mentioned her to me?" A'luo's crisp and sweet voice was full of confusion: "It's only today that I found out that my mother also has a biological mother."
Xie Mingxi didn't want to bring up the past, so she said evasively: "I didn't jump out of a rock. Of course I have a biological mother."
A'luo is a child who loves to ask questions, and is very dissatisfied with such vague answers: "Mom! I'm not a child anymore! Don't treat me like this!"
"What happened between you and Aunt Ding? Why did you never want to see her? Why didn't she dare to come to see you?"
A Luo looked up at Xie Mingxi and stubbornly asked for an answer.
Xie Mingxi fell silent. After a long time, she said calmly: "That's fine. If you want to hear it, I'll tell you."
"Aunt Ding and your grandfather are cousins, and they were originally engaged to be married. Later, your grandfather won the lottery, married the princess of Yongning, and became a county horse. Aunt Ding entered the Xie family as a concubine, and soon
Your uncle was born. A few years later, he gave birth to my daughter..."
The old things that had been buried deep in my heart suddenly came to mind one by one.
Xie Mingxi calmly talked about her life when she was young: "At that time, Aunt Ding often coaxed me to meet your grandfather as a way to invite favors. She looked at your uncle like a ball in her eyes. For the sake of your uncle's future
, she begged me to take the exam for my sister-in-law. Otherwise, Princess Yongning would torture your uncle. When I refused, she knelt down and begged me, forcing me to agree..."
Hearing this, Ah Luo was already furious and stood up: "That's too much!"
"How could she do this to you!"
"You are her biological daughter. As a biological mother, how could you treat your own daughter like this?"
