"Lanyue Villa... I haven't been to it for a few years." Xu ate the hot tea handed over by the maid and said casually.
Lanyue Villa is a hot spring village outside the Wu family's city of Ningyang. In the past, when Xu had not entered Beijing with Wu Jingming, he would accompany the Princess Dingnan to live for a while every winter.
"I remember hearing from my second uncle that I was born in Lanyue Villa back then." Wu Yang said.
"Yes..." Xu nodded with a smile: "When my mother was pregnant with you, she was not very good. Later, her fetal birth was still unstable, so your grandmother and father accompanied her to the villa to rest and recuperate, but who knew that
You came out a little early... You couldn't get back to the city at that time, fortunately, and Wen Po followed him all the time, so he gave birth to my Ayuan in the villa."
He also said: "After that he came out early, he inevitably felt weak, so your grandfather made an exception to name you Wu Yang, hoping that you could grow up safely."
She said slowly, and Wu Yang listened quietly.
He used to know about these things, although no one around him could easily tell him details.
"Mother must have suffered a lot in order to give birth to a son-"
"Mother is not suffering at all. My A Yuan was really suffering when he was young..." Xu's eyes seemed a little distant.
Looking at the mother like this in front of him, Wu Yang had a brief hesitation.
During these days, he was eager to verify some things, but the more he checked, the more he felt strange it was.
And then, he was even a little uncertain whether he should ask his mother—
This feeling of hesitation is very complicated, some facing the mother and some facing the deepest part of one's heart.
But the hesitation quickly dissipated.
He always attaches more importance to the truth when doing things.
"Mother, my son has something to ask you alone."
Xu's smile was slightly sluggish, but he just let the maids go outside and guard them calmly.
"What's the matter?"
Wu Yang asked: "My son wants to ask his mother, before and after his son was born, did there be other children born in the villa?"
Xu's fingers holding the teacup tightened slightly.
"Other children..." she shook her head and said, "I have never heard of this... As far as I know, you are the only one born in Lanyue Villa."
As he said that, he looked at the boy in front of him: "A Yuan, why...he asked this?"
Wu Yang answered truthfully: "My son went out that day and took Mr. Fang with him. Mr. Fang was from the Taoist sect. When he followed me through a plum forest in Lanyue Villa, he could see at a glance that there was a formation in the forest.
—”
"Formation..." Xu asked in a daze: "What formation?"
"The formation set up by the people buried in the Pilin can help them to be reborn and add blessings to them, so as to pray for the perfection of reincarnation in the next life." Wu Yang said: "It is said that this formation is mostly used for babies who die prematurely."
"This..." Xu seemed to feel a little incredible and said, "Although the child who died prematurely could not hold a tablet to enter the ancestral grave, the one buried in the plum forest would definitely not be the descendants of our Wu family - could it be anyone in the villa?
Maid and maid, can't the child born?”
"My son had this speculation at first."
Wu Yang said: "But later, my son found other things-"
As soon as he finished speaking, he clearly noticed the silent ups and downs of his mother's emotions.
"Mr. Fang inferred from the direction of the formation that there is a corresponding object in the high pavilion in the Meilin. My son found a dark grid in a secret room in the pavilion, and there was a baby hidden in the grid.
Swabbing clothes, a blessing card, and a jade pendant.”
Children who die prematurely cannot hold tablets to worship, and their families can only add blessings to the next life to comfort them in this way - this is not a shameful thing, nor is it a shameful thing.
But according to Mr. Fang, this formation in Lanyue Villa was written by a master.
Such a work and such a secret, how could an ordinary maid be able to do it?
But he no longer had to ask his mother about this question—
"The jade pendant, my son has identified it. It is a belonging to the Wu family, and my son is exactly the same." Wu Yang said: "Even the birth date and horoscope on the blessing card - the one with my son, is only half an hour away from my son.
That's it."
"..." Xu's face was already a little pale. After a while, she asked softly: "Did you take those things back?"
Her voice was very soft, but she was obviously concerned.
She was not a person who couldn't hold back and didn't know how to hide her emotions.
But as a mother, some scars are always more impactful than other things. No matter how hard you are, you can force you to become extremely fragile and become defeated in an instant.
"I didn't take my son."
Seeing his mother's reaction, the deepest doubts in the boy's heart were amplified, but his biggest concern at this time was his mother's emotions and feelings, so he slowed down his voice a little: "Mr. Fang said, blessing cards and relics
It cannot be taken out, otherwise the formation will be invalid."
He did not believe in these things very deeply, but since those who tried to believe in them would not be able to destroy the hard work of others by themselves.
"good……"
Xu's eyes were red and relieved, as if she didn't intend to hide her emotions anymore.
"So, does my mother know the truth?"
Xu smiled reluctantly and said hoarsely: "There are very few people who know about this matter, it is a family matter that is not suitable for wearing outside. I didn't intend to talk to you, but after all, it's just
Just an old thing... Now that you really want to hear it, your mother has nothing to say."
Wu Yang waited for her to talk.
"In fact, you and the child in the Merlin were twin brothers, and they were both born to their mothers..."
twin?
Wu Yang was slightly stunned.
In aristocratic families, twins born from the legitimate family are not auspicious things.
In particular, his father was the crown prince. As his father's eldest son, he was destined to inherit the position of his grandson.
He had heard his second uncle say some secrets - the Wu family's legitimate lineage gave birth to twins, but only one precedent was left.
So, will that child be because of that?
Xu seemed to have guessed his thoughts and said at the right time: "You two are born weak, because he is a little more blessed and can't last for a few days... Even if you are still raising them until you are three years old.
It's considered healthy..."
During the nine months of pregnancy, she was always trembling because of the bad appearance of the fetus. In that case, it would be impossible for an ordinary woman to give birth to the child smoothly.
It was precisely because of too much thought and attention that when the child really left her, she felt more and more difficult to accept.