Chapter 26

"Zhaozhao, don't blame your mother for being talkative. She doesn't mean any harm... There's just one thing I really can't figure out, so I want to ask you," Cui said first.

Seeing her words carefully, lest she be angry, Xu Mingyi sighed in the bottom of his heart - look, she scared her mother. Was she so indifferent in the past?

"But my mother wants to ask me, why do you seem to suddenly change your temper and get so close to Mingshi?"

Listening to her active mention, Cui still nodded uneasily.

To tell the truth, she didn't intend to ask. She was afraid that it would be ok if she didn't ask. When she asked, she looked like an unintelligible old mother, annoyed the children, and the mother daughter relationship returned to the previous rigid level.

Alas, being a parent is sometimes such a humble existence.

At first, she wondered privately whether Zhaozhao had come up with a new way to be angry with the Ming Dynasty and deliberately compete with the Ming Dynasty... Benign competition, she was naturally happy to see her success as an elder.

But on second thought, what if we fight and don't fight—— God, she won't be able to withstand this kind of back and forth blow at that time!

In addition, there were so many other guesses in her mind that she thought about it in her dreams——

She thinks Cui Shi is also a cheerful person. How can she endure such suffering of worrying about gain and loss?

So I made up my mind to ask.

"I'm afraid my mother doesn't believe it."

Xu Mingyi said seriously, "that day, I just woke up from a very long nightmare. Many terrible things happened in the dream, and it was true that after I woke up, I couldn't tell whether it was a dream. It seemed that many years have passed in the dream, which made me slowly understand a lot of Taoism and see how ignorant I was in the past."

In other words, it was really the initial energy of "being unable to distinguish true from false" that made her unable to separate her mind and think too much, so that she could rush into her mother's arms without scruples.

Looking back, she realized something was wrong, and then thought about her stupid and abrupt behavior. She still felt embarrassed in private.

But she was grateful for her unexpected self.

Then the embarrassed head opened, and then it was not difficult to go down.

After hearing this for a while, Cui nodded lightly and said, "I believe..."

For a girl with clear eyes, her heart settled down, but her eyes were red.

She still smiled at Xu Mingyi and said softly, "Zhaozhao... In fact, I'm very much like you. I lost my biological mother when I was young and my father remarried. My temper is much worse than you, and my life is not very satisfactory."

Her stepmother was the most gentle and innocent in the eyes of outsiders. She didn't know how much she suffered and how much punishment she was punished.

"The first time I saw you when I married into the town government, you were only four or five years old. You were a little girl. You frowned and puffed up your face. They were all very cute. At that time, I thought, I can't ask such a child to go my way again." Cui said with a complex smile and sigh, "but I didn't do well at all. I don't know how to get along with you."

"Mother is fine."

Xu Mingyi praised plainly: "good temperament, good appearance, and good horse hanging."

Cui Shi couldn't help laughing.

"My Zhaozhao is also very good. It's good everywhere." she took her handkerchief to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes and said with a smile, "since it's open, I won't mention the old things, whether right or wrong. In the future, our family will live a good life."

Xu Mingyi smiled and nodded.

"By the way..."

Cui was in a good mood and ate half a cup of tea. Suddenly he thought, "there's another thing - the young man in the front yard. Do you want to have a look?"

Xu Mingyi was stunned.

"Now that my poison has been detoxified, go and see what he has done?"

Normally, the idea of being happy at home should be eliminated.

"That's what your father and I thought... But your grandfather meant, look again, just that the young man was a rare one."

She doesn't know what the old man thinks. Zhaozhao's recovery is in sight. Why should she be happy? As for rare, will her family still lack a rare husband in the future?

"Why don't you go and have a look? What if you like it?" Cui persuaded him with the idea that the young man looks good and Zhaozhao won't suffer a loss.

Xu Mingyi is helpless.

The fatal relationship between her and the other party is not "what if she feels good", but "what if she dies again"

But why did grandpa insist?

There is no doubt that something is wrong.

……

Towards evening, the Duke of the town just left the palace and returned home.

After changing his official robe, he went to the outer study and had a routine discussion with sun and Liu's two aides - after winning the war, let's face the saint today, reward on merit, pension and resettlement of soldiers killed in the war, all of which need to be carefully sorted out one by one, and then submitted to him. It's very cumbersome.

But it doesn't need him to take too much trouble. Raising an aide is to save a headache for these things.

After listening to the two gentlemen talk for half an hour, the Duke of Zhenguo leaned back in his chair, ate a bowl of tea and talked about a thing he heard in the palace today.

"I heard today that Wang Shisun of Dingnan met mountain bandits on his way to Beijing. His whereabouts are still unknown. It's probably more or less bad."

Although he disagreed with the old fellow Dingnan Wang, he put himself in his shoes and thought it would be very painful to lose his beloved sun at this age.

"I heard it occasionally yesterday. It was just a rumor, but it was true..." an aide said: "the king's grandson of Dingnan came to Beijing to celebrate the Queen's birthday, but now it happened..."

"Dingnan Wang Shisun's status is valuable. It's reasonable that he can't cope with a group of mountain bandits without the escort of his servants. Are these mountain bandits real people or..." another aide didn't say any more, but there were many guesses in his eyes.

There are many people who have reason to attack Shisun in Dingnan palace.

The Duke of the town was noncommittal and said, "according to the investigation, it was a group of people who first took the overpowering drug in an inn. Only when they met the mountain bandits after they left, they had no power to fight back. In poor mountains and rivers, it's not unusual for the black shop to hook up with the mountain bandits to harm passers-by."

"Ding!"

Suddenly there was the sound of copper coins hitting the tea bowl.

The Duke of the town looked at the man in Taoist robes and gray beard sitting aside and asked casually, "Mr. Yao is divining?"

Yao Jing took back the copper money and his eyebrows jumped.

"I just heard the general's words. I felt itchy for a moment, so I made a divination for the king Shisun of Dingnan. The divination was vague, and he seemed to have escaped -"

"Oh?" for a moment, he said later, "this is a good thing!"

"Well... I heard that the young man saved by the general on the road woke up yesterday. Did the general ever ask him where he came from?"

"I asked about it yesterday, but I haven't had time to ask it in detail -" the Duke of town answered, and his face gradually changed: "what does Mr. Yao mean?"