Chapter 313： Talk about the past

Chapter 313 Talking about the past

The Queen Mother was so kind, and the eldest princess suddenly looked surprised.

In her impression, the Queen Mother had never been such an easy person to talk to, but now when facing Niu Niu, she acted unexpectedly cordial.

It was as if she really regarded Niu Niu as her granddaughter.

"Does your father personally teach you how to study on weekdays?" the Queen Mother asked.

Niuniu nodded obediently.

When the Queen Mother heard this, her face was full of joy and said: "It's rare that the number one scholar can spare time to teach you how to read and practice calligraphy despite being so busy on weekdays. It shows that he loves his daughter."

When Niu Niu heard the Queen Mother praising her father, her little face couldn't help but break out into a big smile, and said: "Dad is the best. No school in the capital accepts female students. Dad said that he would teach me personally and that he could not delay my studies. ”

Hearing this, the Queen Mother couldn't help but smile and asked: "Do you like your father so much?"

Niuniu nodded vigorously.

Seeing Niuniu's cute and well-behaved appearance, the Queen Mother thought of teasing the child and asked: "Then do you like dad more, or do you prefer mother?"

When the eldest princess heard this question, the look of surprise on her face deepened.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this question. Common people tease children like this, but it seems too approachable to ask it from a queen mother of a country.

When the little girl heard this question, she immediately frowned. After a long mental struggle, she said, "I like both my parents!"

But the Queen Mother still smiled and said: "This is not possible, parents always have to choose the one they like best."

The little girl's pretty little face wrinkled up, her brows squeezed together almost into knots: "Do you have to choose one?"

The eldest princess looked at Niuniu's pitiful appearance, and she couldn't help but want to help the child out.

After some careful consideration, the little girl finally seemed to have made up her mind and said, "Then I still like my mother the most, because she brought me to the house."

The Queen Mother seemed to be really just teasing the child. She smiled when she heard this and said: "Mother is pregnant for ten months. Once she gives birth, mother and daughter are in love with each other. It's no wonder that the little girls know that they like their mother the most."

The eldest princess immediately said: "Queen Mother, I also like you the most."

The Queen Mother glared at her daughter and said with a smile: "You do know how to take advantage of the situation to please others."

Li Shunfu on the side had already stirred up a storm in his heart. It was not unusual for the Queen Mother and the eldest princess to talk like this, but the Queen Mother actually liked Niu Niu so much. The three of them got along together. To outsiders, they just felt like a family.

Li Shunfu couldn't remember in a daze how long it had been since the Queen Mother laughed so sincerely like today. Li Shunfu didn't know whether the daughter of the Number One Scholar Lang family was lucky, but it was obvious that this child was particularly lovable.

The Queen Mother waved her hand and said to the other four little girls: "You are also tired today. Go back and rest first."

Everyone else retreated, only Niu Niu was left. Niu Niu whispered: "Grandma Queen Mother, I was not born in my mother's womb."

Niu Niu didn't need to say this originally, but the Queen Mother seemed as kind as her own grandmother, so Niu Niu naturally didn't want to lie to her, so she chose to tell the truth after some hesitation.

It was the Gu family's first time in Beijing, and if Niu Niu didn't take the initiative to say it, few people in the capital knew about it.

The Queen Mother was slightly surprised when she heard this and asked: "You didn't pop out of your mother's belly. Where did you come out?"

Niuniu tilted her little head slightly, and said innocently: "I was riding a wooden boat along the Jiuqu River, and was washed ashore by the river. Then I was picked up by the Zhang family and brought home. Later, I had a high fever and was about to die. My mother took me back from the Zhang family’s parents and sent me to a medical clinic for treatment, and my father asked the Zhang family’s parents to adopt me to the Gu family for five taels of silver.”

The reason why Niuniu remembers five taels of silver so well is because when she was in Qingshui Village, her aunt sometimes called her Gu Wuliang, blaming her for spending a lot of money at home.

The eldest princess didn't know that there were such twists and turns in Niu Niu's adoption. She secretly guessed that Niu Niu was an abandoned baby girl. Looking at Niu Niu's cute appearance at this time, and thinking of the child's lonely life experience, she I couldn't help but have sore eyes.

"How long have you been staying at Zhang's house? Why didn't you be sent for treatment when you had a fever?" the eldest princess asked.

Niu Niu felt that her life in the Zhang family was like a dream, and she did not feel sad at all when she said it: "After staying for five years, the Zhang family's adoptive parents said that it would be just right to burn him to death. The youngest son of the Yuanwai master in the town After he died, he said that I was lucky enough to be sold to their family as a daughter-in-law, and then to be a young mistress underground. "

After hearing this, the queen mother and the eldest princess became angry.

"You actually watched your daughter die, just to sell her for money to get married. What a bastard!" The eldest princess was so angry that she slammed the table.

The Queen Mother also asked with red eyes: "Where are your previous adoptive parents now? I would like to ask why they bothered a five-year-old child like this!"

Niu Niu immediately comforted her: "Grandma the Queen Mother, aunt Princess, don't be angry. The Zhang family's father was sentenced to exile for cheating on the exam, the Zhang family's adoptive mother ran away with someone, and even the Zhang family's younger brothers don't know where they are. I'm living now It’s great, I don’t have to work anymore, I can have a full stomach, and I can still read and write. It feels like I’ve fallen into a nest of blessings.”

The eldest princess asked in confusion: "You were five years old at the time, and you still had to work at the house of your foster parents? What kind of work can a five-year-old child do?"

When Niu Niu heard her question, she immediately stretched out her white and tender chubby hands: "Aunt Princess, Niu Niu knows a lot. Niu Niu can hunt pig grass, wash clothes, light fires, collect firewood..."

Watching Niuniu counting with her fingers, the Queen Mother and the eldest princess felt even more distressed every time she counted the same number.

Niu Niu also asked with a hint of pride: "Am I very knowledgeable? It's a pity that my parents are too good to me and don't let me work, otherwise I can help a lot!"

Compared with the Zhang family's adoptive parents before them, Gu Mingda and his wife were like fairy parents.

"What a poor child. Fortunately, I met Gu Zhuangyuan and his wife." The Queen Mother sighed, and she felt a lot more favorable towards Gu Mingda and his wife. After all, most people are not sad about their own daughters. This couple faced each other. The children he picked up were taught with the same care as his son, which shows that they are all kind-hearted people.

The eldest princess said to the Queen Mother: "Mother, it can be seen that the old saying, good will be rewarded with good, evil will be punished with evil, it is true at all. In the past, the Zhang family's evil intentions led to the destruction of the whole family. In the end, the Gu family and his wife had good intentions, and one of them passed the exam. Number one, business is booming now.”

"Doing business?" The Queen Mother frowned slightly and said, "As an official's wife, she should stay safe in her inner house, why bother to do these things?"