Chapter 177

Duke Jingguo was the first Duke granted a reward after the founding of Dayin by Gaozu. The first generation of Duke Jingguo had great wisdom. He could come up with excellent strategies whether to govern the country and secure the country or to raise troops on the battlefield. The second generation of Duke Jingguo had already died due to physical reasons. Now this Duke Jingguo is the third Duke Jingguo and Ding Wenhao, the father of Ding Xiaofeng and Ding Hualin.

Ding Wenhao is not as versatile as his grandfather. He loves reading. With his own efforts, he passed the Chunwei examination and won the first prize in the court. Now he has been an official in the imperial court for decades. He is one of the cabinet ministers and worships first-class officials.

Although Ding Wenhao didn't have his grandfather's martial arts, he inherited his grandfather's unusually handsome appearance. He was favored by the emperor and queen and married his sister-in-law Mu Bingqing to him. The couple have similar hobbies and deep feelings. They have been famous loving couples in loduri for so many years.

Today's banquet was held when Ding Wenhao, Duke of Jingguo, was distressed that his daughter, who was married far away, was rarely at home. His wife Mu Bingqing and his mother, Lao Taijun Liu, were too hot to go out for summer vacation. Therefore, as soon as Bai Xian and Shen Yunqing came in, they saw that there were no tables and chairs in the garden. They thought they were enjoying flowers in the garden now, and then they would go to a cool place to have a banquet.

Ding Hualin, Princess ronghua, has been married for eight years. The king of the south of the Yangtze River has pity on his wife and specially takes several children to visit her parents with her. Bai Xian is pulled by Ding Hualin to the waterside in the east of the garden, followed by Shen Yunqing and several servant girls.

The party attracted the attention of many others. Ding Hualin just took Bai Xian and walked into the room. She introduced to the people sitting in the room: "grandmother, mother, aunt, this is Xiaofeng's benefactor, Bai Xiannv official."

Bai Xian took Shen Yunqing to salute the people together. Her heart beat like a drum. She didn't dare to look up and look at the people in front of her carefully for fear that she would show something strange. However, she didn't expect that Ding Hualin took her forward as soon as she finished the ceremony.

The old man sitting on the couch grabbed Bai Xian's hand and made Bai Xian have to look up and look at her. At this look, they both froze. Bai Xian froze because she thought the old man was very much like her mother. If Bai's mother would look like this in another 30 years, she would believe it.

Bai Xian didn't know the reason why the old man was frozen. She tried to suppress the difference in her heart, tried to maintain a normal tone, smiled and said to the old man, "I've seen Lao Taijun. My sister and I attended such an occasion for the first time. They cleaned up a little slowly, so they came late."

Shen Yunqing stood behind Bai Xian, smiled at Lao Taijun and lowered his head.

The old prince looked at Ding Hualin with puzzled eyes. Ding Hualin gently shook his head. The old prince was disappointed to loosen Bai Xian's hand and said polite words: "Miss Bai, I heard Xiaofeng say that you saved him. He is the son of Jingguo government. Saving him is equivalent to saving the government. You are a great benefactor of our government. Don't be polite today. Tell Hua Lin if you need anything."

Next to the old prince sat a beautiful woman. Mu Bingqing, the wife of Duke Jingguo, saw that Bai Xian and Shen Yunqing were a little embarrassed, so she smiled and said, "Mom, let them young people talk by themselves. Don't make others nervous."

Under the gaze of the old prince and several ladies and wives, Ding Hualin accompanied Bai Xian Shen Yunqing to the outside of the waterside pavilion to enjoy the scenery.

It's said to enjoy the scenery, but Bai Xian's whole mind is on the old Taijun and Bai mother she just saw. Why is her mother so similar to the old Taijun of Jingguo government? They must be relatives. Bai Xian is not sure whether they are mother and daughter or the relationship between aunt and niece.

The most important thing is that Bai's mother has never told herself the origin between her and the Ding family. Is there any secret in it? Bai Xian can't directly ask Ding Hualin, just want to beat around the Bush, ask her something about the house, and then make his own judgment.

As Bai Xian kept silent, Ding Hualin and Shen Yunqing spoke: "Miss Shen, it's hot today. Later, all the women's family members will come to the waterside for dinner, but if you want to go to the garden to see the scenery, we can go together."

Shen Yunqing thanked Ding Hualin for his kindness: "thank you, princess. I'd better listen to my sister. Anyway, I don't know anyone, and people don't want to know me."

Bai Xian, who had returned to God, happened to hear the second half of Shen Yunqing's words. She felt a little guilty. She was too worried today. She ignored Shen Yunqing, who must be a little nervous when she came to the banquet for the first time: "Yunqing, where you want to go, your sister will go with you."

Shen Yunqing said wisely, "sister, why don't we find Mrs. Shao and miss Shao."

Bai Xian just remembered that yesterday Shao Yue told her to follow Du Wangshu and Shaoling after she came. Thinking of the coward Shao Yue, Bai Xian was even more upset. In addition, after she didn't sleep last night, the water vapor on the lake illuminated by the sun was steaming, which made her feel dizzy for a moment.

Ding Hualin quickly reached out her hand to hold Bai Xian: "what's the matter with sister Bai? Is she in the heat? Why don't you go to the room and have a rest."

Shen Yunqing doesn't want to play with Shao Ling, and looks at Bai Xian nervously.

Bai Xian felt dizzy. She said to Ding Hualin, "please ask the princess to take me to have a rest. Please take Yunqing to find Mrs. Shao and miss Shao."

Ding Hualin immediately sent someone to take Shen Yunqing to the garden. She personally accompanied Bai Xian to the yard nearest to the waterside pavilion, found an empty room and watched Bai Xian lie down and fall asleep.

In fact, Bai Xian was not really asleep. She was a little dizzy. After lying down, she could still hear the voice of the outside world, but she couldn't wake up anyway. Therefore, not long after she lay down, she heard several people coming into the room.

Among them, there was the voice of Lao Taijun and Mu Bingqing just heard in the waterside pavilion. Lao Taijun whispered, "lin'er, Miss Bai, what's the matter?"

Ding Hualin sat on the edge of the bed, looked back at Bai Xian and said, "grandma, Miss Bai was a little dizzy. After I helped her lie down, she fell asleep."

Then Bai Xian felt that someone was very close to him, as if he were next to him.

The old prince looked at Bai Xian's face carefully: "Feng ER said that Miss Bai looks like him. Does she wear a human skin mask?"

Several women stared at Bai Xian's face and the minibus for a long time before they finally found a flaw in Bai Xian's jaw. The old Taijun was anxious to tear it off. Unexpectedly, she was stopped by Mu Bingqing: "mother-in-law, even if she looks like Xiaofeng, it doesn't mean anything. Mom, I know you want to find your little sister, but..."

Hearing Mu Bingqing talking about her missing daughter, the old Taijun burst into tears. It was all her fault. If she could support her daughter at that time, her daughter would not break off relations with her family. Maybe when there was an accident in the Bai family, she could plead with the emperor to keep her daughter alive.

Ding Hualin looked at the crying old Taijun and said painfully, "grandma, don't worry. Bai nvguan lives in luoduli now. Let's invite her more to the party and contact her more. Maybe we can know her true identity."

Bai Xian, who is still in a coma, is now 50% sure that her mother is the daughter of the Ding family, but she can't take risks. After all, Bai mother and herself are escaped sinners. Once someone in the Ding family doesn't want to be implicated by their two sinners and informs the Emperor, hundreds of human lives in the Duke of Jingguo are estimated to disappear in an instant like the original Bai family.