Chapter 160 Don’t Want a Dad
Meng Yan was stunned. When she looked down, she saw Doukou raising her little face and laughing at her.
"Little girl, your hair isn't even dry yet, and you're already climbing onto the bed!"
She rubbed Doukou's little head and scolded her with a smile, and Doukou also started to giggle.
After all this trouble, Lu Haozhi couldn't lie down anymore, so he had to sit up and look at the mother and daughter with a helpless smile.
"This child is really attached to you. I didn't expect it. When the Queen Mother handed Doukou over to you, I was worried that you had never raised a child before and that it would be a bit difficult for you."
Now that the two had resolved their past life's ties, Meng Yan no longer held back and spoke frankly, "To be honest, Your Majesty, I truly didn't have the patience to care for the princess back then, so I entrusted the child to Concubine Mei. But after returning in this life, I kept thinking of that child who had passed away for no apparent reason, and thinking that perhaps I was destined to be childless in this life, I began to treat the princess as my own daughter. Over time, I came to truly believe this."
The words were light, but with a subtle bitterness that made Lu Haozhi frown.
He held Meng Yan's small hand and said solemnly, "Yan'er, we will eventually have a child that belongs to you and me. No, more than one, we will have many children."
Meng Yan raised her eyebrows and smiled at him, "I believe it."
She doesn't ask for much, as long as she can keep that one.
If I get pregnant again in this life, I wonder if it will still be the same child from my previous life?
Will the child blame his mother for not protecting him and refuse to come back?
Just as I was lost in thought, I heard Lu Haozhi say, "I have executed Concubine Mei."
Meng Yan's heart trembled slightly, and she quickly covered Doukou's ears, complaining a bit, "Your Majesty, in front of the child, aren't you afraid of scaring her?"
Lu Haozhi touched Doukou's head. The child looked at him with big watery eyes, as if he didn't understand anything.
He smiled and said calmly, "She abused the princess and is a vicious woman. Besides, I think I understand... who was the one who stuffed those dirty things into Changchun Palace in my previous life."
Meng Yan remained silent. She had thought of this a long time ago.
Of course it was the Meipin who had depended on her at the time.
Since Concubine Mei was won over by Lin Yanrong, she would naturally do her utmost to help her. Then the origins of those witchcraft items in her palace were obvious.
She herself is not good at judging people, so she can't blame others.
When Meipin was banished to the cold palace, Meng Yan thought that she would never cause any trouble again, so she let the matter go.
Unexpectedly, Lu Haozhi actually ordered her to be executed.
Lu Haozhi held her hand, half leaning against a soft goose feather pillow, and said calmly, "I will not let any of those who have harmed you go. Don't say she hasn't done it in this life, even if she has such intentions, it is not allowed. Moreover, you handed Princess He'an to her, but she pretended to obey, openly caring for her but secretly abusing her, causing Doukou to become seriously ill and have no one to take care of her. If it weren't for your alertness that day, the child would have developed a fever. Now that the truth has been revealed, she blames you, which shows that she has hated you for a long time. I will not tolerate such a sinister and cruel woman."
As Meng Yan listened, her nose suddenly felt a little sour, and she quickly turned her head away.
Although she had let go of the things from her previous life, she had never expected him to go this far.
Ever since she woke up from her rebirth, she kept reminding herself in her heart not to overstep the boundaries, as he was the emperor.
An emperor must put the world and the situation first, and he must not and will not lose his composure for a woman.
However, today, he said this.
"As for the two culprits, the Liang and Lin families," Lu Haozhi said with a cold expression, "I will naturally not let them go. But Yan'er, the time is not right yet. You will have to endure the grievance for a while longer."
Meng Yan held the child in her arms and muttered with a nasal tone, "Your Majesty is the ruler of a country, and you should put the country and the people first. I understand all this, Your Majesty, don't worry about me."
Lu Haozhi held her shoulders and said with emotion, "I am the Emperor of the Great Zhou, but I am also your husband. Yan'er, I don't know how I could have been so foolish in my previous life. I couldn't see through so many clumsy tricks."
During the time that Meng Yan was away from the palace, he figured out a lot of things.
The veil that covered his heart in his previous life seemed to be removed by an invisible hand, and Lu Haozhi's mind suddenly became clear.
But he still couldn't understand until now why he had been so foolish as to make Lin the queen after Yan'er got into trouble in his previous life.
Meng Yan turned her back to him, two tears slid silently across her face and fell on the back of her hand, then she raised her hand and wiped them away.
"Yan'er..."
"Beat you!"
Lu Haozhi was about to turn her around when Doukou suddenly raised her little hand and patted his leg.
Suddenly, both of them were stunned.
Doukou pouted and stared at Lu Haozhi with her pair of black eyes, as if trying her best to look fierce, and then raised her little hand and patted his leg.
"You bully your mother, I'll beat you!"
Of course, she didn't understand what the couple had just said, but in her little heart, it was this man who tried to be her father who made her mother cry.
Meng Yan hurriedly pulled the child over, held her little hand, and scolded, "Doukou, who taught you to be so rude? This is the emperor, your uncle!"
"What uncle? I am her father!"
Lu Haozhi was quite depressed. It was one of the worst things that the little girl had never recognized him, but now she actually regarded him as the murderer who hurt her mother!
This is too bad, he must break it up for her.
After all, since Meng Yan is her mother, he is naturally Xiao Doukou's father.
He tried to pull Doukou out of Meng Yan's arms, but the little girl was very strong and held her mother's waist tightly.
Lu Haozhi didn't want to hurt the child, so he had to let go. He looked helplessly at the little girl curled up in Meng Yan's arms and said, "Doukou, she is your mother, and I am your father."
Doukou buried her head in Meng Yan's arms and muttered softly, "I don't want daddy!"
Meng Yan was a little worried. She looked at Lu Haozhi and said softly, "Your Majesty, please don't be offended. The princess may be a little shy. Not to mention that the child is young and naive, she probably still remembers what happened between Prince Yi and the princess."
Lu Haozhi shook his head slightly. "I've been busy all the time and haven't paid much attention to the princess. It's understandable that she doesn't want to get close to me." As he spoke, he gritted his teeth and said, "But there's only one thing. How could she not want her father?"
Meng Yan was stunned. So this was what Lu Hao was thinking about?!
Just as Lu Haozhi was about to lecture the four-year-old princess on the principle that if you have a mother, you must have a father, Rong An's voice came from outside, "Your Majesty, the Minister of Revenue and the Vice Minister of Revenue have urgent matters to report and are waiting for an audience outside Zhonghe Hall."
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