However, the joy of the general's return did not last long for the people in the mansion. Everyone saw the general walking into the mansion with a woman in red.
Inside the general's mansion, awkwardness and silence permeated among everyone, and the servants lowered their heads and dared not look any further.
Muqinyi, who had just come out of the main courtyard, saw this dazzling scene. The faint smile on his face froze and then slowly disappeared.
The woman in red seemed not to feel the heavy atmosphere around her. She smiled softly with her hands covering her mouth, revealing some of the coquettishness of a little girl, "This is my husband, right? I am Hongying."
As he said this, he took the general's arm.
Muqin looked at her husband whom she hadn't seen for five years and noticed that when he looked at her, the deep affection was gone, and only strangeness and a slight distance remained.
"Housekeeper, arrange a yard for Hongying." Fu Yuting said, without even looking at Muqinyi who was standing beside him, and prepared to leave with his people.
"Father!" Fu Siqin couldn't help but walk forward, stopped his father and asked, "Father, don't you have anything to say to Mum?!"
"Children should not interrupt adults' affairs." Fu Yuting said with some impatience.
Instead, Hongying who was beside him came over and said, "This is the young master, right? It is just as my husband said, he already has the temperament of a young master like jade."
As she spoke, she bent down slightly and raised her hand to touch his hair. "Your father is right. It's better for children not to interfere in matters between adults..."
Before her hand dropped, Fu Siqin waved her hand away with disgust in his eyes, "Don't touch me!"
I don't know why, but as soon as Fu Siqin saw this woman, he felt an instinctive dislike for her, and felt that her mind was not as simple as her appearance.
But he also knew his limits, and he didn't use much force when he waved his hand away. Unexpectedly, the woman's next move shocked him.
When no one could react, Hongying fell to the ground with a cry of "Ah", then covered her stomach with tears in her eyes.
"Husband...child, my stomach hurts so much..." Hongying's face was pale and there was some panic on her face.
Fu Siqin was stunned by the woman's series of lewd actions and was unable to react.
"Child?" Fu Yuting looked nervous, and his movement to help her up froze in place, "Why didn't you tell me you were pregnant?!"
"I...I just want to give my husband a surprise...Ah! My husband, Hongying's stomach hurts so much...the child..." Hongying, lying in his arms, cried out in pain.
"Butler! Go get the doctor!"
Fu Yuting picked him up and glared at Fu Siqin fiercely, "You are so young, but you have such a vicious mind!"
After hearing his father's words, Fu Siqin felt as if the sky had fallen down. He subconsciously retorted, "I didn't..."
Unfortunately, his father had already left with the child in his arms, without any intention of listening to his explanation.
Seeing his son like this, Muqinyi no longer felt sad about Hongying's pregnancy. He squatted down and held his son in his arms.
"Father, I didn't push her...I don't know why she fell..." Fu Siqin explained hurriedly.
"Mother knows, it's not your fault." Muqin said softly and soothingly.
Hongying's little trick did not escape Muqinyi's eyes.
Before he got married, the concubines in the mansion used all kinds of means to compete for his father's favor.
He has seen too much.
"But...why doesn't father believe me? He also said..." Fu Siqin was hurt by his father's words and his voice was choked.
His father actually said that he had a vicious mind.
"Don't be sad, young master. I think the general was bewitched by that bitch Hongying..." Qiu Shuang was frightened by Liang Xia's glance before she finished her words. "Hey, he was bewitched by that woman Hongying."
…
Not long after, the maid got news from Fenghongyuan that Hongying was not seriously ill, but had just been frightened and had a miscarriage.
Upon hearing the news, Muqin's heart ached and the faint smile on her face faded away.
However, he was still waiting for Fu Yuting's explanation.
Her husband once told her that sometimes seeing is not necessarily believing.
If one day he does something that makes him sad, don't believe it and don't be sad unless he says it to his face.
Muqin felt very sad at the moment, but he still chose to believe Fu Yuting and believed that he would give him an explanation.
However, when it was time for dinner, Muqinyi and her son waited until the food had gone cold, and there was no sign of her husband.
Upon asking, I found out that her husband had already finished dinner with that woman.
At night, the room was pitch black and Muqin was lying on the bed with his eyes closed.
After waiting for a long, long time, tears flowed down my cheeks and fell into my black hair, and I finally gave up.
The army returned victoriously and rode a horse with a woman in front of all the people in the imperial city.
After returning home, I didn't even look at him.
I chose to turn a blind eye to the little tricks played by that woman.
Since their marriage, with him in the mansion, it was the first time that the father and son had a meal alone. Fu Yuting left them to accompany the woman.
On top of that, he had a child with another woman.
Muqinyi didn't know what kind of reason Fu Yuting would give him in the future.
Only then can he feel relieved about all this.
Only then can he feel at ease.
Fu Siqin, who is sleeping in the side room of the main courtyard tonight, has not slept yet because he is worried about his father.
There was no light in the house, but the moonlight was bright tonight, giving the house some brightness.
"Heiqi." Fu Siqin sat cross-legged on the edge of the bed and spoke.
As soon as he finished speaking, Hei Qi, dressed in black, appeared and knelt in front of the bed with his head bowed. "Young Master."
After Hei Qi finished speaking, the room fell into silence. Fu Siqin sat quietly on the bed and spoke after a long time, "In Hei Jiu's letter, what was the reason why the military advisor's legs were broken?"
"Yes..." Hei Qi hesitated for a moment, which was rare, "Yes, Master."
"...Father?" Fu Siqin was stunned, somewhat incredulous.
He had met his father's military advisor and heard his father praise the advisor's intelligence and strategy.
He was a man with calm features and a gentle temperament.
He is also my father's sworn brother.
They met in the military camp as teenagers, and each saved the other's life.
Fu Siqin couldn't believe that the military advisor's broken legs were caused by his father.
"Did anyone see it with their own eyes?"
"No, but some soldiers saw the military advisor enter the general's tent. Half an hour later, the general ordered his men to go in and carry the military advisor away." Hei Qi said sternly.
After hearing what Shadow Guard said, Fu Siqin's heart sank completely. There was no need for anyone else to see it with their own eyes to confirm it.
"What time was that day?"
"The night Black Six betrayed his master."
"Have someone check what happened to my father a year ago." Fu Siqin paused, "...hid this from my father."
"yes."
Now, Fu Siqin recalled that something was wrong with his father since a year ago.
For a whole year, not a single letter came back.
…
On the first night after the general returned, he did not return to the main courtyard, but stayed in the room of his concubine Hongying.
The news spread throughout the general's mansion the next day.
During breakfast, the general and the red warbler did not show up.
After waiting for a while, a servant came over and told the general that Hongying was not feeling well and could not walk, so he accompanied her to have breakfast in Fenghong Courtyard.
After the servant finished speaking, the surroundings fell into silence, and finally the sound of the xylophone broke the atmosphere.
"Got it. Let's go down."
Muqinyi's expression was a little cold, and it was hard to tell what he was thinking.
Fu Siqin, who was sitting next to him, pursed his thin lips and had a gloomy face.
The maid standing by and serving lowered her head even more, trying her best to reduce her presence.
"Have your meal, and don't be late for the academy later."
"Did you forget?" Fu Siqin picked up a piece of jade dumpling for his father and said, "I asked the teacher of the academy for three days' leave and will return to the academy the day after tomorrow."
"Really? Then it must be that my father remembered it wrong." Muqin said in a trance.
"Yes, father remembered it wrongly..." Fu Siqin lowered his eyes and responded.
"My son has nothing to do today, so please accompany me out for a walk." Fu Siqin suddenly laughed, and his voice sounded like he was acting coquettish.
"Okay, we'll go after breakfast." Muqin smiled and gave her son a shrimp dumpling.
The father and son tacitly did not mention what happened just now, and seemed to not care at all.
After finishing breakfast, Fu Siqin stood in the corridor outside the door, waiting for his father to change his clothes.
The main courtyard of the general's mansion is the living quarters of the two masters and covers a large area.
The courtyard is spacious and is planted with my mother's favorite flowers.
There are two twelve-year-old trees against the wall, with their branches intertwined like a couple supporting each other.
My father told me that they planted the seeds together the day after my father and he got married.
Fu Siqin looked at the swing under the tree. The swing was made by his father for him when he was four years old.
The banana leaves in front of the corridor hid Fu Siqin's not-so-tall body. From the front, only a shadowy figure could be seen.
Fu Siqin called Hei Shi out, "Do you know where the military advisor lives?"
"I know." Hei Shi was careful to lower his voice.
"As usual, you will be my servant, so you can follow me and find an opportunity..."
Before Fu Siqin finished speaking, Hei Shi understood what he meant, "Yes."
"Did father... call any of you last night?" Fu Siqin was silent for a while before speaking.
“No.”
"Go down." Fu Siqin waved his hand and asked him to get ready.
Hei Shi is the shorter one among the Heizi generation, and he has a baby face.
Therefore, Hei Shi appeared in front of people in his true identity as Fu Siqin's servant.
Fu Siqin needs to go to the military advisor in person.
Obviously, the military advisor should know something. He needs to understand what happened to his father and why his temperament and behavior have changed so much.
He can't accept his current father.
Also, it's very unusual that my father didn't summon any Shadow Guards last night.