Chapter 15 Chapter 15 Mother, I think I still like him...
His mother has a kind nature and rarely gets angry with others.
Zhao An'er savored her husband's words and sneered in her heart. Haha, he meant it was her fault. She made his mother angry?
He unilaterally convicted her without even hearing the reason?
Zhao An'er felt sour in his heart. If he knew that this matter also involved his sister, wouldn't he be furious?
She stopped.
Xuan Wenwei also stopped and looked at her in confusion, but saw that his wife's eyes were misty and tears were sliding down.
"My dear, I just asked the court doctor if my sister, after all, had stayed in that place for a few days, and whether it would cause any harm to the unborn child. Mother was angry with me."
Zhao An'er sobbed, "Husband, I'm just concerned about my sister's health and the baby in her belly."
She did not mention the expression on her face when she said this, the way she put her hands on her belly, and the way she looked like she was avoiding it, but everything she said was true.
Having been married for many years, Xuan Wenwei knew his wife's personality very well. He even knew that she was taking the initiative when she showed hesitation.
Even though he was initially unhappy with the marriage, he still married her. After the marriage, he always sympathized with her difficulties as a girl in the Ding'an Marquis's mansion, and he would comfort her when she occasionally got jealous of her sister, but she always seemed to want to compete with her sister.
The younger sister didn't notice the subtle sarcasm and coldness in her sister-in-law's words, but she could always sense her sister-in-law's dislike and vigilance towards her. Over time, she became somewhat estranged from her eldest brother.
Xuan Wenwei sighed in his heart.
It was not until his sister got married that he restored their brother-sister relationship. Now that her husband's family is in trouble and she needs help from her parents' family, he cannot let her feel disappointed.
Mother should have made some arrangements, but I also need to pay more attention to it on a daily basis, he thought to himself.
"Okay, it's not a big deal." He comforted Zhao An'er, "Mother shouldn't have said anything to you, right? Don't worry about it."
After all, his wife was pregnant, so even though he was unhappy, he didn't show it.
"Don't cry, take care of yourself." Xuan Wenwei wiped his wife's tears. "Mother won't be angry with you. If you are really worried, I will tell her."
As soon as Zhao An'er stopped sobbing, she tightly twisted the handkerchief in her hand.
Xuan Wenwei felt a chill in his heart. He wiped her tears and took her hand.
"An'er," Xuan Wenwei led Zhao An'er slowly towards their courtyard, "Even if my sister gets married, she will still be a girl of our Xuan family."
He didn't say anything more, he believed his wife would understand what he said.
Zhao An'er didn't speak for a long time. Only when she reached the courtyard and Xuan Wenwei turned around and was about to leave did she say, "Husband, I understand."
Xuan Wenwei didn't look back.
Zhao An'er clenched her sleeves. She spoke so softly, could he hear her?
Xia'er, the personal maid, has been with Zhao An'er since she was a child and understands the character of her young mistress. Just now, she had been following behind the eldest son and the young mistress and heard the conversation between the couple clearly.
Seeing the young lady looking at the direction where the eldest master left, with a look of distraught, she felt a little reluctant, "Young lady, the eldest master also told you not to worry too much."
The lady had a good temper, but she was displeased for a moment when she saw her young mistress showing her disdain for her sister-in-law.
But the young lady is still the lady's daughter-in-law. She gave birth to the eldest grandson and eldest granddaughter for the Xuan family, and now she is pregnant with the third child. Even if the lady ignores the eldest son, she will not make things difficult for the young lady for the sake of the three children.
How could Zhao An'er not know these principles?
"Did I do something wrong?" She seemed to be asking the maid, but it was more like she was talking to herself.
"Xuan Jinyu is so lucky. She got married and still has her family to support her. Xia'er, I'm so envious." She was envious to the point of jealousy. Zhao An'er sighed.
The maid in the yard came to greet her. Zhao An'er didn't think any more and went back to her room.
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Xuan Jinyu lay in her mother's arms and cried bitterly.
Lin Qingwan patted her back gently to help her calm down, and did not advise her not to cry during pregnancy.
She knew the pain her daughter felt.
"Cry, it will feel better after you cry." She said gently.
Xuan Jinyu didn't get a good rest last night, and she didn't take a nap today, so she fell asleep while crying.
Lin Qingwan looked at her daughter's sleeping face lovingly, wiped her tears with a hot towel, and then wiped her face.
"Madam, the eldest master is here." The maid came in and reported.
Lin Qingwan tucked the quilt for Xuan Jinyu and walked out.
Xuan Wenwei briefly recounted the conversation between him and his wife.
Lin Qingwan sneered, "I haven't even said anything yet, and she's already complaining?" She glared at her eldest son and said, "I'm telling you, if your wife does the same thing she did a few years ago to secretly bully Jinyu, I won't let you go."
Xuan Wenwei smiled bitterly and quickly assured, "Mother, no, I will take good care of them."
Lin Qingwan turned around and left. She felt that the longer she looked at her eldest son, the angrier she became.
"Let's talk about it if you can do it. If you can't," Lin Qingwan stopped, turned her back to him, and said in a cold voice, "Wenwei, your sister is my only daughter, but I have two sons."
Xuan Wenwei understood his mother's meaning and didn't feel bad. He just said, "Don't worry, mother. If An'er makes Jinyu angry again, I will take her out of the mansion and live somewhere else. From now on, the Xuan Mansion will be handed over to my third brother."
Lin Qingwan still didn't look back, but her tone softened a lot, "Wenwei, it's good that you know. I hope that a hundred years after your father and I are gone, Xuanfu will still be your sister's home." Instead of having no home to return to, and having nowhere to go back to when being wronged.
She also just realized that after her daughter got married, she went to Lin Mansion more often than to Xuan Mansion in her free time.
She closed her eyes. There was an elder sister-in-law in the mansion who didn't like her, and she was also the elder sister-in-law who would take over the Xuan family in the future. No wonder her daughter was unwilling to go home.
She boasted that no one in Xuanfu would let her daughter suffer any injustice, but without her realizing it, her daughter had silently endured the injustice for three years.
The fact that her daughter, who has always been spoiled, is so submissive proves that her mother is really not a good person.
Xuan Wenwei replied solemnly, "Mother, Jinyu will always be my sister, and Xuanfu will be her eternal home."
"Wenwei, have you counted the number of times Jinyu has returned home in the three years since she got married?" There was a hint of trembling in Lin Qingwan's voice. After saying this, she did not stay any longer and went straight into the inner room.
Xuan Wenwei was left standing there in a daze for a long time.
Lin Qingwan walked around the screen, and before she could wipe the tears from the corners of her eyes, she saw Xuan Jinyu, who had just fallen asleep, sitting up.
"Jinyu, you..."
Xuan Jinyu pulled her to sit on the bed, wiped her tears, and then leaned her head on her shoulder, "Mom, I heard your conversation with big brother."
Lin Qingwan was stunned and felt sad.
"You've been wronged in these three years."
Xuan Jinyu shook her head and said, "Mom, I don't feel wronged. I like going to the Lin Mansion. My grandfather loves me very much." She avoided the main point.
Lin Qingwan sighed and said nothing more. She tidied up Xuan Jinyu's hair which was messy from sleep.
The daughter didn't want to ask when she realized that her eldest sister-in-law disliked her.
"Mom, I'll stay at home for half a month and then leave." The mother and daughter snuggled up to each other and stayed quietly for a while, then Xuan Jinyu said.
Half a month later, the baby in her belly was three months old, and the fetus was stable, so she could set off on her journey with peace of mind.
Lin Qingwan reluctantly agreed.
Xuan Jinyu's time at home passed quickly, and more than ten days passed in the blink of an eye.
Lin Qingwan had already packed everything she needed for the journey, but she still felt it was not enough, so she kept adding to the list in her hand.
"Mom, will the emperor let us take so many things with us?" Xuan Jinyu looked at the long list in her mother's hand and felt soft in her heart.
"If you don't bring it with you," Lin Qingwan continued to add a few items to the list, smiling slyly, which was rare for her, "then have someone secretly follow behind."
Xuan Jinyu looked at Lin Qingwan reluctantly, melancholy welling up in her heart, and her nose felt slightly sore - in two days, she would be leaving, and she didn't know when she would be back.
"Mom." She hugged Lin Qingwan from behind and rubbed her back.
Lin Qingwan stopped writing with the brush, turned around and hugged her daughter. "What's wrong? Didn't you sleep well last night?" she asked with concern.
During the more than ten days that Xuan Jinyu was at home taking care of her pregnancy, she always had trouble sleeping at night and was always tired during the day, but she couldn't sleep either.
If she hadn't watched over him every day, personally watching him eat his meals and drink his nourishing soup, who knows how much he would have lost.
Lin Qingwan sighed slightly - she was not one who liked to sigh, but how many times had she sighed recently?
"Tell your mother what's on your mind, okay?"
A layer of mist instantly appeared in her eyes, and Xuan Jinyu shook her head, "I just can't bear to leave my mother."
"Mom can't bear to leave you either." In the blink of an eye, the little baby in her arms has grown so big, Lin Qingwan sighed.
She gave birth to three children, but only her daughter Jinyu was raised by her personally, so her relationship with her daughter was naturally closer.
"If you feel tired on the road, just get on the carriage and rest for a while. ... Don't be afraid when giving birth, the midwife will prepare everything in advance...." Lin Qingwan kept muttering what she had said countless times in the past few days.
Xuan Jinyu listened carefully.
No matter how many times she heard her mother talk, she was always patient.
The wind in late spring was already slightly hot, and the muffled thunder happened to interrupt the warm interaction between mother and daughter.
The rain was drizzling, and the fishy smell of the earth mixed with the heat washed away by the rain rushed in.
Lin Qingwan got up and closed the window.
When she turned around and sat down again, she finally brought up the topic that she had been trying to avoid talking about these days.
"Jinyu, what do you think about the relationship between you and Guan Zhang?"
Xuan Jinyu's eyelashes trembled unconsciously and she drooped her eyelids.
She thought she was very carefree and could let go easily. She threw the divorce papers to Su Guanzhang very casually that day, but then turned around and burst into tears in the room.
She refused to communicate with him when she was first put on death row, but she quickly accepted his touch and lied to herself that they were still husband and wife in prison.
She hated his cold face for three years and couldn't accept that he had someone in his heart, but she hated him even more for wanting to abandon their child so easily.
She stroked her belly with her right hand again, tears streaming down her face, unable to hold back any longer. "Mom, I should hate him."
But she seemed to love him more.
"Mother, the teacher warned me with his life not to repeat the same mistake, but I can't seem to do it." Xuan Jinyu looked at Lin Qingwan with tears in her eyes, crying like a lost baby.
Lin Qingwan couldn't help crying along with her daughter, "My dear, your crying breaks my heart."
The child she had carried for ten months, the daughter she held in her palm, was now crying to her about her emotional pain, but she was powerless to do anything.
Xuan Jinyu's crying gradually subsided, and she only sobbed, "Mom, I still seem to like him. What should I do? I'm just so useless." She said in a low voice.
Lin Qingwan looked at her daughter steadily for a long time and then sighed.
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