Seeing this little person, Lord Chu's cold face warmed up again. He stretched out his hand to touch her, but when he touched the gauze, he retracted his hand and turned back to walk out of the bedroom.
He nodded almost imperceptibly to Chen Afu, and said coldly to Chu Lingxuan, "I will go back to the post station now and go to the south early tomorrow morning."
Chu Lingxuan said nothing, just nodded.
He looked at Chu Hua and the child in her arms again. Chu Hua pouted and turned her head away, ignoring him. Heng Ge'er was still smiling at him with tears in his eyes.
Lord Chu shook his head, sighed, and walked out of the house. Chu Lingxuan followed him out.
When the figure of Lord Chu disappeared through the courtyard gate, Chu Hua began to cry out. The wet nurse hurried over and took Heng'er, who started crying again, from her arms.
Chen Ahfu went over and wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and advised, "Sister Chu, please stop being sad. Your makeup won't look good if you cry."
Chu Hua cried, "Whenever I see him, I will think of what my mother has been through these years, how my brother and I had to go far away to the border, and the suffering that Sister Yan had to endure... I hate him and blame him... In fact, he loved me the most when I was a child. How could he do this..."
Chen Ahfu couldn't say anything to Lord Chu, so he could only advise Chu Hua to think more positively, saying that the worst days were over and a better life was just around the corner...
Chu Hua cried and muttered at the same time. When she had cried enough, the maids brought her water to wash her face and put on makeup again.
Suddenly, she seemed to have just thought of something, raised her head and asked Chen Ahfu, "My brother Heng seemed to have spoken just now, and called me 'Master', did I hear it correctly?"
Chen Ahfu smiled and said, "Of course you heard it right. Heng Ge'er did call me 'Master'."
Chu Hua smiled with curved eyebrows, stood up and said, "I have to let my brother Heng call her mother, father, and grandma to make my mother happy."
Chen Ahfu pulled her back and said with a smile, "Brother Heng has been taken to the west room by his nurse and is sleeping on the couch. Don't bother him."
The two sat together and talked for a while. Chen Ahfu whispered to Chu Hua that Chu Zhen had asked him to make clothes for her, but she refused.
Chu Hua sneered, "Sister Chen is right. You are my future sister-in-law, and she dares to talk back at you. She is too arrogant. Humph, before my third aunt returned to Beijing, Li was the head of the Marquis' Mansion. She had a temper and courage. Today, she is still waiting for Madam Chen and you to visit her. This also allows Chu Zhen to be ignorant of the world and think that she is the eldest daughter of the Marquis' Mansion and everyone has to serve her. The Peach Blossom Banquet is a flower-viewing banquet held by the Princess of An County. All the wealthy families in Beijing will attend. Chu Zhen wants to wear different clothes to attend the Peach Blossom Banquet. She must want to find a good in-law family. The mother and daughter are a joke in Beijing, but their vision is still very high..."
Chen Afu smiled, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea, then said, "That Second Madam Luo is very good at talking." She was always a little bothered by Second Madam Luo calling her "beautiful" in public. She intuitively felt that she was not praising herself, but rather "using her beauty to please others."
Chu Hua heard the hidden meaning in Chen Ahfu's words and whispered, "My second aunt has always wanted to marry one of her concubines to my brother." She curled her lips and said, "She really dares to think so. No matter how chaotic my family is, or my brother remarries, it is not something that a concubine's daughter of a fourth-rank official like her can marry."
As soon as she finished speaking, she remembered that Chen Ahfu's father was also a fourth-rank official, and Chen Ahfu's status was even worse than that of a concubine's daughter. Her face flushed red, and she quickly apologized, "I'm sorry, I don't mean to look down on Sister Chen. No matter what your background is, my brother really likes you. My grandfather, Third Uncle, Third Aunt, and especially Sister Yan, they all like you, and I like you too."
Chen Ahfu laughed and quickly comforted her, "I know Sister Chu didn't mean it. This is how my life is. At first, I was unwilling to accept Chu because of my life experience..."
Her face immediately turned red, and she quickly stopped talking. This was ancient times, and the person in front of her was Chu Lingxuan's sister, so it was not appropriate to talk about the things between her and him...
Chu Hua was listening happily, and when he saw Chen Afu stopped talking, he quickly said, "Sister Chen, please continue. You didn't accept my brother, so what did my brother do to win your heart?"
Chen Ahfu waved his hand and said, "What? No more. Stop talking nonsense."
Chu Hua didn't believe it, so she pulled Chen Afu to let her continue. The two of them giggled and pulled each other, and Chen Afu felt that it was a bit like the fights she had with her best friends in her previous life.
Finally, Chen Ahfu asked again, "Master Luo is also working in Shizhou Prefecture?"
Chu Hua shook his head and said, "My second uncle is working in Xichuan Province. Because my grandmother is still alive, my first and second uncles did not separate the family. My grandmother was sick and paralyzed in bed, so my second uncle asked my second aunt to live with several children in Shizhou Prefecture, saying that he was representing my grandmother to show filial piety."
As the two were talking, Chu Lingxuan came back. Seeing Chen Afu and Chu Hua holding hands and talking happily, his eyes were full of smiles. He asked, "What are you talking about? You look so happy."
Chu Hua smiled and said, "Don't tell me the secret we talked about." Then he asked, "That man left? Brother, why did you bring him here? Just to not let him see Sister Yan. He was so cruel at the beginning, why is he pretending to be a good guy now?"
Chu Lingxuan said, "No matter what, he is still our father. He came to Yan'er's birthday banquet today, and it would be bad to stop him from entering. He also said he wanted to see the children, so Grandpa asked me to bring him here."
Then he said to Chen Afu, "We will return to Tangyuan in three days. You can come with us."
Chen Ahfu shook his head and said, "No, when I came, Dabao was crying very sadly, and I promised him that I would go back early."
Chu Lingxuan was reluctant to part with Chen Afu, but when he heard her move Dabao out, he had no choice but to give up.
Xia Yue reminded Chen Afu, "Miss, I heard the show is almost over. You should go and meet up with the Madam and the others."
Chen Ahfu stood up and said to Chu Lingxuan, "Uncle, I'm leaving first."
Chu Lingxuan said, "I'll see you off tomorrow morning."
Chen Ahfu nodded, and then said to Chu Hua, "Sister Chu, after you go to visit Abbot Lelechen, please stay in Tangyuan for a few more days. I can also accompany you well."
Chu Hua agreed and accompanied her to Guiyuan, where the party would be held.
The operas here are somewhat similar to Kunqu operas from previous lives. Chen Afu couldn’t understand a word of what was being sung, but the costumes and looks of these people were very beautiful.
After a quarter of an hour, the play was over, and Chen Ahfu and her sisters said goodbye to Luo Si's grandmother. Luo Si's grandmother quietly apologized to Jiang and Chen Ahfu, saying that Li was a fool and asked them not to take it to heart.
Jiang took Luo Si's grandmother's hand and said with a smile, "Don't worry, niece. I won't argue with someone who doesn't know what he is talking about."
Chen Afu glanced at Li who was seeing off other female guests in the distance. She didn't even realize she was being laughed at. Why would the Chu family marry such a person?
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