"But..." The two children were a little confused and wanted to continue asking. Chu Lingxuan shook his head and said, "If you have anything, ask again when we get back to Tangyuan."
Chu Lingxuan asked Lord Chu again, "Now that we are here, are you going to see my mother?"
Lord Chu took another look at Ying Xue An, which stood alone in the mountains and forests. The ancient trees were towering, and the red walls and black tiles made it seem even more secluded and secluded… He was already very satisfied to be able to take a look at it from the outside.
He shook his head and sighed, "Alas, now is not the right time. I won't make her sad. You guys stay with your mother. She stays here every day and is lonely."
After Lord Chu finished speaking, he walked out of the pavilion with a lonely look on his face and headed towards the Lingyin Temple at the foot of the mountain.
He had just taken a few steps when Chu Hanyan called out, "Grandpa."
Hearing the name Chu Hanyan, Lord Chu turned around happily.
Chu Hanyan saw him turn around, twisted her chubby finger and asked softly, "Sister wants to know if the umbrella is exposed..."
Seeing that she didn't quite understand, Chen Dabao added loudly, "My sister meant that the umbrella used to protect the princess from bird droppings was exposed. Was the princess hit by poop?"
Lord Chu did not expect the two children to ask such difficult questions. Seeing their eyes full of anticipation, he twitched his lips and said, "Uh, it seems like a small hole has appeared." Then he quickly turned around and left.
Chu Hanyan pouted and said, "He hasn't said whether the bad woman was hit by her father."
Chen Afu and Chu Lingxuan, who were both hurt from holding their breath, laughed out loud.
Dabao laughed and said, "The umbrella has a hole in it, so the poop must have been exposed, and the bad woman must have been hit by the poop."
Chu Hanyan laughed after hearing this. She looked at the increasingly smaller figure of Lord Chu and asked again, "He is our grandfather, why doesn't he come home with us?"
Chu Lingxuan glanced at the servants around him and whispered, "Because he has another home in the capital and doesn't live with us."
On the way, Chu Lingxuan told the two children, "Don't tell grandma that you met grandpa here."
The two children asked in unison, "Why?"
Chu Lingxuan paused and said softly, "Because he was snatched away by another woman, it hurt grandma's heart. Grandma will be sad when she hears about him."
Chen Dabao suddenly realized, "Oh, I know, it was that bad woman who took grandpa away! That bad woman was so bad, she beat mother, beat sister, and took grandpa away." He said to Chu Lingxuan, "Daddy is such a high-ranking official and so powerful, how could he not even protect his own father?" He looked at his beautiful mother and lovely sister, worry in his eyes.
Chu Hanyan said quickly, "Daddy, go and get Grandpa back. That bad woman is so bad, she might beat Grandpa." She also said, "Grandma is so pitiful, her husband was taken away from her, and she lives alone in the mountains." After she finished speaking, her little mouth pouted up, looking extremely unhappy.
Children speak without restraint, which makes Chu Lingxuan extremely embarrassed and helpless. He can't say more here. He can only whisper, "Daddy is thinking of a way... Good child, you can't tell grandma about grandpa and the bad woman, and don't tell anyone, or you will get into trouble."
Chen Ahfu held Chen Dabao's hand and was touched and amused to see his worried look. He whispered to him, "Don't worry, Dabao. Your father is very capable and will not let mother and sister be taken away by others."
"But..." Dabao didn't quite believe it, but seeing that his mother didn't want to continue, he held back the questions he was about to ask.
When I returned to the Zen room, the vegetarian meal was already placed on the kang table.
Liaochen gently invited them to the table to eat vegetarian food. The two children wanted to comfort their poor grandmother, but they suppressed their desire when they thought of their father's instructions.
However, while Chen Dabao pretended nothing had happened, Chu Hanyan's expression was extremely unnatural, and she looked at Lechen with pity from time to time.
Liaochen smiled and said, "Yan'er, do you have anything to tell grandma?"
Chu Hanyan wondered, "Hey, how did grandma know?" Feeling that she had let something slip, she glanced at her father and quickly said, "No, I don't have anything to say to grandma."
Liaochen smiled and shook his head, then used the serving chopsticks to pick up two pinches of mushrooms for Chen Ahfu, saying, "This is matsutake, which is delicious and nutritious. Eat more and try to give birth to two big fat boys by the end of the year." After a pause, he continued, "Ahfu, don't feel pressured. If this baby is a girl, give birth to a boy next time. Have more babies while you are young."
"Thank you, mother." Chen Afu said with emotion.
Seeing that the two children were looking at him, Liaochen smiled and picked up two pieces of food for each of them.
Jin Yanzi was eating pine nuts and walnut kernels, as well as a dish of matsutake mushrooms, at the head of the kang.
After they had their vegetarian meal and chatted for a while, Chen Afu, the two children, and Jin Yanzi returned to their own meditation room early to rest.
Seeing that there were no outsiders in the room, Chu Lingxuan happily told Chen that the Ninth Prince's leg had completely healed. The Emperor was very happy, and Concubine Shan even cried with excitement...
"It's really not easy for Concubine Shan." Liaochen said. Thinking of Dabao's appearance, she hesitated and said, "Mother has always had a question. If you think you can say it, then say it. If you can't say it, then don't say it."
Chu Lingxuan smiled and said, "What's the matter, mother asked."
Lechen said, "Dabao's identity must be extraordinary. He was the one who had Dabao sent to that forest. He intended for his mother to raise him in Tang Garden, right?"
Chu Lingxuan thought about it and felt that there were some things he should let her know, otherwise her misunderstanding of his father would become deeper and deeper. So he nodded and said, "I only found out about it later... How did mother guess it?"
Liaochen said leisurely, "No wonder, I said there would be no such coincidence..."
It was early March six years ago, when Liaochen was riding a carriage to Tangyuan. When the carriage reached a forest about two or three miles away from Tangyuan, it suddenly broke down. The driver was repairing the carriage, and Liaochen and the little nun who served her had to get off and wait.
Suddenly, they heard the sound of a baby crying in the woods, and hurried to find the source of the sound. Not far into the woods, they saw a red blanket thrown under a tree about five or six feet away. The crying sound came from there.
Although it was spring, it was easy for a child to get sick if he was left lying on the ground. Liaochen felt distressed and hurried over there. As she walked too fast, she sprained her ankle on a small stone. She was in unbearable pain and squatted down to rub her foot when she saw two women running over and one of them picked up the baby.
The woman looked around and asked, "Whose child is this? Whose child is this?"
Liaochen and the other man were blocked by the trunk of an old banyan tree, so the woman didn't see them.
Another woman said, "Mrs. Chen, haven't you always wanted to give Ah Fu a son to take care of him in his old age?"
The woman laughed and said, "Oh, yes, this is really God's will!"
The two women quickly took the children and left.
Although Liaochen felt a little regretful that the child was taken away, he felt relieved when he saw that the child was adopted by someone.
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