329. Baby’s nickname is revealed

Ren Qining and his party were invited into the mansion, and Mo Xiuyao and Ye Li personally accompanied them to meet Mr. Qingyun.

Ren Qining and others walked in the Dingwang Mansion, and they couldn't help but reveal a trace of surprise when they looked at the courtyard scenery in the palace. Although the Dingwang Mansion is located in the center of Licheng, it is also the largest mansion in the entire Licheng. But compared with the palaces of various countries, it is naturally not good enough, and it is also a little smaller than the Dingwang Mansion in Chujing. Not to mention, the palace is completely devoid of carved beams and painted rafters, exotic flowers and plants as imagined by outsiders. The front yard, where government affairs are handled on weekdays, is clean and simple but still majestic. The courtyard in the back for daily living is also quiet and peaceful.

This mansion is not bad, but it seems a bit shabby when compared with Mo Xiuyao's current reputation. Ren Qining glanced at the white-haired man walking in front of him with a deep gaze. If he really has no intention of ruling the world, then he has a bigger plan. Soon, Ren Qining threw the first possibility out of his mind. If he didn't have the idea of ​​ruling the world, why did Mo Xiuyao fight so many battles?

The courtyard where Mr. Qingyun temporarily lives is a quiet little courtyard deep in the palace. In fact, although the Ding Palace is not big, the various rules are also clearly defined inside and outside. On weekdays, many officials and generals who come and go go to the front courtyard or the main courtyard where Mo Xiuyao and Ye Li live, and generally do not disturb other people. Therefore, the back half of the entire palace is very quiet. Standing at the door, Ye Li asked the servant guarding the door to go in and report. Then she turned around and looked at the blue-clothed woman who followed Ren Qining closely and said, "Princess Yun, please stay and have tea in the side hall."

Concubine Yun was startled, and looked at Ye Li with some dissatisfaction, saying, "I came here sincerely to wish Mr. Qingyun a happy birthday. What do you mean, Princess?"

Ye Li frowned slightly, looked at Ren Qining and said, "King of the Northern Territory, we in the Central Plains have never brought concubines to pay birthday greetings. Please forgive me, King of the Northern Territory." As soon as these words came out, Ren Qining's face suddenly became a little ugly. He himself was from the Central Plains, and was born into the most orthodox royal family in the Central Plains. Even though the Lin royal family no longer existed, he did not miss a single thing that should be learned. Ye Li's move was clearly a mockery of his ignorance of etiquette and his barbaric look.

"Your Majesty..." Concubine Yun didn't expect Ye Li to be so disrespectful to her. She glared at Ye Li with hatred, reached out to pull Ren Qining's sleeve, her eyes blurred with tears.

Queen Helan beside her smiled and said, "Princess Ding must have misunderstood. Not to mention you Central Plains, we don't have this rule in the North. It's just that the king likes Concubine Yun and asked her to serve him. Let Concubine Yun wait outside for us to come out." There is indeed no such rule in the North. The nobles in the North are all headed by the main wife. In the eyes of these noble women in the North, concubines are no different from female slaves. Basically, noble women in the North will never serve as concubines for others.

Ye Li smiled, "So that's how it is."

As they were talking, the servant who had gone in to report came out and invited everyone in. Concubine Yun quickly pulled Ren Qining and looked at him pitifully, "Your Majesty..." Ren Qining frowned slightly and said, "You wait outside."

"Junior Lin Yuan, meet Mr. Qingyun." In the courtyard, Mr. Qingyun was brewing tea. After hearing the servant's report, he asked someone to invite Ye Li and others into the courtyard. Before Ye Li and Mo Xiuyao came forward to introduce themselves, Ren Qining stepped forward and bowed slightly.

Mr. Qingyun stopped, looked up at Ren Qining, and said in a puzzled manner: "Lin Yuan? Although I am old, I remember that the king of the northern border should be surnamed Ren?" Ren Qining smiled faintly and said: "Lin Yuan is Ren Qining. The younger generation of Lin's royal family descendant Lin Yuan has met Mr. Qingyun." Next to him, Mo Xiuyao's face was slightly cold. No wonder Ren Qining was so enthusiastic to come to see Mr. Qingyun first. It's better to say that he came to annoy people than to celebrate his birthday. At that time, the head of the Xu family killed the last emperor of the previous dynasty and opened the city to surrender. After that, the Xu family was used by successive Chu emperors to gain the reputation of the world's top Confucian scholars. Ren Qining's move was clearly to remind Mr. Qingyun that the Xu family had achieved what it has today by betraying the royal family of the previous dynasty.

Mr. Qingyun looked Ren Qining up and down for a long while before he smiled and said, "So there is still a branch of the royal family of the previous dynasty still alive. That's right. The King of the Northern Territory has achieved such an achievement, which should comfort our ancestors."

Ren Qining looked at Mr. Qingyun and asked in a deep voice, "I want to restore the country and revive the royal family. Do you think it is possible, Mr. Qingyun?"

"Yes." Mr. Qingyun said, "There is nothing that can or cannot be done in this world. Why can't Mr. Lin have such an ambition?"

Ren Qining's eyes flickered, and he asked, "Mr. Qingyun, do you think I will succeed?"

Mr. Qingyun was silent for a moment, then asked: "If the King of Northern Jin really unifies the world, this world...should it be called Ren, or Lin? This world will be called the Northern Border or the Great Qin?" Hearing this, Ren Qining's face changed slightly, and he forced a smile and said: "We can talk about it after the mountains and rivers are settled." Mr. Qingyun shook his head and said: "If the King of Northern Jin can't make up his mind, he will never unify the world." Ren Qining's face turned pale, but he fell silent and stopped talking.

Ye Li walked up to him and smiled, "Grandpa, why are you making tea alone? Aren't Mr. Su and Mr. Xiuting here?"

Mr. Qingyun smiled and brought them a few cups of tea and asked them to sit down, saying, "They are playing chess in the study. I'm old and can't stand sitting alone, so I came out to have a cup of tea. But where have those boys from Yu Chen gone these days? Why didn't any of them come to see an old man like me unless someone called them?" Ye Li smiled and covered her lips with her hands, saying, "Grandpa let them rest these days, and they are lying in the yard looking after their younger brother and sister." The two babies, who are already more than a month old, have grown up and are a pink and tender bunch, so cute. The three little brats, led by Mo Xiaobao, would hang around the two babies every day when they had nothing to do. They even stopped playing around as they usually do. They would never come to the courtyard to listen to Mr. Qingyun's tutoring. "Grandpa is bored at home, so Li'er asked someone to send a few boys over to keep him company. Grandpa, please don't think they are naughty."

Mr. Qingyun waved his hands and said, "Forget it. Those guys have been getting more and more restless this year. It's so hard to have two days of leisure."

Seven or eight-year-old boys are the age when cats and dogs dislike them, and Mo Xiaobao, a naturally smart kid, is even more difficult to deal with. He brought a younger boy around the palace, and everyone was afraid of him. If it weren't for Xu Qingchen and Ye Li's pressure, he would have been forced to leave Dingwang Mansion. But now, for the sake of the two newborn children, he was very quiet for a long time. Whenever Ye Li saw Mo Xiaobao lying beside the cradle and talking to the baby who didn't understand anything, she felt that Mo Xiaobao would definitely be a good brother.

After talking with Mr. Qingyun for a while, Ye Li and Mo Xiuyao accompanied Ren Qining out. I don't know what Mr. Qingyun said that touched Ren Qining, but his face was a little pale when he left. Mo Xiuyao and Ye Li pretended not to see it, and ordered people to send Ren Qining and his group back to the inn to rest, and then left.

Back in the main courtyard, in a room specially set aside near the bedroom, two white and soft little babies were lying side by side in a wide cradle. The babies, who had just turned one month old, had grown fair and tender, and their delicate and pretty looks made people want to take a bite. Three little babies of different heights stood around the waist, looking eagerly at the two cute babies. The two babies were surprisingly well-behaved, and they were not asleep, and they were not crying with their dark eyes open.

"Sister...sister, grow up quickly, brother will take you out to play..." Mo Xiaobao said softly while leaning on the rocking cot and looking at the little baby wrapped in red swaddling clothes. Then he looked at the little brother wrapped in yellow swaddling clothes and said, "Brother, you must grow up quickly too, brother will teach you martial arts, and we will protect your sister together..."

"And me! And me!" Leng Junhan raised his little hand and said, "I want to protect my sister too. Junhan likes my sister!"

Mo Xiaobao, who was always very kind to Leng Xiaodai, suddenly became fierce, "Leng Xiaodai, how dare you take advantage of my sister?! My sister is mine, you are not allowed to have such delusions!" The seven-year-old Mo Xiaobao also has a rich vocabulary of idioms. Leng Xiaodai turned his head away proudly, "Humph! I just like little sisters!" The little sister is so soft and tender that I want to take a bite...

"Wipe your saliva, don't smear it on your sister. It's dirty." Xu Zhirui looked at Leng Xiaodai with disdain, and gave his father a cold and serious look. But he also wanted to pinch his little sister and brother.

Mo Xiaobao turned around, put his hands on his waist and stared at the two little friends in front of him very seriously, and said solemnly: "You are not allowed to pay attention to my sister. If anyone dares to pay attention to my sister in the future, you must beat him to death with me!" The two little kids looked at each other and nodded firmly to Mo Xiaobao: "That's right, whoever dares to pay attention to my sister, beat him!" At the same time, they cast hostile eyes at each other. The soft and tender little sister is mine!

Outside the door, Ye Li listened to the conversation of the three little kids and couldn't help but laugh softly while leaning against Mo Xiuyao. Mo Xiuyao supported Ye Li with one hand, but his handsome face was gloomy. Mo Xiaobao, that idiot, really taught him for so many years in vain. It was obviously the two in front of him who first caught his sister's attention!

The two of them entered the room, and Ye Li asked with a smile, "Xiaobao, Zhirui, Junhan, what are you doing?"

Seeing his parents coming back, Mo Xiaobao greeted them happily, and did not forget to boast, "Mom, I am protecting my brother and sister."

Mo Xiuyao walked over and picked up the baby in the cot, and waved away the nurse who was watching over her. He looked down at the baby in his arms with a very tender and loving look in his eyes, "My little princess is awake, not crying... so good. Not like you and your brother at all, who cried all day when he was little. Father almost thought he could do nothing but cry." Mo Xiaobao, who was slandered by his father in front of his sister, glared at Mo Xiuyao with resentment. Mo Xiuyao gave him a provocative look with disdain, and held the soft little princess higher so that Mo Xiaobao, who stretched his neck, could not see anything.

I will definitely be taller than my father in the future! Mo Xiaobao swore silently in his heart, frustrated and angry.

Ye Li smiled and touched her son's head. Mo Xiaobao grabbed his mother's clothes in grievance, "Mom, father bullied me..." Ye Li flicked his forehead and smiled, "You have been watching over your sister these days. Don't you have to do your homework?" Mo Xiaobao touched his forehead and said, "Grandfather said there will be no classes these days..."

"Grandpa is old, and there is no class today because there are too many things to do. Can you stop studying? Haven't you learned calligraphy or read books for several days?" Looking down at her son, Ye Li asked with a smile.

"Three days..." Mo Xiaobao knew he was in the wrong, lowered his head and whispered, "Mother, am I wrong..."

"It's OK to know you're wrong. Learning requires perseverance, do you know?"

"I understand. I will go and make up for the missed days." Mo Xiaobao nodded repeatedly. Ye Li leaned over and kissed him on the forehead and smiled, "That's a good boy. Go after lunch and don't be too tired. Everything should be done in moderation, understand?"

"Okay, I got it. I'll come to see my brother and sister in the evening." Mo Xiaobao nodded heavily, and went out with Xu Zhirui and Leng Junhan. Seeing the three children reluctantly leave, Ye Li couldn't help but chuckle, walked over and bent over to pick up the little baby in the cradle. The little guy's eyes were round, and he giggled when he saw Ye Li. Seeing her son so well-behaved and cute, the smile on Ye Li's face became softer. Mo Xiuyao, who was holding the little princess, glanced over here, his eyes fell on the giggling son in Ye Li's arms, and his handsome eyes narrowed, "Ali, you come and hold the little princess, let me hold this kid."

Ye Li exchanged the small bag with him in confusion. Does it matter who holds whom? And doesn't Mo Xiuyao always like to hold his daughter?

"Waaa..." As soon as the little guy got into Mo Xiuyao's hands, he immediately burst into tears without giving any face. As if affected by his crying, the little princess in Ye Li's arms also sobbed. Mo Xiuyao's face suddenly darkened, and he stared at the little baby in his arms gloomily, "Shut up!"

"Wow!" little baby.

"Woo woo..." little princess.

"Shut up!"

“Wow!”

Ye Li was holding the little princess and coaxing her softly, but the two children beside her were too noisy and the well-behaved little princess couldn't be coaxed. She took the little baby from Mo Xiuyao's arms and handed the little princess over. Ye Li then focused on coaxing the little baby, "Baby, be good. Father is not good, we will ignore him... Don't cry..."

The man sitting next to him holding his daughter suddenly frowned, "Ari..."

Ye Li glared at him angrily, "How can he understand how a child laughs? You still yell at him. What if he gets scared?"

Mo Xiuyao glanced at the little bun in his wife's arms with a displeased look, secretly complaining in his heart: It's clear from the look on her face that she's trying to compete with him, how could she be scared? The little brat is really annoying, why didn't Ah Li give birth to two little princesses? Look at how well-behaved his precious little princess is.

"Ali, has Mr. Qingyun chosen the baby's name?" Mo Xiuyao asked while looking at the little princess in his arms. The little princess is very delicate and cute. Although she is only a month old, she already looks very similar to Ye Li. Even the Xu family members say that she looks exactly like A Li when she was a child. Most importantly, the little princess' eyes look very much like his. It is indeed his baby daughter. She looks really good. You can tell at a glance that this is his and A Li's baby. But that brat! Mo Xiuyao glanced at the baby boy in Ye Li's arms. Why does this kid look like Xu Qingchen? ! Although it is said that nephews look like uncles, Xu Qingchen is obviously his cousin, okay?

In fact, Mo Xiuyao was definitely overthinking this. The little baby didn't look like Xu Qingchen but like Ye Li's mother, the late Madam Xu. Madam Xu was one of the most beautiful women in the Xu family and was also Xu Qingchen's aunt. If you look closely, you will find that she is somewhat similar to Xu Qingchen. Xiao Baobao looks like Madam Xu, so she is also somewhat similar to Xu Qingchen.

"Not yet. Grandpa said he needs to think about it carefully. We can give it a nickname first." Actually, it's not too late to name a baby before it turns one year old. But it's not convenient to always call a baby "baby" without a name, especially now that there are two of them. Mo Xiuyao also thinks he should think about it carefully, especially for his little princess. Originally, he wanted to name it himself, but after listing a long list of names and rejecting them all, Prince Ding doubted his knowledge for the first time in his life. He couldn't even think of a nice name for his baby? !

"Then let's give him a nickname first? What's it called..." Mo Xiuyao stared at the giggling kid in Ye Li's arms, holding Ye Li's fingertips, and smiled wickedly, "Then let's follow Mo Xiaobao and call him... Mo Xiaobei?"

Ye Li could imagine the resentful look in the baby's eyes when she grows up. She rolled her eyes at him and said, "You mean a daughter?" Mo Xiaobao is good enough. It can barely be a boy's name. If he really calls her Xiaobei, his son will cry to death. Mo Xiuyao shook his head, "How can that be? I have already thought of a nickname for the little princess. Let's call her Xiaoxin'er, the sweetheart of Ah Li and me. Now everything is complete, isn't it?"

"Are you sure this sounds better than Xiaobei?" Should she thank him for not calling her darling?

"Xin Xiao'er sounds nice, how about A-Li? Mo Xiaobei, Xin Xiao'er..."

Ye Li looked up at the sky in silence. Seeing Mo Xiuyao holding the little princess with a happy face, she couldn't help but soften her heart. Be careful, but... "Without Mo Xiaobei, your brother's nickname is Lin'er." She must stick to the bottom line. She didn't want her son to feel inferior because of a nickname in the future. Mo Xiuyao looked at Lin'er who almost called him Mo Xiaobei unwillingly, but seeing Ye Li's determined look, he had to give up, "Be careful, dear baby, your father loves you the most."

Ye Li helplessly looked at the man who suddenly became childish. Is it really okay to favor girls over boys like this?

Several years later, the second son of the Mo family, who had become famous all over the world, confessed to the person he trusted most that the person he loved, respected and was most grateful to was his mother. Not because she gave birth to him, not because she loved and raised him, but because she firmly saved his name and prevented him from falling into the same tragic situation as his elder brother. Just imagine that when you stand in the middle of thousands of people with your sword drawn and immediately accept everyone's worship, suddenly an acquaintance yells: "Mo Xiaobei! So-and-so called you..." What a devastating tragedy it is.

Of course, the second son of the Mo family, who still knew nothing at this time, would not understand how dangerously he had brushed shoulders with a tragic fate. So he just lay in his mother's arms and smiled happily. Princess Xin'er seemed to feel her brother's joy and laughed along with him. Ye Li smiled at the two little babies in their arms, and the smile on her face became even bigger. Mo Xiuyao looked at his wife, then at the little princess in his arms, and could only silently tolerate the fact that the toothless little bastard occupied his beloved wife's arms.

Each of them sat down with the baby in their arms. No matter how busy she was, Ye Li would always pull Mo Xiuyao to hug the baby and play with them. This was really a lesson learned from the fact that Mo Xiaobao and his father seemed to be born incompatible. Ye Li firmly believed that this was definitely because they spent too little time together when Mo Xiaobao was a child.

"Xiu Yao, what do you think of Queen Helan?" Ye Li asked while teasing Xiao Lin'er with one hand.

Mo Xiuyao thought for a while, frowned and said, "She looks good. It's rare for a Northern Territory woman to be so outspoken and yet know her limits. Does Ah Li like her?"

Ye Li smiled and said, "I always feel that... Queen Helan is very unusual. But her relationship with Ren Qining doesn't seem to be that good."

"Queen Helan is the cousin of Ren Qining's previous wife. Ever since the death of the previous queen, there has been a dispute in the North over the candidate for Ren Qining's queen. Lin's confidants naturally hope that Ren Qining can marry a woman from the Central Plains as his queen, but even if the people of the North are simple-minded, they will never easily give in to matters related to inheritance, so they will naturally not agree. In the end, it was probably the North that had the upper hand and married Helan as the queen. It would be strange if they could have a good relationship like this."

Ye Li rubbed his brows and said, "Even so, Ren Qining has gone too far." It would be fine if he didn't bring the queen with him when visiting another country, but since he brought the queen and a concubine with him, it was clearly a disrespect to the queen. "Even if you don't take action against the former queen, I'm afraid Ren Qining will take action himself in a few years, right? In this way, do you think you have solved a problem for him?"

Mo Xiuyao didn't take it seriously, and smiled faintly: "Doesn't he have new troubles now? And...Ali's feeling is right. This Queen Helan is probably more powerful than the previous queen." The previous queen was the princess of the largest tribe in the North. Although she was a barbarian woman, her methods were extraordinary. She was quite prestigious among the ministers in the North. It was precisely because of this that the originally harmonious relationship between the couple gradually changed. And now this one seems to be arrogant and wanton, without any brains. But who is Mo Xiuyao? If you want to play the pig and eat the tiger, no one in the world is more powerful than him. "Who does Ren Qining think he is? He wants to throw him away after taking advantage of the people in the North. I am afraid that he will not be able to get rid of him in the future, and he will suffer the consequences."

Ye Li couldn't help but smile, "So, it seems my feeling is correct. Was Queen Helan trying to show her goodwill to us just now?"

Mo Xiuyao said, "Ah Li, don't worry too much. If you like her, it's fine to be friends with her. If you don't like her, don't bother with her. If you want to deal with Ren Qining, I have plenty of ways to do it."

Ye Li smiled and said, "It's okay. I also think this Queen Helan is very interesting. Why not invite her to the palace in a couple of days to have a cup of tea and chat together." Mo Xiuyao did not object to Ye Li's suggestion, "Ali, just do whatever you want."

Ye Li lowered her head and teased the little baby with a smile. Ren Qining was too complacent. Who knows what his expression will be when he is stabbed by someone close to him one day?