Chapter 58
Outside the restaurant, people are coming and going, so it's not a place to talk.
Xiao Xinghan walked into Baoweilou with a gloomy face, while Gu Yanling followed him with An An in her arms, looking very honest, feeling extremely regretful.
If I had known this, I wouldn’t have come to Baoweilou today. Woohoo, he and Baoweilou are in conflict!
Zhaocai still didn't understand what was going on. He followed Gu Yanling and wanted to speak, but was stopped by Li Youfu. Zhaocai remembered him because it was he who gave the young master a silver ingot to buy a candy man last time.
Li Youfu calmly inquired, "Is that your young master's son?"
Zhaocai nodded.
Li Youfu remained expressionless, but he was actually quite anxious. The storm had finally passed and His Highness and Young Master Yuanbao had finally gotten married, but before they had even had peace for two days, a child suddenly appeared out of nowhere. What was going on?
Servants naturally hope that their masters are all well, so that they can serve them more easily.
"Your young master hasn't married yet, so how could he have a child? This child doesn't look very big—"
Zhaocai was no fool. He could tell he was trying to pry, so he said quickly, "I don't know anything. If I don't know, you can ask our young master."
At this moment, Li Youfu only hoped that the child was not Gu Yanling's biological child.
It was still the same room as last time. The door was closed from the outside. Zhaocai was stopped by Li Youfu. He wanted to go in but couldn't, and he was very anxious.
In the house.
The cub hugged Gu Yanling's neck, secretly glanced at Xiao Xinghan, and trembled with fear: "Daddy, he is so fierce, An An is scared."
His calling him "Daddy" was undoubtedly the fuse that set off the powder keg.
Xiao Xinghan was almost unable to suppress his anger, especially when he saw the similar eyebrows and eyes of An An and Gu Yanling. He said in a deep voice: "What else do you have to say?"
No wonder he was unwilling to go horseback riding outside Beijing. It turned out that he wanted to go home to accompany his son. If he hadn't seen him today, he didn't know how long he would have kept it a secret from him.
Last night's confession of feelings to each other seemed like a joke at this moment.
Seeing how fierce he was, An An immediately burst into tears, "Woo woo, Daddy."
Gu Yanling was also a little scared. After all, Xiao Xinghan's face was really ugly. He had never seen Xiao Xinghan so angry before. He patted An An's back in a panic and said, "Don't cry, don't cry, my dear. Don't be afraid."
Xiao Xinghan was annoyed by the crying child. Seeing that Gu Yanling's eyes were red with fear, but she was still trying to comfort the child, he took a deep breath, opened the door, and finally left without saying anything, full of disappointment.
He didn't know what would happen if he stayed any longer.
Gu Yanling was so anxious that she was sweating profusely. She wanted to chase him out, but An An in her arms kept crying. Zhaocai was finally able to come in and asked worriedly, "Master, are you okay? Did he not do anything?"
Gu Yanling wiped An An's tears: "Are they gone?"
Zhaocai thought of the look on the man's face when he left, and he couldn't help but feel scared. "Master, how did you get involved with them? I think this man is not ordinary. Let's not eat anymore and go back quickly."
Gu Yanling no longer had the appetite to eat, and coaxed the baby in her arms, "Okay, okay, don't cry, daddy will take you home."
An An shook her head, tears streaming down her face as she said, "Didn't you say you wanted to eat steamed rice with abalone and shrimp?"
How could Gu Yanling eat this? He just wanted to go back to Xiao Xinghan. Looking at his expression, he might have misunderstood something. "Can we eat next time?"
An An didn't say anything.
Gu Yanling wiped his tears and knew that he was unwilling, so she had to ask Zhaocai to ask the waiter to serve the food.
An An finally smiled, and suddenly thought of something. She sniffed and asked softly, "Daddy, was that Mommy just now?"
Gu Yanling was surprised: "How did you know?"
Although An An has a good memory, she said, "Your Highness is my mother. Just now, An An seemed to hear that uncle calling him Your Highness."
"Dad used to say that Mom had a cold face and looked ferocious."
Gu Yanling didn't expect her son to be so smart. He really took after her: "Yes, he is your mother."
An An snorted. He didn't like such a fierce mother.
Gu Yanling sighed inwardly, but children's emotions come and go quickly. By the time the food was served, he had already forgotten what had just happened. He sat on Gu Yanling's lap and asked his father to feed him.
After eating and drinking, the little guy felt sleepy. He wanted to take a nap after lunch. Before Gu Yanling took him home, he had already fallen asleep on his father's shoulder and even smacked his lips in his dream.
After Gu Yanling carried him back, she put him on the bed and asked Zhaocai to take good care of him. Then she rushed over to find Xiao Xinghan.
Li Youfu was standing outside the study. He saw him enter the courtyard from a distance and went to greet him, "Your Highness has returned to the palace."
Gu Yanling didn't believe it: "Then why are you still here? Your Highness doesn't want to see me? Don't you want to listen to my explanation?"
Li Youfu pulled him under a tree and whispered, "Hey, Ancestor, what's wrong with you? His Highness is already furious. If you go in now and say something inappropriate, wouldn't that just add fuel to the fire?"
Gu Yanling was also timid. Hearing that he was angry, she couldn't help but hesitate. She hurried over and hadn't thought about how to talk about this matter. "What should I do? If I don't explain, he will definitely not calm down."
Li Youfu spoke pointedly: "Are you sure that your explanation can calm His Highness? If not, you'd better not go in."
Gu Yanling: "If I don't go in, he will be even more angry with me later. If I stick my head out, I will get hurt. Don't worry about it. I will take the responsibility if anything goes wrong."
Li Youfu: “…”
Gu Yanling spoke so confidently, but in fact she was extremely nervous, "Has His Highness returned for dinner?"
Li Youfu's face was filled with worry: "No."
Gu Yanling ordered: "Hurry up and get someone to prepare."
Soon, Gu Yanling pushed open the door of the study with the lunch box.
"Your Highness."
Gu Yanling placed the food box on the table, met Xiao Xinghan's icy gaze, paused, and finally walked to his side and sat on his lap as she did before.
"It's not what you think."
Xiao Xinghan said nothing, but didn't push him away either, as if waiting for his explanation.
Gu Yanling hesitated between telling the truth or not, "An An, An An is..."
Outside the study, Chang Feng came hurriedly to report after finishing his investigation. Gu Yanling did not interrupt him. When she saw him come in, she got up from Xiao Xinghan's legs.
Chang Feng glanced at him first, and then spoke: "Your Highness, I have found out that the child's mother is said to be a chivalrous woman. She was rescued after being injured, and -"
Chang Feng paused and looked at Gu Yanling again: "——It was born after love developed, but no one has ever seen the child's mother."
Gu Yanling: “…”
After Chang Feng finished his report, he retreated. The study was now so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Gu Yanling whispered, "Just ask me if you want to know anything. Why bother asking Brother Chang Feng to investigate? What can he find out in such a short time?"
"After all, you just don't believe me."
Xiao Xinghan glared at him, his face livid, and finally spoke: "Ask you? Have you ever told me the truth? How are you trying to lie to me this time? I don't believe a single word you say."
Seeing him like this, Gu Yanling finally burst into tears after holding back for a long time. She raised her hand to wipe them away and said angrily, "If you don't believe it, then don't believe it!"
Xiao Xinghan had no place to vent his anger, and he felt wronged when he saw that he was still feeling wronged.
Gu Yanling cried and said, "An An's birthday is the sixth of May."
Gu Yanling was afraid that he didn't understand, so she added, "An An is two years and three months old this year."
Xiao Xinghan looked a little surprised when he heard this.
Wouldn't that be July's pregnancy? At that time, Gu Yanling and I were hanging out together all day long, so how could he have the time to develop feelings for some chivalrous woman?
After Gu Yanling finished speaking, she saw that Xiao Xinghan still didn't respond. Could it be that he didn't understand? She asked in a tearful voice, "Why don't you say anything?"
Xiao Xinghan's expression eased slightly, but he still had doubts about Gu Yanling's words. This was mainly because Gu Yanling had lied so many times and never told the truth. "How do you explain that the child looks so much like you?"
"If he's not your child, why would your Gu family raise him?"
Gu Yanling: “…”
Yes, he is a boy, and Xiao Xinghan would never guess that the child was his.
Gu Yanling didn't expect him to misunderstand her again. Facing Xiao Xinghan's scrutinizing and suspicious eyes, she said inexplicably, "The child is actually my senior brother."
"After the heroine gave birth to the child, she left. My senior brother was a doctor and had to treat patients, so he had no time to take care of the child. I happened to be there at that time, so I took care of the child. The child was the closest to me. In the end, I couldn't bear to part with him, so I took him with me when I returned to Yangzhou. My parents kept urging me to get married, but I didn't want to, so I said that the child was the heroine and me. My parents saw that the child looked like me, so they believed it."
It’s no wonder that Gu Yanling lied again. An An is not only his little baby, but also his parents’ most precious grandson. If Xiao Xinghan adopts him, he will become the prince and grandson of the emperor. If he is brought back to the palace, there will be many rules in the palace, and An An is still so young.
Besides, the child was born after ten months of hardship and he should be the one to take care of the family.
Xiao Xinghan seemed to be judging the truth of this statement, but seeing today that the child was indeed young, if he was really born on the sixth day of May, it was impossible that he was the child of Gu Yanling and someone else.
"If that's the case, why did you hide it?"
Seeing his expression relaxed, Gu Yanling calmed down a bit and lied even more confidently: "I don't know how to say it. After all, An An doesn't know her own life experience. My parents like An An very much. I hope Your Highness can keep this secret."
"Besides...I brought the child back because I didn't want to get married."
Seeing that he suddenly looked embarrassed, Xiao Xinghan asked knowingly, "Why don't you want to get married?"
Gu Yanling snorted, "You know, I have you in my heart, how can I marry someone else?"
Xiao Xinghan didn't know whether he should believe him: "Really?"
Gu Yanling: "Of course it's true!"
Xiao Xinghan: "Since you have me in your heart, why don't you come to me?"
Gu Yanling: "I went there. I went to Chunjing Street the day I arrived in the capital. I just ran into my sister and found out that the innermost part was the Prince's Mansion. How could I dare to look for you?"
"Deceiving the prince is a capital crime. Do I want to die?"
Xiao Xinghan listened to his confident words and didn't think he was lying, so he pulled him into his arms and asked, "You didn't lie to me?"
Seeing that he finally softened his attitude, Gu Yanling hugged his neck and said, "Don't be angry. You know whether I have someone else or not."
Xiao Xinghan looked at him and said, "Everything you said today had better be true. If I find out that there is one sentence——"
Gu Yanling quickly kissed him and blocked his mouth.
Xiao Xinghan bit his lips and quickly took control.
Gu Yanling nestled in his arms, catching her breath before she spoke: "The food is getting cold, you should eat quickly."
Xiao Xinghan: "Have you used it?"
Gu Yanling: "How could I do that? You left in anger, so how could I still have the mood? I only fed An An and didn't eat a single bite myself. Look at my stomach, it's so empty."
Xiao Xinghan was led to place his hand on Gu Yanling's flat belly. Hearing him feeding the child and thinking of how intimately he held the child, he felt a little uncomfortable.
You only coax him after you have coaxed your own children. Is it possible that he is not as good as a child who has nothing to do with you?
Gu Yanling had no idea that he was jealous of the child, but it was an exaggeration that he didn't eat a single bite. An An used her little hands to feed him a few bites, but she really wasn't in the mood today. On normal days, she would still eat a little. "Eat first."
Xiao Xinghan didn't want to appear stingy, but he didn't believe everything Gu Yanling said today. After dinner, he ordered someone to go back to Yangzhou to check whether An An's information was true.
Gu Yanling had no idea about this, and even if she knew, she wouldn't be afraid. When An An was one year old, his father held a banquet at Zui Xiang Lou, so she could find out by just asking.
However, he had to find an opportunity to write a letter to inform his senior brother about this matter. As he was thinking about this, he heard Xiao Xinghan ask: "Is your senior brother not going to take the child back?"
Gu Yanling reacted very quickly and said, "How can my senior brother, a grown man, take good care of a child? An An is at my home, and my parents love him, so he can rest assured."
Seeing that he looked normal, Xiao Xinghan said, "That's fine. Your family has only one son for three generations. You won't marry or have children in the future. Having this child will give your family an explanation."
If all this were true, this child wouldn't be so annoying.
After hearing what he said, Gu Yanling asked tentatively, "What about you?"
Xiao Xinghan pretended not to understand: "What about me?"
Gu Yanling snorted.
Xiao Xinghan finally showed a good expression: "Come here."
Gu Yanling didn't move.
Xiao Xinghan stood up, picked him up from the stool, and walked towards the bedroom.
Gu Yanling: "...Do, what?"
Xiao Xinghan personally told him what to do, but Gu Yanling didn't expect that Xiao Xinghan would become interested in it in broad daylight.
Even though he was well prepared, the eagle was too powerful and it was too difficult for him to contain it.
I couldn't stop crying.
Xiao Xinghan had been holding it in for so long, and coupled with what happened today, he finally found an excuse to teach him a lesson. He had no mercy on him at all and was determined to torment him to the hilt.
Gu Yanling's eyelids were swollen from crying. She screamed and crawled under the bed, but was dragged back again.
Xiao Xinghan touched his belly and thrust harder: "If you eat so much, you should have an orphan baby in your belly if you can give birth."
When Gu Yanling heard him talking dirty, she didn't even have the strength to shake her head. She just kept trembling and crying.
Woo woo woo.
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