Chapter 249 Am I That Old?
Bu Ruo looked at Bu Bu and Jin Er's surroundings and exchanged glances with Xiao Yu Lan. "You and your brother are covered in... a thousand-foot-long rosy glow, but it's been temporarily sealed by my mother's master, so Bu Bu can't see it."
Bu Bu was puzzled: "But why did the beautiful mother-in-law seal Bu Bu and my brother's Xia Guang? It would be so beautiful with Xia Guang."
Bu Ruo tapped her daughter's forehead and said, "That Wanzhang Xiaguang is a good thing, but if someone with bad intentions finds it, they will capture you and your brother and eat you."
Bu Bu shrank his neck and said, "Eating children... Then we should seal it up. It's too scary."
"Oh, right, Mom, the beautiful mother-in-law said that starting from tomorrow, my brother and I will be allowed to go back every three days. She said that my brother and I are old enough to learn some skills and can't continue to play around."
Bu Ruo nodded: "Then let's go back. Do you like going to the beautiful mother-in-law's place?"
"I like it. It's very beautiful there. Master Jun said that's my mother's home and that we'll have to go back there sooner or later."
When the two children just learned to speak, the woman allowed Bu Ruo to take them back to introduce them to the family. But when she heard the two little ones calling her "Teacher" in their baby voices... the woman became unhappy.
"Why call me 'Sister-in-law'? That's so ugly! Am I that old? I look younger than your mother, okay?"
"Come on, call me beautiful mother-in-law. Beautiful mother-in-law sounds so nice."
Bu Ruo: ...
The two children saw Bu Ruo nodded, and called her "beautiful mother-in-law" in a baby voice, which made the woman very happy.
When the woman heard the two children calling the man "Master", she laughed so hard that she couldn't straighten her back. Finally, Bu Bu had an idea and called the man "Master Jun" to coax him into silence.
Regarding this... Bu Ruo was speechless, but she didn't dare to say it. She knew her master's bad taste too well. Fortunately, the two little ones were sweet-mouthed. She just hoped that they would not be toyed half to death by that unscrupulous woman in the future.
Because Bu Ruo was with her two children, the emperor allowed the carriage of the Regent's Palace to enter the palace directly, which made the people waiting in line at the palace gate for inspection very envious, especially Xu Xiangdie, the daughter of the new prime minister.
"Xiangdie, you must remember what your mother told your father. The Prince Regent is not something you can aspire to be, and the Princess Regent is even more difficult to deal with."
"Those two children have received all the Emperor's favor since they were born. The Emperor treats them almost as his own children. So, Xiangdie, when you enter the palace this time, remember to stay by your mother's side and don't make that family unhappy, okay?"
"Your father has only been Prime Minister for a few years. Our Prime Minister's Mansion must not follow the old path of the previous Prime Minister. Your father has already chosen a match for you. He is the legitimate son of the Minister of Rites. You will be able to see him when he enters the palace later."
Xu Xiangdie snorted softly, "Is the legitimate son of the Minister of Rites as good-looking as the Prince Regent?"
The Prime Minister's wife choked and said, "Although he is not as handsome as the Regent, he is a very kind person. He is the legitimate son, and the Minister's wife is also gentle. You will definitely not be bullied after you marry him."
"And your brother... Oh, I really don't know what to say. Don't think I don't know what he's thinking. You covet the Prince Regent, and he has his eyes on the Princess Regent. You two really are brother and sister, really..."
"Your brother is the same. Ever since your father became the Prime Minister, he has been philandering everywhere. Now that bastard's illegitimate son is going to take the imperial examination this year, and he is not in a hurry at all."
Xu Xiangdie didn't take the Prime Minister's wife's words seriously at all: "Mother, what are you afraid of? I am a legitimate child and so is my brother. Even if that illegitimate son is well-educated, can he really surpass my brother? This Prime Minister's Mansion will belong to my brother sooner or later."
"Mom, please help me. I don't want to marry that Minister of Rites' son. What's the point of that? I want to be the Regent's concubine. As long as I become a concubine, the position of princess will be mine sooner or later."
"Before, Dad was just a minor official. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't reach that status. But Dad is now the Prime Minister. With my current status, I am more than qualified to marry the Regent as a concubine. There is no man who doesn't cheat."
"Mother, think about it. If I were to marry into the Prince Regent's Palace, everyone would look up to me at banquets hosted by officials' wives. No one would say you're a concubine's daughter who can't even be on the stage. They would all be respectful to you, because you're the Prince Regent's mother-in-law."
The Prime Minister's wife thought about it, and her originally firm mind began to waver again: "That's true, but your father has already warned me that if I can't manage you guys well, he will... divorce me."
"It's definitely not possible for your brother to fall in love with the Regent Princess, but as for you marrying into the Regent's Palace... let me think about it."
Madam Xu was born a concubine's daughter. According to her mother's mind at the time, she could not marry Prime Minister Xu as his wife, even though he was just a minor official at the time. But she was very scheming and finally killed her own sister and snatched her marriage away.
Prime Minister Xu did not know about what happened back then, but he was a very clear-minded person. In the past few years, he was so focused on doing things for the people that he neglected to discipline his children. After he became prime minister, he discovered that his legitimate children had been raised to have such an arrogant temperament.
Just when he was thinking about how to straighten the two people's minds, his second illegitimate son suddenly said that he wanted to take part in this year's imperial examination. After his examination, he found that the knowledge and cognition of his illegitimate son, whom he had not cared about for many years, were actually the same as his own. The only shortcoming was experience, which made him ecstatic.
You know, after he found out that his legitimate son actually fell in love with the Regent Princess, he was so scared that he couldn't sleep well for several days, and he even thought about divorcing his wife these days.
That’s right, Prime Minister Xu wanted to divorce his wife. He married his wife after he passed the imperial examination. Although she was a concubine’s daughter, she was also a girl from a noble family. But a concubine’s daughter was still a concubine’s daughter, and she could never be compared with those legitimate daughters in educating children and managing the household.
In the past few years, he turned a blind eye and thought it was okay, as nothing serious had happened anyway. But ever since he became the prime minister two years ago, she had become more and more excessive.
His two legitimate children were even more ignorant of the immensity of heaven and earth. What they did... was simply because they were afraid that the emperor would execute all nine generations of his clan if his prime minister's mansion was not restored.
Although even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, arranging a marriage for them and ending their idea of marriage was his last chance for the mother and her two children. If they continued to be stubborn, don't blame him for being cruel.
He has worked diligently for decades to climb to his current position, and he absolutely cannot let everything he has worked so hard for be destroyed by the mother and her two children. The former prime minister is an example.
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