Chapter 171 He gave the child a good name
Xiao Lingzhao smoothed out the wrinkles between her brows.
"You don't have to worry about it now. A baby who can't even control his poop and pee can't use the power in his body."
"I was four years old when I accidentally used the power in my body."
"At that time, my third brother was naughty and teased me, which annoyed me. I was so angry that I reached out and slapped his cheek, which resulted in him knocking out a tooth on the spot. Since then, my supernatural power has become famous in the capital."
"So I thought our children wouldn't be exposed until they were four years old."
"The source of power is in my body. I didn't discover this power until I was four years old. The little bit of power he has now is far less than what I had back then. It's not surprising that he didn't discover it until he was seven or eight years old."
"A child of seven or eight years old has already begun to understand things. As long as we explain it to him clearly in advance, he should be able to hide his abnormality and not expose it to others."
Shen Yuanwei felt at ease after hearing these words.
Then they should be able to live a stable life in the next five years.
She asked Xiao Lingzhao, "Have you decided on a name for your child?"
Xiao Lingzhao wrote the two words on Shen Yuanwei's palm, stroke by stroke.
Shen Yuanwei murmured, "As you wish?"
Xiao Lingzhao smiled and said, "Well, I hope that in his life, everything he wants can go according to his heart, and no one can force him to do anything against his will. I hope that everything he wants can go well for him and his life will be smooth."
Shen Yuanwei repeated it several times on her tongue and suddenly felt that this name was quite good.
There is no arrogance or pretentiousness in it, just a simple but loving blessing from a father.
Xiao Congyuan.
May he get everything he wants in his life.
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When it was getting dark, a middle-aged eunuch with an arrogant look came to the Xiao family.
The eunuch said that he was from the Empress Dowager's palace and came to see Madam Xiao under the Empress Dowager's order.
The old general led people to Shen Yuanwei's yard. The eunuch stood at the door of the room, flicked his whisk, and spoke in a shrill voice.
"Madam Xiao, I, on the orders of the Empress Dowager, summon you to the palace for an audience—"
In the room, Shen Yuanwei was so angry that she laughed.
She looked down at her still aching stomach and complained to Xiao Lingzhao with a sneer.
"Is she sick? I had my stomach cut open last night, and you carried me out last night. Today she wants me to go to the palace. Does she think I have nine lives and I won't die no matter how she tortures me?"
Xiao Lingzhao also found it ridiculous that the empress dowager's decree disregarded the lives of others.
He squeezed Shen Yuanwei's hand and said, "I'll go out and get rid of him."
Shen Yuanwei grabbed his arm and said, "Wait, the Queen Mother is so anxious to summon me to the palace. I'm afraid that Prince Rui is really determined to commit suicide, and she has no choice but to ask me to coax Prince Rui--"
Shen Yuanwei said, "Go call the eunuch in and I'll talk to him."
Xiao Lingzhao quickly brought the eunuch in.
The eunuch raised his head and glanced at Madam Xiao, who was no longer a concubine. He no longer had the usual respect and simply gave a perfunctory salute.
Shen Yuanwei didn't mind either.
She told the eunuch, "Go back and tell the Queen Mother that I am in very poor health and cannot walk into the palace. If the Queen Mother wants to kill me, please ask her to come to the General's Mansion and take my life."
The eunuch frowned and stared at Shen Yuanwei, "Madam Xiao, aren't you being too arrogant?"
Shen Yuanwei chuckled, "Arrogant? Haven't you seen even more arrogant ones? You were there when I stabbed the Queen Mother yesterday, right?"
The eunuch was suddenly speechless and his face looked very ugly.
He snorted, "Madam Xiao, I advise you to restrain yourself. After all, the present is different from the past. You will no longer have the Emperor to protect you. If you continue to act so recklessly, I'm afraid you will bring disaster upon yourself!"
Just as Shen Yuanwei was about to speak, Xiao Lingzhao, who was standing quietly with his hands behind his back, spoke coldly.
"The Emperor is no longer protecting her, and her husband is still alive."
Xiao Lingzhao looked at the eunuch coldly.
"If you can't speak, you can shut up. You are not worthy of teaching my wife a lesson. My Xiao family has been a general for generations. My great-grandfather's tablet is still enshrined in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Even the Queen Mother has to give our Xiao family some face. Who do you think you are?"
The eunuch never thought that the taciturn General Xiao would scold him like this.
He looked at Xiao Lingzhao in astonishment.
Xiao Lingzhao said calmly, "You warned my wife not to get herself killed. Okay, then you try to destroy my Xiao family first, and then you can tell my wife that she will get herself killed."
The eunuch looked embarrassed.
He knew that as a slave he could not afford to offend the general, so he could only grit his teeth and bow in salute.
"General, please calm down. I have no intention of offending your wife."
Xiao Lingzhao ignored him and sat down next to Shen Yuanwei.
He silently clenched Shen Yuanwei's fingers. When he sat here, he was Shen Yuanwei's greatest confidence.
Shen Yuanwei felt sweet in her heart as she looked at him who was cold and domineering in front of outsiders.
She held Xiao Lingzhao's fingers in reverse and looked up at the eunuch.
"Go back and tell the Queen Mother that she wants me to enter the palace. I can't survive with my broken body. But if her little son needs my help, please ask her to send him to the General's Mansion so that I can take care of him nearby."
The eunuch stared at Shen Yuanwei in a daze.
"You know that the Queen Mother did this for Prince Rui..."
Shen Yuanwei curled her lips.
"If you didn't ask me for anything, would the honorable Queen Mother pay any attention to me?"
At this point, Shen Yuanwei changed the subject, "But she needs help from others and asks them to bring their opened bellies to the palace to see her. She is really arrogant."
The eunuch dared not say anything.
He asked one last time, "Madam Xiao really doesn't want to enter the palace?"
Shen Yuanwei glanced at him calmly, "Why, do you want me to die on the way to see your queen mother before you are satisfied?"
The eunuch looked at the general who had a strong presence and dared not say a word.
He saluted, turned and left.
After he walked away, Shen Yuanwei asked Xiao Lingzhao, "If the Queen Mother really sends Prince Rui to the General's Mansion, would you find it troublesome?"
Xiao Lingzhao shook his head. "No, he is just a poor man who needs a doctor to treat his illness. He is exactly the same as me. We all long to be saved. We all long for someone to lead us out of the sea of suffering."
Shen Yuanwei looked at this handsome and tolerant husband with a smile.
Look, she is really lucky to have found such a good partner.
The sky gradually darkened, and almost two hours passed, but no one came to the palace.
Shen Yuanwei guessed that the Queen Mother was so arrogant because she didn't want to compromise with someone she hated. It was already late at night and Prince Rui shouldn't come, so she stopped waiting with the door open and told the doorman to close the door.
As soon as the door was closed, a carriage appeared at the end of the road.
The pale young man who had lost too much blood weakly grasped the carriage curtain. It was his first time going out and panic was filled in his dark eyes. He curled himself up against the wall of the carriage and dared not move. His eyes stared straight at the general's mansion that Queen Mother Jiang pointed to him, and there was only a light in his eyes that was running towards his sister.
But……
The light in his eyes suddenly disappeared.
He watched the door close before his eyes.
He watched helplessly as the gate of the general's mansion shut him out.
His sister called him and he came.
But my sister closed the door again and wouldn't let him in.
My sister doesn't want him anymore.
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