Chapter 212: Ambition
Then he said to the maid Zhixia: "Go back!"
Wuming and Wuying followed their master, listening to the woman outside the door calling them "brother" and "brother" affectionately, and asking them about some trivial matters. The atmosphere was harmonious and heartwarming.
In front of the two gentlemen, one big and one small, the Crown Prince's wife was truly happy. She seemed to have become a different person, like... like a bird flying out of a cage.
Inside and outside the door are two completely different worlds.
"Let's go!" The guards were infected by this emotion and heard their master say.
Wuying scratched his head. Wasn’t the prince going to meet his elder and younger brothers-in-law?
Leaving now?
When Chen Shuyao returned to Songhe Hall, she heard Wang ask, "Why are you alone? Where are the two gentlemen?"
Chen Shuyao smiled and distributed the gifts her brother brought to everyone, then said, "They were just passing by today. My brother and I were having dinner outside and met a chef from Jiangnan. My brother said the food was authentic, so he took a few dishes for me. Now I'm in a hurry to go back!"
Today is the winter solstice. Except for the court officials who participate in the heaven sacrifice, people generally do not choose to go out on this day.
Just like the Chengguo Mansion, all the people in the mansion gathered in Songhe Hall, either chatting or drawing the Jiujiu Xiaohan Diagram.
Of course, we also have to eat dumplings.
Even if I'm not hungry, I'll still try one or two just to suit the occasion.
In this way, the festival passed smoothly.
The Xiao family's dumplings have a variety of fillings. Chen Shuyao asked the chef in the mansion to stew the southern dishes that her brother brought over and put them on the table.
She tasted some herself, and the others, finding it novel, also took a few bites with their chopsticks.
As a result, the dishes originally prepared in the mansion were not touched much.
After dinner, Wang said to her son, "Why didn't you ask the eldest son of the Shen family when you went to see him? Where is the cook now? If possible, please bring him to our house so that Yaoyao can often taste the flavors of home."
After hearing this, Chen Shuyao looked at Xiao Mo in confusion, and saw him glance at her and said lightly: "I know."
He knows?
What does he know?
He didn't even go to see his brother just now, okay?
When Shen Shuyao looked over again, the man pulled his lips down and looked obviously unhappy.
She quickly looked away. Can't I even take a look?
Chen Shuyao thought about it and simply stopped caring about it. Why bother thinking about him?
The couple left Songhe Hall one after the other, but one returned to Yanyu Hall and the other returned to Mingzhe Hall.
After the two separated, Shen Shuyao walked forward a few steps, glanced in the direction the man left, and then remembered to ask: "Where is Zhixia?"
Hui Xiang curled her lips and said, "We servants all followed you to the second gate, how would we know? I guess he made a mistake and was kicked out!"
Chen Shuyao looked at her, thinking of how this maid squeezed out Zhixia and insisted on helping her grind ink, and said, "From now on, when I write, you will watch by my side. I will also leave all the grinding of ink to you. You have been with me for so long, and now your ambition is growing, but your skills are not. I feel embarrassed to say that you are the big maid beside me."
Huixiang's face sank and she looked like she was about to cry.
God knows she is just tough-talking but not very capable.
In the following days, Xiao Mo still lived in Mingzhe Hall.
Because the changes in the two were so obvious, Wang gradually noticed the difference.
That day, when Xiao Mo went to Chunhui Hall to pay his respects, he heard his mother say, "What's going on between you two? Weren't you all fine before? Yaoyao told me that you were upset about the emperor's decision. Tell me the truth today. Is that true?"
Xiao Mo sat there, said lightly that it was nothing, thought for a moment and said, "Don't worry about it."
Wang was furious: "How could I not care? Look at how much younger your fourth brother is than you. The child is already one month old."
Wang had said these words many times before, and Xiao Mo just listened to them, but today he felt unusually irritated. "It's a child again, can't you say something new?"
Thinking of the young woman's appearance, who didn't even allow himself to be touched, Xiao Mo sneered in his heart.
Seeing his expression, Wang Shi was filled with anger and pain, but now she softened her tone. "Mother didn't want to say anything to you, but look at what you've done! You eagerly asked me to propose marriage, and now that you've married her, you're leaving her alone. I heard you've been getting too close to those four maids lately."
After hearing what his mother said, Xiao Mo felt even more disappointed.
Look! How could she not know what even her mother knew?
It's just that I don't care!
Xiao Mo looked at his mother and felt that he could not stay any longer.
He walked in a hurry, as if he didn't want to stay for a moment.
In Yan Yu Hall, Nanny Zheng was also extremely anxious. She advised earnestly, "Young lady, you should go and tell the young master! You used to be such a smart person, why are you so twisted now?"
Chen Shuyao frowned, thinking about the news the maids had heard from outside, that the prince would pick four flowers and bring them back to Mingzhe Hall every day after court, that the maids from the other courtyard would often hear the prince laughing and joking with the maids when they passed by, and that the prince had become more enlightened since he got married. Recently, everyone in the mansion was discussing whether the four women would be promoted to concubines together.
It is also said that the Crown Prince’s wife is still not pregnant, and it may be difficult for her to get pregnant in the future.
After hearing about it, the maids in other courtyards also started dressing up extravagantly. This caused Chen and Liu to misunderstand that these maids were trying to seduce the master of the mansion. However, after careful observation, they found that they had to pass by the road that the prince had to pass every day.
Chen Shuyao has become numb after hearing it so much. Let it be whatever it wants!
She didn't have much emotion to begin with, and it had just loosened a little, but it suddenly developed to this point.
Chen Shuyao couldn't say that she had no responsibility at all. She hadn't intended to keep it a secret, but the development of the matter was beyond her expectations, and now she felt there was no need to say anything.
Men and women are inherently unequal. As a man, he has always had many choices, but she does not.
She only has this world, her husband and her children, and her husband is a man with independent will, whom she cannot and will not influence.
Chen Shuyao stroked her belly, which hadn't changed at all.
I hope so! It would be a boy.
In this way, he will be the prince from birth, and she only needs to raise him well in this life.
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