"Mother!" Zhong Ming'e looked embarrassed. He was originally thin, and it was unclear whether he was angry or ashamed. Zhong Ming'e was shaking violently.
"Isn't there anything else you can do? Are you going to be childless for the rest of your life?" Concubine Shu hurriedly reached out to pat the back of Zhong Ming'e's hand, and whispered, "As long as you nod your head, I will ask your grandfather to do it, and I will definitely not let anyone else know."
"Mother." Zhong Ming'e called softly again. But this time his voice was far less resistant than before. His face was pale and his brows were knitted. "Mother, you know, I don't want this..."
"So what do you want? Let Zou be a widow for life?" Concubine Shu's anger was rising again. She grabbed Zhong Ming'e's hand and pulled him hard to make him look at her, while lowering her voice. "Or do you think your father will make a prince without children the crown prince?!"
"Mother..." Zhong Ming'e's tears welled up again. His lips trembled violently. Finally, he nodded under the earnest gaze of Concubine Shu.
September 28, 2013
Ningguta.
"Is the bed cold at night?" Ah Chou asked Zhong Mingwei while eating red bean porridge spoonful by spoonful during breakfast.
Winter came early in Ningguta, as soon as September arrived. It was basically winter, and it was already the end of September, so it was naturally colder. Although there was a kang in the house, it was much warmer than before, but the house was too big, and the bed was definitely not as warm as the kang. Ah Chou was worried early in the morning, fearing that Zhong Mingwei would get cold again.
"It's okay, I'm not cold. Didn't you just add another quilt for me? I always wake up from the heat at night," Zhong Mingwei said helplessly. He took a fried peanut from the plate and gave it to Ah Chou. "Eat the peanut quickly. The peanuts are fried well this time, and they are not burnt at all."
"How dare you say that! I finally made up my mind to buy three pounds of peanuts, but you fried more than a pound of them to a crisp," Ah Chou said with a smile, biting the peanuts with his silver teeth, "But today's peanuts are really good, crispy and fragrant."
"Really?" Zhong Mingwei looked smug, "Am I making rapid progress?"
"Haha, I don't know if it's super fast or not, but I know that the price of your progress is not small!" Ah Chou joked, and tilted his head to ask Zhong Mingwei, "Why do you have to learn how to fry peanuts? Can't I do it? Why do you need me?"
"Hurry up and eat, why are you talking so much nonsense!" Zhong Mingwei did not answer, but frowned and urged Achou to eat.
"Oh, you're so fierce again." Achou glared at him and continued to make red bean porridge. As soon as he scooped a spoonful of red bean porridge, a peanut was put in the spoon. Achou looked at the shiny peanut and immediately smiled happily. He happily ate that spoonful of red bean porridge.
"Eat slowly, there are good things coming." Zhong Mingwei said to Ah Chou as he put down his bowl and chopsticks, climbed to the head of the kang, bent down, picked up the fire fork, and dug around in the stove, then dug out a black thing.
"What?" Ah Chou also crawled over curiously, mumbling, "You just told me to eat quickly, but now you're asking me to eat slowly. You're really hard to please... Ah! Is this a roasted sweet potato?!"
"Do you like it?" Zhong Mingwei patted off the layer of black ash on the thing, revealing a palm-sized roasted sweet potato. Amid Ah Chou's cheers, he handed the roasted sweet potato to Ah Chou, "Eat it quickly, it's still hot."
"Zhong Mingwei, why are you so nice?" Ah Chou was so happy that her whole body was shaking. She held a roasted sweet potato in both hands and felt it was hot, but she was reluctant to put it down. She just threw it from her left hand to her right hand, and then from her right hand to her left hand, while grinning at Zhong Mingwei.
"Silly!" Zhong Mingwei couldn't help but curl up his lips when he saw her like this. He took a bowl from the stove, took the roasted sweet potato from Ah Chou's hand, broke it into pieces and put it in the bowl. He pushed the bowl in front of Ah Chou and said, "Come and eat."
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