Zheng Xiu talked to Xue Shao for a while, and it was getting late. Not long after, Xue Zhi came back from outside.
He had stationed someone at the gatehouse to prevent Zheng Xiu, who had been a little neurotic these days, from going out rashly. As soon as she entered the mansion, the gatehouse reported to her that Zheng Xiu had asked someone to harness a carriage. Fortunately, she did not go out in the end.
Xue Zhi nodded, asked the gatehouse to continue to pay attention, and then went to Hao Yetang. After a busy day outside, he always felt that returning home was the most relaxing time, when he could play with his son and Zheng Xiu would care for him with soft words. But recently, he felt that returning home was the time when he needed to cheer up the most.
Especially recently, the faction of the Crown Prince and the faction of the Second Prince were at loggerheads with each other. Besides being busy with state affairs, he also had to dispatch additional personnel to investigate the accident on the Lantern Festival. He was really busy and exhausted.
However, Xue Zhi did not dare to show his fatigue. Before returning to Hao Yetang and entering the house, he stood up and adjusted himself, then he smiled and lifted the curtain to enter the house.
Zheng Xiu stood up to greet him. He waved his hands and said, "Don't move, don't move. Take a rest."
Zheng Xiu asked Minghui to serve him hot tea. Xue Zhi wiped himself with a towel at the door and sat down on the kang.
"Ah Xiu, I heard that you are going out today?" Xue Zhi asked straight to the point.
Zheng Xiu looked at Xue Shao, who shook his head innocently, meaning that he was not the one who told the secret.
Xue Zhi continued, "Don't look at me, A'shao. The doorman told me when I came back."
Xue Shao was afraid that his mother would be unhappy, so he immediately helped her and said, "No, mother just had such a plan, but later she listened to my advice and didn't go out."
"A'sxiu, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but you are pregnant now, it's not good for you to go out. If you have any concerns, why don't you discuss it with me when I come back?" Xue Zhi softened his tone as much as possible.
Zheng Xiu couldn't help but frowned and said, "I just want to go to Shangkan Hutong, not to go far away. Is it necessary to be so serious?"
Xue Zhi's face also looked unhappy. After Zheng Xiu became pregnant, she was temperamental and lost her temper. He thought it was nothing, but he couldn't tolerate her playing tricks on his safety. She was in the back house, and she might not know the bad situation outside. The second prince now regarded the people of the prince's faction as thorns in his eyes and bones in his flesh. Not long ago, a doctor who was specifically responsible for impeaching him died of poisoning at home. He was a popular person around the prince, so there were naturally more unknown dangers, especially since the three children had an accident not long ago...
The two have been married for many years, and they have never had a fight. But now they are both silent.
Xue Shao saw that something was wrong, so he smiled and said, "Mom, you see, Dad is back too, and it's getting late. Let Sister Baizhu prepare the meal, I'm so hungry." Xue Zhi
had something on his mind, and he thought that he should quickly figure out the Lantern Festival incident to see if there was a spy at home, otherwise he would be worried about Zheng Xiu at home, so he stood up and said, "You guys go first, I still have some things to do."
Zheng Xiu turned her head away and didn't look at him.
After Xue Zhi finished speaking, he told Xue Shao to be good and went to the front yard.
Xue Shao was really confused and didn't know what to say, so he could only smile at Zheng Xiu and said, "Mom, Dad may really be busy with something. Let's eat first and ignore him."
Zheng Xiu also felt a little unhappy, but it was not easy to show it in front of Xue Shao, so she nodded, sat at the table with him, and had dinner.
In the evening, Zheng Xiu watched Xue Shao fall asleep before returning to the main house.
After washing up, Xue Zhi still didn't go back to the backyard.
Zheng Xiu sat on the bed and twisted the quilt in a tangle. In fact, what happened today was really nothing. When she was in a worse temper before, she threw the account book in Xue Zhi's face in front of the servants. At that time, he just smiled indifferently, but he didn't expect that today he not only looked at her coldly, but also didn't eat with her.
"Madam, it's getting late. You should go to bed." Minghui saw her leaning on the bed in a daze, so she gently advised her.
Zhengxiu bit her lip and asked, "Has the Second Master not come back yet?"
Minghui replied, "The Second Master sent a message saying that he will not come to sleep tonight. You should go to bed early and don't have to wait for him."
"Humph, who wants to wait for him." Zhengxiu said angrily, and then lay down to sleep. Minghui
curled the corners of her lips. Their Second Madam was usually the most amiable. Even when she didn't know she was pregnant and was the most irritable, she didn't vent her anger on the servants. She only showed her childish temper when facing the Second Master. It's not really a temper, but it's more like a child deliberately doing something out of the ordinary to attract the attention of adults, like being coquettish.
She tucked in the corners of the quilt for her gently and lowered the curtain. Since Xue Zhi didn't come back that day, she made an agreement with Fen Ge and Bai Zhu that the three of them would take turns to guard in the inner room.
Zheng Xiu fell asleep soon after she lay down. In the middle of the night, she woke up in a daze.
Another symptom during pregnancy is frequent urination.
As soon as she woke up, she wanted to go to the toilet and habitually said, "Azhi, I need to go to the toilet."
Minghui was still guarding outside. When she heard the noise, she immediately lifted the curtain and asked, "Madam, what did you just say?"
Zheng Xiu realized it belatedly and remembered that Xue Zhi did not come back that night. She sat up and said, "It's nothing, I just want to go to the toilet."
Minghui hung the curtain on the golden hook and helped Zheng Xiu stand up.
In order to make it convenient for her to get up at night, a screen was placed behind the bed in the inner room, and behind the screen was a toilet.
After Zheng Xiu finished, Minghui helped her up, and helped her put on her pants and tie her belt.
Minghui was used to serving people, and her movements were much more skillful and gentle than Xue Zhi's. But Zheng Xiu didn't know why, she thought of Xue Zhi's clumsy way of tying her trouser belt before he came back to accompany her to the toilet...
She shook her head and smiled, thinking of Xue Zhi's usual accommodating and patient attitude towards her, and said to Minghui: "Go and ask someone to go to the front yard to see if the second master is still busy with official business. If he is not asleep, let him come back, I'll wait for him."
Minghui agreed and immediately asked someone to do it.
Zheng Xiu put on her coat and waited for a while by the bedside. Seeing that Xue Zhi hadn't come back, she thought that maybe he had already gone to bed, or maybe he was still irritating her, so she prepared to go to bed. Unexpectedly,
Xue Zhi really came back in the dark.
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