Chapter 289 I'm Not Familiar with You
Luo Qinghan asked back: "Don't you have Baoqin to cook for you?"
"Baoqin's cooking ingredients are all from our backyard, but to be honest, our chickens and ducks are almost gone. In order to save ingredients, I may have to come to your place from time to time to have a bite."
Having said that, Xiao Xixi gave a flattering smile.
Luo Qinghan: "You can come and eat for free, but I have a condition."
"Please tell me. As long as it is something I can do, I will definitely do it for you!"
"Make me a midnight snack tonight."
Xiao Xixi readily agreed: "No problem!"
Then she became a little confused: "Isn't there a Mid-Autumn Festival family dinner tonight? There must be a lot of delicious food at the dinner, why do you still want to have a midnight snack?"
Luo Qinghan: "I just want to eat."
Xiao Xixi: "Okay, you are the prince, you have the final say."
She and Baoqin went back to Qingge Palace.
As soon as she arrived at Qingge Palace, Xiao Xixi fell on the bed and prepared to take a nap.
Baoqin took out several dresses at this time: "Madam, which dress do you think we should wear to the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner tonight?"
Xiao Xixi was so sleepy that she said casually, "You decide."
She fell asleep quickly.
Unfortunately, she didn't sleep for long before she was woken up by Baoqin.
"My lady, the general's wife is here."
Xiao Xixi sat on the bed in a daze. It took her a long time to react: "My mother is here?"
Baoqin: "Yes, she just came and said she came to give you a festival gift."
Xiao Xixi felt very strange. Xue had always avoided her like the plague, so why did she suddenly think of giving her a gift today?
Baoqin helped her change clothes and comb her hair.
After getting dressed, Xiao Xixi walked out of the bedroom and met Xue in the side hall.
Xue was originally sitting on her knees, but when she saw her coming, she immediately stood up and bowed, "Your Highness, I pay my respects to you, the Concubine."
Xiao Xixi motioned for her to sit down and talk.
Xue sat back in her original seat. She looked at her eldest daughter in front of her and couldn't help but think of what Zhu Quankun had said.
Zhu Quankun said that he didn't know how to tell fortunes at all, and the so-called unlucky star was just something he made up.
Over the years, she and the general had misunderstood Xiao Xixi.
They felt very guilty, but they were the elders after all, and they couldn't bring themselves to admit their mistakes to Xiao Xixi.
So it was delayed again and again until today.
Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Xue and Xiao Lingfeng originally thought that Xiao Xixi would come home for the festival, and they specially prepared a lot of delicious food for her. The yard where she lived was also cleaned inside and out. But they waited for a long time and Xiao Xixi didn't come back.
Xiao Lingfeng couldn't sit still anymore, so he sent Xue to the palace to take a look.
Mrs. Xue put two boxes of mooncakes on the table and said with a smile, "These are the mooncakes I asked my cook to make. I don't know what kind of fillings you like, so I asked her to make a few more flavors. After you try them, if you like them, tell me and I'll ask her to make them for you later."
Xiao Xixi looked at the brocade box containing the mooncakes in front of her, then looked at Xue's smiling face, and felt more and more confused.
She couldn't help but ask, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
Xue sighed, "We have let you down over the years."
Xiao Xixi didn't say anything.
She suspected that the Xue in front of her had been possessed by someone.
Seeing that she didn't respond, Xue couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed: "I know you have resentment in your heart. You blame us for not caring about you all these years, but we are a family after all. Even if there were some unpleasant things in the past, they are all in the past."
Xiao Xixi still didn't say anything.
She felt that Xue was really weird today!
Xue asked, "Why don't you speak?"
Xiao Xixi really didn't know what to say, so she could only say awkwardly, "I don't blame you."
Xue was delighted: "Really? That's great. I knew you were a sensible and good child. You wouldn't hold a grudge against us because of a little thing in the past."
Then she asked, "Today is Mid-Autumn Festival, why don't you come home to visit? Your father and I have been waiting for you at home for a long time."
Xiao Xixi: "It's fine for me to celebrate the festival in the palace."
When Xue heard this, her eyes immediately turned red: "Are you still blaming us? You didn't even want to come back to see us during the holidays."
If it were a normal mother and daughter, Xiao Xixi, as a daughter, would definitely comfort her mother at this moment, but Xiao Xixi had no mother-daughter feelings for Xue at all.
Seeing that Xue was about to cry, Xiao Xixi felt embarrassed: "You think too much, I didn't mean that."
"If you don't mean that, why don't you go home for the holidays?"
Xiao Xixi couldn't answer and simply stopped talking.
Xue took her silence as a tacit agreement and immediately asked, "I have already taken the initiative to apologize to you, why are you still unwilling to forgive us? What do you want us to do in order to make peace with us?"
Xiao Xixi sighed: "Actually, even if you don't do anything, I won't blame you."
"Then why don't you go home for the holidays?"
Xiao Xixi: "Because compared to home, Qingge Palace makes me feel more comfortable and at ease."
This answer was so straightforward that Xue was stunned for a long time before speaking: "So, you still have resentment towards us."
"It has nothing to do with resentment. It's simply because I'm not familiar with you guys."
Xue choked.
They are mother and daughter, but Xiao Xixi said they are not familiar with each other.
But she couldn't refute it.
She didn't dare to say why she wasn't familiar with him, so she could only mumble, "We'll get to know each other after spending more time together."
Xiao Xixi: "No need, I think it's fine like this now."
Xue: "But..."
Xiao Xixi interrupted her: "I understand what you mean. I have received your apology. I really don't blame you, but it's just that. You can't ask too much of me. After all, you haven't given me anything else except this life."
These words were said calmly, but they made Xue feel ashamed.
Xiao Xixi thought for a moment and said, "If you think you shouldn't give me this life, you can take it back."
Xue was startled and waved her hands quickly: "No, no, no, I don't want your life, please don't do anything stupid."
"Is there anything else you want to ask?"
“No, no more.”
"Then I won't accompany you. Please do as you please." Xiao Xixi stood up and left the side hall.
Xue sat alone in the side hall for a while, then left with a heavy heart.
She took a carriage back to General Chungmu's mansion.
When Xiao Lingfeng saw her coming back, he quickly asked, "What did Xixi say? Did she forgive us?"
Xue said with a complicated expression: "She said she doesn't blame us."
Xiao Lingfeng heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this: "That's good, that's good!"
He had felt sorry before because Xiao Xixi was doomed to be unlucky, but now he knew that it was all a misunderstanding and she was not doomed. That meant that he could spend more time with Xiao Xixi and visit her more often. With how much favor Xiao Xixi enjoyed in the Eastern Palace, it would definitely be of great help to his future.
(End of this chapter)
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