In a blink of an eye, it was the day to return home.
When Wen Ye got up, the snow outside the window had stopped.
I am going back to my parents' home today and have lunch at their house, so I have to leave from the Duke's Mansion at 11:00 a.m.
The distance from the Duke's Mansion to the Wen family takes nearly an hour and a half on a snowy day like this.
At the beginning of the morning hour, Wen Ye sat down at the dining table and glanced out the window. Apart from the chill that occasionally seeped in through the cracks, he could feel nothing and it was still dark.
Wen Ye finished a bowl of red date porridge, two meat-filled pancakes, and a few spoonfuls of refreshing side dishes before he put down his chopsticks.
Xu Yuejia got up earlier than Wen Ye. After breakfast, she went to the west study to read a book and drink tea.
After Deng Wenye finished his breakfast and prepared everything, he walked out of the study.
Seeing that the maid had already tied Wen Ye's cloak, he said, "It's time."
Wen Ye said "hmm" lightly.
It was so cold that Mrs. Lu was worried. In addition to Nanny Ji and others who originally took care of Xu Yuxuan, she also brought two trusted maids, Qingxue and Baimei.
The group left the main courtyard and walked for about a quarter of an hour before finally arriving at the gate of the Duke's Mansion.
Stern and solemn.
On the day she got married, she was covered with a veil and could not be seen clearly. Only now did Wen Ye see clearly what the main gate of the Duke's Mansion looked like.
The carriage was ready. Xu Yuxuan had asked Nanny Ji to carry him to the carriage first, and Xu Yuejia asked Wen Ye to get on the carriage first.
Wen Ye didn't bother to be polite with him, it was really too cold.
After entering the carriage, Wen Ye glanced at the child who was sitting obediently on the right side, and sat down opposite him.
Blocked from the harsh cold wind, tea was being boiled inside the carriage, making it much warmer than outside.
Xu Yuxuan's head was nodding, and it was obvious that he was not awake yet, but he was still trying hard to keep his eyes open.
Wen Ye was holding the heater and it was interesting to watch.
Soon, Xu Yuejia also entered the carriage and sat in the middle.
Wen Ye withdrew his gaze and made himself a cup of hot tea to drive away his sleepiness.
The carriage was moving, and there was no other sound in the carriage except the boiling tea.
Wen Ye drank a cup of tea and ate some snacks on the tea table. The child opposite him seemed to realize that there was no one familiar in the carriage and began to get visibly scared.
He looked at Xu Yuejia in the middle, and then looked at Wen Ye opposite him.
A pair of small hands emerged from the cloak that wrapped him into a round ball and grabbed a corner of the cloak.
Xu Yuejia had worked in the Ministry of Justice for many years, and had a somewhat intimidating and ruthless aura about him, so Xu Yuxuan had always been a little afraid of his father.
However, compared to Wen Ye, whom he had only met a few times, Xu Yuejia was closer to him as his father.
He moved his little butt little by little towards Xu Yuejia, and stopped only when his short little hands could touch Xu Yuejia.
As if he had gained confidence, Xu Yuxuan became much bolder when he looked at Wen Ye again.
Her eyes moved from the pastries on the plate to Wen Ye's moving mouth, and Xu Yuxuan swallowed.
At this time, Wen Ye had an extra book in her hand. The journey was more than an hour, and the people sitting with her were her unfamiliar husband and son, so naturally she wanted to find some fun.
But it seemed that she had picked the wrong peach branch.
Wen Ye flipped two pages and raised his brows for a moment.
After reading half of it, Wen Ye noticed that Xu Yuxuan's burning gaze was exactly on the half-eaten date cake in her hand.
Wen Ye paused for a moment, then stuffed the whole thing into his mouth.
Xu Yuxuan looked at her, then at the empty porcelain plate. Realizing that Wen Ye had just eaten the last piece of food, he felt aggrieved and his mouth twitched.
I don’t know why, but I didn’t cry out loud.
Wen Ye slowly swallowed the last bite, raised her eyes, and saw Xu Yuxuan grabbing Xu Yuejia's sleeve at some point, and both father and son looked at her at the same time.
One eye was filled with tears, as if feeling extremely aggrieved.
The other one had a calm expression, showing no emotion, but he also didn't look like he was seeking justice for his own son.
Wen Ye thought for a while, put down the book, took out a plate of red bean cakes from the food box on the side, waved it in front of Xu Yuxuan, and finally placed it in a corner near him.
Once again, I started eating by myself.
There was no thought of dividing it into two parts.
Seeing that Wen Ye was still there, Xu Yuxuan sniffed and tugged at Xu Yuejia's sleeve again, his meaning was very obvious.
However, Xu Yuejia just glanced at him indifferently and remained unmoved.
Wen Ye ate slowly, but Xu Yuxuan became anxious. He quickly moved down from his seat, and with his short legs, he went around the tea table, and walked in front of Xu Yuejia, grabbing Wen Ye who was moving closer to his left side.
Without realizing it, he had wrinkled his father's clothes.
Wen Ye was suddenly hugged by the thighs. She lowered her head and saw a small round face that was as white as milk, shouting at her: "Mother~"
I know I have to please people first.
Wen Ye was not tempted at all, and asked calmly, "What do you want to do?"
Xu Yuxuan pointed at the tea table with his little finger and whispered, "Eat."
Wen Ye then reached out, grabbed the child by the front of his shirt, dragged him to the seat, and then took a piece of red bean cake from the plate and gave it to him.
"Eat." Then she continued reading her storybook.
Xu Yuxuan held the red bean pastry in his hand and nibbled it bit by bit. Each piece of red bean pastry was not big and he finished it quickly.
With his hands empty again, Xu Yuxuan looked at Wen Ye and said, "Mother..."
Upon hearing the voice, Wen Ye took the second piece of red bean cake accurately and gave it to the child beside him without taking his eyes off the storybook.
This time, Xu Yuxuan's enthusiasm for the red bean pastry was much reduced. He took three bites and then stopped.
He moved down again, placed the red bean cake on the tea table, and took the initiative to wipe his hands which were stained with cake crumbs with a towel.
Then he followed Wen Ye again and became curious about the script in her hand.
Wen Ye looked at his eager puppy eyes, thought for a moment, raised her eyes and asked, "Is Xuan'er old enough to be enlightened?"
The person asking the question was naturally Xu Yuejia, who was sitting at the top.
Xu Yuejia looked at Xu Yuxuan, who was close to Wen Ye, and said, "Mr. Qimeng, I will arrive after the New Year."
The string in Wen Ye's brain was loose and he hadn't been enlightened yet. It seemed that he didn't know a single word.
"Want to see it?" Wen Ye asked.
It was not known whether Xu Yuxuan understood or not, but he just nodded vigorously.
Wen Ye grabbed Xu Yuxuan's collar again, but this time she stuffed Xu Yuxuan into her cloak, half covering him.
The script was placed in front of the two of them, and they read it together.
The child is like a moving little fire man. With him, you don’t have to hold the hand warmer all the time.
Wen Ye stretched out a hand and continued moving his mouth.
From time to time, she fed the two children in her arms, one big and one small, reading the storybook with great interest.
Before long, Xu Yuxuan's face was covered with cake crumbs, even on his eyebrows.
When Xu Yuejia saw this scene, her brows couldn't help but jump.
After a moment.
"What is the story in the book?"
When Wen Ye suddenly heard Xu Yuejia's voice, her first reaction was that it was an illusion. But when she raised her eyes and met hers, she realized it was not the case.
But the content of the story...
Xu Yuejia asked again: "Can't tell?"
Wen Ye knew that Xu Yuejia had never read the storybooks she had placed on the bookshelf in the west study in private.
As long as she behaved herself, he would never step into her territory without permission.
"Not really." Wen Ye said, but the version she was reading was not a Mandarin version, but a colored one!
She closed the storybook, paused for a moment, and began to speak:
"This book tells the story of a courtesan from Jiangnan who fell in love with a handsome scholar. She even lent the money she had saved for several years to the scholar to help him go to Beijing for the imperial examination. However, she never expected that the handsome scholar was a heartless man. After winning the imperial examination, he abandoned the courtesan and fell in love with the princess, becoming her consort."
Xu Yuejia frowned after hearing this: "Written by a man?"
Wen Ye was surprised. She didn't expect that. "Why do you think so?"
Xu Yuejia gave her a look that said, "Do I need to explain this?"
Without the script, Xu Yuxuan imitated his father, wrinkled his eyebrows, looked up and silently accused Wen Ye.
Wen Ye calmly stuffed the storybook back into the secret closet of the carriage, then covered Xu Yuxuan's eyes with one hand and said, "Actually, this story is not over yet."
Judging from the upper half alone, it does look like a man's work.
Wen Ye continued, "I just told you the first half. In the second half, after the courtesan learned the truth, she came to the capital in a rage. On the way, she happened to save a miracle doctor. After the doctor learned about her experience, he expressed his willingness to help her change her face to repay her for saving his life. So the courtesan came to the capital with a beautiful face that even the ungrateful scholar couldn't recognize. By various coincidences, she became the emperor's successor. From then on, the princess and the ungrateful scholar would call her "Mother!" whenever they saw her."
Xu Yuejia: "......"
Fortunately, Xuan'er can't read.
This is the story, but Wen Ye is telling the non-erotic version. She spent several years searching before she found a storybook in an unknown little bookshop in Shengjing, which was different from the popular ones on the market about the scholar and the princess/the daughter of the prime minister/the empress/the rich lady, etc.
But just now she actually took a two-year-old kid to read pornographic books. What a sin, what a sin.
Wen Ye looked down at Xu Yuxuan, who was struggling against Ming with his hands and feet, and thought: It's a good thing he can't read.
After teasing the child for a while, Wen Ye let the child go. Xu Yuxuan, who finally saw the light again, said with an accusing and aggrieved tone: "Mother!"
Just then Xu Yuejia's gaze turned towards him again, and Wen Ye felt a flash of guilt in his heart.
It is somewhat outrageous to tease a child in front of his father.
Fortunately, at this time, the carriage arrived at the gate of Wen Mansion.
Wen Ye returned Xu Yuxuan to his father and then quickly got out of the carriage.
Nanny Ji had been waiting in front of the carriage. After Wen Ye got off the carriage, she bowed and got into the carriage easily.
Seeing this, Nanny Ji almost lost her balance.
After hastily greeting, she asked cautiously, "Young Master, what is this?"
Xu Yuejia was wiping the cake crumbs off Xu Yuxuan's face bit by bit, and said lightly: "It's nothing, I just knocked over a plate of cakes."
Upon hearing this, Xu Yuxuan raised his head with a confused expression.
Nanny Ji was no longer suspicious and quickly tidied Xu Yuxuan's clothes.
Wen Ye waited outside for a while before seeing Xu Yuejia and his son get out of the sedan chair.
At this time, Wen's father and Shen, along with their son and daughter-in-law, had just arrived at the gate of the mansion. The timing was perfectly timed.
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