After letting Yunzhi go over and tell Lu, Wen Ye said, "We'll go back later."
If I go back now, I will most likely be used as a shield by Duke Xu and his son.
Xu Yuejia glanced at her brother not far away, and said in silence: "Okay."
After Duke Xu and Xu Jingrong were taken away by Lady Lu, Wen Ye reluctantly withdrew his gaze and said, "It seems that the fried rice cakes sold here are really delicious."
Knowing that my sister-in-law and she would be back today, he still took the risk to come and queue up to buy it. He is worthy of being a general who has been on the battlefield and will be on the battlefield in the future.
Wen Ye admired him from the bottom of his heart, but said, "After my sister-in-law and my eldest brother leave, we will also go and queue up."
She had to try it to see how delicious it was.
In order to save some face for Duke Xu, the family of three walked outside until almost 11:00 p.m., and only returned home when it was almost dark.
Xu Yuxuan was so sleepy from shopping that he leaned into Xu Yuejia's arms and fell asleep with his mouth slightly open.
During this time, he even snored from time to time.
There was silence in the Duke's Mansion. It seemed that those who should be punished had already been punished. Wen Yesong couldn't help but feel regretful that he couldn't see the lively scene.
Xu Yuejia handed the boy in her arms to Nanny Ji who came over and said, "Be more restrained."
Wen Ye said: "Sister-in-law only has my brother in her eyes now, so she won't pay attention to me."
Xu Yuejia: "......"
She can always easily express one thing in another way through words.
"Okay, okay." Wen Ye urged him to move forward, "Go back and go to sleep."
My hand accidentally touched his shoulder, and it felt wet and sticky. "What is this?"
Wen Ye subconsciously rubbed her hand on his arm.
Xu Yuejia glanced sideways and pursed her lips.
After rubbing it, Wen Ye guessed in a positive tone, "Xuan'er's saliva?"
Xu Yuejia's reaction is precisely the best evidence.
Wen Ye coughed, glanced in the direction where Nanny Ji left and said, "We can still catch up."
Xu Yuejia was silent for a moment: "Forget it."
Wen Ye deliberately said solemnly: "How can we let it go? If he dares to drool on you today, he will dare to draw maps on you tomorrow."
"No," she corrected herself, "I almost forgot that Xuan'er had already painted it on my husband."
Xu Yuejia: "......"
The next day, after Wen Ye woke up, she couldn't help but send someone to inquire about the news. Not long after, Tao Zhi came back with the news and reported, "Madam, the Duke's wife didn't do anything to the Duke and the young master yesterday. She just asked the Duke to stay in the military camp outside the capital for half a month, and then packed the young master's bag early this morning. He has already boarded the carriage back to the academy."
Wen Ye: "Does this completely separate the father and son?"
One of them became a monk, and the other rushed back to the academy, and it was almost Chinese New Year when they met again.
Taozhi nodded: "Probably."
Wen Ye asked again: "Has sister-in-law calmed down?"
Taozhi shook her head and said, "I don't know about this."
Wen Ye didn't dare to go there at this time without finding out the truth. After thinking it over, she decided to wait a few more days until Lu's anger had completely subsided.
Three days later, Wen Ye brought the freshly baked cakes from the small kitchen to the main courtyard.
When she arrived, Lu was supervising Xu Jinglin practicing calligraphy. She was not surprised to see her and pointed to a seat for her to sit down.
Wen Ye sat over and asked, "Sister-in-law, where is Jingrong?"
Lu glanced at her and said, "I let him go back to the academy."
Wen Ye asked: "Sister-in-law, aren't you afraid that Jingrong will get out of control and become out of control?"
Mrs. Lu: "Don't worry. Before letting him go back to the academy, I asked my aunt to write a letter to my cousin Jiang Rui, asking him to look after Jingrong."
At this point, Lu suddenly laughed, "You don't know Jiang Rui's personality. He is a little old-fashioned. This is somewhat similar to my second brother when he was young. Jing Rong will not have a comfortable life in his hands."
Wen Ye nodded suddenly in understanding. No wonder she was so relieved to let Xu Jingrong return to the academy. It turned out that she had already found a childcare helper in the academy.
However, Wen Ye has reservations about Lu's comment that Xu Yuejia is old-fashioned.
Wen Ye didn't know whether Xu Yuejia was conservative when she was young. She only knew that Xu Yuejia was now a good student who was very motivated and flexible.
"What about eldest brother?" Wen Ye blinked and asked again.
Lu was stunned when she heard this, and saw through it and said, "Your subordinates didn't get the details, so you came to me to inquire in person?"
Even after being exposed, Wen Ye did not intend to back down, because there was no trace of anger in Lu's tone.
"I'm just worried about my sister-in-law," she said.
Lu put down the big words written by Xu Jinglin and said, "I asked your elder brother to go to the military camp to reflect for half a month. My eldest brother is also there. Your elder brother has always been afraid of him."
Wen Ye understood all of a sudden, this is just the brother-in-law being afraid of his brother-in-law.
"Jinglin seems to have made a lot of progress in his studies recently." Wen Ye said, looking at Xu Jinglin who was always quietly practicing calligraphy.
Mrs. Lu stroked the back of her son's head and laughed, "You've eaten so much roasted chicken, roasted goose, and roasted duck. If you don't improve, you won't have to eat rice anymore in the future."
When Xu Jinglin heard this, he immediately raised his head and said obediently, "Mother, I only ate a few bites."
Fortunately, his father and brother kept it a secret from him that day, otherwise he would have been caught.
Lu patted his head gently and said, "Don't try to make excuses. Your father and your elder brother have confessed everything."
Lu's words were like a bolt from the blue. Xu Jinglin said in disbelief, "Impossible!"
The night they were found by their mother, he even sent them meat buns!
His father and brothers had promised him.
"Traitor~" Xu Jinglin whispered angrily. No wonder his mother asked him to come over early in the morning to practice calligraphy. This was a punishment for him.
"I want to sue!"
Xu Jinglin told all the outrageous things his father and brother had done during the days when Lu was away.
Lu listened quietly, checking for omissions and filling in the gaps. Putting the confessions from both sides together, he roughly got the whole picture of the matter.
When Wen Ye heard this, his breathing became a little shallow. It turned out that older ginger is more spicy.
"This time, mother will not punish you." Lu called the maids who had been serving Xu Jinglin and asked them to take away the pens, ink and paper on the table. "But if mother goes out again in the future, you have to watch over your father and brother for mother, and tell mother if there is anything unusual."
"The good thing is that you are allowed to eat food from a roadside stall outside the palace once every two weeks."
Xu Jinglin was both excited and entangled, and asked, "Can I also share some with my father and elder brother when I eat?"
Even though his father and elder brother 'betrayed' him, they were still his father and elder brother.
Mrs. Lu smiled and said, "Since I've agreed to give it to you, mother won't stop you from giving it to anyone you want."
Xu Jinglin said happily: "Then Jinglin agreed!"
Mrs. Lu really didn't like the fact that the father and his two sons often ate out. Because of this, she had been fighting with them a lot over the years.
In the past two years, she has gradually figured out a lot of things, especially after Wen Ye married into her family.
When people get along with each other, one cannot always give in to the other. To this day, she still rejects the snacks sold at those stalls, but she has decided to start trying to understand the preferences of the father and his two sons.
Then everyone should take a step back, but this time it is not within the scope of "taking a step back". The father and his two sons dared to team up to deceive her, and they must receive the appropriate "punishment".
Wen Ye looked at the faint smile on Lu's lips and suddenly understood her intention.
Wen Ye laughed too, feeling that such days were really nice.
The days passed one by one, and soon it was the end of the year again.
It snowed for the first time yesterday. Wen Ye woke up this morning and asked the kitchen to prepare a goose for lunch and stew it in an iron pot.
Today is the first day of the new year, and it is the day to have lunch at the main courtyard as usual.
The iron pot stewed goose that the small kitchen was about to make was the dish ordered by Xu Jinglin. Ever since Lu allowed him to indulge himself once every half a month, whenever Duke Xu was in the mansion, she would always follow him around and he couldn't get rid of her.
Xu Yuxuan and Xu Jinglin were playing with snow in the west yard.
Xu Jingrong would not be back for more than ten days. Xu Jinglin lived in the East Courtyard without any playmates. In the past two months, either Xu Yuxuan went to the East Courtyard to accompany him, or he came to accompany Xu Yuxuan.
Wen Ye withdrew her gaze from the window and stopped at the man who was brewing tea around the stove. "My dear?"
Xu Yuejia still lowered her eyes: "That's good."
The tea in the jade-green porcelain cup was faint and fragrant. Xu Yuejia finally poured a cup and passed it over: "Take a sip."
Wen Ye took it neatly, took a sip carefully, showed an admiring look and said skillfully: "I have drunk so many cups of tea, but the tea brewed by you is still the best."
Wen Ye said this for the first time more than a month ago, and Xu Yuejia took it seriously.
In recent days, he would sit there and make tea whenever he had free time.
Fortunately, his tea making skills are really good, otherwise Wen Ye doesn’t know how long he can endure it.
At this moment, Xu Yuxuan, who was making a snowman outside, suddenly ran in, wearing a blue jacket with a thick cloak tied around it.
A year later, he has grown taller and is not as round as he was last year, but his cheeks are still chubby.
Xu Yuxuan came to pull Wen Ye and said, "Mother, go see the snowman that Xuan'er made~"
Children who are on vacation are full of energy.
Before Xu Baili left, didn't he announce that he had arranged a lot of holiday homework for Xu Yu? Why doesn't this kid have any sense of crisis?
Wen Ye lazily leaned on the couch and shook her head: "Mother doesn't want to leave."
Xu Yuxuan was slightly disappointed. After thinking for a while, he raised his voice and asked, "Let father hold me?"
After saying this, he looked eagerly at Xu Yuejia standing beside him.
There are people in the yard, and it's ridiculous for Xu Yuejia to hug them.
Better leave it till night.
So Wen Ye gave Xu Yuejia a wink.
Xu Yuejia calmly put down the teacup, then used tongs to fiddle with the charcoal in the stove. After confirming that it was correct, she stood up, walked around the stove to Xu Yuxuan, bent down and picked him up.
Xu Yuxuan subconsciously hugged his neck, confused: "Father?"
Xu Yuejia glanced at him and asked, "Don't you want to hug me?"
Xu Yuxuan opened her mouth for a long time before she uttered, "It's not 'Xuan'er', it's 'mother'."
Xu Yuejia said calmly, "Your mother agreed."
Then he started walking out.
Wen Ye curled her lips and looked out the window again. Soon she saw Xu Yuejia holding Xu Yuxuan and standing in front of several snowmen of different sizes. Fine snowflakes were swaying and floating down.
Xu Yuxuan sat in Xu Yuejia's arms, pointed at the one in the middle with his little finger and said, "This is mother~"
On the snowman's head was a piece of large Chinese characters that he had practiced incorrectly, which should refer to the storybook that Wen Ye read every day.
Then he moved to the youngest one at the side, "This is me, Xuan'er!"
He pointed at himself.
A half-eaten piece of date cake was placed on the little snowman’s head.
The last one is the snowman that is a little further away. It has a lot of mud on its head and is the least round of the three snowmen.
There are many pine branches around the snowman's head.
The pine branches are all very bright green, they must have been picked freshly.
Then Xu Yuxuan said in his childish voice, "That's my father!"
Xu Yuejia looked at the green on the snowman's head, was silent for a long time, and asked: "Who taught you to do it?"
Xu Yuxuan pointed to his heart and said confidently: "Xuan'er, wow, this looks good!"
"Father wears a hat every day when he goes out. This is a hat."
Xu Yuejia: "......"
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