Chapter 284 She Wants the Child Back to Her
Cat?
The smile on Cui Si's face faded, and she looked a little dazed.
She asked Cui Ting: "Does Ting like cats?"
“I like it!”
"Sixth Aunt likes it too." Cui Si sat beside her, reaching out and gently stroking the lighthouse. "Auntie really hopes he can come back to her."
I wonder if he was as happy and noisy as Cui Ting when he was playing with this lighthouse.
Cui Ting immediately said, "Then let's keep one. Sixth aunt, my great-grandmother had a white cat. When it gave birth to kittens, A Ting can bring one over to you."
Cui Si smiled upon hearing this, and then said, "Thank you, Ating, but Sixth Auntie wants to have her own cat."
Cui Ting tilted her head in confusion: "Does Sixth Aunt have a cat?"
Cui Si replied, "Yes."
"Where is it?"
"Well, he hasn't found it yet. When the time comes, A-Ting will play with him."
"Okay, okay."
Cui Si and Cui Ting had a lot of fun until Cui Ting was so sleepy that she couldn't open her eyes. Then she asked Cui Yao to take her back. She was too lazy to move and just stayed in Yayuan.
The next day was New Year.
After the New Year, it was cold for another half a month, and then the ice and snow melted and spring came back to the earth.
At the end of January and the beginning of February, the weather was hot and cold. Cui Ting caught a cold and fell ill. She felt like a wilted flower, without her former liveliness.
Cui Si visited her for several days in a row and brought her food and toys.
Song Rou saw this and was so angry that she went to complain to Old Lady Xu.
"...Why does she keep running to the Third House? I don't know how many things she gave to that girl Cui Ting. Could it be that she forgot that Shi Niang is her sister from the same father? Why didn't she get close to her in the past?"
Old Madam Xu almost rolled her eyes at her, her face expressionless as she said, "Alright, you already know who it is that doesn't want her to be close to you. Why, seeing her being nice to others now, are you feeling unfair again?"
"It's her own ability that makes that girl Ah Ting like her."
After the incident at the Song family, Song Rou made a fuss, but Mr. Cui pretended to be dead and said he couldn't do anything about it. Old Madam Xu threatened her that if she really didn't want to live like that anymore, she should go back to the Song family.
Seeing that Mrs. Xu was serious about it, she has been much quieter over the past year.
Without the Song family's encouragement, her mind was filled with love affairs and she couldn't think about too many things. Apart from raising children, she usually argued with Mr. Cui about the question of "Do you love me?"
"But Shi Niang is her biological sister."
"So what?" Old Mrs. Xu raised her eyelids. Look at you, you're afraid that if someone touches your daughter, it will kill her, and you still expect others to like your daughter.
"Alright, since it's Ah Si's, she can give it to whoever she wants. Don't be jealous. Shi Niang is a daughter of the Cui family. When she gets married in the future, she will definitely have a share of the dowry."
Song Rou almost lost her defense.
It's easy for you to say, old man, but is that an ordinary thing?
Many of those were sent by the King of Northern Yan!
When the King of Northern Yan conquered the world, he collected many precious things and sent them to Yayuan from time to time. Many of them could be used as heirlooms.
After Song Rou returned to Qinse Garden, she became more and more unwilling to give up, so she took Cui Ji to Yayuan to find Cui Si.
In the end, Cui Si still gave her stepmother and younger sister some face and did not turn them away.
"Sixth Mother, don't you think Tenth Mother is cute? Hug her... Look at her? Look at her little face, so chubby."
Cui Ji was just over one year old. After she took off her heavy winter clothes, she looked really cute. Her facial features were like Song Rou's, soft and fragile.
However, this child was raised by Song Rou to be a little shy. When he saw Cui Si looking at him, he turned his head and lay in Song Rou's arms, refusing to see anyone.
Song Rou was originally worried, and she breathed a sigh of relief when she saw this. However, she felt a little embarrassed when she remembered what she was here for.
"Shi Niang is a little shy."
Cui Si smiled and said, "The child is still young, so it's normal for him to be shy."
Cui Si really didn't want to say much about how Song Rou taught her children.
When Cui Xian was two or three years old, Song Rou often asked others to hold him. She told Song Rou not to let others hold him all the time, as she was so old now and it was time for her to get down and walk around.
Song Rou listened to it, but when the child fell while walking, she cried uncontrollably and told Master Cui that she was vicious and could not tolerate a child. Finally, she brought the matter to Old Madam Xu.
Old Lady Xu punished Cui Si by making her kneel in the ancestral hall all night to teach her that she should not meddle in certain things, because if good things happen, no one will thank you, but if something goes wrong, it will be all your responsibility.
From then on, she learned her lesson and understood that fate between people is a mysterious thing.
She still treated Cui Xian and Cui Ji as her younger siblings. If they encountered difficulties in the future, she would not stand idly by, but she would not say or interfere in other matters.
"Mother came to see me, is there something wrong?"
Song Rou was embarrassed by the question for a moment. It was difficult to say that she wanted to bring Cui Ji to ask for something good, so she said, "Second Master's birthday is coming soon. Do you want to hold a party?"
"Mother is confused. Grandma is still here. We can just set up two tables at home."
According to current customs, birthday parties are not held while parents are still alive. If the conditions are better, family members can set up two tables and that is considered a celebration.
Song Rou thought of this and felt embarrassed again.
"But I won't be in Xianyang City in a few days. I'll have to ask my parents to take good care of my grandmother."
Song Rou was stunned: "Where are you going if you're not in Xianyang?"
"Let's go to Miaozhou. Brothers Three and Five are building a defense line in Miaozhou. I want to go over and see if I can help."
Cui Si's plan to go to Miaozhou was not a sudden decision. She had made the decision a long time ago, and as time went by, her mind became more and more firm.
She wants the child back with her.
In the past two days, she has asked Yanzhi Songlu to start packing up, and in a few days, they will prepare dry food for the journey and set off.
But I just didn’t know how to tell Mrs. Xu.
Now that she had told Song Rou, she simply went back home and told Old Mrs. Xu about it.
"What are you going to Miaozhou for?" Old Mrs. Xu frowned and disagreed.
Cui Si used the same excuse: "I went to see the defense line that my third and fifth brothers were building for the Piaomiao River. I have some ideas in mind, but I don't know if they will be of any use."
"Besides... didn't Grandmother always want me to marry the King of Northern Yan? I was hesitant before, and this trip to Miaozhou is a good opportunity for me to meet him and then make a decision."
Mrs. Xu immediately perked up: "Do you agree to get married?"
Cui Si smiled and said, "It depends on whether he has the ability to get me married. Grandmother, marrying your granddaughter is not an easy task, even if he is the King of Northern Yan, right?"
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