Chapter 588: The exiled female prisoner with two bodies (23)
The team marched for three days before arriving at the royal hunting ground. Lan Shichu found a location with the crowd and began to instruct his servants to build tents.
Gong Liang Sibai came back in a hurry to take a look at them. Seeing that Lan Shichu had ordered everything to be done in an orderly manner, he told her to send someone to find him if there was anything difficult to deal with, and then he left in a hurry again. He was one of the persons responsible for the safety of the hunting ground this time, and was very busy. Even the little time he had to come back to see them was hard to spare.
When he was not around, Lan Shichu and his son felt more at ease. Originally, Lan Shichu had someone set up a small tent for Gong Liang Congyun so that he could live in it, but he refused to live there alone and insisted on sticking to Lan Shichu.
He pretended to be pitiful and said that he didn't dare to live in the tent alone. Seeing how pitiful he looked, Lan Shichu relented and agreed to let him live with him for a few days, but when he returned home, he still had to live alone. After all, Lan Shichu didn't intend to raise him to be a mama's boy.
Because it was the first day at the hunting grounds and everyone was exhausted from the journey, the emperor did not hold a banquet. He simply told everyone to have a good rest for the night and to get enough energy to work hard when hunting.
As an official's wife, Lan Shichu only needed to meet her eldest sister-in-law Wen, and then go with her to meet the queen. The queen was Gong Liang Sibai's cousin, so she was naturally polite to Lan Shichu and Wen, and gave them a lot of rewards, and then let them move freely.
"Sister-in-law, do you want to go horseback riding together?" Lan Shichu asked with great interest. Although she could not go hunting with the emperor and other ministers for the time being, she could ride horses outside the hunting grounds. Many women from military officers' families would also go horseback riding in groups of three or four for fun.
"No, I'm not good at horse riding and I've only ridden a few times. You go by yourself." Wen refused Lan Shichu.
Lan Shichu had no choice but to take his son with him. Gong Liang Sibai didn't have a horse of his own, and all the other horses in the hunting ground were adult horses, which were not suitable for a little kid like him to ride, so he could only watch others ride. Seeing how eager he was, Lan Shichu kindly decided to take him with him.
After sitting on the back of the tall horse, Gong Liang Congyun was so excited that his face turned red. He held the reins tightly with both hands and sat motionless, for fear of disturbing the horse he was riding.
Lan Shichu sat behind him, hugged him in front of him, and said, "Don't be nervous, I'll take you to experience the feeling of riding a horse first, and then I'll find a pony for you after we go back."
"Really? Then I want a red horse." Gong Liang Congyun said happily.
"Okay, hold on tight." After Lan Shichu said this, he shouted "gig" and the horse he was riding started moving. Then the horse's pace became faster and faster, and it ran faster and faster. The oncoming wind made people's faces hurt, but it made people feel very refreshed, and they couldn't help but indulge in it.
Gong Liang Congyun was very brave and not afraid at all. His eyes were wide open, and he was experiencing the feeling of riding a horse with excitement and curiosity.
Lan Shichu let the horse run two laps and even jumped over several hurdles, which gave Gong Liang Congyun a good stimulation. However, for fear of stimulating him too much, Lan Shichu slowed down the horse after it ran a few laps.
"Mom, let it run again. It's too slow now and not running smoothly enough!" Gong Liang Congyun did not understand his mother's good intentions at all and instead urged it to run.
When Lan Shichu saw him say this, he no longer restrained himself. He immediately spurred his horse and whipped it, riding the horse as fast as he could. Like an arrow from a bow, he instantly disappeared into the jungle.
After running for three quarters of an hour, the horse was almost exhausted, so Lan Shichu dismounted with his son and let the horse rest. "Mom, are we lost?" Gong Liang Congyun was a little worried when he saw that there was only one path in the forest.
"No, I remember the way. If we walk forward, we will see the main road." Lan Shichu said as she led the horse forward and reminded Gong Liangcongyun to follow her closely and not get lost.
The mother and son had gotten used to walking on rugged mountain roads when they were in exile, and they had built up their physical strength, so they were not tired at all walking while leading the horses. Gong Liang Congyun even had the energy to chatter and ask Lan Shichu what those plants he had never seen before were and what their uses were.
After walking for nearly 25 minutes, Gong Liang Congyun looked in a certain direction ahead and suddenly asked Lan Shichu: "Mom, is that man over there my father?"
Lan Shichu looked over there and saw a man and a woman talking under a big tree about thirty or forty meters away. The man was indeed the one Gong Liang Congyun had described, his father, Gong Liang Sibai, and the woman was his sweetheart, Wen Shi Nong.
Lan Shichu raised his eyebrows. Gong Liangsubai was meeting with Wen Shi Nong in private? But they were both married men or married women. How could they meet in private without their partners' knowledge?
Although Lan Shichu had no romantic feelings for Gong Liang Sibai, he also felt that his head was green. It seemed that although she was not dead and did not give way to Wen Shi Nong, it did not affect their relationship at all. It was just that he was the legal wife this time, and Wen Shi Nong had married someone else. How did the two of them want to end it?
Gong Liang Congyun was not at all surprised when he saw his father suspected of cheating on him. He had already realized without Lan Shichu's answer that the man was really his biological father.
"Who is that lady talking to Dad?" he asked curiously. "They seemed very excited when they talked."
"She's your father's sweetheart." Lan Shichu did not hide anything and told him directly.
Gong Liangcongyun's eyes suddenly widened: "My father's sweetheart? But didn't he marry you?"
"Silly child, a sweetheart and a wife are not necessarily the same person." Lan Shichu said with a smile, "It's actually very simple. Your grandparents didn't agree with your father marrying his sweetheart, so they forced him to marry me, a suitable person, and his sweetheart also married someone else."
"So what are they doing now?" Gong Liang Congyun asked in confusion.
"They are probably expressing their love to each other." Lan Shichu shrugged and asked him, "Maybe they are discussing whether to divorce their respective partners and then get back together."
"If Dad wants to divorce you, can I go with you?" Gong Liangcongyun didn't have deep feelings for his father Gong Liangsubai, so naturally he only wanted to be with Lan Shichu.
"Why are you so calm? Aren't you worried that you'll become an abandoned child after your parents divorce?" Lan Shichu teased him.
"Don't worry, mother, would you dislike me?" Gong Liangcongyun said confidently, "A child as smart as me, would you be willing to give up on me?"
Lan Shichu chuckled and said, "You are good at boasting. Don't worry, even if I divorce your father, you will still be mine."
(End of this chapter)
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