Chapter 590: The exiled female prisoner with two bodies (25)
Gong Liangcongyun went to play with Gong Liangjian and the other young masters. Lan Shichu finally had some free time, but was too lazy to go hunting, so he asked the maid to read storybooks to her in the tent to kill time.
Gong Liang Sibai didn't know how he had time to come and see her.
This was the first time Lan Shichu had seen him since the last time he and his son caught him meeting his ex-lover.
Gong Liang looked around the tent and said, "If there is anything missing, please send someone to tell me."
Lan Shichu looked at him with a half-smile. It had been four or five days since they arrived at the hunting grounds. They were almost going back, but he was just now telling her this. Didn't he think it was too late? Perhaps he felt guilty and wanted to do something to make up for his wife who was only a decoration?
"I have everything I need. What do you want from me?" Lan Shichu asked.
Gong Liang Subai touched his nose and said, "I have finished my work these past two days and am relatively free. If you want to go hunting or horseback riding, I can accompany you."
Lan Shichu looked at him in surprise, very surprised.
"I don't think I've spent much time with you and our son. Now that we have some time, don't miss it." He seemed to really want to mend his relationship with his wife and children.
Lan Shichu admired him a little. He had just caught him meeting with his ex-lover in private two days ago, and now he invited him to go hunting and horseback riding. Did he want to have the best of both worlds?
"My son and I have tried hunting and horse riding. We are not interested in them now. You can go with your friends and colleagues." Lan Shichu said calmly. She had no interest in doing anything to save face with her cheap husband.
Gong Liang Sibai was suddenly at a loss as Lan Shichu refused to listen and acted as if nothing he did had anything to do with her, which made him feel helpless.
Finally, he sighed and said, "Mom and Dad hope that we can live a good life in the future. I have done many wrong things in the past, and I am sorry for you. It is reasonable for you to resent me. But now we have a child, and even for the sake of the child, we should not continue to be in such a stalemate, so let's reconcile and just be a normal, real couple."
Lan Shichu found it a little funny: "Isn't it good for us now? I haven't quarreled with you, nor have I betrayed or cheated on you."
Gong Liang opened his mouth and said, "Yes, although they don't have the intimacy of husband and wife now, they really respect each other and discuss everything. Isn't that enough?"
But it was indeed not enough. Gong Liang Sibai understood his inner needs. After his family was exiled and almost destroyed, he no longer cared about the relationship he had been pursuing before. He just wanted to live a peaceful and smooth life with his wife and children. However, his wife's estrangement from him was too deep and she had isolated him from the new house.
"Mother feels that there is too much distance between us, and we don't look like husband and wife at all." Gong Liang Sibai finally said with difficulty what Liu had said to him.
Lan Shichu raised his eyebrows upon hearing this: "You and I both know that this marriage is just an alliance between two families, and there is no affection between us at all. When I was exiled before, I was expelled from the Lu Palace, so the purpose of this marriage has been shattered. If you and I didn't have a child, we would be strangers. So what's the problem with us being strangers now? It's fine as long as it doesn't interfere with our daily lives, don't you think?"
Gong Liangshibai heard her words and knew that she had no intention of easing the relationship or deepening the feelings with him. He didn't want to force Lan Shichu, so he had to nod and said, "You're right."
He came to Lan Shichu and said these inexplicable words and then left. Lan Shichu did not ask about the matter between him and Wen Shi Nong. If he really had a scandal with Wen Shi Nong, it would have little to do with her. If he wanted to divorce, she could let him be a "good-looking but useless" man, and when the time limit came, she would let him "die" and make way for her son.
In fact, Lan Shichu was actually looking forward to him and Wen Shi Nong getting into trouble, so that she would have no psychological barriers to taking action.
It's a pity that because of her existence in this life, Gong Liang Sibai's parents were still alive, and his wife and children were all there. So when he returned to Beijing and secretly accumulated strength with the new emperor to fight back, he was not disheartened and did not need to seek emotional comfort from Wen Shinong. Therefore, his feelings for Wen Shinong could not deepen, and naturally disappeared slowly, becoming the current situation where the envoy has a wife and Luofu has a husband.
Gong Liang Congyun, the clever kid, went out to play with his elder brother for a day, and when he came back, he said mysteriously to Lan Shichu: "Mom, I know who the lady was that Dad had a secret meeting with under the tree!"
"Isn't it normal to know who she is? What's the use of knowing it?" Lan Shichu didn't understand why he was interested in this. To be honest, his feelings for his father, Gong Liangsubai, were even weaker than his feelings for his uncle, Gong Liangxian. Lan Shichu didn't think that he would be hurt because his father had other lovers.
Gong Liang Congyun's eyes sparkled, and he said, "It turns out that lady actually has a husband, and the husband is still alive! I thought she was a widow. She is really bold. Isn't it said that the capital is much more conservative than our village? I didn't expect that the ladies here are similar to those women in our village. If they are not satisfied with the man at home, they will go out and find another one."
Lan Shichu coughed lightly. The place of exile was a wild and desolate land far away from the emperor. It is said that poor mountains and bad waters produce unruly people. The farther away from the wealthy areas of the Central Plains, the more remote the place is, the more the human nature tends to be bestial. In the wild and desolate land, people can't even get a full meal, so how can they care about public order and good customs, let alone benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness. Therefore, the people there are very open in relationships between men and women. If they like each other, they will get married and live together. If they get tired of each other, they will separate and find someone else.
After the Gongliang family was exiled, they were protected secretly by people sent by Gongliang Sibai, and with the two men in charge, Gongliangqin and Gongliangxian, they would not allow their family members to go along with the local people.
The reason why little boy Gongliang Congyun knew all this was because he was naughty and active. He often ran around the village and town and encountered many things between adults. He witnessed a lot of things passively and confusedly, so he only half understood them.
That's why he didn't care about the things that weren't right between his parents, and he was more of a spectator when his father was suspected of having an affair with a married woman, rather than feeling shocked, angry or resentful for his mother.
"This is the capital city. It's wrong for your father and that lady to do this." Lan Shichu perfunctorily defended Gong Liang Sibai, fearing that his son's values would be distorted.
"Really?" Gong Liangzong tilted his head and looked at Lan Shichu, "If that's the case, then why aren't you angry, mother?"
"Mom is angry." Lan Shichu said with a smile, "But your father also has a father and a mother. If he does something wrong, he will be punished by his parents."
"Will his grandparents punish him?" Gong Liang Congyun widened his eyes.
"Probably. Why don't you go ask your grandparents?" Lan Shichu said to him.
(End of this chapter)
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