The Eighth Prince has no title, and besides, he is currently under Huo Xiaolong's command. The Prefect can tell which is more important.
"To be honest, I didn't want to say much about your private affairs, but Zixi's mother often met with me when I was little, and she even held me and fed me candy. It's not good for couples to make things too tense."
Huo Xiaolong sat to the side with a slight smile on his lips, looking as if he were thinking of the prefect.
The brother and sister standing to the side gave their father a cold look.
“Your Highness is right. I only had a minor disagreement with my wife. How could I bear to confine her to her quarters? Someone, go and bring my wife out.”
Sun Zixi's facial muscles twitched slightly. See, it's the same for men. As long as you have enough power and stand high enough, both men and women will look up to you.
The girl stepped forward and said
"No need, Father. My brother and I will personally come to fetch Mother. You just need to stay with the Prince of Zhenbei."
After saying that, the brother and sister ran towards the backyard.
Having received the patriarch's order, no one dared to stop them this time. Seeing her mother, who had only grown a little thinner, Sun Zixi felt relieved. The young girl rested her head on Madam Sun's lap, tears streaming down her face.
"Mother, you have suffered because of me."
Madam Sun smiled, and Sun Ziyang imitated his sister's mannerisms, just like the day he first met Huo Xiaolong and they had a fight. In the end, the two siblings leaned on their mother's lap and talked.
"From now on, we'll study together and make our mother proud."
The once willful little dumpling has grown into a towering tree that her mother shelters from the wind and rain.
"It's not bitter."
The woman stroked her two children's hair. What's so bad about this? How can it be considered suffering?
It's truly miserable to watch your daughter fall into a cannibalistic abyss, and to be powerless to help her from the outside.
In the past, choosing this path for Zixi wouldn't have been a bad idea, but things are different now.
Her daughter had seen the outside world, and so had she. The outside world has flowers and grass, hardship and achievement, and different experiences, instead of ending her life in this dull and boring confines of the inner courtyard.
If Madam Sun were given another chance to choose, she thought she would do the same as Zixi.
"Mom, do you know what my brother and I are doing right now?"
The somber atmosphere quickly dissipated, replaced by Sun Zixi's excited, slightly boastful voice.
The woman did not show any signs of despair after being imprisoned; on the contrary, she was in good spirits. Her weight loss was simply due to her worry about not receiving any news from her brother and sister while she was in the house.
"What are you doing in Pingyang County? Why are you so happy, my son?" Madam Sun asked.
"Huo Xiaolong has conquered the grasslands! Mother!"
Upon hearing this news, the woman's pupils dilated, a mixture of surprise and joy in her eyes.
"Now Huo Xiaolong is the Prince of Zhenbei, and Beining County is under her jurisdiction; it is her fiefdom."
"My brother and I were her advisors."
"That's wonderful," Madam Sun thought. "In this way, both Zixi and Ziyang will have a place to stay."
"So, Mother, come with us." Sun Ziyang's chubby face showed a hint of naivety as the boy held his mother's hand and said.
“Yes, Mother, come with us. We each earn fifty taels of silver a month now, which is enough to support you.”
"You no longer need to find those concubines at home displeasing, nor do you need to get up early every day to serve tea to Grandma. Come with us, and we'll take care of you."
"Huo Xiaolong is at our house now, so my dad will definitely agree. There's no reason for him to disagree. Mom, let's go today, right now."
Looking at the earnest and sincere eyes of the brother and sister, Madam Sun couldn't help but be moved. Over the years, besides her wet nurse and dowry maids, she hadn't had any truly close confidants; it was still the same people from back then. The woman thought for a moment, then nodded.
"Go tell the nanny to pack your things. Mother will go with you."
Let's go first and talk about what happens next. As for what happens after that, it all depends on the two siblings' clever talk.
Huo Xiaolong chatted fluently with the prefect, and the more they talked, the more he realized that Prefect Sun had just gotten lucky. Otherwise, based on his political achievements, he would have been able to become a prefect at the highest level.
No wonder he was so eager to bring Sun Zixi into the palace; it turns out he was tired of being a prefect.
"Master, something terrible has happened! Madam is packing her things, preparing to go to Pingyang to live with the young master and young lady."
"You should go and try to persuade them."
"It's just like arguing and going back to your parents' house in anger," the prefect said, glancing at Huo Xiaolong beside him. The young woman chuckled twice.
"It's no big deal. You haven't seen the kids in a long time, so go and take care of them. Zixi and Ziyang are with me, so don't worry."
Upon hearing this, the prefect dared not move and remained seated upright. He couldn't understand how the little dumpling he had met once or twice back then could exert such a strong sense of pressure.
I had long heard that Huo Xiaolong had used force to reclaim the grasslands, killing all the disobedient Xiongnu.
This time, neither his son nor his daughter will listen to him anymore.
In that case, it would be better to have a different child...
But those concubines could never satisfy him. In other words, for many years, all the expenses of the Sun family were managed by Madam Sun. Although she disliked the concubines, she never shortchanged any of them in terms of monthly allowances. So, the minor squabbles between them were always fair and square.
Since Madam Sun was confined to her home, the management of the household fell into the hands of the Prefect Sun's mother. Making a living under this old lady was not so easy.
Hearing that the mistress was leaving and the master was being suppressed by the Prince of Zhenbei, the concubines disregarded their usual minor conflicts with Madam Sun and ran out in their everyday clothes, their hair simply tied up in a bun.
"Where are you going with the young master and young lady, Madam?"
“If you’re angry with us, we’ll apologize to you. Why make such a fuss?”
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