"Mother? Mother——!"
Li Chaojing immediately dropped the wooden horse and stood up, but because he was too tall and strong and the wooden horse was too small, he accidentally fell when he stood up.
With this fall, the wooden horse broke into pieces on the spot.
Li Chaojing was stunned for a moment, looking at the pile of broken wood on the ground. He rubbed his eyes, sat on the ground and burst into tears.
"Wuwuwu...Mother, the wooden horse I made for Jing'er is broken, wuwuwu..."
Li Qingluo was speechless.
"Grandma, this... is he really not pretending?"
He still had a beard on his face, with several wrinkles on it. Half of his hair had turned white because of Li Kechuan's broken leg. Now he was sitting on the ground like a child, crying without any image.
Li Qingluo couldn't believe it. If it was a show, then he was too convincing and too willing to sacrifice his past dignity!
Madam Pei looked at the scene expressionlessly and said, "Luo Bai examined him and said he had been through a great shock and is indeed not quite normal now. His mind... has regressed to that of a child, perhaps only four or five years old."
After saying that, Mrs. Pei walked forward.
Seeing her coming, Li Chaojing looked up at her pitifully, and reached out to hug her legs and cried, "I'm sorry, mother. It's Jing'er who failed to protect the wooden horse that mother sent back to Jing'er."
"Mother, Jing'er can't find the things you sent back from the border these past few years."
"Jing'er is so sad... I had a rattle, a windmill, a carriage, a knife, a sword, and a bow and arrow... They're all gone. Mother, can you make Jing'er a few more that are exactly the same?"
"Mother, Aunt Deng said that you just bought these and threw them back to please your son. Is that true?"
"So my son threw them all away in anger... Now he wants to look for them, but he can't find them."
"Mother, please don't be angry, okay?"
Madam Pei squatted down, looked at him, and replied word by word: "No, these were indeed made by my mother herself. You have been deceived by Aunt Deng."
Upon hearing the truth, Li Chaojing seemed shocked.
"Really? She lied to me? But why did she lie to me?"
Mrs. Pei did not answer him, but asked: "Jing'er, do you really like these things?"
"Are you just pretending to see me come back? Don't you... dislike my mother?"
"I heard that you think my mother is a woman who only knows how to wield swords, is not gentle, and did not accompany Jing'er to grow up. So you think I am not as good as Aunt Deng, and you are ashamed to have a mother like me, right?"
"Jing'er, don't act like that in front of Mother."
"Otherwise, my mother will take it seriously."
Li Chaojing seemed anxious when he heard these words.
He hugged Madam Pei, threw himself into her arms, and cried even more sadly.
"Mother, Jing'er knows I was wrong. Jing'er was truly wrong... Jing'er did resent Mother. Why couldn't Mother be like other mothers and stay by her side? Why did Mother insist on donning armor and leading a general on the battlefield? Is a son less important than those military achievements?"
"But my son knows that my mother went to save my father."
"Also, I actually really like the things my mother sent me back...but I don't know what's real and what's fake."
"Mother, are you still leaving? Can you please stay..."
After comforting Li Chaojing, Mrs. Pei left the yard with Li Qingluo with red eyes.
Once outside, Mrs. Pei sighed.
"Let me tell you the truth, Luo'er. Grandmother...originally wanted to deal with your father and put an end to him."
"But I didn't expect things to turn out like this."
"Grandmother was indeed wrong back then. If I had taken your father with me when I went to the frontier, and had not left him to the care of a concubine no matter how hard or tiring it was, perhaps we mother and son wouldn't be in this situation today."
"Later, because of my personality, I simply escaped this disastrous mother-son relationship."
"You've seen what he's become. So, Grandmother can't be so cruel to him anymore... So, return him to your mother."
"Just think of it as something grandma owes him."
"From now on, he and I will be considered as severed ties, and we will never see or have any contact again."
"You go and take care of this matter. Grandma is tired and won't show up this time."
After saying this, Madam Pei dragged her tired body and slowly walked away.
Li Qingluo looked at her grandmother's back and knew that she was not feeling well.
Li Qingluo turned around and went back to the gate of the courtyard, looking at Li Chaojing who was trying hard to reassemble the wooden horse inside.
Li Chaojing saw him and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Sister, who are you? Why do I feel like you look familiar?"
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