"But her handwriting is so ugly it's unbearable to be seen in public! Go and give her the elementary calligraphy copybook in my cabinet. Don't let her waste paper anymore."
Aunt Zhang chuckled, "Yes. Old Madam, you're tough on the outside but soft on the inside. You clearly dote on the younger generation and like ambitious children. That calligraphy copybook was prepared for the general back then, wasn't it? It's a pity it wasn't used all those years..."
Seeing that the old lady looked unhappy, Nanny Zhang stopped talking.
She took the calligraphy copy and immediately gave it to Li Qingluo.
Li Qingluo was flattered.
After receiving it with both hands, he made all kinds of promises to keep it carefully and cherish it.
Seeing that she was becoming more sensible, Nanny Zhang was not in a hurry to leave, but sighed deeply.
"Young lady, do you know...why the old lady has been living in Qingsong Temple all year round and never returned to the general's mansion?"
Li Qingluo had heard some of the reasons in the general's mansion in her previous life, but she knew that those were not the whole story.
So, at this moment, he naturally shook his head and pretended to know nothing.
Perhaps Nanny Zhang had also seen Li Qingluo's insistence on meeting the old lady in the past few days, so she really wanted to give her some advice, so she told her in person what happened in the general's mansion of the previous generation.
It turned out that the old lady was the daughter of the Pei family, a family of founding generals. Although she had learned literature and calligraphy since childhood, she loved wielding swords and guns more.
Thirty-seven years ago, after Pei married into the Li family, she gave birth to a son after ten months of pregnancy, who was Li Qingluo's father, Li Chaojing.
However, before the baby grew up, urgent news came from the border that Li Chaojing's father was surrounded by enemy troops and his whereabouts were unknown, and it was unknown whether he was alive or dead.
Worried about her husband and in order to save the war situation, Pei had to leave her eight-month-old baby behind, put on armor and take command of the emperor, and personally go to the border to support and rescue her husband.
Li Chaojing was entrusted to the care of the old lady of the Li family in the mansion, and was taken care of by Deng, her husband's former concubine who was later brought up by Pei herself.
Who knew that it would take five years to return.
When he came back, Li Chaojing no longer recognized Pei as his biological mother. He only wanted Deng and was completely devoted to her.
Although no one could shake Pei's position, she felt bad that her only legitimate son had turned against her.
She tried her best but couldn't win her son's true love.
If he himself was sick, Li Chaojing would come to pay his respects and ask questions, but if Deng was sick, Li Chaojing would rush around serving tea and water, personally serving her, visiting her eight hundred times a day, and even kneeling in the Buddhist temple to pray to the gods and worship Buddha.
Things like this naturally made Pei angry.
She believed that it was Deng who was obstructing Li Chaojing from recognizing her as his biological mother and treating her, a concubine, more important than his biological mother!
Pei originally planned to send Deng away personally, either letting her go to a Buddhist temple to worship Buddha for the rest of her life, or selling her off.
But Li Chaojing actually resisted by dying.
She even shouted, "If you dare to separate me from Aunt Deng, I will hate you forever! Even if you die, I will never burn a stick of incense for you!"
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