Chapter 173 Former Princess
He wiped Rong Chi's tears, hugged him and comforted him softly: "How could that be? In Daddy's eyes, Chi'er is Daddy's favorite little baby!"
Rong Chi's tears soaked Xie Shuangbai's neck and clothes. He choked and said in a baby voice:
"Little Daddy, although I miss Mommy, I like you too!"
Xie Shuangbai lifted him from his shoulders into his arms and kissed his little face: "Little Daddy knows that he loves Chi'er the most!"
Rong Chi asked timidly, "Little Daddy, aren't you angry? Nanny once said that stepmother doesn't like Chi Er thinking about his biological mother, saying that if he does that, she won't like him anymore."
Rong Ye frowned when he heard this. What did this old bitch teach Rong Chi?
Xie Shuangbai said softly, "It's normal for Chi'er to miss his mother. If it weren't for her, you wouldn't have come into this world and witnessed the beauty of the world, so you must always be grateful to her for giving you life!"
Rong Chi couldn't understand: "Little Daddy, what you said is different from what Mammy said!"
Xie Shuangbai looked at him and asked, "So do you think Little Daddy is right, or Madam?"
Rong Chi thought for a while: "Little Daddy is right, I love Mommy, and I love you too. Little Daddy, like Mommy, is the most important person in Chi'er's heart!"
Xie Shuangbai kissed him: "Chi'er, if you miss your mother, just think of her openly. Little Daddy won't be unhappy, because Little Daddy is also very grateful to your mother for bringing you into this world!"
Rong Chi nodded, leaned in Xie Shuangbai's arms, and said mysteriously:
"Little Daddy, let me tell you something in secret. I haven't dreamed of Mommy in a long time. I always dream of Little Daddy taking me out to play!"
Xie Shuangbai coaxed him: "Wow, so amazing, little daddy even plays with you in his dreams at night!"
"Well, I like little daddy the most," he held Xie Shuangbai's hand tightly: "Little daddy, you will always be with Chi'er, right!"
Rong Chi looked at Xie Shuangbai expectantly, like a little puppy afraid of being abandoned!
Xie Shuangbai smiled softly and touched his face: "Of course, doesn't Chi'er want to?"
Rong Chi shook his head and hugged him and acted like a spoiled child: "Chi'er, I want my little daddy to be with me forever!"
"Okay, okay, I'll stay with you. I promise you, your daddy and I will stay with you until we leave this world!"
Rong Chi didn't understand what it meant to leave this world. He happily called out to Rong Ye, "Daddy, come quickly!"
Rong Ye walked over, Rong Chi excitedly took Rong Ye's hand, then took Xie Shuangbai's hand, and stood between them, looking at them with his little face raised:
"Chi'er is in the middle. Daddy and Little Daddy will always be with Chi'er!"
He shook Xie Shuangbai's hand: "Little Daddy, I want to fly high!"
Xie Shuangbai glanced at Rong Ye and the other man tried hard to lift Rong Chi up.
He shouted excitedly: "Wow, it's so high, Daddy, little Daddy, I'm flying~!"
A cheerful laugh could be heard from the dim bedroom.
Rong Wu and Rong Jiu were standing on the tree outside the door, watching the figure in the window that was getting bigger and smaller.
Two pairs of warm big hands tightly holding a pair of small hands.
Rong Chi was tired from playing and was coaxed to sleep by Xie Shuangbai in a short while.
He looked at Rong Chi's sleeping face, tucked him in, and then got up and went to the outer room.
Rong Ye sat there motionless. Xie Shuangbai saw him sitting there in a daze, walked over and touched his stern face: "What are you thinking about? Why are you so absent-minded?"
Rong Ye came back to his senses and gently embraced him in his arms: "Shuang'er, thank you!"
Xie Shuangbai looked into his eyes and said, "Don't say that. I'm just following my heart. It's natural for a child to miss his mother. We can't suppress him. I don't believe you didn't think about the Empress Dowager when you were a child?"
Rong Ye didn't refute, but buried his face in Xie Shuangbai's chest. After a long while, he said sullenly, "But she likes big brother more."
Xie Shuangbai didn't say anything, but just gently stroked his back. After a long while, he whispered, "Can you tell me about your ex-consort?"
Xie Shuangbai had always deliberately ignored the fact that Rong Ye had a deceased wife. If he hadn't mentioned this today, he might have continued to avoid it.
He dared to ask at this moment because his relationship with Rong Ye had deepened, which allowed him to face the problem that he had been avoiding for a long time.
"What I just said is true. I really don't know her well."
Rong Ye seemed to be lost in memories:
"That year, I was 20 years old and returned to the capital after winning a battle. My mother summoned me, but she drugged me," Rong Ye said this with a painful emotion, as if wrapped in his incomprehension of his mother's betrayal and sadness for family affection.
Xie Shuangbai hugged him tightly: "And then?"
"When I woke up, I was naked with a strange woman. Then my mother and her nanny rushed in.
Seeing this, I immediately ordered that woman to become my Princess of Liang. Not long after, she gave birth to Chi Er, but died of complications during childbirth."
Xie Shuangbai didn't expect that the person who arranged this scene was Rong Ye's biological mother.
He sighed, "This woman is also a pitiful person."
"So I didn't implicate her family, nor did I make things difficult for her."
Xie Shuangbai asked curiously, "Whose family is she from?"
Rong Ye paused and said, "She is the daughter of the Yangcheng County Magistrate."
Xie Shuangbai was puzzled.
The difference in status between the two is so great. How did a county magistrate's daughter enter the harem and have such a thing happen? There must be a lot of twists and turns involved.
Xie Shuangbai suddenly had an idea: "Her difficult labor wasn't caused by someone, right?"
Xie Shuangbai admitted that he had some conspiracy theories. After all, the empress dowager even plotted against her own son, so it was not impossible that she wanted to kill her daughter-in-law or grandson.
Rong Ye shook his head: "Impossible, even though I wasn't there at the time, the people in the mansion are all trustworthy. Besides, what good would it be to kill her?"
Xie Shuangbai retorted, "What if they wanted to kill Chi'er? After all, childbirth is extremely dangerous for women. If something really happens, there's no way to explain it."
The more Xie Shuangbai thought about it, the more likely it seemed.
"What about the nanny next to Chi'er? You should check her out. From what I've heard from Chi'er, I feel that the nanny speaks strangely. I feel like she has ulterior motives and is always trying to sow discord."
He thought of the novels he had read before and let his imagination run wild: "Is he just waiting for you to find a second wife, let Chi Er and your second wife fight each other, you go back and forth, watch him become a little playboy, and finally piss off your father to death!"
Rong Ye's brows twitched when he heard this. He hugged Xie Shuangbai tightly, pinched his smooth chin, and looked at him with deep eyes: "Have you read too many storybooks? You still want to remarry? What do you mean by this string?"
Xie Shuangbai saw how this incident came to involve him, and pretended to be angry and said:
"I was kind enough to help you analyze it, but you didn't thank me and then you scolded me. Besides, clues might be found from such trivial things."
Rong Ye held him down: "There is no conspiracy, and no one is trying to harm her. That nanny has been arrested long ago."
Rong Ye's eyes suddenly seemed to freeze over. "This is all just a tragedy orchestrated by the Queen Mother! I've become a widower who kills his wife. Perhaps that would make them happier..."
Xie Shuangbai looked at Rong Ye's sad expression and hugged him gently, not knowing who to mourn for.
He suddenly realized that in this conspiracy, no one had asked the poor woman what her name was?
"What was your ex-consort's name?"
Rong Ye thought about it for a long time, and for a long time Xie Shuangbai thought he didn't know anything at all.
"It seems her name is Cai Sijing."
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