The High Gate Mistress of Rebirth

Chapter 353
Xu Wanning took the children to Qingfengyuan, and Li Xian went to Songletang to visit his mother, Mrs. Guo, when he had nothing to do.

Seeing her son coming alone, Mrs. Guo's face sank again, and she asked calmly, "Where's your wife?"

Li Xian sat down on the chair, and replied: "Wanning took the children to the second younger brother and sister. The second younger brother is not at home when he is going on an expedition. Wanning has gone to visit the younger siblings and the children."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Guo's face became even longer, and she said in a strange way: "She will be a good person, after all, it is more useful to curry favor with the little mistress who is in charge of the family business than me, an old woman."

Li Xian was a dutiful son, and he always obeyed his widowed mother, but now he is middle-aged, experienced the ups and downs of the officialdom, experienced life and death, serious illness, his state of mind is no longer what it used to be, and he knows the importance of his wife even more.Mrs. Guo has always been at odds with her daughter-in-law, and now Li Xian no longer blindly protects his mother when faced with his mother's criticism of his wife.

Hearing his mother's tricky words, Li Xian put down the teacup, and replied to her: "Mom is getting old now, she should take care of her body, why is she always fussing over trivial matters with the younger generation."

Mrs. Guo is also used to her son protecting his daughter-in-law these years. Although she was unhappy, she was helpless and babbled for a while with her old face drooping. Li Xian was accustomed to being tortured by his mother for so many years. After babbling, he got up and left Songle Hall, and went to Qingfengyuan to pick up Xu Wanning and the children.

The bright moon was in the sky, and many glazed lanterns were tied to the osmanthus trees in the yard, and the children were playing lively.Brother Erlang Ping saw his father came to pick him up, he didn't say anything and didn't go back, Xu Wanning and Li Xian coaxed the youngest son with good words, but this kid didn't want to eat anything, and in the end he started to roll around on the ground again.

The little guy was rolling on the ground, but his small black eyes were secretly looking at the adults, and he couldn't squeeze out a single tear, but just opened his mouth wide and made a big cry of "wah-wah-wah".

Jingshu and Pingyang were amused by Erlang's naughty appearance, Xu Wanning couldn't coax her younger son, so she pointed at Jingshu and Pingyang with a smile and scolded: "Are you two still acting like aunts? Seeing my nephew playing tricks here, not talking about meddling, but still laughing."

Ping Yang was so teased by Brother Ping that she was so angry, she drank two sips of tea before smoothing it over, and said to Xu Wanning with a smile: "I think only the second brother can control this Erlang, so what's the point of blaming the two of us?" use?"

Xu Wanning leaned weakly on the chair, and sighed to Jingshu: "When the second brother comes back, I will send this kid to you, and I must let the second brother take good care of him."

Jing Shu joked with a smile: "I think you are just talking about it, and when your husband really kills Erlang, you will feel distressed again."

Xu Wanning hurriedly waved her hands and said, "I won't feel sorry for this brat this time, it's getting more and more outrageous and pissing off."

Jing Shu poured a cup of tea for Xu Wanning, and persuaded: "Okay, let's have a sip of tea to calm down. Since Erlang didn't play enough, let him play for a while."

Xu Wanning looked at Erlang Saburo who was having a great time together, and said with a smile: "These two brothers fought so fiercely just now, and now they are playing so hard."

As soon as Xu Wanning finished speaking, Sister Zhuang's song "Flowers and Full Moon" under the osmanthus tree finished playing, and the younger ones clapped their little hands and smiled and applauded for the elder sister.

The three sisters-in-law and sisters-in-law looked at the beautiful and lovely dolls, and they couldn't help but smile on their faces.

The children finally left after having fun. Li Xian led Kun'er and Zhuang, Xu Wanning led Ping and headed towards Bitangju, and Pingyang and the wet nurse took Qing and Wan back to Xianglin Garden. .

Li Xiang was sitting in the small pavilion under the plum tree drinking alone with the moon, Pingyang asked the wet nurse to carry the children into the bedroom to rest, and sat down beside him, jokingly said: "It's a big festival, I'll leave you at home alone , I blame you for neglecting you."

Li Xiang replied: "Aren't I accompanied by wine? It's not like I was left out."

Ping Yang asked with a smile: "I'm not with the children, since you're bored by yourself, why don't you go sit in the courtyard?"

The expression on Li Xiang's face froze, and he said lightly: "What are you doing in the courtyard? I don't like to move."

After speaking, Li Xiang poured a cup of sake by himself, and asked Pingyang: "This is sweet-scented osmanthus wine, clear but not strong, do you want to have a taste?"

Ping Yang declined: "It's not like you don't know, I'm not good at drinking."

Li Xiang smiled lightly, picked up the cup, and drank it all in one gulp.

Ping Yang looked at Li Xiang and asked, "Can Jiao Xing drink alcohol?"

When Li Xiang saw Pingyang mention Jiao Xing suddenly, his hand holding on to the wine cup couldn't help trembling slightly, and asked, "Why did you suddenly ask this?"

Ping Yang grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the table, held them in his hand and kowtowed, and replied: "It's just a casual question, Aunt Xing has been silent since she was picked up from Zhuangzi, except for coming here regularly to say hello, I haven't seen her go out all day, even after so many years, I don't know her very well, I'm just curious, how did she catch your eyes when you were young?"

Li Xiang put down the wine cup, and replied flatly: "There's nothing to be curious about, it's just that they got together when they were young and playful, there's nothing worth mentioning."

To be honest, Pingyang has never cared about Jiao Xing before, and today it was only on a whim that he talked about her with Li Xiang.

Ping Yang then asked: "When did Aunt Xing enter the mansion? Does she have any family?"

Li Xiang picked up the jug again and wanted to pour wine, but he only poured out half of it, and before he knew it, he had already drank a whole jug of wine.

He was already slightly drunk, but he still poured the half cup of wine into his mouth, sighed slightly, and murmured back: "She was only sold into the mansion when she was only seven or eight years old, but she had already been tossed around before she entered the mansion." In so many places, even she herself can’t remember whether she has family members, let alone where her relatives are.”

Pingyang is a simple and kind person. Hearing this, he sighed: "She is a poor person."

After speaking, she looked at Li Xiang again and asked, "Then did you feel pity for her because you saw her pity?"

In fact, Pingyang has always been a bit curious about the reason why Li Xiang took a fancy to Jiao Xing. Jiao Xing looks mediocre and has nothing special about him. For a nobleman like Li Xiang, even if he is young and messing around, the object of his fancy should be She is a delicate beauty, but he just took a fancy to Jiao Xing, Pingyang has been puzzled by this problem.

Li Xiang was on the verge of drinking at the moment, he leaned on the rocking chair, half-closed his eyes, and said with a faint smile: "Although I come from a wealthy family, my parents have been at odds since I was young, and no one has taken care of me except my elder brother. I have the same fate as her, so how can I pity her?"

(End of this chapter)