Shengshichun

The year Pei Shuangshuang was born, frost came especially early.

My mother told me that in late August, when the chrysanthemums in the garden had not yet faded and the lingering fragrance of osmanthus was still wafting around the yard, the early frost had already quietly climbed up the wall.

She was born on August 25, the day after her uncle's birthday. When her father and mother went back to her grandmother's house to celebrate her uncle's birthday, she started kicking in her stomach. Everyone said that she must be a boy because she was so naughty.

My grandmother felt sorry for my mother, and my uncle tried hard to keep her, so my mother and father stayed at my grandmother's house.

That morning, A'niang also woke up very early, because Aunt Zi Yan and Aunt Jin Zhu were collecting frost flowers on dried flowers and leaves under the wall. They heard the chef of Wanbinlou say that collecting these frost flowers and making tea, wine, or other delicious foods would have the same effect as snow on the flowers and leaves, which would be excellent.

During those days, Ah Niang, who was not particular about drinking tea, fell in love with the tea ceremony after being led by the Empress. Aunt Zi Yan and the others took note of it, watched the weather carefully, and laid out dried flower petals under the wall in advance.

In the early morning, the petals were covered with a layer of frost.

A'niang was infected by them and also became interested and joined the action. But before she could collect much, Pei Shuangshuang started kicking A'niang in the stomach again.

This time she kicked a little harder, because she really couldn't help wanting to come out!
A Niang started to have labor pains. With Doctor Lu by her side, even though she had never given birth before, she knew that she was about to give birth.

So I quickly notified my grandmother and father.

Everyone has arrived.

Grandmother and uncle were worried about my mother's safety and insisted on keeping her in the Ning family to give birth. However, all the things that my mother and father had prepared for Pei Shuangshuang were in the General's Mansion, and it was too late to make any temporary preparations.

My father acted promptly and arranged for a carriage to send my mother back home immediately.

On the other hand, the grandparents, who had known the news a long time ago, invited the imperial physician to their home in time.

Then, Pei Shuangshuang was born!

And it went smoothly. In less than two hours, both mother and daughter were safe.

After A Niang came to her senses, she saw that she was still holding a few petals in her hand, so she named her Shuangshuang.

Of course, Pei Shuangshuang’s full name is not this. Her name is Pei Ning. Everyone told her that this is because she was born in the 23rd year of Shengyuan when her country was peaceful, so the Ning means Corning.

But every time her name was called, she would always find that her father's eyes were particularly soft.

After doing it so many times, she became curious.

Father couldn't stand her pestering and had to tell her that he once knew a very good girl whose name was also "Ning".

Shuangshuang couldn't imagine, apart from A'niang, grandmother, grandmother, Empress Dowager, Empress Dowager, Liang's eldest aunt, Aunt Yu... apart from so many people she knew, what other very good girls could there be in the world that A'da knew but she didn't?

With this doubt in mind, she sat under the peach tree with her face in her hands, in a daze.

Unfortunately, before she could figure out a plan, Brother Xuan and that naughty guy quietly climbed up the tree when she wasn't paying attention, and then jumped down unexpectedly, scaring her and interrupting her thoughts.

"what are you thinking?"

Liang Xuan bent over and looked at her face curiously. "Wow, I haven't seen you for three days, and your face has become rounder again."

Shuangshuang was so angry that she pinched her fat waist: "How dare you say that to me? My mother said you were as fat as a winter melon when you were a kid!"

Liang Xuan frowned: "Why does Fifth Aunt always expose my shameful side? How can I find a wife in the future?"

"How shameless! You're only twelve years old, and you're already talking about getting married!" Shuangshuang crossed her arms and snorted heavily, "No one will marry you because you're so shameless!"

Liang Xuan couldn't hold back her expression: "We are siblings after all. I even folded your diapers when we were little. You can't treat me badly like this, can you?"

Shuangshuang snorted again and sat back under the tree.

Liang Xuan came up and asked, "Why are you sitting here alone? Did someone bully you?"

Pei Shuangshuang sighed: "My father said he knew a very good girl with the same name as me, but I don't know her. I was wondering who she could be."

"Same name as you?" Liang Xuan paused for a moment, then suddenly realized. But thinking about how the little girl had just called him a winter melon, he pinched his chin and looked at her slyly: "I know who it is."

Shuangshuang was indeed curious: "Who is it?"

"She was the girl that Uncle Wu had a crush on in the past."

Pei Shuangshuang, who was not even five years old, looked confused: "What does secret love mean?"

Liang Xuan stroked his head and said, "It's just love! The way a boy loves a girl! The way your father loves your mother!"

"But, my mother said that everyone can only like one person at a time. Didn't my father say that he has liked my mother since he was a child? Why would he like another girl?"

"Yes!" Pei Xuan clapped his fists, "So, does Uncle Wu have any secrets? Did he do anything to let Aunt Wu down?
"Shuangshuang, you are Aunt Wu's sweetheart. Uncle Wu has someone else in his heart. Aren't you going to complain to Aunt Wu?"

Shuangshuang thought of her mother and immediately clutched her skirt tightly.

She loved A Niang the most. A Niang was so gentle. From childhood to adulthood, no matter how big a mistake she made, A Niang would never scold her. She would just pull her to sit down and slowly tell her what behavior was correct.

Every night, A'niang would coax her to sleep, hold her in her arms, and tell her stories in a soft voice.

There was also the rag doll that she had loved since she was a child. It was sewn for her by Aunt Yu. She loved it so much that she would take it with her wherever she went, even when she went back to her grandmother's house. One time, her uncle saw that the doll was too dirty, so he washed it for her, but he washed off the doll's nose and couldn't find it. Shuangshuang cried sadly, and her uncle couldn't comfort her no matter what. Her grandmother brought her lots of delicious food, but she was still sad after eating them.

It was my mother who pulled my father over, holding a lantern in the middle of the night, and worked for a long time before finding it in the bushes. She then sewed it up for her with her own hands.

The Queen's daughter Xue'er gave birth to a litter of kittens. When the Emperor came to visit the Pei family, he also brought one for Shuangshuang.

Shuangshuang also likes her very much and holds her every day. She also named her Little Orange.

But Little Orange sheds hair, which sticks to her clothes and bed. Every time my second uncle comes to visit her, he screams at the hair on the couch. My grandmother also says that Little Orange is cute, but she can't stand the hair.

Only A'niang didn't dislike it at all. When Little Orange came to her, A'niang reached out and picked it up, saying, "My daughter's little darling is here." She always kept some dried fish and dried meat in the drawer of her kang table, put them in exquisite little jars. When Little Orange came, A'niang would feed it with the dried fish and dried meat.

Shuangshuang likes A Niang.

No, no, no, Shuangshuang loves An Niang the most.

Although Shuangshuang loves her father very much, her father cannot bully her mother and cannot like other people while he likes her mother.

Shuangshuang lifted up her skirt and left in a flash.

She is going to find A Niang.

She couldn't let her father lie to her mother.

She wanted her mother to teach her father a lesson.

Only the soldiers in the capital camp were afraid of my father, not my mother. Whenever my mother glanced at him, my father would get scared. He would search for all the delicious and fun things to appease my mother.

Of course, most of the delicious and fun things will eventually fall into Shuangshuang's hands, because the things that father finds are all extremely good, and mother gives everything to Shuangshuang and thinks of her in everything!
Thinking of this, Shuangshuang felt even more excited.

She trotted all the way to the garden, opened her arms and rushed towards A Niang who was drinking tea with Second Aunt:
"Mom, dad is a bad guy!" Not long after Shuangshuang was born, Pei Mu got married. His wife was his childhood sweetheart, Du Min, the second daughter of the Du family.

Du Min also gave birth to a little daughter three months ago. She just came out of the confinement period a few days ago. Fu Zhen accompanied her sisters-in-law to the garden to enjoy the flowers and bask in the sun.

Seeing his little daughter running towards him with a crying voice, Fu Zhen quickly put down the teacup and caught her: "What happened to Dad? Did he scold Shuangshuang?"

"No." Shuangshuang shook her head.

"So he went out to play without Shuangshuang?"

"No?" Shuangshuang still shook her head.

And his eyes were red with anxiety.

She didn't know what to say. Would her mother be sad if she told her? What should she do if she was sad? Even if she could call her father over to get beaten, she didn't seem to want to see him get beaten.

Shuangshuang was very conflicted.

Then she burst into tears.

Du Min had just finished her confinement and her maternal love was overflowing. How could she bear to see the little girl being so wronged? She quickly pulled her into her arms, gently wiped her tears, and asked softly:

"What happened to my father? Why did he bully our Shuangshuang? Auntie will support Shuangshuang. Let's go and seek justice together, okay?"

Shuangshuang then choked up and said, "Besides mother, my father also has a girl he likes."

Fu Zhen and Du Min were both stunned.

Du Min looked at Fu Zhen and gasped, "Didn't Second Brother send Guard Guo to Huizhou yesterday to bring Doctor Lu back so that Second Sister-in-law could recuperate and find a younger one?

"Besides, the martial arts exam is about to start. I heard from my eldest brother that he and my second brother have been so busy lately that they don't even have time to eat on time. How can they have time to look for a girl?"

How are Pei Zhan and Fu Zhen living and how is their relationship? How is their relationship as a couple? How could people in the capital not know?

There is absolutely no way Pei Zhan would fall in love with someone else.

But it is strange that such a misunderstanding could occur.

Fu Zhen looked at his daughter who was crying so hard with curiosity: "How did you know? Did Daddy tell you?"

Shuangshuang nodded heavily: "Dad said so. Brother Xuan also said so."

"Brother Xuan?!"

Fu Zhen immediately raised the last syllable of his voice.

It was outrageous that Pei Zhan would say such ridiculous things to his daughter, and it was even more outrageous when he brought up this kid Liang Xuan!

Pei Xuan is already twelve years old. He has been trained over and over again by his fifth uncle over the years. Not only has his martial arts improved, but his head is also full of endless ideas!
The key is that he has Liang Chen as his father to protect him. Pei Zhan was led astray by his fifth uncle who was not a very serious person in private, and now he has become a real troublemaker in the capital!
They are even worse than Liang Ning and Liang Zhi and their gang back then!

Su Xing'er has now completely given up.

Only Fu Zhen and Pei Zhan can control him.

He got into trouble again last month, and Su Xing'er was so angry that she sent him to the Pei family to be educated by the couple.

But Fu Zhen didn't expect that this time the kid would actually point the finger at his fifth uncle!
Thinking about the past few days, when Pei Zhan had been practicing his martial arts and military tactics day and night in order to make him shine in the martial arts examination, Fu Zhen almost understood.

This kid is taking revenge on his fifth uncle!
He clearly knew that Shuangshuang was young and couldn't be coaxed, but he still instigated him to come and complain. Wasn't he sincerely trying to use Fu Zhen to deal with Pei Zhan?
Thinking of this, Fu Zhen pulled his daughter over and said, "What did Daddy say to you? Tell Mom exactly what he said."

Shuangshuang was still in the second half of crying, although she didn't shed tears, but she was out of breath and sobbing: "Dad taught me to write my name, and then he kept calling me Aning, Aning, and I asked him why he kept calling me that?

"My father said that the girl he liked in the past was also named 'Ning'."

Fu Zhen suddenly realized and started laughing.

Du Min didn't understand: "How come I don't know about this? Who is this Miss Ning?"

Fu Zhen looked at her and smiled: "My maiden name is Ning. My original surname was Ning too."

Du Min clapped his hands and said, "Oh, so that's what's going on!"

Fu Zhen held the ignorant Shuangshuang on his knees and said, "The person in Dad's heart has always been Mom. Shuangshuang misunderstood."

Shuangshuang came to her senses at this time, her tears still wet as she pouted angrily: "This father, it's obviously mother, but he insisted on talking about the other girl!"

Fu Zhen stroked the top of her head and said, "Now tell me, what did Brother Xuan tell you just now?"

Shuangshuang then spilled the beans and said exactly what she had said.

Fu Zhen nodded as he listened, and his smile widened as he listened.

Then he put Shuangshuang down and gently pushed her to her second aunt's side: "Stay here with auntie first, mother will be back soon."

After saying that, she stood up and walked to the pomegranate tree, broke off a three-finger-long branch, and walked towards the wall of the yard.

Liang Xuan lay outside the door frame, stretching his neck to look inside the lush flowers and trees.

Shuangshuang had been in there for quite some time. According to her understanding of Aunt Wu, she should have come out to settle accounts with Uncle Wu after such a while. Why was there no movement?
He listened carefully, then stepped over the threshold unwillingly, wanting to get closer to take a look.

As soon as he stepped through the door, a hand grabbed the back of his collar.

Then someone grabbed one of his ears!

"It hurts!..."

He cried out in pain and turned around, only to see Fu Zhen, the person he had been looking forward to, standing in front of him.

At this moment, the latter was looking at him with his eyes narrowed, and under the arm that was pulling his ear was a whip that had just been broken off!

Liang Xuan couldn't speak clearly: "Where did you come from, Aunt Wu? Why didn't I see you come out!"

What the hell, has she become a god?

"I am at least a military scholar from the last session and a female general of the new generation of the Great Zhou. Do I have to go through the main gate to get out?"

Fu Zhen glanced at the wall, the meaning was self-evident.

Liang Xuan hung his head resignedly, there was nothing else he could do.

This devil-fearing person like him fell into the hands of the female devil. What else could he say except admit defeat?

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(End of this chapter)