red wheel

Chapter 137 Missing the Child
Night, Jinxiu Pavilion of Marquis of Wu'an Mansion.

After a while, Mrs. Xiao said again: "Okay, this meal is almost done. Xi'er, let's talk about it, tell grandma why Xiao Zhong suddenly arranged for Xiaogu to enter Fu'an Hall?"

Xiao Jinxi smiled helplessly, and said, "Grandmother is wise, Xi'er, I can't hide anything from you."

Zhu got up, took the colorful rope from the pear flower couch, handed it to his grandmother, and said, "Grandma, look at this."

Mrs. Xiao took the colorful rope suspiciously, and after a while, Fang said: "The color has degraded so much, this colorful rope must be old."

"Why, Xi'er, what does this have to do with Fu'an Hall?"

"Grandmother, Wei Mo saw this in a wooden box in Nanny Zhao's closet. There were forty colorful ropes of different years in that wooden box," Xiao Jinxi said.

"Forty!" Mrs. Xiao murmured.

After a while, he suddenly sighed deeply: "Oh... the forty colorful ropes are also Xianglan's longing for that child! Before I know it, 40 years have passed!"

After a while, Mrs. Xiao was puzzled again: "But what does this have to do with arranging Xiaogu to enter Fu'an Hall?"

"Grandmother, Xiao He, the maid who was taken away from your yard before, confessed some strange things later on. Xi'er was puzzled and wanted to ask grandma." Xiao Jinxi said.

"Okay, Xi'er, tell me." Mrs. Xiao said suspiciously.

Xiao Jinxi took out the secret letter from his body and said, "Grandma, please read this."

Mrs. Xiao took the secret letter suspiciously and read it, but her expression became more and more puzzled. After a long time, Fang said, "It seems that Xianglan has found her son."

"But now that I found it, it's something to be happy about, but why haven't I heard her mention it for so many years?"

Xiao Jinxi asked suspiciously: "Grandma, what happened to that child 40 years ago?"

Mrs. Xiao sighed, and after a while, Fang said slowly, "Alas...it's been 40 years since then."

"At that time, it was still when your grandfather guarded the northern border."

"Your father is still young, too. Your father is only seven years old, and Xianglan's son is only five years old. Xianglan's husband has been weak since he was a child, and he left when the child was three years old."

"Dai Yue at that time was not as quiet as it is now. The emperor of Da Yue at that time was ambitious, and in those years he frequently harassed the northern border."

"In that year, your grandfather hadn't returned to the Marquis' Mansion for two consecutive years, and he didn't even come back to report on his duties. The Holy One sent a special person to the northern border to connect with your grandfather."

"That year, when the Chinese New Year was approaching, I got permission from the Holy One to take your father to the north to celebrate the New Year with your grandfather."

"Of course Xianglan went with me. I took your father with me, and Xianglan took her son."

"And on that day, it happened to be the few days of the New Year, and it was rare for Da Yue to be quiet."

"Xianglan and I took the children to play on the hillside closest to the camp. The two children were happily chasing animals on the hillside. Xianglan and I walked on the hillside and chatted."

"And the previous quarter of an hour, we were watching the children chasing the animals."

"In the last quarter of an hour, your father ran over and said that he couldn't find his younger brother. He said that he saw him chasing the rabbit in the front. He went to look for him later, but he couldn't see him anywhere."

"We were also frightened, and hurried to look for it together, but we couldn't find it anywhere on the hillside."

"We will hurry back to the camp later. Your grandfather has transferred people from the army to search around there together."

"But we still couldn't find it anywhere. We were all in a hurry. At that time, Xianglan was crying every day."

"And then, just after the eighth day of the lunar new year, the refugees on the border came out to riot again, and after that, just after the twentieth of the first lunar month, the main battle of the Dai Viet court and the peace faction started to stir up trouble again."

"It didn't take long before the war broke out, and it lasted for a full year!"

"And after the war broke out, your grandfather had no choice but to send so many people to help Xianglan find a child."

"We can only take the manpower from the mansion, and the few people your grandfather gave us, and search secretly."

"Just like that, after searching for half a year, there was no news at all. At that time, Xianglan's heart was ashamed, and grandma felt uncomfortable seeing her like this!"

"But at that time, the war between the two countries has reached the most serious time, and the emperor ordered us to return to the imperial capital immediately."

"In the end we had to obey the imperial decree and return to the imperial capital."

"In the next ten years, Xianglan will still sneak back and forth between the imperial capital and the northern border with the people I arranged for her."

"I hope to find my son all over my heart. But after all, I can't get what I want!"

Xiao Jinxi just listened quietly like this, for a long time, a line of tears flowed down unconsciously...Mother Zhao should have found her son in the end.But, Chen'er, where are you?How did mother find you?

When Mrs. Xiao saw it, she frowned instantly, and hurriedly reached out to wipe her tears for her granddaughter, her eyes filled with distress: "You child, what is going on now, you shed tears so easily!"

Xiao Jinxi smiled slightly when she heard the words, and said: "Xi'er is fine, grandma, don't worry, Xi'er is just grateful for Zhao's mother's hopelessness in finding a child, and feels bad for her. Grandma, please continue talking, Xi'er listen."

"Okay." Mrs. Xiao continued to speak slowly just now: "In the tenth year, that year, when Xianglan came back, she was holding an infant child in her arms."

"I heard from her that she picked it up during the war, because it happened to be the last battle between Apocalypse and Da Yue."

"That child is Xianglan's current son. After Xianglan brought him back, she raised him herself."

"Actually, in the following year, Xianglan still went to the northern border to look for her son, but in the end she couldn't find her son."

"When she returns to Hou's Mansion, the current son will already be able to stumble and walk in the mansion, and will start calling mother."

At this moment, Mrs. Xiao reached out and wiped away the tear from the corner of her eyes.

He sighed deeply again, but there was a smile on his face: "It was also the mother that I saw on Xianglan's face, a smile I hadn't seen in many years."

"Because I was afraid of making Xianglan sad again, I strictly ordered everyone in the mansion not to mention this matter again."

"That's it, Xianglan lived quietly in the mansion with her current son. She didn't mention it anymore, and went to look for her son."

"However, Xianglan will still go to that hillside every year, stay quietly on that hillside for three days and then come back."

"Xiang Lan said that after so many years of searching, she still doesn't know where the child is? Or, if he is still in this world, she can only go to that hillside to accompany him every year."

"And time has made many people in the mansion forget about this matter. Every year, they think that Xianglan just went back to his hometown."

"When it comes to your generation, you won't even know it. The only ones who can remember it now are grandma and your father."

"Later, when this son is about 15 years old, Xianglan said that she hopes that this child will be safe and successful in this life."

"As for the family of military generals in the Marquis of Wu'an, it is inevitable that they will get involved in various disputes."

"Xianglan wanted her child to go back to her hometown and live a normal life there, so I helped Xianglan find a famous gentleman in her hometown so that her son could become a teacher."

"Since then, her son has lived and lived there until he got married and had children."

"This time Xianglan came back from my hometown. I saw her, and I was so relieved from the bottom of my heart!"

Xiao Jinxi who was on the side said with emotion: "Mother Zhao is also well-intentioned."

After a while, Mrs. Xiao picked up the secret letter again, and asked in confusion, "But, since Xianglan has already found that son, why hasn't he mentioned it?"

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(End of this chapter)