boudoir

Chapter 270 Why Difficult Labor?

Liuli picked him up, gave him a lot of food and play, and asked Yuegui to take him down to play.Then I asked Huanhua: "I have something to ask you. The fact that Mrs. Nie, Mrs. Yu and the elders secretly used their power for personal gain and profit was being investigated. It is said that the evidence was taken away secretly. Do you know? have no idea?"

Huanhua was surprised and said: "I'm still investigating, hasn't there been any movement?"

Liuli looked at her for a while, making sure she really didn't know.He Pusong's suspicion became even smaller.However, it cannot be ruled out that if He Pusong really did it secretly, it is unlikely that Huanhua would know about it. She asked her only to see if He Pusong might reveal the news.

"Then, what is Third Uncle's attitude towards the Grand Master?" She asked again.

After a short pause, Huanhua understood what she meant, "Are you suspecting that the person who secretly collected the evidence was my father? Impossible. Although he hated the long house, he never had a confrontation with them, that is, he refused to associate with them." That's all. And he seldom asks about these things, it's not like you don't know."

Liuli sighed and nodded: "Yes, I know that too." Therefore, it is more likely that the evidence is in the hands of Aunt Su.

Huanhua also sighed, "The old man's health has been getting worse and worse recently. He seemed to be saying a few days ago that he wanted to resign from office. The second sister-in-law and the second and fourth bedrooms are secretly fighting fiercely, and I don't know what it will be like when the family is separated."

Liuli didn't care about this, and just said: "What do you care about so much?"

Huanhua sat until evening, then got up to go back, and Liuli sent them to Erdaomen to get on the bus.Seeing that ten days passed and three or four days passed, she would not be afraid of raising any questions as long as she walked around the mansion without leaving the mansion.

Liuli got into the carriage with Brother Ping in her arms, just in time to pray for Yunhao to come back on horseback, Huanhua got out of the carriage immediately to greet him.Qi Yunhao nodded, looked at Liu Li who was still standing beside Ping, took a deep look at her, and then at Ping, threw the whip to Jin Zhong, and went back to the room alone up.

Liuli watched Huanhua's carriage go out, and also returned to the room, Qi Yunhao hugged her from the door and rolled her onto the couch, whispering in her ear: "Let's have a baby."

Liuli bit his shoulder hard and ran out.

What a child in broad daylight!
Rui'er came back as soon as the three-day vacation came, while Ji Xiaoquan didn't get any other orders from Liuli for the time being, and still went to Zhuangzi in the eastern suburbs.In this way, Zhuangzi was entrusted with some finishing matters, and Lai Wu went to Laoqi's mansion to inquire about the news.

Liuli heard Ji Jiaoer reply at noon, and Lai Wu sent a message in at noon.

Ji Jiaoer said: "Many newcomers have been added to the old Qi mansion. The man in charge of the ancestral hall is an old man from a side branch of the Qi mansion family. It is said that he has met Mrs. Ye. But because of the distant relationship, he has always only been responsible for guarding the ancestral hall. I don’t know very well, I only told Lai Wu one thing, and I don’t know if it will be useful to grandma.”

Liuli heard what he said earlier, and she no longer had any hope for Lai Wu this trip, so she said casually, "What's the matter?"

Ji Jiaoer thought for a while, and said: "It is said that Mrs. Ye was very young when she married the prince, she was just of age, and she was pregnant with a child not long after. It's too young to give birth, but Mrs. Ye didn't listen and gave birth to the child anyway. Oh, it's our general. The old man also said that if Mrs. Ye hadn't been reluctant to bear the child in her belly, she wouldn't have He really obeyed the doctor's words and died of dystocia. We all know about this, so he can remember it."

At the beginning, Liuli only planned to listen to it as an ordinary allusion, but when she calmed down and thought about it again, the cup almost fell over!
Mrs. Ye was also 15 years old when she married King Dingbei, and she was the same age as herself, and what a coincidence, the imperial doctor also said that she was too young to give birth prematurely, and she really died of dystocia in the end?Could it be——Qi Yunhao was really afraid that she would repeat Mrs. Ye's mistakes because of her mother's death?

In an instant, many questions flooded into her mind like a flood.Qi Yunhao never mentioned his mother in front of her, whether he had no impression of her at all, so he didn't care, or because of King Dingbei's unfeeling and Mei's harshness, he had never met her His biological mother has feelings that ordinary people can't touch?
If it's the former, then it's not because of Madam Ye's death that he didn't impregnate her.

But if it is the latter, it is very possible!Because if Mrs. Ye is not dead, then she must be the hostess of the Dingbei Palace today, not Mei.And Qi Yunhao won't make trouble to the point where he has to live in another house!All this is because Mrs. Ye was reluctant to strangle him in her belly and took the risk of giving birth to him, but in the end she died because of it!
Wouldn't Qi Yunhao himself feel sad for Mrs. Ye's death in exchange for his own life because he knew this?

"A child without a mother is the most unfortunate", does the pain in these words need to be elaborated?I remember that night in the study room, when she asked him why he didn't tell her in advance, when it came to this, he hesitated, but she didn't even think about the possibility that he was avoiding it because of his biological mother's death. ——Of course, at that time, she didn't even know the cause of Mrs. Ye's death.

So, is it true?
The closer she got to the truth, the more she couldn't let go.

Qi Yunhao came back after dinner and brought her purple heart sweet potatoes.

Liuli sat on the couch with her knees hugged, stared at him as he washed his face and changed his clothes, and then sat at the table and picked up tea.

Although he has been in the frontier fortress all year round, because he was still in the aristocratic circle of Beijing when he was young, and he was exposed to a good education, so his actions are not rude, and he has always been calm and gentle. He is tall and tall, and his facial features are cold and resolute , stood up very straight, like a pine tree, but not the kind that is so cold that people are inaccessible, he can laugh, and his smile is very soft, such a person does not look like there is something unspeakable in his heart hurt people.

But the 20-year enmity between him and King Dingbei because of Mrs. Ye is true, and the sadness in his words is also true, which cannot be bypassed.

"Why are you staring at me?"

Qi Yunhao finally asked a question, since he entered the door, her eyes have not left him today.

"It's nothing."

She shook her head, lowered her head and turned the book again.But the fingers just turned a page and stopped moving.If she took the initiative to ask him about Mrs. Ye, what are the chances that he would tell her frankly?
"I see you like it, so I bought it for you again."

At some point, he had already peeled the sweet potato and handed the end to her.

Liuli stared at it for a while, took it, and took a bite.

He wiped his hands with a handkerchief, picked up a military book next to the bed as usual, and looked at it.Ever since he rested here every night, there were a lot of his things on the bedside.

Liu Li hugged her knees and bit the sweet potato, and suddenly said: "At the end of the year, Madam Ye's memorial day, how did the general sacrifice in previous years?"

Is it because of his mother's death that she was not allowed to take the risk of giving birth prematurely and facing dystocia?She still didn't dare to ask for evidence directly.Up to now, it seems that since childhood, there is not even a reliable person left by my mother, and my father is in a hurry to marry his stepmother back. It didn't take long for the stepmother to have children of her own. How much warmth Qi Yunhao has received in this family is what makes her happy. People can guess.Even if she blamed him and hated him, after knowing this, she didn't want to use it to be an executioner again.

Qi Yunhao was peaceful and calm at first, but when he heard this sentence, he suddenly raised his head, the pain in his eyes was so obvious that it almost burned Liuli.

"The general's birthday is Madam Ye's memorial day, isn't it?" Liuli held a sweet potato in one hand, pretending to look at it calmly, with the other hand holding her knee under her arm.Seeing his eyes, she knew she had guessed right.He has feelings for Mrs. Ye that are different from ordinary people, but what she wants is the exact truth, a practical answer, so she must try it out.

If he really couldn't let go of Mrs. Ye's death, he would definitely respond to this special day.

"It's only been more than a month, and it's time for me to start cooking. The general should tell me what to do."

"do not talk!"

Qi Yunzhen suddenly stood up, chest heaving, strode to the door, suddenly turned around, with hatred in his eyes.

Liuli forgot to speak, and stared at him fixedly.He turned his head suddenly, slammed the door frame suddenly, then stepped over the threshold and rushed out.

Liu Li also got up and chased him out without wearing any shoes. When he arrived at the porch, he saw that Li Xing had also chased him out the door, but he was still inside the door, so he called him and asked, "I ask you, who was the general's mother back then?" Why did he die in childbirth?"

Li Xing was stunned, took a look at Qi Yunhao's whereabouts, and after half a day gritted his teeth and looked at Liuli: "You can't say this little one."

Liuli said: "Then how do you celebrate the general's birthday every year?"

"grandmother--"

"You have to say it!" Liuli shouted.

"grandmother!"

Li Xing stomped his feet in a hurry, and said bitterly: "Don't mention this! Where did the general celebrate his own birthday? He used to be in the frontier fortress, and he disappeared every day on this day. After returning to the court, he simply went Sitting on the Madam's tomb all day long! I didn't even know it when I was young, but the year I came back, the Holy One gave me a birthday gift, and I couldn't find anyone, but I finally found him in front of the Madam's tomb. After that, I will go there every year to find him That's right!"

Never had a birthday—and sure enough, she was right.Qi Yunhao couldn't let go of Mrs. Ye's death, so when it came to having a child, he himself couldn't pass the hurdle!
He was worried that Liuli would die like his own mother, even if it was a very unlikely thing, he was unwilling to let her try it.He didn't want their children to be like him, without a mother's love.

Liuli suddenly took half a step back. This half step was difficult and heavy. Now she felt how cruel it was to force him to confide the truth.

(End of this chapter)