Rebirth of the High Gate Mistress

Chapter 550 What happened in the past

Li Xiang went to pay homage to Jiao Xing and did not return until dark.

He wanted to send his youngest daughter, Sister Mei, to the cross-yard and hand her over to the wet nurse. After settling her daughter, Li Xiang returned to the main house.

Having spent most of the day with Mr. Xie, Pingyang felt much better. When she saw Li Xiang returning, she didn't ask him about paying homage to Jiao Xing. She just stared at the accounts for the day.

Li Xiang first went to the bathroom to wash up. When he came out, he saw that Pingyang still had no intention of paying attention to him, so he lay on the couch to rest.

Neither husband nor wife spoke, and there was silence in the room. After a while, Yuzhu entered the room, lit the candle with a fire stick, and said to Pingyang: "Madam, I just heard on the door that my cousin has returned from seeing Sister Qing. ”

Pingyang then raised his head and asked, "Where are they? Why didn't they see anyone?"

Yuzhu smiled and replied: "My cousin caught a deer for my sister and is waiting for the boys at the door to get the deer."

"This kid is really getting wilder and wilder." Pingyang said, then he put down the account book in his hand and said to Yuzhu: "Let's go and have a look. My cousin is busy with errands now. He is crazy with this girl. He’s been playing all day, don’t let me keep pestering him.”

Pingyang brought Yuzhu to the door. Pei Yunqian and Li Kun had just returned from hunting with Sister Qing. They saw several people and a few young men busy around a spotted deer.

Seeing Pingyang, Sister Qing ran over happily, shouting: "Mom, come and see, my cousin has lassoed a deer for me."

Li Kun had already caught the deer with his front hooves. He stood up and wiped his sweat. He looked at Sister Qing and said with a smile: "This little deer is only half a year old. It is the time when it is naughty. I want to get it out of the garden." Go, Sister Qing insists on taking her to the yard to raise her, I'm worried that if this little guy gets loose, he will hurt his younger brothers and sisters."

When Sister Qing heard this, she pouted and said, "Just order the boys to put up a fence in the yard. I just want to keep it in the yard so that I can see it at any time."

Pingyang looked at the happy deer and persuaded his daughter: "It's better to listen to your elder brother and put it in the garden. It's not appropriate to put it in the yard after all."

"Just put a fence around it, what's the big deal." Sister Qing pouted and begged: "This fawn is so small. I don't feel comfortable leaving it alone in the garden. Mother, please, please allow me." Just keep it in the yard."

Pei Yunqian, who was standing aside, saw this and said, "Just follow my sister's wishes and let the boys tie the fence tighter."

Sister Qing said coquettishly: "Mom, it's okay for you to see my cousin, just promise me."

Pingyang glared at his daughter: "You, don't keep pestering your cousin to take you hunting. My cousin is busy with errands now. How can he have so much time to play with you, a kid?"

Pei Yunqian looked at Pingyang and said with a smile: "Just like you said, no matter how busy you are, you can still find time to play with your children for a day."

As he said this, he warned the young man: "Watch this little beast carefully and don't hurt my sister."

Pingyang said to Pei Yunqian: "You haven't eaten yet? I'll ask the kitchen to make a hot pot, and you guys can use it while it's hot."

Li Kun and Sister Qing both agreed, but Pei Yunqian said: "I have something else to do, so I won't eat here."

Li Kun was good at martial arts. Since Pei Yunqian won the martial arts examination, he became Pei Yunqian's disciple. In private, the relationship between master and disciple was very deep.

Li Kun saw that Pei Yunqian was about to leave without eating, so he hurriedly said: "Master, just stay here. I have a new jar of good wine there. Master and apprentice, we haven't drank together for a long time."

Sister Qing also said, "Yes, cousin, just stay and have dinner with us."

Pei Yunqian first looked at Li Kun and said: "I really have something to do today, let's leave it for another day." After saying that, he raised his hand and touched Sister Qing's head, and said with a smile: "I have been running for most of the day today, and I have to go tomorrow. You're going to the study, so you should go back early with your mother to rest. You'll be off school another day, and your cousin will take you out for horse racing and hunting." He looked at Pingyang and said, "It's getting dark, so take my sister with you. Go back quickly."

 Speaking, Pei Yunqian ignored Pingyang's attempts to stay, got on his horse and left the palace.

 Li Kun took a few boys to get the deer back to Xianglin Garden. Sister Qing followed Pingyang and said to Pingyang: "Mom, why doesn't my cousin eat at the house?"

Pingyang replied: "Didn't my cousin tell me just now that he has something to do?"

“No matter how busy you are, don’t you even have time to have a meal?” Sister Qing muttered in a low voice: “Mom, do you think my cousin doesn’t like my father?”

“Is it because of his father that he doesn’t want to come?”

Sister Qing has always been sensitive, but Pingyang did not expect that a teenage child could see this. She looked at her daughter in confusion and replied: "Where did you hear these words? Don't talk nonsense?"

Sister Qing snorted coldly: "There is no need for others to say it, hum! I saw it myself."

As he spoke, he sighed slightly and said, "My cousin and my father are not the same kind of people."

 “I still prefer people like my cousin, I don’t like my father.”

Pingyang knew that her daughter had always had a grudge against Li Xiang, and she never wanted to get close to Li Xiang, but hearing her daughter say such words herself still made Pingyang feel very unhappy.

Pingyang frowned and looked at his daughter, and said coldly: "How can your father not be sorry for you? You are really unfilial to say such things."

Seeing that her mother was angry, Sister Qing quickly replied: "I didn't mean to hate my father, but..."

“I just don’t like it, so what can I do?”

Pingyang looked at her daughter who was in high spirits just now, but now her face suddenly dropped when she mentioned her husband, and her heart softened.

Pingyang took his daughter's hand and said patiently: "The reason why you don't like your father is that you and your daughter spend too little time together. You are our first child. When you were born, your father He's only twenty years old, and he's still a child himself, so he doesn't know how to be a father or how to get close to you, which makes the relationship between you unfamiliar."

Pingyang looked at his daughter and advised softly: "Your father loves you in his heart. Don't treat him like this. Daughters must be filial."

Sister Qing was silent for a while and replied: "I don't like my father, not because I don't get close to him often, but because I can't see him making you sad."

Pingyang was startled by her daughter's words, and she hurriedly replied: "Your father and I have always been on good terms, how did he make me sad?"

 “You kid, you’re just too sensitive.”

 “We’re fine, don’t keep thinking wildly.”

“Mom, don’t fool me, I’m not a child anymore.” Sister Qing stopped, looked at Pingyang and asked, “Mother, tell me, what happened to my father and Sister Mei’s mother in the past?”

 (End of this chapter)