The Concubine in the Palace_The Feast of Masks【Complete】(86)
Because the Prince of Jin came too frequently these days, Yao Niang's time with Xiao Bao was occupied. This day, after sending the Prince of Jin away, she went to the west wing.
When Yao Niang arrived, she saw Xiao Bao standing on the edge of the bed with the help of A Xia. His chubby legs were a little trembling, but he was standing steadily.
She was very surprised, and A Xia explained to her: "The young master insisted on getting up by himself. I was afraid that he would fall, so I helped him."
The reason for this is that people at that time generally believed that infants had to be more than one year old before they could stand. It is not uncommon for children from wealthy families to not be able to walk at the age of two or three. A Xia was afraid that Yao Niang would scold her for hurting Xiao Bao's legs.
Yao Niang certainly would not blame A Xia. Xiao Bao seemed to be unable to speak, but in fact he had his own ideas in his heart. Watching him go from being able to sit to being able to crawl around, and remembering while crawling, Yao Niang had long anticipated this day, so although she was surprised, she was not surprised.
Seeing Xiaobao standing there, looking at her with his eyes dim, Yao Niang was helpless and wanted to laugh, so she walked over and hugged him in her arms: "Little monkey, is it because mother has not come less these days, so you want to go and find mother by yourself?"
Xiaobao looked at his self-righteous mother, and uttered a few "oh oh" in his mouth, just to deal with the job. Fortunately, he can't speak yet, otherwise he wouldn't know how to respond. He just wants to walk and talk earlier.
So, he showed off his new skills to Yao Niang again, calling out two syllables similar to "mother".
This made Yao Niang very happy, and she couldn't help wiping away tears.
In the last life, when Xiaobao could speak, the first word he called was not mother, and she couldn't be with him. Fortunately, this life finally made up for it. And all this was brought to her by King Jin. Yao Niang is such a person, who can't remember the bad of others, but only remember the good of people.
In fact, after getting along with King Jin for so long, Yao Niang has also figured out his personality. He is the kind of person who obviously did everything but won't tell you. He is very awkward and likes people to guess everything. He also likes to get angry and has to let people touch him. If he feels comfortable, he will give you a good face. If he doesn't feel comfortable, he will be angry.
Just like recently, since Concubine Hu was released from the ban, Yao Niang felt that King Jin seemed to have something on his mind.
And this matter is related to her.
Although she is not smart, she is not stupid. After thinking for a while, she roughly understands what is going on. But she is not sure. If she doesn't want King Jin to think that she is self-centered, she will naturally not ask.
So she feels that he has more things on his mind. When he is free and they are together, he will always look at her.
And now she is bolder. She knows that he has something to say to her, but she just doesn't ask. Then she sees that his face is getting darker and darker in the past two days, and she looks more and more unhappy.
The key is that if you don't look happy, don't come. He has a dark face and likes to get close to Rongxiyuan. Yao Niang planned to ask him when he came tonight, so as not to make him angry and make him feel bad, which was not worth it.
Xiaobao saw his mother, who was obviously crying with joy and wiping her tears. As she wiped her tears, she blushed for some reason. He used his own chubby feet to guess that his mother must be thinking about her father, and she felt strange in her heart.
Ever since the King of Jin came to see Xiaobao, Xiaobao always felt strange whenever he thought of him.
If he was not mistaken, his father wanted to kill him that day, and he did not miss the murderous intent in his eyes. But in the end, his father still forbeared. Afterwards, Xiaobao thought about it and it must be because of his mother.
Logically, he should be happy, but in fact, because there is a soul that has lived two lives in his body, and he has been dependent on his father in the previous life, Xiaobao simply cannot accept this fact.
This incident cruelly told him that he was the son of a peddler, and his father hated him so much that he wanted to kill him.
Maybe he is not reborn in himself, but the child born by his mother and a peddler. His father coveted his mother's beauty, so he killed the peddler and took his mother into the mansion. In order to avoid being known by others, he placed his mother next to the little princess. In fact, he kept her in a golden house and kept her hidden until he could no longer hide her. Then it was revealed to the world.
And the real me should still be in his mother's belly.
This is the only reason Xiaobao can think of, and only in this way can it be explained. He looked at Yao Niang's belly and thought with some annoyance, then when he grows up, should he seek revenge for his father's murder? Those folk stories are all played like this.
For a while, the mother and son's thoughts drifted away, but they were thinking about two completely different things.
At this time, Chun'er walked in and said, "Madam, the princess asked you to go over. The person who came specifically told you to take the young master with you."
Chapter 69
Hearing this, Yao Niang couldn't help but frown.
It would be fine to let her go, but why did she have to take Xiaobao with her? Why did she have to take Xiaobao with her? Yaoniang remembered what Princess Jin said a while ago, asking her to take Xiaobao to Siyi Courtyard, as she hadn't seen the child for a long time.
Could it be that the princess wanted to do this?
Yaoniang didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly changed Xiaobao's clothes and took him there.
Along the way, she felt uneasy and uncomfortable.
When she arrived at Siyi Courtyard, several maids in green vests stood under the corridor of the main house. They looked at her and didn't greet her early with a smile on their faces as before, but with strange eyes.
Yaoniang's heart skipped a beat, and she clenched the handkerchief in her hand.
After entering, the Princess of Jin sat in the first seat, and Concubine Hu, Concubine Xu and others sat in the lower seats. They were all present at once. Yao Niang felt bad, but she could only keep calm and went forward to pay respects to the Princess and the three concubines as usual, and then stood down.
She could not sit without the Princess’s offer, which was almost impossible in the past.
The Princess of Jin, who sat in the first seat, did not look good. Concubine Hu smiled at Yao Niang, and said to the Princess: “The Princess is also a kind person. Even after such a thing happened, you still want to save face for Concubine Su. Why don’t you call that person up quickly so that Concubine Su can recognize him. Maybe Concubine Su will be grateful to you.”
Her smile was both proud and full of malice. In addition to the strong sarcasm in her phoenix eyes when she looked at Yao Niang, there was also a kind of teasing like a cat scratching a mouse.
The Princess sighed quietly and winked at the maid next to her.
Soon, a man and a woman were led in.
The woman was Yan Jie'er, and the man was a man wearing a half-new blue gown and looked very vulgar.
It was obvious that the man was of humble origin, and seemed very uneasy about coming to this place, but he glanced at the surroundings with a sly look. Whenever he saw a woman with outstanding appearance, a greedy light would bloom in his small green bean eyes.
As soon as Yan Jie'er stood still, she looked at Yao Niang excitedly: "Sister Yaoyao, I finally found you, don't you know that Xiaobao has a father!"
With these words, everyone's eyes moved to Yao Niang's face, watching her face suddenly turn red, then slowly turn white, until it was dead white.
Yao Niang bit her lower lip and stared at the man closely.
"I finally found you. You don't know that I have been thinking about you day and night since that day. But I was panicked at that time and abandoned you. After that, I couldn't find you. I had to ask around before I found your sister's house..." When the man saw Yao Niang, his eyes were full of excitement, but he pretended to be polite, which made people feel very uncomfortable.
Yao Niang felt dizzy and felt like she had returned to that day.
She still had a vague idea of what happened that day. She only knew that she was in pain, hot and dizzy. When she woke up again, she was thrown in an empty alley with her clothes in disarray. She dragged her broken body home. The Yao family was in chaos. Her sister quarreled with Li because of looking for her. She forced herself to say that it was Yan Jie'er who tricked her out. When she arrived at the place, she was knocked unconscious and fainted.
When she woke up, her sister was crying in front of her bed, crying in pain.
She realized that the reason why she suffered all those unbearable things was that Yan Jie'er did it. The place she went to was actually Liuxiang, a famous red-light district in Linyun County. She didn't know who took her body, and she didn't dare to ask.
My sister did ask Yan Jie'er, but Yan Jie'er refused to admit it. She only said that she wanted to ruin her reputation, not her body. She didn't know who knocked her out and took her body. There were so many prostitutes in Liuxiang.
It was this sentence that stopped all the subsequent questions. In addition, Yan Jie'er had Li's protection, so the matter was left unresolved.
It could only be left unresolved.
Since she got pregnant with Xiaobao, Yao Niang tried hard not to think about what kind of person the father of the child was, whether he was born good or bad, and what his identity was. But she never expected that he was such a vulgar and disgusting person, and this person suddenly came to her when she had finally lived a good life.
What on earth did he want to do?
Yao Niang's mind was blank, and she couldn't stop shaking all over.
Axia Xiaobao was also surprised. Shouldn't his father be a peddler? How could a peddler be resurrected?
Not only him, but also Yuchan and Axia beside Yao Niang were surprised. However, the people sitting on the table did not seem surprised. Some lowered their eyes and sneered, while others covered their mouths in surprise. They were all different. Obviously, they knew about this before Yao Niang came.
"Su Nanny, please explain to everyone what happened to this man. Didn't you marry and have children? You couldn't make a living after the man died, so you entered the mansion to be a nanny? This made such a fuss that it really confused everyone. Your status is different now, so you can't do anything that will hurt the dignity of the palace." Concubine Hu said again.
Upon hearing this, before Yao Niang could react, the man jumped out, his expression very excited: "I know you hate me. I also met you by chance at that time. I loved you so much that I did such a shameless thing. It's all my fault. I hope you can forgive me for the sake of the child. I will spend the rest of my life to make up for you and your son..."