Chapter 283 Normal Parents

Qin Jingshu was stunned.

After a long time, she asked, "Sister Gu, your parents should also teach you to read and know etiquette, needlework, and discipline you strictly, right?"

Niuniu nodded.

Qin Jingshu said, "They teach you these, don't they hope that you can marry a good family?"

Niuniu tilted her head slightly and said, "Of course my mother hopes that I can marry a good family, but she and my father also said that if I can't find a good family, I won't marry. I will stay at home with my parents and brothers. They are willing to take care of me for the rest of my life."

Qin Jingshu had never heard such words before, and she felt as if her cognition in the first six years of her life had been refreshed.

"Since you are not going to marry, why do they teach you these? Why do they work hard to urge you to make progress?" Qin Jingshu didn't understand.

Niu Niu said: "My father said that studying is for understanding. If I have a talent for studying, maybe I can make a living with this skill in the future. Although my family is willing to support me, my parents think that it is better to rely on myself than on others. The skills learned are real and can be used at any time."

Obviously, the various plans of the Gu family for Niu Niu are all for Niu Niu's future, hoping that she will become a better person.

Qin Jingshu could feel the love and cherishment of the Gu family couple for their daughter across the carriage before. Now that she heard Niu Niu talk about the things in the Gu family, her heart was even more bitter.

Qin Jingshu can deceive herself that she is the daughter of the Duke's Mansion and has a great future in the future. Naturally, she is different from the little girls of ordinary families.

But she also knows that the Gu family couple seems to be normal parents.

She could also sense that something was wrong in the past, but she never thought about it carefully. Now Niu Niu's words seem to have torn off the fig leaf that her mother tried hard to cover up.

Although her mother always said that "the national teacher said she was destined to be a phoenix", Qin Jingshu always thought that her mother still loved her and wanted her to have supreme glory.

Now thinking about it carefully, it is true that she wants to have supreme glory, and it is also true that she does not love her. In the final analysis, she is just a tool, just to let her mother enjoy this supreme glory.

Qin Jingshu was so sad that she almost cried, but there were people all around her. She had been disciplined into a standard appearance by her mother's strict teaching for many years. How could she dare to cry in front of so many people.

If this matter reached her mother's ears, she would not know how to torture herself.

Niuniu suddenly said: "I want to see the rockery over there. Can you go with me?"

Qin Jingshu wanted to refuse, but facing Niuniu's sincere big eyes, she finally nodded.

Niuniu pulled her to the rockery.

Shen Ling, who was still talking to her friends, naturally discovered the movements of the two girls. She did not stop them, but let the maid follow them.

The rockery in the yard was not particularly large. After the two girls went in, the maid behind them could also see the backs of the two people inside.

Niuniu whispered to Qin Jingshu: "Cry if you want to. No one can see you here, and no one will find fault with your rules."

Qin Jingshu did not expect that Niuniu pulled her over to comfort herself.

She thought to herself that even the friends she had just met could see that she was upset, but her mother would only force her to hold back her tears when she was upset.

"You have to laugh! No matter what happens, you can't cry. Only by laughing can you please others. Remember?" This is what the lady of Xianguogong taught her daughter at the time.

Qin Jingshu smiled reflexively at this time, but seeing Niuniu frowning and her eyes full of heartache, Qin Jingshu felt sour in her heart and tears fell silently.

"Can you... tell me more about... your family?" Qin Jingshu said with a sob.

Although Qin Jingshu lived in the mansion of Duke Xian, she didn't like staying at home. After all, she was just a six-year-old girl who longed for her parents' love.

Niuniu didn't talk about it right away. She felt that when others found out that their parents didn't love them, talking about how good their parents were to them seemed like rubbing salt into others' wounds.

"Maybe your parents are not training daughters-in-law for other families, but they hope that you will have a better future. Just think that I was wrong and don't worry about it." Niuniu said.

But Qin Jingshu shook her head vigorously: "They are training daughters-in-law, you are not wrong..."

Qin Jingshu knew that the matter of the national teacher privately predicting the fate was of great importance. This was also something that her mother had repeatedly warned her about. Even her father didn't seem to know the inside story. Qin Jingshu naturally couldn't tell Niuniu about it, but her tears kept falling.

Niuniu didn't understand what Qin Jingshu was thinking. Seeing that she was crying more and more fiercely, she didn't know why she wanted to cry with Qin Jingshu.

"You cry slowly, don't be in a hurry. Sister Ling said that no poetry club would force a few-year-old girl to write poetry. We come to the poetry club to eat delicious food and have fun! No one will keep staring at us!" Niu Niu comforted.

Qin Jingshu's tears kept falling like beads that had broken off the string, and Niu Niu kept wiping her with a handkerchief.

Niu Niu didn't know how to stop someone from crying, but she vaguely felt that it seemed to be a good thing to let Qin Jingshu cry now, so she didn't stop her.

Qin Jingshu cried for a long time, as if she wanted to cry out all the grievances hidden in her heart.

Niu Niu was beside her, her handkerchief was soaked several times, and she still accompanied her patiently.

"I... I lost my temper, I didn't mean to scare you..." Qin Jingshu explained stammeringly.

Niu Niu held her hand and said, "Isn't it normal for children to cry? You are the eldest lady of the Xianguo Palace, and you are also a little girl."

When Qin Jingshu heard this, she felt as if a heavy burden had been temporarily lifted off her body.

But she also knew in her heart that when she returned to Duke Xianguo's mansion, she would still become the eldest lady who was bound by rules and regulations.

Just getting some temporary relief is good.

Qin Jingshu was tired of crying and had all her tears. She asked Niu Niu: "Are my eyes red and swollen?"

Niu Niu stretched her neck, came over and took a closer look, and then said: "It's only a little red, it should just wait a while."

Qin Jingshu didn't want to go out immediately. She also wanted to take off her mask and hide in the rockery for a while.

"Does your mother never scold you? Nor hit you?" Qin Jingshu asked.

Niuniu nodded.

Qin Jingshu's eyes revealed yearning: "That's great."

Niu Niu said: "My mother is not always like this. Sometimes she is so angry with my third brother that she wants to hit someone, but as long as we admit our mistake, she won't do it and will only reprimand her a few times."

"Then it must be easy to stay with her, right?" Qin Jingshu asked.

Niuniu nodded again, but then said: "My family is different. They just want us to be safe and healthy. Their requirements are not high."

Qin Jingshu, however, yearned for such a modest request and asked, "Does your father hug you often? I feel that he loves you very much."

Niuniu nodded.

The envy on Qin Jingshu's face almost solidified.

"Your father...won't he hug you?" Niu Niu asked cautiously.