Where are you going?
Xiaoqin was suddenly at a loss as well. Could she say that she didn’t know where to go either?
Her mother was actually right. Without the Anle Hou Mansion, she was nothing.
From the moment she was born, everything she received came from the Anle Houfu.
Apart from being the county princess of Anle Houfu, she was nothing.
After a moment of silence, Xiaoqin let out a soft sigh. “Let’s go to the teahouse,” she said. “It’s quiet there.”
“Miss, perhaps… we should return home? The Marquis and Madam wouldn’t just watch you run away.”
Xiao Qin shook her head. “Don’t worry about these things, let’s go.”
After she finished speaking, she continued walking forward. But after a short while, Qing Ya said, “Miss, aren’t we going to the teahouse?”
“Yeah.”
But the teahouse isn’t over here.
” …”
Xiao Qin instantly stopped in her tracks, staring at her speechless, “Then why didn’t you say so? Lead the way.”
But she dared not argue now, so she could only hurry to lead the way.
……
After Xiao Qin left, Anle Hou naturally couldn’t rest assured. In front of his own wife, he called for the guards and told them to secretly follow Xiao Qin, at least to ensure her safety.
Though Lady Hou’s face was gloomy, she had carried this child for ten months. She couldn’t truly let anything happen to her own daughter.
As soon as the guards left, An Lehou sighed helplessly and helped his wife back to her chair. He said softly:
“You, you, clearly you care about her deep down. Why do you have to say such hurtful things? You’re not letting her see the Ye family for her own good, so why are you making the mother-daughter relationship so strained?”
Hou Fu held her hands into tight fists, momentarily silent. An Le Hou understood the turmoil in her heart and didn’t push for a response at this time.
After waiting for the Lady to digest this news for a while, she looked at An Le Hou with a rather listless air and said, “My lord, do you know that your daughter-in-law sent a letter a couple of days ago? Your eldest son caught a cold in that place, who would have thought such a small cold nearly took his life.”
“!”
It’s obvious he has no idea about this.
Seeing Lord Hou’s anxious and flustered appearance, Madam Hou let out a wry smile and said helplessly:
“My first reaction upon seeing the letter was the same as Lord Hou’s. My son merely had a common cold, yet the doctor in that place mistakenly prescribed medicine, causing his illness to worsen. Later, the doctor they found prescribed medication that clashed with the previous prescription, and my son……”
Speaking of which, Madam Hou choked back tears and paused for a moment before continuing, “My son almost didn’t come back.”
“How is it now? What’s the situation like?”
The Marquis of Anle was extremely anxious. That place was so far from the capital, even if he went into the palace to request permission to leave the city right now, riding day and night would still take at least ten or eight days.
Something major has really happened. Now, whether they take the imperial physician or bring their son back, there’s simply no time.
Mrs. Hou couldn’t bear to see him anxiously flustered, so she sighed softly and continued, “It’s alright now, my daughter-in-law said they went out all night to invite a well-known traveling doctor afterwards, and everything turned out fine.”
Upon hearing this, Anle Hou’s heart finally settled. He clasped his hands together and bowed towards the ceiling several times, muttering to himself, “Heaven protect, Heaven protect, please keep my son safe and sound.”
Hou Fu wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes, thought of Xiaoqin, her face turned colder, and looked at Anle Hou:
“My lord, how can you expect me to control myself? All our lives we’ve lived peacefully, just wanting a simple life. But… but now we are separated from our own flesh and blood. It’s been years, and how many more years do we have left?”
As she spoke, Lady Hou’s composure faltered once more, and tears welled up in her eyes. She choked back a sob and continued:
“My lord, I’m truly afraid… afraid that something might happen to us, and we won’t even have a son to send us off. Our sons aren’t by our side, and these past few years, we’ve lived so cautiously. You must feel it too.”
Every time I think of my two sons and my grandsons, who cannot return to Beijing, we have to mature to this separation of flesh and blood. I worry about them all day long, fearing that something might happen to them. That place is so far from the capital, and I worry day and night that they might encounter some barbarians and be bullied by them.
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He was just the head of the household and had to keep going, couldn’t show his emotions.
“Every time I think about our son and grandson suffering outside the capital, and when I see Qiner, I simply can’t control myself. If she had obediently married into the Ye family back then, how could things have turned out like this?”
” ”
Lord Anle sighed helplessly. He couldn’t bring himself to deny that he hadn’t thought of such a thing.
He, like his wife, had thought about resentment and also imagined that if Xiaoqin hadn’t caused a scene back then, if she hadn’t appeared with that dagger, perhaps he could now be an ordinary man with a full house of children and grandchildren, enjoying the filial piety of his descendants.
No matter how much he complained, it was useless. The thing had already happened, and he could only accept it.
And Xiao Qin is also his daughter, he loves and cares for her, moments of blame are still few.
The couple fell silent for a moment.
Mrs. Hou had vented her frustration and was now calmer.
But she didn’t regret what she had done today. So what if she slapped Xiaoqin? Was she so weak that she couldn’t even bear a slap?
To know her brother almost lost his life, she only received a slap, what’s there to be melodramatic about?
She suggested to the Lord that they take advantage of the situation to create confusion and hire assassins to eliminate Ye Er because she received a letter from her daughter-in-law.
For the Ye family, she harbored hatred in her bones, desiring nothing more than for them all to die!
But now that she had calmed down, she agreed with Xiaoqin. Ye Er was a favorite of the emperor now, and perhaps he could help the Beijang Wangfu.
As long as the Prince’s Mansion of Beijng gets power, her sons and grandsons will have a chance to return to the capital.
It seems that Ye Er can’t die before things are over.
Thinking about this, Hou’s expression eased somewhat.
Seeing that his wife’s expression had returned to normal, Anle Hou let out a sigh of relief in his heart. After hesitating for a moment, he still looked at his wife’s face and tentatively asked:
“My lady, a woman alone in the outside world is ultimately unsafe. Perhaps I should send someone to bring her back now?”