GBP Chapter 143 Mother, Do You Know This Person?
Chapter 143 Mother, Do You Know This Person?
After leaving Qingyun County, he led his men all the way to Linshan County. He originally planned to see if there were any business opportunities here. Fortunately, this place is close to doing business and it is convenient to support his friends. Unexpectedly, he met Fang Ruo, who had been "dead" for more than ten years!
The moment he saw her, the blood in his body was surging, and he wanted to rush up to her immediately and hug her tightly in his arms.
However, when he heard the little girl calling Fang Ruo "mother", his rationality suddenly returned. She got married and had children, and he also married her second sister and gave birth to a son and a daughter.
They are no longer who they used to be!
Forget it, the guard came back after investigation and said, you are very happy, as long as you are happy, I can still protect you secretly.
He said silently in his heart.
Thinking of the little girl, he chuckled. The little girl looked very much like Fangruo, but unlike her mother's gentle and calm personality, she was a heroic and fiery girl.
Thinking of what the guards had investigated yesterday, he murmured: "Why did you end up in this small mountain village? I will definitely investigate what happened back then. If anyone harms you, I will not let him go!"
After thinking about it, he carefully put the wooden sculpture back into his arms, told the guards to hurry back to the capital, and then closed his eyes to rest.
“Tanghulu! Sweet and sour Tanghulu!”
Lin Xi met a vendor selling candied haws on the street. Thinking that his friends all loved to eat them, he bought all the candied haws from the vendor. He happily carried three straw targets filled with candied haws on his shoulders and went home from the city.
As soon as I walked out of the city gate, I saw that the area outside the city gate had been cleaned and there was no smell of blood at all.
The refugees and dozens of yamen runners were busy working. When she heard the discussions of the people around her, she realized that the yamen runners were following the orders of the county magistrate to build tents for the refugees so that they would have a place to stay.
Not only that, the county magistrate also ordered the granaries to be opened every day to provide porridge to the refugees.
Seeing this, Lin Xi nodded with satisfaction.
After walking for a while, Lin Xi released Xiaohong from the boundary bead while there was no one around, rode on it and carried the candied haws, walking towards Linshan Village.
"Boss, you're back. Wow! So many candied haws!"
The children in the village were busy making pills in the open space in front of Lin Xi's house. Yuanyuan had sharp eyes and saw Lin Xi at a glance.
After she put away the pile of sieved pills she had just made, she ran to Lin Xi, looked at the candied haws stuck on the straw target with shining eyes, and swallowed her saliva.
Seeing her like a greedy little cat, Lin Xi grinned and said, "Xiao Yuanyuan, let everyone take a break and ask them to eat candied haws!"
After saying that, he pulled out a bunch and stuffed it into her hand.
"Come here quickly, the boss is calling everyone to eat candied haws!"
Yuanyuan happily shouted to her friends while holding the candied haws, and then she couldn't wait to eat them.
"Haha! That's great, thank you, boss!"
The kids gathered around and thanked Lin Xi while picking the candied haws. After a while, only four candied haws were left on the straw target.
Lin Xi pulled off the four candied haws and handed one to An Er who was standing next to him. "Do I still want to eat it? This is for children!"
An Er scratched his head embarrassedly and said to Lin Xi.
"You are only a teenager, why are you pretending to be mature? Eat now!"
Lin Xi rolled his eyes in annoyance, and then directly inserted a candied haws into his mouth.
An Er happily took the candied haws and started eating them.
Mm, it’s delicious. Miss Lin is right, he is only a teenager, still a child!
Seeing that everyone was enjoying their meal, Lin Xi felt very happy.
She ate the candied haws and strolled into the yard, giving the remaining two candied haws to Cao and Lin Dayong.
"Husband, here's what you can eat. Last time I saw you liked eating this, and it just so happens that I don't like sour food."
Cao handed the candied haws to Lin Dayong and said gently.
Upon hearing this, Lin Dayong hurriedly took it, held one in each hand, and began to eat happily.
Cao looked at his happy expression, smiled, and continued to do needlework.
"Xi'er, why do you keep looking at your mother?"
Lin Dayong asked in confusion when he saw his daughter secretly glance at his wife after a while.
"Xi'er, do you have something to tell me?"
When Cao heard what Lin Dayong said, she put down the needle and thread in her hand, looked at her daughter and smiled.
"Well, I have something to ask you, Mom. Please wait for me, I'll be back soon!"
After Lin Xi finished speaking, she trotted into the bedroom. Half a quarter of an hour later, she ran out holding a piece of rice paper.
"Mom, do you know this person?"
Lin Xi came up to Cao, spread out the rice paper in front of her, looked at her and asked seriously.
Cao looked at the familiar face on the rice paper and stood up quickly!
"Xi'er, did you draw this? Have you seen this person?"
After being stunned for a while, Cao came back to his senses, looked at Lin Xi and asked excitedly.
"I met him in the city today. The unruly girl who stole our hairpin yesterday was his daughter!"
After Lin Xi finished speaking, seeing that his mother was stunned, he told Cao in detail what happened to the father and daughter he met today.
"Mom, who is this person? Xiaobai said that he stared at mom for a long time yesterday!"
Lin Xi looked at Cao and asked puzzledly.
Hearing this, Lin Dayong looked at his wife with a puzzled expression. He only knew that she was not the daughter of an ordinary family and had a brother. She never told him anything else and he never asked her.
Seeing her husband and daughter staring at her closely, Cao sighed and said to them, "This man is an old friend of mine. I never mentioned what happened before I came to Linshan Village because I thought my brother was dead, so I wanted to say goodbye to my old self and start a new life. Now that my old friend has reappeared, I will tell you everything from beginning to end, in detail!"
After Cao finished speaking, she paused and said to Lin Dayong, "My husband, go call the three children in, and let's talk together as a family."
After saying that, he turned and walked towards the main room.
Lin Dayong hurried out and called Lin An, Lin Ping and An Er in.
"Dad, Mom, Sister, why are you calling us here?"
Lin An looked at his family members sitting around the table, blinking and asking in confusion.
"An'er, I believe that over the years, you must have wondered why your mother never came back to her parents' home? She also never mentioned your maternal grandparents' home."
Lin An nodded. In the past, when he saw his friends visiting his maternal grandparents, he also asked his father where his maternal grandparents' home was. Why did he never hear his mother mention it?
In the end, Daddy said he didn't know either, and wouldn't let him ask Mom.
"My father was a second-rank military commander and general, and my mother was the only daughter of Prime Minister Zhao. When I was born, my mother died of heavy bleeding. Later, my father married my mother's cousin..."
Cao stared at the teacup on the table and began to tell her husband and children in detail about her life before she came to Linshan Village.