Pei Zhan accomplished something he had never done before during sex, and felt that his level of fatherhood had improved a lot.
The little baby put on a fresh and clean new diaper and happily gnawed on her little feet.
Chu Yao had had enough laughter on the sidelines. She packed the soiled towels and used diapers into a basin and planned to go to the backyard to clean them.
"Please, Your Highness, please take care of it for a while longer. I'll go wash these and come back..."
Pei Zhan's stomach was still churning, and he looked away, unwilling to look at those dirty things: "Just throw them away, how can you reuse them when they are so dirty?"
"What your Highness said is funny. This is made of the softest and most absorbent cotton. One piece costs a lot of money. If you use it once and throw it away, then the money you spend on just buying cotton every month will be spent. We have less money, and my family is not rich, so I don’t dare to be so extravagant.”
"Didn't I give you five hundred taels?"
"Then it can't be wasted like this..."
Pei Zhan didn't bother to argue with her. She was the one washing it, not himself: "It's up to you."
Chu Yao went out with the basin and came back within a quarter of an hour.
This time she deliberately lowered the door bolt securely.
The son was crawling around on the bed. Pei Zhan sat by the bed and watched over him. Chu Yao hung the clean diapers and towels on the railing of the bed to dry. The older generation was very particular about not allowing children's things to dry at night. outside. There is no other rack to dry in this room, so I can only dry it here temporarily.
"Have you spent the money I gave you?" he asked suddenly.
Chu Yao smoothed the folds of the diaper: "Well, I have three shops."
"Where are the antique calligraphy and paintings left for you?"
“Only one painting was sold, the rest are still there.”
"Which one is for sale?"
"Picture of Five Horses..."
There was a pause behind him, and without asking any more questions, Chu Yao looked back at him: "Do you want to take those things back?"
"You can keep it. If you sell it in a few years, it will be worth much more than it is now."
"I know, someone told me."
Pei Zhan was keenly aware of the strangeness: "Who told you?"
"a friend……"
"who is it?"
"We just met, you haven't seen her before..." She didn't want to say too much to him. Others were arguing with each other and they couldn't stay away from each other forever. It would be better for him to just come and see his son. How could he still have the time to chat with her? Homely.
He said that he would only stay for two-quarters of an hour. She was about to open her mouth to chase him away, but she saw him lying on the bed, putting his hands behind his head and looking up at her. The lazy and casual movements he made were somewhat graceful. His eyes were still calm, but when he looked over calmly, there was an inexplicable sense of oppression.
He was waiting for her answer, as if he wouldn't leave until she made it clear.
She felt confused and said helplessly: "His Highness and I have reconciled. There is no need to explain to you clearly what kind of friends I want to make. It's late at night, Your Highness, please go back quickly."
When the little baby on the bed saw him lying down, he immediately crawled towards him on his hands and knees. Pei Zhan took advantage of the situation and took his son into his arms. He stopped looking at Chu Yao and turned to tease his son, holding his little arms and teaching him. : "Call daddy..."
The little kid was just learning to speak, so he mumbled and called out "Dai".
Pei Zhan patiently corrected his pronunciation: "It's dad..."
Little kid: "Stay."
"Daddy..."
"Dumb."
"Daddy..."
The little kid was silent for a while: "...Hey!"
"Puch..." Chu Yao couldn't hold back and laughed.
Well done, what a big girl!
The other party cast a cold look at her, and Chu Yao immediately stopped smiling and looked away.
The little kid screamed "dumbly" again, his whole little chin was covered in saliva, and he was disgusted by Pei Zhan and wiped it off neatly.
"It must be Jiang Qingci..." he suddenly said.
The sudden name made Chu Yao widen her eyes: "Huh?"
"I saw you waiting for him at the gate of the state government office that day." Seeing her reaction, Pei Zhan thought that his guess was right.
He didn't want to investigate the young man at first. The war was about to begin, and he felt that he shouldn't be distracted by such a trivial matter. Chu Yao was just a dispensable ordinary woman to him.
When he decided to marry as Lu Shaohuai, the main reason was to conceal his true identity. Before getting married, he didn't even care about the appearance of his future wife. He only heard Mrs. Lu say that she was graceful and gentle, especially her The birth date and horoscope matched him, so he closed his eyes and took her.
He never felt that he had any indispensable feelings for her, but since she became his woman and bore him a son, he never thought of abandoning her.
But I didn't expect that she would take the initiative to divorce.
That day she made every excuse to reconcile with him. Since she had already made up her mind, why should he force it.
However, he seemed to have underestimated her importance in his heart. That day at the yamen gate, the image of her talking and laughing with the man always occupied a place in his mind, and it would appear from time to time to make him think wildly and interfere with his thoughts. On the day that the two sisters Lu Mingshu came, he knew that he couldn't believe all the unsubstantiated things they said to him, but he still secretly asked someone to conduct a secret investigation and found out that the person he met at the gate of the government office that day was Sui. Jiang Qingci, the son of Jiang Qingzhou, was sentenced to death in the state.
"How long have you and Jiang Qingci known each other?" He came here tonight not only to see his son, but also to ask questions about this matter.
He thought that as long as he asked clearly, he wouldn't feel uncomfortable all the time like a thorn in his heart.
When Chu Yao heard him say Jiang Qingci's name, she guessed what he was thinking: He was wondering if she was unfaithful to him before they reconciled?
This made Chu Yao a little angry, but then she thought about it and thought that she was sitting upright and walking upright, so there was no need to be angry about such a false thing. This matter must be explained clearly to him, otherwise if he wants to trouble Jiang Qingci, he will cause trouble for others.
"There is a pawnshop on Jiufeng Street to the east of Lihua Lane in front of the Lu family. The day after I reconciled with His Highness, I went in to inquire about the price of the "Five Horses". The pawnshop owner was cunning and would only pay for the price. I wanted one or two half silver to return the painting, so I planned to go to another pawn shop to ask, but unexpectedly, a young Junsheng chased me out and wanted to buy the painting, and that person was Jiang Qingci..."
Chu Yao tried her best to tell as many details as possible to make him understand that she was not lying: "He didn't bring enough money that day, so he only paid two taels of deposit and agreed to do the transaction three days later, which was the day you met me at the gate of the state government office. Jiang Yanei went in to deliver the paintings. I knew that his identity was not false, so I could dispel my doubts..."
Pei Zhan knows people's minds and knows the bounds of Sang's calculations: "The so-called transaction is just paying the money and delivering the goods. Why do you need to know whether his identity is fake?"
"Because Jiang Yanei knows that I still have many precious things here, and he will want to buy them from me if he needs them in the future. If I don't confirm his identity, how can I safely tell him where I live?" He asked in such detail, Chu Yao Unavoidably a little irritated, "Your Highness, are you too concerned about my ex-wife?"
He frowned slightly and didn't care what she said next: "Will you meet again in the future?"
"Even if we meet, it's just a matter of buying and selling things." Chu Yao knew what he was thinking, but she just thought that she wanted to get involved with Jiang Qingci. "You don't have to worry about what delusions I have about Jiang Yanei. He is a government official." Family status, how dare I, a person who has grown up and given birth to children, dare to interfere with other people’s families, His Highness the Crown Prince really doesn’t need to worry too much.”
He was silent for a moment: "Tomorrow I will ask someone to give you a thousand taels of silver notes and take all those things away. You don't have to meet him again in the future."
"OK!"
He was willing to spend money to buy things back, and Chu Yao would not stop him. Besides, she really didn't have any thoughts about Jiang Qingci, and the chances of meeting him in the future would be few and far between, so why waste time explaining this matter to him.
Pei Zhan was satisfied with her answer. He touched his son's head, put him back on the bed, stood up and straightened his clothes. It seemed that he finally planned to go back.
"After you enter Beijing, how long will it take for you to come back to pick up your son?" she asked, feeling confident.
"It can be as short as ten days, but it can't be longer than a month." He turned to look at her, wanting to give her another chance, and his tone softened a little, "If you don't want to let go, you can go together."
"I won't go," Chu Yao picked up her son who crawled to the bedside. Even though it would be at least ten days before we were separated, she felt reluctant to leave him now. "I asked the nanny to follow."
The hope in his eyes disappeared in an instant, and turned into a thin layer of ice. Before leaving, he said: "I will ask people to keep an eye on you. If you get too close to other men, I will I’ll ask someone to break his legs!”
The night was getting darker, everything was quiet, and the moonlight shed a soft light through the window paper. Chu Yao, who became more and more angry as she thought about it, sat up from the bed: "No? He is sick..."
