Gongliang Congyun went to play with Gongliangjian and the other young masters. Lan Shichu finally had some free time and was too lazy to go hunting, so he asked the maid to read to her in the tent to kill time.
Gongliang Subai didn't know why, but he came to see her when he had time.
This was the first time Lan Shichu saw him since he met his old lover in private with his son last time.
Gongliang Subai looked around the tent and said, "If there is anything missing, just ask someone to tell me."
Lan Shichu looked at him with a half-smile. It had been four or five days since he arrived at the hunting ground, and he was about to go back. He just came to say this to her. Don't you think it's too late? Maybe he has a guilty conscience and wants to do something to make up for his ornamental wife?
"I don't lack anything, why do you come to me?" Lan Shichu asked.
Gongliang Subai touched his nose and then said: "I have been busy these two days and am relatively free. If you want to go hunting or ride a horse, I can accompany you."
Lan Shichu glanced at him in surprise, very surprised.
"I don't seem to have spent much time with you and my son. Now that you have time, don't miss it." He seemed to really want to repair the relationship with his wife and children.
Lan Shichu admired him a little. He had just caught him meeting his old lover in private two days ago, and now he invited him to go hunting and horseback riding. Did he want to ride on two boats?
"My son and I have already played hunting and horse riding. We have no interest in it now. You can go with your friends and colleagues." Lan Shichu said calmly. She had no interest in doing honorary projects with her cheap husband.
Gongliang Subai was suddenly at a loss what to do. Lan Shichu was indifferent, as if everything about him had nothing to do with her, which made him very helpless.
Finally, he sighed and said: "Mom and dad hope that we can live a good life in the future. I have done many things wrong before. I am sorry for you. It is right for you to resent me. But now that we have children, even for the sake of the children, I will not This stalemate should continue, so we should reconcile and just be a normal couple worthy of the name."
Lan Shichu felt it was a bit funny: "Isn't it good that we are like this now? You and I have not quarreled, betrayed or cheated."
Gong Liang opened his mouth in vain, yes, although they do not have an intimate relationship between husband and wife now, they really respect each other as guests and discuss everything. Isn't this enough?
But it is indeed not enough. Gongliang Subai understands his inner needs. After his family was exiled and almost destroyed, he no longer cares about the relationship he pursued persistently. Now he just wants to live a safe and smooth life with his wife and children. But the estrangement between his wife and him is too deep and she has cut him off from the new house.
"Mom feels that we are too strange to each other, and we don't look like husband and wife at all." Gongliang Subai finally said with difficulty what Liu had said to him.
Lan Shichu raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "You and I both know that our marriage is just a marriage between two families, and there is no emotion at all. When I was exiled before, I was exterminated by the Lu Palace, so The purpose of this marriage has been shattered. If you and I didn't have a child, we would be real strangers. So what does it matter if we are strangers now? As long as it doesn't interfere with daily life, don't you think? "
After listening to her words, Gong Liang Subai knew that she had no intention of easing the relationship or deepening the relationship with him. He didn't want to force Lan Shichu, so he had no choice but to nod: "You're right."
He came and said these incomprehensible words to Lan Shichu and left. Lan Shichu did not ask about what happened between him and Wen Shinong. If he really made a scandal with Wen Shinong, then his relationship with her would also be Not big, if he wants to reconcile, then she can let him be a "fashionable but useless" man, and let him "die" to make way for his son when he is old.
In fact, Lan Shichu was quite looking forward to him actually causing a scandal with Wen Shinong, so that she would have no psychological barriers to taking action.
It's a pity that with her presence in this life, Gongliang Subai's parents are not dead, and his wife and children are all alive, so when he returns to the capital and secretly builds up strength to fight back with the new emperor, he doesn't feel depressed and doesn't need to go to Wen. Shinon sought emotional comfort, so his relationship with Wen Shinong could not deepen, and naturally gradually disappeared, turning into the current situation where Jun has a wife and Luofu has a husband.
Gongliang Congyun, a clever little devil, went out to play with his elder brother for a day. When he came back, he mysteriously said to Lan Shichu: "Mom, I know who the lady who my father had a secret meeting with was under the tree." !”
"Isn't it normal to know who she is? What's the use of knowing it?" Lan Shichu didn't understand why he was interested in this. To be honest, his feelings for Gong Liangsubai, the father, were worse than those for Gong Liangxian, the uncle. Even worse, Lan Shichu didn't think he would be hit because his father had other sweethearts.
Gongliang Congyun's eyes were bright and he said: "It turns out that lady actually has a husband, and her husband is still alive! I thought she was a widow. She is so bold. Didn't she say that the capital is much more conservative than our village? I didn't expect that here. My wife is similar to the women in our village. When she is dissatisfied with the man at home, she goes out to find another one."
Lan Shichu coughed slightly. The place of exile was a barbaric place far away from the emperor. It was said that unruly people came out of poor mountains and harsh waters, far away from the wealthy areas of the Central Plains. The more remote the place, the more human nature became bestial. They don't even have enough food to eat, so they don't care about public order and good customs, let alone benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom and trust. Therefore, the people there are very open about the relationship between men and women. If they like it, they will get married and live together. When they are tired of it, they will separate and find others.
After the Gongliang family was exiled, because they were secretly protected by people sent by Gongliang Subai, and because there were two men in charge, Gongliangqin and Gongliangxian, they would not let their family members collude with the locals.
The reason why Gongliang Congyun, a little kid, knows this is because he is naughty and restless. He often runs around the village and town, encountering many things in the adult world. He has seen a lot of things in a muddle-headed and passive way, and he half understands them. .
That's why he didn't care about the things that didn't go right between his parents. When his father was suspected of cheating on a married woman, he mostly wanted to watch the excitement, instead of feeling shocked, angry or resentful for his mother.
"This is the capital. It's wrong for your father and that lady to do this." Lan Shichu made a perfunctory defense for Gong Liang Subai, fearing that his son's views would be distorted.
"Really?" Gongliang Congyun tilted his head and looked at Lan Shichu, "In that case, why aren't you angry, mother?"
"Mom is angry." Lan Shichu said with a smile, "But your father also has parents. If he does something wrong, he will be punished by his parents."
"Will his grandparents punish him?" Gongliang Congyun's eyes widened.
"Probably, why don't you ask your grandparents?" Lan Shichu said to him.
