"Hahaha"
The man smiled heartily.
After a while, Xu Zaijing was picked up by a pair of big hands. In front of him was a tall man who had not yet taken off his silk military officer uniform. From what he had heard and seen for many days, he knew that he was Xu Zaijing's father in this life.
Xu Minghua looked at the dark eyes of the child in his arms, and the dimples on his cheeks that looked like his own wife's when he smiled, and couldn't help laughing.
"It's rare that our Jing'er didn't cry after being woken up by her sister like this."
As he finished speaking, he didn't notice that the diaper covering his son had tilted, revealing Seo Jae-jeong's baby dragon.
Holding the child, he glanced at his eldest wife who was warming the younger daughter's face with her hands, and the eldest daughter was tapping the younger daughter's head with her fingers.
He casually asked:
"How was your stay at Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion today?"
"I'm fine, but the Marquis' Mansion..."
Sun told her husband about what she had seen and heard in the marquis's mansion.
"No matter what, the Ningyuan Marquisate has overcome its difficulties this time and is no longer in danger of being stripped of its title and imprisoned. So none of the Bai family's relatives came?"
Before Sun could say anything, a warm current rushed into Xu Minghua's palm.
"Madam, hurry up, Jing'er has peed."
Looking at the embarrassing looks of their father and husband, the three women of the Xu family laughed out loud.
"Master, Madam, it's time to eat." Xiao Zhu said.
"Okay, let Duan Ge'er and Zhang Ge'er bring today's homework."
"Sir." Sun said with some embarrassment.
After a cup of tea,
After changing his diaper, Xu Zaijing nestled in Mother Cui's arms, looking at his two brothers in this life with his big eyes. They had a meal of fried pork with bamboo before dinner.
Seeing his two brothers being beaten to the point of tears in their eyes and begging for mercy, Xu Zaijing couldn't help but laugh.
Mrs. Sun, who was standing by, looked at her youngest son and tapped his forehead with her finger.
"You don't look like a worry-free person."
Xu Zaijing in the nanny's arms laughed out loud.
The two girls from the Xu family also laughed.
Xu Zaiduan, the eldest of the Xu family, exhaled into his palm while looking at his sister.
"You two are still laughing. Daddy has already found a female teacher for you."
Xu Zai Zhang nodded on the side.
The two girls' expressions changed: "Daddy, is this true?"
"Well, I'll come to your house tomorrow."
The smile will not disappear, it will only transfer to the face of Mrs. Sun.
After dinner.
After washing up, Xu Zaijing was placed on the big bed by the nanny.
The couple and their young son were lying on the bed.
"Sir, today at the banquet, I learned that Aunt Sheng's son, Hong, has another son. I heard he's named Changbai."
"Hmm? Who told you that?"
"Madam Wang of the aristocratic Kang family is the sister of Hong'er's wife. They say the baby is already three months old."
"Oh, it's her. Her family is from the Wang family, who are entitled to be enshrined in the imperial temple! It's also a happy occasion that the Sheng family has a legitimate son."
"Sir, our family has not received any news."
Sun waited for the man to speak, but there was no sound from the other end, only the sound of breathing.
"Sir?"
"You know what happened to my aunt. She was pampered by my grandfather since she was little. She entered the palace when she was seven or eight, serving Empress Jing'an. When she returned home at the age of 18, she fell in love with that third place winner."
"Grandpa treated my aunt very well."
"That's right, the Marquis of Yongyi's Mansion. They have the merit of destroying a country. Military officers and nobles cannot be given too high a rank. They can only be rewarded with mountains of gold and silver. When my aunt gets married, it's not right to overstep our bounds. The dowry list only gives half of it."
"When I was little, I heard that the third place winner in the imperial examination was as handsome as Pan An, and the daughters of noble families had huge dowries. I don't know how many people envied them. But after I got married, I didn't envy them anymore."
"lady."
"It's hard to say elders, but you're too partial. The Marquis's Mansion is very wealthy, and nine-tenths of it was given to my aunt as part of her dowry. When my two aunts get married in this generation, there won't be that much dowry left."
"Alas, my father was adopted after all."
"A few years ago, my parents-in-law wanted to marry off their daughter from Daizhou, and they wanted to give their daughter a dowry. But Aunt Sheng refused, and my parents-in-law were humiliated. My mother-in-law was furious that time."
"well."
Xu Minghua sighed and said in a low voice: "I also felt resentment towards my aunt before, but after our child came, I understood my grandfather. If we only had Pingmei as our daughter, how much dowry would you give?"
"Ping'er is such a sensible and good girl, naturally I want as many as possible."
"Yes. She is the only daughter of heaven in the Marquis's family. She has no biological brothers or sisters. How could her personality be the same as those of children from poor families with many sisters?"
"She is naturally rebellious and regards money as dirt. She acts according to her own will. The things in the Marquis' Mansion originally belonged to her."
"Yes." Xu Minghua sighed
"Sir, after all this talk, my father asked you to go this time. Has the matter of being sent abroad been decided?"
"It's settled. My father-in-law has used the Cao family's connections to get a job as the deputy commander of the Western Army. He'll take up the post with his family members in the spring."
"That's good. It seems that the Cao family still remembers the favor of my maternal grandfather. Having some real power will make it sound good to the outside world."
"Thinking about it this way, even though it was adopted, my grandfather still cared about his descendants. Otherwise, he wouldn't have let my father ask for marriage from the Sun family, and let me get such a good wife."
"Humph, my mother-in-law looked down upon me back then."
"At that time, I saw the Sun Family's Tenth Lady that my grandfather mentioned at the polo match, and I knew that you were the one for me in this life."
Xu Zaijing listened to his parents' flirting, but he also realized that he was really in the world of "The Story of Minglan".
However, he had a question in his mind: why did he say that his father married his mother, the Marquis of Yongyi, who was also the father of Old Lady Sheng, as a plot for future generations?
But the two people on the bed started to talk sweetly.
Listening to the increasingly embarrassing voices of these two people, Xu Zaijing began to howl.
"This kid, really!"
Soon Xu Zaijing was carried by the wet nurse to a side room and fell asleep in her arms.
Early the next morning, Xu Zaijing saw his parents.
Xu Minghua's face was flushed and Sun's complexion was rosy.
Xu Zaijing's two older brothers, Xu Zaiduan and Xu Zaizhang, glanced at each other. The second oldest, Xu Zaizhang, who had a more erratic personality, said:
"Mom, you look so beautiful today."
The two sisters Xu Anmei and Xu Pingmei also nodded in agreement.
Sun rolled her eyes at her husband and said with a stern face, "Talk less while eating."
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