Su Xubai was resting at home because of his injury. Mrs. Su looked at her son and felt distressed: "Look at you, you have made yourself like this for others, and they didn't even come to see you.
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"How could she, a woman who has not yet left the court, come to our house to see me?" Su Xubai held a bowl of tea soup and drank it slowly.
"Not yet out of the cabinet? To others, she is Meng Duiwan, but no one in our family knows that she is..."
"Mother!" Su Xubai interrupted Mrs. Su, "Don't say these words anymore, don't even think about it. She has finally managed to survive now and can't be dragged down by us."
"A drag? What counts as a drag? Is it because our family status in Wuchang Marquis Mansion is not up to their family, or is it that your official position as a young minister in Dali Temple is not up to their family? We want to marry her to you, don't we also want to
To make up for the injustice he suffered in our house?" Madam Su was a little angry, "Obviously we had no way to make the decision about what happened back then. We were obviously forced to marry the Hao family because we had no other choice. Why?
In the end, all the responsibility falls on you?"
"If mother says this, don't say it again in the future. If it is spread to the palace by someone with intentions, it will not be of any benefit to us." Su Xubai said lightly, "We don't have the face to say that we were forced, especially me.
, I couldn’t even protect her, and even though I couldn’t protect her, I still had to take her with me, this is my fault in the first place!”
"If she was Meng Duiwan of the Yongchang Marquis Mansion at that time, and you had her with you, who would dare to look down on her? She is a living person, and you can't tie her to your waistband.
You carry her with you everywhere and protect her wherever you go, right?" Madam Su sighed, "In this big house, women don't have the ability themselves, husbands just put their hearts on her, and she also protects her.
Can’t live!”
Su Xubai said nothing.
Mrs. Su sat down next to Su Xubai: "I know you think what I said is ugly, but it is the truth. From ancient times to the present, why do we always have to be well-matched? I followed your father from the countryside to here step by step.
You also know how much hardship I have endured and how much contempt I have received over the years. Your father is on the border and there is no one to protect me. I want to live a decent life in such a big dyeing vat in the capital.
Relying on the identity given by your father, and also relying on my own ability to be a eldest lady."
"Mother……"
"I know that you think I shouldn't have gone to the Queen Mother to propose marriage to you in the first place, but since you like her so much, and if she is interested in you, she should understand that a good life is achieved by two people working together.
, instead of one person charging in the front, and the other just being attached!" Mrs. Su looked at Su Xubai in front of her, "I never thought in my life that I would give birth to someone with such a love as you, I just didn't want it.
You will always be troubled by this matter for the rest of your life. If you don't fight, who knows if you will have a chance?"
"Fight? How to fight?" Su Xubai lowered his eyes, "Is it possible that I block the door of their house and prevent others from proposing marriage, like a gangster, asking him to marry me at any cost?"
Mrs. Su didn't say anything, she just stared at Su Xubai in front of her.
Su Xubai was stunned. He sat up and put down the tea cup in his hand: "Mother, you don't really want me to do this, do you?"
"So what's the matter? It's just a matter of losing face!" Madam Su said, "When we were in the countryside, if you wanted to marry a wife, you had to be shameless to make her happy, otherwise she would marry you.
What are you trying to figure out?”
Su Xubai's face was full of confusion: "Mother, this is the capital..."
"I do know that this is the capital. Of course I also know that you are a scholar and think that face is important. But in order to marry me, your father ate and drank at my house for several days and refused to leave. In the end, your grandfather agreed because he had no choice but to do so.
It is indeed a bit embarrassing for me to marry him, but who will remember it after a few years?" Mrs. Su raised her eyebrows.
Su Xubai didn't say anything, but his face was filled with disapproval.
"If you think you're sorry for her, then find a way to compensate her. When she was Ah Chun, I thought she was well-behaved and sensible. Now that she is a girl from the Meng family, I think she has a good family background. If she becomes my daughter-in-law,
I'm always satisfied!" Mrs. Su said softly.
"Then if I tell you that Hao Jiaojiao was killed by her herself, would you still be satisfied?" Su Xubai looked up at Mrs. Su and said word for word.
Mrs. Su's heart rumbled, and she stood there speechless for a long time.
"When Hao Jiaojiao left our house and walked step by step outside the city, she was standing on the city wall and shot to death with an arrow. In this case, does mother still think she is your satisfactory daughter-in-law?" Su Xubai
Looking at Mrs. Su, she said helplessly.
Mrs. Su was silent for a long time, and then looked back at Su Xubai: "But you like it, don't you? You have been stoic since you were a child, and you didn't even have a common roommate. I thought back then I even thought you were a cut-sleeve guy, long ago
I'm ready. One day you will bring a man back. When you meet her, I know that you really like her. You are my son. How can I let you regret it all your life!"
Su Xubai didn't speak anymore, just sat quietly on the bed.
Seeing his appearance, Mrs. Su stopped forcing him. She watched him drink the medicine, sighed, and turned around to leave.
Wherever Su Xubai was sitting, he was thinking about what Madam Su said. He was even thinking about whether he would be killed by Yongchang Hou with an ax if he shamelessly blocked the door of Yongchang Hou's house.
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Just when he was in a daze, the window not far away was gently pushed open, and the next moment, he saw Meng Duiwan climbing in from the other side of the window.
When Meng Duiwan turned around, the two of them just looked at each other and didn't speak for a while.
After a while, Meng Duiwan slowly walked up to Su Xubai and asked, "How is your wound?"
"Almost done." Su Xubai said lightly, "Did you climb in from outside the city wall?"
"The security in your backyard is weak, so I came in through that way!" Meng Duiwan touched his hair in embarrassment.
"The gate is obviously right there, why don't you go? You have to climb in through the city wall." Su Xubai frowned slightly, "Aren't you afraid that if you fall down and break your bones?"
Meng Duiwan pulled up a stool and sat down in front of him: "My skills are pretty good now. I won't break my bones when I climb over the wall. I just think that if I come in through the gate, things will become very troublesome."
, but your injury is because of me, I always feel that if I don't come to see you, I will look particularly careless."
"So you came to see me empty-handed?" Su Xubai looked at Meng Duiwan and smiled helplessly.
Meng Duiwan rubbed his hands: "Actually, I went to buy some things to send here, but those gift boxes were very big. It would be inconvenient for me to climb over the wall to get those things, so I asked Forsythia to take them back.
, prepare to send it here in my eldest brother’s name!”
Su Xubai looked at Meng Duiwan for a long time. He had obviously seen that face not long ago, but Su Xubai couldn't move his eyes away and kept staring.
Meng Duiwan touched his face: "Is there something growing on my face?"
"I'm just wondering, does your face have any magic power? Why does Yeluqi just look at you casually and insist on marrying you?" Su Xubai raised his eyebrows, "I'm watching.
It’s no different than before!”
"He wants to marry me just because I am a girl from the Meng family!" Meng Duiwan said lightly, then he looked up and found that Su Xubai's lips were a little dry, so she poured him a cup of tea, "But
Speaking of which, why don’t you even have a maid in your house?”
"I've never been a maid, and you don't know that." Su Xubai looked at Meng Duiwan, then thought about it, and suddenly said, "Meng Duiwan, I'm not afraid of you barging in like this.