In the spring of March, the fourth year of Huaxing, the warm and soft sunlight in the afternoon shone through the glass window on the mahogany carved canopy bed in an inner room.
Lying on the canopy bed was a middle-aged woman with gray hair. The woman was Niu Hulu Mingya, who had been in a coma for more than 20 years.
At the end of Shen Shi, the Golden Crow gradually began to droop to the west.
A chubby little sparrow flew through the gap in the open window on the east wall and landed on the round huanghuali wood table in the inner room.
When it saw an exquisite tea set with flowers of the four seasons placed on the table, it chirped happily a few times, jumped a few times, and was about to use its bright yellow beak to peck the color on the porcelain surface of the tea set.
The bright "flowers" suddenly heard a "squeaking" sound coming from the bed not far away.
The little sparrow was startled, and hurriedly raised its furry little head to look at the bed, and saw that the two-legged animal that was lying on the bed with its eyes closed suddenly opened its eyes and sat up straight. It was so frightened that the feathers all over its body immediately "swish"
"Everything exploded all of a sudden, "Pulling" spread out its wings and flew out through the gap in the open window in a panic.
Little Niu Hulu looked blankly at the little sparrow that flew away in a hurry.
She looked at the blue bed curtain, and looked at the unfamiliar furnishings in the inner room with confused eyes. She couldn't figure out where this place was? Why was she here? Why couldn't she see the eldest maid serving her? Where was Xiao Shi?
Several questions popped up in his head. Xiao Niu Hulu felt as if his head had been hit hard with a wooden stick, it was painful and swollen.
She raised her right arm and was about to rub her sore forehead with her right hand, when suddenly two soft and cute little milk sounds came from outside the door.
"Sister, come and catch me quickly?"
"Little Fatty, don't run away. If you run away again, I won't play with you next time!"
When Little Niu Hulu heard the child's voice, she subconsciously turned to look at the door, followed closely by a little guy wearing a sapphire blue round-neck robe with a hairy head, who looked to be about two years old, holding on to the threshold and humming.
He rolled his little body into the inner room.
The little guy was grinning happily. He was trying to sneak into the wenge wood cabinet in the inner room as usual to prevent his sister from finding him.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he skillfully opened the cabinet door, a figure suddenly appeared in the corner of his eye. He was so frightened that he quickly turned to look at the bed. When he saw little Niu Hulu sitting on the bedside, the little guy's eyes
His eyes widened with shock in an instant!
Little Niu Hulu was also stunned. She looked at the little guy wearing a sapphire blue round-neck robe. He had a round face, phoenix eyes, and a three-headed body. He looked very much like Yiner. Her eyes lit up and she immediately shouted.
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"Xiao Shi! Come here quickly and let me hug you."
The little guy who was holding the cabinet door with his chubby hands couldn't help but frowned when he heard the name Xiao Niu Hulu called him. He shook his round head and made a sweet sound to Xiao Niu Hulu.
Lovely explained:
"Ma Ma, I'm not Xiao Shi, I'm Hongxuan - the word "Hong" in "Hongda" means "Xuan" next to the word "日", which means "warmth"."
"What? What did you say your name was? Hongxuan?"
When Xiao Niu Hulu heard this strange name, he immediately opened his eyes as if he had heard something from a fantasy, and asked in disbelief.
Xiao Hongxuan nodded his round head obediently.
"Your name is Yiner, how could you be called Hongxuan!"
Xiao Niu Hulu was muttering anxiously as she opened the thin brocade quilt covering her body with her hands. Just as she was about to get off the bed, suddenly a little girl wearing a pink flag uniform and looking about five or six years old stepped over.
The threshold ran in.
After the little girl saw Xiao Hongxuan, she hurriedly ran to his side, reached out and grabbed Xiao Hongxuan's short arm, frowned and scolded:
"Hongxuan, didn't Mother-in-law say that? Mama needs some rest, so don't hide and seek in Mama's yard."
"elder sister."
Xiao Hongxuan tugged on the little girl's sleeves and pointed at the canopy bed.
The little girl looked in the direction of her brother's finger, and when she saw little Niu Hulu sitting awake on the bed, her round, almond-shaped eyes widened in shock.
Xiao Niu Hulu also took another look at the appearance of the little girl in front of her. She remembered that her niece Ke Jing often wore a pink flag uniform, so she couldn't help but asked in a warm and tentative voice:
"Little girl, are you Ke Jing?"
When the little girl heard this, she immediately shook her head like a rattle and replied eagerly:
"Ma Ma, I am not the fourth aunt, my name is Wu Xiha, this is my brother Hongxuan, please wait a moment, I will call Ama and E Niang!"
After saying this, Usiha immediately turned around and ran out, leaving her little brother alone.
Xiao Hongxuan, who was still standing where he was, saw that Xiao Niu Hulu seemed to be frightened after hearing the word "Ma Ma". He looked at her eyes widening and stretched out her hand to touch her face anxiously.
Xiao Hongxuan turned left and right, and saw a small oval glass mirror placed on the dressing table on the east wall. He immediately ran over with his short legs, stood on tiptoes, and lifted the small glass from the table with his chubby hands.
He took off the mirror, turned around and ran to the canopy bed, pursed his lips, reached out and handed the small glass mirror to Niu Hulu Mingya, and said in a sweet voice:
"Ma Ma, do you want to look in the mirror?"
At this moment, Xiao Niu Hulu actually began to understand what was going on, but she did not dare to admit the absurd thoughts that came to her mind.
She glanced at Xiao Hongxuan, who had an innocent face and turned his head to look at her in ignorance. She took the glass mirror from the little guy's hand with her right hand tremblingly. She held her breath and put the mirror in front of her face. When she saw the hair in the mirror
The gray-white middle-aged woman with fine lines around her eyes and mouth was so frightened that she shook her hand
Shaking, the glass mirror in my right hand instantly fell on the footrest and shattered into pieces. Tears rushed out of my eyes with a "swish", and all I could think of was "How did I become like this? I am like this."
You are obviously only in your twenties, why do you look like this when you wake up?"
"Xuanxuan!"
Xiao Hongxuan saw that the glass mirror was broken and Xiao Niu Hulu was crying. He immediately became a little at a loss and thought that he had done something wrong and should not hand the mirror to Xiao Niu Hulu.
Just when the little guy was so frightened that he wanted to open his mouth to cry, he suddenly heard the voices of his mother and his mother calling him from behind.
He hurriedly spread his legs and turned around and ran towards the door.
Prince Yin'e of Tun and his Fujin Borjigit clan heard their daughter Usiha say that their mama had opened her eyes. The couple were so shocked that they hurried out of the main courtyard and came to the courtyard where Xiao Niu Hulu clan was training.
Who would have thought that as soon as the couple crossed the threshold and walked into the inner room, their youngest son rushed up to them and shouted in a sobbing voice:
"Amma! Er Niang!"
Yin'er reflexively bent down and took her fat son into her arms, while Borzigit also held his daughter Usiha in his right hand.
Xiao Niu Hulu looked at the family of four standing together with tears in her eyes.
After seeing the tall, slender, long-faced, sleep-deprived young man standing in the middle, the man looked both familiar and unfamiliar. She couldn't help but frown, and asked in a mute voice with some uncertainty:
"Are you Xiao Shi? Yiner?"
Yiner looked at his own mother-in-law, who was sitting on the bed with red eyes and crying sadly. She couldn't help hugging her fat son in her arms, and replied with a slightly choked voice:
"Yes, E Niang, I, I am Yiner."
"This is me, Fujin, Borjijit Shadali, from the Abagai Tribe of Mongolia, the legitimate daughter of the Prince of Wu Erjin Karapu County."
"The little girl in Shadali's right hand is my eldest daughter Aisin Gioro Usiha, and the chubby little boy I am holding in my arms is my eldest son Aisin Gioro Hongxuan."
"This year." Yiner never thought that his mother-in-law would open her eyes one day in her life. She couldn't help but sniffed her red nose, looked up at the carved beams, and felt the pain that wanted to flow out of her eyes.
The tears were forced back.
Shadali turned around and saw that her father was choked with sobs and could not speak, and she understood what Yin'er was feeling.
If we say that the person sitting on the bed is their tenth master's biological mother, it just so happens that her father-in-law was lying on the bed and unconscious when he was more than two years old.
The relationship between mother and son lasted just over two years, and it would not be an exaggeration to call them familiar strangers at this moment.
But now she is also the mother of two children, and she can more or less feel her mother-in-law's desolate state of mind when she opens her eyes at this time, and things have changed.
Xiao Niu Hulu, who was in tears on the bed, sighed:
"Mom, Master Shi will be twenty-four years old in June this year."
"Twenty-four years old? How can he be twenty-four years old?"
When Xiao Niu Hulu heard Shadali's words, she quickly covered her mouth with her right hand, closed her eyes, cried and shook her head sadly, murmuring:
"Xiao Shi, E Niang, E Niang, I clearly remember that you are only two years old! Aren't you still clamoring in the Yongshou Palace to ride with Xiao Jiu and the twins in Little Hershey's carriage to Mount Wutai?
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"Why, why, mother, mother, you have grown so big just after you slept?"
"By the way, I remember. I hit you and your head accidentally hit the back of the chair and you were injured and fell into a coma!"
"Your Khan Ama wanted to give you to the little Heshel family to raise. E Niang and him had a quarrel in the main hall of Yongshou Palace. He wanted to force you away from E Niang with the name of 'lost heart and crazy'.
Then E Niang bumped into a pillar when she got excited."
"That's not right. My sister died in childbirth due to emergency. I entered the palace to take care of the children my sister left behind."
"But where is the child my sister gave birth to?"
Little Niu Hulu stopped crying, turned to look at the swaddling clothes on both sides of the child that were not wrapped, and then suddenly turned to look at Usiha who was wearing a pink flag uniform.
Usiha was frightened by the red eyes of Little Niu Hulu, she trembled and hurriedly hid behind her mother-in-law Shadali.
Shadali pursed her red lips and used her right arm to protect her daughter.
She could see that her mother-in-law seemed to be in a coma for too long and her head was a little unclear, and her memory was obviously still stuck in more than 20 years ago, when she was the noble concubine Niu Hulu in the Yongshou Palace.
What Shadali, a daughter-in-law, can understand clearly, Yiner, a son, naturally understands even more.
Yiner handed the fat son in his arms to Shadali, wiped the tears with his hand, and whispered to Shadali:
"Fu Jin, please take Wu Xiha and Hongxuan back to the main courtyard first, and I will have a chat with E Niang."
Shadali glanced at her father with distress, then looked at the little Niu Hulu who was struggling to get off the bed, but her legs were not working properly. She nodded at Yiner, hugged her son, and took her with her.
He turned around and left the inner room with his daughter.