Xuan Qingmu was in the mourning hall and ordered the servants at home to seal the coffin and send people to guard it day and night until the day of burial. The emperor took pity on his infatuation and allowed him a few days off without having to go to court, so he also stayed in the mourning hall.
He was sitting on a chair with a gloomy look on his face.
If he didn't leave, Tong Wei and Qiu Xinyu couldn't leave either, so they had to hold on and guard.
The dead wet nurse was taken to the wild and buried hastily. She had no relatives in the capital. After giving birth to a son in the countryside, she went to Prince Xuan's Mansion to be a wet nurse. The three young masters and one young lady in the mansion were all raised by her.
, stayed for thirteen years, and finally forgot about his own home.
Tong Wei secretly sent some money to her family members whom she had not interacted with for thirteen years. The servant came back and said that according to the lady's words, the nanny unfortunately passed away due to illness and was buried in the mansion. She had been remembered for thirteen years.
She has always been diligent, so she sent some pension money to her family.
The servant sighed again and said: "Her husband has already married a bride and has given birth to a child. The poor wet nurse's child is now fourteen and has been bullied at home. It looks very pitiful."
Tong Wei was soft-hearted, so he let his servants take the child into the mansion. Although he was already fourteen, four years older than Xuan Jinmo, his height only reached Xuan Jinmo's shoulders, and he was so skinny.
This child has never seen his mother since he was born, and grew up eating clear soup and little water. When he learned that his mother passed away, he was not sad at all and just ate silently. When he looked up, he saw Xuan Jinyan standing with gauze wrapped around his forehead.
At the door, I looked at him curiously as he gulped down his meal, smiled honestly, and continued to eat with his head down.
Xuan Jinyan felt very strange. She had no appetite these days. Why did this boy eat so sweetly? Is this food really so delicious?
"Jinyan, come here." Tong Wei waved to Xuan Jinyan.
At this time, it had been a month and a half since Mu Ruolan passed away. Xuan Jinmo insisted on guarding his mother's grave for five years before returning to the house.
He was guarding outside the ancestral grave.
Mu Ruolan is a concubine and cannot enter the ancestral tomb, but she can be buried outside the ancestral tomb. There is a temple fifty meters away from the tomb. This is the place where Xuan Jinmo takes care of the ancestral tomb, burns incense and chants sutras for Prince Xuan's palace.
There.
However, Xuan Jinyan, who was just six years old, was left in the mansion by Xuan Jinmo, under the care of Tong Wei.
"Auntie." Xuan Jinyan has changed her title according to her father's instructions. She is timid and obedient, very much like her mother, but her eyebrows are like her father's. She has slender eyebrows and single eyelids, but she is very cute. Her smile is slightly curved.
, like the crescent moon, but now she almost doesn’t smile.
"This is Feng Dazhu." Tong Wei smiled and said, "Originally I wanted to help him change his name, but although this name is more vulgar, he has heard it for fourteen years, and I'm afraid he won't get used to it. From today on,
He is responsible for protecting your safety, and he is your slave, your only slave."
Xuan Jinyan looked at Feng Dazhu who was eating desperately, blinked his eyes, and said uneasy: "Auntie, he is so thin and short. He is not as tall as my brother. Can he protect me?"
"Yes!" Feng Dazhu suddenly said angrily, with his mouth full, "Although I am thin, I can do any farm work at home. I can cultivate all the land in the family by myself, and when harvesting grain
, I can do it alone."
"Really?" Xuan Jinyan didn't believe it too much and looked at Feng Dazhu and then at Tong Wei.
"He doesn't have enough to eat in the countryside and has to do a lot of work. When he gets here, my aunt will naturally let him eat enough. He will soon grow taller and fatter."