When Xiao Yuan came back, it was almost dawn.

An Ning told him to rest for a while.

But where could Xiao Yuan sleep, he got up and went to the barracks again after lying down for a while.

An Ning took the children to breakfast, and then invited Lin Lianshuang to go out for a walk.

She just packed it up and asked the foreign affairs department to prepare the carriage, not wanting Xiao Fu to come in a hurry: "Mother, there is a mother-in-law knocking on the door outside, saying that it is our family's subordinate earlier, and my daughter went over to see it, and it was Zhou's mother." ”

"It's her. ”

An Ning stood up as soon as she heard this: "Chunxing, you go and tell Miss Lin, just say that I have some things, and I will ask her to go shopping another day." ”

After Chun Xing left, An Ning said to Xiao Fu: "You hurry up and ask Mother Zhou to come over." ”

This Zhou's mother is an old man in Pingguo Mansion, and it is said that she once worked as the old man's nurse, so she has a lot of face in Pingguo Mansion, and no matter how big or small the master is called Zhou's mother.

Xiao Fu went out, and brought Zhou's mother in after a while.

An Ning looked at Mother Zhou, and couldn't hold back her tears and fell: "It's really Mother Zhou, I'm still ...... How did you become like this? ”

Mother Zhou knelt down and gave An Ning a snort: "I've seen the third wife, the old slave...... I don't want to see the little masters in my lifetime, so I am willing to go immediately. ”

An Ning hurriedly helped Zhou's mother get up.

Mother Zhou's current appearance is really embarrassed, her clothes are tattered and can barely cover her body, and the clothes are very thin, her hair is gray, just scattered, and she doesn't even have a wooden hairpin.

"Hurry into the house. ”

An Ning helped Zhou's mother into the house, rummaged through the box again, took a piece of her cotton clothes and asked Zhou's mother to change into it: "Change your clothes first, Fu'er, you go to the kitchen to see if there is any soft porridge cooked, and if there is, bring a bowl to Zhou's mother, right...... Chun Tao, come over and heat up the charcoal stove. ”

Mother Zhou's frozen hands trembled, and her teeth were clenched.

Chun Tao went into the house and burned the stove hot, and the house was warmer, so she had a little heat.

An Ning asked her to change into cotton clothes again.

Xiao Fu also brought hot porridge into the door: "Mother Zhou, you drink a bowl of hot porridge first." ”

"Thank you, girl. ”

Zhou's mother took the porridge bowl, and she didn't say whether it was hot or not, and buried her head in a bitter meal.

When she finished eating, she put down the bowl and cried again: "The old slave hasn't eaten a full meal for several days, and he is hungry and hungry, so he thought that he would not live long, but he didn't expect to hear about the third master when he arrived in Nanyi Mansion, and the old slave wanted to look at the little masters when he was alive, so he tried to come and knock on the door, but he didn't expect it to be the third master and the third wife." ”

An Ning smiled: "It's also our fate, I don't want us to be exiled to Nanyi, and I can still see your old man's house, how have you lived for more than a year?"

Zhou's mother smiled bitterly: "How else can I live, it's good that I can live, but I didn't die, but my son and grandson are almost dead, God doesn't open his eyes." ”

As she spoke, she began to cry again.

An Ning hurriedly persuaded him, and said: "Since you have found it, you will stay at home, and it will be fine in the future, just eat and drink." ”

Mother Zhou got up and knelt down for An Ning again with a plop.

"Third wife, old slave...... The old slave has one thing to say, if he doesn't say it, he won't feel at ease in this life, even if he dies, he won't have a face......"

"Get up, get up. ”

An Ning helped Zhou's mother to get up: "You just have to say something, but whatever I can do will be done for you, even if I can't, and the third master is here, when I was in the house, you often helped us, we all remember your good, not to mention me and the third master, you see, even the children still recognize you." ”

Xiao Fu also said: "Mother Zhou, don't cry, you can find this is a happy thing, a big happy event, you have something to say." ”

The mother and daughter easily persuaded Zhou's mother, and An Ning asked the girl to bring hot water for Zhou's mother to wash her hands and feet.

Zhou's mother didn't sit either, and stood with her hands in her hands: "It's really ...... This matter is about the third and fourth masters. ”

An Ning looked at Xiao Fu: "You go and ask someone to invite your father and your fourth uncle...... By the way, please come over with your sixth uncle. ”

Xiao Fu hurriedly asked the little maid to invite someone.

An Ning chatted with Zhou's mother, and after about half an hour, Xiao Yuan, Xiao Jin and Xiao Ling came back together.

As soon as Xiao Yuan entered the door, he asked, "Is there anything wrong with letting us come in a hurry?"

Xiao Ling said with a big grin: "I'm really thirsty, third sister-in-law, hurry up and let someone prepare tea." ”

Xiao Fu took a cup of tea and handed it to Xiao Ling.

An Ning pulled Zhou's mother to Xiao Yuan: "Who do you think this is?"

Xiao Yuanyi looked at it: "Mother Zhou, how are you old...... Sit down, sit down. ”

Xiao Jin and Xiao Ling also recognized Zhou's mother, and they both greeted each other one after another.

After everyone sat down, Zhou's mother looked at the girl who served.

An Ning waved her hand and asked the girl and the mother-in-law to go down.

Mother Zhou looked at Xiao Yuan hesitantly: "It's really ...... Earlier, when he was in the mansion, the old slave didn't dare to say about it, but now, the Pingguo Mansion has long disappeared, and the old man and the old man have now become commoners, and the old slave is not afraid, and it is really uncomfortable not to say it. ”

"You have something to say. ”

Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin's faces became solemn, and they felt that what Zhou's mother said must be very important.

Mother Zhou gritted her teeth: "The third master and the fourth master are not the sons of the old man and the old lady. ”

"What?"

The first to scream was Xiao Ling.

He stood up suddenly: "What do you mean by this? Why is the third brother and the fourth brother not my brother?"

Xiao Yuan looked at Zhou's mother: "Do you have any evidence for what you said?"

Mother Zhou wiped her tears and said: "The old slaves have all milked the old lady, I am afraid that he is the oldest descendant of the Pingguo Mansion, and the old slave knows the affairs of the Pingguo Mansion for many generations, and it is really that the old lady has a brother back then, and he ...... back then."

Zhou's mother said slowly.

Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin's faces became even heavier when they heard this.

Mother Zhou meant that the old lady was the second master of the Pingguo Mansion back then, and the real son of the prince was Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin's father.

It's just that the prince has been frail and sick since he was a child, and he and the old lady are only one year old, and the brothers look alike.

Later, the brothers got married, and they married two cousins, so it stands to reason that the relationship between the brothers and the concubine should be very close.

But the old lady and the old lady can't tolerate the prince and the prince's wife, the old lady wants to inherit the title, the old lady wants to be the duchess of the country, and secretly often stumbles on the prince.

The old lady and the old lady also gave birth to the eldest grandson of the Guogong Mansion before the prince, and not long after Xiao Jue was born, Xiao Su was born.

The old lady still thought that if the prince couldn't have a child because of his frailty, he could give the child to the prince.

But who knows, but more than a year later, Mrs. Shizi was also pregnant, and this time she gave birth to Xiao Yuan, and then gave birth to Xiao Jin after two years.

When Mrs. Shizi gave birth to Xiao Jin, she had a difficult birth, and she desperately gave birth to Xiao Jin and went.

The prince and Mrs. Shizi are in love, after Mrs. Shizi went, he contracted the disease due to grief, his body was already weak, and the old lady intervened in it, did some unsightly things, and dragged the prince to death.

As soon as the prince died, Xiao Yuan should have inherited the Guogong Mansion.

After all, he is the eldest son of the long house, but Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin are too young, and it is impossible for the Guogong Mansion to let a little doll inherit it, so it can only be inherited by the old lady.

In order for Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin to grow up smoothly, Lao Ping Guogong assigned many subordinates in the house, and recorded Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin in the names of the old man and the old lady, saying that they were their sons-in-law.

When Xiao Jin was born, Xiao Yuan was too young to remember at all, and he didn't know who their biological parents were.

Many old people in the Guogong Mansion were betrayed, and the few who knew the truth did not dare to say it, and after so many years, those who knew the truth were almost gone, and all the people in the entire Guogong Mansion thought that Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin were the third and fourth masters in the mansion, and they were the old lady's sisters-in-law.

Only Zhou's mother knew about it, but she didn't dare to say it.

She was afraid that speaking out would lead to death, and she was afraid that Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin would know that this matter would be unfavorable to them, so she endured it.

She originally wanted to wait to tell Xiao Yuan when the Guogong Mansion was divided in the future, but who knew that a catastrophe fell from the sky, the Guogong Mansion was raided, and their subordinates were also sold.

Zhou's mother was too old and no one bought it, so she escaped the catastrophe.

But most of her children and grandchildren died, so she had to take her youngest grandchildren all the way to Nanyi to find the people of the Xiao family.

She thought about what she said, she had to find Xiao Yuan and tell the truth.