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Seeing Ma Xiuying holding the teacup, the wives and concubines immediately got up and said goodbye with great eyes.

Ma Xiuying called Li Qi'er, "Bring Di'er over for dinner at noon, and they will come over after school." ”

Yesterday, she overslept and didn't have time to communicate with the children closely, so she asked Xunying to pick up the children at noon and send them to Song Lian in the afternoon.

Zhu Biao was seven years old and Zhu Fan was six years old was the critical moment of enlightenment, and Song Lian paid close attention to their studies, and had to attend classes for two hours each morning and afternoon every day.

Zhu Di, who is more than four years old, still can't understand Song Lian's teaching, but he has always been in and out with his brothers, and he goes wherever his brother goes.

Once Song Lian couldn't help but hit Zhu Li with a ring ruler, accidentally poked his forehead, and bled a little. The people around were frightened and hurriedly told Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and wanted to punish Song Lian.

Ma Xiuying listened to what happened, looked at Zhu Di, who was crying, and then looked at Song Lian, who was lying on the ground and pleading guilty, and said: "It is his duty for Bachelor Song to use the standards of Yao and Shun to teach students a lesson, why are you angry? If it weren't for Bachelor Song's naughtiness, how could Bachelor Song hurt Lady by mistake." If you are furious about this kind of thing, who will dare to teach our children in the future?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he felt that it made sense, not only did he not punish Song Lian, but promoted him to Zuo Chunfang and Right Zanshan.

But after that, Song Lian didn't dare to be Zhu Di anymore, and finally thought of a way to let Hua Wei also come to class, and the two children opened a small class alone, leaving a thousand-character text for them to play by themselves, so that they could be cleaned.

If it weren't for Song Lian staring at the children studying every day, Ma Xiuying would dare to say that she would leave the house. She thought that the children were in the school during the day, and there were nurses to take care of them at night, and Bai Ling's maids would visit them from time to time, and they were in the house, so there should be no mistakes, but she didn't expect to be taken advantage of by Guo Hui. Fortunately, Li Qi'er comforted Zhu Biao in time, and did not let the child think nonsense, and it was also thanks to Zhu Biao's sensibility that he did not tell the news of her disappearance to the two younger brothers, otherwise I don't know what chaos it would cause.

Therefore, Ma Xiuying has a similar attitude towards other women, but she is grateful to Li Qi'er from the bottom of her heart, and made a special trip to let her bring Zhu Di over for a small gathering.

Li Qi'er was flattered and smiled and promised. The other wives and concubines were envious, secretly annoyed that they didn't have Li Qi'er's cleverness to please Ma Xiuying.

This derogatory praise can be seen Ma Xiuying's means of controlling people, Guo Hui, who is against her, may be crying in the Buddhist hall, and Li Qi'er has won her appreciation, even if she is just a concubine, who in the house dares to look down.

Soon Li Qi'er came with Zhu Di, Zhu Di is almost three years old, he looks like a tiger, this child has inherited Li Qi'er's double peach blossom eyes, and everything else is very similar to Zhu Yuanzhang, especially the high forehead and long chin, which is printed out of a mold. He often comes to Ma Xiuying to play, so he is not afraid of life, and when he sees Ma Xiuying, he stretches out his hand, "Mother, mother......"

Ma Xiuying is the head of the house, and all the children under Zhu Yuanzhang's name regard her as their mother, so Zhu Di will call her so.

Ma Xiuying put the pastries that had been prepared a long time ago into Zhu Di's hands, "Little naughty, do you miss your mother?"

There is a reason why she calls Zhu Di like this. Everyone thought that Zhu Di was not born full-term and his health would be worse than that of full-term children, but Zhu Di had never been sick since he was a child, and he didn't even have a cough. He had a lot of strength, he was only a little over a year old and could push the chair to it, and he almost didn't smash himself, which frightened Li Qi'er's face at that time, and he ran to Ma Xiuying and asked for a powerful servant to take care of him. Since then, Ma Xiuying has called him a little naughty.

"Yes. Zhu Di looked at the pastry in his hand, and stretched out his hand again, obviously wanting it.

"Sister, the concubine has already fed him egg custard...... Li Qi'er blushed in embarrassment, her son is too embarrassed, she keeps eating in front of outsiders, and she thinks she is hungry for her children.

"It's okay, Di'er should have eaten more because of her strength. Ma Xiuying directly put all the pastries in front of Zhu Di, saw that he made a rustling sound like a little mouse, and asked Bai Ling to give him a cup of goat's milk.

This spoiling attitude can't be done if you don't really like it, Li Qi'er saw it in her eyes and smiled in her heart, with Ma Xiuying's favor, even if Zhu Di is a concubine, no one dares to bully.

Talking and laughing, Xun Ying picked up Zhu Biao's children back. Hua Wei saluted Ma Xiuying and Li Qi'er very restrainedly, Zhu Fan and Zhu Di rushed over to grab pastries with Zhu Di, Zhu Biao greeted Li Qi'er respectfully and rubbed to Ma Xiuying's side without leaving.

Ma Xiuying rubbed his head, looked at Zhu Di, who couldn't snatch his brother and was about to cry, and said with a smile: "Let's eat, you can't starve the children." ”

Li Qi'er asked, "Don't you wait for the prince?"

Ma Xiuying shook her head, "Guogong wants to fast and bathe, leave him alone." ”

This time he won a complete victory, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to sacrifice heaven and earth in the Purple Mountain, mourn the deceased, and he could not eat during the period.

Li Qi'er didn't ask any more, and dragged Zhu Di away from the pastry plate. The child, who had been a little unhappy before, was overjoyed when he saw the array of food on the table.

Today's food is specially prepared by Ma Xiuying for children, the taste is light, the chickens and ducks are boneless, and the fish meat is also decanted. Ma Xiuying told Li Qi'er not to worry and let Zhu Di eat as he pleased.

The dining room was very lively, and the unrestrained children let go of their hands and feet and feasted, and even the restrained Hua Wei joined the ranks of scrambles. Only Zhu Biao picked a chicken leg for Ma Xiuying first, and said, "Mother, you are injured, eat some meat to make up for it." ”

This is Zhu Biao's favorite chicken leg, Ma Xiuying was moved, whose child is so intimate as her son. She put the chicken leg back into Zhu Biao's bowl and said apologetically: "Mother is sorry for you, I made you scared, and my mother will tell you where to go in the future." ”

Zhu Biao smiled shyly, so that he would no longer have to worry about Ma Xiuying disappearing for no reason in the future.

Ma Xiuying said to Li Qi'er again: "This time, thanks to you for helping Biao'er, I didn't frighten him." ”

Li Qi'er hurriedly said: "This is what a concubine should do, my sister and Biao Gongzi have always been close to the concubine, how can the concubine sit idly by?"

"You helped Biao'er several times a few times......" Ma Xiuying sighed, or her stepmother has a great eye, there are so many women in the house, except for Li Qi'er who treats her sincerely, other women, alas, don't mention it. In order not to affect the atmosphere, she stopped talking about these things, but talked about the experience of leaving the house.

A few children listened with relish, and before they knew it, it was time for school. Ma Xiuying asked Xunying to send away Li Qi'er's mother and son, and said to Zhu Biao: "You have to listen to Bachelor Song's words in the academy, restrain your younger brother, and don't let them affect Bachelor Song's teaching." ”

Zhu Biao nodded.

Ma Xiuying thought for a while, and then admonished: "Except for Aunt Qi, you don't believe what other women in the house say, if someone says something bad to you and your brother, you can tell me and your father." ”

Zhu Biao was puzzled, "Why did Sanniang lie to me?"

Ma Xiuying was a little embarrassed, telling him too early that the sinister heart would not affect his growth, but if she didn't say it, she was afraid that something similar would happen again, after all, she couldn't stay by the side of a few children twenty-four hours a day.

Zhu Biao asked, "I heard the servant say that she was jealous that you had me and my brother, and she didn't have children, didn't she?"

Now that her son has heard some words, Ma Xiuying simply said, "There is a kind of person in this world, she is jealous of others if she doesn't have it, and always tries to destroy it in every possible way to achieve the purpose of psychological balance, she will deliberately say something unpleasant to affect your mood." This is the wrong behavior, so the father and mother punished her, and you should stay away when you see her in the future. ”

Zhu Biao said innocently: "So that's the case, no wonder Aunt Qi is good to me, it turns out that she has her own children and won't be jealous of us." ”

Ma Xiuying was speechless directly, does this count as seeing through the essence through appearances? .