The third update is here, okay, I'm going to go too~

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Before talking about Cen Chi, Shi Jing had already expected it. Even if Shi Xin would not disobey him on his face, if he really wanted to be ruthless to Cen Chi, Shi Xin would definitely hesitate in his heart.

"This matter ......" his mood froze slightly, and Shi Jing opened his mouth with joy and anger: "There are still variables." ”

As soon as the word "variable" in these words fell, Shi Jing saw a little light in his son's eyes, but for no reason, he felt a trace of boredom in his own heart.

Shi Jing was very puzzled, and couldn't figure out how Cen Chi used to have such a big impact on his son.

Because he once served as Mr. Xixi of Xin'er? No, it was just Mr. Pseudonym, a false name, and in fact he taught Xin'er almost nothing.

Because he and Xin'er are crowned on the same day? No, no, it was originally his own kindness, but when the Prime Minister was holding a banquet because of Xin'er's crown ceremony, Cen Chi broke the jade crown in the garden, what kind of crown is it?

Or is it because of ...... That's it, the young man surnamed Cen doesn't live in the Prime Minister's Mansion at all. But it's strange to think about it, he doesn't stay in the Prime Minister's Mansion often, but it doesn't diminish Xin'er's importance for him in the slightest, if he lives here often, wouldn't it be ......

Could it be that the legendary North Fence School has even studied and condensed the science of mental art so terrifyingly?

Mind wandered to this point, Shi Jing did not continue to think about this issue, he sighed silently, and then said to Shi Xin: "Whether to stay or abandon, we all need to make a choice in the end, if we come to a fork in the road with him, my father hopes that you will not be indecisive." ”

Shi Xin nodded when he heard this, and didn't say anything more.

This time, after listening to his father's admonition, the look in his eyes did not have a trace of waves, as if after his father's words just now. He has already made his choice.

He picked up the teacup again, lifted the lid, and before he could blow away the little foam that floated on the tea, he was about to take a full sip - he suddenly felt a little dry in his mouth, although he did not move his tongue or say a word as he listened to his father's words.

However, the teacup in his hand was slightly tilted, and before the tea soup touched his lips, he put down the teacup again.

It was only because he saw a woman walk in at the door.

At first glance, this woman was about forty years old. There weren't too many deep wrinkles on her face. But there are a lot of fine lines, and the skin is a little dry and loses its luster, which seems to be the result of her less work but not too much attention to decent maintenance.

The woman was dressed in splendor. There were brightly colored embroidery patterns on her clothes, but they couldn't reflect her face with ruddy and spirit. If you look closely, except for the wrinkles on her face, her complexion is also very fair, but it is a kind of whiteness caused by rare sunlight. There is no healthy and vivid shine.

It is true that she rarely worries about the things in life and the things around her, because she is so capable of worrying that she must be deprived of the right to worry about it, lest her insanity affect others.

This woman should have the status of the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion - of course, she still has such an identity, but she is only the legendary eldest lady in the servant's heart.

She's just a crazy woman who is carefully raised by the Prime Minister as the eldest lady, and to be precise, she should be a crazy woman who is closely confined in a small courtyard.

This crazy woman is indeed Shi Jing's original wife, and she is also the biological mother of the second son of the Shi family. But she was confined to the house by her husband for nearly fifteen years. However, the servants in the prime minister's mansion will not slander the lord because of this, not because they are afraid of the lord's wrath, but because the eldest lady should really forbid it.

There are not many old servants left in the Prime Minister's Mansion. Occasionally, a few people privately recalled the past of this crazy woman, and although it was a few years later, it still made people feel chills on their backs. The story that still frightens people when they talk about it is that the madwoman almost strangled her own son to death when he was five years old.

Later, her son, who escaped death, often went insane. This matter is probably a family ugly, but good things don't go out. Bad things spread thousands of miles, and there are many servants in the prime minister's house, so it is inevitable to be exceptional. Those who knew about this spread the rumor: The second son of Shifu was born with some madness from his mother's womb.

It's really a little unclear to talk about this matter in detail, but since then, the eldest lady who gave birth to a son for the prime minister, but almost killed this son, has lived a life of imprisonment.

Generally speaking, if something happens in a high-ranking family, the responsibility will eventually be thrown to the last weak person to bear it, but it may not be to return the blame to the person who should be responsible. This can be regarded as a kind of law of competition derived from the human group, cold and inevitable.

There is a crazy master in Shifu, if he is not locked up and allowed to be a disaster, I am afraid that the life of these servants will be extremely difficult in the future. Therefore, the servants are grateful for the decision of the prime minister.

What's more, the second son of Shi born to the eldest lady is also a little crazy now, and the mother and son can't contribute the slightest help to the Shi family, and it also adds to the burden, but Master Shi still takes care of their mother and son's worry-free life, and does not abandon them.

In addition, Master Shi often invited Lang Zhong to see a doctor, and for more than ten years, he kept a belief in curing the eldest lady in his heart, and even this belief passed through the war years of Zhou Zhaoli, which is undoubtedly a man's deep affection for his wife.

At this moment, seeing this wife who he hadn't visited for a long time in this flower hall, Shi Jing's mood suddenly became a little complicated.

I thought that if she was locked in that quiet garden, she would not be able to make any movement. She has been living so peacefully, and the chances of a complete recovery may still be very slim, but maybe she will no longer be sick and can prolong her life for a few years, as many people who have seen her say.

I never thought of it......

After the accident, Shi Jing was full of disbelief, he didn't believe that a person who was out of control could still have that kind of calculating and scheming control.

"Sit down." Shi Jing looked at the crazy woman and spoke softly.

Though his wife had done wrong, and that he had her summoned out of the garden to-day, it was to sort things out, and it was this matter that had been so troubled by which he had sat in the flower hall for a long time, but at this time he had not been angry with her.

Behind the eldest lady were two maids and three nurses.

The guards did not enter the flower hall, but only stood sideways like javelins on both sides of the door. They only looked into each other's eyes, and did not look sideways into the flower hall at all. When it comes to Xiangye's family affairs, their perception is very sensitive and their attitude is very consistent: do their jobs well and be less nosy.

The two maids involved followed the eldest lady into the flower hall, and when they heard Master Shi's words, they hurriedly helped the eldest lady to sit down on a chair under Shi Jing's seat.

The third prince of the Shi family had already left his seat, walked up to the eldest lady and bowed deeply, and called softly: "Mother is fine." ”

The eldest lady is not Shi Xin's biological mother, but he still respects her enough. However, in families with more than one wife and concubine. Although there is only one word difference between the mother and the mother in the verbal title, the difference in the depth of affection is only clear to the person who evokes these two words.

From the moment you step into the flower hall with your front feet. The eldest lady's face was a little sluggish, but after hearing the word "mother", she suddenly moved her shoulders and opened her eyes: "I know you, you are my son." If you are disobedient, you should be beaten! ”

This was the first thing she said after entering the flower hall, and her tone was obviously stiff and straight, and she was actually going to hit the child.

As soon as she finished saying the word "should be hit", she suddenly stood up from her chair and grabbed Shi Xin's outstretched hand because of the gesture towards her. Raise your slap and slap it.

She still slapped Shi Xin like a mother catching a child who had made a mistake and slapping the child's palm.

This is for an adult. It didn't hurt much, but the two maids standing behind the eldest lady were shocked. Seeing that they were not paying attention and did not hold down the eldest lady who suddenly stood up, they immediately panicked. It seems that the left and right sides of the energy have to be pulled.

Suddenly, Shi Xin shouted, "I made a mistake. He should be punished, and he is willing to let his mother beat him. ”

The two maids were stunned, looked at Shi Xin, and subconsciously turned their gaze to look at Shi Jing in the upper seat.

Shi Jing's brows furrowed slightly. The situation in the flower hall took a sharp turn, but it had nothing to do with the family affairs that he was still sitting here at this time, and the little time he had squeezed out in his busy schedule of official duties was ready to clean up.

But he still didn't get angry, and after a while, he just said softly: "Alain, the child is wrong, I asked him to go to the study and think about it behind closed doors, don't be angry." ”

Shi Jing not only didn't get angry, but also called his wife's nickname in a soft voice.

Before they got married, he often called her like this, and in recent years he rarely called her that way anymore, but when he spoke again, this affectionate title was as simple as taking it out of a treasured box, and it was not unfamiliar.

When the eldest lady Mu Yulan heard this soft call, she seemed to have found part of her personality from her name, and she suddenly quieted down.

After no longer slapping Shi Xin's hand, Mu Yulan first looked sideways at her husband who was in the upper seat, and then she turned her face to look at Shi Xin standing in front of her again, and suddenly said happily: "My son has grown so big, but unfortunately he is not like me at all." But isn't it natural for a son to look like his father? What's more, my brother Jing is so heroic! I have to have a lot of children for him. ”

The eldest lady also evoked her nickname for her husband.

Unlike Shi Jing, the last time the eldest lady called out this nickname was during the Lantern Festival last year. Shi Jing accompanied her to watch the servants hang lanterns in the yard, pinched a spoon and fed her rice balls, she bit the rice balls and was burned by the hot rice balls, she suddenly exhaled these three words, as if shouting these three words can relieve the pain.

As soon as he heard this title, Shi Jing couldn't help but be moved.

What the wife said just now, except for the first sentence, the words that followed can be expressed, and her memory at this time was postponed until when she had just given birth and was still in confinement.

At that time, she was not insane, but when she started beating her third son just now, that memory was the fourth year after she gave birth.

At that time, her madness was already obvious, but he thought that putting her blood-related parents and children by her side would allow her to slowly be nourished by family affection and repair her mental damage, but he didn't expect her to go crazy and even be ruthless with her own flesh and blood.

Scenes of the past surfaced in front of his mind, and he was soon forcibly pressed down by Shi Jing. But after that, a trace of anger finally came to his heart, but it was still not at his wife, but at the two servants who were serving behind.

Although the furrowed brows had been stretched, the furrow between Shi Jing's eyebrows still could not be completely calmed.

After a moment of silence, Shi Jing said as slowly as possible in his voice: "The child has not only grown a lot taller, but also writes much more energetically than when he first learned it, Alain, do you want to test him?" ”

"Yes, yes!" The eldest lady applauded very childishly.

Shi Jing gave his son Shi Xin a look, and said calmly: "Accompany your mother well, but don't let her play too tired, rest early." The tone of his second half of the sentence was slightly heavier.

Shi Xin quickly understood, ordered the two maids not to follow, and then bid farewell to his father and led his mother out of the flower hall.

As soon as the non-biological mother and son left, Shi Jing, who was sitting on the upper seat, had a wave on his calm face, and shouted outside the door: "Someone! ”