Qiu Wei, who was sitting on the corner, accidentally dropped the fan on the ground at this time, and there was a small pop, but she and Jingyi were startled.

Only then did they realize that the room was too quiet.

"What about the second wife's family?" Qiu Wei couldn't help but ask.

Zhang's mother stopped for a long time before saying, "The second wife's parents passed away early, and she was raised by her grandfather and grandmother. My grandfather was cousins with my aunt's father. The second wife is a relative of the Locke family. The old man met the second wife at Locke's house...... The second wife said that if it weren't for that day, she happened to go to her cousin's house to return the book, and if it wasn't for that day, the old man had an extra drink at her aunt's house and took a nap in the study...... She won't meet the master. If you can't meet the master, there will be no future. ”

Jingyi listened to He.

The body is warm, as if you can see such a scene - in the study in the afternoon, the smell of books exposed by the sun is thick, and the beautiful and lively girl, her light steps break the light and shadow, and break into the dream of a handsome young man...... Her fate must have changed forever.

But the well-off family, poor and self-controlled, although the family background is poor, there is nothing lacking in her, let alone wanting her to marry something better, and her grandparents do not agree to marry her into the Tao family as a concubine. At that time—I shouldn't have said it—the old man and the second wife were crazy, and they couldn't be separated at all. The old man is young and promising, not to mention the family, it is rare to be infatuated and treat each other sincerely. The old lady of the Luo family couldn't stop it, so she nodded helplessly. The second elder passed away in the second year after the second wife married into the Tao family. The second wife happened to have a firstborn child who died young, and her grandparents passed away, so don't talk about that hardship...... She woke up in the middle of the night and cried, and said to me, Caitang, Caitang, I am the only one in this world from now on...... The old man felt sorry for her, so he accompanied her when he was free and coaxed her to be happy. She doesn't cry in front of the master. Knowing that there are a lot of things going on outside, I can't bear to let him add some more troubles for her. The old man can't take care of her when he's busy, and she has to take care of a lot of things inside and outside this house. If she has grievances, she won't tell the master...... That's where the second wife suffers. No matter how good the master treats her, she is always a man, and she doesn't know those ......" Zhang's mother took the conversation.

She was still wiping away tears at first, but now she is no longer crying.

"The young grandmother wants to know that there is nothing new in the mansion. I won't go into details. Mama Zhang took a deep breath, "Said later...... Later, the second wife was still pregnant with a child, and she was full of joy waiting for the birth of the child...... There are also some things on her mind, but she doesn't care too much...... The lord is really worried about her, and he is really happy. But there was a war going on at the time, and he couldn't always be at home. There was a second wife, and two people came back to visit and deliver letters in three days. In order to reassure the old lady, besides, the old lady was also pregnant with a child at that time, so the old lady didn't need her to take care of the second wife, so she moved the second lady to her, and she took care of it herself. The second wife looked really good during that time. Looking at the photos, I haven't looked so good for several years. People are also fatter, but they are weak, and they don't feel solid when they look at it. She wanted to see her master for a while, but he couldn't come back, so she always wrote to him. I was afraid that he would be distracted, so I didn't send him out...... She seemed to have a premonition that she was going to be bad, and she wanted to see him anyway...... asked people to deliver the letter, and the left and right waited for the master to come back. Looking at her at that time, no one thought what would happen to her, but it was fine, and the doctors said that it was okay. But I was so scared that I didn't dare to tell the old lady, so I quietly asked the person who was solid to send a message to the old man, and asked him to come back for a trip. The old man came back to accompany the second wife for 20 days, and he didn't care how much he delayed...... When I gave birth to the Seventh Young Master, it was really a difficult birth. After tossing for a long time, I still went, and I went after giving birth to the Seventh Young Master......"

Jing Yi's heart ached.

She clutched the armrest of the couch and couldn't bear to listen......

"The second wife said that when she saw the master, it was 'one eye for life', and it was also 'one eye for life'. But she didn't regret it...... I always thought that it would be nice if she was still there, and how happy I should be to see the young master marry such a good daughter-in-law as the young grandmother...... She doesn't even know what the young master looks like, she doesn't know if she looks ......," Zhang's mother said and wept.

Jingyi endured it, tears were about to flow out.

She could already hear Qiu Wei sobbing.

Zhang's mother raised her head for a long time, and she had already collected her tears.

She didn't ask Mama Zhang anything. Looking at the people in the photo, she faintly felt that there were some things that it was better not to ask. Listening to it, what Zhang's mother said skipped a lot of links. Those Zhang mothers refuse to say or refuse to say it now, I don't know what they are...... What is it that makes the second wife a person who is rarely mentioned, and the third wife is more like someone who never existed?

She shuddered.

There is also an inexplicable pain in my heart, which is very light at first, but it is long...... She seemed to be a little unwilling, and asked softly, "Father, ...... he?"

"The garden where the young grandmother went was full of roses, and it was because of the casual words of the second wife, the master asked people to go to the other flowers in the garden, and only planted the kind of small roses that the second wife said were beautiful. Very rare...... The second wife said that this was too extravagant and made people look bad. The lord told her...... All these things that can be done for her are not luxuries, but they are luxuries to have her with them for the rest of their lives......"

Zhang's mother's eyes were red.

Jingyi was speechless for a long time.

The big roses...... The old back of the slow walk among the flowers...... Tao Xiang looked at her with complicated eyes when she was full of roses......

She asked Zhang's mother to go and rest earlier. Zhang's mother has always been diligent, and she always refuses to rest earlier than her master. Today he is very submissive. When I went downstairs, I almost fell. Jingyi personally came to help her, and she had to sit on the stairs for a long time to get up. Jingyi asked Yue'er and Qiuwei to accompany Zhang's mother.

Jingyi sat back on the sofa and was stunned for a long time, not knowing what she should do to calm down.

She finally saw the lychees in front of her, so she peeled them one by one.

It wasn't until Qiu Wei came back to look at it that she couldn't help but remind her: "Miss, you have peeled so much ......"

She looked at the pile of lychee shells in front of her, the lychee meat should have been put in the bowl, but some of them were also thrown into the lychee shells, no wonder Qiu Wei made a fuss. It can be seen how much she has been reluctant to give up for a while.

Qiu Wei cleaned up the things on the coffee table and went down to rest, leaving Jing Yi alone in the living room waiting for Tao Xiang.

Tao Xiang didn't explain whether he would come back or not, presumably too soon...... She was curled up on the couch, her heart churning, she wanted to get up and walk, but she didn't want to move.

Tao Xiang came back and heard his footsteps, and she closed her eyes. His steps were a little heavy, and he was slow. At last he was near, and he sat down beside her, drunk, getting closer and closer...... She opened her eyes and saw that his dark eyes were looking at her.

He took her hand. Her palms were itchy and a little painful.

He stared at her fixedly, as if locked, and her breathing was a little lost.

"How much did you drink?" She asked. When the wine is strong, she can't stand it. Looking at him like this at this time, she suddenly remembered the little statue...... Tao Xiang has thick black eyebrows, long eyelashes, and beautiful pupils...... She stared at him for a moment, and suddenly, she looked up slightly, and her lips touched his.

He seemed to be kissed by her, as if he had touched some mechanism, and the whole person pressed over her, covering her curled up.

She panicked a little, thinking that he didn't know what crazy things to do...... It was still the living room, and he was drunk again, so he really didn't dare to indulge him too much. She shook it a few times and said, "You go take a shower...... Go to bed early......"

He didn't mess around as she expected, but took her in his arms.

The heavy smell of alcohol enveloped her, and it seemed as if it was getting harder and harder for her to breathe...... But she didn't know why, but at the moment she was a little unspeakably sad. She sniffled.

Tao Xiang got up and looked at her.

"Why are you crying?" He asked.

"Didn't cry." She said. took the opportunity to get out of his arms, sat down, and asked him if he wanted to eat lychees.

He looked at the bowl in her hand and opened his mouth.

Jingyi fed Tao Xiang one by one, and soon saved a small handful of lychee cores in his hand.

"Don't eat too much." Jingyi took the bowl away.

He was drunk and hazy, and his reactions were slower, like a child.

She hooked her arms around his neck and looked at him.

The hands are stained with lychee juice, sweet and sticky. Glued to his cheeks, she closed her eyes and kissed him on the lips accurately...... Tao Xiang was a little drunk, but the control was still there. Jingyi's kiss like this is indeed enough to ignite him. He picked her up, went back to the bedroom, and threw her on the bed. Not even thinking of going to the shower, he quickly undressed himself, then hers, and then even more quickly into hers...... It's fast, but it's not rough.

He rarely looked like a gentleman, but he made her more smitten than a thug.

"What's wrong with you today?" He asked in her ear.

"Nothing." She turned, folded her arms, and looked at him. A little light from the outside was enough for her to see his outline—her fingers wandering along his face. Gently nodding, his forehead, eyebrows, the tip of his nose, and his lips...... The tips of her fingers tapped softly on her lips, and after a while, her lips were imprinted on his. Her soft arms slid down and wrapped around his waist, slowly tightening, leaning against him, hugging him tightly.

"It's nothing, I just want to hug you like this." She said.