In the Xiao Mansion of the Northern Qi Kingdom.

"Don't pass, don't come." Bai Mengsha was squatting in a corner, staring blankly ahead.

"I asked you to invite someone, why can't she be cured of her illness until now?" Xiao Tingxuan asked the little guy around him angrily on Sven's face.

The little guy buried his head timidly, cowering and not daring to look directly at the anger in Xiao Tingxuan's eyes.

Since the eldest princess was secretly sent back to the Xiao Mansion, this is not the first time she has seen his master lose her temper.

"Back to the master, the little one has found everyone in the capital of Qidu, but they all say that the eldest princess is crazy, and there is no solution to it."

"What is incomprehensible, it is simply those people who are incompetent." Xiao Tingxuan drove away angrily, and the little guy standing outside the door closed the door "ho".

With a melancholy look in his eyes, he walked towards Bai Mengsha, where he was.

Bai Mengsha's originally glamorous apricot eyes no longer had the brilliance of the past, and she looked at the man in Tsing Yi who was walking slowly towards her in front of her in confusion.

When the man reached out to look at her with pity, Bai Mengsha instinctively shrunk her thin body even smaller.

Muttered to himself, "Please don't come, don't." ”

I cried loudly, my overly petite cheeks, and I cried pitifully.

"Sasha, come to the second brother, have you really forgotten who I am?" Xiao Tingxuan whispered.

In fact, he doesn't hate Bai Mengsha as much as he does on the surface.

It's just that as time goes by, Bai Mengsha gradually lost her way in the desire for power in order to compete with Bai Mengtan in front of her father.

Xiao Tingxuan still remembers that at that time, Xiao Xuemei, under the design of her father and brother, took advantage of Bai Chenyi's overnight stay in Xiao Mansion to let Xiao Xuemei pretend to send dinner, so as to drug the food.

successfully conceived, as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince at the time, Bai Chenyi's child.

Xiao Xuemei, who has not yet entered the palace, is actually not as vicious as she was later, but in order to make herself fully gain a foothold in the palace, sometimes she must be ruthless enough to herself and others.

When Xiao Tingxuan was young, because his mother was just a small maidservant, he was fortunate enough to be taken by his father and received his own room.

His mother was so grief-stricken that she was sick from overwork, and she had been in tears all day long, and the birth of her mother and son was already humble.

Their mother and son were lost, and after the original backer, they were walking on thin ice in the Xiao family's life, and they were miserable.

Since Xiao Tingxuan was a child, he has always wanted to go to the private school opened by the Xiao family to study, but his uncle at that time, that is, Xiao Jingran, did not take him seriously at all, in order to live safely in the Xiao family, the young Xiao Tingxuan had to work in the house every day, doing heavy work with his subordinates.

In this way, he was able to get food, but at that time, his mother was already terminally ill, and the people of the Xiao family, who would care about the life or death of a subordinate.

Xiao Tingxuan is sometimes in a hurry, and when the cook in the kitchen is not paying attention, he will secretly use a small bowl to smooth a little, and put the bird's nest boiled for the big house into his mother's white porridge, so that his mother will not find out.

But in the end, she was inadvertently broken into the kitchen, and Xiao Xuemei found out.

Because the bird's nest that Xiao Tingxuan stole that day was prepared for the child in her womb. The Xiao family wants to rely on the child in her womb to ascend to the sky in one step, and the mother is expensive with the child.

Let the Xiao family become a relative of the emperor.

Although Xiao Tingxuan is young, he also has his own arrogance, even if he was discovered by Xiao Xuemei, he still scooped the bird's nest into it, and he didn't have much white porridge.

Because Xiao Tingxuan knew that his mother still had to rely on these nourishing things to survive, even if it was to live one more day.

The big deal is that he was dragged to the backyard by the steward and beaten up, anyway, his rough skin and thick flesh are not in the way if he is injured a little.

But at that time, Concubine Xiao not only didn't blame him, but also gave him all the bird's nest.

At the same time that Xiao Tingxuan was surprised, a piece of straw paper fell out of his shabby pocket.

It is made of charcoal ash, and there are some unreadable words written horizontally and vertically.

Xiao Xuemei squatted down and picked up the word first.

Xiao Tingxuan wanted to snatch back his ugly words, but he was reluctant to get the bird's nest he had finally gotten.

Xiao Xuemei smiled and looked at the handwriting on the papyrus.

didn't want to make fun of Xiao Tingxuan.

He asked softly, "You wrote it, can you tell me what it is?" ”

For the words he wrote, in fact, even Xiao Tingxuan himself couldn't recognize it.

His mother was a servant girl, and she had never been exposed to literacy, and her father died too young, so he was only on the wall in the courtyard, and when he saw the handwriting, he used a branch on the ground to follow the order of the handwriting.

I don't know if I wrote it right.

''Do you want to go to school?'' Xiao Xuemei asked kindly.

Xiao Tingxuan is relatively unfamiliar with this aunt, because he heard from the people in the house that this aunt was recognized outside not long ago.

The reason is that there is no daughter in the Xiao family's mansion, and this aunt was born in the outer room, and like him, she is not treated well by the people in the mansion.

But just a month later, this aunt became the object of the Xiao family's scrambling to please.

For some reason, for the first time in history, Xiao Tingxuan revealed his truest thoughts to the people he thought his mother thought of.

''I thought, I want to go to school.'' ’’

The soft-eyed woman took out a piece of candy from her body and put it in the little boy's mouth.

The mouth is filled with a sweet, sweet taste.

Soon after, Xiao Tingxuan was arranged to study in the Xiao family's private school

The time for him to go back to Xiao's house has also decreased, but every time he comes back, in addition to going to see his mother, he will also take advantage of everyone's inattention to go to the door of Xiao Xuemei's room and put a peony picked from the mountain.

And once, Xiao Xuemei caught a positive one, and saw that she happily took the peony flower, put it under her nose, and sniffed it.

showed a woman's coquettish smile, and smiled at Xiao Tingxuan, "Every time there is a peony flower at the door, you send it!" I love it. I believe that the child in my belly also likes the gift from my brother. ”

Although Xiao Tingxuan was young at that time, he still understood what Xiao Xuemei's bulging belly meant.

''Auntie, is it a brother or a sister in your belly?'' He asked in that childish voice.

'Then Xiao Tingxuan wants his brother to return his sister? ’’

Xiao Tingxuan thought for a moment and replied, "It would be nice if only my sister were my sister." ”

At that time, Xiao Tingxuan was simple-minded, he just felt that if his sister was like his aunt, she would be gentle and beautiful.

At the same time as he finished saying this, Xiao Xuemei's originally gentle face no longer smiled.

She had a solemn expression, stroking her round belly, as if she was saying it to herself, "Do you know that if it were a sister, no one would treat her like a jewel." ’’

Xiao Tingxuan didn't understand what Xiao Xuemei meant at that time, but he promised in a childish tone, "If the child in my aunt's womb is my sister." Ting Xuan is willing to be used to her like a jewel. ”

Xiao Xuemei, who was originally quiet in her own world, was amused by his words.

Raise your little finger to him'' Aunt believes Xiao Tingxuan's words. ’’

Later, with the birth of Bai Mengsha, after the Xiao family learned that Xiao Xuemei gave birth to a baby girl, they were not as enthusiastic about her as before.

And it happened that Xiao Tingxuan's mother's condition worsened, and Xiao Tingxuan, who was desperate, found Xiao Xuemei again, who had helped him.

But at that time, Xiao Xuemei couldn't protect herself, let alone help Xiao Tingxuan hire a doctor for his mother.

In addition, she was indifferent to her relatives, and after seeing Xiao Tingxuan, she recalled what he said when she was pregnant.

and the baby girl who was still in her arms, and was furious for a while.

Accusing Xiao Tingxuan, "It's you, if you hadn't cursed me for being pregnant with a baby girl, I wouldn't have ended up like this." ’’

Not only did he not get it from Xiao Xuemei, but when he was rescued, he was scolded and confused.

This made Xiao Tingxuan's hatred for Xiao Xuemei secretly rise.

In the winter of that year, his mother died of illness, and Xiao Tingxuan, who had no savings, could only use a straw mat to simply bury his mother.

Because of his excellent grades in the private school, the great-grandmother of the Xiao family did not cancel his qualification to study in the private school.

On the contrary, Xiao Tingxuan has mastered the skills of making money since then.

In the private school, some aristocratic children, metabolic homework, cheating, and the wild fruits that no one picks in the mountains behind the private school are transported to the market to sell.

Come and earn yourself, all the expenses in the four treasures of the study.

Because Xiao Fuli didn't help him except agree to go to school, and even the food was not left for him, half a meal.

However, Xiao Tingxuan had already taken these things for granted, and he naturally didn't take this matter to heart.

This day is his birthday, looking at the rock sugar gourd sold by the roadside, he has always wanted to taste what this rock sugar gourd tastes like

When I had a little more money in my hand, I also bought one to eat.

But with a sweet and sour taste, he didn't think it was much delicious. However, Xiao Tingxuan still bought one and returned to the Xiao Mansion, and when he entered the mansion, he was pulled to the kitchen by the housekeeper to help.

said that there was a great man in the house today, and when he wondered, the person had already been stuffed into the kitchen.

With the attitude that people had to bow their heads under the eaves, Xiao Tingxuan casually gave the sugar gourd he had just bought, put it aside, and got busy.

As the evening approached, it seemed that the dishes in the kitchen were almost ready.

He was a little thirsty, lifted the lid of the vat, scooped and took a sip.

Only then did I remember why the sugar gourd I had placed on the lid of the vat before was gone.

Xiao Tingxuan was curious, guessing that most of them were taken by the cat in the house.

But I didn't expect to see a little girl about two years old in a pink dress and a few big braids on the swing under a big banyan tree, happily eating his sugar gourd.

Xiao Tingxuan wanted to just like that, and snatched it from her.

You must know that every penny he earns is hard-won.

I haven't been willing to eat yet, and the food has been given by others.

No one is too calm.