But to his surprise, the master did not immediately announce his punishment, but let him make meritorious service for his crimes, and ordered him to personally lead people to hunt down Jueming, and asked for a pair of eyes from him.

If this errand is done well, then it will be considered a meritorious service! But if it can't be done, then the crime will be punished together, and at least 200 military sticks will be required!

"Yes, my subordinates have orders!" After thinking about this, the dark guard replied with a touch of bitterness.

Meng Jing glanced at him, didn't say anything more, waved his hand, and let him leave.

Seeing this, the dark guard didn't dare to stay longer, and hurriedly retreated!

Because of the fear of Jueming, whose whereabouts were unknown, after a period of time, Chu Ci almost stopped going out except for going to Xue Shangshu's Mansion to see Xue Ling, and only accompanied the two little babies in the Chu Mansion every day.

And the news of Jueming came half a month later, until the night of Chinese New Year's Eve.

In order to save half of his life and not be punished by the two hundred military sticks, the secret guard did his best to hunt down Jueming, and in the end, although he suffered heavy losses, he was fortunate not to disgrace his life, destroyed Jueming's two eyes, and quickly captured him from Jinling.

When Chu Ci received the flying pigeon message, he was relieved all of a sudden.

She squeezed the secret letter in her hand, and after a while, she turned her head sideways and instructed Zhijin, saying, "You go to the study, help me reply a letter, and tell the secret guard to be more careful on the way to escort Jueming into Beijing." Hypnosis can not only pass through the eyes, but also through the sound, so that they can block Jueming's mouth, and if they don't send it to me, they must not let go! ”

"Yes, girl!" Zhejin also knew the lethality of Jueming, an old thief. Listening to Chu Ci's command, he agreed, turned around and walked out.

After arranging Jueming's affairs, Chu Ci stood outside for a while, waiting for her to clean up her mood and prepare to go back to the room to accompany the two little babies to keep the New Year, but the door of the east wing suddenly opened from the inside, and then, the dumb girl ran towards her in three steps and two steps, and she didn't even care about the courtesy, so she grabbed her wrist tightly and said, "Girl." Girl, Mrs. Su has woken up! ”

Chu Ci has been with the dumb girl for so long, and he couldn't understand her expression anymore, his eyes widened for a while, and he looked at her and asked again and again, "Dumb girl, you mean...... My grandmother woke up?! ”

Seeing that Chu Ci guessed what she meant, the dumb girl nodded her head twice harder, let go of her hand, and said in sign language, "Back to the girl's words, it's like this, Old Madam Su has woken up." Really woke up! ”

"I see, I'll go with you now!" Chu Ci patted the dumb girl's hand, pulled out his legs and walked towards the east wing.

Seeing this, the dumb girl also hurriedly followed, and the same was true of Zhejin.

Chu Ci stayed outside for a long time, and as soon as he entered the east wing, he only felt that the heating of the earth dragon was blowing on his face, and his whole body was warm.

On the couch not far away, Mrs. Su really woke up, and now she was looking at her with a weak face.

"Ah Ci ......" After she walked quickly to the bed, before she could ask about Mrs. Su's physical condition, Mrs. Su called her first, paused, and asked weakly, "Am I in your house?" ”

Chu Ci nodded, sat down beside Old Madam Su, held her hand at the same time, and explained, "Grandmother, this is my house, don't think about it, just live in peace." ”

Old Madam Su listened to Chu Ci comforting her so gently, but the always strong person suddenly turned red, she held Chu Ci's hand with all her might, trembling all over, and after a long time, she spit out a sentence, "I can't think of it, I can't think of it, my wife has raised a son all her life, and in the end, it is my granddaughter who has never taken care of me...... What a wickedness, what a wickedness! ”

Chu Ci listened to the old lady more and more excited, very worried that she would not be able to bear it and faint again, so he hurriedly raised his hand to gently help her stroke her back, and said to her, "Grandmother, don't say that, you are my own grandmother, I have your blood on my body, and it is the ...... that should have been raised for you" As he spoke, the topic changed, and he looked at the medicine bowl that was still steaming on the side, and said softly, "Grandmother hasn't drunk the medicine at night, right?" Granddaughter came to feed you ......"

Seeing this, he hurriedly picked up the medicine bowl on the low table on the side, handed it to Chu Ci and said, "Girl, be careful of burning!" ”

Chu Ci took the medicine bowl, scooped a spoonful, blew it cold, and sent it to Mrs. Su's lips.

Old Madam Su looked at Chu Ci's supple and gentle appearance, and her heart was sour, she slowly opened her mouth, swallowed the medicine handed over by Chu Ci, and after swallowing, she looked at her with a loving face, and said, "You and your mother, it is really carved out of a mold, I still remember that when she was by my side, she was also like this...... Gentle and attentive......"

"Really?" Chu Ci fed another spoonful of medicine, a touch of gloom flashed on his face, and said, "It's a pity that I've been confused for so many years, and I don't remember my mother's appearance for a long time." ”

When Mrs. Su heard her say this, the expression on her face suddenly became even more gloomy, she sighed deeply, grabbed Chu Ci's hand, and said guiltily, "Speaking of which, I was also at fault for what happened back then, if I was willing to fight with your father to the end, and I would have kept you by my side at that time, maybe you would not have been left in the Taoist temple, and you would not have lived so hard for so many years." ”

Chu Ci: "......"

She lowered her head and gently stirred the medicine in her hand, and for a while, she thought of the original owner, Su Fengxiang, and then thought of the original owner's mother, Yu Xueniang. I think they have spirits in heaven, what would they want her to do.

After a long time, she raised her head and said in a flat tone, "It's all over, it's all gone, and grandmother doesn't need to mention it anymore." ”

Old Madam Su condensed in her throat.

It wasn't until a bowl of medicine was drunk that he cautiously asked tentatively, "By the way, Ah Ci, where is your father?" Do you know where they are now? ”

Hearing Mrs. Su's question, Chu Ci put down the medicine bowl in his hand, glanced at her lightly, and asked, "Grandmother is worried about my father?" ”

Old Madam Su looked at Chu Ci's eyes as clean as glass, and for a while she only felt that her face couldn't hang up, and after a long time, she said in a sneering voice, "Your father, even if he is a jerk, is also your father, the flesh and blood of his grandmother, and the only bloodline of the Su family's nine generations, even if grandmother is for the Su family, she can't ...... He can't be left alone. ”

"Everything is fine with them!" Chu Ci looked at Old Madam Su and said lightly. "I asked them to settle them down in Zhuangzi."

"What about the people in the underground bank, they ......"

"I also sent them away, 200,000 taels, and I gave them 200,000 taels of silver tickets."

"Two hundred thousand taels?!" When Old Madam Su heard this number, her whole person was shocked, she looked at Chu Ci for a moment, and she couldn't close her mouth for a long time.

Chu Ci's complexion was still faint, and in the face of the old lady's shock, he only said "um" softly.

"Then how did you get all this money?" It took a long time for Old Lady Su to accept the truth, then raised her hand to support her head, and asked suspiciously.

Chu Ci raised his eyebrows, "The savings from the medical treatment over the years, plus the private property given to the two children by the Lu family's grandmother, plus the treasury of the Nanjun Palace, 200,000 taels are still made up." ”

Mrs. Su: "......"

She looked at Chu Ci with complicated eyes, her lips moved for a long time, and she still didn't say anything to write an IOU and urge Su Kun to repay the money, she just patted her hand and said with a distressed face, "Good boy, it's hard for you, your father caused a mess, but I want you to clean it up." ”

Chu Ci faced such an old lady Su, but suddenly he was a little uncomfortable.

She frowned and asked tentatively, "Grandmother means that I am my father's daughter, so it is appropriate to settle the accounts for my father, and this money ...... The bento is my filial piety to my father, so I don't need to return it to the Su family? ”

Old Madam Su was asked by Chu Ci so loudly on her face, her face, which was already old and full of wrinkles, was now even more ravine, she held her hand and subconsciously tightened, and said with a bitter face, "This...... Your father has the heart to pay you back, but I'm afraid he can't afford to pay it back! ”

"So, if I have money, do I have to grit my teeth and suffer this loss?" Chu Ci's brows furrowed suddenly, and his voice was steady but cold and asked rhetorically.

Old Madam Su had an embarrassed expression on her face, "...... That's not what grandmother meant. ”

"What does grandmother mean?"

In the face of Chu Ci's aggressiveness, Mrs. Su thought about it left and right, but she couldn't think of any good way, and finally got anxious, so she simply closed her eyes and fainted directly.

"Girl, Mrs. Su has fainted!" Zhi Jin glanced at Old Madam Su on the bed with her eyes closed, turned her head and whispered to Chu Ci.

The corners of Chu Ci's lips moved slightly, "Since you fainted, let your grandmother rest well." We went back! With that, he turned and walked out.

Zhejin hurriedly followed.

Outside, Chu Ci stood under the porch, looking at the strings of flaming red lanterns in the courtyard, and couldn't help sighing.

Zhi Jin thought about what happened just now, and felt that it was not a taste in her heart, she raised her head, glanced at her girl distressedly, and said, "The girl shouldn't have brought Mrs. Su in the first place!" ”

Chu Ci heard Zhi Jin say this, turned his head sideways, glanced at her lightly, and said helplessly. "At the beginning, I didn't expect the Su family's grandmother to be such a person."

Before she didn't have this 200,000 taels of Indian money, she looked like a conscientious person, but as soon as the 200,000 taels of Indian money came out, it was like a different person.

Conscience or something, it doesn't exist.

Even if she knew better than anyone else that the tragedy of Yu Xueniang and Su Fengxiang was caused by her unsuccessful son, but at the most critical time, she still did not hesitate to favor Su Kun.

Thinking of this, Chu Ci sighed helplessly and speechlessly.

"By the way, how is Su Kun and his family now?" After another moment, as if she remembered something, she looked at Zhijin and asked.

A few days ago. I went to Zhuangzi on her behalf to see the Su family once, and I knew their situation quite well.

"Back to the girl's words, Su Kun and Xiao Yu and Su Dieyi are all fine, no illness and no disaster, but the little son of the Su family is not in good health, and now there is no earth dragon warm, and the body bones are worse, when the slave and maid left that day, Xiao Yu and Su Kun still want to seek medical treatment from the girl, please move to Zhuangzi and help the child recuperate...... "Zhi Jin thought about the situation that day, and told Chu Ci carefully.

After Chu Ci listened, he pondered for a long time. He turned his head to look in the direction of the east wing and said, "I know, after the New Year, you will also send Mrs. Su to Zhuangzi to reunite with them!" ”

"What does the girl mean that she will always keep them in the future and keep them under her nose?"

Chu Ci sneered, "Do you think I'm such a good person?" ”

Orijin was silent.

Although in her heart, her girl is indeed a good person of the highest rank in the world.

"I can give them that farm, but after sending Mrs. Su over in the future, do you remember to ask Su Kun to write the IOU of 200,000 taels...... After the IOU was written, he collected all the movable and immovable property in his hands from me! The rest will be returned slowly! Chu Ci looked at Zhejin and said word by word.

Zhejin listened. Her eyes lit up, and she turned to Chu Ci and arched her hand, "The girl is wise!" ”

Chu Ci was speechless, and after a while, he waved his hand and said, "Okay, a good day, don't mention these unhappy things, let's go back to the room, it's almost time for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the girl in the summer specially invited Chef Li to come over today, and we will also try his skills!" ”

"Yes. Girl! Zhi Jin said, helping Chu Ci and walking in the direction of Xie Ciju.

When they arrived at the main room of Xie Ciju, as soon as the two of them sat down on the front foot, Aunt Wu rushed in and asked, "Girl, Chef Li is ready in the kitchen, is it time to eat?" ”

Hearing this, Chu Ci smiled lightly at Aunt Wu and said, "Since it's ready, let's start eating!" ”

"Yes, girl!" Aunt Wu bowed in response, turned around and walked out......

It didn't take long. The two seats inside and outside the room were set up, Chu Ci and Zhejin used the seat in the room, and Aunt Wu took a few little girls to use the seat outside the room.

After everyone was seated and the wine was full, Chu Ci was about to call Yun Niang to bring up the wrapped red envelope and distribute it to everyone before the banquet, but before the red envelope was taken, there was a sound of footsteps outside.

Then, Steward Wu appeared in the main hall.

Chu Ci glanced at Steward Wu, who hurried over, smiled, got up and asked, "Why did Uncle Wu come over, but someone came from the front yard?" ”

Steward Wu nodded. Then he told the regent Meng Jing about his sudden arrival.

Chu Ci didn't expect Meng Jing to come to Chu Mansion suddenly.

But now, on this day, everyone else has come, and she can't drive him back, so she has to smile reluctantly, and said to Steward Wu, "Uncle Wu, everyone who comes is a guest, since the regent is here, you order the kitchen, let them open another table in the front yard, you accompany the regent to have a good drink of two cups, be sure to satisfy the regent!" ”

"Yes, girl!" Steward Wu thought. Such an arrangement was indeed the best, and he immediately agreed and retreated.

Outside, Meng Jing waited for a long time before Steward Wu came back.

After Steward Wu told Chu Ci's arrangement, although Meng Jing was disappointed, he also knew that this was actually the best result.

After all, he and Chu Ci were just husband and wife in the past.

The identities of the two are embarrassing, and it is really good to be able to keep the New Year in the same house.

Here, because of Meng Jing's temporary arrival, another seat was added.

On the other side, Yun Niang also took the red envelope, and Chu Ci distributed it to everyone in the hall one by one according to the name on the red envelope.

All the subordinates who received the red envelopes were happy, and they kept thanking Chu Ci with a red face.

Chu Ci looked at them happily, and he was very happy in his heart.

After the rejoicing, I accidentally drank a few more glasses of wine.

And she was originally a physique that couldn't drink.

Now after drinking these glasses of wine, before the table is served, the whole person is drowsy.

Zhi Jin looked at her from the side, where did he dare to let her continue to stay in the hall, and at that moment, he found an excuse and helped her to walk to the bedroom.

Chu Ci didn't want to leave, but with this happiness, she still wanted to have a few more drinks. Because the fruit wine that Wei Ying sent to him a few years ago is really delicious.

It's a pity that she has little strength and can't stand the two maids around her, and in the end she was forcibly helped back to the bedroom.

After returning to the bedroom, she had just been waiting to sit down with her front feet, and the voices of two little babies called "Mother" sounded in her ears on her back feet.

"Xiao'er, Xin'er......" She stood up and staggered towards the bed on the side.

After arriving next to You's bed, he bent down and kissed Xiao Er's face, and then kissed Xin'er's little face.

The two little babies were tickled by their mother's kiss, and they both giggled, and the voice of the mother was louder......

Chu Ci smiled like a flower, stretched out his hand to the bed, and wanted to hug the two children.

Zhe Jin took care of Chu Ci and got drunk in the end. I didn't dare to really let her hug her, I was thinking about what excuse to coax her away.

As a result, she was about to use her brain, when Qingmiao walked in again, stepped forward and said, "Girl, the prince arrived at Xie Ciju and said that he wanted to see the two little boys...... I wonder if the girl agrees? ”

When Chu Ci heard Meng Jing's name, he squinted his eyes and thought for a long time before he muttered, "Meng Jing, he is not the regent." Isn't it in the Regent's Palace? Why did you come to my Chu house? ”

Qingmiao had no choice but to repeat the incident of Meng Jing's visit just now.

After Chu Ci listened, he blinked thoughtfully......

Just when everyone thought that she was thinking about whether to take the two little sons out to show the regent, she suddenly fell forward......

"Girl!" Zhi Xia was armed with martial arts, and he reacted the fastest, and caught Chu Ci at once.

She hugged her tightly and tried to see how she was, but Chu Ci had already closed her eyes, and her whole breath was long.

"Girl, is she asleep......" Zhejin also stepped forward to take a look, then sighed helplessly, and said, "Okay." Now you don't have to ask the girl's opinion, Zhexia, you carry the girl to the bed, and Yun Niang and I will take the two little sons out to show the regent......"

"Good!" Zhe Xia agreed, picked up Chu Ci and walked towards the big bed in the bedroom.

Zhe Jin and Yun Niang reported two little babies respectively and walked outside.

It is said to be outside, but in fact, it is also a warm pavilion.

Meng Jing had been waiting for a while, he heard footsteps outside, and thought it was Chu Ci coming, so he subconsciously stood up.

But who knows, after the curtain of the warm pavilion was lifted, it was not Chu Ci who came in, but a few girls holding two children.

"The slave has seen the prince, please say hello to the prince!" Zhi Jin and Yun Niang held a child alone and stepped forward to greet Meng Jing.

Seeing this, Meng Jing's face softened in an instant, looked at Chu Ci's two henchmen, and said, "No courtesy!" Report the two children to the king! ”

"Yes, Lord Wang!" Zhe Jin and Yun Niang agreed, hugged Xiao Er and Xin'er and walked towards Meng Jing.

Meng Jing really hadn't seen the two little babies for a while, and even the last time he wanted to come over on a whim, he was stumped by Han Chen's death.

Now that he saw the two children again, the expression on his face softened with just one glance, and he was no longer cold and indifferent as before.

And the two children, as if they had telepathy with their biological father, smiled brightly when they looked at him, and they didn't look like they were born at all.

"Lord, the two little sons can now be called mother-in-law, but because no one teaches them, they won't call them father-......" Zhi Jin looked at Meng Jing's tenderness towards the two children, and she didn't know what to think of, she suddenly stepped forward and whispered.

Hearing her say this, Meng Jing raised his head and looked at her deeply, then nodded, "This king knows!" ”

Hum! The two children are his own flesh and blood, and this first daddy should naturally call him!

Thinking like this, Meng Jing didn't say a word. Immediately began the long journey of teaching the two children how to call Daddy......

Besides, Xiao'er and Xin'er, the two children are naturally very smart, which can be seen from the fact that they can quickly learn to call their mothers...... But the strange thing is that when he came to Meng Jing, no matter how he taught him, the two children just didn't make a sound, even if they were alive, they were called out by their mothers!

To be honest, Meng Jingjiao was a little collapsed in the end.

However, when he thought that these two children had not only one father for him, but also the father of King Lu Xiaojun, if he didn't take advantage of the opportunity now, then King Lu Xiaojun would come back. If he gets the first step, then he will lose more than he gains...... His body was full of strength again.

Holding the two children, I taught them to call Daddy over and over again.

And the two children are also very energetic, and they even accompanied Meng Jing for one night.

By the next day, Meng Jing's throat was a little hoarse, but the two children still looked energetic.

Meng Jing looked at it and only felt very embarrassed.

Because the two children still haven't learned to call daddy.

In the bedroom on the other side, Chu Ci slept until dawn before waking up.

After she woke up, she subconsciously touched the two children around her, but after touching them for a long time, she didn't touch them.

Her heart immediately sank, and she immediately sat up from the bed, and the sleepy worm that had been hungover ran away.

Especially when he saw the empty futon next to him, the whole person was not good, he turned over and got out of bed all of a sudden, and shouted outside, "Xiaoer, Xin'er, Yunniang, Qingmiao!" ”

Qingmiao was the maidservant girl who kept vigil last night, and when she heard Chu Ci's shout, she immediately walked inside and said urgently, "Girl, it's early in the morning, what's wrong with you?" ”ク