Because Xue Ling was a concubine raised in an old house in Hedong, she didn't attract any special attention when she came to the capital to discuss relatives, and there was no turmoil when she left.

The reason why it is strange is because now that I am close to Chi Tang, I feel that things back then are a little weird.

"Back then, the Duke of Qi claimed that Xue Ling had a strange illness—"

"What's weird?" Chi Tang asked hurriedly.

Xue Zheng said the same yesterday.

"It's not necessarily really a disease," Li Yan explained, "and most of them are just excuses to get sick away." ”

Chi Tang "chuckled" in his heart.

The next sentence made her heart twitch even more -

"The strange thing is that the day of Xue Ling's illness was the second month after the death of his mother-in-law."

Could it be that A-Niang was reborn in Xue Niangzi after she died of illness, and then was sent away as if she had a problem?

Huh? No, she obviously said that she woke up three years ago, so does Xue Niangzi's strange illness before have anything to do with A-Niang's rebirth now?

This kind of thing can't be figured out, Chi Tang simply asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince beside him for help: "Your Highness, can you help me inquire why Xue Niangzi was sent back to Hedong back then?" ”

Li Yan looked at her thoughtfully: "Why does Ah Tang pay so much attention to Xue Niangzi?" ”

Chi Tang hesitated.

Can you tell His Royal Highness the Crown Prince about this kind of thing?

She didn't ask her father......

But if you don't say it, how can you get through it now?

"Hmm...... Because I think she's a bit like my mother......" Chi Tang said in a compromise manner.

Li Yan frowned: "I don't remember that Xue Niangzi has a resemblance to her mother-in-law." ”

Although he didn't remember what Xue Ling looked like, he definitely wouldn't look like Tang Yun.

"It's not that it looks like, it's that it feels like!" Chi Tang explained, "Except for the appearance and voice, everything else is similar!" ”

Thinking of Xue Ling's low eyebrows and smiling demeanor when she talked about her childhood, as well as her gentle and delicate movements when peeling milk oranges, Chi Tang couldn't help but feel sour in his heart, and snuggled into his arms and whispered: "I still have a father without a mother, but wouldn't it be better if there was still a mother?" ”

Li Yan felt creepy when he heard this.

No wonder Xue Zheng came to tell him about it, Ah Tang not only liked Xue Ling, but also regarded Xue Ling as his own mother.

How could there be such a strange idea? It's like falling for an evil spirit.

"Is it really that similar?" Li Yan asked quietly, while thinking about countermeasures.

"Your Highness—" Chi Tang suddenly raised his face in his arms, his eyes blazing, "Do you believe that people can come back from the dead and live again?" ”

Li Yan frowned and looked at her for a while, and said, "With the age of mother-in-law and Xue Niangzi, it is not the turn of reincarnation." ”

"Not necessarily reincarnation, maybe it's a person who died, but then I opened my eyes and found that I had a different body a few years later, or—" Chi Tang pursed his lips nervously, "Or, I found myself in the ...... a few years ago"

"Borrowing corpses to resurrect souls?" Li Yan whispered, his eyes sinking slightly.

Suddenly, seeing that she seemed to be very nervous, he smoothed her back soothingly, and said in a gentle voice: "Have you ever thought that maybe someone deliberately learns from her mother-in-law's speech and behavior?" ”

Chi Tang was stunned and asked, "Why did she do this?" ”

Li Yan coughed lightly.

He couldn't say anything about his father-in-law's too many bees and butterflies.

It's not that Chi Tang can't think of this, it's just that it's too unbelievable: "Xue Niangzi has been in Beijing for more than ten years...... A whole decade for this ...... Unlikely, right? ”

Li Yanzheng wants to take the lord of Yongtai County as an example——

"And she knows about me when I was a child, I am with my mother, we are together as a family, and my mother, um...... Some of my mother's characteristics. Chi Tang said it all in a hurry.

Li Yan was unmoved: "I remember that some of the maids around my mother-in-law left." ”

"Your Highness is talking about Aunt Fang?"

Li Yan nodded.

Chi Tang also remembered, in fact, it was not only Aunt Fang, but also Jinping, and a few others had also served A-Niang to let her out to marry.

"Does Chi Gong know about this?" Li Yan asked.

A Tang, a little girl, will not have any unknown secrets with her mother, but between husband and wife, there must be many past events that can be used to identify.

"Daddy said he wasn't sure either—"

Li Yan was stunned.

Chi Changting was also not sure, could it be that Xue Ling really knew a lot?

"Daddy said let me feel ...... for myself"

Li Yan's eyebrows frowned slightly.

Ah Tang may not be able to hear it, but his understanding of Chi Changting seems to be perfunctory.

Yes, yes, no, no, what is Chi Changting doing so perfunctory?

If it weren't perfunctory, a thing that Chi Changting couldn't be sure of, would be handed over to Ah Tang to feel it? Aren't you afraid that Ah Tang will be coaxed to go?

Li Yan felt that he couldn't do this: "Lone Hui will send someone to Hedong to investigate, before you find out, don't get too close to Xue Ling!" ”

Chi Changting didn't know what he was thinking, Ah Tang still wanted him to watch it himself!

"Does Your Highness not believe in Xue Niangzi at all?"

Li Yan nodded without thinking: "It's just pretending to be a ghost." ”

After speaking, I felt that something was wrong, and when I looked down, the princess lowered her eyes and hugged the rabbit, her cheeks bulging slightly, as if she was not very happy.

Li Yan couldn't help poking her cheek, but what she should say still had to be serious: "Previously, Mingjing was pretending to be a ghost to gain His Majesty's favor, Ah Tang should take this as a warning, you need to be vigilant when you encounter this kind of thing, don't be gullible!" Even if it involves a mother-in-law, it should be investigated! ”

Chi Tang snorted lightly and said, "If I am replaced, His Highness will not believe it at all, will you want to check me again?" ”

Li Yanwan touched her head: "Ah Tang is well-behaved, how could such a thing happen?" ”

As soon as she said this, the crown princess was so angry that her eyes widened.

Li Yan couldn't help but be stunned, why is this girl so serious today?

was thinking about how to comfort her, when suddenly, the girl raised the rabbit in her arms to cover her face—

"Goo-goo-goo!"

The gray rabbit cocked up his ears and turned his neck in alarm, trying to turn around to find the source of the sound.

"Hahaha......" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's loud laughter came out of the palace.

Feng An folded his hands under the eaves, and smiled at the little chamberlain beside him: "Your Highness has to be with the crown princess all the time!" ”

The little chamberlain echoed with a smile: "It won't be long!" ”

Feng An nodded with relief.

Oh, yes! It's not long before we get married!

In the hall, Li Yan smiled and took away the gray rabbit on her face, and when she saw the crown princess with a small face, she couldn't help but hold her face and kiss it.

Although he didn't raise rabbits himself, he knew the sound.

When Ash first came, he thought that Chi Tang personally picked it, so he wanted to hug it, but he didn't expect to provoke the rabbit to "coo" and scream, so a waiter who can raise rabbits explained that the rabbit "coo" means that he is angry, and if he ignores it, he may be anxious to bite.

This girl hid behind the ashes and learned to bark as a rabbit—

As soon as Li Yan kissed her, he couldn't help but press her into his arms and laughed, which made the princess angry and angry, and grabbed and pounded in his arms.

He smiled and grabbed Chi Tang's hand, and joked: "Sure enough, after the rabbit cooed, it was about to bite immediately——"

As soon as the words fell, the rabbit in his arms seemed to get a hint and really jumped up and bit him on the chin.

Li Yan laughed and hugged her tightly in his arms.

As soon as Chi Tang's head was hot, he immediately shrank back in shame, raised his eyes and glanced at it, and found that there were still tooth marks, so he hurriedly rubbed it with his hand.

"Does Your Highness still want to see someone today?" Chi Tang was remorseful.

What if this goes out and is seen?

Li Yan lowered his head and touched her forehead, and said with a smile: "Ah Tang stay for a while, and he will not see anyone else." ”

Chi Tang's face turned red, and then he muttered: "But I want to go back and embroider sachets for my father, and my father said that I only make it for His Highness and not for him, so I was angry......"

Li Yan only felt that the corners of his lips couldn't be suppressed: "Let Tsing Yi go back and help you get it, you will embroider here, and be alone next to you to make folds, how about it?" ”

Chi Tang nodded reluctantly.

No matter how fast Tsing Yi runs, it will have to wait for a while.

Li Yan brought the preserved fruit and fed her some first.

After Chi Tang was caught off guard and ate one piece, he raised his hand and pushed the second piece away.

"Your Highness—" she pondered, "you...... Check it out, don't embarrass her......"

Li Yan was slightly stunned, and then nodded with a smile: "Okay!" ”

Chi Tang was happy, and took the initiative to open his mouth and eat the piece of preserved fruit from his fingers.

Li Yan rubbed his fingers for a while before picking up a piece of preserved fruit again.

"Chi Gong is right-" He held up the preserved fruit, but did not send it over.

"What?" Chi Tang asked, while unconsciously eating the preserved fruit in his hand.

"Is it a mother-in-law, you can feel it, no matter how similar others learn words and deeds, they can't learn the mother's deep love for her daughter......"

……

The next time I saw Xue Ling was in the Great Ci'en Temple.

Chi Tang asked her to enjoy the plums.

Originally, I wanted to invite her to the house, but after listening to His Royal Highness the Prince's words, I was always a little affected, and I was reluctant to let this person whose identity was still unknown enter the house.

But ignoring it, Chi Tang felt unbearable, what if it was true?

So they made an appointment outside.

If she lets her feel it herself, she feels that Xue Ling treats her very well, just like when A-Niang treated her when she was six years old.

It's just that now she's not six years old, and occasionally she doesn't fit in.

But she didn't know what her sixteen-year-old daughter felt like getting along with her mother.

When it was time to part in the afternoon, Daddy didn't come to pick her up.

"The second uncle has something to do, and he told me to come to the fourth sister's home." Chi Lanze said with a smile.

This is also a common thing, Chi Tang didn't care, and still asked Xue Ling to go back first.

However, Xue Ling looked a little disappointed.

After getting into her car, she took out two brand-new bags from her arms and said with a smile: "Your father's sachet is old, I made a new one for him, this is just a lucky bag, you can also hang it for him, and it will be good to hold your New Year's money in a few days!" ”

Chi Tang was stunned and took the sachet and the lucky bag.

The habit of the New Year's lucky bag is indeed left from A-Niang, and every year during the New Year, A-Niang will make a lucky bag with New Year's money for her.

Later, it was changed to a nurse to do it, and then she did it herself......

Chi Changting saw these two but didn't take them, just looked at his daughter with a smile: "Others have done both, what about you?" ”

Chi Tang defended: "I was already doing slowly, and I was very busy after returning to Beijing!" ”

"Are you busy going to the East Palace?" Chi Changting sneered.

Chi Tang's face flushed: "I also have a needlework ...... in the East Palace."

Chi Changting: "Heh! ”

"I'm going to do it......" Chi Tang put away the sachet and lucky bag and ran.

Maybe it's because my father confiscated the sachets and lucky bags, maybe it's because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said those words, or maybe it's just a few days before the New Year.

In the following days, Chi Tang didn't invite Xue Ling again, nor did he go out, just concentrating on needlework at home.

Xue Zheng was very relieved when he heard about her movements.

It's still the prince who can control this girl!

casually handed the greeting note in his hand to the maid, and said with a smile: "Little aunt, don't be busy, the princess is busy preparing for marriage!" How can I have time to play with you? ”

Xue Ling took back the prayer post from the maid's hand, smiled slightly, and left without saying anything.

Her residence was a little far away from the noble county monarch of the Qi State Mansion, and she walked around for a long time with a henchman.

A person came in front of him halfway, and when he passed by, his footsteps paused slightly, and he said in a low voice: "Chi Changting's father and daughter are not as easy to deceive as you think." ”

Xue Ling pursed his lips and left without squinting.

……

It is impossible for Chitang not to go out all the time.

Mr. Lu still has to go over every ten years to hand in his homework and listen to the teachings.

The last time I went to Mr. Lu's house a year ago, before I came back, Mo San reported in a low voice: "Xue Niangzi's car is parked at the door of the alley." ”

Chi Tang hadn't seen her for seven or eight days, and at first glance, he was a little weak-hearted, so he stopped the car, got out of the car and walked to Xue Ling's car, and said with a worried smile: "Why is the lady here?" ”

In the cold winter, Xue Ling's car door was open, and she leaned against the door, wearing a thick dress, making her face more and more thin and pitiful.

She showed a soft smile at Chi Tang and said, "I haven't seen you for a few days, I want to come and see." ”

Chi Tang listened even more heartlessly, and hurriedly explained: "I've been really busy these days, and my father and husband have assigned a lot of homework......

"I know," she said softly, "you're the crown princess now, and you're always busy, and I don't have anything to do, I just want to come and see you." ”

Chi Tang sneered: "The lady can let someone hand over the post to ......"

Xue Lingwan smiled and said, "It's not necessary to alarm too many people by handing over the post, so it's enough." ”

She stared at Chi Tang with a smile, her expression was indifferent.

Chi Tang suddenly remembered the last time Xue Zheng chased him, and his heart suddenly hurt.

It can be seen that Xue Ling is not favored in the Xue family, Xue Zheng does not regard her as an elder at all, I am afraid that it is not so easy for her to come to visit the Chi family.

Xue Zheng is very arrogant, maybe he won't even let her send out the post.

In this way, it may have taken a lot of effort for Xue Ling to appear here today.

Chi Tang wanted to cry.

thought that Xue Ling might be a mother, so hard, so humble, just to look at her, but as a daughter, she was still alienating her-

Chi Tang sniffed, held her hand, and said softly, "If the lady doesn't dislike it, come in and sit?" ”

……

When Chi Changting arrived at the door of the house, as soon as he turned over and dismounted, he heard about Chi Tang leaving Xue Ling to eat.

His eyes sank slightly, and he ordered: "Go and tell the princess, I still have some business, and I won't come back for dinner!" ”

Turned around and led the horse to take two steps, and said in a low voice: "Let Zhanyu move quickly!" ”

He didn't want Ah Tang to get hurt, but now, he could only rely on Ah Tang to stabilize Xue Ling first!