On the second day, Xu Bao saw Shi Shi brought milk cakes for himself to eat.
Stone handed it to him and said, "This is what I like, I will leave it to you secretly, brother, you can eat it."
Xu Bao didn't understand why Brother Stone was so kind to him, but he was not polite, grabbed it with a smile, and bit off half of it when he opened his mouth.
Shishi was particularly distressed, this milk cake Fang Shi was afraid that he would not eat well if he ate too much, so he only gave him two pieces a day, and he himself was reluctant to eat such a big mouth.
But even though Shi Shi was greedy, he didn't extend his hand, but asked, "Xu Bao, did your second uncle force you to study yesterday?"
Xu Bao was young, and when he said a whole sentence, he could only understand one word at a time.
At this moment, Xiao Pangdun only heard the second uncle and reading, and he said with a smile: "It's Daddy who is reading."
Shitou thought about it, his father was his second uncle, and sure enough, his younger brother was forced to study.
Feeling distressed, he touched Xubao's head, and Shitou continued, "If you don't like it, come to me and I'll play with you."
Xu Bao has finished eating one milk cake, and is reaching out to grab the remaining one. Hearing this, Little Fatty replied with a smile: "I like it, Dad reads books, I like it, read it every day."
Shitou looked at Xu Bao, but the little child sighed, his brother was so pitiful, he was so frightened that he was talking nonsense.
Xu Bao was looking at the stone, eating milk cakes in his mouth, thinking with a smile, how good my brother is.
A few days later, it was New Year's Eve.
Ye Jiao didn't do much on New Year's Eve this year, and dumped dumplings after only a few wraps.
Liu Shi also knew from Qi Yun that Ye Jiao's baby was not stable enough, so she only asked her to talk and chat beside her, instead of standing if she could sit.
Xu Bao didn't make trouble with Ye Jiao, he just ran after Qi Yun's buttocks, and kept listening to the story, Qi Yun really had nothing to do with the child, but he couldn't take care of him because of so many things, so he stuffed Xu Bao to Qi. Bright.
Qi Saburo took up the accusation of taking care of Xu Bao, but he read the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, and the stories he told were all about the above. However, this child has a lively personality and is happy when someone is with him. He raised his head and watched Qi Ming's mouth open and closed when he didn't understand. He shook his head happily with him, like a big baby.
When eating dumplings in the evening, Ye Jiao threw down her chopsticks after eating two, lowered her head to coax Xu Bao, and waited for other dishes to eat again.
Qi Yun paid special attention to his wife, and saw that after she ate two dumplings, there was a jujube stone on the table and a copper plate in her hand.
Qi Erlang felt that he was probably used to the lady's extraordinary good fortune.
However, it was not until New Year's Eve, when the lanterns were hung on the street, that Ye Pingrong still did not come back.
Ye Jiao still remembered her eldest brother. When she picked up Qi Yun to help her take a bath, she asked Qi Yun, "Is there a delay for eldest brother?"
Qi Yun nodded, gave her a bath bean, and said in his mouth, "Earlier, the eldest brother wrote that although the situation in the DPRK and China has stabilized, there are still many factions in the army. Over there, these days he wants to help the Guo family stabilize the situation, and he can't take it out for the time being."
Although Ye Jiao couldn't understand the situation in the imperial court, she felt relieved when she heard that Ye Pingrong was not in danger.
Qi Yun gently rubbed Ye Jiao's stomach with a cloth towel, thinking that he didn't tell Ye Pingrong that Jiao Niang was pregnant. Qi Yun knew Ye Pingrong too well. If he said it, he would come back with a knife in the sky.
It's better not to say it, he can't come back, and Jiao Niang's baby can't fly away.
It was just Qi Yun's subconscious action that made Ye Jiao laugh out loud.
Asking Qi Yun to help her take a bath is because Qi Yun is hiding from Xu Bao now, for fear that the energetic little guy will hold him to study and will not let him go for an hour or two.
Xiao Su went to take care of Xu Bao, and the matter of helping Ye Jiao wipe his back naturally fell on Qi Yun.
But you usually don't touch your stomach when you wipe your back. Now Qi Yun touched it subconsciously, and when he touched Ye Jiao's soft flesh, Little Ginseng laughed uncontrollably.
Qi Yun immediately withdrew his hand, the tips of his ears were slightly red, and he staggered his eyes.
Now Ye Jiao is only two months pregnant, her lower abdomen is still flat, and she can't see anything, but she has been in the house a lot, and her body is whiter than before, with a smooth back and black hair, even if she has everything He didn't do it, just looking at it made Qi Yun's head heat up.
If it was before, this scene seemed like a reward to him, because when he saw it, he knew that something comfortable would come later.
But now, Qi Yun didn't dare to think too much about it, the original good thing became a torment.
For a moment, Qi Yun felt that it would be better for him to read to Xu Bao.
Reading only tired my mouth, but now my whole body is tired.
But he didn't realize that his wife was sitting in the tub, staring at him without blinking. From his ears to his wet front, Ye Jiao's wet eyes swept a full circle. , but just watched, did not move.
Fortunately, Xiao Su knocked on the door outside and said, "Second Young Master, Mama Liu came to carry the Young Master to his wife's place to sleep. Second Young Master, would you like to take a look?"
Qi Yun immediately put the cloth towel aside, lowered his head and kissed Ye Jiao's face, and said softly, "I'll go out first." Then he walked out of the screen.
Xiao Su looked at Qi Yun's back, which seemed to be escaping, in a strange way. When she rolled up her sleeves to wipe Ye Jiao's back, she heard her second young grandmother muttering softly by the tub: "There are still seven months. Really long."
Xiao Su didn't understand how long it was, and didn't ask, just focused on wiping Ye Jiao's back.
And the little ginseng needed to say something to divert her attention, so she said, "Did Xu Bao bother you just now?"
Xiaosu shook his head: "No, before, the third young master gave the young master a copy of the Three Character Classic. It was printed clearly and the characters were large. The young master read it on his stomach for a while."
Ye Jiao was a little surprised: "He hasn't read yet, what book is he reading?"
Xiao Su replied honestly: "Probably don't recognize it. I watched the young master take down the book, and I was happy to read it."
Ye Jiao: …
However, her son was only two years old, and he spoke word by word, and it was still early for him to recognize words, so Ye Jiao was not in a hurry.
Since Qi Yun was not around, Ye Jiao lost the fun of watching Xianggong's ears turn red and white. She got out of the tub after soaking for a long time, wiped herself, and then put on her clothes and went to bed.
She wanted to lie down and sleep, but Ye Jiao suddenly felt hungry, so Xiao Su immediately went out to the small kitchen to make some supper.
On the other side, Qi Yun carried the lantern and took someone to Liu's place. He talked with Liu's family, and then went to see Xu Bao in the wing.
Xu Bao didn't recognize the bed, so he could sleep soundly wherever he went. At this moment, he was sleeping on his back, with his hands and feet spread out, wishing he could take up the whole bed.
Qi Yun patted Xu Bao's back, and the expression on his face softened.
His fat son's sleeping appearance is exactly the same as Ye Jiao's, and he is very unruly, but Qi Yun just thinks it's good.
However, Xu Bao slept very deeply, and he wouldn't wake up easily at night, so Qi Yun let Mrs. Liu come in to watch, and he went back to the yard, but instead of going to the bedroom, he went to the small room first.
He figured in his heart that Ye Jiao hadn't finished washing yet, so he wanted to take advantage of this time to sort out the accounts brought by Manager Song today.
But Qi Yun didn't see it. As soon as he entered the small room, someone slipped in from outside the courtyard gate.
Fang Cao was sweating on her forehead, her hands were shaking, she was too scared.
In fact, she didn't dare to come. Even though Fangcao just came to Qi's house not long ago, but in the past few days, I have seen a lot of glue between the second young master and the second young grandmother. Both of them are very beautiful. Just like a fairy.
If you said that before, there were still some unreasonable thoughts, but the more I stayed, the more I felt that I didn't have that ability.
But Fang Cao still remembered what her mother said to her.
"It's a man who doesn't cheat. The wealthy people next to him, the mistress will not stop you from taking a concubine when she is pregnant, and you can still kick you out if you are in a hurry? If it does, you are the master, add a child. Are you afraid of not having a good life for the half-daughter? Your brother wants to be in charge right now, when he wants to be in charge, as long as he succeeds, you go up, and your brother goes up too, isn't it good?"
Fang Cao Bian has a mind, especially since Qi Yun is now sick, even though his face is paler than ordinary people, it is much better than the ruthless and sullen look with two eyes before.
In addition, Qi Yun was already handsome and tall, and when he came out and went in, he was like a jade tree, and it was difficult for people to think about it.
Even if they have a cold temperament, people who are not good-looking do not like to talk, they are called wood knots, and people who are good-looking are calm and calm.
Such a person was poking there, and being slammed by her mother, even though Fang Cao was still a little scared, she still found a chance to sneak in.
Before, Qi Yun was always guarded by Tie Zi, and no one else could get close. Now that Tie Zi was away, Fang Cao felt that the opportunity had come.
After all, the Qi family is not a big family. There are also servants who patrol the gate in ordinary homes, but the door is checked tightly, and outsiders are watching closely, but they don't care too much about the people in the yard, and Fangcao is small and easy to hide. , was brought in to help again, and she was just like that.
She squatted in the corner, waiting eagerly, watching Qi Yun go out and come back, and finally seeing Qi Yun enter the small room, Fang Cao knew that he was alone inside.
The timing is right.
Fang Cao helped the hairpin on her head, loosened her hair a little bit, tidied up her bright clothes, took a deep breath, turned around a few times in the same place, thought about it again, and prepared Go fight for yourself.
But she didn't know that someone not far away had been staring at her closely.
Xiao Su, who just went to serve Ye Jiao a late night snack, saw a figure over there early. She originally thought that Liu Shi was worried that Qi Yun would come back alone, so she sent someone to follow, but then Xiao Su took a closer look by the moonlight and found that It was a young woman.
It looked familiar, Xiao Su narrowed her eyes and took a closer look, remembering that she had seen it in the small kitchen before.
Because the intention of this person was unknown, Xiao Su was very careful and did not make a sound immediately, but stood in the dark part of the porch and watched.
Until she loosened her hair and lifted her hairpin, Xiao Su understood seven or eight points.
During this time, Xiao Su went to Mrs. Liu to learn things every day. Mrs. Liu told her a lot, and one of them was how to protect her master.
Father Qi didn't have a concubine, not only did he cherish and love each other with the Liu family, but also because Mrs. Liu had a pair of eagle-like eyes, he could accurately identify who was beautiful and who had ulterior motives.
Xiao Su only learned a little bit, so the last time she saw Fang Cao, she didn't see his mind.
Fortunately, it is not too late to see now.
So, when Fang Cao was just walking up the steps, she saw a dark figure rushing out beside her.
Before she could react, someone splashed her face with soup!
The soup was still hot, and although it wouldn't scald his face, it was sticky, stuck directly on his face, and flowed into his neck, causing Fang Cao to subconsciously reach out and wipe it with a whimper.
On the other hand, Xiao Su regretted the gouache she prepared for Ye Jiao, with a very nervous expression on her face. She threw away the empty bowl and picked up the rattan pad she usually uses for quilts. She chose the largest one. The hardest, Toutou hit him, shouting, "Someone, catch the thief!"