Wei Shichu did not continue to persuade her. Anyway, she would not abandon her in the end.
Suddenly there were footsteps outside the door. It turned out that the wet nurse came with Zhao Lue. Before that, the wet nurse had been severely punished by Wei Shichu, and she never dared to be lazy or disrespectful to her master again. After realizing that Wei Shichu was the one who could decide her fate, she took care of the child honestly.
"Mom! Mom..." As soon as Zhao Lue came in and saw Wei Shichu, he grinned sweetly and stretched out his arms for Wei Shichu to hold him.
Wei Shichu held him over and asked him, "Brother Lue, do you miss your mother?"
"I thought about it." Zhao Lue hugged Wei Shichu's neck and answered obediently. His warm little face pressed against Wei Shichu's face, making Wei Shichu's heart soften into a puddle of water.
During this period of time, Wei Shichu played with him every day. Children naturally have a sense of admiration for their mothers, so Zhao Lue quickly accepted Wei Shichu's approach and returned to his lively and childish nature.
"Then how about Brother Lue and mother go out and plant flowers together?" Wei Shichu asked. A two-year-old child should go out more often and get closer to nature.
Zhao Lue was obviously also yearning for the outside world, and he immediately agreed happily: "Okay, let's plant flowers together..."
Wei Shichu then took his little hand and let him get down to the ground and walk slowly. The wet nurse hesitated and wanted to persuade Wei Shichu not to let such a young child walk by himself, but she did not dare to say it out loud due to Wei Shichu's majesty.
Wei Shichu pretended not to see it. Children should be allowed to walk and exercise more on their own. If they were always restrained and not allowed to go out, their lack of exercise would make their bodies weak.
Zhao Lue's health was not very good before. The wet nurse and maid who took care of him did not have the patience to let him walk slowly by himself. They carried him wherever he went and did not take him out to save trouble. So even though he was almost two years old, he still walked unsteadily and was not very stable.
"My dear, let me let go of your hand. Can you walk by yourself?" Wei Shichu squatted down and asked Zhao Lue softly.
Zhao Lue blinked, a little timid, but seeing Wei Shichu smiling and encouraging him with her eyes, he mustered up the courage to let go of her hand, took a tentative step, and after taking a few steps, he found that he did not fall. He smiled happily and said to Wei Shichu, "Mom, I, I did not fall."
"Yes, baby, you walk steadily, that's amazing." Wei Shichu praised him generously, making his little face blush and he started walking excitedly again.
So with Wei Shichu's unremitting encouragement, Zhao Lue actually walked out of the yard by himself without falling once. When they reached the flowerbed outside the yard, Wei Shichu hugged him and said, "Baby, you walked out by yourself today, that's great! Can we walk by ourselves in the future?"
"Okay!" he answered without hesitation, then stared at the flowers and plants in the flower bed, curiously wanting to touch them.
Wei Shichu did not stop him. He allowed him to touch and pick whatever he wanted. Only when he wanted to put something into his mouth did he tell him that it was not edible.
Wei Shichu was spending a warm parent-child time with his son. On the other side, Zhao Yiran had just gotten rid of a group of concubines who came to him crying. However, even after they left, his brows were still tightly furrowed, with no sign of relaxation.
Of course he couldn't relax, after all, he had to adopt his son to someone else even though he didn't lack a son.
But who would want their own flesh and blood to be adopted by someone else's family, where they can no longer call him dad and can only be relatives even when they meet face to face
Although Zhao Yiran appears to be an upright and kind person, he is actually arrogant and conceited in his heart. He cannot tolerate the fact that Old Master Zhao has violated his dignity again and again. Even if his grandson died to save him, so what? Isn't this his grandson's duty? Moreover, didn't he pay a lot of money in compensation
In Zhao Yiran's opinion, Old Master Zhao took so much compensation from him, but still wanted to adopt his son. This was very ungrateful, greedy and insatiable.
He hated this old man, but he could do nothing about him, and he didn't want his son to recognize such a man as his grandfather. But if he didn't adopt him, the old man would definitely not let it go...
Zhao Yiran thought a lot and suddenly thought, he didn't want to adopt his son away, so could he find an unwanted child from other branches to adopt
In the original world's plot, Zhao Yiran actually found a child from other side branches whose parents had both died and adopted him to Old Master Zhao. No one knew how he convinced Old Master Zhao to give up adopting his son, but in fact he succeeded.
However, in this life, with Wei Shichu who was determined to leave this wolf's den, his plan would never succeed.
In order to ensure that Zhao Lue could be adopted, Wei Shichu did not do nothing. She did several things, coerced and bribed some people, and spread some rumors in the mansion, so that everyone unanimously pushed Zhao Lue out to be the unlucky one who would be adopted...
Chen was in her courtyard with a sad face, and she didn't even have the energy to think about the housekeeping. Nanny Zheng, who had been serving her, carefully looked at her face and asked, "Madam, are you still worried about the adoption?"
Chen nodded and said, "Yes, I am now afraid that the master will really adopt my two sons out. That would be like digging out my heart and liver!"
Madam Zheng rolled her eyes and said, "Madam, I don't think the master would adopt anyone but our two legitimate sons! You are just too concerned!"
"Why? Only my two sons have grown up and are healthy over the age of seven. The Fifth Old Master must want children who are easy to raise." Hope reappeared in Chen's eyes, and she asked Nanny Zheng steadily.
"My Madam, you also said that our two legitimate young masters have grown up, healthy and smart. Could it be that the master is willing to adopt out such a good son? Impossible!" said Madam Zheng. "Even if the fifth master has a higher generation in the family, so what? His family is of common origin! How can they compare with ours? It is said that the arm cannot twist the leg. The fifth master is now holding on to the fact that his grandson saved the master's life, so he dares to be so presumptuous, but this is just bluffing. He has no say in which child to adopt. He has to accept whoever the master adopts, otherwise he will be asking for too much..."
Chen suddenly understood and said excitedly, "You are right! I was really obsessed with it! Who would give their legitimate son to someone else for adoption? I was so scared of adoption that I didn't need to worry at all. I should be worried about those concubines who have sons."
"Madam, you are right to think so. Now we just need to think about which illegitimate son to adopt out for our best benefit..." Nanny Zheng continued.
"Then who do you want to adopt?" Chen now believed Nanny Zheng very much.
"Third Young Master!" said Matron Zheng.