Lie that he was assassinated in the capital, Guo Boyan was a big mess. He was on vacation and had to go to the Ministry of Justice and the palace the next day. Before leaving, Guo Boyan ordered someone to call his two children to Zhenghetang.

Guo Xiao lives close to you, so he arrives first.

Guo Boyan sat on the chair of the red sandalwood master, thinking about the day when the wedding was most suitable. When he heard his son's footsteps, he raised his eyes with a tea bowl. His son was sixteen, a little taller than before he left Beijing at the beginning of the year. His head was as tall as his chin. He was slender and straight, as handsome as a green bamboo, and his facial features were a little green, but in time, he would definitely grow into a hero like him.

"Father, are you looking for me?" Guo Xiao raised his foot and asked respectfully, his cold eyebrows and eyes were exactly the same as Guo Boyan.

Guo Boyan was not dissatisfied with such a son with good temperament and both civil and military style. He smiled and pointed to the chair on the left: "Sit down, did you scare me if you had such a big deal yesterday?"

Guo Xiao nodded, but he was amused. His father underestimated him too much. Such an arrow wound was obviously penetrated at a close distance, rather than shooting from a long distance, which scared his grandmother and others. Furthermore, in Guo Xiao's memory, his father was very skilled and he had always been invincible. There was no reason why his father was chased by an assassin and fled in a panic. Guo Xiao was sure that there was something else in it. His father didn't want to say it, so he just didn't ask.

"How was my father's injury?" he said with concern.

Guo Boyan smiled: "A little injury will be cured for a few days."

Because of this injury, Lin was able to enter the door smoothly soon, so when he mentioned the wound, Guo Boyan unconsciously showed a bit of pride.

Guo Xiao looked at his father unexpectedly, guessing that his father must have had some good news. He made a contribution to the southern tour and was commended by the emperor?

The father and son chatted for a few words. The eldest girl Tingfang arrived. She wore a jade hairpin and a lotus-green wool pussy. She was quiet and elegant. When she came in, she asked with concern: "Does my father's wound still hurt? I heard that you rode out yesterday. Before the arrow wound healed, my father would rather take a carriage. I'm afraid you accidentally pull the wound."

The daughter was filial and sensible, Guo Xiao looked gentle and said with relief: "Okay, I remember it for my father."

Tingfang smiled slightly. The fourteen-year-old girl had a face like a peach blossom and her eyes were like a deer, and she was very charming. Compared with her brother, she looked even more beautiful than her brother's wife, Tan. Guo Boyan was in a daze for a moment, as if she had seen her deceased wife in her prime through her daughter. Thinking of what he was going to say next, Guo Boyan suddenly felt a little guilty towards the pair of girls.

In recent years, he has been serving the emperor, running around everywhere, and lived at home all year round. Fortunately, his son was taken out for two years and he spent two years with his father and son, and he would ask him for advice on anything. It was his daughter's turn, and the father and daughter had a very mixed relationship. Apart from a few daily greetings, he had nothing to say.

But so what about guilt? Lin still wants to marry him. The only thing he can do is to care more about these two children in the future.

After drinking a sip of tea, Guo Boyan put down the tea bowl and looked at his son and said, "I was assassinated yesterday. How did I come back? Do you both know?"

Guo Xiao said: "Yes, I heard that he is the real sister of Lin Dong's family in Jinxiufang."

Guo Boyan nodded and leaned back to the back of the chair and sighed: "I sent someone to inquire. Lin's husband died of illness. She and her daughter were widowed for four years. After returning to Beijing, she brought her daughter to the quiet house. The neighbors praised her for being dignified and quiet, but I was kidnapped by me, and her reputation was affected. For her father, she could escape unscathed. Now that her reputation has been damaged, how can she sit idly by her father? Last night, she thought carefully and decided to marry her. What do you two think about it?"

Guo Xiao pursed his lower lip. After his father was injured, he sent Changsui to find out a lot of news, saying that Lin was extremely beautiful, and that before he left the house, he went to the Lin family to marry, saying that Lin married far away and returned in April this year, saying that yesterday was the only time Lin family went out in half a year, and happened to meet his father.

Recalling the spring feeling of his father's eyes and eyebrows, Guo Xiao immediately understood that his father personally performed such a big show for the widow. A widow with his daughter could even bewitch his wise and heroic father to such an extent. He must have used some means of being unable to get on the table in private. Such a disaster, if he really marrys himself, will there be a peaceful day for the Duke's Mansion?

The son did not talk about his father's mistake, let alone the renewal of the marriage. Guo Xiao could only hope to his grandmother: "Father, do grandmother know?"

Guo Boyan nodded: "Your grandmother has met Lin and praised her for her knowledge and understanding and reasonable progress and retreat, and she has agreed."

Guo Xiao's face changed slightly. He was only sixteen after all. When he encountered such a big thing, he could not keep his mind in hiding it. What's more, this was not an ordinary big thing. His father continued his marriage, and the name of the Duke's wife, who originally belonged to his deceased mother, fell on the woman next to him. The other party was a widow who questioned his character, and Guo Xiao was very dissatisfied.

Tingfang felt good when she suddenly wanted another stepmother? But she was more sensitive and worried that her brother would be angry with her father. She stood up first, smiled and calmed the atmosphere: "My father has been working hard for many years, and my grandmother has always advised you to marry a mother for us as soon as possible. Now she finally got what she wished. Don't worry, my brother and I will be filial to my mother."

My daughter is so easy to talk to, Guo Boyan reciprocates and said seriously: "If there is filial piety in places where she should be filial, if there is any mistake in her behavior, you can just bring it up directly without worrying about being a father." But he was sure that Lin would be a good mother and would never bully the children left by his original wife. Besides, Lin's weak look was blown by the wind, Guo Boyan was even more worried that Lin would be bullied by a spoiled slave after entering the door.

The daughter made a statement, and Guo Boyan looked at his son.

Things are in a foregone conclusion, Guo Xiao left his seat and said, "Congratulations to my father, don't worry, my son will be strict with himself and will never let his mother worry."

Guo Boyan nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "I will also remind your mother to let her take good care of you. By the way, Jianing will also move here. She is just ten years old and grew up in Jiangnan. She has never seen the world. If you are brothers and sisters, please remind her more when you go out and don't let outsiders watch the jokes about our Duke's Mansion."

Tingfang responds softly.

After getting angry with her children, Guo Boyan went out with a refreshed spirit. The brother and sister sent the person to the door. When they walked back, Tingfang lowered her head slightly, frowned with her black eyebrows, and was full of thoughts. She had a friend of her handkerchief, and she lost her mother at a young age. Her father continued to marry her. The new lady looked nice to her original daughter, but in fact she was very partial. She gave her good things to her children first.

Tingfang didn't care about food, clothing, but her father was not close to her. After Lin entered the door, would her father have no more eyes?

"Don't worry, sister, I have me in everything, no one wants to let you suffer." Guo Xiao patted his sister's shoulder and whispered.

Tingfang's uneasy heart suddenly became at ease. Even if her father was partial, she would not have a bad life even if she had her own brother and grandmother.

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The Duke of Wei was assassinated on the fourth day of the lunar month, and the streets and alleys of the capital city on the fifth day of the lunar month are all about this. The most popular among the people is the romantic deeds of Duke of Wei and his widowed aunt from the wealthy businessman Lin's family. Everyone has heard of the beautiful Lin family. Now, the lonely man and the widowed woman are living together all the way. In the narrow and closed carriage, is the Duke of Guo unable to control it?

From ancient times to the present, the most popular stories of ordinary people are the ones who like to hear. No matter what the facts are, as long as there is a man and a woman, there is gossip to talk about.

Just as the people were waiting to see the jokes of the Lin family, on the sixth day of the lunar month, the matchmaker invited by the Duke of Wei to come to the Lin family to propose marriage happily. He was afraid that the neighbors would not know, so the matchmaker clearly stated his identity to the Liu family who came to greet him at the door: "The Duke is grateful to Ling Mei for her kindness. When she learned that Ling Mei is not married yet, she specially sent me to propose marriage."

The neighbors were dumbfounded. What is true or false? The dignified prince and the hero in front of the emperor are actually willing to marry a 27-year-old widow?

The neighbors were unbelievable, and Song Jianing, who received the news, was even more shocked to drop the osmanthus cake in his hand and asked Lin Xiuxiu in a daze: "Who will propose marriage?"

Lin Xiuxiu said excitedly: "Duke of Wei, it is the Duke of Wei who hijacked your carriage. Let's go and entertain the matchmaker in front of you. Let's go."

Song Jianing is a good boy. She will never do what the adults don’t let her do, but she is too eager to know the exact news. Without thinking, she followed her cousin to hide under the window of the front yard hall and eavesdrop with her ears on her face.

"... Our Duke of China is the most fair. When she learned that Miss Lin was wronged because of him, she immediately discussed with the lady and wanted to marry Miss Lin to join the family... The Duke of China also said that to relieve Miss Lin, he would take the little lady over and raise it as a biological daughter. That would be endless glory and wealth..."

After the matchmaker finished speaking, Liu's hearty laughter came from inside.

My aunt was going to be the Duke's wife, and Lin Xiuxiu and Youyouyan looked down and saw that her cousin had a bitter face and was almost crying.

"My cousin is not happy?" Lin Xiuxiu asked in confusion.

Song Jianing's mind was in chaos, and all kinds of messy thoughts flashed one after another. Sometimes it was Liang Shao's hypocritical face, sometimes it was Guo Xiao's cold face that persuaded her to accept her fate, sometimes it was Princess Duanhui's contemptuous eyes, and sometimes it was the several meetings between Guo Boyan and their mother and daughter after rebirth.

In a daze, Song Jianing left his cousin and ran to find his mother.

Lin was sitting on the warm couch next to the window, sewing winter clothes for her daughter. When she heard the familiar footsteps, she paused the needle and looked at the door.

"Mom, the Duke of the State has sent someone to propose marriage..." Song Jianing ran over panting and said anxiously.

As expected, Lin was calm and wondered about her daughter's reaction. She put down the needle and thread, and took her daughter to her arms, wiped the sweat on her forehead while whispering: "Don't An An likes the Duke?"

Song Jianing was stunned. Why was his mother so calm? Could it be...

The daughter was stupid, and Lin smiled gently: "What are you thinking?"

Song Jianing was thinking of Guo Boyan. Guo Boyan, who was in his prime, was tall, mighty and powerful, and even more powerful. Such an outstanding man also saved his mother's life, so it would be reasonable for his mother to fall in love with him? If Guo Xiao was willing to give her the title of his wife after snatching her away, would she be unhappy?

However, when her mother married into the Duke's Mansion, she wanted to see Guo Xiao without seeing her...

No, even if we meet, she is Guo Xiao’s nominal sister!
Chapter completed!