Chapter 995: Honor in Troubled Times 63
It was almost dawn when Xiao Yuan came back.
An Ning asked him to take a break quickly.
But Xiao Yuan couldn't sleep. After lying for a while, he got up and went to the military camp again.
After An Ning took the children to have breakfast, she wanted to invite Lin Lianshuang to go out for a walk.
She had just packed up and asked the Foreign Affairs Office to get off the carriage. She didn't expect Xiao Fu to come hurriedly: "Mom, there is an old woman outside knocking on the door and saying that it was our family's servant earlier. My daughter went over to see it. It was Zhou's mother."
"It was her."
An Ning stood up as soon as he heard this: "Chunxing, go and tell Miss Lin, and say that I have something to do and ask her to go shopping another day."
After Chunxing left, An Ning said to Xiao Fu: "Hurry up and let Mother Zhou come over."
This mother Zhou is an old man from the Duke of Pingguo Mansion. It is said that she has also been the wet nurse of the old man, so she is very respectful in the Duke of Pingguo Mansion. No matter how big or small the master calls her mother Zhou.
Xiao Fu went out and soon brought Mother Zhou in.
An Ning looked at Zhou's mother and couldn't help but shed tears: "It's really Zhou's mother. I still think... why did you look like this?"
Zhou's mother knelt down and kowtowed to An Ning: "I have met the third wife, old slave... I don't want to see the little masters in my lifetime, even if I go immediately."
An Ning quickly helped Zhou's mother stand up.
Mother Zhou is really embarrassed now. Her clothes are so torn that they can hardly cover her body. Moreover, her clothes are very thin. Her hair is gray and she is just spread out, not even a wooden hairpin.
"You go into the house quickly."
An Ning helped Zhou's mother into the house, then flipped through the box, took a piece of her own cotton coat and asked Zhou's mother to change it: "Change clothes first, Fu'er, go to the kitchen to see if there is any soft porridge. If so, bring a bowl of it to Zhou's mother. By the way... Chuntao, come and heat the carbon stove."
Zhou's mother was so cold that her hands were trembling, and her teeth were biting tightly.
Chuntao went into the house and burned the stove, making the room warmer, and she became a little warmer.
An Ning asked her to change her cotton coat again.
Xiao Fu also brought the hot porridge into the door: "Mom Zhou, you can drink a bowl of hot warmth first."
"Thank you, Miss."
Mother Zhou took the porridge bowl, and now she didn't say whether it was hot or not. She just buryed her head and just had a hard meal.
After she finished eating, she put down the bowl and cried again: "I haven't eaten enough for many days. I'm hungry and hungry. I thought I'd be afraid I'd be alive for a while, but I didn't expect that when I arrived at Nanyi Mansion, I heard about the Third Master. I thought that when I was alive, I looked at the little masters and tried to knock on the door. I didn't expect that it was the Third Master and the Third Mrs."
An Ning smiled: "We are also destined to be together. I don't want us to be exiled to Nanyi. I can still see you. How have you lived the past year?"
Mother Zhou smiled bitterly: "What else can I live? It's better if I can live, but I'm not dead, but my son and grandson are almost dead. God won't open my eyes."
As she spoke, she started crying again.
An Ning quickly persuaded him kindly and said, "Since you have found it, stay at home and be fine in the future. Just eat and drink."
Mother Zhou stood up and thumped and knelt down to An Ning again.
"Three wife, old slave... I have one thing to say. If I don't say it out, I will feel uneasy in my life. Even if I die, I will have no shame..."
"Get up, get up quickly."
An Ning helped Zhou's mother stand up: "If you have any things, just say. If I can do it, I will do it for you. Even if I can't, I will have the third master. When I was in the mansion, you often helped us. We all remember your good deeds. Not to mention me and the third master, look, even the children still recognize you now."
Xiao Fu also said: "Mama Zhou, stop crying. It is a happy thing if you can find it. It is a great joy. If you have something to do, just say it."
The mother and daughter finally persuaded Zhou's mother to stop him, but An Ning asked the girl to take hot water and let Zhou's mother wash her hands and feet.
Zhou's mother didn't sit down, and Zhasha started to stand: "It's really... this matter is related to the Third Master and the Fourth Master."
An Ning looked at Xiao Fu: "Go and have someone invite your father and your fourth uncle... By the way, please come here with your sixth uncle."
Xiao Fu quickly asked the servant to invite someone.
An Ning chatted with Zhou's mother. After the appointment, Xiao Yuan, Xiao Jin and Xiao Ling came back together.
As soon as Xiao Yuan entered the door, he asked, "Is there anything wrong with asking us to come in a hurry?"
Xiao Ling said carelessly: "I'm so thirsty. Third sister-in-law, please let me prepare tea."
Xiao Fu brought a cup of tea and handed it to Xiao Ling.
An Ning pulled Zhou's mother to Xiao Yuan: "Who do you think this is?"
Xiao Yuanyi looked at it: "Mom Zhou, why are you... sitting down quickly, and sitting down quickly."
Xiao Jin and Xiao Ling also recognized Zhou's mother and said hello one after another.
After everyone talked about the old days and sat down, Zhou's mother looked at the girl she served.
An Ning waved her hand and let the girl and the mother go down.
Zhou's mother looked at Xiao Yuan hesitantly: "It's really... When I was in the mansion, the old slave didn't dare to say this, but now, the Duke Ping's mansion has long disappeared. The old master and the old master have now become common people. The old slave is not afraid. It's really uncomfortable to not say this."
"If you have something to say."
Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin both looked solemn. They felt that what Mother Zhou said must be particularly important.
Mother Zhou gritted her teeth: "The third and fourth masters are not the old masters and the old lady's biological sons."
"What?"
The first person to scream was Xiao Ling.
He suddenly stood up: "What do you mean? Why is the third and fourth brother not my brother?"
Xiao Yuan looked at Zhou's mother: "Is there any evidence for your words?"
Zhou's mother wiped her tears and said, "I have always had a nanny. I'm afraid it's the oldest servant in the Duke of Pingguo. I know so many generations of things about Duke of Pingguo's Mansion. It's true that the old man had an elder brother back then, and then..."
Mother Zhou said slowly.
Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin's face became heavier when they heard this.
Zhou’s mother meant that the old man was the second master of Duke Ping’s mansion back then, and the real prince of Chengjue was Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin’s father.
However, the prince was weak and sickly since childhood. He was only one year apart from the old man. The two brothers looked like each other. Most of the time, the old man went on behalf of the prince.
Later, the two brothers got married, and they married two cousins. Logically speaking, the brothers and sisters-in-law should have a very close relationship.
But the old man and the old lady could not tolerate the prince and the prince's wife. The old man wanted to be the prince's wife, and the old lady wanted to be the prince's wife, and secretly stumbling to the prince's wife.
The old man and the old lady even gave birth to the eldest grandson of the Duke's Mansion before the prince. Not long after Xiao Jue was born, Xiao Su was born.
The old man also thought that if the prince could not give birth to a child because of his weakness, he could adopt the child to the prince.
But I didn't know that the prince's wife was pregnant for more than a year. This time she gave birth to Xiao Yuan, and then gave birth to Xiao Jin two years later.
When the prince's wife was born with Xiao Jin, she went to give birth to Xiao Jin desperately.
The prince and the prince's wife were loving. After the prince's wife went, he got sick due to grief. He was already weak. In addition, the old man intervened in it and did some shameful things, which dragged the prince to death.
As soon as the prince died, Xiao Yuan should have inherited the Duke's Mansion.
After all, he is the eldest son of the eldest house, but Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin are too young, and it is impossible for a little baby to inherit the Duke's Mansion, so it can only be inherited by the old man.
In order to achieve the success of Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin, Duke of Lao Ping sent many servants in the mansion to record Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin in the name of the old man and the old lady, saying that they were their legitimate sons.
Xiao Jin was just born, and Xiao Yuan was too young to remember nothing at all, so he didn't know who their biological parents were.
Many elderly people in the Duke's Mansion were sold, and a few people who knew the truth did not dare to say it. After so many years, the servants who knew the truth were almost gone. Everyone in the Duke's Mansion thought that Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin were the third and fourth masters in the mansion, and were the old master's legitimate sons.
Only Mother Zhou knew about this, but she didn't dare to say it.
She was afraid that it would lead to a murderous disaster, and she was afraid that Xiao Yuan and Xiao Jin would know that this would be detrimental to them, so she kept enduring it.
She had wanted to wait for the future when the Duke's Mansion split up, but she didn't know that a disaster had occurred from the sky, and the Duke's Mansion was actually seized and their servants were also sold.
Zhou's mother escaped because she was old and no one bought it.
But her children and grandchildren were all dead, so she had to take her youngest grandchildren all the way to Nanyi to find people from the Xiao family.
She thought that no matter what she said, she had to find Xiao Yuan and inform the truth.
Chapter completed!