【Eight】Mother and son
Cao Xiu listened to her words and took a deep breath and said, "You are right, I need to take this step."
She walked firmly towards the academy. The maids behind her were about to follow, but Biyun stopped her. The girl turned around and said, "My wife has something to discuss with Your Highness. You are waiting outside, so you don't have to follow in."
The servants and maids behaved politely and bowed respectfully to Biyun and said, "Now."
The people in front of the screen wall dispersed in a hurry, and Biyun stood outside the screen wall and watched Cao Xiu, and the mother and son were in a peaceful world.
Cao Xiu plucked up the courage to walk into the courtyard and walked around the place where Ning Nanyou usually handled official duties from the veranda, but saw that there was no one in the room. So she hurriedly walked towards the outsider and searched in the academy for a long time, but she could not see the shadow of the husband.
She didn't understand Ning Nanyou too much, so she didn't know where he would hide when he was angry or sad. Thinking of this, Cao Xiu felt guilty in his heart. She, a mother, was really unqualified.
She searched in the academy for a long time, and finally she was so tired that she was panting. She leaned under the pillars and looked up to rest. Then she saw a person sitting on the eaves of the house opposite. The man was carrying his body on his back and looking up at the sky, with his figure loneliness.
Cao Xiu was stunned and felt a little distressed in her chest. She gritted her teeth and called someone to bring a ladder to the eaves. She had never done this kind of climbing the roof in her life. At this moment, she firmly grasped the ladder, her heart was pounding, and panic and nervousness almost submerged her. Cao Xiu climbed up with all her strength, walking gently along the bricks on the roof, step by step and dared not be biased. Until she stood beside Ning Nanyou, she dared to relax a little.
The man seemed to notice the movement beside him and said without looking back: "A Luo...you go, I want to be alone."
Cao Xiu was stunned, silently staring at his side face. Years have passed, but she has never seen Ning Nanyou seriously once. She showed a loving and compassionate look and looked at him quietly. The sun shone on the face of the husband. Under the condensation of the light, she found that the boy's eyebrows and facial features were very similar to Dou Xunen's back then. The past is unbearable to look back, but at this moment it penetrates into her mind like a spring, making her feel pain again.
Ning Nanyou swept the pair of shoes beside him, thinking that Jiang Chengjia had not left, so he said to himself: "A Luo, I really don't know... what the meaning of my birth is? Should I be born so miserable? You said... Did I commit something in my previous life? That's why I did this like now, my father doesn't love me, and my mother doesn't love me. It's ridiculous to say... My mother said that she was so good to her, but she never treated me like that. Sometimes I really think... I said that she was her child.
Aluo, I know my mother is in pain, but I feel even more painful. Do you know what I felt when I was a child when I witnessed my mother being humiliated? I wish I could kill all the horse bandits at that time, and I wish I could immediately tear Queen Huai to pieces. I suffered for many years, blaming myself for my weakness and for not being able to protect my mother. But after many years... someone told me that the one who insulted my mother and insulted my mother was my father.
Haha, how ridiculous.”
He closed his eyes, his throat was dry, and his two hums were filled with bitterness. He slowly began to choke: "Why... I have such a father?"
"A Luo... I can't face my mother even more when I learned about this. I finally knew why she hated me so much and finally knew her mood. She really should hate me and hate me. When she saw me, she seemed to see my father. Because the dirty blood of that person flowed on me, so... she hated me, just like she hated my father."
"Aluo. Now... I'm going to be driven to a remote place by my father again. My mother will be happy when she sees me leaving the capital, right? Her life is too hard and tiring. Whether it's good, as long as I no longer cause my mother's injuries, it's worth it no matter where I go. Aluo... Let's leave Nuannuan's child? My mother loves her very much. With her company, my mother rarely gets sick. I know...Aluo, you must be reluctant to leave Nuannuan, and I can't bear to leave either. But in fact, I can't bear to leave my mother even more. Even if she hates me, I still long for her to have some pity for me."
He began to speak incoherently, revealing his true feelings little by little, and disintegrated the defense line bit by little, and became completely depressed. The shadows around him were silent, so he thought Jiang Chengjia didn't like to listen to him, so he said earnestly: "If you don't like to listen to these things... I won't say it in the future. Following a boy like me will make you suffer."
After saying this, there was still no sound behind him. He was really curious and turned his head, but saw Cao Xiu standing behind him, staring at him with tears in his eyes. Ning Nanyou said in surprise: "Mother?!"
Cao Xiu held back the tears in his eyes, held the tiles beside him, sat down along the eaves, and leaned against Ning Nanyou without saying a word.
"Mother, Mother? When did you come? Why did your son say it? Why are the servants below so ignorant? This is such a high place, you can climb up?" The man was surprised and even stuttered.
Cao Xiu could no longer help but listen to his son's careful tone of compliment, and tears fell down, wet her clothes and cried out to make the makeup on her face. Ning Nanyou saw this and said at a loss: "Mother, mother, you... your son is talking nonsense just now. Mother doesn't have to take it to heart. Son... it's the son's fault. The son is unfilial and even makes his mother hurt."
He hurriedly took out a wrinkled silk handkerchief from his arms and reached out to wipe away the tears for Cao Xiu's eyes. Cao Xiu reached out and took the silk handkerchief. He accidentally glanced at him and found that this thing was something she embroidered many years ago. Xu Zao had disappeared. She didn't expect that she had found it in Ning Nanyou.
"This, this thing? Why is it with you?" Cao Xiu asked sobbingly.
Ning Nanyou was stunned, with a loss in his eyes, and said in a loneliness: "Mother forgot? This is what you gave to me on my fourth birthday..."
Cao Xiu was stunned and stared at him blankly for a long time, not knowing what to say.
Chapter completed!