This strange Li Xu

  Soon, Shishu and Qin'er brought in the food from the kitchen, arranging the dishes one by one on the nanmu wood inlaid bamboo silk square table. "Miss, Master just instructed us to let you have dinner first. Go to bed early, don't worry about anything outside."

  Like a nod, covering the still sore buttocks, slowly sat on the cleverly crafted sandalwood waist with embroidered lotus flowers and colorful cushions. Linglong and others served her meal, and as usual, Like asked Linglong to take out the small clothes she had placed in the large round cabinet, and Yu Shi was also three months away from giving birth, so it was time to prepare some small clothes for her future nephew.

  The little clothes designed like a doll's, are really good-looking and novel. Although they are still ancient costumes, some cartoon elements have been added to them, such as the yellow couplets with auspicious words on the collar of the jacket and pants, and the blue suit with embroidered "Fu" characters. There are also all-cotton baby clothes, tied with a ribbon, and a romper suit, baby shoes, and so on. More than ten pieces have been made already. Ling was worried about her staying up late every day, always keeping an eye on her to make sure she only worked for half an hour. When the time was up, she would take away the needle and thread from her hands without saying a word, and push her onto the bed.

  Just as she was about to lie down, Qing Luan, who was in charge of the night shift today, suddenly walked out from behind the three-sided landscape painting screen with no footprints and said, "Miss, Hong'er wants to see you."

  Hong'er? There are over 40 servants in the General's mansion, and most of them still recognize me. This Hong'er should be Cheng Mama's niece, right? "Isn't Hong'er working as a maid in the front yard? What brings her here to see me at this time? Never mind, let her come in."

  Hong'er came in and curtsied, then after asking for permission to speak, directly stated her intention, "Miss, this is what the King of Jing ordered me to hand over to you."

  Linglong handed it over and passed it to Ruoqing.

  As soon as I received the exquisitely crafted, gold and silver inlaid, purple sandalwood copper lock small square box, I couldn't help but sigh, rich people are really different, even a box is so valuable.

  She opened the box and found two small porcelain bottles with white base and red flowers inside, which were very thin and sealed with a rubber band. She was puzzled, "What is this?" She took out one of the bottles and found a piece of paper stuck on it, which simply wrote "External use, for external injuries". The other bottle had three words written on it: "For sprains". She was even more puzzled, "This Li Xiao, what's wrong with him? Why did he send me this?"

  Hong'er replied: "The King has already left, but before he went, he asked me to hand this box over to you personally. He said that you will definitely have a use for it."

  As if displeased, "No pay without work, he sends me things for no reason at all, it's not quite right."

  Hong'er saw that Ru Xing had no intention of accepting, and her expression was fearful. "Miss, Jing Wang specifically instructed before he left that if you are unwilling to accept it, you can return the gift."

  Still going back? Luckily Li Xiu thought of it. A young unmarried woman, holding a box and running to Li Xiu's residence, said to the gatekeeper: "Please hand this box over to your king."

  Is this all right? Perhaps immediately there will be rumors that Miss Fang is presenting gifts to Li Xiao in public.

  The servant girl went over, what did she want to say? Still had to introduce herself, otherwise, others wouldn't pay attention.

  As she thought about it, she suddenly felt resentful towards Li Xiao. This hateful guy had just shown her some kindness, but then he went and did something like this, sending her such a useless thing that she couldn't even accept or refuse.

  Finally, the police chief warned Hong'er twice not to mention this matter and gave her 20 silver coins as a reward. Hong'er accepted the money, nodded humbly and replied with a sweet mouth, saying a few more good words before leaving.

  As she played with the box and two small bottles, she was still puzzled - why did Li Xiao send her these healing toys for no reason?

  Finally, after struggling until the second day of dawn, Shuang Snow gave birth to a baby boy. The whole household was exhausted and drained. However, as Xun Xiang had said, once the child was born, he was taken away by the wet nurse and handed over to Madame Yu to be raised.

  While comforting Xue, he still had no name or status, but Zhiyi promised her: If she didn't want to stay in the general's mansion, he would return the sale contract, give her a large sum of silver, and let her remarry or live her own life as she pleased. Or continue to stay in the Fang family, with the treatment of a madam. Another courtyard was built, if she was content with her current situation, the Fang family mansion would be where she could settle down.

  She refused both options and wept, only wanting her child. She could give up everything else, as long as the child was raised by her side.

  "Are you going to raise the child? Raise them to be like you, narrow-minded, petty, and short-sighted? You've ruined yourself, do you want to ruin the child too?" Then, without giving her a chance to respond, she coldly said: "Just focus on your postpartum recovery, after that, you can give me an answer."

  After finishing her crying and making a scene, she cried until she was hoarse and exhausted, causing those who heard her to also sigh endlessly. However, in the end, she listened to the advice of Chao Yun and Ya Tou, stopped crying and making a scene, and calmly sat out her confinement.

  Ru Jing also felt that Yuan Xue was really pitiful, her own flesh and blood couldn't be raised by her side, not even seeing each other's faces, it was indeed pitiful. If Ruo Zhi didn't know that Yi wasn't her biological brother, she would definitely stand on Yuan Xue's side and scold him severely.

  But, from a long-term perspective, the decision to raise the child with the first wife is not wrong. If one moment of softness were to lead to disaster in the future and bring harm to the entire family, it would be a loss. According to custom, children born to concubines should indeed be raised by the first wife. Given Ruan Xue's character, separating her from the child would also be good for the child. However, from a woman's perspective, Ruan Xue is truly pitiful.

  However, sympathy is one thing, but she didn't have any grounds to speak up for her. Because she knew that in ancient aristocratic families, sacrificing a small number of people for the greater good was a common occurrence. Moreover, pleading on behalf of a concubine would also be too humiliating for her sister-in-law. She would rather die than do such a thing.

  However, Yu Shi did not feel any joy due to Zhiyi's ruthless punishment. She knew that the problem lay elsewhere and thought that Yu Shi was actually quite good to her. After hesitating for a few days, she took advantage of Yu Shi's absence and knocked on the door of Zhiyi's study.