Rebirth with my ex-husband

Chapter 116

Five years later.

A little girl of about four years old walked under the corridor, holding the hand of a little boy of about two years old. Two servants followed behind the two little guys.

Both the little girl and the little boy have red lips and white teeth, their eyes are round and bright, full of spirit, and there is some similarity between their eyebrows and eyes, so you can tell at a glance that they are siblings.

"Sister, walk slower," the little boy behind her said softly to her sister in front of her.

The elder sister stopped, looked back at her brother, and said with a frown, "Why are you walking so slowly? I haven't seen my mother for a few days. Don't you miss her?"

Hearing this, the younger brother nodded heavily and said softly, "Xuan'er misses mother."

The elder sister turned around and continued to walk forward holding her brother's hand, but her pace slowed down a lot.

As soon as the brother and sister arrived outside, the door opened.

The corner of the moon-white robe peeked out from the house. Before anyone was seen, the two children's expressions instantly brightened, and they both called out in baby voices, "Daddy."

Gu Shixing walked out of the room, put his finger on his lips, said "hush" to them softly, then turned around and closed the door.

After closing the door, he squatted down in front of the two children, gently touched their heads, and said in a warm voice: "Mom just took the medicine and fell asleep. Can you come over after she wakes up?"

Su Yun had caught a cold these days, and was afraid of passing the disease on to her two children, so she hadn't dared to see them these days.

When they heard that they couldn't see their mother, the two little guys' smiling faces instantly collapsed. They pouted their lips in grievance, their eyes slowly turned red, and they were about to burst into tears.

Gu Shixing comforted them: "Daddy and Yuan'er and Xuan'er will go make kites. When mom recovers, we will go fly kites together, okay?"

When the two little guys heard this, the aggrieved looks on their faces instantly disappeared, and were replaced by anticipation, and they nodded repeatedly.

Xuan'er said incoherently, "I want to fly a kite with my mother!"

Gu Shixing smiled, then stood up, holding a child's hand, and walked towards the study.

About an hour later, Su Yun woke up. When she heard that her children and Gu Shixing were in the study, she got up, dressed, and went to the study as well.

Su Yun stood at the door, looking at the father and his two sons, a faint smile appeared on his somewhat weak face.

Gu Shixing noticed something, looked towards the door, met his wife's eyes, and smiled.

He said to the two children in a gentle voice: "Mom is here."

The two children suddenly raised their little heads and looked towards the door. When they saw their mother whom they hadn’t seen for a few days, they stood up excitedly and ran towards her with their short legs.

The younger Xuan'er ran staggeringly and much slower. When his mother hugged his sister, he also said anxiously: "Xuan'er wants to be hugged too, Xuan'er wants to be hugged too."

Su Yun smiled, squatted down, and took her son into her arms.

Yuan'er rubbed against her mother's arms again and again, and said coquettishly: "Yuan'er misses mother."

Xuan'er also followed her sister and said, "Xuan'er misses mom too, very much."

The smile on Su Yun's face became even more intense.

Gu Shixing came over and picked up his daughter, while Su Yun picked up his son.

She asked her son, "What are you doing?"

Xuan'er excitedly waved his finger at the unfinished kite on the table and said happily in a baby voice, "Let's make a kite and fly it with Daddy and Mommy!"

Su Yun looked at Gu Shixing and said with a smile, "Is this how you coaxed them these days?"

Gu Shixing chuckled and said, "Otherwise they would make a fuss about looking for you every day."

In the past few days, Gu Shixing took them to feed fish, plant flowers, write and paint, all in order to prevent them from asking for their mother.

Gu Shixing walked up to her side, freed his hand and stretched it towards his wife.

Although Xuan'er looks white and chubby, he is not very heavy, so Su Yun can still hold him with one hand for a while.

After letting Xuan'er hug her neck, she placed her hand in his palm with a smile.

Holding her two children in her arms, she walked out of the study.

Walking down the corridor, Su Yun said, "Princess Jing wrote me a letter, telling me that they are living very well in Lingnan, and that she will come to Lingchuan to look for us next time we return to Lingnan."

Prince Jing is Prince Jing, and Princess Jing is Princess Jing. Su Yun never confused the two, so after returning to Jindu, Su Yun often exchanged letters with Princess Jing.

Princess Jing once told Su Yun that she had arranged several concubines for Prince Jing. Because she couldn't allow any threat to her children, she meant that he could have concubines outside, but he couldn't bring them into the palace. Moreover, he could have concubines, but they were not allowed to give birth to children.

But Prince Jing was very angry and insisted on going back to his room to sleep.

She never let him sleep on the bed in the room, so he just slept on the soft couch.

Even those concubines whom he had never seen were secretly sent away by him. Princess Jing thought about it for a while and felt that he was being too cheap and that he was infatuated with her.

She didn't want to be a widow at such a young age. She had to plan for herself and her children, so she didn't plan to stay in the stalemate for too long.

She and Prince Jing made two rules: he could only go back to his room and sleep with her on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. Second, he could not sleep with other women. If he wanted to keep a mistress, they would only be a couple in name only, and would not interfere with each other.

Su Yun could sense from the frank words in the letter that Princess Jing was already vaguely in a superior position between the husband and wife.

Princess Jing would no longer put her heart into Prince Jing, nor would she allow herself to be bullied again.

Marriages in the royal family are not the same as those in the common people's families. Common people can easily get divorced, but for a marriage arranged by the emperor, no one can easily mention the word divorce unless the emperor gives an order.

Since Princess Jing could not choose her own marriage, she chose a path that was most beneficial to herself.

Gu Shixing said, "We haven't been back to Lingchuan for a long time. This year during the Double Ninth Festival, I will go back with you and the children, okay?"

Because of what happened five years ago, Su Yun was somewhat resistant to returning to Lingchuan, but after so many years, he has become more open-minded.

Su Yun nodded: "Then let's go back this year and visit mother on the way. I wonder if mother is getting used to life in the south after leaving Jindu."

Gu Shixing sneered: "Your mother is not alone, there are people taking care of her, don't worry too much."

Hearing this, Su Yun sighed: "Who would have thought that mother would rekindle her relationship with Mr. Song?"

Three years ago, Mr. Song, who had been engaged to my mother, came to Jindu. Perhaps he heard that Xiao Liu had left the Su Mansion, so he asked someone to find out the news and went to see her after knowing where Xiao Liu was.

Unexpectedly, I met Xiao Liu.

Xiao Liu didn't say a word to him. After looking at each other for a long time, she went back to the yard and cried all night.

When Su Yun went to visit her mother, Mother He told Su Yun that Xiao Liu had been unhappy since she met a strange middle-aged man, and often sat alone in a daze.

Su Yun told Gu Shixing about this. After thinking about it for a long time, the couple both felt that the man was the eldest son of the Song family who had been engaged to their mother.

The couple deliberated for a long time, and both Gu Shixing and Su Yun felt that they should first check whether the middle-aged man was the eldest son of the Song family before discussing anything else.

So many years have passed, and it is estimated that the eldest son of the Song family should have already had a family. Su Yun did not want her mother to be a mistress anymore, so if it was really the eldest son of the Song family, she asked him not to disturb her again.

Gu Shixing quickly found out the news.

That man was indeed the eldest son of the Song family who had been engaged to Xiao Liu. He was now the county magistrate and had come to Jindu to report on his work.

The investigation revealed that County Magistrate Song was implicated in political affairs and imprisoned ten years ago. He divorced his wife for fear of bringing trouble to his family.

Four years later, the truth was uncovered and he was reinstated.

Even though he was reinstated, his ex-wife had already remarried and taken their children with her.

At this point I am all alone.

Su Yun and Gu Shixing went to see County Magistrate Song, and she told him what had happened to her mother.

When County Magistrate Song heard that the girl he was once engaged to broke off the engagement with him not out of vanity but because she was framed by her sister, he was in a trance for a long time and could not come to his senses.

After a long time, he finally said in a hoarse voice: "My mother disliked your mother for being an orphan and your elder sister was a concubine, so after receiving a letter from the eldest daughter of the Liu family saying that your mother was ready to enter the Su Mansion as a concubine, she began to arrange a marriage between me and my cousin even though I disagreed. Later, I did not marry my cousin, but worked as a staff member of the prefectural government. It was not until five years later that we got married."

At the end of the conversation, the voice was full of self-blame: "I never knew your mother would... encounter this."

Su Yun sighed softly and said, "This is also my mother's knot. If Lord Song is free, can you meet my mother and explain to her what happened back then?"

County Magistrate Song nodded, expressing his willingness.

Later, the two met and let go of what happened that year.

Then County Magistrate Song left Jindu. But even after returning to the county town, he would come back to Jindu every six months or so during his days off.

Two years passed since then, and Su Yun knew exactly what County Magistrate Song was thinking.

Because she wanted her mother to have someone to rely on for the rest of her life, and County Magistrate Song was a good person with grown-up children, so after Su Yun and Gu Shixing discussed it, they hinted to County Magistrate Song that they would not interfere in their affairs.

Finally, a year ago, County Magistrate Song proposed marriage to Xiao Liu, and it took nearly half a year for Xiao Liu to agree.

Now, Xiao Liu had been married to County Magistrate Song for half a year and had also left Jindu.

Because they had to give face to Su's father, they did not hold a wedding banquet in Jindu, but only set up a few tables of wedding banquet in the county town.

Su Yun and Gu Shixing both went there, but never showed up in public. Only by hiding their mother's relationship with the Marquis' Mansion could their mother live a stable life in this county.

Gu Shixing put his daughter on the ground, and then put his son in his wife's arms on the ground. He held their little hands and said to his wife, "You and I can continue our relationship, and your mother can too."

Su Yun thought for a moment and asked, "What will you do if I refuse to marry you?"

"I will wait for you. If you insist on being a nun, I will go to the nun temple every month. If you want to marry someone else, I will go and grab the bride and take you..."

"What do you want to do to me?" Su Yun opened his eyes slightly and asked curiously.

Gu Shixing paused and waved at her. Su Yun leaned over to listen to his words and glared at him: "If you dare, I will really ignore you for the rest of my life."

The two little guys below stared at their father and mother with two pairs of blank eyes. Yuan'er tugged at her father's hand, and when Gu Shixing looked down, she asked in a soft voice, "What did father and mother say?"

Gu Shixing smiled at her and said, "These are words that children should not listen to."

Su Yun reached out and pinched him secretly, telling him not to talk nonsense to the child.

Who could have thought that the man who smiled so gently at the child would just say - if she married someone else, he would kidnap her and lock her up. He would never marry again in his life and would only be a wild lover with her.

How dare he say that.

Gu Shixing raised his eyes and looked at Su Yun tenderly, saying softly, "I used to think I didn't care about anything, but in fact I am a paranoid person. You are the only one I can have in my life."

Su Yun smiled helplessly and said lightly: "You have been married for so many years, don't say such disgusting words, and the children are here."

Although she is only in her twenties now and he is only in his thirties, they have been married for more than six years in this life, plus four years in the previous life, making them an old married couple for ten years.

"Daddy and Mommy, what are those cheesy words?" Xiao Xuan'er asked curiously.

Su Yun glared at Gu Shixing, then lowered her head and gently explained to her son: "You can't just say this to others casually, and Xuan'er can't just ask others this question casually, understand?"

Little Xuan'er is young, but very well-behaved. After hearing what his mother said, he nodded heavily and said softly, "Xuan'er doesn't ask others."

Su Yun looked at her daughter again.

Yuan'er also nodded: "I won't ask others either."

Su Yun just breathed a sigh of relief, but she heard her four-year-old daughter say, "I know what it means, so I won't ask others. The corny words are that daddy hugged mommy and kept saying that he liked mommy and that mommy was pretty."

Su Yun was embarrassed and said hurriedly: "You can't tell this to others, understand?"

Yuan'er covered her mouth and nodded.

Su Yun let out a breath, then looked up and glanced at Gu Shixing angrily.

Some time ago, Yuan'er and Xuan'er insisted on sleeping with their parents, and she agreed.

Who would have thought that Gu Shixing had a dream at night, and after waking up, he hugged her and said such words. When the couple realized that their daughter was awake, they stared at her for a long time.

Because all the cheesy words were heard by her daughter, Su Yun felt ashamed and angry for a long time.

Gu Shixing rubbed his daughter's head with a faint smile, and then said to Su Yun: "Mother said that you are almost well, so let's go to her yard to have dinner together today."

Su Yun glanced at the sky and felt that it was about time, so he said, "Then let's go first, so that Yuan'er and Xuan'er can talk to their father and mother."

The family of four went to their father and mother's yard.

As soon as they entered the yard, Mrs. Gu heard them coming, so she left the pavilion with her husband.

The two little ones like their amiable grandmother and their serious but attentive grandfather.

So when they saw grandma and grandpa, they let go of their parents' hands, ran towards their grandparents, threw themselves into grandma's arms, kissed her on the cheek, and then threw themselves into grandpa's arms, clamoring for a hug.

Marquis Gu had no choice but to pick up both grandsons together, holding one in each arm.

Su Yun and Gu Shixing looked at their laughing children and parents, and the smiles on their faces became even brighter.

Then he followed his parents into the hall.

It was just the right dusk outside the yard, stretching the shadows of the family very long, yet they blended together, looking very harmonious.

The sound of children's laughter could be heard faintly from the yard.

In the past few years, the Marquis' Mansion seemed to have become more lively because of these two children.