Rebirth with my ex-husband

Chapter 76

Li Ji originally wanted to find his wife and scold her, asking her not to have any more contact with Su, but after entering the yard and approaching the main house, he heard the childish laughter of a child.

When he entered the room, he saw his only daughter lying on the bed and talking to his wife.

Both mother and daughter had smiles on their faces.

The window was slightly open, and the soft afterglow fell on my wife, making her smile even more gentle, and even when she spoke to her daughter, her voice was soft and gentle.

Li Ji was about to step into the house, but when he saw this scene, he slowly retracted his foot, stood in front of the door, and quietly looked at the warm scene in the house.

He remembered that in the first two or three years after their marriage, they had always been silent when they were together. She was gentle, considerate, and understanding. If he had any problems, even if he didn't say anything, she would still comfort him as if she understood him.

Later, after the concubine entered the palace, although she was still as gentle as before, she no longer had the brightness and concentration she had shown towards him in the past.

In the past two years, whenever he was in Xiyuan, he rarely calmed down, and he seemed to be getting more and more impetuous.

When I was in Xiyuan, I had happy moments, but I was also restless most of the time.

But when he was feeling restless, he couldn't help but look for his wife who could calm him down.

When I was in Xiyuan just now, I was feeling very irritated, but now that I see these mother and daughter, I feel a lot calmer.

Sometimes Li Ji couldn't help but wonder, was it really that concubine with a distinct personality that he liked, or was it just because he was fascinated by her at first sight that he developed an obsession with her?

At this time, the maid who came back with the medicine saw Li Ji at the door and hurriedly called out "Your Highness."

Li Ji turned around, glanced at the medicine on the tray, frowned slightly, and wondered why the imperial concubine was still drinking the medicine?

The mother and daughter in the room heard the sound and looked towards the door.

When the little girl saw her father whom she hadn't seen for a long time, her whole face was filled with surprise. She climbed down from the bed and ran over, calling out "Daddy" happily.

Li Ji concealed the irritability on his face, revealing his usual gentleness, squatted down, and took his daughter into his arms.

Who wouldn't like a sweet and soft little girl, especially since she is his only child at the moment.

As soon as the little girl was in her arms, she remembered what her mother had told her, and she complained aggrievedly: "Ruo'er misses daddy so much, but daddy only loves the concubine and goes to accompany the concubine, but doesn't love Ruo'er anymore."

Hearing this, Li Ji's face was slightly embarrassed, and then he coaxed: "Daddy misses Ruo'er too, so isn't he coming to see Ruo'er now?"

Xie Yiran, who was sitting on the bed, smiled coldly in his heart when he heard this.

Li Ji carried his daughter into the house. At that time, the maid also brought medicine into the room. Li Ji asked his wife, "Why haven't you recovered yet?"

Xie Yiran hid his displeasure, his face turned pale, and he smiled faintly: "Maybe you can get better after taking a few more doses of medicine."

Just as Li Ji was about to say something, he heard a maid from the West Garden calling out anxiously, "Your Highness, the concubine has fainted!"

Xie Yiran's smile gradually faded, and she looked at Li Ji, saying with a hint of sarcasm: "Almost every time Your Highness returns to my room, the concubine always happens to faint. What a coincidence. Your Highness should go."

After that, he coaxed his daughter, "Ruo'er, come down quickly. The concubine in the West Garden is sick, and your father wants to go and see her."

The little girl immediately pursed her lips, her eyes turned red, and gradually she started to cry. She said aggrievedly, "The concubine is trying to steal my father again. Every time my father accompanies Ruo'er, she pretends to be sick and wants him to be her father."

Look, even the children can tell that it's fake.

Li Ji was also fed up with the concubine's pretending to be sick. Moreover, his daughter's accusation just now made him feel distressed. He coaxed, "Daddy is not going anywhere. He will stay with Ruo'er."

After all, he only had one child, so Li Ji doted on his daughter very much.

Li Ji then instructed the maid: "Tell the maid to call a doctor if she faints. I am not a doctor, so how can I cure the disease if she faints?"

After thinking for a while, he added, "If you make loud noises in the East Garden again and disturb the imperial concubine's rest, you will be dragged out and sold."

The maid was slightly startled, and for a moment she failed to react to the eldest prince's change, but she still responded and retreated.

——Xiyuan.

Concubine Chen put some powder on her face, making it look pale, and then she lay on the bed, waiting for Li Ji to come over. She "just" woke up.

But when he heard what the maid brought back, he started smashing things in the house like crazy.

This was the first time that Li Ji did not come.

"None of these men are good!" she cursed as she smashed things.

*

Su Yun has been in a good mood since he came back from the eldest prince's mansion.

Thinking of what I had told my eldest brother a few days ago about going back to visit my sister-in-law, I sent a servant to Su Qin and Su Yuyan's house to invite them to go back together tomorrow to visit my sister-in-law and grandmother.

All those who were sent responded.

Both girls said they were going back, and that their husbands would go with them.

When Su Yun heard them say that her husband would go back with them, she told Gu Shixing about it during dinner.

Gu Shixing said, "I will go to the Dali Temple to deal with some miscellaneous matters tomorrow, and will come to the Su Mansion during lunch."

Su Yun nodded, and then thought of something else, and said, "In three days it will be my mother's birthday. I want to go back and spend some time with her that day, and come back in the evening. I have already told my mother about this."

Gu Shixing nodded, thought for a moment, and said, "I'll adjust my day off and go with you to celebrate mother-in-law's birthday."

Since Gu Shixing took the initiative to suggest going back to see his mother together, Su Yun smiled even more brightly, and she considerately picked up a few pieces of food for him with her chopsticks.

In the evening, the two of them were busy with their own things in the room, and the maid beside Mrs. Gu brought the stewed soup for the second time.

After putting down the stew, the old woman was reluctant to leave.

She opened the soup bowl, scooped out a bowl, and brought it to the prince, gently advising him: "You have to drink the soup while it's hot so that it will be effective."

Gu Shixing raised his eyes from the book and glanced at the stew handed to him by the old woman, then raised his eyes again and looked at Su Yun who was looking at him.

Maybe the mother-in-law suspected that Gu Shixing didn't drink it, so she asked the maid to watch him drink it.

Su Yun turned back calmly, lowered her head, and pretended to look at the account book of her rouge shop.

The reputation of her rouge shop gradually spread, and she already had plans to open a second shop.

Gu Shixing retracted his gaze, was silent for a moment, and finally put down the book. He took the stew, was silent for a moment, and then raised it to drink a sip.

As soon as I took a bite, a familiar and indescribable faint fishy smell mixed with the fishy smell of mutton made it a little difficult to swallow.

Gu Shixing fully understands how nutritious this bowl of soup is.

Every time he ate it, it replenished his blood and qi, relieved his heart dryness and body heat, and he could hardly sleep most of the night.

When the old woman saw that he had drunk the soup, she took away the sugar bowl and the bowl.

After the old woman left, Su Yun poured the tea and stood up from the table.

She walked over to the couch, sat across from him, handed him the tea, and said with a worried look on her face, "There shouldn't be any side effects, right?"

Gu Shixing took the tea and took a few sips. The fragrance of the tea diluted the fishy smell a lot.

Just as he put down the cup, another elegant handkerchief was handed over. He raised his eyes and glanced at her: "Why didn't you seem to be worried about me just now?"

As he said this, he took the handkerchief and slowly wiped the juice stains from the corners of his mouth.

Su Yun felt guilty: "I don't know what kind of tonic soup it is now. If I help you out, won't it make mother suspicious?"

Gu Shixing raised his eyebrows slightly: "Aren't you afraid that I might get hurt if I drink?"

Su Yun whispered, "I drank it for several months before, but nothing happened. Don't you think so, my husband?" At the end, she whispered again, "After two or three days, the menstrual fluid should be gone. My husband can only drink it one or two more times at most."

Su Yun didn't dare to look at him. She turned her head and looked ahead, wondering, "But in her last life, what did my mother-in-law say when she asked the imperial physician for a prescription? Did she use a similar excuse this time? What is it?"

Having said that, he looked suspiciously at Gu Shixingren, who was smarter than him, and asked him to analyze it.

Gu Shixing had never thought about the reason why his mother went to the imperial physician to ask for such aphrodisiac prescription. If Su Yun hadn't mentioned it, he really wouldn't have thought about it.

Su Yun looked thoughtful. Gu Shixing pretended that he only loved boys and not girls, so even if his mother-in-law suspected it, she kept it a secret.

After all, if my father-in-law had also misunderstood, then this matter would not be so easy to resolve. But my father-in-law is now fine, which means no one knows.

Su Yun speculated, "My husband is so young. If word gets out that he is useless, it will become a joke. And my mother has always been close to him, so she probably won't say that he used it. But if she doesn't say that he used it, my mother-in-law will say who it is..." She paused, as if she had thought of something, and met the eyes of Gu Shixing opposite her.

Each of them seemed to understand something from each other's eyes.

"That shouldn't be possible, right?" Su Yun said with some embarrassment and uncertainty.

Gu Shixing, however, looked calm: "Nothing is impossible." When he said this, he showed a trace of relief on his face, but sighed softly: "I'm sorry, father."

The corner of Su Yun's mouth twitched slightly, but she didn't see at all that he felt sorry for his father.

She didn't know it before, but now she gradually understands that Gu Shixing looks like a serious, upright and self-restrained gentleman, but sometimes he also has many bad intentions.

Take the matter of getting the mother-in-law into a circle. She is still trapped in the circle and hasn’t gotten out yet.

Even his eldest brother was used as a shield by him without his knowledge.

Now, because of my mother-in-law's misunderstanding, I went to the palace to find a prescription, and made my father-in-law bear such a misunderstanding.

If his mother-in-law and father-in-law knew that he had given birth to such a terrible son, they would probably point at his nose and call him a bastard.

What Gu Shixing did did indeed cause disaster to several people.

It's a bit scary.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but think of the time when he diverted trouble to others.

She asked: "By the way, why is there no movement from Prince Dinghuai?"

Seeing that she had changed the subject, Gu Shixing's expression lightened, and he said confidently: "In the past few days, someone has been secretly investigating the old story between me and the eldest prince. Although few people know about Concubine Chen's affairs, I had someone leak it to those people. After a few days..."

He paused for a moment, a faint smile on his face: "It's time to make a fuss."

Su Yun nodded, thought for a moment, and continued, "In order to protect the baby in her belly, the Grand Concubine should expose some of the fig leaves covering the dark and dirty things. Otherwise, she can't protect her child, and she may not be able to protect herself."

After the imperial physician's pulse diagnosis and the concealment of her pregnancy and the harm to her unborn child, the eldest princess probably vaguely guessed that her mother-in-law wanted a girl from her own family to replace her, so she didn't want her to give birth to a legitimate son.

As Doctor Fu said, if I have another miscarriage this time, the chances of getting pregnant will be very slim.

“These two things won’t diminish the eldest prince’s status and position, but after this, it’s time for him to be enfeoffed and leave Jindu. And the place he goes to will definitely not be a rich and fertile place.” Gu Shixing said calmly.

Su Yun gently stroked the Buddhist beads on her wrist. She didn't know since when, she had developed the same habit as Gu Shixing.

She chuckled, "I can take it easy. After all, it's better than no retribution at all. And for those who are in power, even if their status is still noble, they know whether they will be granted a fiefdom or abandoned."

At the end of his words, he smiled again: "To make someone suffer retribution, it is not necessary to see blood."

Li Ji lost the chance to seize the throne, and his beloved daughter became a thorn in his side. This was a torture to his will, and she was very happy to see it happen.

Even if one day Li Ji suddenly realized the good of the Grand Concubine, so what?

The eldest princess had already been chilled by his actions, so how could she possibly have any feelings for him again?

Su Yun would also feel happy if he could get such retribution.