After Xiao Fubao's life was stolen, he became the favorite of everyone in the capital

Chapter 303: Here for the Lucky Draw

When Zhang Yunniang heard this, she felt extremely sad and hugged her daughter in her arms.

Niu Niu didn't cry, but Zhang Yunniang's tears were streaming down.

"My daughter, who I managed to fatten up with great difficulty, must she be sent to that place?" Zhang Yunniang said while crying.

Gu Mingda held his wife's hand and comforted her: "It's just a saying now, it may not be true. Maybe there is still room for change."

Having said that, Gu Mingda felt that it was basically unlikely. Now it all depended on how the palace arranged it.

Zhang Yunniang also knew that the matter was done, so she nodded helplessly.

Niuniu raised her little face and said, "Don't worry, Mom and Dad. Even if I stay somewhere else for a year or two, you are the best parents in my heart. Niuniu will always think of you."

When Zhang Yunniang heard this, the tears that had just stopped bursting out again.

When the carriage returned to the Gu family, Old Mrs. Gu had been waiting in the main room. When she saw Zhang Yuniang's red eyes, she was immediately startled.

"Everything is fine, what happened? Someone is bullying Yunniang? Is it the people from Xian Guogong's mansion? They are going too far, I want to go and ask them for an explanation!" Old Mrs. Gu jumped up in anxiety.

Although the old lady didn't dare to attend the banquet at Duke Xianguo's Mansion, she was now angry and was about to go out with a broom.

Gu Mingda hurriedly stopped her and said helplessly: "Mother, you are really impatient. This has nothing to do with the Duke Xian's Mansion."

When Mrs. Gu heard this, her shoulders relaxed, but she didn't put down the broom in her hand. Instead, she continued to ask, "Who bullied her? I'm here to ask for justice!"

Xie Xingchuan, who was wearing a mask, did not say a word, but he kept looking at Zhang Yuniang with concern, and picked up the spear and put it down several times.

After all, what the eldest princess said had not been finalized, and Gu Mingda did not dare to let the news leak out. At this time, he turned around and glanced at Zhang Yuniang.

As a couple for many years, they have a tacit understanding. Zhang Yunniang wiped her tears and said, "Mother, I saw the Duke of Xian's mansion holding a banquet to celebrate. There was a man at the banquet who looked a lot like my father. If he were still alive, I don't know how happy he would be to see how successful my husband is now..."

Only then did Old Lady Gu put down her broom completely and said, "It's good that you're not being bullied. It turns out that you're missing your father. Your father is a good man, but unfortunately, his health is not good."

Zhang Yunniang nodded slightly. When her father was alive, she could still barely get enough food to eat. But after her father died, her stepmother wished she could only eat one bite a day.

She looked down at Niuniu. Both she and her daughter had been tortured by Mrs. Cai. Looking back now, it seemed like the past was just a dream.

At that time, she never thought that her husband would become the top scorer in the imperial examination and the whole family would move to the capital.

As time went by, Zhang Yuniang forgot to think about these changes in her busy life. Now, thinking carefully, it seems that such a big change in the family started with the adoption of Niu Niu.

Zhang Yunniang looked at her little lucky star and thought to herself that if her daughter really entered the palace to bring good fortune, and if anything happened to her, she would do her best to save her daughter.

Xie Xingchuan stood aside, watching the Gu family mention Zhang Yunniang's deceased father. He didn't know who that man was, and suddenly felt like he was out of touch.

Suddenly he felt a warm touch on his hand.

When he lowered his head, he saw that the little girl had come to his side at some point and was staring at him with a pair of wet eyes.

"Thank you, brother, can you teach me how to dance with the spear?" Niu Niu asked softly.

Xie Xingchuan immediately perked up and said, "I'll take you to the yard."

Zhang Yunniang, who was talking to other family members, turned around and saw a pair of people, one big and one small, walking out hand in hand. She didn't know why, but she suddenly felt like crying when she saw this scene.

Gu Mingda noticed his wife's subtle mood changes and asked gently, "What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Zhang Yunniang shook her head and said, "Seeing that they have a good relationship, I am happy too."

In the yard in the afternoon, the warm spring sun shone through the treetops, casting fine rays of light on the brother and sister.

Niuniu's eyes sparkled, and she looked up at Xie Xingchuan and said, "Brother, can you teach me the gun technique you used to save Dad on the boat that day?"

On the way to Beijing, Gu Mingda encountered pirates and thought he was doomed. However, Xie Xingchuan descended from the sky and shot with a gun as fast as a dragon, saving Gu Mingda from the pirates' knives.

Niu Niu had heard Gu Mingda talk about this many times, and her eyes were full of anticipation at this moment.

Xie Xingchuan still had a cold face and said, "Your foundation in that gun technique is too shallow now, so you can't learn it yet."

Niuniu lowered her head in disappointment when she heard this: "Okay, I'll learn something else."

Xie Xingchuan stared at the originally happy little girl, who suddenly became like a rapeseed that had been drained of water. After hesitating for a while, he spoke:
"After I show you my tricks once, you have to study hard for other things."

Hearing this, Niu Niu immediately jumped up with joy, clapped her hands and stared at Xie Xingchuan with burning eyes.

Xie Xingchuan stopped the corner of his mouth from rising. When he was with Niu Niu, he talked more and completely forgot that he used to hate gun performances the most.

He always felt that guns were used to kill enemies in battle, not to be used for show.

At this moment, for Niu Niu, he threw all his rules behind his back.

Xie Xingchuan has been learning spear since he was young. Both his father and martial arts masters praised Xie Xingchuan as a natural talent for spear training.

The young man had a strong physique and moved with a murderous and decisive aura, and the sound of him breaking through the air was endless.

Niu Niu was stunned without realizing it.

Not to mention the little girl, even Gu Mingda, who came out after hearing the sound, was fascinated by it.

"One energy is like a connection, yin and yang are revolving, the shadow passing by is like a swimming dragon, and the sound is like a shooting star."

Gu Mingda could not help but recite a poem. He looked at Xie Xingchuan's body moving up and down like a startled dragon. He felt itchy and asked his wife for help, placing the paintbrushes on the stone table beside him.

At this time in the palace, the eldest princess was paying respects to the queen mother.

Before her daughter could bend down, the empress dowager helped her up.

The Queen Mother said casually, "Why did you come to the palace this afternoon? You didn't bring Ling'er and Changfeng in. I haven't seen the two children for a long time."

The eldest princess was not restrained in front of her mother: "You can only see them, and you can hardly see me."

The Queen Mother smiled helplessly and said, "You are already so old, and you are still jealous of two children. I only have these two darling grandchildren, and you don't allow me to miss them?"

When the princess heard this, she immediately dismissed her attendants and said, "Mother, I am in a hurry to go to the palace this afternoon. What I want to tell you is related to my brother's offspring."

After the Queen Mother listened carefully to the whole story, she did not look as happy as the Princess had hoped. Instead, she said:

"How can it really be so effective? The Li family also sent a few little girls to the palace in the past, saying that they would be able to have children, but after raising them for several years, there is still no news from the harem. I'm afraid they are the kind of people who use their children as a raft and hope for good luck."

"One breath is like a connection" comes from Zheng Shiyuan's "Observing Gunmanship", and "Swooping like a meteor" comes from Li Bai's "Xia Ke Xing"