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

Chapter 313 Talking about the past
The eldest princess was surprised to see the Queen Mother being so kind.

In her impression, the Queen Mother has never been such an easy-going person, but now facing Niu Niu, she is surprisingly kind.

It was as if she really treated Niu Niu as her granddaughter.

"Does your father teach you personally when you study?" asked the Queen Mother.

Niu Niu nodded obediently.

The Queen Mother was delighted when she heard this and said, "It's rare that the top scholar can spare time to teach you how to read and write, even though he is so busy on weekdays. It shows that he really loves his daughter."

When Niuniu heard the Queen Mother praising her father, she couldn't help but smile widely. She said, "Daddy is the best. Schools in the capital don't accept female students, so Daddy said he would teach me personally and said he wouldn't delay my studies."

The Queen Mother couldn't help but smile when she heard this and asked, "Do you like your father so much?"

Niuniu nodded vigorously.

Seeing Niuniu's cute and well-behaved appearance, the Queen Mother wanted to tease the child and asked, "Do you like daddy more, or mommy more?"

When the eldest princess heard this question, the surprise on her face deepened.

There is actually nothing wrong with this question, as ordinary people all tease children in this way. However, when asked by the Queen Mother, it seems too approachable.

When the little girl heard this question, her brows furrowed immediately. After a long ideological struggle, she said, "I like both Dad and Mom!"

But the Queen Mother still smiled and said, "That won't do. Dad and Mom will always choose the one they like best."

The little girl's pretty face wrinkled up, her brows squeezed together and almost knotted: "Do I have to choose one?"

The eldest princess looked at Niu Niu's pitiful appearance and she couldn't help but want to help the child out of trouble.

After some careful consideration, the little girl finally seemed to have made up her mind and said, "Then I still like my mother the most, because it was my mother who brought me home."

The Queen Mother seemed to be just teasing the child. She smiled and said, "A mother carries the baby for ten months and gives birth to the baby. Mother and daughter are connected by heart. No wonder the little girl knows that she loves her mother the most."

The eldest princess immediately said, "Mother, I like you the most, too."

The Queen Mother glared at her daughter and said with a smile, "You do know how to take advantage of the situation to please others."

Li Shunfu, who was standing by, was already in turmoil at this time. It was not surprising for the Queen Mother and the eldest princess to talk like this, but the Queen Mother actually liked Niu Niu so much. When the three of them got along together, to outsiders, they looked like a family.

Li Shunfu was in a daze and couldn't remember how long it had been since the Queen Mother laughed so sincerely like today. Li Shunfu didn't know whether the daughter of the top scholar was blessed or not, but it was obvious that the child was extremely likable.

The Queen Mother waved her hand and said to the other four girls, "You are tired today, go back and rest first."

Everyone else left, only Niuniu was left. Niuniu whispered, "Grandma Queen Mother, I wasn't actually born from mother's belly."

Niu Niu didn't need to say this, but the Queen Mother looked as kind as her own grandmother, so Niu Niu naturally didn't want to lie to her, and after hesitating for a while, she chose to tell the truth.

The Gu family had just arrived in Beijing, and if Niu Niu hadn't taken the initiative to say it, few people in the capital would have known about it.

The Queen Mother was slightly surprised when she heard this and asked, "You didn't come out of your mother's belly, so where did you come from?"

Niuniu tilted her head slightly and said innocently, "I was on a wooden boat, following the Jiuqu River, and was washed ashore by the river. Then, Zhang's parents picked me up and took me home. Later, I had a high fever and was dying. My mother snatched me back from Zhang's parents and sent me to the clinic for treatment. My father then asked Zhang's parents to spend five taels of silver to adopt me to the Gu family."

The reason why Niu Niu remembered the five taels of silver so clearly was because when she was in Qingshui Village, her aunt sometimes asked her to take care of the five taels of silver and blamed her for spending a lot of the family's money.

The eldest princess didn't know that there was such a complicated story behind Niu Niu's adoption. She guessed in her heart that Niu Niu must be an abandoned baby girl. Looking at Niu Niu's cute appearance at this moment, and thinking of the child's lonely life experience, she couldn't help but feel tears in her eyes.

"How long have you been in the Zhang family? Why didn't they send you to the hospital for treatment when you had a fever?" asked the eldest princess.

Niuniu felt that the days in the Zhang family were like a dream. She didn't feel sad at all when she talked about it: "I stayed there for five years. At that time, the Zhang family's adoptive parents said it was a good thing to burn me to death. The youngest son of the town's wealthy master died, and they said I was lucky and could be sold to them as their daughter-in-law. I could be their young lady in the underground."

When the Queen Mother and the Princess heard this, they became furious.

"He watched his daughter die just to sell her for money for a ghost marriage. What a bastard!" The eldest princess slammed the table in anger.

The Queen Mother also asked with red eyes: "Where are your adoptive parents now? I want to ask, why did they torture a five-year-old child like this!"

Niuniu immediately comforted them, "Grandma Queen Mother, Aunt Princess, don't be angry. Father Zhang was sentenced to exile for cheating in the exam, and mother Zhang ran away with someone. Even brother Zhang is nowhere to be found. I am living a good life now. I don't have to work anymore, and I can have enough food to eat, and I can read and write. I feel like I have fallen into a blessed nest."

The princess asked in confusion, "You were five years old at the time, and you had to work at your foster parents' house? What kind of work can a five-year-old child do?"

When Niuniu heard her ask this, she immediately stretched out her white and tender little hands: "Aunt Princess, Niuniu can do a lot of things. Niuniu can cut grass for pigs, wash clothes, make fire, and collect firewood..."

Watching Niu Niu counting on her fingers, every time she added something more, the Queen Mother and the eldest princess felt more distressed.

Niuniu asked with a hint of pride: "Do I know a lot? It's a pity that my parents are too kind to me and don't let me do any work, otherwise I could help a lot!"

Compared with the Zhang family’s adoptive parents, Gu Mingda and his wife seemed like god-like parents.

"What a poor child. Fortunately, she met Mr. and Mrs. Gu Zhuangyuan." The Queen Mother sighed, and she had a better impression of Mr. and Mrs. Gu Mingda. After all, most people would not be sad for their own daughters. This couple taught the adopted child as carefully as they would their own son, which showed that they were kind-hearted people.

The eldest princess said to the queen mother, "Mother, the old saying that good is rewarded with good and evil is punished with evil is absolutely true. The Zhang family was evil-minded and ended up with their family broken up. The Gu family was kind-hearted and one of them passed the imperial examination and became the top scholar, while the other is now doing a thriving business."

"Doing business?" The Queen Mother frowned slightly and said, "As an official's wife, you should stay at home. Why do you have to do these things?"