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

Chapter 488 Doing Big Things

"Grandma Queen Dowager, where is Madam Sun?" Niu Niu asked.

The Queen Mother looked at Niuniu lovingly and said with a smile, "She is old now, and she asked the Queen Mother to let her leave the palace to spend her remaining years in peace."

When Niuniu heard this, she did not continue to ask, but smiled and said, "Grandma Queen Mother, today we have ginger cakes and your favorite bitter melon stuffed with meat."

The Queen Mother smiled and nodded.

The little girl wrinkled her nose again: "I still don't understand why some people like to eat bitter melon stuffed with meat. How can they eat something so bitter?"

The Queen Mother couldn't help laughing and said, "It's hard to live without suffering for dozens of years."

Niu Niu felt that the Queen Mother seemed to be talking about some profound truth, but she couldn't figure it out at the moment, so she didn't continue to delve into it.

"What did you learn in school today?" the Queen Mother asked with a smile, as if she was an ordinary grandmother asking her granddaughter about her homework.

Niuniu counted on her fingers as she talked about what she had learned in class today: "Daddy taught us how to use an abacus. He said that if we learn this, it will be difficult for others to cheat us with money in the future!"

The Queen Mother listened with a smile: "First learn to use an abacus, then learn to look at accounts. In the future, our housekeeper Niuniu will definitely be better than others!"

Niuniu looked at the Queen Mother and said, "Grandma Queen Mother, you used to be in charge of such a large palace, you must be better at calculating accounts than others!"

The Queen Mother said: "I have many people under my command, so I don't have to work so hard myself."

The Queen Mother thought that if Niu Niu married Li Xuan, she would definitely help him to fight for the position of Crown Prince with all her strength. It was possible that Niu Niu would really have to manage the harem in the future.

"In fact, it's not as easy to teach a man about housekeeping as it is for a woman. After all, they don't stay in the backyard all the time, and they can't explain many twists and turns." said the Queen Mother.

Niuniu immediately said: "Then I can ask my mother to teach me!"

The Queen Mother reached out and tapped the little girl's forehead: "I can teach you, too. Why don't I take some time off every afternoon to teach you how to run the household?"

Niu Niu has regular morning classes with Gu Mingda, but has one day of piano study and the other day free for afternoon classes.

After much thought, the Empress Dowager decided to keep the child close to her so that she wouldn't be called to the Yangxin Palace by the Emperor during her free afternoons.

"Yes, yes!" Niuniu's face flushed, but she immediately thought of something else: "But the Emperor has been asking me to go to the Yangxin Palace to pour him tea from time to time recently. He always says that the tea I pour is especially delicious."

The Queen Mother clenched her fingers suddenly, but quickly covered up the abnormality and said, "Your uncle the Emperor is teasing you. He has so many eunuchs and palace maids serving him, why does he have to ask you to pour tea for him?"

Niuniu didn't dwell on it, but nodded: "That's right, I've actually been playing in the Yangxin Palace. I don't know where the emperor found so many fun things. Daddy said that diligence leads to success and laziness leads to failure. I have to learn more while I'm still young, otherwise it may be too late to learn later."

The empress dowager was glad that Niu Niu was more studious. If it was a playful girl, her words would have been in vain.

"Well, if your parents knew how motivated you are, they would be happier than anyone else." The Queen Mother said with a smile.

The little girl straightened up proudly and patted her belly: "Of course, I am the good child that my parents love most!" The empress dowager looked at her childish appearance and muttered "what a sin" in her heart, and then thought of the troubles that Niu Niu was facing now.

"Xian Guogong Mansion, what are your plans?" the Queen Mother asked. Niuniu tilted her head and said, "I originally thought that my parents who gave birth to me would love me as much as my current parents, but I was wrong. Not all parents in the world will cherish their children."

The Queen Mother has always known that Niu Niu’s thoughts are sometimes very strange. If someone with ulterior motives heard this, they would probably say something unfavorable to Niu Niu.

"Madam Xian Guogong, is she not good to you?" asked the Queen Mother.

Niuniu shook her head: "I'm not a fool. Of course I can see that Lord Xian Guo and Lady Xian Guo don't really want to take me back."

The Queen Mother suddenly became angry: "Do they dare to despise you?"

Niu Niu's face was tangled: "I don't know if this is dislike, I just feel that they don't like me that much. It seems that they are forced to be my parents. They didn't become my parents with expectations."

The child's words were a little vague, but the Queen Mother had spent a long time with Niu Niu, so she now clearly understood the meaning of Niu Niu's words.

After understanding, she became even more angry. The empress dowager felt that the family of the Xianguo Duke's Mansion was simply ungrateful. It was a pure honor for the Xianguo Duke's Mansion that such a good child could be born into their family, but they dared to despise him!
The Queen Mother said, "Forget it. Maybe some people are just born without children. The Duke of Xian's family is too careless in raising children. Qin Jing and Qin Jingshu are barely okay, but the second boy in their family is a famous playboy in the capital. Fortunately, you didn't grow up in their family!"

Niuniu nodded vigorously: "I don't like having a father who is full of calculations, nor do I like a mother who is picky. I still like my current parents the most! But my mother told me to remember the kindness of carrying her for ten months, but I was still a baby at that time, I didn't know anything."

The Queen Mother touched Niuniu's furry head and said, "Your mother is right. If you really alienate your biological parents, I'm afraid outsiders will say that you are unkind."

Niu Niu's face was troubled and she couldn't help wondering if she had gone too far.

"Don't worry, my dear. I will help you solve this problem." said the Queen Mother.

The affairs of the Xianguo Mansion were like a thorn in the throats of the Gu couple.

They had thought that it would be more difficult to resolve than the Xie family's issue, but they had not expected that the problem that had troubled them for many days could be completely suppressed by the Duke of Xian's Mansion with just a warning and some appeasement from the Queen Mother.

If the person in a higher position sneezes, those below will have to run away in panic.

After leaving the palace, Lady Xian Guogong locked herself in the room and smashed almost all the worthless things. But even so, the anger in her heart never subsided.

Qin Er came to his mother's house after she lost her temper: "Mom, she's just a little girl, why are you so angry?"

Lady Xian of the Duke glared at her son.

Qin Er came over and said, "My son is short of money recently, can you give him some more?"

The wife of Duke Xian said angrily, "Where do you get so much money to spend every day? You are almost emptying my private savings."

Qin Erke was not embarrassed at all, but said: "My son wants to do great things, how can he do it without money?"