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Nie never thought that one day her most beloved son would question her in person for an outsider.

According to the rules set by our ancestors, the family will be divided after both brothers get married?

The palace belongs to Zhao Tinghan, the Liang land belongs to Zhao Tinghan, the sacrificial land belongs to Zhao Tinghan, and 70% of the family business left by ancestors belongs to Zhao Tinghan, and the remaining 30% belongs to other brothers.

The more brothers there are, the less each person gets.

There are only two brothers, Zhao Tinghan and Zhao Tingxuan, in the royal palace of this generation, and Zhao Tingxuan alone can get the remaining 30%.

The properties of the Prince of Liang's Palace seem to be a lot, but if we remove the palace, the Liang land and the sacrificial fields, and then take away 70% of the remaining things, how much will be left?

The total amount that Zhao Tingxuan could get was only a few hundred thousand taels.

These hundreds of thousands of taels, if placed in any noble family in Beijing, would be enough to cause a fight among those unfilial descendants when the family property was divided.

Even in Prince Liang's Palace, hundreds of thousands of taels are a huge sum of money.

Nie also thinks so.

In her mind, as a woman, she should obey her father at home, obey her husband after marriage, and obey her son after her husband's death.

After King Liang died, she only had her two sons to rely on.

But Zhao Tinghan had not been raised by her side since he was a child, and he was not close to her. Moreover, Zhao Tinghan was a sickly person and did not have much time left!
Can she still rely on such a waste?

Of course not!

She also has a son, and she also has Zhao Tingxuan.

Zhao Tingxuan grew up under her careful care, but King Liang was only thinking about the sickly boy far away in the capital. He was dissatisfied with Zhao Tingxuan in many ways. Later, King Liang would rather give the command of the Royal Guard to Zhao Yunnuan than to his son Zhao Tingxuan.

This made Nie very dissatisfied.

However, at that time, the palace was ruled by Prince Liang, and no one could refute the decisions made by Prince Liang, and certainly not Nie.

Therefore, she kept all these dissatisfactions in her heart, and as time passed, these dissatisfactions and resentments accumulated more and more.

Until the death of King Liang, a lot of things happened in the palace. Her adopted daughter, whom she had never looked at seriously before, actually teamed up with a monster who was found from nowhere to drive rats, making her look ridiculous in public. And Zhao Yunnuan, the daughter who should have been well-behaved and obedient, insisted on letting Zhao Tinghan come back to inherit the throne. Not only did she ignore her younger brother who grew up with her, she even put her mother under house arrest.

If Nie could hide her dissatisfaction in the past, now she no longer wants to suppress it. Just now, Zhao Yunnuan not only grabbed her hand and forcibly took her pulse, but also threw and hit her in front of her. This is a humiliation to her!
Just at this moment, Zhao Shiqing came.

Nie never regarded Zhao Shiqing as her own daughter. In her eyes, Zhao Shiqing was not even an adopted daughter. At most, she was a little beggar picked up by King Liang from outside.

However, Prince Liang reported Zhao Shiqing to the clan house, and Zhao Shiqing was registered in the clan house. Regardless of whether she was a princess or not, she was undoubtedly a daughter of the royal family. This was an honor that the famous daughters of the Nie family could never get no matter how hard they studied music, chess, calligraphy and painting.

So no matter how much Nie disliked her, she never made things difficult for Zhao Shiqing.

However, today, when she saw Zhao Shiqing, she thought of the rats in the dungeon. Nie hated it. If it weren't for Zhao Shiqing, she wouldn't know what Nie Qionghua had done. If she didn't know, she would still be the dignified and noble Princess Liang.

It was because of this adopted daughter that she fell from the clouds to the dust. She became a sinner who invited a wolf into the house. She became a laughing stock. She had no face to face her own family. She even lost her dignity in front of her children.

All of this was because of this adopted daughter. If it weren't for her, what Nie Qionghua did would not have been exposed.

Those things are over and done with. People cannot live in the past forever. King Liang and his three children had long forgotten Aying. In their eyes and hearts, there was only that adopted daughter.

If they can, why can't she?
They forgot about Aying, and she, as a mother, should blame herself for Aying's death?
why?
This is not fair!

The moment he saw Zhao Shiqing, Nie's indignation burst out, and he grabbed something and threw it at Zhao Shiqing.

It was not until the thing fell to the ground that she realized it was actually a brass incense burner, big enough to smash Zhao Shiqing's head!

Nie was frightened for a moment. She was just a weak woman in the backyard. She had never even killed a chicken in her life. Even if she had ten times the courage, she would not dare to kill anyone.

But what is the adopted daughter saying?
He said that she wanted to kill him, and that he should be grateful to his master.

But it was such nonsense that not only made Zhao Tingxuan stand on her side, but also questioned his own biological mother for her!

Leprechaun!

Just like her master who looks like a vixen, they are all goblins!

Yes, why did she only realize now that this little adopted daughter has been a goblin since she was a child.

With a face that somewhat resembled Aying, she first bewitched King Liang, and then Zhao Yunnuan and Zhao Tingxuan, making them and everyone in the palace treat her as their precious darling.

She was only four or five years old at that time, but she was already able to charm people. She was a born vixen and a born enchantress.

If it wasn't a goblin, how could it attract those mice?

Thinking of this, Nie was furious. She pointed at Zhao Shiqing and said to Zhao Tingxuan, "I am your mother. I carried you for ten months and gave birth to you. Don't you believe me and trust an outsider? Would I kill someone? Would I? Oh, I will give her my life as compensation. Will you be satisfied then? I will die, let me die!"

As she spoke, Nie struggled and hit the bedpost. The rosewood bed was very sturdy.

The maids quickly hugged her from behind. Zhao Tingxuan knelt straight on the ground and slapped himself on the face several times: "Mother, it was my son's fault. Please hit my son and calm down."

Zhao Shiqing looked at the scene in front of her and suddenly felt it was boring, so she turned around and walked out.

Ling Bo was waiting outside. She didn't go in just now, but she also heard the noise coming from inside. She looked at Zhao Shiqing with a worried look on her face: "Second Miss, let's..."

Zhao Shiqing breathed in the outside air greedily. In Suining Palace, even the air was thin.

"I don't know where the little demon has gone. Let's go and look for him." Zhao Shiqing's tone was relaxed, and even his steps were relaxed.

Ling Bo followed behind, with more and more worry in his eyes.

The second young lady spoke the most, but now she said nothing. This meant that the second young lady had something on her mind. She was unhappy, very unhappy.

Zhao Shiqing walked quickly and came to a corner of the garden where there was a large stone as smooth as a mirror. Zhao Shiqing sat cross-legged on it, looking up at the bird's nest on the tree, lost in thought.

Behind this big rock is a small courtyard. When she first entered the palace, she lived in this small courtyard.

At that time, her eyesight had not yet recovered, and she could only sit under the big tree in the yard and talk to the birds every day.

Until one day, she heard a very nice voice. It was Zhao Yunnuan. From then on, she had a sister in this world.

Later, she had a father and a second brother, as well as an older brother who existed in the legend, and a mother who was very cold to her.

Children are sensitive creatures. She could feel that her mother didn't like her. But in the following ten years, although she kept her distance from Nie, Nie still firmly occupied the position of mother in her heart.

Perhaps it was because in her memory, she had never lived in a normal family. Her life was spent with her master. Although her master was ten years older than her, she was also an unmarried girl. They were master and apprentice, sisters, and friends, but not mother and daughter.

Therefore, for Zhao Shiqing, Nie's status as a mother is irreplaceable. The maternal love that Zhao Shiqing understands is the one that exists in the storybooks, but the maternal love that she has seen with her own eyes is Nie's love for Zhao Tingxuan.

Even though there was a glacier between Nie and Zhao Shiqing, in Zhao Shiqing's subconscious, her mother was Nie.

This concept has accompanied her growth and has been deeply engraved in her mind.

However, just now, her consciousness was disrupted, and she suddenly had an idea:
If her biological mother were still alive, she would definitely not treat her like Nie did, at least she would not hit her with a brass incense burner.

Not to mention that he just randomly picked up something and threw it at Zhao Tingxuan, if it was Zhao Tingxuan, would Nie also pick up the incense burner and throw it at him?

No assumptions, definitely not!
The little demon came running over from somewhere, jumped onto the stone, and found a comfortable position to lie down on Zhao Shiqing's crossed legs.

Suddenly, a little moisture fell on the tip of Xiao Yao's ear. She raised her little head and thought, it's not raining.

Ah, the little demon saw that it was not raining, but it was her bad master who was raining.

The little demon stood up, stretched, raised his front paws and placed them on Zhao Shiqing's shoulders, stretched out his cute little tongue, and gently licked away the tears on her face.

[Silly boy, stop crying. There is a cat here, so you don’t have to be afraid.]

Zhao Shiqing smiled and scratched her neck. "Silly cat, when we get back to Baihe Mountain, I'll take you to see your mother. Your mother must have given birth to another cub. Let's take one home to raise, okay?"

Little Demon: [No, no, no, you are such a heartless person. You want to find a new cat again. The cat is angry and can't be coaxed! ]

Zhao Shiqing raised her hands in surrender: "Okay, okay, it's my fault. I won't look for a new cat. I'll find you a son-in-law later."

Little Demon: [Big liar, you still want to find a new cat, cats hate you! ]

Zhao Shiqing laughed loudly, jumped off the stone, ran into the sunlight, and hooked his finger at the little demon who was still clinging to the stone: "Come on, I'll take you to Changchun Palace. You haven't been to Changchun Palace yet, right? Coincidentally, I haven't been there either. Let's go see the world!"

A man and a cat ran towards Changchun Palace. The sunlight cast their shadows into slanted and long ones. Sometimes the man was in front and the cat was behind, sometimes the cat was in front and the man was behind, and sometimes the two shadows overlapped.

In Changchun Palace, Zhao Yunnuan and Zhao Tinghan already knew what had just happened in Suining Palace. Zhao Yunnuan was about to go out to look for Zhao Shiqing, but before she walked out of the hall, she saw Zhao Shiqing running in, jumping and skipping.

Zhao Shiqing was bathed in sunshine, his forehead shining with sweat.

"Sister, I came to see big brother. Big brother, are you feeling better? Wow, this Changchun Palace is so big and gorgeous. Oh my god, are those lamps inlaid with night pearls? So beautiful!"

Zhao Shiqing was like a country bumpkin coming to the city. He would marvel at every display he saw, causing Zhao Tinghan and Zhao Yunnuan to smile at each other.

Zhao Tinghan smiled and said, "Just take whatever you like."

Zhao Shiqing's eyes flickered: "Really? Can I really take anything I like?"

Zhao Tinghan laughed: "Of course it's true, you are my sister, even if you want the stars in the sky, I will climb a ladder to pick them for you."

Zhao Shiqing: "Brother, you are so smart, why do you need to step on the ladder? Just fill a basin with water and give me the stars."

The three siblings laughed out loud, as if they had always been together all these years, with no separation and no estrangement.

After finally calming Nie down, Zhao Tingxuan hurried to Changchun Palace. Before he entered, he heard laughter coming from inside.

There are both boys and girls. The girls are the eldest sister and the youngest sister. The male voice must be the eldest brother.

My brother laughed heartily and it seemed that he was in much better health.

so good.

Zhao Tingxuan was overjoyed and walked quickly into the hall.

As his figure appeared at the door, the laughter in the hall stopped abruptly.

Zhao Yunnuan was still blaming him for not going to the city gate, but when she saw him coming, she turned her face away.

Zhao Shiqing lowered her head and picked out her favorite preserved fruits from the box. She took one piece for herself and put the other one into her sister's mouth.

Only Zhao Tinghan's eyes fell on Zhao Tingxuan. He smiled and said, "Second brother? You're so tall now. If you were walking on the street, I wouldn't be able to recognize you."

It has been fourteen years, and when he left, his younger brother was still in his mother's arms.

Zhao Tingxuan's nose was sour, he lifted his clothes and knelt down: "Brother, I greet you. I was not able to go out of the city to welcome you back today. It's all my fault. I was not considerate and incompetent."

Zhao Tinghan got off the bed and, with the help of Denghua, walked to Zhao Tingxuan and helped him up with both hands: "We are close brothers, there is no need to be so particular. You didn't go because mother was ill. Over the years, you have been filial to my parents on my behalf. I am the one who should be ashamed."

Zhao Tingxuan felt ashamed and regretful. In fact, at the beginning of the day, when he saw his mother fainted, he did think that she was seriously ill. But later, her mother woke up, crying and pulling his sleeves tightly. At that time, he could have left, but his heart was soft. He couldn't bear to leave his mother, so he stayed and stayed with her, and thus missed the time when his eldest brother entered the city.

Thinking about it now, he really did something wrong.

Although he was not trained to be the crown prince, he grew up in the palace. How could he not understand the basic rules of etiquette?

When his eldest brother returned to Liang, he did not go to meet him. When his eldest brother arrived at the city gate, he did not go to greet him. Each of these things were mistakes that would be condemned by thousands of people.

He clearly wanted his elder brother to come back, but even he himself couldn't explain why he had come to this point and made so many wrong things. (End of this chapter)