the seventh bride

Chapter 267 Ending ([-])

It's been a long time since I've been to Yancheng, and as soon as I stepped into Yancheng, a familiar yet unfamiliar land, Bai Muqing's mood immediately soared.

The feeling of coming here this time is much more comfortable than the previous few times. She even closed her eyes against the gentle spring breeze regardless of other people's sideways, opened her arms and sighed happily: "Ah! My hometown. I am finally back."

Nan Gongchen took a look at her, smiled and took Xiao Wanqing's hands and raised them like her: "Ah, Mommy's hometown, I'm here too!"

"Ah, Mommy's hometown, Dad is here too." Wan Qing said with a giggle.

Bai Muqing looked down at the father and daughter who were joining in the fun, and said, "Father often comes."

"Not too often." Nangong Chen stood up and put one arm on her shoulder: "Since you're not here, this place seems to have cast a shadow on me. Even if I need to go on a business trip, Assistant Yan will come here instead of me."

"And now? No more shadows?"

"It's gone." Nangong Chen shook his head, and looked down at her: "What about you? There shouldn't be any, right?"

"Not at all." Bai Muqing said with a smile: "It's rare that we are all so happy, why don't we find a hotel near the sea to stay?"

"Yeah! I want to live in a seaside hotel! I want to play in the sand every day." Little Wanqing cheered.

Nangong Chen and Bai Muqing looked at each other and smiled, it seemed that they couldn't live by the sea.
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In fact, they don't need to stay in a hotel at all. Nangong's family happens to have a villa near the sea, but no one has ever lived in it.

Before coming to Yancheng, Nangong Chen had ordered someone to come over and clean it up, so he could move in directly.

After the family of three came to the seaside villa, Xiao Wanqing cheered and ran to the beach as soon as she put down her things.

Bai Muqing leaned on the railing of the villa and looked at Wan Qing who was like a happy little angel, a smile appeared on her lips unconsciously.

Nangong Chen came out of the room, saw the smile on her face, then glanced at Xiao Wanqing who was not far away, and raised his arms to hug her: "What is so happy, tell me and share it together?"

Bai Muqing still stared at Xiao Wanqing who was running on the beach, and said: "Suddenly, I feel that life is really wonderful. Last time we came there were two people, but this time there are already three people, and he is also a person who can run for a while." Jumping baby."

"Well, I remember when Wanqing was still in your stomach when I first came here, and you kept me a secret."

"Are you blaming me?"

"Although every time I think of it, I have the urge to make you faint, but is it useful to blame you?"

"It's useless." Bai Muqing smiled and shook her head.

"That's right, you don't care about my anger at all now." Nan Gongchen shook his head pretending to be sad and sighed: "Oh, I'm getting less and less prestige as the head of the family, and I still miss when I coughed, The time when your legs tremble."

"That time is gone forever, you should give up." Bai Muqing said with a smile.

Nangong Chen threw her down on the guardrail, lowered his head and gnawed on her neck: "Little fairy!"

Bai Muqing smiled and evaded for a while, then pushed him away from her body: "Stop making trouble, if Wan Qing sees it, she will think we are fighting again."

Nangong Chen glanced at Wan Qing who was not far away, and had no choice but to let her go.

Bai Muqing straightened her clothes, looked at the small but unique villa in front of her and asked, "Is this also the property of the Nangong family? Why haven't you brought me here before?"

Nangong Chen smiled: "The Nangong family's properties are all over the country, and I will take you there slowly."

"No need, I like Yancheng because I grew up here when I was a child, and I have feelings for this place, and I don't have much interest in other places."

"Like it here?"

"like."

"Then stay here for a few more days and treat it as a vacation."

"you do not need to work?"

"Didn't you say that money can never be earned." Nan Gongchen put his hands casually on the guardrail, looking at the little Wanqing on the beach: "Money can never be earned, but Wanqing will grow up, If we don't spend more time with her and hug her, she will grow up and don't need our company anymore."

"Can you not be so beautiful?" Bai Muqing looked up at him, speechless on her face.

If it didn't hit her heart, she wouldn't be sad, Nangong Chen smiled and raised his hand to rub her hair: "Sorry, I have a lot of free time recently, and I have a lot of things to think about. "

Bai Muqing leaned into his arms, hugged him and sighed softly: "Actually, what you said is right, when Wan Qing grows up and gets married, if we want to accompany her, she will probably find us annoying."

"Why is it your turn now?" Nan Gongchen looked at her funny.

"It's not because of you." Bai Muqing cast a reproachful glance at him.

Nangong Chen took her little hand with an innocent face: "Okay, I was wrong, I have already apologized just now. Then we don't think about anything now, how about An Anxin to play with Wan Qing?"

While speaking, he had already pulled Bai Muqing's palm and walked towards the beach.

The little Wanqing on the other side of the beach saw them coming down, and excitedly waved at them, "Mom and Dad, there are so many beautiful shells here, hurry up and help me pick them up together!"

Hearing what Wan Qing said, Bai Muqing immediately looked down at her feet, and said with a surprised face: "There are really a lot of shells."

Nangong Chen followed her to scan the beach below her feet and said: "Tourists are forbidden to enter here, and few people pick it up, so there are more."

Bai Muqing picked up a shell and exposed it to the sun, then casually said: "If you are rich, you are a cow, even if you pick up more shells than others."

Nangong Chen smiled and grabbed her palm and walked towards Wan Qing.

"Father, hold it for me." Wan Qing handed the shell to Nangong Chen.

Nan Gongchen took it and helped her hold it in his hands, but Wan Qing picked it up too quickly, and gradually he couldn't hold it.

"Baby, Dad can't hold it anymore, can we pick up another day with a bag?"

Wan Qing looked back at her, then walked over and lifted the hem of his T-shirt: "Father, you are so stupid, you can have clothes to cover you."

"That's right, what a stupid dad..." Bai Muqing echoed Wan Qing's tone.

Nangong Chen had never used the hem of his clothes to pocket things like this before, and protested very unaccustomedly: "Baby, use your own skirt to pocket things, you can definitely pocket a lot."

"No, I want to pick up shells and play in the water."

"I also want to pick up shells and play in the water."

"Dad, you are an adult now, you can't be so childish."

"Did you hear that, you are an adult and you can't learn how children pick up water and pick up shells." Bai Muqing said.

"It's better for you to do it." Nangong Chen stretched out her hand to lift her big skirt, Bai Muqing was so frightened by him that she screamed and dodged, and shouted: "Nangong Chen, you are shameless."

"What are you afraid of, no one will see here anyway." Nangong Chen simply put the shell in his hand on the beach, and chased after Bai Muqing.

Bai Muqing yelled and evaded: "Nangongchen, the baby asked you to help him get the shell, how could you push it on me? You...!"

Bai Muqing was pinned down on the beach by Nangong Chen, she instinctively turned over and struggled, and the two rolled on the beach like this.

Xiao Wanqing looked at the two who were rolling together, watched them roll and roll, and kissed them, and said in a speechless voice: "Mom and Dad, can you stop fighting all day long? The teacher said that when something happened, You have to communicate well, you can’t always fight.”

"Did you hear that? Let's talk about something." Bai Muqing pushed him away from her body, and stared at him angrily: "Why is it so important to ask you to get some shells? Why don't you hurry up and get me up."

Nangong Chen climbed up from Bai Muqing's body, smiled and said to Wan Qing: "Your mother's temper is too stubborn, I really couldn't communicate with her before we started doing it, don't imitate her."

"Obviously he is the one who refuses to take shells for our baby." Bai Muqing protested.

Xiao Wanqing looked at the two of them, shook her head and turned around, as if she couldn't stand them.
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After picking up the shells, the family of three went back to the villa to change clothes.

Bai Muqing changed Wan Qing's clothes while smiling and said, "Would you like to let others know when you see grandma and uncle later?"

"Got it." Wan Qing pointed to the pink dress on the hanger and said, "Mom, I want to wear this princess dress."

"Why? Mom has already changed it for you."

"I have to dress nicely, so my grandma and little uncle will like me."

Nangong Chen smiled and said: "Wan Qing is so afraid that others don't like her, where is the shadow?"

Bai Muqing looked at Xiao Wanqing, she would never have been so unconfident in the past, why did she become so unconfident today?Is it a mother-daughter bond?At such a young age, she could already feel that her mother was not loved by her grandma since she was a child?
Feeling her heartache, Nangong Chen hurriedly took Wan Qing's little hand and said: "Don't worry, grandma and little uncle won't dislike Wan Qing. If little uncle dares to dislike Wan Qing, Dad will take care of him."

"Father, you are violent again." Wan Qing reminded him.

"Uh, Dad was joking." Nangong Chen picked her up from the ground: "Let's go, we should go out."

Zhu Hui and Xiaoyi still lived in the western suburbs residence that Zhu Zhiwen had arranged for him. Although Bai Muqing had contacted Zhu Hui before coming to Yancheng and explained what had happened to her, but after seeing When Bai Muqing was around, Zhu Hui still had an expression of disbelief.

She looked at Bai Muqing, and after a while she called out in a daze, "Are you really Mu Qing?"

Bai Muqing nodded, and called excitedly: "Mom, I'm Mu Qing, I'm back."

"How is this possible? The car accident back then was so serious, how could you be Mu Qing..." Zhu Hui murmured.

"Mom, if you don't believe that I am Mu Qing, then take a look at Wan Qing. You should believe her when you see her, right?" Bai Muqing smiled and pulled Wan Qing out from behind her, coaxing her: "Wan Qing Sunny, be good, call me grandma again."

"Grandma..." Wan Qing called out cautiously.

Zhu Hui finally shifted her gaze from Bai Muqing to Wan Qing, and when she saw Wan Qing's face that was exactly the same as Mu Qing's when she was a child, she was so shocked that she couldn't speak for a long time.

"Mom, Wanqing is the biological daughter of Young Master Chen and I, she is not dead."

"Wanqing?" Zhu Hui stepped forward, took little Wanqing's hands and looked at her closely, then looked up at Bai Muqing and Nangong Chen and said, "You really look like Mu Qing when you were young."

"So, mom, do you still suspect that I'm a fake?" Bai Muqing smiled and said.

"Sister, so you are really my sister?" Xiaoyi, who had been standing by the side, finally couldn't help but squeezed up, looked at Bai Muqing and exclaimed: "Sister, why didn't you tell me when you were in the apartment last time? I thought my brother-in-law was lying to me."

Thinking of the process of recognizing relatives in the apartment last time, everyone smiled bitterly.

Nangong Chen smiled and said: "When I told you that Mu Qing was not dead, you all treated me as a lunatic, even your sister thought I was insane. At that time, I was really anxious and helpless."

"I'm sorry, because I didn't recover my memory at that time, so I didn't know who I was." Bai Muqing smiled and raised her hand to touch the top of Xiaoyi's head: "Long time no see, Xiaoyi is even taller than me."

"Sister, I won't trouble you again in the future." Xiaoyi chuckled, then lowered her head to tease little Wanqing: "Sister, is this little baby the baby in your stomach back then?"

"Yes, she is your own niece."

"Come on, listen to the call uncle?" Xiaoyi smiled and hooked her fingers at Wanqing.

"Uncle." Wan Qing called out obediently, looked at him and said, "But uncle can see clearly, I'm not a baby, I'm almost four years old."

"Yo, it's quite true." Xiaoyi took her little hand: "Come on, uncle will take you to pick fruit and eat."

"What is fruit picking?"

"Well, the fruit grows on the tree, let's go and pick her off."

"Really? Is there any fruit picking here?" Wan Qing immediately became happy. She looked at Xiaoyi, and finally turned to Nangong Chen with uneasiness: "Father, I want you to accompany me to pick fruit."

Nangong Chen looked at Bai Muqing, nodded and took Wan Qing's little hand: "Okay, Dad will accompany you to pick the fruit."

After Nangong Chen left with Wan Qing, Bai Muqing turned around and found that Zhu Hui had burst into tears at some point.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?" She hurried up, took Zhu Hui's arm, helped her to sit on the sofa, and looked at her: "Why are you crying? Mom, don't you want to see me and Wanqing? "

Zhu Hui covered her mouth and shook her head: "No, I just feel sorry for you, for the crimes you have suffered over the years."

"It's all over." Bai Muqing smiled and patted her on the shoulder: "Mom, I've already stopped thinking about the past, so don't you too, okay? Don't cry."

"I know it's not easy for you these years, but fortunately everything is better now." Bai Muqing wiped the tears off her face with a tissue: "Don't worry, from today onwards none of us will have any more disasters , I will take care of you and Xiaoyi as before."

"Don't talk about it anymore, the more you say that, the more uncomfortable your mother will be." Zhu Hui shook her head, "It's all useless because of your mother. It's your mother who caused you to suffer so much."

"Mom, why do you say that?" Bai Muqing looked at her: "You know, I never blamed you, let alone thought about it."

"Mu Qing, I'm sorry, I never knew what happened between you and Nangong Chen when you were young, let alone that Zhu Zhu married Nangong Chen instead of you, and framed you in such a serious car accident. These mothers only knew about it recently. .”

"You know everything?" Bai Muqing was surprised.

Zhu Hui nodded: "I didn't know the truth until after your uncle's accident. He kept lying to me that Zhu Zhu married a good family, but he never told me that Zhu Zhu married Nangong Chen. So they married me. Bringing Xiaoyi back to Yancheng is to prevent me from knowing the truth."

"How are uncle and aunt doing now?" Bai Muqing only knew that Zhu Zhu was dead, but never asked her cruel uncle and aunt.

"Your aunt was thrown into prison by Nangong Chen, and your uncle was also cornered by those creditors and hid somewhere."

"All of this was done by Nangong Chen?" Bai Muqing was surprised.

Zhu Hui wiped away the tears from her face, and nodded: "Yes, Nangong Chen also took back their house. In short, your uncle and aunt must have taken it upon themselves."

After Zhu Hui finished speaking, she continued to say angrily: "I always thought your grandma died strangely, but I didn't expect that it was killed by the two of them. They really had no conscience in order to let Zhu Zhu marry into Nangong's family. What happened? Can do it all."

"Mom, everything has already happened, let's not think about it, shall we?"

"How could I not think about it? It's fine for them to kill your grandma, but it's too vicious for them to treat you so hard."

"It's really vicious, but they have already received their retribution, haven't they?" Bai Muqing smiled and grabbed her hands: "Mom, let's stop talking about those unhappy things and talk about happy things, shall we?"

Zhu Hui nodded, and finally started to look at her again: "How are you doing now? Are you okay?"

"Okay, I got back together with Young Master Chen, and Wan Qing has also found her. Now I just took you and Xiaoyi to my side." Bai Muqing said.

"Wan Qing, yes, where did Wan Qing go? I haven't even had a good look at her yet." Zhu Hui looked around.

Just now, because she was patronizing Sadness, she ignored the child Wan Qing.

"Wan Qing went outside to pick fruit." Bai Muqing smiled and said, "Wan Qing has been worried that Grandma doesn't like her all the way."

"How come?" Zhu Hui finally smiled: "Wan Qing is so cute and well-behaved, how could I not like her?"

"I think so." Bai Muqing changed her words after finishing speaking: "By the way, Mom, you can go back to City C with us in a few days, and you can live in the apartment where you lived at the beginning. The environment and surrounding facilities are complete there. It is also convenient to go to school.”

All this sounds good, but Zhu Hui shook her head: "No, Xiaoyi and I are already used to life in Yancheng, so we won't go back to City C with you."

"Why? You live in City C, so I can take care of you on weekdays, and I like City C a little bit." Bai Muqing said.

"I'm in good health now, and I don't need your care for the time being. Don't worry, Xiaoyi and I are fine here." Zhu Hui now feels that she doesn't even have the face to see Nangong Chen, so why bother him all the time?
At the beginning, she believed her brother's words so ambiguously, and put Mu Qing into such an unbearable situation. Although Nan Gongchen didn't blame her, she felt guilty and embarrassed just thinking about it.
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After leaving her mother's house, Bai Muqing also stopped by old lady Zhu's grave to visit her.

In a blink of an eye, it was several years since I saw her again. Bai Muqing squatted in front of the old lady's grave, stroking her head, and said bitterly: "Grandma, I wonder if you would like to see my uncle's family end up like this? Kindness, you must not bear to see them like this?"

Although Bai Muqing felt that her uncle's family deserved what they deserved, she still felt a little sad when she thought that the descendants of the Zhu family had ended up like this.

She believed that if Mrs. Zhu Quanxia knew, she would definitely forgive them.

Seeing Bai Muqing standing in front of Mrs. Zhu's grave for a long time, Nan Gongchen came over and put his arms around her shoulders and said, "Mu Qing, it's time for us to go back."

After finishing speaking, he turned to the tombstone of Mrs. Zhu, and said respectfully: "Grandma, don't worry, I will take good care of Mu Qing and never let her suffer from the past again. Also, Mu Qing and I I will come to see you every year, goodbye."

Bai Muqing stared at Nangong Chen, then bowed to Mrs. Zhu, and left Mrs. Zhu's cemetery with Nangong Chen.

It was already night when the family of three returned to the villa.

Bai Muqing helped Banqing take a bath, put her to sleep, and then walked out of the bedroom to the study in the next room.

Nangong Chen was dealing with some important business, when he saw her coming in, he looked up at her and asked, "Wan Qing fell asleep?"

"Well, what about you? Are you done with your business?" Bai Muqing put the water glass in his hand.

Nangong Chen said: "Today's affairs are basically dealt with." He took a sip of warm boiled water from the cup, and looked up at her: "What's the matter? She looks preoccupied."

"No, it's just that I recalled a lot of past things with my mother today, and went to see my grandma again, so I feel a little sad."

Hearing what she said, Nangong Chen stood up and hugged her into his arms, kissing her hair: "Don't be sentimental, it's all a thing of the past."

Bai Muqing nodded.

Nangong Chen then asked again: "By the way, how are you talking with Mom? Will she go back to City C with us?"

Bai Muqing shook her head, and said helplessly: "This is also the reason for my sadness. I have persuaded her a lot, but she just doesn't want to leave Yancheng."

"I've lived in Yancheng for so long, it's normal to be reluctant to leave, don't be sad, just let them stay." Nangong Chen thought for a while, looked down at her and said, "Don't worry, I will find you in the urban area. Let them live in a house, and arrange someone to take good care of her and Xiaoyi."

"Really?" Bai Muqing looked up at him.

"Why are you talking to me in such a suspicious tone again? Is it difficult to do such a trivial matter?" Nan Gongchen tapped her forehead with her finger, and Bai Muqing smiled, hugged him tightly, and His arms moved: "Thank you, thank you so much."

"Thank you, we are a family now." Nan Gongchen lowered his head to tease her: "If you have to thank me, then just give me a kiss."

Without even thinking about it, Bai Muqing stood on tiptoe and kissed him on the lips.

How hard is it to kiss him?Just what she loves to do! ——
This trip to Yancheng, apart from meeting Zhu Hui, Nangong Chen's original plan was to bring Bai Muqing and Wan Qing out for fun.

Zhu Hui felt ashamed to see Nangong Chen, and refused to play around with everyone, Xiaojian was very happy to see her sister, and still loved her and Nangong Chen as much as before.

After playing outside for a day, everyone had breakfast together in the morning of the next day, Nan Gongchen asked Xiaoyi to stay at home to play with Wan Qing, and he and Bai Muqing walked around together.

In the past two days, Wanqing has gotten to know Xiaoyi well, and she is happy to let them go to the world of two.

Although two nannies were arranged to watch over Xiaoyi and Wanqing at home, Bai Muqing was still a little worried when she was about to leave the house, and repeatedly told Xiaoyi to take good care of Wanqing and not let her fall into the sea.

Nangong Chen raised his hand to caress the back of her head, smiled and said: "This is a shallow sea area, you can't fall in, and, Xiao Yi is a big boy, you can take good care of Wan Qing, don't always treat him like a three-year-old Children watch."

Bai Muqing smiled embarrassedly.

Although Xiaoyi has grown to be as tall as her, in her heart he is still that little kid who likes chasing her to buy chicken legs, so it is hard to worry.

After the two left the beach together, Bai Muqing looked at Nangong Chen and asked, "Where are you going to take me?"

"Where do you want to go?" Nangong Chen turned to look at her: "See if we are thinking of the same place?"

Bai Muqing smiled and said, "Actually, I really want to go back to Zhu's alley, but it seems a little far away."

"It's just right, I want to go too." Nangong Chen smiled: "It seems that we still have a good understanding."

"real or fake?"

"of course it's true."

As expected, Nangong Chen drove the car to the alley near Zhu's house and stopped, because the alley has now become a commercial street, and it is difficult for a car to get in, so the two got out of the car, walked in hand in hand while shopping.

Seeing the dazzling snacks on both sides of the alley, Bai Muqing couldn't help but think of the scene when she persuaded Nan Gongchen to eat snacks and ended up with a bad stomach, and couldn't help laughing out with a 'chi'.

Nangong Chen seemed to guess what she was laughing at, moved his palm around her shoulders, and pinched her cheek: "Don't laugh."

"Can I eat that?" Bai Muqing pointed to the delicious food on both sides of the street.

"Of course." Nangong Chen nodded.

"But I still want you to eat with me." Bai Muqing shook his wrist coquettishly.

"Do you want me to squat in the toilet for half a day like last time?"

"No way, your body is so good now!" Bai Muqing said as she squeezed to a small skewer stall in front and bought two bunches of skewers.

Seeing her rare girlish heart full, Nan Gongchen was reluctant to caress her, and ate skewers with her.

"How is it? Does it taste good?"

"it is good."

"Wait, let me take a picture." Bai Muqing took out her mobile phone and pulled out the camera, Nangong Chen approached her very cooperatively, and put the skewers near her mouth to pose for a picture.

After Bai Muqing put the phone back into her pocket, she took back the skewers in his hand: "You'd better eat less, don't really spoil your stomach."

"Aroused my appetite but won't let me eat?" Nan Gongchen expressed dissatisfaction and snatched the skewers back, and ate with her.

At this time, the two of them were like young couples, eating and taking pictures while walking forward, and after walking for a while, they came to the small courtyard of Zhu's family where Bai Muqing lived when she was a child.

Bai Muqing stopped walking, looked up at the old small courtyard, and felt a lot heavier in an instant.

Nangong Chen looked at her and smiled slightly: "What's the matter? Don't dare to go in?"

Bai Muqing glanced at him sideways, took a light breath, and walked inside.

(End of this chapter)