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After coaxing his daughter, Cao Ting'an strode out. When he approached the door of the inner room, he thought of seeing Jiang, so he couldn't help but relax.
To be honest, my daughter is much better than Jiang.
Women, the bigger the bigger the thoughts, the deeper the more they are, and it is very difficult to guess. Unlike when I was a child, when I was a child, I could make a little girl laugh by making me laugh.
After pinching his eyebrows, Cao Ting'an was used to raising his face on the floor and lifting the curtain.
Jiang was almost crying, and he hid at the door and eavesdropped for a while. He was not trying to spy on something, but because he was afraid that his daughter would say the wrong thing and anger Cao Ting'an.
What surprised her was that Cao Tingan was willing to coax his daughter so gently and agreed to admit his mistake to her.
Jiang's wife does not want to ask the domineering and arrogant Marquis of Pingyang to really apologize to her, and she will be content with her daughter being safe and sound.
Wiping away her tears in advance, Jiang quickly moved to the warm couch in front of the window. When Cao Ting'an came out, she looked like she had never eavesdropped.
Cao Ting'an looked straight at her.
Jiang lowered his eyes in time and said, "Ayu is young and ignorant, don't bother with her."
Cao Tingan had no idea how to apologize. Jiang was so polite, so Cao Tingan was even more at a loss and sat on the couch next to her in silence.
Jiang looked at his big hand on his knee and asked for instructions: "If the Marquis did not give me instructions, I will go and talk to Ayu? I will remember all the things you told me."
Cao Tingan moved his lips, but when he saw Jiang's red eyes, he immediately forgot what he wanted to say.
"Go, go." Cao Tingan sighed and turned his head.
Jiang nodded and turned around and entered the inner room.
Cao Ting'an watched her. When Jiang came in, he thought about it and glanced at the door leading to the main hall. Suddenly, he tiptoed to the door of the inner room like a devil, and listened with his ears.
In the inner room, Ayu lay on the bed facing out, looking forward to his parents' reconciliation. Unexpectedly, his father went out for a few words and words before his mother came back!
She sat up and asked in confusion: "Auntie, why are you here? Where are you?"
My daughter's eyes were wide open and full of energy. It seemed that drunkenness did not hurt her daughter. Jiang was relieved and said softly: "I'm still outside, maybe I'll leave too." As she said that, she sat down to the edge of the bed.
Ayu bit his lip and asked without hope: "Auntie, Daddy is cruel to you. He just promised me to apologize to you, right? He has accused you, right?"
Jiang looked helpless and rubbed his daughter's head and said, "You are getting more and more bold. The Marquis is just that temper. He just said a few harsh words. Why should you apologize to me? Ayu, remember, I am the aunt, you are a concubine's daughter. The Marquis' Mansion has the rules of the Marquis' Mansion. You can't forget your identity just because the Marquis' spoiled you, and you become charming."
She said solemnly, and Ayu had long disapproved and turned aside.
In her previous life, she kept in mind the rules her mother taught her and lived cautiously, and in the end everyone could bully her. When her father was alive, those people dared to torture her. When her father died, they came to take her life directly. In this life, Ayu would definitely not be petty, but she would not keep the rules in her heart all the time. Life was short, so it would be better to live a more casual life.
"What is my identity?" After thinking it through, Ayu looked up and looked at his mother and asked and answered: "I am Dad's daughter. Dad is good to me. I will do what all daughters in the world will do. When I miss Dad, go to him. When I am wronged, go to him to support him. When Dad does a good thing, I respect him. When Dad does a wrong thing, I would rather offend him than tell him."
Jiang was stunned and asked subconsciously: "Aren't you afraid that he will be angry?"
Outside the door, Cao Ting'an couldn't help but stick his face closer to the door.
Then, he heard his daughter say, "From I can remember, I have been afraid of my father. I have been afraid of my father for so many years and have let my father care for me in vain. Now I finally know that it was Aunt Wu who slandered her father and I wronged her father. What else am I afraid of? I just wish I could go back to when I was three or four years old, let my father love me again, and I would also respect him well."
This is not something a normal eleven-year-old girl can say, and the sweet voice is also filled with regrets and insights that girls should not have. But as parents, whether Jiang or Cao Ting'an, who was hiding at the door, forgot to pursue those things, and was only immersed in his own touch.
Cao Tingan closed his eyes.
No wonder my daughter seems to have changed in the past two days. It turns out that she thinks so much. It turns out that she likes him, her father so much.
Cao Ting'an's heart has never been as soft as it is now, like a piece of ice, and it is easily melted by his daughter.
Yes, he and his daughter missed such a long family time.
On the one hand, he was busy leading troops to fight, challenging civil servants and eating tables with friends, busy teaching two sons to unite their two younger brothers, busy caring for the sister who is the queen, busy ensuring that the prince and nephew can grow up healthily, and finally got free. Most of his mind was focused on sleeping with women and enjoying themselves, leaving a little free time, the eldest daughter Cao Liang Shunbi Gu Tuoluo Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, 15, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, 15, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh
He did nothing, at most he disliked Jiang for raising his daughter as timid and cowardly.
But the daughter took all the responsibility for the father-daughter distancing on herself.
Cao Ting'an Su is a hero from a vocal hero. Now, he finds that he is just a hero on the battlefield. In Taoyuan, he is not even as good as a maid who takes care of their mother and mother.
Ayu didn't know that his father was eavesdropping. Seeing his mother being stunned, Ayu leaned into her mother's arms with heartache, hugged her overly slender waist and said, "Auntie, I know you are still afraid of dad. You dare not tell the truth to dad, then tell me? You are still young and dad is in his prime. I think you are harmonious. If there is any misunderstanding, let's talk about it, okay?"
Jiang really wanted to tell her daughter, but those things involved too many private affairs of the couple, how could she dirty her daughter's ears?
With his chin pressed against his daughter's head, Jiang thought for a moment and smiled bitterly: "Actually it's nothing, it's just that the aunt is timid. The Marquis frowned or had a stern face, and the aunt is afraid."
Ayu didn't believe it, so he raised his head from his mother's arms: "It's so simple, why don't you tell your father?"
Jiang used his fingers to describe his daughter's thin eyebrows and said absent-mindedly: "This is the aunt's problem, and I can't blame the marquis, so I didn't say it."
Ayu couldn't help but say, "My aunt said that, dad might have changed his bad temper."
Jiang's face changed and he hurriedly covered his daughter's mouth: "Don't be disrespectful to the Marquis!"
Ayu hummed with his nose.
Cao Ting'an:...
My daughter is right, isn’t he just a bad temper? Jiang is still willing to protect him, but I think he still has him in his heart.
Pingyang Hou, who was eavesdropping like a thief, unconsciously raised his lips, and was scolded and proud.
"I won't talk about Marquis, Ayu, do you know why you fainted at the table?" Jiang began to say the most important thing.
Ayu knew, but she had to pretend to be stupid and asked blankly: "Why?"
Jiang explained in detail.
Ayu listened very seriously on the surface, but his memory went back to the first time he discovered that he had a special physique in his previous life.
That year, she was thirteen years old and followed her cousin Cao Pei to visit the Duke of Zhenguo. In late spring and early summer, the Duke of Guoguo's mansion was full of flowers. The cousins and the eldest girl Xu Qiong and the second girl Xu Ying sat in the pavilion to enjoy the flowers and fish. Xu Kexin brewed several jars of fruit wine, and specially brought a pot of each flavor to them for taste.
Xu Qiong, Xu Ying, and Cao Pei all drank it. Ayu kept in mind the rules his mother taught her and refused to drink anything he said.
Without the permission of the elders, it is wrong for a girl to drink at home.
Xu Qiong deliberately sang a counter-topic with her and insisted on her drinking.
Fortunately, Xu Ke respected her wishes and did not force them.
Next, she sat next to them and watched them taste wine.
After receiving unanimous praise from the three girls, Xu Ke left a pot of fruit wine and continued to try it out with others.
After he left, Xu Qiong urged her to drink again. In order to help her, Xu Ying and Cao Pei took Xu Qiong to the distance to enjoy the flowers.
Ayu, who was left alone in the pavilion, swallowed the glass of wine that Xu Ke had poured for her.
She just abides by the rules and doesn't want to drink.
The fruit wine smelled so fragrant, with the sweetness of the fruit. Ayu finally couldn't help it. She was sure that Xu Qiong and others couldn't see it, so she secretly drank a glass.
The cup was delicate and small, not much, so Ayu poured another cup and drank it all, then poured another cup to pretend that he had never touched it.
As soon as he covered up the traces, Ayu got over. If he was drunk and was discovered, it would be like there was no silver here. Ayu was very nervous and decided to sneak away and go to the West Courtyard to find his third aunt. On that day, Baochan also came to the Duke's Mansion with her. It happened that the West Courtyard hired a nanny to teach the maids how to deal with some common minor illnesses and learned to take good care of their masters. Baochan was curious and followed her to listen and learn.
At that time, Ayu didn't know how powerful the two small glasses of fruit wine were, otherwise she would rather be ridiculed by Xu Qiong for stealing wine than leave alone.
After walking dizzyly, Ayu fell down softly.
After lying on the ground for a long time, she felt a shadow covering her head. Ayu barely opened her eyes and saw a handsome and cold face. The man's eyebrows were slightly locked, majestic and scary.
Ayu suddenly didn't recognize the other person.
"Are you the fourth girl of the Cao family?" the man asked her frowned.
Ayu had already found himself lying on the ground, and mistakenly thought that a man was going to do something about birds and beasts to her, so he immediately cried: "Don't touch me!"
The man frowned deeper, changed from a half-squat position to standing, looking down at her, his voice cold: "I am the fifth master of the Xu family. When I passed by here, I found you lying on the ground."
It was not until this moment that Ayu recognized him.
The five masters of the Xu family are all her elders and relatives. Ayu believed in Xu Qian and stopped crying after sniffing.
"Why is this happening?" Xu Qian asked her expressionlessly, without any intention of helping her up.
Ayu tried to get up by himself, but because of his weak hands and feet, he had to lie down awkwardly and answered: "I, I just drank two glasses of fruit wine, and it seemed, I was drunk."
Xu Qian pursed his thin lips tightly, not knowing what he was thinking.
Ayu twisted his neck and looked back and forth, and found that the place where he fainted was not secret. Someone might come over at any time. If someone really saw her lying like this, not only would she be embarrassed, but the entire Pingyang Marquis Mansion would be affected.
Chapter completed!