Back in the house, Zhao Yu asked Jingnv to comb his hair.

To be honest, the feeling of gently scraping the scalp with the wooden comb is numb and numb, which is really good, not to mention the person who holds the wooden comb, is also a little girl who looks very beautiful and cute, which really makes people feel a little...relaxed and happy.

In order to make himself less relaxed and happy, Zhao Yu had a conversation with Jingnv, who felt that this would help him understand the family.

Jingnu also knew everything about him, and told Zhao Yu about everything she knew, including her life experience.

"…Slave is not the maid who serves his wife."

While combing Zhao Yu's hair carefully, Jingnv explained softly: "There are other people who serve the wife, who are several older sisters. Yesterday, the young master saw the slave, just because the wife often brought the slave by his side... Strictly speaking, the slave's qualifications are not enough to serve the wife and the young master."

"Oh? What do you say?" Zhao Yu asked curiously.

Jingnv didn't hide it and said truthfully: "A year ago, I came to the mansion. Before that, I had been following my father in the fields to farm..."

“Farming?”

Zhao Yu was a little surprised. He could not imagine the quiet and cute little girl who was covered in mud in the field.

He asked curiously, "Then why did you come to this mansion?"

Jingnv paused slightly, and her eyes also showed a little haze. She whispered in a different place: "In recent years, the harvest in the fields has been bad. After my father passed away, my uncle and aunt discussed with me and sold my younger brother to the mansion, saying that at least the family would not starve to death..."

"..." Zhao Yu opened his mouth, not daring to ask Jingnu's mother if she was healthy, so he had to comfort her with a few words of care.

Perhaps feeling Zhao Yu's concern, the quiet girl took off the sorrow on her face and said with a smile: "Young master does not need to comfort me. Although my parents are gone, the wife is good to me." As she said that, she bit her lip and said to Zhao Yu secretly: "My mother passed away very early. I was still young at that time and couldn't remember her mother's appearance. But many times, I secretly regarded her wife as my mother. Young master, don't tell me..."

Looking at Jingnv snickering while covering her mouth, as if she had stolen a chick, Zhao Yu really wanted to laugh if he hadn't cared about Jingnv's sad life experience.

After a while, after combing her hair, Jingnv took Zhao Yu to the courtyard to meet Zhao Yu's mother, the mistress of the mansion, Zhou, the wife of the Marquis of Luyang Township.

The Hou and the Husband in Luyang Township live on the north side of this mansion. From the east courtyard where Zhao Yu lives, passing through a round door, he came to the courtyard where Zhao Yu accidentally fell from the tree yesterday, and then passed through another round door from the courtyard north. There was another courtyard, and there were also plants, pond pavilions, rockery, stone bridges, and along the corridors on both sides of the courtyard, you can see the house where the Hou and the Husband in Luyang Township live.

Along the way, Zhao Yu and Jingnu met several young maids.

After saluting Zhao Yu, a maid teased Jingniao and said, "Jingniao, I heard that the wife was sent to serve the second young master, and you will not live here in the future, right?"

As soon as the words were finished, the other maids couldn't help but tease them, and the smiling girl blushed.

Maybe he noticed that Zhao Yu frowned slightly, and an older maid came forward to explain: "Don't blame the second son, Jingnu has a good relationship with me and me. I don't want to make fun of her, but I am happy for her."

『I'm happy?』

Zhao Yu looked back at Jingnv with some confusion.

At this time, Jingnu's answer also confirmed the maid's words: "Yes, young master, these sisters have loved slaves in the past... Are there nothing wrong with the sisters today? I also want to take the young master to pay homage to the wife."

When she spoke, she kept winking at the maids who were many years older than her, but what she received was the laughter of the maids.

In the end, Jingnu drove away the maids who teased her like anger. Seeing this scene, Zhao Yu naturally no longer thought that those maids were bullying Jingnu.

Afterwards, Zhao Yu and Jingnu met several servants who looked round and thick-skinned. They held wooden basins full of clothes. When Zhao Yu gave way to them, they were quite flattered and expressed their gratitude.

Later, I met a team of escorts.

In short, the servants and guards in the mansion recognized Zhao Yu, and they saluted each other when they saw Zhao Yu, and respectfully called the second young master.

It is worth mentioning that Jingnu seems to have a considerable status in this mansion, so that these people did not forget to say hello to her and called Jingnu with a smile.

Jingnu's response was quite polite and decent, but in addition to showing the little girl's temperament when fighting with those maids, Jingnu's attitude was quite quiet and elegant when facing the maids and guards. At first glance, she didn't look like a maid in the mansion.

When he walked to the front of the house, Zhao Yu saw a maid who was seventeen or eighteen years old standing outside the house.

When he saw Zhao Yu, the maid bowed and said, "Second Young Master."

Zhao Yu nodded, thinking about what to say, when Jingnu stepped forward and said to her, "Sister Zhu, I'll come to see the young master."

"Yes." The maid named Zhu nodded slightly. After looking at Zhao Yu with a slightly surprised look, she turned sideways and said, "Madam has been waiting for the second son for a long time."

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou's voice came from inside the room: "Is it a sage?"

Following the sound, Zhou's figure appeared in the threshold and looked at Zhao Yu with a smile.

Given that he had passed the hurdle yesterday, Zhao Yu's call to the land this time was quite easy: "Mom."

“Hey.”

Zhou responded happily, leaned over and hugged Zhao Yu in his arms, and said affectionately: "Yu'er, for your mother's good fortune..."

Seeing Jingnu and the maid named Zhu standing beside him, and even Jingnu was smirking with her mouth covering her mouth, Zhao Yu looked embarrassed, but it was difficult for her to push her mother away, so she had to let her mother rub her cheeks intimately against his face.

After a long time, Zhou let go of her young son and said with a smile: "Have you used the morning food yet? Let's have a meal for my mother today." As she said that, she turned around and ordered her maid Zhu, "Zhu'er, let the kitchen bring the prepared food."

"Yes, madam." The maid Zhu nodded and saluted, then turned around and left.

At this time, Zhou led Zhao Yu and Jingnu into the house.

After a while, sitting down on the chair in the room, Zhou pulled Zhao Yu in front of him, looked up and down at his young son, then turned his head and said to Jingnu, "Jingnu, have you packed your things?"

"Report to Madam, I haven't even heard of it yet." Jingnv shook her head and said.

Zhou smiled and said, "Then you go and clean up first, and you will have dinner with me and Xiao later."

"Yes, madam." Jingnv nodded and saluted, turned around and walked into the inner room.

At this time, Zhou looked at Jingnv's departure back and asked her son: "Ye'er, are you still satisfied?"

"Ah?" Zhao Yu didn't understand for a moment.

Seeing this, Zhou reached out and ticked Zhao Yu's forehead, and said angrily: "Silly child, what I'm talking about for my mother is a quiet girl..."

"Oh." Zhao Yu then reacted and nodded and said, "It's pretty good."

Zhou smiled when he heard this. After looking at Zhao Yu for a few glances, he sighed and said, "Jingnu is a child who is very hard-working. Her mother passed away when she didn't know what to do. After she understood something, she helped her father farm in the fields. She was a child who could endure hardship... Last year, there was another drought in the area of ​​Luyang County. Her family's fields were not well harvested. Her father was too hard and had no money to get medicine. He passed away at middle age. After her father passed away, her abominable uncle and aunt sold the two siblings to our family in order to occupy her family's fields... Her father kindly took in and defected to his younger brother and sister-in-law, but the younger brother and sister-in-law did such a thing, like a beast!"

At the end of the story, Zhao Yu saw an angry look on his mother's face, surprised that Zhou's identity was so vulgar.

Perhaps because he realized his incompetence, Zhou quickly restrained the anger on his face and touched Zhao Yu's head and reminded: "Ye'er, Wei'er said this to you, just hope that you don't bully others in the future... Wei's mother can see at a glance that Jingnu is a very loyal woman. Since Wei's mother told her to serve you, she will treat you wholeheartedly, but don't look down on her in the future if you think that her origins are the ones you look down on? Do you understand?"

"Why does this sound so strange?"

Zhao Yu was stunned for a moment and said carefully: "Mom, wasn't Jingniao sent to take care of the child's daily life?"

"Yes." Zhou rubbed his son's hair and said with a smile: "But as long as you don't object, she will be your concubine in the future."

『…』

Zhao Yu opened his mouth and thought to himself that you are a good mother at first glance, but you have arranged this matter too early, right?

However, given that people in this era are generally precocious, Zhou did not think there was any problem with telling their son in person. She sighed and said, "Son, I have always felt that I owe you... I, Zhao family in Luyang, have been single-handed for several generations. This generation gave birth to you and your brother. Your father didn't say it, but he was really happy. He even made a special offer to worship his ancestors. But for you, it may not be a good thing..."

Zhao Yu was stunned for a moment, not very clear: "Mom, why is it not a good thing for the child?"

"Silly kid."

Zhou touched Zhao Yu's hair indulgently.

In this era, the eldest son in the family had the right to inherit everything from his father, but the second son could not enjoy such treatment. If Zhao Yu was not born by Zhou, then Zhou would not have been so worried. But the problem is that Zhao Yin and Zhao Yu's brothers fell from her, how could she not care about it?

The eldest son Zhao Yin can inherit the title of Luyang Township Marquis, the father of the brothers, in the future, but what should the second son Zhao Yu do?

When he thought of his discussion with his husband, he knew that his husband would send his second son to the army stationed on the border in the future, and hoped that Zhao Yu could make a family and a career through his own merits, Zhou, as a mother, felt full of debt to his younger son.

It was obviously born from one child, but just because he was born a few hours later, he was destined to not be treated like his elder brother?

This is not something that can easily make people relieved, right?

It is precisely because of this that Zhou has made up for the second son in all aspects over the years, such as being more doting and tolerant of the second son, including adopting Jingnu and carefully teaching, so that Jingnu will be the concubine of the second son in the future.

She only hopes to make up for the second son through these things, so that the second son will not be jealous of his brother in the future, nor will he make his brothers have a gap.

The harmony of brothers and love and help each other is her greatest expectation for her two sons.

"When you grow older, you will understand."
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