The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

Tonight the sky is overcast and the moon is covered by dark clouds.

There was no wind, which made people feel uncomfortable.

Xuan Lian and Jiang Fei stood in the yard, one on the left and one on the right, like two door gods.

Soon Sun Tao came out of the study and said to them, "Fifth Master said that no one is allowed to come in and disturb us."

Sun Tao is the owner of Qianweilou. It is the first time that he comes to the mansion uninvited so late at night, and it is only a few hours since his master left Qianweilou.

The master didn't allow me to go in and disturb him. Although Sun Tao seemed to be very good at dealing with people, he was actually a very frugal person with words.

Looking at his back, Xuan Lian and Jiang Fei looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.

Since the aide Mr. He was not at home, they did not dare to go in and disturb him.

"Master, there is no need to serve you here. You can go and have a rest." After saying this, Jiang Fei leaned against the open window and began to rest with his eyes closed.

The light in Jiang Nansheng's study stayed on until the early hours of the morning.

Jiang Fei stood up when he heard the voice, and saw his master push open the study door and walk out, neatly dressed in crimson official uniform, ready to go to court.

Xuan Lian was holding a cup of tea and only had time to see the hem of his master's official uniform as he walked away.

There was a thick stack of written paper on the desk in the study.

When Fifth Master was restless, he liked to practice calligraphy. Xuan Lian couldn't figure out what it was about, so Fifth Master spent the whole night thinking about it in the study.

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Minghui Hall

It was very lively in Mrs. Jiang's living room.

At this time every day, the Crown Prince's wife, Wang, would bring her daughter-in-law, Meng, and the youngest son of the Jiang family, Chen Ge'er, to accompany the Duke's wife and enjoy family happiness.

The women from the second and third rooms would certainly not miss this opportunity to show off.

The women in the room are as colorful as the flowers grown in the old lady's yard, blooming in all kinds of colors.

The maid came in from outside, bowed and said, "Madam, the Fifth Master is here to greet you."

Old Madam Jiang was holding Chen Ge'er in her arms and feeding him the fruit from a small crystal dish with a smile on her face.

Hearing the servant's words, he smiled without showing any trace, and said cheerfully, "Oh, the sun is rising from the west today."

As a mother, she knew how busy her son was at the Dali Temple, and he rarely came to pay his respects at this time on normal days.

"Fifth Master is filial and thinks of his mother, so he comes to have lunch with you."

Hearing what her sister-in-law said, the Crown Prince's wife winked at her daughter-in-law and said:

"A few days ago, the prince saw my fifth brother and said that even though mother is with us, the fifth master should also take marriage seriously..."

"Yes, Fifth Master's marriage is the top priority of our Duke's Mansion."

Chen Ge'er was held by his mother, feeling a little unhappy. He stretched out his little hand to Madam Jiang and said in a baby voice, "Great-grandmother, hold me."

Seeing her son disobeying her, Mrs. Meng blushed and said in embarrassment, "Brother Chen, you are too fat. Let your great-grandmother take a break."

"Chen'er's fruit is delicious, but you can't eat too much, or it will affect your lunch."

The smile on Mrs. Jiang's face deepened. She reached out and took out another fruit from the small crystal plate and put it into Chen Ge'er's outstretched little hand.

The fruit was bigger than his palm and required two small hands to hold it.

With his attention diverted, the little guy instantly calmed down in his mother's arms.

Meng looked at the old lady with gratitude, then walked back to her mother-in-law.

The lady with a long face sitting at the bottom smiled and said, "Our brother Chen is really a smart boy. He knows who loves him the most. Every time he comes to Minghui Hall, he is closest to his great-grandmother."

When she said this, all the female relatives echoed her.

At this time, Jiang Nansheng walked in from outside. He was wearing a crescent-white ink-painted Taoist robe. With the breeze and bright moon, he looked like a banished immortal walking out of a painting.

She bowed and greeted her mother at the table, and then the women in the room greeted each other and said goodbye one after another.

After the main room became quiet, Mrs. Jiang felt more comfortable sitting there.

Jiang Nansheng sat on a stool and saw a box on the kang table filled with several kinds of candied fruits, and several small crystal plates filled with fruits and walnuts next to it.

But I didn’t see my mother’s favorite amber walnut kernels.

Madam Jiang raised her hand and told the maid behind her, "Take it away. No one wants to eat these now."

Xuezhu, who was serving on the side, responded, walked over, closed the savings box and held it in her arms.

The old lady and the fifth master don’t like sweet things, so these are prepared for the ladies and young masters in the mansion.

Jiang Nansheng could hear the displeasure in his mother's words and said with a smile, "Mother, please add another dish to your lunch. Your son will come and accompany you."

Seeing him like this, how could Madam Jiang vent her anger on him? If she said it out loud, it would make people think that she was a stingy old lady.

The Jiang family has four generations living together, so how could any of those children have any relationship with her?

She does have a granddaughter, but she can only see her a limited number of times throughout the year.

The child, like her, could not stand the compliments from these people.

After thinking about it, what the Crown Prince's wife had just said still made her feel uncomfortable, and she sighed.

"Tomorrow I will go to the Princess's Mansion to accompany my sister Xuan. It will be tedious and troublesome for her to come here. It will be easy for an old woman like me. I can just take the carriage with the servants."

Jiang Nansheng knew that his mother was just saying this in anger, and she would not really put it into action.

Putting the peeled walnut kernels on a small crystal dish, he chuckled and said, "What about my father?"

Ever since he could remember, his father and mother had lived in the same courtyard, and the back room of Minghui Hall was connected to his father's study.

When he grew up a little more, he realized that this was because his father could not live without his mother, but it was not the case for other families.

Madam Jiang paused as she was reaching for the walnut kernels. "Neither you nor I want to care about him anymore. What do you want him for? You and your son are useless!"

Jiang Nansheng lowered his eyes, took two more walnuts and squeezed them in his palm. As expected, the sound of the walnut shells cracking was drowned out by his father's roar.

"I'm useless? If I'm useless, where did your two children come from?" The Duke came out from the inner room wearing a long gown and with an angry face.

He waved his hand, shooed his son away from the stool, and took over from him to continue peeling walnuts.

When Mrs. Jiang heard what he said, she threw the walnut kernels in her hand back into the small crystal dish.

"Jiang Honghui, what are you saying in front of the child?"

"What? Good words!" The Duke waved his calloused hands, "Didn't I tell you that I'll keep this walnut for you to peel and make it into an amber walnut?"

As he said this, he glanced at his younger son and wondered why he was taking over the job that he was used to doing!

Jiang Nansheng: "..."

In the past two years, my father and mother have become more and more like children, quarreling loudly behind closed doors. Even if there weren't those people who came to show their filial piety to them, my mother wouldn't feel lonely.

He said softly, "Mother, I plan to go to the palace to ask for an imperial decree granting marriage."