Chapter 35 - Mother's Secret

 The pithouse is quiet.

 Yunchu looked at the ledger for a while, always feeling that it was too quiet.

 She frowned, "How long has Yu'er been out?"

Listening to Frost was also startled, she was focusing on assisting madam to deal with things, this time she realized that the little world son had been peeing for too long.

At this time listen to the snow sweating head full of sweat walked in: "Lady, the little world son disappeared, slave girl in the sheng residence around to look around also did not find ..."

Yun Chu's heart tightened and she stood up violently, then calmed down, "First go to the front yard to see if Ah Mao is still there."

 The kid sneaked in when he came, and maybe sneaked out while he had the chance.

Ah Mao was staying temporarily in the front courtyard compartment as Listening Frost's distant cousin, Listening Snow hurriedly went there and returned with a pale face, "Ah Mao is still there."

It means that the youngest son of the world did not leave the Xie Mansion, he just doesn't know where he went.

 "It's all the slave girl's fault!" Listening to the snow knelt down, "Please punish madam."

Listening to Frost speak, "Now is not the time to chastise someone, you hurry up and think carefully about where exactly you lost little Shizi."

"When the little Shizi Ru Kung, I guarded the door of the Kung room, waited for a long time and didn't see the little Shizi come out, I searched inside and found the window open, the little Shizi should have climbed out of the window." Listening to the snow anxious are almost crying out, "the window outside the path leads to the Xie family's back garden, slave girl quietly went to look around, did not see the little world son's figure."

Yunchu's heart sank a little, there is a small lake in the back garden, if the child fell into the lake ...

 Just the thought of the possibility made her heart suddenly choke.

She steadied herself and spoke, "Listen to Frost, find any excuse you want to dismiss all the people in the garden."

 Listen to Frost lead the way.

Yunchu took the accompanying maids and maidens to the garden, the Xie family backyard is not big, the garden is even smaller, an artificial lake, a rockery, the original flowers and grasses have been replaced with jujube trees, a glance at the whole garden, but the lake has grown a lot of water plants and water lilies, and for a while, it is not clear to see the situation.

 Hearing Snow shivered.

If the little son of the world drowned in the lake, where can she afford to pay for this cheap life, will certainly involve the lady ...

 She tied her skirt up and was about to go into the water when a voice suddenly came from behind her.

 "Sister Hearing Snow, what are you doing in the water, are you fishing for fish?"

 Yunchu snapped her head back.

Seeing that Chu Hongyu, who was wearing a brocade dress, had actually climbed out of the trunk of a large tree, which for some reason was hollow, hiding a child was not a problem at all, so it was no wonder that they couldn't find it no matter how much they searched for it.

 How anxious and scared Yun Chou was just now, how angry she would be this time.

She suppressed her anger, "What are you doing hiding here, do you know how long we've been looking for you, do you know how worried we were?"

"I didn't let anyone find me, I only climbed out of the tree hole when I saw that there was no one else in the garden." Chu Hongyu grabbed her sleeve and shook it, "Mother, don't be angry, okay, I know it's wrong, I will never sneak out alone again ..."

Yun Chou held his little hand and took him back to the Sheng Residence, where she left everything to Listening Frost and personally took the child to read a book.

"You don't recognize this word, you don't recognize this word either?" Yun Chu's face cracked, "You're four years old and your father hasn't let you open your eyes?"

Chu Hongyu was bitter with a small face, "Open, enlightened, but the husband speaks I can not understand, can not learn ... mother, you teach me, I can certainly learn."

 How could Yun Chou not see that this kid was missing out on his studies because of his greed?

But at only four years old, with no one at home to discipline and guide them, it's normal for them to be a bit playful.

Only that if one is too playful, unable to keep up with his studies, uneducated and unaware of what is going on, he will suffer great losses when he grows up.

"Yu Ge'er, why do we need to read books, because there are many great truths in books, when we read more books, we understand more." Yunchu softly said, "Before you learn to read, you have to recognize words, recognizing words is actually not a boring and dull thing, look at this initial character, the initial of the beginning of the human being, is also the initial of my name, write it like this ..."

 She held the little one's hand and made a stroke on the paper.

 Chu Hongyu learned it carefully.

Obviously, the words that were so difficult before were taught in less than half an hour, but he actually recognized all of them and learned how to write them.

 "Mother, you're amazing!"

Yunchu laughed, "It's you who are very smart, remember the feeling of recognizing words now, and follow that feeling in the future."

 Chu Hongyu nodded vigorously.

 Looking at Yun Chou's gentle smile, the little guy was suddenly sad.

When he hid in that tree hole, many underlings of the Xie family passed by the tree in groups, and he heard many secrets about his mother.

It turned out that my mother had given birth to two children before, only that those two children died when they were born, and my mother was sick for a long, long time because of that.

It turns out that Mother and that Xie what's-her-name Jade have a bad relationship, that man never spends the night at Mother's place, and the Xie House subordinates all sympathize with Mother.

 It turns out that all those children who call their mothers their mothers are not their mothers' children ...

 Turns out Mother Nature had a rough time of it ...

 But Mother smiled so gently, as if nothing was bothering her.

"Ma'am, the outside boy asked around outside the city and heard that King Ping Xi succeeded in his banditry." Listening to the wind came in and reported, "King Ping Xi led his men to capture more than a hundred bandits alive last night, some of them escaped on hearing the wind, King Ping Xi took advantage of the victory and went in pursuit, returning to the capital around the day after tomorrow."

"Those mountain bandits are also too lame." Chu Hongyu frowned, "How is it that there was no resistance at all, and they were captured alive by my father so easily!"

"Brother Yu, it's not that the mountain bandits are too lame, it's that your father king is too powerful." Yun Chu looked at him and said, "If these mountain bandits exist for one more day, the lives of countless people are threatened, your father king took down the mountain bandits in one day, this is what the people want."

Chu Hongyu nodded his head as if he understood, and he pursed his lips, "Then I will be going back the day after tomorrow."

Yun Chou touched his head, "Your father is out fighting bandits, and you, read well, when your father comes back, you will recite the Three Character Classic in its entirety to your father, your father will be very happy."

 "Really?" A smile appeared on Chu Hongyu's face, "Father will praise me?"

 Yunchu nodded, "It should."

The little guy took the book, sat on the edge of the serious recitation, do not know the words, will take the initiative to ask, do not understand the meaning of a sentence, will also ask to understand and then continue to memorize.

Hearing Frost said softly, "The little world son is so well-behaved, why do people outside say that the little world son is naughty and unruly?"

Yunchu said, "A child is a blank sheet of paper, what the adults write on it is what they write on it, the Pingxi King is a stern man, and there is no princess at home to guide him, so the young Shizi is naturally a bit capricious and rebellious."

 For most of the next day, Chu Hongyu was carefully memorizing.

In the evening, Listening to the snow let people carry a very large screen in, screen embroidered with all kinds of "longevity" characters.

"Ya, the words on this are so ugly." Chu Hongyu glanced at it and was filled with disgust, "Who gave this screen to mother ah, no sincerity at all."

 Yunchu snorted and laughed, "This is a birthday gift that mother used to give away."

This child had a mouthful of mama, and Yun Chu couldn't help but start calling herself mama as well.