Yi Xin as a concubine

Chapter 127 Xiaobao's "Scheming"

Chu Xingchen and Xin Baoer shouted at the same time.

The former was simply out of disgust, while the latter was because she didn't want the stunned child to continue looking at his mother's crazy and ugly appearance.

"Xiaobao."

Seeing Xiang Qing was frightened, Xin Baoer gently pulled Chu Xingchen's arm, motioning him to look towards the door.

Perhaps the child's name has an instinctive influence on the mother. After Xin Baoer finished speaking, the first person to look at the door was not Chu Xingchen, but Xiang Qing.

At that moment, Xin Baoer saw a complex emotion on Xiang Qing's face, a mixture of sadness, fear, annoyance, regret, hatred, etc.

I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, it's true that there must be something hateful about every pitiful person.

Is Xiang Qing pitiful? Of course she is pitiful.

A girl with such talent and beauty should not have wasted her life in this small courtyard. She should have been protected by her parents, carefully selected a husband from a respectable family, and then go out with an enviable dowry, manage the household, and raise her husband and children.

However, all these beautiful things came to an abrupt end when she became an orphan. She was even treated as a gift to repay a favor and was sent to this prison where she had no future. How could she not feel resentful and hateful?

Such resentment seemed to be healed little by little after she met her gentle, considerate and tolerant husband. If this man could stay with her forever, perhaps she could really recover and stay here with him until old age.

Perhaps things in the world are unpredictable, and it is difficult to find a perfect life that lasts from beginning to end.

The man who could heal her was gone, but his departure was not so neat. Not only did he leave a child, but also a face that could only be looked at but not touched, and would never belong to her.

This face often made her miss it, made her lose her mind, and made her struggle between possession and destruction. That person was the beginning of all her sufferings and the creator of all her beautiful memories.

"Meeting with those you hate, separation from those you love, and failure to obtain what you desire" account for three of the seven sufferings in life, which is truly pitiful.

However, she is also hateful. Her hatefulness does not lie in her insults and criticisms of Xin Baoer, nor in her mixed love-hate and hysteria towards Chu Xingchen.

In fact, Xin Baoer felt that even if Xiang Qing turned her sword against them, it was understandable.

But this poor and hateful mother did not turn her knife against others. On the contrary, she turned all her suffering and resentment into threads, which she wove into an airtight cage, and locked up the ignorant child inside.

What crime has the child committed?

At an age of exploring the unknown, she was forced to accept her distorted and corrupted worldview. She was just a newly unearthed bud that could grow into thousands of forms, but she was forced into a fixed mold and lost other possibilities.

Xin Baoer suddenly felt a little tired and wanted to end this farce quickly, so she pulled Chu Xingchen's arm, which was bulging with veins.

"I have something to talk to you about, let's go in and talk!"

Seeing the compromise and pleading in her eyes, Chu Xingchen felt his chest become even more stuffy, but he still had some rationality and couldn't bear to scare Xiaobao.

"Wangchuan, send the Madam and the Young Master back."

He suppressed his anger and gave the order, then pulled Xin Baoer into the house.

After the two entered the house, Mo Xuan Yifan looked dangerously at Xiang Qing who was about to attack again, then took light steps and guarded the door firmly.

Seeing this, Xiang Qing clenched her fists tightly, and finally turned away angrily. When passing by the door, she looked at Xiaobao with complicated eyes, and finally said nothing. Not long after, there was a "bang" sound from the door of the next door.

"Why don't you go and serve your master? Are you waiting for Wangchuan to throw you out?"

Seeing that the danger was over, Mo Xuan Yifan planned to go see Xiaobao. When he raised his leg, he saw Bijun still standing at the door with her head hung, looking very shocked, and cursing under her teeth.

In the study.

"Baoer, please sit down first. I'll go get the medicine." Chu Xingchen helped the person sit down on the chair and said with concern.

"Second Master, don't be in a hurry. I have some good medicine. You can apply some when you go back. It will heal soon." Xin Baoer hurriedly pulled the man back. This injury was really nothing. If it happened in the previous life, it would not even be considered an appetizer.

"Then should I ask Lancao to deliver it over?" Chu Xingchen asked.

"No, she'll make a fuss for a while, which is a headache. By the way, I'll give this to you, see if you can find someone to make it."

Seeing that she didn't want to bring up the previous topic again, Chu Xingchen suppressed his heartache, took the paper she handed over, and lowered his head to read it.

The more he looked, the more uncomfortable he felt. "I really should let her see it for herself." Chu Xingchen's voice was very low and hoarse, with an inexplicable emotion.

"Okay, calm down. I can understand her anger. In her mind, I first took you away from her, and now I am taking over the education of her son. This is tantamount to challenging her bottom line."

"Your uncontrollability makes her want to control Xiaobao even more, not only in action but also in thought. She needs someone closest to her who can resonate with her, so as to alleviate or even divert her pain.

Xiaobao is still ignorant now, so the impact is limited, but as he grows older and his intelligence develops, he will be more deeply affected, I'm afraid..."

Chu Xingchen understood what Xin Baoer hadn't finished saying. He had previously suggested that Xiaobao move out to live with him, but Xiang Qing always refused on the grounds that the child was young and needed someone to take care of him. After all, she was the eldest sister-in-law, and he was a little cautious, so in the end, nothing came of it.

"You have a child around ten years old under your care. You can 'pick him up' later." Xin Baoer said suddenly.

Chu Xingchen's eyes lit up when he heard this. Yes, why didn't he think of it? As long as he found someone who could take care of Xiaobao, Xiang Qing would have no excuses.

"Yifan, come in."

When Mo Xuan Yifan came in, he was holding Xiaobao in his arms. The child looked eager and timid. At this moment, Xin Baoer seemed to see the original owner and felt even more pity for him.

But Xin Baoer didn't dare to approach the child easily at this moment. You know, although the child is young, he also has his own thoughts. What if he also thinks that he is the culprit who destroyed the relationship between his parents, then she would be self-defeating. Although she didn't think she was a good person, she really didn't want to be a bad person. After all, the child didn't know his true identity yet.

Chu Xingchen saw Xiaobao and reached out to take him over. "Don't be afraid, Xiaobao. Mother is just in a bad mood. Wait until she calms down, then Xiaobao can go play with her again."

"Xiaobao knows it's uncle and not daddy, but Xiaobao misses daddy." The child's two words in a baby voice shocked the three adults in the room, and no one spoke for a while.

"Xiaobao is a bad boy, isn't he?" The baby's crying voice made the three adults feel sad.

"Auntie, Xiaobao apologizes to you on behalf of my mother. Please don't blame my mother, okay? She just missed her father too much and often cried secretly by herself. She definitely didn't mean it."

Xiaobao suddenly broke free from Chu Xingchen's arms, threw himself at Xin Baoer, and begged pitifully.

Xin Baoer was stunned at first, her expression changing again and again, and she couldn't find a suitable expression for a long time to face a child who was less than four years old but had already learned to use his mind.

After a long time, Xiaobao was tired of crying. He hugged Xin Baoer's thighs, tilted his tear-stained face up, and looked at her expectantly, as if she would be unforgivable if she did not agree to his request.

Xin Baoer suddenly smiled, gently held Xiaobao's face, spoke the most gentle words, but used great strength in her hands to rub the little face until it was deformed.

Liu Xingchen and Mo Xuan Yifan could both see that Xiaobao was in pain. Mo Xuan Yifan's face fell, and he was about to go up to rescue Xiaobao, but was stopped by Chu Xingchen.

"Does it hurt?" Xin Baoer continued to ask gently.

After all, Xiaobao is still a child, so how can he hide his emotions? He soon revealed a resentful look, which made the two grown men who were pulling each other feel chilled and stopped at the same time.

"I know you're a smart kid, but I didn't know you were this smart. You're pretty good at learning and applying what you've learned, and you know how to manipulate people's hearts. It's a pity that the person who taught you how to act wasn't very good. Do you want to find a new master? I'm born with the ability to act innocent and weak."

As Xin Baoer spoke, tears fell without warning, and her eyes went from contempt to redness in just a moment.

“Brother Xingchen, I’m sorry. It’s… it’s because Master Xiaobao is too cute. I couldn’t help but… kneaded him a few times. I didn’t know his skin was so tender. It’s… red… red. I really deserve to die. Please punish me, wuwuwu…”