bookrandom Chapter 494 Parent-child time
Chapter 494 Parent-child time
Chapter 494 Parent-Child Time
It's September and the weather is just right, neither too cold nor too hot. Today is Li Chu's day off, so he and Dugu Jingyao are taking Li Shi and Li Ying for a walk!
Each of them held one baby, and occasionally they would take turns holding each other. Because Li Shi and Li Ying are now almost 3 months old, their body movements and expressions have become much more frequent than before.
As they walked, they came to a patch of flowers. Li Chu squatted down, gently picked a small flower, and teased Li Ying in his arms.
The little girl's eyes were shining, and she stretched out her little hands to try to catch the flowers, babbling. But she was still too small after all. Although she tried hard to move, she still couldn't catch the flowers. Her eyes were downcast and she almost cried.
Seeing this, Dugu Jingyao smiled and said to Li Chu, "Donglang, you don't know that our little princess, despite her young age, has a bad temper. If she can't get what she wants, she will cry."
Li Chu felt very proud when he heard this. He hugged Li Ying and coaxed her while saying, "Our Ying'er is a proud daughter of heaven. It's okay to be spoiled a little. Don't you think so, Ying'er?"
Li Ying seemed to understand. The corners of her mouth rose slightly, and she made a babbling sound, as if to say, "Father is right, I agree!"
On the other side, Li Shi became restless in Dugu Jingyao's arms, kicking his legs non-stop and looking into the distance as if he had discovered something new.
Li Chu stood up and looked in the direction his son was looking. It turned out to be a colorful butterfly dancing among the flowers.
"Shi'er, you saw a butterfly," Li Chu said. Then they slowly walked towards where the butterfly was. But the butterfly, seemingly understanding human nature, didn't fly away, but fluttered its wings right in front of them.
Li Shi was so excited that he danced with joy, a smile on his face. Li Chu and Dugu Jingyao looked at their child like this and smiled at each other. Their eyes met with warmth and happiness, enjoying this peaceful and beautiful parent-child time.
After playing for a while, they looked at the time. They were afraid that the two children would need to be fed soon, so they looked back at Yuexuan while holding the two little ones.
Li Shi and Li Ying were reluctant to go back, perhaps because it was really time for dinner. They seemed to smell the scent of the wet nurse and no longer let Li Chu and Dugu Jingyao hold them.
The two of them had no choice but to let the wet nurses feed the two children and take care of them until they slept, and then they returned to the bedroom.
Not long after I sat down, someone came with a message saying, "Two days from now is an auspicious day. Plus, now is the time when chrysanthemums are in full bloom. The Queen is holding a chrysanthemum viewing banquet in the palace and has invited the ladies of each mansion to attend."
Dugu Jingyao said she understood and sent the maid who had delivered the message away. Dugu Jingyao asked, "I remember there wasn't a custom of holding a chrysanthemum viewing banquet in the palace, right?"
Li Chu recalled, "When my mother was still the Crown Princess, she would occasionally arrange flower viewing banquets. But last year was a time of great turmoil, so she didn't have the energy to organize such banquets. Now that things are peaceful, it makes sense to start holding a chrysanthemum viewing banquet again."
Dugu Jingyao looked as if to ask, "I see," and said, "Then I guess all the prominent women in the family will be present?"
Li Chu nodded and said, "Of course."
Dugu Jingyao thought for a moment and said, "This is it, Donglang. Today, Lin Zhi came to bring me some news."
Li Chu raised his eyebrows and asked, "What news?"
Dugu Jingyao said, "It's about Gu Shiyi. Lin Zhi said she covered her face with a veil and secretly went to Baicaotang to ask the divine doctor Gongsun to take her pulse and determine the gender of the fetus."
Li Chu held his chin and said, "If I'm not mistaken, Gu Shiyi is pregnant with a girl, right?"
Dugu Jingyao opened her eyes wide and asked, "How do you know?"
Li Chu shrugged and said, "If it was a boy, would Lin Zhi have come all the way to tell you?"
Dugu Jingyao smiled and said, "Dong Lang is wise. But I am a little worried."
Li Chu calmly approached Dugu Jingyao, holding her in his arms. After thinking for a moment, he said, "Ah Yao, are you worried that she might deliberately have a miscarriage and then use it to frame you?"
Dugu Jingyao leaned against Li Chu's chest and sighed, "That's right. But...how can I not attend the chrysanthemum viewing banquet? After all, my mother is my mother-in-law. If I am absent, it will not be right."
Li Chu and Dugu Jingyao both felt that this was a difficult task. Suddenly, Li Chu had an idea and lowered his head to whisper a few words to Dugu Jingyao.
Dugu Jingyao quickly sat up and said, "That won't do. What if we get discovered? And will it hurt the child?"
Li Chu once again held her in his arms and said, "Don't worry, we'll find a way to make this a real thing. You can also ask Miss Murong if this method is feasible. There are still a few days left. If you can't avoid it, then go and participate. Anyway, you will be by your mother's side the whole time. She has no reason to deliberately send you away, right?"
Dugu Jingyao thought for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll go to Baicaotang later to ask Lin Zhi."
Li Chu nodded and said, "Okay, Ayao, don't worry. There are still a few days left. When the time comes, we will fight back and we will not let Gu Shiyi succeed."
Dugu Jingyao also smiled. She said, "Yeah. Donglang is right. Maybe I'm just worrying too much. She might think of another way. For example, if she can't bear to give up this child, do you think she will find someone to take a boy instead?"
Li Chu frowned upon hearing this and said, "This woman is also unscrupulous in order to achieve her goals. It's hard to say for sure. Forget it, it's useless for us to speculate here. Anyway, I have someone keeping an eye on the Nanyang County Prince's Mansion."
Dugu Jingyao suddenly thought of something and said, "Oh right, I remember when Boss Liu came to deliver the account book last time, he told me that Gu Shiyi couldn't sleep with him because she was pregnant, so she pushed her closest maid to sleep with him. Now she has become Li Xi's concubine. And I heard that she has been learning some charming tricks recently, and it is said that Li Xi is quite obsessed with her."
Li Chu couldn't help but sigh, "Like master, like servant. But I don't know if it was Gu Shiyi's idea, so that she could keep the Li family stable and avoid looking for other women, or if she took the initiative to improve herself, hoping to give birth to a child for the Li family one day, and then ask Gu Shiyi for help."
Dugu Jingyao smiled and said, "If it's the latter, that would be great. That way, she would have a chance to be used by us. I'll ask Boss Liu to find out what she's thinking. She's been buying things from my Beauty Secret Book store quite often lately."
Li Xi nodded and said, "Okay. In that case, A-Yao, there's no need to worry."
Dugu Jingyao nodded slightly and said, "Well, but to be honest, I still want to attend the chrysanthemum viewing banquet. I guess my sister-in-law will go too. I haven't seen her for a long time. I wonder what my brother and others are busy with recently? They didn't even come to see me." She was still a little angry when she said this.
Li Chu coaxed her, "Then I can accompany you back to the Yunnan Palace to see them later."
Dugu Jingyao was indeed coaxed by this sentence, so she said: "Okay, if you really can't go to the Chrysanthemum Appreciation Banquet, then you can go back to the Yunnan Palace when you have time."