Chapter 871 Shirking

Chapter 871: Shirking Chapter 871: Shirking Editor: Atlas Studios By the time the children were bathed and placed on the chairs, it was already half an hour later.

Qi Haoran had also taken a shower and changed into clean clothes, and was now seated beside Mu Yangling.

Seeing that she didn’t blame him for taking the initiative to bring the children back, he ate the food she had given him with a clear conscience and said, “Fortunately, I went to pick up the children.

Otherwise, wouldn’t you be crying yourself to sleep tonight?

You do dote on the children, but you insisted on torturing yourself by making them independent.” Mu Yangling stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth and said, “Just eat.

Why are you so talkative?

Don’t you know that one should eat without speaking?” Qi Haoran chewed the food in his mouth and continued, “So what if you say that you dote on the children?

I won’t scold you.

They’re your sons after all.

If you don’t dote on them, who will you dote on?

They’re my children.

No matter how much you dote on them, they won’t become foppish.” Mu Yangling said helplessly, “Yes, I dote on the children indeed.

If you didn’t bring them back, I’d definitely be so anxious that I wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight.” Satisfied, Qi Haoran lowered his head to eat.

After eating, he put down his bowl and chopsticks and said to Mu Yangling, “You can’t spoil the children too much though…” Mu Yangling almost stretched out her leg to kick him.

She knew that he didn’t want to give others the impression that he doted on his children too much, but there was no need to hide it so much, right?

“Father, don’t push the blame away.

You were the one who took the initiative to pick us up.” Little Bear lowered his head and shouted at his father as he ate.

Smiling at its mother ingratiatingly, he said, “Mother, Daddy is pushing the blame away, but our eyes are bright.” The three little ones beside him nodded repeatedly.

Little Treasure held his bowl and looked at them curiously.

His Royal Father had always spoken softly to his mother.

Even when he instructed his mother to do things, he would only use a solemn tone and never “lecture” her like this in front of him.

Therefore, he had never tried to stand up for his mother.

Qi Haoran glared at his son, who had just exposed him, and picked up a drumstick for him.

“Quickly eat up and go to sleep.

Look at how late it is now.

I’m going to check your homework tomorrow.

If I find out that your homework is poorly done, you’re not allowed to go out and play tomorrow.” Little Bear puffed up his cheeks and looked at his father.

“You promised to bring me out to ride a horse.

Don’t go back on your word.” “When have I ever gone back on my word?” Qi Haoran was about to argue with his son when Mu Yangling interrupted them.

“Alright, are you eating or arguing?

Can’t you see that Tiger Head and the rest are dozing off?

Quickly eat up and go to bed.” According to the three children’s biological clocks, bedtime had arrived long ago, so they were unconsciously eating rice with their heads almost buried in the bowl.

Mu Yangling picked them up and wiped the rice grains off their faces.

She gently rubbed their stomachs and said, “Hurry up and swallow the food in your mouth.

Let’s take a sip of water and go to sleep.” After the three children fell asleep on the bed in a daze, Mu Yangling turned her head and said to Spring, “Send someone to Little Madam Xia’s place and tell her that Little An is sleeping here tonight.” Spring bowed and left.

Little Madam Xia lived in another courtyard.

Due to her pregnancy, she slept a lot, often falling asleep before the sky turned dark.

When she heard voices, she woke up in a daze and looked up before falling asleep again.

Nanny Xia turned around and whispered to Spring, “Miss Spring, thank you for taking care of the Prince on behalf of our Madam.

Our Madam has been suffering from morning sickness and sleepiness recently, so she can’t take care of the Prince for the time being.

Why don’t we let the Prince stay there with the two young masters for now and bring him back when Madam’s condition improves?” Spring smiled and agreed.

“Don’t worry, Nanny Xia.

We’ve got servants attending to Prince Little An over there.

He’ll be fine with our Second Young Master and Third Young Master.” Of course, Nanny Xia was assured.

It wasn’t like they were in two different residences.

What was there to be worried about when they lived so near each other?

The one she was worried about was Little Madam Xia.

Logically speaking, as time passed, her condition should be getting better and better.

However, these few days, her vomiting had gotten worse, similar to when she was pregnant with Prince Little An back then.

She had visibly lost weight.

Fortunately, the Duke and Prince Rong were as close as brothers, and the Princess Consort treated her well as if she was her sister-in-law.

Otherwise, Little Madam Xia might not be able to focus on her pregnancy in peace.

Nanny Xia thought of Madam Xia again and sighed slightly.

Recently, Madam Xia had often come to visit Little Madam Xia to help her deal with some family matters, and had also found two maidservants to serve her.

But still, sandwiched between Old Master Fan and the Duke, even if Madam Xia wanted to help, she had never mentioned moving back to the Duke’s Residence.

She probably understood that since the Duke was not in the capital, if she moved to the Duke’s Residence to take care of her daughter-in-law, Old Master Fan would probably use that as an excuse to move in too, right?

Therefore, Little Madam Xia could only stay in the Prince’s Residence to nourish the fetus.

Qi Haoran was also talking to Mu Yangling about Little Madam Xia’s pregnancy.

“Uncle came to talk to me today.

He said that Cousin-in-law can’t always stay in the Prince’s Residence to recuperate.

She can either return to the Fan Residence or return to the Duke’s Residence to let Aunt take care of her.

I rejected him and said that Zijin and I are as close as brothers.

Before he left, he asked me and you to take good care of Sister-in-law, so she should stay in the Prince’s Residence before the fetus stabilizes.

Now that Zijin isn’t around, if the Fan estate sends someone here to pick Cousin-in-law up and she doesn’t leave with them, people will criticize her for disrespecting her elders.

Should they really try to pick her up, you should directly stop them and don’t even let them get to see Cousin-in-law.” Qi Haoran sighed.

“Initially, I felt that Sister-in-law would be more comfortable in her own home and feared that she would be unaccustomed to living in our house.

So, I thought that I would send her back to the Duke’s Residence after her pregnancy stabilized.

Anyway, our residences aren’t far apart so you can still check in on her frequently.

But now, it seems that it’s more suitable for her to stay in our residence.” Smiling, Mu Yangling said, “What’s there to be unaccustomed to?

When we were in Qiannan, there was even a door connecting their residence and ours.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that we were living in the same residence.

Now, there’s Nanny Xia taking care of her food and clothing at home.

With her open-minded nature, she’s not likely to suffer here.

On the other hand, once she returns to the Fan Residence, someone will target her knowing she’s timid.

I’m afraid Aunt won’t be able to protect her then.

Since we’ve promised Zijin that we’ll take good care of his wife and children, we naturally have to do our best.

With me holding the fort at the back, you just have to block Uncle from the front.” Qi Haoran chuckled and said, “I’ll go to the Forbidden Troops military camp to train the soldiers tomorrow and won’t be attending morning court assembly.

I’ll leave the house early and only return late.

Uncle will have no chance of meeting me.” There was even less need to worry about Mu Yangling.

Now that Madam Xia had given up on Fan Siwen, she was determined to guard Fan Zijin’s rights to the Fan family’s ancestral estate and no longer listened to Fan Siwen’s orders.

As long as it wasn’t Madam Xia who came, what was there for her to be afraid of?

Fan Siwen couldn’t possibly personally show up here and demand to bring his daughter-in-law home, right?

“Has Cousin-in-law been throwing up a lot recently?” Mu Yangling nodded slightly.

“The vomiting is getting worse.

I think she must have smelled something that made her nauseous.

I was just about to fix up a new courtyard for her—no plants, no incense.

Hopefully that works.” Qi Haoran touched her stomach and said with lingering fear, “Back then, you scared me when you were pregnant with Tiger Head and Little Lion.” Qi Haoran hesitated for a moment and said, “Why don’t we stop now that we already have three sons?” “Then are you going to take the medicine, or am I going to take the medicine?” Mu Yangling turned to look at him and said in a low voice, “Every medicine has its side effects.

We should just let nature take its course.”

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