You have asked for permission to marry, why should I restrain myself?

Chapter 297: Ning 1 and Ning Xi's past! Ning 1 is not a piece of wood

This was the most Ning had spoken in the past twenty years.

It was also the most emotional one.

It was like a sunflower suddenly grew in the barren land.

Ning Xi had no choice but to pat him on the back and comfort him:

"You are already grown up, how can you still hug me like this? Let me go first."

Ning Yi let the person go upon hearing this, but just stared at her without blinking.

He still speaks very little.

Ning Xi met his eyes with a gentle gaze and said softly:

"Ning Yi, long time no see!"

Ning Yi felt his eyes were hot. He just looked at Ning Xi silently for a long time, and expressed his emotions woodenly:

"I miss my mother."

Thinking of this word, he didn't feel awkward saying it to Ning Xi, as if he had learned this word from her.

Ning Xi smiled when she heard this and reached out to touch his head:

"Not bad, you can even say the word 'think' now. No matter how I taught you before, you just couldn't do it. It seems like you have been doing well these years."

It sounds simple. Some people are born with the ability, some can do it easily, but there are also people who take twenty years to learn it.

Ning Yi is the latter.

Ning Yi pursed his lips and said nothing, just staring at her.

Ning Xi wanted to say something, but heard a slightly choked voice behind her.

"Ning Xi."

Ning Xi turned around and saw Madam Lin. She was startled at first, then she curled her red lips and said:

"Shuhuan, long time no see!"

Mrs. Lin's surname was Xie and her given name was Shuhuan. She was the legitimate daughter of the Censor. But ever since she married Duke Lin, everyone else called her Mrs. Lin. Only Ning Xi called her Shuhuan from beginning to end.

Mrs. Lin has always been a very sensitive person, but at this moment, looking at the lively Ning Xi in front of her, she couldn't help but cry.

Ning Xi walked over, held her hand, and wiped her tears with a handkerchief:

"After all these years, why are you still so crybaby?"

"I don't know, I saw you didn't have control."

Ning Xi reached out and hugged her, saying:

"It seems like you miss me too. Okay, okay, just give me a hug and you won't cry!"

Ning Xi's tone was like coaxing a child, and Mrs. Lin cried and laughed at the same time.

After wiping away her tears, Madam Lin looked at Ning Yi behind her and said:

"I just heard him call you mother. Is he your son with His Majesty?"

No wonder his last name is Ning.

Originally, she believed in her heart that Ning Yi was her son.

When she heard Ning Yi calling Ning Xi "mother" just now, her heart still ached.

Ning Xi looked at Ning Yi and said softly:

"I picked him up, and he calls me mother, so I am his adoptive mother! He is the little boy who has always stayed by my side."

Hearing Ning Xi's words, Mrs. Lin suddenly remembered the autumn twenty-three years ago, which was the autumn hunting season.

At that time, Duke Lin, Marquis Xuanping and several of the Emperor's friends were competing to see who could hunt the most. She was pregnant with her third child, so she was resting and waiting in the camp. Then she heard someone say that Concubine He went hunting but picked up a little beggar, who was covered in blood.

Pregnant women cannot see blood, so she did not go.

Later I heard that the little beggar had a strange temperament. He could not speak at the age of five and was very fierce. He would not allow anyone to approach him and would bite anyone who approached him.

It is also said that he is poisonous. Anyone bitten by him would fall to the ground on the spot, and if Ning Xi hadn't treated him, he would have died on the spot.

Later, when she entered the palace, she asked in a roundabout way, and Ning Xi said that he had a special physique.

Only nobles came in and out of the palace, and the little beggar was extremely dangerous. She was afraid that the little beggar would bring trouble to Ning Xi, and she once persuaded her to send the little beggar away. Ning Xi just said that the child was a poor child, and it would be more dangerous to send him away, so she left the child in the palace.

Later she heard that Ning Xi had spent a large sum of money to cure the little beggar's strange disease.

She had looked at the beggar from a distance a few times. He looked terrifying when he was mad. She was pregnant and was particularly afraid that he would suddenly pounce on her. From then on, she would take a detour whenever she saw him.

Later, after the third child was born, she seldom went into the palace while she was in confinement and taking care of the third child.

She didn't pay much attention to the little beggar.

I only heard from her husband that Ning Xi put too much energy on that little beggar, and His Majesty was often jealous and angry.

His Majesty dotes on Ning Xi, and even if he is angry with her, he will not do anything to her. All he can do is to send all kinds of precious medicinal herbs to Ning Xi's palace like water, and then ask Duke Lin for advice on how to coax his wife.

At the time, both Duke Lin and she thought that it was probably because Ning Xi saw that she already had several children and also wanted to have a child. After that, the emperor would occasionally ask Duke Lin for advice on some men's issues.

But two years passed and there was still no sign of pregnancy in Ning Xi's belly. Later, the emperor learned that Ning Xi had been secretly drinking contraceptive soup, and he became furious.

He couldn't bear to touch Ning Xi, nor was he willing to be mean to her, so he could only throw the little beggar into jail.

They had a very fierce quarrel and then a cold war for a long time. The whole court felt that the emperor was particularly irritable during that period. Everyone was trembling with fear and even had to be cautious when sneezing.

Later, after Ning Xi became pregnant, the little beggar was released.

Of course, His Majesty did not use the little beggar to force Ning Xi to get pregnant.

Ning Xi was a very rational person. Although she felt sorry for the child and had developed certain feelings for him after raising him for two years, she would not harm herself or her child because of him.

After knowing she was pregnant, she wanted to have an abortion immediately. It was only after His Majesty knelt for three days and three nights that Ning Xi finally stayed.

Then, His Majesty released the little beggar because he was afraid of making Ning Xi unhappy.

At that time, Duke Lin was afraid that she would be bored and she didn't quite understand the affairs of the court, so he could only tell her these.

If they had paid more attention to the little beggar at the beginning, perhaps they wouldn't have to be separated for so many years.

Mrs. Lin's gaze unconsciously turned to Ning Yi, only to see that his gaze was always on Ning Xi. There was a hint of dependence and admiration in his eyes, which had never had any emotion.

He seemed more human when he was with Ning Xi.

Mrs. Lin's eyes began to well up again, and she choked up and said:

"Is that the one you picked up at the hunting grounds?"

Ning Xi nodded and said:

"It's him. I didn't expect that he has grown so big in the blink of an eye!"