A life of ups and downs is pure joy

The woman in the curtain sniffed. It was the smell she was most familiar with and loved the most.

"It smells like Mama Huang's cooking. Ru'er is here, right?"

Lin Qinghuan asked with her eyes closed. After resting for a while, she obviously felt much more comfortable and her breathing was much smoother.

"Your nose is just as good as Xiaobai's. Ru'er saw you were soundly asleep, so she went to rest in her yard. I checked your homework, and it's improved a lot compared to a few days ago. Your handwriting is even better than yours."

Xiao Yi smiled slightly and placed the bird's nest porridge on the wooden table beside the bed, then gently helped Lin Qinghuan sit up.

"I should be in good spirits this afternoon. I want to see Ru'er. Ask her to come and keep me company after her nap."

Lin Qinghuan stretched his stiff neck for a while, then reached out and patted his tired legs.

"Okay, drink your porridge first, and I'll massage your legs for you."

Xiao Yi handed the bird's nest porridge to Lin Qinghuan, then lifted the thin silk quilt covering her legs, put the woman's legs on himself, and gently squeezed them.

"Why bother you with such a servant's task? Just call Yunxiang and Chuxia in."

Lin Qinghuan looked at Xiao Yi, who had been courting her, and said uncomfortably.

"I like to serve my little wife. It would be better if I don't let them disturb our peace."

Xiao Yi controlled the strength to help Lin Qinghuan relax her legs.

"After all, this is a servant's job. If the elders knew about it, they would definitely lecture me. They might even implicate the maids in the courtyard. At the very least, they would be scolded, and at the worst, they would be beaten, scolded, or even sold off."

Lin Qinghuan held the bird's nest porridge, stirred it with a small spoon and said that Huang Mama's cooking skills were the best for her. She originally had no appetite, but now she wanted to drink the whole bowl of porridge.

"I used to massage your legs and shoulders quite often, so how come it's all a big mistake now? Huan'er, how long are you going to be estranged from me?"

Xiao Yi gently placed Lin Qinghuan's legs on the bed, then took the bowl from her hand and spoke softly.

"Was there such a thing before? Why don't I remember it?"

Lin Qinghuan kept his eyes on the bird's nest porridge that was snatched away, and he hadn't even had two sips of it.

"You did it on purpose. I fed you."

Xiao Yi looked at Lin Qinghuan's greedy look and smiled again and said.

"No need, I can do it myself." Lin Qinghuan said with a puffed face.

"Be good and obey."

Xiao Yi said gently, then scooped up a spoonful and fed it to Lin Qinghuan's mouth. Seeing the situation, the woman did not argue with him and thought drinking the porridge was more important.

"Where's Jane?"

Lin Qinghuan felt better and then she remembered her child and asked.

"If you want to see him, I'll ask the nurse to bring him over. Finish the porridge first."

Xiao Yi continued to feed Lin Qinghuan the bird's nest porridge cooked by Huang's mother.

"There's one thing I'm curious about. How did you convince my father and mother to forgive you?"

Lin Qinghuan has always felt very strange. These past few days, when He Su came to see her, she treated Xiao Yi very well, but it was obvious that she and Lin Mutang felt very sorry for her.

"It's not that my father-in-law and mother-in-law have forgiven me, but Huan'er needs someone to take care of her now, and this is the opportunity they gave me." Xiao Yi said as he placed the empty bowl on the wooden table beside the bed.

"It's also my fault that I'm unfilial. Even after getting married, I still make my father and mother worry about me every day."

Lin Qinghuan knew that the matter was definitely not as simple as Xiao Yi said. She knew the personalities of Lin Mutang and He Su, and the Lin family was the most protective of their own people.

She originally wanted to ask how the Xiao family planned to deal with the mother and son from Le Yin Fang, but in the end she couldn't bring herself to ask. After all, to her, the woman was a thorn, and the child was the force that pierced her heart with the thorn.

"Miss, son-in-law, Madam Li is waiting outside the yard." Chu Xia said as she knocked on the door.

"Let Sister Li come in. I've told her so many times. She doesn't need to wait outside the courtyard. She can just come find me."

Lin Qinghuan raised his voice and spoke to the outside, feeling powerless to complain about how Madam Li was such a stickler for rules. He glanced at Xiao Yi again, perhaps because he had never said that concubines were not allowed to enter Qingbo Courtyard.

"It's a good thing you're here. Sister Li is a typical Xiao family rule-abiding person, and she strictly abides by the rules you set. I don't want to remind her every day about whether she can enter Qingbo Courtyard. Otherwise, why don't you tell her once and ask her to continue to follow your rules."

Lin Qinghuan is now increasingly fed up with the messy rules and regulations of the Xiao Mansion. She felt more comfortable in the Lin family than before.

"If you are like that, she has always been very diligent in serving you. If you like, I will allow her to come and keep you company every day."

Xiao Yi looked at the table full of snacks that Li Jiaxin made for Lin Qinghuan, and she was really good at it.

"Sister Li is naturally better than you. I'm happy to see her, but I'm only annoyed to see you."

Lin Qinghuan was not polite at all and didn't even think about saving face for the person in front of him.

"How can I not make you upset? You must not like the color of my clothes today. I saw you were in a good mood yesterday. I will ask them to find all my purple clothes and wear them every day to make you feel at ease."

Xiao Yi's words made Lin Qinghuan stunned for a moment. He was quite good at extricating himself and put all the blame on the clothes. How did he develop such a shameless character now?

While they were talking, they heard Chu Xia knocking on the door again. After a while, they saw Li Jiaxin and Chu Xia carrying a lunch box walked in together.

"My dear husband, the young lady is well."

Michelle Reis performed the ceremony politely and stood aside.

Lin Qinghuan glanced at Xiao Yi and kept giving him reminders with his eyes.

"You can come to Qingbo Courtyard more often to keep the young lady company in the future. Just go into the courtyard and wait." Xiao Yi said.

There was some surprise and some happiness in Michelle Reis's eyes, but she did not show her emotions. She bowed gracefully and thanked him in reply.

"Then go ahead. Sister Li and I need to have a private conversation."

Lin Qinghuan rolled her eyes at Xiao Yi and scolded him. Li Jiaxin stood aside in astonishment, not daring to look up at Xiao Yi's expression.

"I'm just out doing something. I'll be back later."

Xiao Yi said that he didn't feel embarrassed. Li Jiaxin turned aside and let Xiao Yi get up and leave. After the back figure crossed the threshold, Chu Xia also closed the door for the two people in the room.

"Young Madam, why...why are you so cold to your husband?"

Michelle Reis didn't know the whole story, she just felt that Lin Qinghuan had been unhappy with Xiao Yi these days. She originally thought it was a joke, but she never expected it to be like this every day.

"Why should I be nice to him? It's really not worth it. He's not worth it to you either. Now I know how much you've suffered."

Lin Qinghuan looked at the woman who was deeply in love with Xiao Yi and said that her feelings for Xiao Yi were no longer as pure as before.

"I don't know how my husband treats others, but he has always been devoted to you. Why does the young lady think this way now?"

Michelle Reis asked with some confusion. She knew that Lin Qinghuan was not the kind of person who would be arrogant because of his favor, nor was he the kind of person who would show off in front of her. There must be something fishy about this matter.

"I used to think the same as you, but... never mind. I don't want to talk about it anymore."

In the end, Lin Qinghuan still didn't dare to mention the matter of the mother and son. It was a humiliation for her.

"If Madam doesn't want to talk, then don't. You need to stay in a good mood during your confinement period. I can't really help you. I can only make more of your favorite foods for you."

Michelle Reis is very considerate and a grateful person. When she was framed by Hu Taoniang, Lin Qinghuan was the only one in the mansion who wanted to clear her of the false charges.

Lin Qinghuan looked at Li Jiaxin for a long time, and suddenly an idea came to her mind. She knew that the children of the Xiao family could not live outside all their lives. If outsiders knew about it, they would scold her as the mistress and say she was intolerant. However, unless she died, it would be absolutely impossible for Chang Le to enter the house, and Xiao Yi would definitely follow her.

However, Xiao Yi probably couldn't be the head of that child. It would be better to take him in now while he was still young and let this woman raise him and educate him well. He would be able to become a good child in the future. If he kept delaying it, it would become more difficult to educate him as he got older.

"Sister Li, tell me something from your heart. How do you view his child?"

Lin Qinghuan sat up straight and asked.

"His child?" Michelle Reis was a little surprised.

"It's your husband's child." Lin Qinghuan added an explanation.

"Madam, the child you and your husband have will be the child of the entire Xiao family. I will treat him well. After all, he calls me Auntie, so please rest assured, Madam."

Michelle Reis mistakenly thought that Lin Qinghuan thought she would harm her child, and she explained anxiously at this time.

"If I ask you to raise his child, would you be willing?" Lin Qinghuan asked again.

"Young Madam... I have no right to raise your and your husband's child. I absolutely cannot do that."

Li Jiaxin realized that Lin Qinghuan was not joking. Xiao Yi must have done something terrible to make her not want her own child anymore. She knelt on the ground and said.

"Good sister, I've told you many times not to kneel down so easily. Stand up first and let me explain it to you slowly and in detail."

Lin Qinghuan was not able to stand up, so he stretched out his arms to help the timid woman stand up.

Michelle Reis looked at Lin Qinghuan with an uneasy look in her eyes, slowly stood up with the help of the bed and sat back in her previous position.

Lin Qinghuan then told Li Jiaxin everything about the mother and son in Le Yin Fang. After hearing this, the woman froze the cup in her hand along with her, and she was unable to recover for a long time.

"The child is innocent and a descendant of the Xiao family. It's not logical for me to be so cruel as to abandon him in such a treacherous place. So, I need someone I trust to raise him after I bring him back."

Lin Qinghuan kept looking at Li Jiaxin after she finished speaking. It was better than being raised in Qingyin Pavilion, and it was even more impossible for her to be raised by her own knees. Xiao Yi didn't like Li Jiaxin, so naturally he wouldn't have a child with her. If he really had one, the fact that there had been no movement for so many years after entering the mansion could be considered as giving her some support.

"Young Madam, as long as you ask me to do something, I will definitely do it and do it well."

Li Jiaxin's heart was filled with gratitude and various thoughts. Now all she could do was hold Lin Qinghuan's hand tightly.

"I will talk to him about this matter. I will have to trouble you in the future."

Lin Qinghuan smiled slightly and shook Li Jiaxin's hand in return.