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Ran's mother didn't get up from the bed until dinner time.Fang helped her to sit down.

Her complexion was not very good, and Ran Jiqiu was a little worried, so he asked, "Is mother unwell?"

Ran's mother glanced at him, said "yes" lightly, and ordered Fang to choose some light dishes, and after only two mouthfuls, she put down her chopsticks.Fang advised her to use it more, but she just said: "Let's put it aside."

Ran Jiqiu didn't dare to use too much, took a few mouthfuls in a hurry, and ordered his servants to bring tea.

Ran's mother sat on the main seat, neither moving nor speaking, her slack eyelids were drooping like that, which somehow made people feel depressed.

Ran Jiqiu held the teacup, looked at Ran's mother, and asked cautiously: "If my mother is not feeling well, I'll go to the doctor to take a look at you?"

Mother Ran didn't answer, so he sat silently holding the teacup, unconsciously lost in thought.

For Ran's mother, he actually respected him more than he loved him, and the relationship between mother and son was not close.

When he was young, because he was the youngest in his family, his parents, brother and sister-in-law loved him very much.

However, since his father and brother passed away one after another, the loving mother in the past seemed to have turned into another person in an instant, strict, weird, and unreasonable.She only asks about his homework, and only the teacher's compliment can bring a smile to her face, and even if she asks him about his health, it must be because "poor health will delay studying".

Everything she has seems to have become one thing: to urge her son to work hard, so that he can pass the Jinshi examination and make his ancestors shine.

Ran Jiqiu is sometimes confused. Could it be that the purpose of his birth is to study and get a job?

Fang comforted him: "Studying for the imperial examination is the right path, and my mother's strict supervision is also for your own good."

Yes, of course he does.

But, gradually, the mother and son became strangers. Although he would settle down day and night and care about his mother's food and daily life, he was not very close to Ran's mother anymore.Even, sometimes he felt that the Fang who cared more about him was like his mother.

However, Ran Jiqiu didn't expect that when the patriarch wanted to escort him to Wanjia to make amends today, Ran's mother would have such viciousness, as if she would risk her life to protect him.

At that moment, it seemed as if a hot current broke through the hard cocoon shell and gushed out, making his whole heart burn.The sudden rush of admiration gave him a strong urge to coax her to touch his head and take out a veil to wipe his face lovingly as if he were acting like a baby to his mother when he was a child.

However, after the patriarch and others were thrown out by Liu Ying, his mother did not give him a chance to get close.She went back to the main courtyard with a gloomy face, and didn't even look at him who was chasing after Baba.

Ran Jiqiu knew she was in a bad mood, so he didn't dare to go up to make fun of himself, and he was worried about Liu Ying's injury, so he didn't stay too long.

He had originally planned that after dinner, he could tell his mother what he had done, and tell her that everything in the house had been properly arranged, and maybe, seeing that he had done everything well, his mother would be able to praise him.

Thinking of this, Ran Jiqiu couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Now it seems that this plan is going to fail.

Forget it, he comforted himself in his heart, after all his mother loves him dearly, as long as he knows this, what else is he not satisfied with?

Ran's mother suddenly said, "Your girls and I—" Her voice was a little hoarse, and she stared at him carefully, "You haven't even touched them?"

In the silence, when he heard Ran's mother's voice, Ran Jiqiu's hands trembled slightly, and the warm tea overflowed and splashed on his book. "

Ran's mother still stared at him, "Since it's given to you, use it for what you need. You're getting older, as long as you don't go to such a lowly place, it's up to you."

Ran Jiqiu was startled, and raised his head suddenly, the uneasy premonition almost turned into reality, "Mother?"

Ran's mother raised her hand, and Fang quickly handed over the teacup. She took it and didn't drink it. She just held it and fixed her eyes on her son.

"Let An He take care of you tonight."

Ran Jiqiu stared at her with wide eyes, only felt his brain roaring, momentarily messed up, and finally found his voice, "Mother, I..." He subconsciously wanted to refuse, "This, this is not suitable for etiquette..."

Ran's mother stared at him closely, forcing his voice to gradually decrease until it was inaudible at last.

Ran Jiqiu lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Ran's mother took a sip of tea, frowned and put down the cup, "Go, I'm tired."

Ran Jiqiu still sat without moving.After a while, he said softly: "...What am I in the eyes of my mother?"

"What did you say?" Ran's mother frowned.

"You asked me to study and improve, so I can only study and improve. You told me not to get close to women. I never even dared to look at the maids. Now, you changed your words and asked me to use Anhe, so I have to let She comes to serve, even if I don't want to..." Ran Jiqiu looked up at Ran's mother, and said softly, "In my mother's eyes, what am I? An ignorant wooden stake that I can play with as I want? "

Fang's at the side heard that the words were wrong, and hurriedly shouted, "Qiu'er, don't be rude!"

Ran's mother's complexion gradually sank, her eyes were cold: "Are you unwilling?"

Ran Jiqiu felt his hands and feet tremble, his heart was beating fast, and his head was buzzing.He pinched his fingers tightly, facing Ran's mother's gaze, still holding himself up: "I just can't figure it out, my mother didn't like me to be close to women, but now she suddenly forces me, me..." He couldn't continue.

Ran's mother slapped the table and shouted sharply: "That's better than being misunderstood as a broken sleeve!"

Ran Jiqiu was startled, and looked at her anxiously.

Fang hurriedly went over to rub mother Ran's chest and rubbed her back, and persuaded: "Anger can hurt your body, mother, don't be angry. Qiu'er has a stubborn temper, if there is anything wrong, just talk to him slowly, if there is anything wrong, You can beat him and scold him, we are all a family, and you are thinking of him, even if he can't understand your painstaking efforts for a while, as time goes by, he will understand one day."

Ran's mother snorted, her face softened a little.Ran Jiqiu lowered his head and didn't speak for a long time.

-

Before Liu Ying waited for Ran Jiqiu to come back, he waited for Wufu who came in a hurry.

"There is no need for a vigil tonight, Madam has ordered that no one will be left in the young master's room."

Liu Ying sharply raised her head and stared at Wu Fu, "Why?"

Wu Fu was inexplicably agitated when he saw him, and his voice also weakened by three points, "There was a word from inside, saying that An He should serve the young master."

Liu Ying paused, his eyes drooped slightly, and his voice could not discern emotion, "What did the young master say?"

Wufu was a little puzzled, "Young master, Madam has ordered me down, what else can I say." He said again, "Clean up quickly, go back to sleep with me, and make room for the young master."