"What did you say?" Lin Qiuniang was completely shocked and couldn't believe her ears: "How is this possible!"

What is Mr. Jing’s identity? He is the only son of Princess Protector and the nephew of the current Holy Emperor. How could he agree to this marriage, which is comparable to a marriage? Isn’t this a slap in the face of the princess’s residence and the royal family?

"Mom, Brother Li personally agreed. I don't need to lie to you!" Qin Xiaoxiao explained to her mother and recounted the conversation they had in the corner yesterday morning.

Lin Qiuniang listened very carefully. After experiencing the initial shock, she quickly calmed down and slowly analyzed with her daughter: "Xiaoxiao, I don't doubt Mr. Jing's intentions for you, but you have to understand that he promised you

The request may not necessarily convince the Holy Emperor and the Princess."

Qin Xiaoxiao had already thought of this and said firmly: "Brother Li will convince the Lord and the Princess!"

Lin Qiuniang touched her daughter's head lovingly: "Xiaoxiao, if you don't want to recruit a wife, no one in the family will force you. If you want to marry Mr. Jing, your grandparents and I will convince your father, and you don't have to worry about other things.

, just wait patiently for the two families to discuss marriage."

The implication is that they do not require their daughter to support them in their old age, nor do they need to name their child Qin. As long as she is happy, that is more important than anything else.

"Mom, I believe Brother Li can do it!" Qin Xiaoxiao shook his head without any hesitation: "It's true that I like Brother Li, but I don't have to marry him, but I can provide for you and your father and Cheng Qin.

I must do these two things."

Tears burst out of Lin Qiuniang's eyes, but she was smiling: "Son, my mother is content with your words, but your father and I can't be so selfish and ruin your wonderful marriage."

Qin Xiaoxiao wiped her tears and said seriously: "Mom, you are wrong. If Brother Li convinces the Holy Lord and the Princess, and I also convince Dad, our two families can happily enter into a marriage alliance. Only then will

It’s a great marriage.”

Lin Qiuniang's tears flowed even more fiercely: "You have been stubborn since you were a child, and now that your marriage is a big deal, can't you take a step back?"

Qin Xiaoxiao stood directly in the footbath and hugged her tightly: "Mom, I have to give up on something innocuous and trivial, but it is related to a major event in my life? How can I give up so easily? I am also a principled person!

"

It is true that her parents never asked her to provide for her in old age or for her children to bear the Qin surname, but did she agree to recruit a new wife before? Did she indirectly agree to these two things? These two things are her principles and cannot be retreated.

Moreover, she never believed that supporting parents until old age and deciding the surname of their children were only men's rights. Otherwise, why would the world be divided into men and women? Just let men have the ability to have children.

She didn't dare to say this kind of doubt to anyone for fear of being scolded as mentally ill.

Lin Qiuniang was speechless. She shed tears for a long time. When her emotions calmed down, she couldn't help but ask: "What if Mr. Jing cannot convince the Holy Emperor and His Highness the Princess, do you really have the heart to hurt him?"

Qin Xiaoxiao's head drooped: "How can I bear it? When you treat him as your brother? I can't bear to make him sad."

She doesn't want everyone she cares about to be sad, but people have seven emotions and six desires? She can't even control her own emotions? How can she decide other people's emotions?

Lin Qiuniang sighed silently, her heart heavy. She only hoped that Jing Heng could convince the Lord and the Princess. She also didn't want to see her daughter sad.

Capital? Princess Protector’s Mansion.

Today, Jingheng did not go to the Criminal Department, but stayed in the Household Department for the whole day. After being released from the Yamen? He rode directly back to the mansion.

Knowing from the guard at the gate that Princess Protector had returned from the palace and was waiting for him to have dinner in the dining hall, Jing Heng returned to his courtyard, washed up briefly, changed into normal clothes, and went to the dining hall.

"Did you have something to do with me yesterday?" Princess Protector poured a cup of tea for her son and motioned for him to sit next to her.

The Empress Dowager is getting old, and her body and bones have become more and more fragile in the past two years. She caught wind and cold a few days ago, and she has not recovered. Recently, the Princess Protector often goes to the palace to attend to illnesses, and she rested in the palace last night.

She didn't come back. She only heard that her son had been looking for her when she returned home this afternoon.

"I have something to trouble my mother." Jing Heng picked up the tea cup and took a few sips before putting it down. He raised his hand and waved away the maid in the room before talking about business with Princess Protector.

Princess Protector rarely saw him acting so solemnly, so she guessed it immediately and asked with a smile: "Xiaoxiao nodded?"

Jingheng was still not used to talking about emotional matters with her, so he turned his head slightly uncomfortably and said "yes" in a low voice.

"This girl has agreed. If it takes another ten days and a half, I can't help but ask her myself." The smile on Princess Huguo's eyebrows shows that she cares about Qin Xiaoxiao as her daughter-in-law.

How satisfying.

After saying that, she asked again: "What do you want to trouble yourself with is for me to ask a matchmaker to go to Qin's house to propose marriage to you?"

Jing Heng shook his head: "There is no rush to propose marriage. Before that, I have to trouble my mother to intercede with Xiaoxiao for me in front of Uncle Huang."

Princess Protector was stunned, and her smile slowly fell: "You mentioned to me earlier that the Qin family wanted to keep the little girl home to raise a wife. You asked me to intercede with the Holy Emperor for you and Xiaoxiao. Could it be that you agreed?

The little girl just nodded her head when she married into the Qin family?"

Jing Heng didn't expect Princess Protector to think so, and couldn't help but feel speechless.

Thinking of the two things he promised, which seemed not much different from his marrying into the Qin family, he simply did not deny it, but just changed the way he said it: "You know Xiaoxiao's life experience. The Qin family loves her to the core, and she treats her parents with the utmost filial piety."

, because I messed up their plans, so in order to compensate the Qin family, I proposed to support Uncle Qin and Aunt Qin together with her, so that one of the children born in the future will bear the Qin surname."

With a "clang" sound, Princess Protector knocked over the tea cup. She didn't even look at it, but stared straight at her son with her beautiful eyes: "Are you serious?"

Jingheng bent down to pick up the tea cup that had fallen to the ground, and looked directly into the eyes of Princess Protector: "You know I never tell lies."

Princess Protector took a deep breath, but still couldn't keep calm: "I don't object to you supporting your father-in-law and mother-in-law, but the child's surname cannot be arbitrary!"

The corner of Jingheng's mouth curled up, and he rubbed the tea cup he picked up with his right hand: "Mother, what do you think my child's surname should be in the future?"

When Princess Protector heard this, her eyes dimmed instantly, but she couldn't give an answer.

"So, the last name is not that important, right?"

Jing Heng smiled softly, inexplicably showing a free and easy attitude that had never been shown before: "No matter what the names of the children are in the future, they are my flesh and blood, but if my wife hadn't smiled, there would have been no chance of their existence."

This time, Princess Protector calmed down: "Decades of life can be said to be long or short. Are you so sure that you will never marry without smiling in this life?"

Jing Heng looked at her, his eyes seemed to understand everything: "Grandma often said, my temperament is up to you."

Princess Protector's breath was suffocated, and the defense deep in her heart collapsed in an instant. After a while, she finally recovered and stared at her son: "I promise you."

Jing Heng's hands trembled slightly, but he did not step forward to comfort him. He only said in a low voice: "Thank you, mother, for making me happy."

Princess Protector smiled bitterly and waved her hand feebly.

Jing Heng bowed silently, turned around and left the dining room.

The mother and son are destined to have a bad meal tonight.

The next day, Qin Xiaoxiao woke up early, and there were two obvious green shadows in front of her eyes.

She tossed and turned all night last night, but she could never think of a way to prevent her father from going to the capital to settle the score with Brother Li after he found out about her relationship with Brother Li.

She sat under the eaves, stroking Rhubarb's dog's head, and continued to think about it without giving up. She even didn't care when he walked over and stretched out his long tongue to curl her long hair.

Qin Shan came out with a ladle of water, preparing to wash his teeth with a willow branch dipped in tooth cleaning powder. Seeing his daughter's dazed look, he freed up a hand and patted her head: "The daze in the morning, in the

What are you thinking about?"

Qin Xiaoxiao was startled, and found that her old father was causing her trouble and entanglement by scaring people, and her smooth face twisted into balls unconsciously.

Qin Shan was amused and said in a loud voice: "You girl, you are thinking about nothing day by day. Sooner or later, you will become an old lady. If you stand with your grandma, people will think you two are sisters!"

"Dad, you kill me every day and you don't love me at all!" Qin Xiaoxiao didn't take his father's jokes to heart, but wanted to cheer him up because of guilt. It's best to make him laugh and accept the reality smoothly.

So she pretended to be angry and started arguing with him.

Mrs. Miao happened to be passing by, and she immediately ran over to complain: "Grandma, Dad said that I look wrinkled, and standing with you looks like a sister."

Mrs. Miao knew that the father and daughter were teasing each other, so she happily joined in and had fun together. She raised her hand towards her eldest son as if she wanted to beat him: "An unfilial son dares to bury his own mother.

You should ask your father to take care of you."

"Mom, please be careful, don't knock your hand." Qin Shan dodged aside to avoid my mother's hand, forgetting that he was still holding a ladle full of water, and under the influence of inertia, he took a ladle of water and poured it out directly, facing him.

It poured on the face of Qin Xiaoxiao who was watching the fun.

"ah--"

The cool air hit her face in the early morning in mid-September, and she was splashed with a ladle of cold water. The water flowed down her neck to her chest. Qin Xiaoxiao felt her whole body was chilled, and she closed her eyes and screamed.

"Oh, why did it splash on your face!"

Qin Shan didn't expect this. He dropped the water ladle and willow branches and came over to wipe his daughter's face. However, after running two steps, something hit his lower back. He threw forward uncontrollably and fell instantly.

He opened his mouth and chewed mud.

"Ouch, my waist!" He was lying on the ground, covering his lower back with his right hand and moaning. When he turned around, he found that the culprit was still kicking his hooves and shaking his horns, and he actually wanted to hit him again.

It turns out that Mieya saw Qin Xiaoxiao being splashed with water, and mistakenly thought that Qin Shan was bullying his master, so she attacked him while he was not paying attention and pushed him on the back, knocking him down.

"Bie Baa, don't make trouble!" Qin Xiaoxiao wiped his face and rushed over to comfort Baa Baa. If he slapped his big horn again, his father would be disabled.

This guy has been with people for a long time, and he has become more and more humane. He can easily observe people's words, but he is a bit stupid and often confused the situation. This is not the first time he has done this.

"Dad, are you okay?" After comforting her, Qin Xiaoxiao hurriedly helped her father up with her grandma. She found that after he stood up with difficulty, his right hand never left his lower back, and he immediately asked anxiously: "Did he hurt his waist bone?"

?”

Mrs. Miao pressed the place her son was covering, and was about to ask him if it hurt, when Qinshan screamed: "Mom, you always want to teach me a lesson, but not at this time!"

Mrs. Miao slapped her thigh and urged her granddaughter: "Xiaoxiao, your father has hurt his waist. Please ask your Uncle Fang to give your father two injections!"

"Uncle Fang" is Xiao Fang, the grandson of the original Dr. Fang. After Mr. Fang passed away, he inherited his mantle and became Dr. Fang, treating injuries and bones within a radius of dozens of miles.

"No, I won't get an acupuncture!" Qin Shan shouted, grabbing his daughter's sleeves to prevent her from leaving: "Dad, just lie down for two days and it will be fine. Don't disturb Dr. Fang."

Doctor Fang's acupuncture skill was not as good as his grandpa's. If the needle was right, it would make someone cry, and if it was wrong, it would make someone faint. He would rather lie on the bed and confine himself like a woman giving birth to a baby than be injected with acupuncture by Doctor Fang.

"Dad, the long-term pain is not as good as the short-term pain. You'd better let Dr. Fang get two injections." Qin Xiaoxiao opened his father's hand and ran out quickly. He jumped up and followed him, not knowing that he was in trouble.

At this time, Mr. Qin and Lin Qiuniang were also alarmed. They looked at Qin Shan who was being supported by Mrs. Miao and walked into the room. After asking about it, they found out that he had been injured in the back by Mie.
To be continued...