Cowardly Stepmother Dressed As the Hero - v2 Chapter 129

Years pass, the winter wind blows snowflakes, and after the snowflakes wither, the yellow spring flowers hang on the branches again.

The little baby girl in the palace changed out of the thick cotton coat and ushered in the first spring day in her life.

Cao Mi picked a spring flower for her, which was patted off by the little baby girl waving her hand. She then handed over another magnolia, and the strong fragrance of magnolia won the favor of the little baby girl.

She clutched the white magnolia flower tightly, and made unintelligible “wow” and “ah” sounds from her mouth.

Princess Bei’an breathed a sigh of relief, and just raised her head to blow the early spring breeze, she heard Qi Ran shout, “Mother! My sister put the flowers in her mouth!”

Cao Mi was stunned for a moment, and quickly lowered his head to “save” the magnolia flower.

Qi An stood by the cradle with Qi Ran, suddenly looked up at Cao Mi, and asked, “Mother, why is my sister still so stupid? Put everything in your mouth?”

“Everyone is like this when they are young.” Cao Mi explained helplessly.

Qi An immediately retorted: “Big brother said he wasn’t like this when he was young!”

Cao Mi laughed when he heard this.

She glanced at Qi Rui, who was pretending to be calm, but her face was actually red, and said, “Your eldest brother forgot, everyone is like this when they were young. But there’s nothing to be ashamed of.”

She thought about it and explained, “It’s like a seed that takes a full half year from spring to autumn before it can grow into fruit.

“Growing always takes time.”

“It’s spring now…” Qi Ran raised her head and asked seriously, “Let’s plant my sister now, will she be as sensible as me in autumn?”

“My little sister is a human! You can’t plant!” Cao Mi rolled his eyes and explained, “What I said was just a ‘comparison’! Didn’t Master Lin teach it in class?”

When it came to schoolwork, Qi Ran hurriedly lowered her head and did not dare to speak again.

The mother and son talked for a while by the pavilion, and a servant in the courtyard came over.

Dong Li went up to ask a few questions, then turned around and said to Cao Mi, “Princess, there is news from Kangcheng, and I need you to go back and deal with it.”

“Kangcheng?” Cao Mi repeated the name of the city in surprise, and then said, “Okay, I’ll go back and have a look.”

At this time, it was less than a quarter of an hour before she came out with the child, Cao Mi thought about it and instructed Qi Rui: “Rui’er, mother has some things to go back to deal with.

“You take your sister and Qi An Qi Ran, play here for a while, and then send your sister back to the house, okay?”

“Ah?” Qi Rui, who has always been very sensible, was stunned.

He pointed to himself: “I… shall I bring her?”

Cao Mi nodded firmly: “Well, it’s you.

“I asked the nurse and the maids if I had anything, don’t let my sister put things in her mouth, and don’t let her get cold.

“That’s it, I’ll go first.”

After she finished speaking, she waved her hand directly and took Dongli and a few people away.

There were also the baby girl’s nurse and several other maids in the pavilion. Cao Mi was not worried about any accident with the little girl.

She deliberately “embarrassed” Qi Rui this time, just hoping that Qi Rui could get along with the little baby girl more.

Since the birth of the little girl, Qi Rui seems to be forced to witness the various conditions of her infancy. Every time the little girl was in embarrassment, when Cao Mi and the maids were cleaning up, they would say the last sentence: You were the same when you were young.

At this time, the arrogant eldest son of the palace could not accept that he had also experienced a period when he could not take care of himself. Although he followed the twins to report to Cao Mi on weekdays, he kept aloof from the little girl.

Cao Mi had seen early on that he was careful, so whenever he had the chance, he would let Qi Rui take on the heavy responsibility of raising children.

Although Qi Rui was unwilling, he was still very responsible. After Cao Mi left, he immediately walked from outside the pavilion to the cradle of the little girl.

The little baby girl seemed to rarely see her big brother, so she looked at him with big round eyes.

Qi Rui didn’t know what to do with her, so she stared blankly at her——

Before leaving, Cao Mi only instructed him to watch the little girl not to eat indiscriminately and not to catch a cold. Qi Rui believed that she was just confronting it like this, and it was considered that she had completed the task.

But the little baby girl was not as patient as he was.

She stared at her for a while, wondering if she was bored, and suddenly started crying “Wow”.

Qi Ran immediately jumped up and accused: “Brother, you made her cry!”

Qi Rui suppressed the panic in her heart, and while beckoning to call the nursing mother next to her to take care of her, she replied, “Nonsense! Why did I make her cry?”

“You keep staring at her, so fierce, I saw it all.” Qi Ran said “evidence” directly.

The little baby girl was picked up by the nursing mother for examination, and Qi Rui’s eyes moved with it.

He hummed and defended, “I didn’t stare at her.”

The nursing mother coaxed softly, and the little girl finally settled down again.

She handed the little girl to Qi Rui: “eldest son, would you like to hug the little lady. Maybe the little lady hasn’t seen you before. When you saw her just now, she was scared.”

“Afraid?” Qi Rui asked in confusion.

He glanced at Qi Ran and explained to the nurse again: “I didn’t stare at her.”

“She is too squeamish.” Qi An said a fair word for her eldest brother, “If you stare at her, she will not be happy.”

Qi Rui hurriedly took the little baby girl from the nursing mother’s arms and asked, “Then… Then what should I do?”

It was rare for Qi An to give advice to her elder brother, so she happily ran to him and said, “Brother, you sing to her, and then pat her on the arm. I think that’s how my mother coaxed her!”

“Yes! Pat her!” Qi Ran also coaxed.

Holding a hot potato, Qi Rui almost forgot how to write the word “pat”.

After getting used to it for a while, he gently moved his hand, imitating the appearance of Cao Mi in his memory, and said to the little baby girl, “You, don’t be afraid.”

The little baby girl blinked, and there was only a “gurgling” sound from her mouth with two shallow lower front teeth, as if responding to her brother’s words.

“What is your sister talking about?” Qi Ran asked.

Qi An replied, “She said that the second brother is the best brother in the world!”

Qi Ran was stunned for a moment, and after reacting, he pushed him: “You are shameless!”

Qi An stuck out his tongue at him: “That’s what she said. If you don’t believe me, ask her.”

Qi Rui was used to the situation where the twins would quarrel if they disagreed, but this time it was different. He directly shouted to the two of them to stop: “Stop arguing, she is going to fall asleep.”

Qi An and Qi Ran immediately stopped the war and came together again.

The little baby girl yawned a little, smacking her lips, and she closed her eyes and started to sleep.

Qi Rui used his feet to push aside the two tightly squeezed younger brothers, and asked the baby girl’s nurse in a low voice, “Should we put her on the bed and sleep under a quilt?”

Seeing this, the wet nurse smiled and replied in a low voice: “No need, the eldest son likes it, just hug again.”

Qi Rui was taken aback.

He wanted to say that he didn’t like it, but after a while, he seemed to feel it too. If he really wanted to let him go now, he was still a little reluctant.

So he stopped asking, just found a leeward place to sit down and looked at the cute sleeping face of the little baby girl.

The twins sat beside him on the left and the right, as if they were guardians of the Dharma.

“She’s so cute.” Qi An sighed.

Qi Ran yawned: “I want to sleep too.”

When the spring breeze blows, there is a light fragrance of flowers in the air, which makes people drowsy.

Qi Rui slowed her breath and stared at the little baby girl in her arms, only to feel that the surrounding spring colors were bleak in contrast to her.

On the other side, Qi San sent the messenger from Cannes to the gate of the inner city.

“You go in from here, and the people from Rongguan will take you to see the princess.” He patted the messenger on the shoulder and instructed.

The messenger nodded: “The villain understands, thank you Qi San for sending him off.”

“It’s okay.” Qi San smiled.

Watching the people enter the inner city, he turned on his horse, took his subordinates to the west, and drove the horse to a small corner in the southwest of the city.

When he arrived, Maureen and others were already unloading the goods.

But this time, the expressions on these people’s faces were a little serious, which was a little different from the relaxed atmosphere in the past.

Qi San immediately noticed that something must have happened.

He reached out to greet Maureen and led him to a heavily guarded courtyard next to him.

As soon as he closed the door, he asked, “What happened?”

Mo Lin was a soldier of the Rong tribe under Qi You’s command. Because he was familiar with the grasslands, he was assigned the task of trading with Zuoyi.

They have traveled between Changling and the depths of the grasslands for a long time in the past two years, bringing weapons of the Sheng Dynasty to Prince Zuo Yi, and at the same time, they also exchanged Rong fur and rare medicinal materials from Zuo Yi at a high price.

Qi You’s so-called “funding” plan actually only gave Zuo the qualification to buy weapons, not a free gift.

This time, Maureen also took advantage of the beginning of the snowfall and delivered a batch of weapons to go north.

“Our affairs…it seems to be exposed…” After a moment of silence, Maureen said.

“Exposed?” Qi San frowned when he heard the words.

He asked, “How?”

“When I set off from Changling, I met a group of traders who came back from the north.” Mo Lin recalled what happened a few days ago, “It was in a wilderness, and the two teams met at night while resting. A leeward rest.

“The head of the businessman claimed that he often traveled between Jirong and Liaozhou, and he talked with me a lot, and the conversation was no different from that of an ordinary businessman.

“After waking up the next day, we separated, I continued to go north, and he went back in the direction of Changling.”

Although Mo Lin transported a weapon that could not see the light, but because he was pretending to be an ordinary businessman, sometimes he happened to encounter such a thing, and he didn’t dare to be on guard, causing people to be suspicious.

“It’s nothing at all, but two days later, when I was staying overnight in the Ale tribe, I suddenly remembered this matter, and asked Mrs. Zhang a few words…” Mo Lin continued: “But Mrs. Zhang said that she Never seen a trader that matched my description.

“If you often travel between Jirong and Liaozhou, how could you not have stayed overnight in the Ale?

“At this time, I was already suspicious, so I sent people to chase after them. I asked the defenders and found out that they also didn’t see that group of people.

“Commander, I’m afraid… that group of people came for my team for nothing else!”

Qi San nodded solemnly: “Your guess is not unreasonable…”

After thinking for a while, he asked again: “Are those traders from the Sheng Dynasty or the Rong people?”

“There are people from the Sheng Dynasty and the Rong people, there are more people in the Sheng Dynasty, and the one who leads is also the people in the Sheng Dynasty!” Mo Lin replied: “In short… It doesn’t look much different from the ordinary merchants of the Sheng Dynasty.”

“I understand… It seems that someone is indeed eyeing your team.” Qi San pondered in his mind.

After a while, he patted Maureen on the shoulder: “It’s okay, I probably have some ideas.

“You found them in the south of the Ale tribe, I guess their activity area will not spread to this side.

“In this way, you should go through this transaction as planned. For the rest, I will contact the prince to determine the forces behind the group of people, and then solve it.”

Mo Lin originally planned to do the same, and when he heard the words, he cupped his hands and said, “This subordinate understands.”

“Yeah.” Qi San waved his hand, “Go ahead and do your own thing. If you find anything else, come find me again.”

“Yes.” Maureen saluted again, and then backed out.

Only Qi San was left in the room, but his expression did not change at all. After stomping on the spot for a while, he came to the desk, picked up a pen and simply wrote down what happened to Mo Lin and his own guesses.

Then, he called his subordinates and instructed: “Hurry up! Send this letter to the prince!”

The subordinate nodded, took the letter and turned to leave.

The author has something to say: there is another chapter at nine o’clock in the evening.

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