First-rank palace maid Su Jixiang

Chapter 402 Wei Ling's Parents

"This house is totally ruined. Only Fenghuaju is still habitable! Where else can I live if I don't live in Fenghua?" Wei Chengwu said, covering his chest.

"Uncle is very energetic." Su Jixiang said with a smile, "It seems that there is nothing wrong with his health now!"

After hearing what Su Jixiang said, Wei Chengwu quickly lowered his voice and hummed softly.

"Hurry up and send the master back to rest! What are you still standing here for?" Seeing this, Ruan hurriedly said to the servants.

The servants immediately carried the old man away quickly.

Wei Ling wanted to chase after him, but his sleeve felt tight. He lowered his eyes and saw that his sleeve was grasped in Su Jixiang's hand.

Only after the person walked away did Su Jixiang let go of his hand and wiped the wrinkles on his sleeves that he had made.

"It's late at night, and he's making trouble under the pretext of being sick. It's useless to chase him. How can you chase him out in the middle of the night?" Su Jixiang said softly, "Let's wait until tomorrow!"

Wei Ling was furious, but he gradually calmed down after Su Jixiang's consolation.

He sighed, held Su Jixiang's hand, pulled her hand to his cheek and rubbed it gently, "I wanted to show you the place where I lived when I was young, but I didn't expect it to turn out like this!"

Originally, he had thought a lot on the way back. He wanted to take Su Jixiang to live in Fenghuaju. He wanted to take Su Jixiang to see Qianhua Garden where he lived in the capital when he was young. He wanted to take her to see the swing that he had made for his sister.

He even wanted to take Su Jixiang to the Moon-Watching Tower in the mansion to admire the moon. It was the highest place in the mansion in the country, and from there, one could see the beautiful sight of thousands of lights from the surrounding houses!

But now all these ideas have been completely destroyed!

They could even only live in Pingletang, which was previously only used for guests.

Seeing that Wei Ling was unhappy, Su Jixiang smiled and took the initiative to put her palm on his cheek, and gently rubbed his skin with her thumb twice, "At least we are still living in the place where you lived when you were young. Anyway, it's still there, let Lushui and Guihua clean up first, and you take me around the Duke's Mansion? I really want to see what kind of fairy house you lived in when you were a child!"

Just this one sentence touched Wei Ling's heart.

The last bit of annoyance in his heart was completely dispelled by her, and Wei Ling also laughed.

"Okay!" He gave Lushui and Guihua a look, and the two of them understood and bowed and left, and he thoughtfully left a lantern for them.

Wei Ling held the lantern in one hand and walked forward holding Su Jixiang's hand with the other. "Then how about I take you to visit the place where I lived when I was a child at night?"

"Thank you, my husband!" Su Jixiang said with a smile, her eyes like crescent moons and her smile like a flower.

Wei Ling couldn't help but lean over and kiss her on the cheek, then he walked forward with the lantern.

"In the past, this mansion was full of lights even at night." Wei Ling said with emotion as he walked with Su Jixiang in the courtyard of the old Duke's Mansion.

There are only a few bright lamps hanging in the mansions now, and both the number and the brightness of each lamp are far from what they used to be.

Most of the houses were pitch black, but Su Jixiang didn't feel scared at all as he was led by Wei Ling. Instead, he felt a spirit of adventure.

"The night view here must have been very beautiful at that time." Su Jixiang continued Wei Ling's words.

"Yes." Wei Ling nodded.

Thinking back to the grand scene of the Duke's Mansion in the past, a warm smile appeared on the corners of his mouth.

"When I was little, I was naughty and would play hide-and-seek with my sisters." Wei Ling laughed, "I would hide in the dark and suddenly jump out to scare them."

"What will be the result?" Su Jixiang asked, "Will the sisters hold you down and beat you up?"

"How do you know?" Wei Ling's eyes widened instantly and he looked at Su Jixiang.

"If it were me, and I was walking peacefully in the middle of the night and was suddenly startled by someone, I would subconsciously beat that person up!" Su Jixiang said with a smile.

Wei Ling couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"My eldest sister was scared by me at first, but later she was not afraid anymore. She and my second sister beat me together!" Wei Ling said with a smile.

As he was laughing, the corners of his eyes became slightly moist. "If they knew that I married a good wife like you, they would definitely be very happy. They are different from ordinary noble ladies. They can wield swords and are good at martial arts. If they see you, they will definitely like your temper and taste."

Su Jixiang was also a little sad.

"They must be very beautiful too! You are so handsome." Su Jixiang said.

"Yes. My eldest sister is probably the most beautiful in the capital. Except for you, of course. I didn't know you at that time." Wei Ling said, "Although my second sister is not as beautiful as my eldest sister, she is also a beauty. It's just that the noble ladies in the capital have too many rules, and my eldest and second sisters don't bother to use these rules to restrict themselves, so they are considered different among the noble ladies."

Su Jixiang nodded and said that being an alternative actually means being excluded.

"Then my father and mother must be very open-minded people." Su Jixiang said with a smile.

After she married Wei Ling, Wei Ling rarely mentioned his deceased parents in front of Su Jixiang. He would only take Su Jixiang to the Wei family's burial site to pay homage on their memorial anniversaries.

Su Jixiang never asked any questions in order to avoid touching Wei Ling's sad spot.

Over the years, Su Jixiang knew very little about his in-laws, whom he had never met.

Even if I knew some of the past events, I heard them from Wei Zhong.

"Yes. Although my mother herself was born into a noble family, she began to practice martial arts under my father's guidance after marrying him." Wei Ling's eyes became deeper. "They are the best parents in the world. From childhood to adulthood, my mother taught us to read and write, and my father taught us the art of war! My father and mother told us that what is important in this world is not how others see us, but how we see ourselves."

Su Jixiang nodded secretly. This idea was already quite progressive!

Of course, at that time, Wei Ling's parents were a duke and a duke's wife, respectively, with an exclusive status, so they naturally had the ability and confidence to say such things to their children.

After all, with the Duke's Mansion as their golden signboard, their children will not have to worry about their lives, and they don't have to worry too much about the issue of marriage. It's just a matter of finding the right person to live with.

Therefore, they did not ask their children to follow so many rigid rules in their education.

One can imagine how prosperous and free Wei Ling lived in the capital when he was young.