Soon, it was time for Jiang Xinci to return. Jiang Xinman stayed in the room and yawned. She couldn't go out, so Jiang Yuexiu and his mother went to pick her up.

I don't know what the Emperor is thinking, he wants to keep a low profile, but this matter has kept the household busy for a long time.

She wasn't the only one yawning. Zhuang Qiyan was also yawning. When he was brought here, he thought that she had changed her mind, but it turned out that she only wanted him to come here for a errand. It was better to let him go back.

"When will it start?"

"I don't know."

"When can we go out?"

... "I don't know."

... ""

Zhuang Qiyan was also helpless. How could he know something that even the young miss didn't know? It was so early in the morning. No matter what, it should only start at night.

Jiang Xinman stared at him with her dead fish eyes, causing Zhuang Qiyan's heart to tremble. "Miss, what's the matter?"

"Have you done what I asked you to do?"

Zhuang Qiyan sighed faintly. "Miss, it's not that I want to say it, but you've asked me more than a dozen times now. I've done it..."

Jiang Xinman saw that it was still early and said to Zhuang Qiyan, "Chengyu should be awake by now. Go and call him over. Tell him I missed him."

Zhuang Qiyan ran away like a wisp of smoke. It was not because he was proactive, but because he was too bored.

Jiang Chengyu was Jiang Xinman's younger brother. When he returned this time, he would fall into the lake with Jiang Xinci's child. If he hadn't broken the ice on the surface of the lake a few days ago, he probably wouldn't have been able to fall in now. The weather was getting colder and colder.

He didn't know what Jiang Xinci was thinking. Wasn't she afraid that she would catch a cold and die if she brought the children back in such cold weather? When did she become so stupid?

Jiang Xinman wanted to ask Jiang Xinci what she was thinking, but before she could go out, she bumped into Zhuang Qiyan carrying Jiang Chengyu over.

Jiang Chengyu's face was red from the cold, and he refused to take off his thick coat when he entered the room.

Even he couldn't stand it, let alone a child who wasn't even a year old. Jiang Xinman became more and more suspicious.

Jiang Xinman covered her hand with his. After her hand warmed up, she placed the incense burner that warmed her hand in his hand.

The reason why he didn't give the incense burner first was that he was afraid that the child would be scalded. At this time, Jiang Chengyu's hand temperature was very low, he felt hot even when he soaked in cold water, how could he bear the incense burner that was even hotter...

Zhuang Qiyan didn't need Jiang Xinman to say anything. He consciously squatted beside the charcoal brazier. He gave off the feeling of a rabbit and almost made Jiang Xinman laugh.

Jiang Chengyu opened his eyes wide and looked at Jiang Xinman, not knowing why his sister had asked him to come over. He liked this sister at home. Big sister Jiang Xinci always had a cold expression. He had only seen his big brother and second brother a few times.

As for Fourth Brother and Fifth Brother, he did not have a good impression of them. All they did was stir up trouble.

Although Third Sister beat up the two brothers that day, they recovered in just a few days. She also told him not to side with the other brothers and sisters in the family...

Jiang Xinman carried him and sat down, then asked Jiang Chengyu: "Does Chengyu know what day it is today?"

Jiang Chengyu answered her honestly: "It's the day Big Sis returns home."

"It's a very important day, right?"

Jiang Chengyu nodded matter-of-factly.

"Since it's an important day, then Chengyu can't run around today, right? Chengyu is so obedient, he definitely won't run around, right?"

Jiang Xinman's coaxing made Zhuang Qiyan feel that she was really a human trafficker.

"Yes!" He was the most obedient.

"If a stranger tells you to go and play, no matter who it is, you must not follow him, not even if you know him. Unless your mother and father tell you to go, or Qi Yan and I tell you to go, no one else is allowed to follow you, understand?"

Jiang Chengyu nodded again.

"En!" He was the most obedient.

Jiang Xinman felt that such an old child should have a certain level of judgment. As for how he fell into the lake, it was still unknown.

Jiang Xinman did not let Jiang Chengyu leave. It was too cold outside, and when she opened the door, a cold breeze blew in. She gave it to Jiang Chengyu to play with, but he actually told Jiang Xinman that he still had to do his homework today and had not read today's book.

Jiang Xinman's heart was filled with tears of ignorance and incompetence. She couldn't destroy his enthusiasm. What if he lost it when he grew up? Jiang Yuexiu would strangle her.

Jiang Xinman saw that Zhuang Qiyan had been looking at Jiang Chengyu, who was sitting on a chair reading a book, and asked in a low voice, "Are you interested?"

Zhuang Qiyan slowly turned his head, as if he was thinking about Jiang Xinman's words. Then, he shook his head like a rattle drum.

What a joke. If he could study, would he be like this now? He felt a headache when he saw the words.

However, he turned his head towards Jiang Chengyu and stared at the books piled up on the table.

Jiang Chengyu was not affected at all. Jiang Xinman looked at Zhuang Qiyan's stunned expression and decided to send him to school after this matter was over. It was good to be able to read a few words.

Jiang Xinman told Zhuang Qiyan to keep an eye on Jiang Chengyu and not let anything happen to him. She wrapped herself in a robe and went out to find Jiang Xinci. She really couldn't help but want to ask her what was going on in her head. Could such a fragile child stand such a winter? !

When Jiang Xinman found Jiang Xinci, she was still talking to her mother in the room. Jiang Xinman was not in a hurry to go in, but found a place with poor soundproofing to eavesdrop on their conversation.

Inside the house, her mother was reprimanding Jiang Xinci.

"Why did you bring such a young child back? It's not like it's any other time of year. It's winter. What if something goes wrong with the child?!"

Jiang Xinci kept repeating her words," I have no choice! I have no choice... "

"You have no choice, but do you think I have a way? It is not easy to stay in the palace, but if you give the child to the emperor, let him look after it for you. The concubines in the palace are not so blind! If you take it home and bring it back to the palace, what can you do to take care of it on the way?! "

Jiang Xinci shook her head: "Mother, you don't know, the child can't be in the palace, let alone in Xie Chengtian's hands!"

"My young miss! Do you want to die? How dare you call the emperor by his name?"

"I've lost my life long ago..."

Jiang Xinci's disheartened tone made Jiang Xinman's heart beat like a drum. What was going on? Could it be that something had gone wrong with her underground love?

But the two of them were so smart, they wouldn't not know about their situation, right?

While Jiang Xinman was thinking about her own matters, her mother's voice came from inside the room.

"Xinman, come in. Don't stand outside anymore. It's so cold."

Jiang Xinman pushed open the door with a coy smile and went in: "Mother, how did you know I was outside?"

"How could I not know about your bad temper? Tell me about Xinci as well! She doesn't even have a brain to enter the palace."

Jiang Xinman looked at her angry mother. She rarely got angry, and she rarely spoke so directly. It could be seen how bad Jiang Xinci was doing.

Jiang Xinman took off her robe and walked closer to Jiang Xinci. She wanted to ask her what she was thinking, but the thing behind her attracted all her attention.

There was a very big crib. The baby on the bed was wrapped in a goose blanket and sleeping quietly. It was a little pig, so loud that it did not wake him up.

There was even a small heater under his bed... Jiang Xinman looked at the other two people. Was this for real?!

Jiang Xinman pulled Jiang Xinci to the side and whispered to her, "Did you break up with that person?"

"No."

"Then why did you bring the child back? If you don't want him, just say it."

"No."

Jiang Xinci's answer to Jiang Xinman had always been no.

"Then is there something wrong with Xie Chengtian?"

"He's in good health."

Jiang Xinman shook her head. She wasn't talking about this problem.

"Does he want to lay his hands on the child?"

... ""

Jiang Xinci only felt that Jiang Xinman's intuition was too terrifying. Ordinary people would not think in this direction. The emperor really wanted his own children, so it was even more impossible for him to do anything to his own children.

Even if he did, he definitely wouldn't dare to say it out loud.

Jiang Xinci originally thought that he only wanted to have his own child, but what Jiang Xinci did not expect was that he had a different purpose for giving birth. It was not unreasonable for children to die young in the palace. First of all, if he could not even pass the emperor, how could he be allowed to grow up safely in the palace?

Jiang Xinci brought the child back because she wanted to find a solution, and she couldn't stand Jiang Xinman anymore.

"The Emperor... I found him once... He just thought it was funny to watch us struggle. Most of the children in the palace don't live more than a few years, and he'll take the older ones with him, and they won't be able to come back."

This was her child. How could she let Xie Chengtian hurt him as he pleased? But he was the emperor, and there wasn't much he could do about it.

When Jiang Xinman heard Jiang Xinci's words, she once again gave this emperor a bad impression in her heart. This guy was a pervert!

Jiang Xinman's mother facepalmed in disbelief. The Emperor wanted to kill her own child... No wonder all the princes and princesses died a few years ago in the palace... So it was because he didn't want it himself. Then why did he have to give birth to it?

"Then why did he have to bleed? Couldn't he have just found a random reason to kill him?"

What her mother heard was like the funniest joke of the year.

"Could it be that he wants to do something unspeakable with the blood of his own child?"

Jiang Xinman had a bold guess that he might want to use his own blood-related child as a catalyst for something, because he would not use his own blood to do this expensive thing.

Duanxin, will there be some strange phenomena in this world? For example, some witchcraft or something...

Let's see how you unlock the storyline...

You mean that there is definitely something!

You've already touched the bottom line. Be careful.

Why?! She hadn't done anything yet!

'Maybe... it's too fast? After all, my brother at home was crippled by you. Originally, there were a lot of interactions between me and the sisters here, but they were all destroyed by you.'

'Isn't that good?!'

'Perhaps in the future... they won't be able to marry the sisters, and their relationship will be gone. '

He didn't expect that it would only be a trial space, so why was it so annoying? Not even speed! And... Why were there so many elements involved... If this continued, would even people with mysterious powers appear?!

The longer she stayed, the more strange things would happen, and the more uncertain the future became, the more difficult it would be for her to complete the task, and she had to hurry.

Finding an opportunity to dig up Xie Chengtian's dark history, Jiang Xinman had been thinking about the feasibility of this method.