Number One Scholar's Spicy Wife

  Xie Wenjing's mother was taken aback, thinking that her husband wanted to get close to their daughter, so she agreed to the request of the father and daughter. Although she leaned on the soft couch, her eyes were still fixed on Xie Wenjing, fearing that she would choke her father while feeding him.

  Xie Wenjing quickly pulled out a piece of cotton cloth from her sleeve and folded it under her father's neck, covering the original cotton cloth on his neck. This process was quick and covert, and Xie Wenjing's mother did not notice.

  Xie Wenjing turned her back on her mother and looked at her father's shallow breathing, feeling bitter in her heart.

  Xie Chengyu also looked at his daughter, with a deep and profound gaze, but the loving look in his eyes was still very obvious.

  This girl has always been obedient, but she never wanted to take medicine for herself. Just now, when the girl saw that old woman's good ginseng, why didn't her eyes show the same excitement as her mother's?

  "Dad, I'm unfilial, but this is the first time I've given you medicine. Dad, I believe you'll definitely get better and can personally teach my brother to read and also teach me to paint, right?"

  Xie Wenjing was carrying her mother on her back, while feeding her father a mouthful of medicine. However, as she fed him, Xie Wenjing intentionally spoke softly and said nice things, but poured the medicine down her father's neck and onto the cotton cloth below.

  "Ah, Dad believes." Just as Xie Wenyin's mother was about to get up and take a look at how Xie Wenyin's first dose of medicine was going, Xie Wenyin's father suddenly said three weak words, causing Xie Wenyin's mother to relax immediately. She didn't expect that with her daughter feeding the medicine, her husband would be in high spirits. Let their daughter take good care of her father then.

  "Dad, I used to love watching you walk with your clothes fluttering in the wind. I thought mom had married the most charming man in the world and I was even envious!"

  Xie Wenjing said as she poured another large mouthful of medicine into her father's mouth, on the cotton cloth under his neck.

  "Nonsense!" Xie Wenjing's mother scolded her daughter, feeling embarrassed by her own words.

  "Haha! Is that so?" Xie Wenyin's father chuckled lightly, revealing Xie Chengyu's extremely good mood at this time.

  "Dad, when I grow up, I want to be just like you! Who knows which little girl will be lucky enough to marry me then!"

  Xie Wenjing spilled another spoonful of medicine.

  "You child, once you leave this door, absolutely don't tell anyone these things, or else you'll be ridiculed!"

  Xie Wenjing's mother's mood also relaxed after Xie Wenjing spoke, and she smiled to remind her daughter. Xie Wenjing's mother thought that her daughter was intentionally saying this to make her father happy. Unexpectedly, her father really was very happy indeed.

  "Mother, I understand, otherwise why would I ask Liu Ayi to leave? Can't let outsiders hear what I'm saying!"

  Xie Wenjing's calm words revealed that Liu Niang was not considered a family member in her eyes.

  "Wenjing, you can't say that about your Aunt Liu. These past two years, since she moved into the bamboo garden, she has been taking care of your father, often not even changing her clothes at night, and especially at night, she takes turns with me to look after your father. If it weren't for her help, I really wouldn't have been able to take care of your father on my own. You can't say such things about her in the future, or you'll hurt her feelings."

  Xie Wenjing's mother immediately spoke of her merits to Liu Niangniang. After two years of pretending, Liu Niangniang successfully moved Xie Wenjing's mother's heart, not only making her accept her but also being grateful to her.

  "Daughter, have you ever thought that if there was no Liu Yiniang, you would still have Wu Ayi by your side, and Father would also have Li Shu, not to mention the maids in the bamboo garden. With so many people taking care of Father, do you really need a Liu Yiniang?"

  Xie Wenjing tried to make her mother realize something, she and her aunt's position is arch-nemesis, there is no possibility of being good sisters.

  "Wenjing, in other people's families, there may be discord between wives and concubines, but our Xie family has never had such a thing. Your grandmother and your aunt's mother married your grandfather together and have always supported each other. Now, Liu Niang can enter as a concubine when your father is ill, and your father can recover well. Mother thanks her for that. In the past two years, she has been very respectful to Mother and taken good care of Father with great patience. You should also respect her. Besides, in the future, you will marry into the Zhao family, a renowned family in Yangzhou, and it's inevitable that there will be concubines entering the household. You must have a broad mind and cannot give rise to jealousy, damaging the harmony of the family. Otherwise, outsiders will laugh at you."

  Xie Wenjing's mother thought her daughter was disgusted with her father's concubine, and quickly educated her daughter with her own understanding of being a magnanimous person.

  Xie Wenjing's eyebrows unconsciously furrowed, and suddenly she found that her father's eyebrows were also tightly furrowed. Did Father not like Liu Niang? Or did Father think he had said too much?

  "Mother, I know, you rest for a while, I'll give father his medicine. Father has been eating well all along!" Xie Wenjing didn't want to continue the topic of Liu Yiniang anymore.

  Liu Lingling's two years of showing off were not in vain, her mother's heart had softened long ago, and she was moved by Liu Lingling. Who would have thought that just a few words from herself today could change her mother's mind? It was actually her father's idea, but she didn't know that.

  However, Dad was a bit strange today. He fed himself the medicine, but it all flowed down his chin and onto the cotton cloth on his neck. Yet he didn't make a sound, cooperating very well.

  Is it because Dad endured it for the first time giving medicine, or is it because Dad's heart actually suspected these medicines?

  Xie Wenjing stared blankly at her father's eyes, trying to see something.

  Xie Wenjing's mother realized that her daughter hadn't actually listened to what she had said, and suddenly whispered to Xie Wenjing.

  "Wenjing, remember this: in this world, filial piety is greater than heaven. When elders treat younger generations with kindness, the younger generation should be grateful and cannot despise or question them. Otherwise, they will be labeled as unfilial and will have a hard time. In the future, when you get married and go to your husband's family, you must restrain your own temper, serve your husband well, respect your parents-in-law, and also treat your younger uncle and aunt kindly."

  Xie Wenjing was suddenly startled, and her mother hinted that she was either a concubine arranged by her father's family or one who had been brought in under the guise of "rushing happiness", and naturally couldn't be disliked, otherwise it would be unfilial.

  "But mother, I'm a bit worried. What if I go to the Zhao's house and Mrs. Zhao doesn't like me? She might intentionally bully me or even poison me. Would I still have to watch as she brings me poisoned medicine, knowing full well what it is, and eat it to my death?"

  Xie Wenjing said this while staring at her father, looking to see if he was suspicious of the old woman.

  Xie Wenjing noticed Father's momentary stiffness, and even a hint of anger, but it was only for an instant before he recovered. It wasn't until then that Xie Wenjing was certain that Father had already suspected the old woman's sinister intentions.

  "Don't talk nonsense, Wenjing. How could you have such thoughts? What kind of mother-in-law would harm her daughter-in-law? Isn't she afraid of being discovered and losing face? Isn't she afraid of heavenly retribution? At most, the mother-in-law might think what you're doing is not good, or that it's not to her liking, which might make you feel like she doesn't like you. But just remember, people's hearts are made of flesh, as long as you learn from her and show respect, your future mother-in-law will like you. You child, don't ever say such things to anyone again, or they'll say you're unfilial."

  Xie Wenjing didn't mind her mother's response, and from this conversation, she realized that her father already suspected the old woman, while her mother was extremely trusting and grateful towards her.

  Xie Wenjing looked at her father with a pained expression, while Xie Chengyu also stared at his daughter. From her words, he could sense that she had suspicions about Liu Lingling and even the old woman.

  It's all because I doubted too late, allowing that old woman to ruin my body into its current weak state. If only I had woken up earlier, I would still have the strength to tear off that hypocritical woman's true face. Unfortunately, now I can't even get out of bed.

  If the daughter had such suspicions, it was unclear whether it was a good or bad thing for herself. The old woman's methods were not ordinary and if the daughter's suspicions were discovered by her, Xie Chengyu really couldn't imagine how she would frame his own son and daughter.