Cowardly Stepmother Dressed As the Hero

Winter days are short and time flies.

Ten days later, in the early morning, Xia Lin and his party returned to the Bei’an Palace.

At that time, Liu Ge had already brought someone to clean up the Linfeng Courtyard. The unnecessary flowers and trees in the courtyard have been transplanted, and the ground has been re-leveled, which looks very flat and spacious. The basketball court and running track are built on soft grass, and there are still some appliances that are temporarily invisible.

The transformation time is not long, and it can only be made like this at present, but it is enough for a few children to run for a few laps. Cao Mi was very satisfied with this. Before breakfast every day, when Qi You went to the martial arts field, she brought the children here so that she and the children could do some activities.

When Dong Li came over, Cao Mi was helping Qi Ran to get rid of the snow on his hat.

As soon as Qi An entered here, he couldn’t take it easy, squeezed a snowball and smashed it on the other two children’s heads. Qi Rui, a well-behaved child, was teased by him, and the two fought together, and Qi Ran, who was the first to lose, came to Cao Mi crying and asking for comfort.

After finishing things up, Qi Ran suddenly asked, “Mother, Daddy, are you not sleeping with us these days?”

Just the day before yesterday, Qi You, who had been idle in the mansion for several days, suddenly became busy again, and did not return to the mansion until late at night every day. So he stopped disturbing Cao Mi’s mother and son in the backyard, and slept in the front yard by himself.

Seeing this, Cao Mi was naturally relieved and sent the children back to their respective courtyards.

Now that I am asking this question, I am afraid that Little Fatty misses his father.

Cao Mi teased him and said, “Huh? Do you want to sleep with Daddy?”

Qi Ran nodded naively.

Cao Mi smiled and said, “Daddy has been very busy these days. After this period of time, he will come back to play with you.”

She pulled Qi Ran’s collar, “However, during this time, Qi Ran should learn to wear shoes first, okay? If Daddy comes back and sees Qi Ran so good, he will be very happy!”

Qi Ran nodded.

He kicked his own feet, “I know it! The head is on the left, the tail is on the right, and when the two sides are put together, there is a little tiger.”

Earlier, Cao Mi asked the embroidery lady in the house to customize a batch of shoe uppers for several children, so that the children could better distinguish between left and right.

“Only the second brother, who is always wearing the wrong clothes.” After a pause, he added: “Second brother, stupid!”

Cao Mi poked his chubby face, and the mother and son couldn’t stop laughing for a while.

After Qi Ran walked away, Dong Li stepped forward, “Madam, Xia Lin is back and is in the courtyard.”

Hearing this, Cao Mi nodded, “Well, when you passed my instructions, you said that she was out for a while and was tired. Let her rest for a few days, and don’t rush to do things.”

Dong Li nodded and left.

After a while, seeing that the time was almost up, Cao Mi called back the three children and returned to Jingmingyuan for dinner.

In the past few days, Qi Rui’s appetite has improved a lot. The originally sunken cheeks have a thin layer of soft meat, which makes Cao Mi very happy.

She always looks forward to the day when she can make him look like Qi An and Qi Rui. This is probably the strongest sense of responsibility as a mother.

So, seeing Qi Rui finish eating the porridge in the bowl, Cao Mi gave him another bun.

The four-year-old child imitated his father’s appearance when he was angry, bulging his cheeks and staring round his eyes to confront the extra buns in the bowl.

Cao Mi tilted his head and asked him, “Are you full?”

Qi Rui rolled his eyes and seemed to have no idea how to answer.

Cao Mi whispered to him: “I always thought that your mother tried her best to give you a good body, but now you are so thin because of my negligence. My mother has always felt guilty in her heart.”

Qi Rui was stunned when he heard the words.

He stared at Cao Mi blankly, opened his mouth, but said nothing.

Cao Mi didn’t need him to respond, so he made an agreement with him: “Now she can’t be with you, you and your mother, take over her unfulfilled wish and take good care of Xiao Qirui, okay?”

Qi Rui suddenly asked in a low voice, “She…does she want me to look good?”

“That’s natural.” Cao Mi patted his head, “This is something she desperately wanted to do well.”

Qi Rui was silent for a while, then nodded and took a bite of the bun in front of him.

Qi An, who was burying his head in drinking porridge, suddenly raised his head, pouted his lips and said, “Mother, don’t talk when you eat, don’t talk when you sleep!”

Cao Mi, who was happy to untie Qi Rui’s knot, smiled and nodded, looking like he was being taught, “Well, my mother was wrong. An’er and Ran’er did the best job.”

Hearing this, Qi Ran also raised his head from the bowl, laughed silly, and finally picked up the rice grains from his bib and put them into his mouth again.

Cao Mi looked at the three children and felt very fulfilled inside. In modern times, she was just a single college student who had just graduated. She did not expect that she would not only have a husband, but even children could run and dance.

But after the initial discomfort, the three children brought her endless warmth and satisfaction, making her feel at home again.

Unfortunately, life is not all about happiness.

At night, King Bei’an, who had disappeared for two days, suddenly appeared again. When the family of five were chatting and digesting food on the couch, Xia Lin suddenly entered the house.

With red eyes, she walked straight to Cao Mi and knelt down, “Sin slave Xia Lin, I’ve come here to apologize to the lord and princess.”

Cao Mi was taken aback by her behavior, and her first reaction was to turn her head and glance at Qi You’s face.

Xia Lin and Chun Lin were originally his personal maids, and they still had a bit of face in the mansion. Cao Mi guessed that Xia Lin had an attack when Qi You was there, and he should be planning to let Qi You “call the shots” for her.

But Qi You didn’t have any extra reaction. He only called the nurses of the three children and took them away.

After the child left, Cao Mi asked, “Xia Lin, what happened? How can you say such a thing?”

Xia Lin kowtowed again and said in a trembling voice: “The slave is stupid and can’t figure out what wrong he has committed, but it has always made the princess unhappy. Please punish the prince and the princess.”

Cao Mi asked again: “Did you misunderstand something? You just came back in the morning, didn’t I ask Dongli to let you rest for a few days? Why did you make me unhappy?”

Xia Lin replied: “This servant is originally a servant of the palace, how can I dare to leave the affairs of the palace alone and go to rest? Next month will be the new year, and the servant is thinking about the arrangements in the palace. The backyard helped me to count all the purchases, but Nanxi rejected the slaves and said… that there was no place for slaves in the courtyard!

“The slave-girl left the palace for a few months to supervise the embroidery workshop for the princess. She really didn’t know what wrong she had committed, so the princess gave up the slave-girl directly. But the slave-girl was definitely wrong, so I didn’t dare to delay, and came here to ask for the crime.”

In fact, most of what she said was true. During the time she was away, Cao Mi had already installed her own people in the courtyard and took over all her powers.

Although Xia Lin has returned now, Cao Mi is not going to let her manage.

But she had already figured out what to do, so she stepped forward in a funny way and helped Xia Lin up, “Silly girl, why did you want to go there?”

She held Xia Lin’s hand and said to Qi You, “My lord, the concubine is just trying to tell you about this.”

Qi You raised his eyebrows, “Huh?”

Cao Mi said: “Xia Lin will be twenty after the new year. The concubine relies heavily on her, but she is unwilling to keep her as an old girl. I thought that it is time to arrange for her to go out to find a good family.”