The scumbag ran away from marriage, I remarried on the spot

Chapter 584 The Autumn Examination is Coming

Princess Jingning was just teasing him. Although she thought it would be great if her daughter married into the Gu family in the future, with her best friend becoming her daughter's mother-in-law, it was too hasty to get the marriage done when the children were so young. She should at least wait until the two children grew up and were interested in each other before getting engaged.

She squinted at Shen Yunzhou and got back to the point: "The point now is not this, it's that Nuonuo needs a playmate. Let's choose two three or four-year-old children from our family to come and play with Nuonuo. After all, we are adults and don't know the psychological needs of children. Only children can understand children better."

Shen Yunzhou nodded gently: "You can choose two girls who are well-behaved and good-tempered. Let them grow up with Nuonuo and become Nuonuo's maids. They will be loyal to Nuonuo because they have grown up together."

Princess Jingning said, "I'll choose tomorrow."

They had solved a problem here, but over at the Changxing Marquis' Mansion, the usually well-behaved Wanwan started to make a fuss, crying and asking for a younger sister, and no matter how they tried to coax her, she wouldn't stop.

Wanwan originally listened to her mother. Her mother said that her sister had gone home and she would see her next time, so she sent her sister away without crying or making a fuss. However, when she didn't see her sister at night, she started crying loudly.

Meng Jinyao's head ached from her son's crying, so she stuffed her son to Gu Jingxi and said, "This is your son, you come and comfort him."

Gu Jingxi laughed and said, "Didn't you say you would bring him a little girl home to foster their relationship, maybe they could become a couple in the future? Now, the relationship has been fostered, but the little girl ran away, how could he not cry? This is all caused by you as a mother."

Meng Jinyao looked at her crying son with a worried look on her face: "What should we do? We can't send Wanwan to the Shen family, right? And the Shen family won't be willing to send Nuonuo here again."

Gu Jingxi wiped his son's tears and said, "Ayao, go get Yunxin from Xiuyuan's house to play with him. Children forget things quickly, so he'll be fine as long as he has a new playmate."

Meng Jinyao nodded. The only option now was to go to the eldest house. Yunxin and Wanwan were the only ones of similar age in the family.

After bringing Yunxin over, the couple worked together to coax Yunxin for a long time before they finally calmed him down.

Yunxin is a lively and lovely child. Wanwan quickly accepted Yunxin as his playmate. He stayed with Yunxin every day. He followed Yunxin and called him "brother", but Yunxin called him "fourth uncle". The two little guys called each other "fourth uncle", which made the adults at home laugh.

Meng Jinyao couldn't help laughing when she heard her son calling Yun Xin brother again. She said to the man beside her, "Husband, when your son grows up and remembers that he used to call his nephew brother, will he blame us for not stopping him from calling him brother?"

Gu Jingxi raised his eyebrows: "He can only blame himself for being stupid. We as parents have already corrected him. He insisted on calling me brother. Who can we blame?"

Meng Jinyao nodded: "That's true, it was this little idiot who insisted on calling me brother." After she finished speaking, she mentioned another matter, "Husband, tomorrow is a day off, are you free?"

Gu Jingxi said in a gentle voice: "Of course there is. I will go out with you tomorrow."

Meng Jinyao shook her head gently: "Xiu Wen is back home today, and my second brother is also home. Tomorrow you can test their knowledge, read the articles they wrote, and give them some advice."

Gu Xiuwen and Meng Chengzhang have the same teacher. They went on a study tour with their teacher last year and did not come back for the Chinese New Year. They have only returned now as the Autumn Examination is approaching, preparing to take part in this year's Autumn Examination.

Gu Jingxi readily agreed: "Okay, then we'll go out on the next holiday."

Meng Jinyao said: "Then I will send someone to the Bo's Mansion to pass on a message, asking my second brother to come over tomorrow."

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The next day.

After breakfast, Meng Chengzhang took the interesting little toys he bought for his nephew when he was studying abroad and went to Changxing Marquis Mansion. In fact, he didn't need his elder sister to invite him, as he also planned to visit his elder sister and nephew today.

The siblings haven't seen each other for a long time and miss each other very much.

Meng Jinyao looked at her second brother who had gone on a long journey, had become a little tanned, had grown a lot taller, and had become much more stable. She felt like a younger brother of her family had grown up, and she was quite pleased.

The sister and brother exchanged greetings, and then the wet nurse came in carrying Wanwan.

Meng Jinyao took the child and said softly, "Wanwan, this is your second uncle, call him second uncle."

Wanwan opened her eyes wide and looked at Meng Chengzhang curiously. After a while, she stretched out her hands to him, as if asking for a hug.

Meng Chengzhang was stunned at first, but then he reacted and quickly reached out to take Wanwan from Meng Jinyao's arms. He coaxed Wanwan for a few more words before Wanwan started to call him "Second Uncle". Hearing the baby voice of his little nephew, his heart softened and he said, "Before I left, Wanwan couldn't speak, but now she can speak."

Meng Jinyao smiled and said, "Second brother, if you had come back earlier, this little fool wouldn't be able to speak. He spoke and walked later than others. I thought I had given birth to a stupid child, but I didn't expect that he could speak and walk all of a sudden."

Meng Chengzhang smiled and shook his head: "Big sister and big brother-in-law are both smart. Wanwan is your child, how can he be stupid? This little guy looks like a little smart guy. He will definitely be loved by the teacher when he studies in the future."

Meng Jinyao said disapprovingly: "Smart children can also make teachers very angry. For example, when your eldest brother-in-law was young, he gave his father and teacher a lot of headaches."

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Jingxi was choked by the tea and coughed violently twice. Seeing his young wife looking at him, he looked over with resentment in his eyes, as if saying: Ayao, it's not appropriate to reveal your secrets.

The couple exchanged glances, but Meng Chengzhang pretended not to notice. He teased his little nephew in his arms and changed the subject: "Big sister, when I returned home yesterday, I found that my third brother was still under house arrest and had not left the yard."

Meng Jinyao's expression paused, and then said: "Unless something unexpected happens, I will not let him out during my father's lifetime."

My father put the blame of my grandmother's illness on my third brother, and got what he wanted by petitioning the emperor to depose my third brother from the position of crown prince. He then vented his anger. Now when he sees his third brother, he is reminded of the stain of framing his son. My father never wants to see his third brother again in his life.

Meng Chengzhang was surprised: "But, but my third brother will be old enough to get married in two years. He will have to marry and have children. Will father still keep him locked up until then?"

Meng Jinyao said meaningfully: "He is now a family outcast, notorious, and no good girl is willing to marry him. What to do at that time is up to my father. If my father says that he doesn't want his own rebellious son to harm other people's good girls, can he still marry and have children?"

Meng Chengzhang remained silent. If he could be so heartless and cruel to his once beloved son, he would be even more cruel to others. Fortunately, his father was neither good at literature nor martial arts, and was a mediocre and incompetent person. If he was in a high position with great power, who knows how many people he would have harmed.

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