Wishful Things

"Lanyue Mountain Villa... I haven't been there for a few years." Mrs. Xu said casually after taking a sip of the hot tea handed over by her maid.

Lanyue Villa is a hot spring resort of the Wu family outside Ningyang City. In the past, when the Xu family did not come to Beijing with Wu Jingming, they would stay with Princess Dingnan for a while every winter.

"I remember hearing my second uncle say that I was born in Lanyue Villa." Wu Chao said.

"That's right..." Mrs. Xu nodded with a smile: "When my mother was pregnant with you, she was not in good health. Later, she was still unstable, so she was accompanied by your grandmother and father to the mountain villa to rest and recuperate, but who knows that you came out a little early... At that time, I couldn't make it back to the city in time. Fortunately, I was prepared for it. Granny Wen followed me all the time, so I gave birth to my Ayuan in the villa."

He said again: "After all, you came out early, and you will inevitably be a little weak. That's why your grandfather made an exception and named you Wu Chao. I only hope that you can grow up safely."

She spoke slowly, and Wu Chao listened quietly.

He knew about these in the past, although no one around him would easily tell him the details.

"A mother must have suffered a lot in order to give birth to a son—"

"Mother is not bitter at all, my A Yuan really suffered when she was young..." Xu's eyes seemed to be a little far away.

Seeing such a mother in front of him, Wu Chao hesitated for a while.

These days, he is eager to check some things, but the more he investigates, the more strange he feels.

As for the next words, he was even a little unsure whether he should ask his mother——

This feeling of hesitation is very complicated, some facing the mother, and some facing the depths of my heart.

But this hesitation quickly dissipated.

He has always paid more attention to the truth when he does things.

"Mother, my son has something, I want to ask you alone."

The smile on Xu's face was slightly stagnant, but she just calmly asked the maids to go outside to guard.

"What's the matter?"

Wu Chao asked: "The son wants to ask the mother, before and after the son was born, were there other children born in the villa?"

Xu's fingers holding the tea cup tightened slightly.

"Other children...?" She shook her head and said, "I've never heard of this... Among the descendants of our Wu family, as far as I know, you are the only one born in Lanyue Villa."

As he said that, he looked at the young man in front of him: "Ah Yuan, why... would you ask such a question?"

Wu Chao answered truthfully: "My son went out that day, and he brought Mr. Fang with him. Mr. Fang was born in a Taoist sect. He lived in Lanyue Mountain Villa. When I passed by a plum forest with me, he could tell at a glance that there was a formation in the forest—"

"Formation...?" Xu asked in a daze, "What formation?"

"The array set up for the people buried in the forest can help them die, add blessings to them, and pray for a complete reincarnation in the next life." Wu Chao said: "It is said that this array is mostly used for babies who died prematurely."

"This..." Mrs. Xu seemed a little unbelievable, and said: "Although the child who died young cannot be placed in the ancestral grave, the one buried in the plum grove will definitely not be the descendants of our Wu family—could it be some servant girl in the villa who failed to keep the child she gave birth to?"

"My son also had this guess at first."

Wu Chao said: "But later, my son found other things—"

And as soon as he finished his sentence, he clearly felt the silent emotional ups and downs in his mother.

"From the position of the formation, Mr. Fang deduced that there is something corresponding to the formation in the tall pavilion in the plum grove - my son found a secret compartment in a secret room in the pavilion, and inside the compartment were a baby's swaddle, a blessing card, and a jade pendant."

A child who died prematurely cannot set up a memorial tablet to worship, and the family can only add blessings to the afterlife in this way as a comforting thought-this is not harmful to nature, nor is it something shameful.

But according to Mr. Fang, the formation in Lanyue Villa is a master's handwriting.

Such a handwriting, such a secret, how could it be possible for ordinary servants and maids to do it?

But he no longer had to ask his mother this question——

"My son has already identified that jade pendant. It belongs to the Wu family, and my son has an identical piece." Wu Chao said, "Even the date of birth on the blessing card is the same as my son's, only half an hour away."

"..." Xu's face turned slightly pale, and after a while, she asked softly, "Those things... did you take them back?"

Her voice was very soft and soft, but she was clearly concerned.

She wasn't someone who couldn't hold her breath and didn't know how to hide her emotions.

It's just that as a mother, the existence of some scars is more impactful than other things. No matter how hard you are originally, you have to become extremely fragile, and you will be defeated in an instant.

"The son didn't take it."

Seeing his mother's reaction in his eyes, the deepest doubts in the boy's heart were magnified. However, his greatest concern at this time was still his mother's emotions and feelings, so he lowered his voice slightly: "Mr. Fang said that the blessing cards and relics cannot be taken out, otherwise the formation will be invalidated."

He didn't really believe in these things, but since those who tried to believe it, it was impossible for him to damage other people's hard work on his own initiative.

"good……"

Xu's eyes were red and heaved a sigh of relief, as if she didn't intend to hide her emotions anymore.

"So, does mother know the truth?"

Mrs. Xu smiled reluctantly, and said in a hoarse voice: "Very few people know about this matter, and it is a family affair that should not be disclosed to the outside world, so I did not intend to tell you about it, but in the end, it is just an old story... Now that you really want to hear it, there is nothing my mother can't say."

Wu Chao waited for her to continue.

"Actually, the child between you and Merlin is twin brothers, both born to their mother..."

twin?

Wu Chao was slightly taken aback.

In an aristocratic family, it is not auspicious to have twins.

In particular, his father was the eldest son, and as his father's eldest son, he was destined to inherit the position of grandson from birth.

He once heard some secret things from his second uncle - there was a precedent in which the Wu family's descendants gave birth to twins, but only one was left behind.

So, could that be the reason why that child—

Mrs. Xu seemed to have guessed his thoughts, and said at the right time: "Both of you are born weak, it's because his luck is a bit weak, and you can't last for a few days...Even if you are raised until you are three years old, you are considered healthy..."

During the nine months of her pregnancy, she was always trembling because of the bad fetal condition. Under such circumstances, it would be impossible for a woman from an ordinary family to give birth to the child smoothly.

It was also because she had put in too much thought and attention that when the child really left her, she found it more and more difficult to accept.

But all of this has nothing to do with Ah Yuan.

And the two brothers really look alike...

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