Rebirth of the High Gate Mistress

Chapter 439: My heart aches and my liver aches

 The next day, Li Ling returned from teaching Brother Xuan how to practice martial arts, and went to his daughter's bedroom with Jing Shu.

Although Sister Xiaobao had woken up, she was still huddled under the quilt and lazily holding the doll. The little girl didn't know that her parents were here to arrest her to study. When she saw Li Lingjingshu come in, she slipped out of the quilt with a shudder. He came out and said with a sweet smile: "Dad, mother, why did you come here together today?"

Li Ling walked to his daughter's bedside first. He quickly put the quilt around her body and said with a crooked eyebrow: "It's cold in the morning. If you get up, you should put on clothes first."

As he said that, he subconsciously picked up the clothes on the side and wanted to wear them for his daughter, but Jing Shu snatched them away.

Jingshu handed the clothes to her daughter and said, "Sister Bao is sensible and can already dress herself."

 Sister Xiaobao was worried about her mother after all. She made a face at her father and put on her clothes.

The wet nurse and the palace maid brought the toiletries, and after waiting for Sister Bao to wash and put them away, the little guy came over and took Li Ling and said, "Dad, mother, I'm hungry. Let's go and have breakfast quickly. Today is in the royal dining room." Have you made anything delicious? Have you made my favorite osmanthus candy cake?"

Jingshu took her daughter and said to her: "Sister Bao has already turned six years old. Mother and father have decided to send you to the study room to let the masters teach you from today. You will have breakfast later. Mother I’ll take you to the study, dear.”

When Sister Bao heard this, the little guy was stunned for a moment. Then she looked up at Li Ling who was sitting beside her. Seeing her father's sullen face, the little guy's **** eyes flashed twice, and a large drop of crystal light appeared. The little tears rolled down.

Although Li Ling's face was still tense, his strong shoulders began to tremble slightly.

Jingshu quickly cast a warning look at Li Ling. Li Ling breathed a sigh of relief before holding back his heart.

Jingshu continued to say to her daughter: "You are the same age as your brother. Now that your brother has been in elementary school for more than a year, he has already learned all the subjects well, so you have to start learning too."

Sister Xiaobao wiped away her tears and muttered unconvincedly: "I also learned to ride a horse from my father, and my riding ability is no worse than that of my brother."

Jingshu said to her daughter in a persuasive way: "Sister Bao is really good after learning to ride a horse, but she also has to learn other subjects, such as music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and songs. These are the things that girls should learn, and you must also learn them well."

Sister Bao pouted when she heard this, lowered her eyes, and murmured in a low voice: "I'm still young, how can I afford to learn so many things?"

Jingshu replied: "Dad and mother don't want you to learn so much all at once. Let's take our time and start with the simple ones."

Sister Bao pouted, holding the corner of her clothes with her little hands, and lowered her head in silence.

Li Ling saw the aggrieved look on his youngest daughter's face. He touched her head and gently advised her, "We have just started learning. We only need to study for half a day every day. We study in the morning and play in the afternoon, okay?"

Sister Bao finally waited until her father spoke. The little guy raised his head and looked at Li Ling, cried "Wow", and yelled: "Daddy really doesn't love me anymore. He actually teamed up with my mother to force me." Me, wow wow wow—"

Seeing that his daughter was sad, Li Ling subconsciously held the little one in his arms and coaxed her hurriedly: "Sister Bao, don't cry, good daughter, oh! Don't cry, don't cry!"

When Jing Shu saw her daughter pulling such a trick again, she pulled Li Ling over and rolled her eyes at him angrily. Then she said to her squirming daughter, "I have to go to the study room to study today. Let's go have breakfast right now." , after finishing breakfast, go to the study."

After all, Sister Bao was a little afraid of Jingshu. When the little one saw that her mother looked unkind, she stopped crying, covered her face with her two little hands, and replied with a sob: "You force me to study like this, how can I survive? meal."

While Sister Bao was crying, she secretly glanced at Li Ling through her fingers, hoping that her father would support her.

"Even if you don't eat, you still have to study." Jing Shu was worried that Li Ling wouldn't be able to hold on anymore, so she said this and quickly pulled him away.

Li Ling was pulled back to the main hall by Jing Shu. He looked downcast and sighed: "The child is crying like this and refuses to eat. What should I do if he gets sick?" Jing Shu said seriously to Li Ling: " I've said it before, she's just crying to show you, if you continue to indulge her like this, when will you be able to enlighten her."

With that said, Jingshu pulled Li Ling to sit down at the dining table and continued: "You eat quickly and then go to court. Seeing that my daughter does not have your support, I will naturally find a way to send her to the study room."

Li Ling was forced to pick up the jade chopsticks, and just about to pick up the food in front of him, he put it down again. He sighed and said: "This child is so troubled that she won't eat. You just sent her to the study room. Where is she?" Have the strength to study.”

Brother Xuan, who was having his breakfast, glanced at his father who was always so solemn when he heard words, and couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Li Ling rolled his eyes at his son and said angrily: "You brat, why are you laughing?"

Brother Xuan replied seriously: "Dad, by pampering my sister like this, do you want her to follow in the footsteps of several previous princesses?"

There are still two princesses from the previous dynasty who have not surrendered, Qingluan and Qingyuan, living in this palace.

 One is stubborn and the other is domineering, both of them are not good.

When Li Ling heard that his son compared Sister Bao with those two, he said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, how could your sister be like them?"

The eldest princess and Emperor Ming's father, Emperor Wu, doted on the eldest princess Fu Xi. Emperor Ming also doted on the eighth princess Qingyuan to no end. Now it is Li Ling's turn, who is also a daughter slave.

 In this Zhao Dynasty, all the emperors of the Zhao Dynasty can be said to have a consistent line of favoring their daughters.

Jingshu didn't want her daughter to be spoiled by Li Ling. She glared at Li Ling and replied, "Brother Xuan is right. If you continue to indulge like this, I'm afraid your little princess will be spoiled too."

After hearing what his wife and children said, Li Ling finally made up his mind and said, "Then I'll send her to the study today, and that's it."

As he said that, he warned Jingshu in an extremely worried tone: "Just bring some pastries with you when you send her there. She won't have any breakfast, so don't starve her."

As soon as Li Ling finished speaking, Sister Bao walked in on her own.

Li Ling finally came over after seeing his daughter, and hurriedly greeted him: "Sister Bao, today the kitchen has really made your favorite sweet-scented osmanthus candy cake. Come and use it, otherwise it will not be sweet after a while."

Sister Bao walked to the dining table and sat down on a small chair. The little guy raised his eyes and glanced at Li Ling, then held his chubby little face with his hands, pouting and sighing: "Today I will be sent away by my cruel parents." I'm going to study, how can I be in the mood to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake?"

Li Ling picked up chopsticks, put a piece of candy cake on his daughter's plate, and gently coaxed her: "Good daughter, have a good meal."

Sister Bao glanced at her favorite sweet-scented osmanthus candy cake in front of her, but she pouted and sighed: "My stomach is growling with hunger, but when I think about going to the study, my mouth gets angry." , can’t eat at all.”

Jing Shu couldn't see that this cunning little daughter had come to perform for Li Ling again, just hoping that Li Ling would be soft-hearted and support her from studying. Jing Shu gave Li Ling a warning look and said to her daughter with a wooden face: " If you don't want to eat, then don't eat, but you have to go to the study today."

Sister Bao glanced at Li Ling again in aggrieved manner. Li Ling's thin lips moved slightly, but in the end he still endured it under the sharp look from his wife.

Li Ling didn't take a single bite of this breakfast, and went to court with heartache and liver pain.

 (End of this chapter)