Take a Sip of Milk to Calm My Nerves, the Whole Family is Waiting for Me to Save Them – Chapter 10

Ch 10: Our Problem

Old Marquis Su quickly retreated while holding Chou Chou, truly afraid that Madam Wen would jump up and pinch Chou Chou’s bottom.

Madam Wen stared blankly with empty hands: “Wh-what’s wrong?”

【Afraid you’ll pinch my bottom.】

Old Marquis Su nodded, indeed.

“Alright, you’ve seen her, so take good care of yourself. Aren’t you afraid of passing your illness to Chou Chou? We two will leave.”

After speaking, he left with Chou Chou in his arms, ignoring Su Junyao’s attempts to stop him.

Watching the disappearing figure, Su Junyao silently retracted his hand.

Forget it, his dad might be unreliable, but he wouldn’t do anything to Chou Chou.

Since he hadn’t inherited the Marquis Mansion, it was especially precious that Chou Chou had a grandfather who doted on her.

Su Junyao turned sideways and saw his mother staring grimly in the direction his father and Chou Chou had disappeared. He remembered Chou Chou saying that his mother pinched Second Brother’s arm, and couldn’t help but frown.

His mother didn’t seem to like Chou Chou very much?

When Madam Yun was pregnant, his mother burned incense and prayed every day that the baby would be a girl so she could hold a fragrant, soft granddaughter. But now, looking at it this way, his mother didn’t seem to like Chou Chou as much as he had imagined.

Thinking about it more carefully, it seemed that for each of his children, his mother verbally expressed joy, but never actually got close to them.

With this thought, Su Junyao’s heart grew cold.

Madam Wen turned her head to look at Su Junyao, having already thought up a speech that would surely make this foolish son obedient!

“Yao’er…”

Su Junyao didn’t give Madam Wen a chance to say the rest of her words, directly interrupting her and hastily leaving with the sentence “Mother, rest well.”

Madam Wen was so angry that she smashed the medicine bowl.

Hearing the sound behind him, Su Junyao quickened his pace.

【Grandfather, Grandfather, Chou Chou wants to eat meat!】

Su Junyao was walking very fast when he suddenly heard a chattering, childish voice clamoring to eat meat and almost tripped.

Eat meat?

His dad wouldn’t be so unreliable as to take Chou Chou to eat meat, would he?

The more Su Junyao thought about it, the more he felt that this unreliable Old Marquis was capable of doing such a thing. Following the sound of wanting to eat meat, he found a vacant room in the Bamboo Garden.

In just a short while, the once-unrivaled Old Marquis had become very skilled at holding the baby, whispering secrets with Chou Chou.

Su Junyao couldn’t hear clearly what his dad was saying, but Chou Chou’s thoughts were loud enough.

【Can’t eat meat, then drink milk~】

【Don’t want Wet Nurse, want cow’s milk~】

Su Junyao then remembered that there was still the wet nurse issue to resolve. Thinking about it, this wet nurse was sent by his mother, which made his head hurt even more.

Old Marquis Su caught sight of the person standing foolishly at the door and glared at him, “What are you standing there for in this freezing weather? What if the cold wind blows in and freezes my Chou Chou!”

【Hehe, Chou Chou isn’t cold, freeze-resistant!】

Old Marquis Su immediately changed his expression and smiled cheerfully: “Cold, of course it’s cold. I’ll freeze your little ears off later!”

Chou Chou yawned, her little head heavy. The body of a human cub was just inconvenient, she got sleepy after a while.

In a daze, she seemed to remember something…

【Heavy snow, house collapsed, pearl fell down. Chou Chou pick up pearl, take Chou Chou pick up pearl…】

Heavy snow, house collapsed?

Su Junyao and Old Marquis Su both saw the shock on each other’s faces.

This year’s winter was unusually cold, and the snow disaster in the North was devastating. Looking at the sky in the Capital, it was also brewing ice and snow.

What does the pearl falling down mean?

Pearl, pearl…

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Su Junyao’s face turned pale, and Old Marquis Su’s face also turned ugly. It was the Yunzhu Pagoda!

The Empress Dowager was devoted to Buddhism, and His Majesty specially built the Yunzhu Pagoda in the Palace for the Empress Dowager. The pagoda had a total of seven stories, taking the beautiful meaning of seven exquisite orifices; and one hundred and eight pearls from the South China Sea were sought to encircle and inlay the top of the pagoda.

In the original story, when Yun Jinglan went mad after losing her daughter, a heavy snow collapsed the Yunzhu Pagoda, and the Empress Dowager, who was chanting scriptures in the pagoda, encountered danger.

The state mourning arrived, and the premature baby was frozen in an ice coffin, waiting to be buried after the Empress Dowager’s mourning period. Yun Jinglan was always thinking about her daughter being buried early for peace, and her madness became more serious. She passed away not long after the Empress Dowager’s mourning period.

Around the time of the Empress Dowager’s mourning period, the Wen Yang Marquis Family lost two masters in succession, and there were rumors that the Wen Yang Marquis Family was unlucky and clashed with the Imperial Family.

The order came down not to hold a grand funeral for Yun Jinglan, which was why Su Junyao closed his doors and didn’t attend court.

His Majesty was filial, and Su Junyao loved his wife. Because of this rumor, the two developed suspicion and resentment, which laid the groundwork for Su Junyao’s loss of power.

Old Marquis Su looked at his sleeping little granddaughter and sighed slightly.

He looked at his eldest son and asked, “Can you also hear Chou Chou’s thoughts?”

His father’s straightforwardness surprised Su Junyao.

“I thought you would beat around the bush, why did you ask so bluntly?”

Old Marquis Su rolled his eyes impatiently. He hated people who liked to be devious and play tricks in his life!

“Just tell me if you can hear her or not!”

“I can!”

“What else?” Old Marquis Su watched Su Junyao’s reaction closely, ready to slap him if he suspected Chou Chou of anything bad!

Su Junyao pondered for a moment, then said to Old Marquis Su with unusual seriousness: “Chou Chou is not yet a full month old, she can’t eat meat, and she can’t go fishing with you!”

“That’s it?”

Isn’t that serious enough?

Su Junyao felt that his dad had it too easy being a father to them three brothers to be able to say such a thing!

His paternal heart was so worried that it was all twisted up.

“Isn’t that enough? What else do you want me to list? You have a record of dipping chopsticks in burning liquor for Third Brother to lick, and drilling through the ice to take Jingwen and Xiucheng to catch fish!”

Old Marquis Su couldn’t save face. Those were all ancient history from eight hundred years ago, why bring up old scores at this time.

“I’m telling you about us being able to hear Chou Chou’s thoughts, don’t you feel scared or think there’s something wrong with Chou Chou?”

Su Junyao was even more puzzled: “She’s my daughter, what am I afraid of? In the future, when she’s naughty, she’ll be the one afraid of me.”

“Also…” He cast his gaze on his own father, scanning him up and down, making the Old Marquis’s back feel cold, “It’s us two who can hear Chou Chou’s thoughts, not her who can hear ours. If there’s a problem, isn’t it us two who have a problem?”

Tsk, I knew there was something wrong with the people in their Old Su family!

Old Marquis Su: “……”

Thinking about it carefully, it really seemed like there was something wrong with them two!

Forget it, don’t think about it!

Thinking of the Little Lucky Star incident, Old Marquis Su had a plan in his heart.

He beckoned to Su Junyao: “The Empress Dowager is entering the Yunzhu Pagoda to chant scriptures and pray for the disaster victims in the North. If what Chou Chou said is true, I’m afraid the Empress Dowager…”

He hesitated, his expression grave: “You must quickly enter the Palace to meet the Emperor and stop this crisis!”

The Empress Dowager was benevolent and shouldn’t suffer this calamity, and she could restrain certain forces in the Capital as long as she was around. She absolutely couldn’t have an accident!

Su Junyao naturally knew the seriousness of the matter, “Son knows, I’ll enter the Palace later. But if I rashly bring up the Yunzhu Pagoda, how will I explain it if His Majesty asks?”

Old Marquis Su glared, how would he know how to explain it!

Can’t you think for yourself?

The father and son stared at each other, not noticing that Chou Chou had already woken up.

Chou Chou woke up hungry. Her grandfather and her dad said they loved Chou Chou the most, but now they were only ignoring Chou Chou.

Seeing that they couldn’t come up with a solution after discussing for so long, she became anxious and raised her childish voice: 【Make one up! Deceive him!】