The Prime Minister's Darling

Gu Jiao bent over in laughter.

“Huff! Huff!” Xiao Jingkong finished stomping, worked up quite the sweat, and went back to his room to get a drink.

Only then did Gu Jiao approach to wash the clothes that had been crumpled under his stomping.

Xiao Jingkong had the heart to work, Gu Jiao never discouraged him, at most she had to clean up after him every time.

Gu Jiao didn’t elevate it to a scientific parenting level, she just thought that as long as he was happy playing, it was good enough.

At this time, Gu Jiao did not know that a future warrior across six nations, all his bravery and power, stemmed from the strong childhood she had given him.

“You don’t have to spoil him like this,” Xiao Liulang said expressionlessly.

“I also spoil you very much.” Gu Jiao smiled mysteriously, fetched a clean wooden basin, took Xiao Liulang’s clothes out separately, and began to scrub gently with her not so delicate hands.

“Your clothes are not usually washed this way. Today, you put them in the basin yourself, and he happened to see it.”

The clothes they three wore were coarse linen, stomp washing didn’t affect them, but Xiao Liulang’s service attire was silk and cotton. Gu Jiao used a dedicated wooden tub to clean it for him, and she was always very gentle.

Because she was gentle, she was slow, washing his one piece of clothing was equivalent to washing everyone else’s clothes.

But Gu Jiao never said anything about this.

Xiao Liulang was still sunk in the great shock brought to him by her words, “I also spoil you very much,” and then he saw her carefully and earnestly washing his clothes. Those soap-soaked white hands seemed to be grasping not his collar, but his heart.

For a moment, he felt as if their relationship was developing in a direction beyond his control.

Xiao Liulang broke out in a cold sweat.

It was not possible.

They were just husband and wife in name only. One day, they would have to part ways.

They two… absolutely should not develop the slightest thing for each other.

At dinner, Xiao Liulang sat on the bench while his dried white service attire was flying in the wind, making him a little bit irritated.

After dinner, Xiao Liulang bathed Xiao Jingkong and then took an axe to chop firewood in the backyard.

Gu Jiao was cleaning up the kitchen.

The old lady was secretly enjoying some dried bayberry in her own room.

The sky started to drizzle.

“Jiaojiao! Jiaojiao!” Xiao Jingkong suddenly came running out of the west room with his small pillow in his arms, “The roof is leaking!”

Gu Jiao and him went to the west room.

The rain wasn’t heavy at that time. It seems that the afternoon rain had accumulated on the tiles, and it was blown down by the wind at that point.

The place leaking was right above their bed, not easy to catch, and if it rained heavily at night, it may cause the tile to break. This roof was already untrustworthy, and if a heavy rain fell on it, it would be disastrous.

Gu Jiao said, “We can’t sleep here tonight, let’s sleep on my side. Once the rain stops, I’ll fix the roof.”

Carrying his small pillow, Xiao Jingkong happily went to Gu Jiao’s room.

Xiao Liulang, naturally, could only sleep there as well.

Fortunately, Gu Jiao’s bed was large enough for the three of them to lie down.

It’s just that Xiao Jingkong was a bit unwilling to share the bed with his mean brother-in-law. After all, his brother-in-law was so big and he would take up a large area. Unlike him, he was so small that he could just nestle in Jiaojiao’s arms.

“I can sleep with Jiaojiao, I’m so happy!”

Little Jingkong, with a heart full of joy, got his wish and lay on Gu Jiao’s bed. He spread out in a big font – his body was covered with Jiaojiao’s quilt, the mattress beneath him was Jiaojiao’s, and so was the pillow, the pillow towel, Jiaojiao, Jiaojiao, Jiaojiao…

Xiao Jingkong was so excited that he rolled around on the bed.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open, a devilish claw reached out to him, grabbed his waistband, and hoisted him up.

Xiao Jingkong panicked and flapped his arms and legs, “Aunt Grandma?”

Old lady: “You’re sleeping with me tonight.”

Xiao Jingkong: “I don’t want to!”

Old lady: “You will.”

Xiao Jingkong: “Why?”

Old lady: “For the sake of my little grandchildren.”

The old lady mercilessly hauled the kid back to her room.

Xiao Jingkong’s dream came to an abrupt end. First, he had his unreasonable brother-in-law, and then his even more unreasonable great-aunt. Being a child was truly miserable!

When Gu Jiao and Xiao Liulang finished their respective tasks, Xiao Jingkong had already exhausted his energy in his mind games with the old lady, his head fell to the side, and he nodded off.

Gu Jiao didn’t say anything, she bathed and then returned to her room to lie down.

Having spent an exhausting day, she fell asleep quickly and in no time she was breathing evenly.