Yu Wan did not blame them. Speaking of which, she was the one who was busy and always neglected them. In order to please her, they wanted to give her a surprise on her birthday. What was wrong with that?
Yet their father had punished them. “Do you know your mistake?”
The three of them nodded.
Yan Jiuchao continued fiercely, “Aren’t you going to apologize to your mother?”
The three of them carefully squeezed into Yu Wan’s arms and rubbed their heads against each other.
Yu Wan’s heart was about to melt. “I’m not angry anymore. You guys go play. I need to talk to Daddy about something. Fu Ling.”
Fu Ling entered the house and led… dragged the three little fellows out. Only the couple was left in the room.
Yu Wan looked at Yan Jiuchao. “How did the children know my birthday?”
She had wanted to ask this just now, but she was worried that some results would not be good to say in front of the children.
Yan Jiuchao said, “I mentioned it to Shadow Thirteen in the study room that day, so they heard it.”
Although they heard it, he did not expect them to understand, nor did he expect these little brats to be able to stir up a flower on their mother’s birthday. He had really underestimated the ability of these little brats.
Yu Wan sighed. “They don’t know how to speak. It’s already impressive that they can gesture for Su Mu to understand.”
Yan Jiuchao snorted. Those were his sons, how could they not be capable? Yu Wan burst into laughter when she thought of the considerate little fellows.
“You’re not angry anymore?” Yan Jiuchao drawled.
Yu Wan shook her head, a smile flashing across her eyes.
Yan Jiuchao’s expression softened. If she was still angry, he planned to drag the little brats out and beat them up.
Yu Wan glanced at him and said, “Don’t always punish them. They’ve suffered so much at Yan Ruyu’s hands. As their father, you don’t dote on them and even punish them.”
He was not afraid that the little fellows would be frightened.
The lucky ones were those who were healed during their childhood. The unlucky ones were those who are healing from their childhood. She did not want them to become the latter.
A mere Su Mu was not worth their family’s separation of hearts.
Speaking of which, this Su Mu really had some tricks up her sleeve. Her sons had only asked her to teach them how to write a few words, but she could make it look like they were pestering her. At first, she could not see the truth in her anger. Now that she thought about it, be it watching the show in the palace or sleeping in the carriage, it was Su Mu who took the initiative to pester her sons.
“Yan Jiuchao, I keep feeling that Su Mu is not simple,” Yu Wan said thoughtfully.
Yan Jiuchao said, “Of course she’s not simple. Guess who set off the fire in the back room?”
“Su Mu?” Yu Wan looked at him.
That day, the two old women guarding the door had indeed burned charcoal in the room, and there were indeed sparks floating out and landing on the firewood. However, they only burned one or two withered grass and did not burn too brightly. It was Su Mu who threw a match inside that completely burned it.
They did not discover it that day because the match had almost burned out. Recently, an artisan had renovated it and found a metal buckle in the remaining ashes of the firewood.
Yan Jiuchao placed the metal buckle on the table.
Yu Wan looked at it in her hand. “This doesn’t look like… any of the matches I’ve seen before.”
Yan Jiuchao said, “It’s used in the Jiangnan area. The structure of the brim is special and can prevent dampness.”
The craftsman did not recognize it either. Today, Shadow Six had gone to investigate the traces of the incident before he got this thing from the craftsman.
Wan City was located in Jiangnan. Su Mu came from Wan City, so it was reasonable for her to carry the match from Jiangnan.
As for why the children ran over to interrupt their consummation, this was not caused by Su Mu, but it was also related to her. It was because Su Mu had given them something that contained too much sugar. They were so excited that they could not sleep, so they ran over to look for their parents and played crazily in their room for most of the night.
“What about Zi Su falling into the water?” Yu Wan asked.
If the bad things in the beginning were all done by Su Mu, then she couldn’t help but be suspicious about the incident of Zi Su falling into the water.
Yan Jiuchao said indifferently, “Before Zi Su fell into the water, she warned Su Mu not to get close to those little fellows and make you unhappy.”
Zisu was actually a sensible person… That’s true. She had been a master before, so her position was different from servants. She could understand her state of mind the best.
It seemed that Su Mu was most likely the one who caused Zi Su to fall into the water. Zi Su had to look for Nanny Fang every night, so Su Mu had applied something slippery on her path in advance. It was inevitable that Zi Su would fall into the water when she stepped on it.
Su Mu’s appearance nearby was also planned. On the surface, it was the children who wanted to eat cherry juice, but who could say that it wasn’t Su Mu who took the initiative to ask them if they wanted to eat cherry juice? In order to clear her name, Su Mu deliberately dragged Ban Xia along. This way, everything was flawless.
