An Jing didn’t care whether Su Yi Jing understood what she was saying, and continued to smile at Su Yi Jing, "We are going to the Imperial Capital to be with your grandfather, you know your grandfather, right? He even came to see you on your first birthday. He loves you the most. He likes your brothers too, but not as much as he loves you. Once we arrive at the Imperial Capital, you must remember to call him grandfather, okay?"
Su Yi Jing didn’t speak, still tilting his little head up, blinking his small eyes, silently watching An Jing smile, talking to him.
"Grandfather, I’m talking about grandfather. When the time comes, you must call him grandfather. Your father and I have already taught you and your brothers, haven’t we? Come on, repeat after mommy: grandfather." An Jing patiently taught.
Before Su Yi Jing could respond, An Yiqing and An Yiyun started to make a ruckus, following An Jing’s lead: "Grandfather! Grandfather!"
"That’s right, grandfather. Your grandfather is in the Imperial Capital." An Jing freed up one hand to pat the little heads of An Yiqing and An Yiyun, who were sitting beside Xiao Changyi’s leg, smiling at her.
After patting them, An Jing then smiled at Su Yixing, who was in Xiao Changyi’s arms, "Star, dear, also repeat after mommy, so your brother can hear. Say ’grandfather,’ gran-dfa-ther."
Su Yixing was playing with Xiao Changyi’s Prince’s Token in his arms. When he heard An Jing tell him to repeat something, he subconsciously imitated her, "Grandfather."
"Very good." An Jing was very pleased. After praising Su Yixing, she looked back at Su Yi Jing in her arms, "Jing’er, you are the boss. Your brothers can all call grandfather now, so you can’t be the only one who can’t, right? You can’t let your brothers look down on you. Come on, repeat after mommy: gran-dfa-ther."
Su Yi Jing blinked and then obliged An Jing, calling out in a babyish voice, "Grandfather."
"Our Jing’er is such a good boy." An Jing praised the same way. "If your grandfather heard you and your brothers calling him grandfather, he would definitely be so happy he’d stay up all night not sleeping, asking your Uncle Chengyu to play chess with you all night, haha~"
Xiao Changyi just held little Su Yi Jing in his arms, watching An Jing teach the four children to call ’grandfather’, tenderness filled his cool eyes.
With a closer look, one could also detect a nearly imperceptible smirk at the corners of his aloof lips.
Gong Juechen, Gong Juese, and Meng Lanqing were riding their horses, waiting for them at the entrance of Sixteen Town until Meng Zhuqing brought the carriage over. Then the eight of them set off together for the Imperial Capital.
With Gong Juechen and Gong Juese known to be lively characters, plus the four children, the journey was much livelier than the last time An Jing and Xiao Changyi went to the Imperial Capital.
Gong Juechen had claimed he hated the Imperial Capital and didn’t want to go before leaving, but on the way there, he was having the most fun, showing no sign of the dislike he professed, which made An Jing want to roll her eyes at him.
This man really knew how to put on an act!
Before they knew it, it was the seventh day of the second lunar month.
That evening, An Jing asked, "My lord, we should arrive at the Imperial Capital tomorrow. Aren’t we going into the city to see your foster father first?"
Xiao Changyi said, "First we go to our new home."
Last year, once they had decided to come to the Imperial Capital this year, they both agreed not to live in the palace or in Prince Yi’s Mansion, but to build a few houses in the countryside of the Imperial Capital where there were mountains and water. Moreover, those houses had been completed in the second half of last year, built according to the drawings they had personally made, by Meng Zhuqing.