As ti passed day by day.
Since birth, Xiao Mo spent every day either sleeping or eating.
The main tasks of an infant were eating and sleeping.
Xiao Mo also wanted to stay awake for longer periods, to learn more about the Xiao Manor through the conversations between his mother and Cuicui but every ti Xiao Mo woke up, he would feel drowsy after just a short while. There was really nothing he could do about it.
What it ant to have the sleep of a baby, this ti Xiao Mo had gained a profound understanding.
Moreover, Xiao Mo could clearly feel his body growing rapidly, almost changing day by day.
Besides this, when Xiao Mo was first born, his vision was completely blurred but gradually, Xiao Mo could see things clearly within about twenty inches.
Two months later, Xiao Mo could make "gege" and "gugu" sounds, no longer just crying "waa waa waa."
Xiao Mo tried to see if he could perform so actions that exceeded his age but very soon, Xiao Mo discovered he was overthinking it.
An infant had its own limitations.
To truly ta this young body was indeed not an easy task and it was at this ti that Xiao Mo discovered he could control so of his facial expressions. He could smile now.
One morning, when Zhou Ruoxi was playing with her child, Xiao Mo waved his little hands continuously and let out "gege gege" sounds of laughter.
Zhou Ruoxi was slightly stunned, then brilliant joy flashed in her eyes.
"Cuicui, co here quickly and look, Mo'er can smile now," Zhou Ruoxi called out happily to the maid.
Cuicui, upon hearing this, quickly ran in, "Madam, really? Young Master can smile now?"
"Yes." Zhou Ruoxi nodded, using a small bell to play with the child as she said gently, "Mo'er, co, smile for your Aunt Cui."
"Gege gege." Xiao Mo's little hands grasped randomly as he let out crisp laughter.
"Young Master really can smile now. Young Master looks so good when he smiles."
The maid Cuicui leaned against the cradle's edge, happily poking Xiao Mo's cheek.
Although it was just sothing as simple as "smiling," for this young mother and the maid, it was like discovering a treasure.
Another two months passed, and Xiao Mo was already four months old.
At this ti, Xiao Mo's vision was almost no different from an adult's, and Xiao Mo discovered he finally had the strength to turn over.
Not only could he turn over, he could even lie on his stomach and it was also starting from this ti that Xiao Mo discovered his strength seed a bit unusual.
In Xiao Mo's view, his strength seed sowhat great for his age.
To call it divine strength from birth would be an exaggeration, but it was certainly stronger and more robust than ordinary infants of the sa age.
In the sixth month after birth, Xiao Mo tried crawling and succeeded very smoothly.
"Mo'er, work hard. Mother is right here. Crawl into Mother's embrace. Mo'er, take it slowly."
Ever since Zhou Ruoxi discovered that her Mo'er could crawl, she would occasionally clap her hands at Xiao Mo, having him crawl toward her.
At these tis, Xiao Mo would also work very hard to crawl toward his mother.
When Xiao Mo crawled to his mother's side, the young mother would pick Xiao Mo up, then happily kiss him and say with pride, "Mo'er is so great!"
Generally when he had nothing to do, Xiao Mo would also crawl back and forth on the bed, which could be considered laying a foundation for his future.
Xiao Mo started working hard from six months after birth, striving to win at the starting line.
Of course, to avoid making his mother and Aunt Cui think he was abnormal, generally Xiao Mo would only crawl continuously on the bed when no one was around.
Once, after Xiao Mo woke up on the bed and discovered his mother and Aunt Cui were not there, Xiao Mo crawled from the head of the bed to the foot, then from the foot back to the head.
To achieve a training effect, Xiao Mo crawled faster and faster.
Just when Xiao Mo was crawling happily, the door suddenly opened. The maid Cuicui looked in surprise at her young master crawling back and forth like a little hamster, and extrely nimbly at that, far exceeding the activity capability of an ordinary infant.
Cuicui suspected she was seeing things. She rubbed her eyes and looked over again.
As a result, her young master was still lying on the bed sleeping soundly.
"Could I really be hallucinating?"
Cuicui thought to herself.
Perhaps it was really because she had been too tired recently that she was truly hallucinating.
Otherwise, how could such a small infant crawl so fast?
Before long, Xiao Mo was no longer satisfied with crawling. He began trying to stand.
Whenever Xiao Mo tried to grasp the railing at the bed's edge to stand up, Zhou Ruoxi would nervously watch her child, her small hands tightly clenched into fists, continuously calling out gently, "Mo'er, work hard! Mo'er is almost there!"
Xiao Mo was rely trying to stand, yet Zhou Ruoxi was as nervous as if sothing incredibly important was happening.
Finally, Xiao Mo grasped the railing and stood up, but when he couldn't stand steady, with a "thump," he sat down on the bed with his bottom.
"It's okay, Mo'er." Zhou Ruoxi quickly held the child in her embrace, gently stroking his little bottom, "Mo'er has already worked very hard. Even if you can't stand up now, it's okay. You'll be able to when you grow a little bigger."
Although his mother said this, Xiao Mo did not give up.
Xiao Mo often tried to grasp the bed railing to stand up.
By the seventh month, Xiao Mo could already stand steadily while holding the bed railing, and could even stand for ten breaths of ti after letting go.
Regarding these achievents of her child, Zhou Ruoxi naturally felt very happy but Zhou Ruoxi did not have any expectations for her son to beco exceptional.
In Zhou Ruoxi's view, as long as her child could grow up healthy, then marry and have children, and happily spend his life, that would be good.
Soon, Xiao Mo had been born for a full ten months.
Xiao Mo could not only stand steadily by himself, he could even walk a few steps, though walking for a while would easily cause him to fall to the ground.
At the beginning, every ti Xiao Mo fell, Zhou Ruoxi's expression would be very nervous but Zhou Ruoxi also knew, which child doesn't fall down?
Fall more when young, fall less when grown.
In the end, Zhou Ruoxi still forcibly steeled her heart and just stayed by the child's side, letting him walk slowly by himself.
Actually, Zhou Ruoxi did not hope her child would learn to walk so quickly because in Qin Kingdom, for a child to walk earlier was not necessarily a good thing.
So during ordinary tis, Zhou Ruoxi would hold Xiao Mo and not let him walk on the ground all the ti.
Xiao Mo also sensed that his mother seed unwilling to let him learn to walk so quickly, but didn't know why and it was also during this nearly year-long ti that Xiao Mo discovered that aside from the day he was born when his biological father ca once, he had never co again.
This wasn't just because he was busy with official duties. Rather, Xiao Mo heard Sister Cuicui say "The master has returned to the manor," yet he still hadn't co to this courtyard even once. However, Xiao Mo didn't really care that much about it.
After all, in the eyes of that cheap father of his, he was nothing more than a bastard son.
He and his mother's only purpose was perhaps to add 1 to the Xiao Manor's offspring count but fortunately, because of his birth, his mother's monthly allowance had doubled compared to before, and the daily als were also much better than before. However, Zhou Ruoxi spent all that money on Xiao Mo.
Zhou Ruoxi would have Cuicui go out to buy so good fabric, then personally make one garnt after another, one pair of small shoes after another for her child.
By comparison, Zhou Ruoxi herself had not changed into a single new garnt or bought a single new piece of jewelry.
It seed this woman was always so plain and simple.
Even the maid Cuicui sotis couldn't bear to watch and would advise Zhou Ruoxi, "Madam, you should still buy yourself so clothes and jewelry. You haven't changed out of those clothes for so long."
But Zhou Ruoxi would only smile and say, "What do I need new clothes and jewelry for? The master won't co to anyway. Who would I dress up for? By comparison, letting my Mo'er dress well and eat well is what's most worthwhile."
"..." Hearing the madam's answer, Cuicui no longer said anything.
She knew the madam's stubborn personality.
No matter what she said, the madam would not listen but many tis, when Cuicui saw the madam coaxing the young master to sleep, she would always feel it wasn't worth it for her madam.
The madam was not only beautiful but also a lady from a good family, with a very good personality. Yet because she was from an enemy nation, after the city was conquered, she was given to the master as a concubine.
Otherwise, the madam would have at least married into a well-matched household as a proper wife.
Living in a foreign land, and moreover having been sent out by her biological parents like a gift.
Perhaps in the madam's heart, the young master was her only support.
Before they knew it, the weather had entered winter.
There was only one month left until Xiao Mo's first birthday.
Zhou Ruoxi was afraid her child would freeze, so she put a small tiger hat on him and dressed him in several layers of clothing. Xiao Mo felt like a ball.
Another half month passed.
Previously, Xiao Mo wanted to speak but couldn't ta this young body, and could only make sounds like "gege" and "gugu."
But now, Xiao Mo felt as if sothing in him had beco enlightened, as if he was gradually grasping language.
This feeling was extrely wondrous. It was that you could clearly feel you were taming your own mouth.
Additionally, as the weather grew colder and colder, Xiao Mo discovered his mother seed increasingly concerned about the weather and appeared sowhat nervous and the thing Zhou Ruoxi worried about most still ca to pass.
In mid-January, when Xiao Mo had only about ten days left until his first birthday, a heavy snow fell in the capital of Qin Kingdom.
Snowflakes fluttered and fell, dyeing the entire world white.
The silver-clad scenery was quite beautiful, but Zhou Ruoxi had no mood to appreciate it at all.
In fact, this was the first ti in Zhou Ruoxi's life that she hated snow so much.
This was because according to Qin Kingdom's customs:
When a child could walk by themselves, they needed to undergo a trial in the first heavy snow. The mother had to stand ten zhang away, then the child would walk toward their mother until they reached their mother's side, or until they could no longer walk.
In Qin Kingdom's customs, only by experiencing the baptism of severe cold and heavy snow could a child grow taller and stronger, with a more resolute character.
On this day, the maid of the Xiao Manor's First Madam ca to Zhou Ruoxi's courtyard to supervise Xiao Mo completing this custom.
Zhou Ruoxi's heart was naturally unwilling.
Generally, children could walk by themselves when they were a little over one year old but her child learned to walk early. He wasn't even one full year old yet.
But all of Qin Kingdom was like this. Not to ntion Mo'er was the son of the Northern Pacification Prince. What way did she have to refuse?
In the end, Xiao Mo was picked up by Cuicui and placed ten zhang away from his mother.
Standing in the snowy ground, Xiao Mo looked left and right.
In the eyes of others, this infant who was not yet one year old had eyes full of confusion.
Zhou Ruoxi forcibly suppressed her worried expression and looked at her child with a smile, clapping her hands, breathing out hot air, and calling out gently, "Mo'er, don't be afraid. Mo'er, co to Mother."
Xiao Mo looked at his mother, blinked his large eyes, then moved his short little legs and shuffled step by step toward his mother.
As he shuffled along, Xiao Mo was tripped by a pebble and with a "thump" fell into a snowdrift.
Zhou Ruoxi was so frightened she imdiately stood up and was about to run toward her son.
"Fifth Madam, please do not break the rules," two maids held Zhou Ruoxi back and said coldly.
Zhou Ruoxi bit her thin lips tightly as she watched her child.
Very quickly, Xiao Mo climbed up from the snow, shook his chubby head and body, then continued to open his arms and shuffle step by step toward his mother but before long, Xiao Mo fell down again yet Xiao Mo got up again and continued walking forward.
The resilience shown by this child who was not yet one year old exceeded everyone's expectations.
He fell once and got up once. Even though he walked in the snow and the heavy snow reached past his waist, even though his little hands and cheeks were frozen bright red.
He never gave up.
He didn't even cry once.
Under normal circumstances, most children would already be sitting in the snow crying.
"Mo'er, just a few more steps. Mo'er, Mother is right here. Mo'er, don't rush. Take it slow."
Watching her child shivering from the cold, Zhou Ruoxi's eyes had already turned red.
One step.
Two steps.
Three steps.
Finally, Xiao Mo ca before his mother and threw himself into her embrace.
"Mo'er is so great. Mo'er is really so capable."
Zhou Ruoxi quickly brushed off the white snow stuck to the child's body, then tightly grasped the child's little hands in hers, continuously breathing hot air on them.
"Mother."
Just as Zhou Ruoxi was about to carry the child into the house, Xiao Mo called out in a childish voice.
Zhou Ruoxi was slightly stunned and stared blankly at her child, "Mo'er, you... what did you call ?"
"Mother..." Xiao Mo called out again, much more accurately than the first ti.
"Mo'er..." Zhou Ruoxi's eyes trembled, "Mo'er, can you call out once more?"
"Mother..."
"Mother..."
"Mother..."
Xiao Mo happily called out three tis in succession.
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
"Yes!"
Zhou Ruoxi tightly held the child in her embrace as tears stread from her eyes, responding emphatically.
"Good child, Mother is here... is here."
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