Su Jinxiu sat on the edge of the bed with her head down, looking shy when talking about her lover. She looked like her mother, a beautiful girl from a small family, and it was easy for people to feel pity for her.
Su Jing looked at her well-behaved appearance, the smile on his lips disappeared, but there was a mystery in his eyes.
"Father, please grant my wish. I rarely ask you for anything. I really love you, so I can't help but ask you even though I know you don't like it."
Su Jing's long silence made Su Jinxiu a little flustered. She tried again, but Su Jing still didn't speak. She couldn't control herself anymore and raised her head, and saw that Su Jing's face had turned gloomy.
"Father, are you angry with me? I am deeply in love with you and cannot control myself. I beg you to grant my wish." Su Jinxiu knelt on the ground with a plop, hesitating.
Su Jing still didn't say anything, but Murong Kai, who had been watching Ah Man reading the storybook, couldn't help but chuckle.
The sudden voice made Su Jinxiu's tense heart lose its direction. She turned around angrily and was about to lose her temper, but she saw a familiar little eunuch at the place where the voice came from.
She had seen him at the post station in Da Zhou, pushing Murong Kai's wheelchair. Didn't Murong Kai already return to Da Zhou? Why was he here now, still by Ah Man's side
"Why are you here?"
Murong Kai, dressed as Xiao Yuanzi, smiled and put down the book in his hand, and asked softly: "Why can't I be here?"
"You dog slave, you dare to use me when you answer me?" Su Jinxiu was retorted by Murong Kai. She was very annoyed and instinctively found fault. What she didn't notice was that after she said this, Su Jing looked at Murong Kai with an inquiring expression.
"Su Jinxiu, don't say such harsh words. He is a slave, but he is also my slave. It is not your turn to criticize him." Ah Man had known that Murong Kai would suffer some grievances for dressing like a little eunuch, but she did not expect that Su Jinxiu, such a fool, would actually call him a dog slave in front of her. This was something she would never allow.
"But he was just laughing at me?"
"You're overthinking it. He just read a story about a toad wanting to eat swan flesh and found it funny." Ah Man retorted without even looking at Su Jinxiu.
Su Jinxiu naturally knew that Ah Man was making a veiled attack, but she still did not dare to fight back in front of her father.
"Father, are you going to let a servant bully your daughter like this? You just said that your daughter should be happy." Su Jinxiu didn't dare to confront Ah Man directly, but turned around to complain. She had been serving her father for the past two days and she noticed that there was something weird between her father and Ah Man. It was not at all the kind of father-daughter love that people said was deep.
"Ah Man..." Su Jing called out with a smile, but said nothing. His eyes were full of inquiry.
"Father, you and the emperor sister are doing your own things. Xiao Yuanzi and I are reading. It's our business to keep out of each other's way. Xiao Yuanzi has done nothing wrong."
"But your sister is my daughter. He just laughed at my daughter. I can't pretend I don't know."
Su Jing's words made Su Jinxiu very excited. She didn't expect that her father would slap A'man in the face for her. This was a good thing. After dealing with Xiao Yuanzi, people in the palace would know who was her father's most beloved daughter.
"If the emperor wants to protect his daughter's reputation, she has to be talented. You can ask Qu Jingze later what she did in the Great Zhou. Why did she think that all those dirty deeds would disappear after returning to the country? The Great Zhou would not want a shameless prince consort. So, sister, you'd better know your mission, otherwise the emperor would shamelessly ask for a marriage with the Great Zhou, and end up being despised by others."
Ah Man's words successfully made Su Jinxiu's face pale. She had told herself again and again that the things that happened in the Great Zhou were over, but she didn't expect that Ah Man would say it like this today. She looked at her father tentatively, but Su Jing just smiled at Ah Man, as if he didn't care what she had done in the Great Zhou...
(End of this chapter)