In the quiet night, Situ Jiao's already extremely crisp voice became even brighter.

There was a chaotic sound in the study, then a dead silence, and after about half a cup of tea, there was finally a sound of scattered footsteps, and the door squeaked open in front of Situ Jiao.

Situ Kong's haggard face appeared in front of Situ Jiao, father and daughter, you look at me, I look at you, no one squeaked for a long time, and Steward Lin had already hidden in the dark when Situ Kong's footsteps sounded.

"Daddy, it's so heavy." In the end, Situ Jiao, who was still carrying the food box, shrugged her shoulders slightly, only to break the silence between father and daughter.

Situ Kong silently took the food box in Situ Jiao's hand, and couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, Situ Jiao shook his hand, and then said that the food box was really heavy.

Situ Kong glanced at the light not far away, turned sideways and let Situ Jiao enter the study.

Even if Situ Kong didn't really want to face Situ Jiao at this time, but after just two or three months of getting along, Situ Kong also knew that once Situ Jiao had any thoughts, it would not be easy to dispel her thoughts, so it was better to follow her wishes.

Sighing secretly in his heart, Situ Kong glanced towards the place where Steward Lin was hidden, and then closed the door of the study with the food box, blocking all the inquiring eyes from the door.

"Jiaojiao is curious about what the saints have talked about with their fathers today?" Situ Kong put the food box on the desk, but he didn't open it, just pointed to the chair opposite the desk for Situ Jiao to sit down, and then asked straight to the point.

But although it is a question, it is very certain.

"Daddy still used the noodles first. The sky is big. The biggest belly! The daughter doesn't want her father to break down. Situ Jiao first pointed to the food box, and then lowered her eyes slightly.

Situ Kong only used a small half bowl of rice from noon, and it stands to reason that he should be very hungry at this time. It's just that he has something on his mind, and he doesn't feel empty at all.

However, at the earnest gaze of his boss Tu Jiao, Situ Kong finally lost his position, opened the food box, and the fragrance of chicken soup still aroused his appetite to some extent.

Under Situ Jiao's scorching gaze, Situ Kong ate the fullest meal in recent times.

By the time Situ Kong drank the last sip of soup, Situ Jiao had already asked Steward Lin to bring warm water to clean his face.

took the warm handkerchief handed by Situ Jiao. Situ Kong's eyes couldn't help but be a little damp, but fortunately, thanks to this handkerchief, Situ Kong didn't lose his honor in front of Situ Jiao.

When Situ Kong used noodles. Situ Jiao thought about it a lot, and finally decided not to ask anything, but to wait and see.

"Daddy rests early, and my daughter retires." Situ Jiao started to clean up the empty food box. Xiang Situ Kong blessed his body and prepared to leave.

Now Situ Kong was a little puzzled. He didn't quite believe that Situ Jiao just came to bring him noodles, otherwise when he said that just now, Situ Jiao would not refute.

It's just that when he was about to talk to him, when he was about to dissect his heart and lungs, Situ Jiao didn't want to talk to him?

"Doesn't Jiaojiao want to know why the saint summoned her father to the palace?" At this moment, Situ Kong's heart was even more uncomfortable than when he first returned home, and he couldn't help but ask eagerly.

"If the daughter says that the daughter doesn't want to know, will the father believe it?" Situ Jiao's eyes stared at Situ Kong. Zhijiang Situ Kong stared away from him, and then continued: "But it doesn't matter if Daddy believes it or not. There is only one sentence that the daughter wants to tell her father: the important thing is not what the saints talked about with their father, but what matters is what the father will do?! ”

Situ Jiao dropped such a sentence, picked up the food box and threw Situ Kong, who was looking at her in surprise, in the study, straightened her back and walked out of the study.

Looking at Situ Jiao's straight back, Situ Kong felt that he was really a failure in this life.

The words of the sage of the imperial study echoed in my ears: "I always knew that you were not good at housework, but I didn't expect to make it so bad. No matter what means you use, within five days, you must dispel the unfavorable rumors against the Han family and daughter, the Great General's Mansion and the Jianguo Mansion. ”

At the same time, what echoed in Situ Kong's ears was Concubine Hui's rebuke: "The eldest brother has both evidence that Lin Shuqin murdered her father, as well as the physical evidence that she caused her sister-in-law to give birth prematurely, why do you want to hide it?" ”

"Could it be that at this time, you are still willing to sacrifice your sister-in-law and Jiaojiao, but also to protect the face of the Lin family?"

"What do you have in the hands of the Lin family, so that you only care about the face of the Lin family, and abandon the Anning Hou Mansion? And also piggyback on the General's Mansion and the Jianguo Mansion? ”

"Is it because Master Hou can't distinguish between priorities and priorities, or does everyone not understand your suffering?"

"Or in your heart, the delicate face is far less important than Jin'er's face? Or do you want to watch your sister-in-law die in aggrieved one day? ”

Since Concubine Hui learned that the old marquis was murdered by the Xiaolin clan, Concubine Hui couldn't wait to go out of the palace to bite the Xiaolin clan a few bites.

When the rumors outside spread to the palace one after another, Concubine Hui, who had always been calm and calm, became anxious, so when the saint summoned Situ Kong into the palace, she could no longer hold back the resentment in her heart, and asked Aunt Tao, the female official of the Splendid Palace, to guard the only way for Situ Kong to leave the palace, and announced Situ Kong into the Splendid Palace, and asked each other sharply.

That sentence hit Situ Kong's heart and shocked him.

It's not that he doesn't know that Lin Shuqin's crime could have made her die ten times and hundreds of times, and he didn't think about deliberately concealing Lin Shuqin's incriminating evidence, but if he wanted him to put Lin Shuqin's incriminating evidence on the surface, Situ Kong didn't seem to be able to do it.

In the end, Lin Shuqin is the cousin who grew up with him since childhood, and in the end, Lin Shuqin is also unable to do all kinds of wrong things because of love, not to mention that the Lin family behind Lin Shuqin is still the old lady's maiden family, and it is his foreign family.

However, he valued the Lin family more than the Marquis of Anning, and Situ Kong always disagreed.

was just bluntly reprimanded by Concubine Hui, but it made Situ Kong suspect what he had done over the years.

Perhaps it was Concubine Hui's rebuke that finally woke Situ up from a dream and gave him a chance to reflect more deeply.

Coming out of the palace, Situ Kong has been asking himself, has his inaction against Han and Situ Jiao all these years been just using filial piety as an excuse?

Looking back on what he has done over the years, perhaps he has been sinking himself into a misunderstanding.

He asked himself that there had never been any ulterior in the hands of the Lin family, and there was no suffering that others did not understand.

The so-called hardship is nothing more than employment to make excuses for oneself.

Concubine Hui's reprimand made him see one thing clearly, that is, he has always attached too much importance to filial piety to the old lady, and the old lady values her mother's family too much.

So all along, once something happened, the first thing he thought of was the old lady, so the final result became to put the interests or face of the Lin family above the Anning Hou Mansion, thus raising the heart of the Xiao Lin family and fattening the guts of the Xiao Lin family! (To be continued.) )