Chapter 33: Dawn (2)

I leaned on my cheeks and listened to every word in Mr. The gentleman was forty years old and three Habitual a serious man From time to time he stroked his goatee He looked rich and learned The most common thing he said was that he had poetry and books in his belly to the effect that a person who read poetry and books would have an extraordinary bearing Just like my father and Dugu Hao I didn't listen long before I fell asleep Regardless of the image, I opened my mouth and yawned Mr. was still immersed in his lectures I looked out of the window and thought of Qi Aolai

Three days ago, a stranger led a taciturn young man to the Qin Mansion I heard the news when I was playing shuttlecock with a few maids in Xiyuan, and I lifted my skirt and trotted all the way to the front hall to see Dad stood in the front hall with a solemn expression A young and heroic uncle was kneeling on one knee and bowed his head and clenched his fists and begged his father: "Please take in the prince in the old love, Queen Qi is grateful."

Dad fell into deep thought, silent, and seemed to be embarrassed Uncle Housekeeper's wrinkled face was full of worry: "Master, now the situation in the south is turbulent, and the Qi family has been robbed If the news that the old man took in the abolished prince spreads, it will be very unfavorable to Qinzhou, and the master should think twice."

At that time, I still didn't understand what the deposed prince of the southern kingdom had to do with my father I saw another person in the hall Next to the strange man kneeling on the ground stood a thin young man Obviously the same age as Dugu Hao The thin body revealed an inviolable majesty I have only felt this kind of nobility on my father's body The young man was dressed in black clothes with high-quality fabrics Because he was in a hurry along the way, he looked dusty It seems that he came to ask for his father, but he didn't see the appearance of asking for someone So arrogant

The boy also noticed me and turned his head slightly to look at me His back was straight The loneliness in his eyes made me feel distressed for a while What woman who is a mother is willing to send her child away I have no mother since I was a child This young man's mother must have no way to come to ask for my father Dad is still wandering I made a grimace at the boy A cigarette trotted in front of my father Poor man hugged his father's thigh and shook it with a smile Yingying said: "Finally a little brother came to play with me Dad let him stay Okay "

When the housekeeper heard my words, he looked at his father worriedly, and he didn't say anything more, my father spoiled me I rarely begged him so softly He has always been obedient to my heart, and this time there was no exception His originally solemn expression relaxed: "Since Xi'er has spoken, Dad will promise you to keep him."

I knew that my father would promise me I looked at the young man in black with joy and told him to be relieved with his eyes A trace of hesitation flashed in his cold eyes Unnaturally don't look around

Dad took my little hand, pulled me to the young man, and said to him earnestly: "From today on, you must remember that you are no longer the prince of the southern kingdom, Chu Ao, but my Qin Cheng's only apprentice, Qi Ao, you live in the Qin Mansion with Xi'er, I will teach you what I have learned all my life, and you are not allowed to step into the southern country until you are twenty years old, let alone contact with the southern people, you must completely forget your past identity, are you willing?"

Even at a young age, I can hear the seriousness of my father's situation and this scene His words are undoubtedly a vow to make a strong man's oath to include the helpless young man under the wing of Qinzhou and protect him I don't know if the young man can understand his father's painstaking efforts

After listening to his father's weighty words, the kneeling man was dumbfounded, and immediately thanked him sincerely: "The kindness of the city lord of Qin is far from being repaid, and the only way to repay it is to risk the villain's life to repay it, and I hope that the city lord will give the villain a chance."

"Ning Yuan, you get up" The young man was silent, as if he was unwilling to bow his head in front of people, and his father was not in a hurry: "I'll give you three days, if you can agree to the conditions I said, you can come to the study at any time to find me."

If you are too rigid, you will break the truth, and the teenager needs to figure it out on his own, and his father never likes to force people

Dad took a step in advance and instructed the housekeeper to settle Ning Yuan and the young man to live in the Qin Mansion I walked over and grabbed the young man's sleeve with a smile and smiled sweetly: "Qi Ao, it turns out that you are the crown prince of the southern country."

He looked like someone had been poked in the sore spot He glanced at me coldly Shook off my hand and walked away arrogantly I can't figure out where I provoked him The first time someone gave me a cold face I didn't get angry and felt very fresh Still cheeky and jumped with small steps to follow Follow Follow Learn from the appearance of a little adult with your hands behind your back Sell him every benefit of staying in Qinzhou: "What's so good about being the prince of the southern kingdom You can't get out of the palace in your life Even the sky above your head is boxy It's different in Qinzhou Qinzhou has beautiful mountains and rivers Outstanding people There are countless delicious and fun." You also saw it just now, my dad is willing to teach you everything he knows, you don't know how good my dad is, he doesn't even want to teach me, your luck is too good."

"As long as you are willing to study hard, you will definitely be better than Dugu Hao's villain in a few years, and you will be angry Dugu Shibo, see that he still has the confidence to pour ** soup into my father"

I kept babbling, and he didn't seem to be moved, but ridiculed me: "Why do you want me to stay, you're not afraid that I will rob you of your father's love for you in the future."

He seems to be on guard against everyone I thought he was not used to coming to Qinzhou for the first time I didn't care that his tone was not good I looked at him confidently: "Joke I'm my father's daughter How can he not hurt me Besides, isn't it better for him to be pampered with you One more person to accompany me In the future, I will no longer be afraid of being punished by my husband for copying books alone in class Because you will accompany me to be punished haha"

The thought that there will be more students to make my husband have a headache and go crazy My mood is so good that I am punished by my husband on weekdays I have a headache when I see the books stacked into a small mountain Where can I calm down and do my studies

The boy looked at me with disdain, walked faster, and wanted to pester him to stay, and a little servant came to me and told me that I should go to my husband's place to listen to the class, I sighed, and I didn't want to go anyway, and I survived an hour of poetry and book copying and an hour of chess practice, and I went back to Xiyuan in frustration, and ordered the maid to boil flower tea and prepare fruits, and lay down into a "big" character on Miss Ben's spacious bed, and looked up to the sky and sighed: "Why doesn't Miss Ben have anything to handle?"

"The piano, chess, calligraphy and painting are not fine, the female red dance is mediocre, except for the good looks, you really don't have anything to do."

"Who dares to say that about Miss Ben" I got up from the bed with an angry gaze searching the room for the source of the sound, but saw Qi Ao sitting at the table and admiring my masterpiece It was a few copies of my three days of fishing and two days of drying nets That crooked like a worm crawling words is too detrimental to the prestige of my city lord's daughter I blushed and rushed over to grab it Randomly folded a few pieces of paper and pressed them under the book Smelly face said: "Who allowed you to enter Miss Ben's room and turn over Miss Ben's things."

He had a look on his face and concluded: "No wonder your father would rather teach me than teach you With your qualifications, it is difficult to beat me for a year of study, and I can't even write a decent word You are fortunate to be born in the Qin Mansion."

This is the meanest thing I've ever heard, and no one has ever dared to say that to my face, and I was so devastated that I immediately burst into tears: "What does it matter to you whether my words look good or not, I don't allow you to say that about me, you go out of my room at once, and you are not allowed to step into my garden again."

After Qi Ao left, I was even more sad to lie on the table and cry The maid came over with the fruit and was so frightened by my appearance that I knelt on the ground and begged for mercy Dad spoils me so much I rarely cry This time crying so loudly must have something big Something must have happened After a while, the room was full of people kneeling inside and outside After a while, someone ran to tell Dad Dad cleared the next person and patted me on the back Lovingly: "Xi'er is crying in such a big battle Dad wants to hear what grievances Xi'er has suffered Who made Xi'er unhappy Just tell Dad Dad to clean him up"

Qi Ao is right to say one thing With my qualifications If it weren't for a father who is the lord of the city, I wouldn't have lived so freely and wantonly Thinking of this, I am even more sad Raising his little face full of tears Poor Baba looked at my father: "Didn't my father ask Mr. how bad my schoolwork is?"

I was ashamed to take out the notebook I had hidden under the book, spread out the crumpled paper and showed it to my father: "I can't even write well, except for eating, drinking, and having fun, I don't know anything I don't know if I don't learn what the book says, Dad, don't waste the money I paid for my husband, you don't know, every time my husband lectures, I either get distracted or doze off I am embarrassed because of the number of times, Dad, do you regret having such a mediocre daughter as me?"

Dad touched my head and said with relief: "Daddy's daughter is not going to be a female doctor in the world, why bother to bury her head in reading poetry and books all day Besides, Dad is the lord of a city, who has the courage to say irresponsible remarks to you, Xi'er just grows up carefree and safe, Daddy's daughter is born to be a blessed life."

I innocently wiped away my tears: "But I can't tell you nothing, it's a shame to spread it."

"Dad, you tell me about my mother, my mother must be much smarter than me, otherwise I won't find such a good husband as my father "Since I was a child, my father rarely mentioned my mother's affairs in front of me Every year on my mother's death day Dad locked himself in the study and got drunk Once I escaped the housekeeper's uncle's supervision and sneaked into the study I saw my father drunk into a puddle of mud He sat on the ground and shouted his mother's name sadly Over and over again Shouting My heart was broken

Since then, I have suddenly become sensible, and I no longer pestered my father to ask my mother about the past, but sometimes I still miss my mother, I think about how good-looking she looks, I think she smiled when she was with my father, I think she smiled gently when she was pregnant with me, everyone has a mother by her side, but I don't