Vol 7 CH Extra (2/2)

“Aiya, I never thought I’d ever see my own daughter shy again. I wonder when was the last time.”

“I’m not shy, and I don’t know why father thinks so.”

Yeah, why do you think she is?

“Hahaha, never mind. Here Lord Liu Bei, a cus.h.i.+on.” As he said so, Cao Song bent to the side and took out 1 cus.h.i.+on out of a stack of 6 under him which he placed beside him, and called me over. As I went over, he took another 1 out and placed it on top of the first one.

“Ah, is that really okay?”

“What’s not okay about it, Lord Liu Bei is an important guest.” As he said so, he patted the cus.h.i.+ons and indicated me to sit before looking toward Xiahou Yuan, “Miao Cai, get a bowl of porridge for Lord Liu Bei.”

“Okay~” Xiahou Yuan replied and got up as she headed toward a building nearby that’s probably where the kitchen is.

“Thanks for the trouble.” I saluted as I said so, and sat down on the 2 cus.h.i.+ons.

“It’s fine, it’s fine. You saved me back then, and I still don’t know how I should repay you for that.”

“There’s nothing to repay for that, all I had to do was lift a finger after all.” I smiled as I said so.

“Lift a finger huh…”

Un? When I finished my reply, Cao Song gave a world-weary look as he squinted and stroked his beard while viewing the moon.

“May I ask if there is a problem?”

“If it were someone else, perhaps what he would have lifted a finger to do would be to help that man kill me and split the loot with him.”

“No, how could that be–”

“Or if it were someone else,” Cao Song interrupted me, and continued, “Then he might have recognised that I once held 1 of the 3 Excellency positions, and might have extorted me after he saved me.”

“That’s…”

To be honest, I have to admit that if it weren’t me, those 2 scenarios would have been rather likely.

“So,” Cao Song looked at me with a kind expression, “You are different from them. And that is why I wish to thank you.”

The Cao Song now gave me a very different impression from the Cao Song back then. I don’t know if it’s because of the exquisite clothing now, but compared to the ordinary old man from before, Cao Song feels a lot more like an official now. So when he thanked me, I felt a little awkward.

“No, I really feel that what I did was what should have been done.” I too looked at the moon like Cao Song as I said so, “From my perspective, what I did was something very normal. If I did it for the sake of getting something in return, then that wouldn’t be right.”

“Un~” Cao Song didn’t say any further and closed his mouth as he nodded.

“Alright, since you said as much, I won’t say any further.” He s.h.i.+fted his gaze back to the moon as he said so.

Just then, I felt a gaze at me from the other side. I looked over, and saw that it was Meng De, who was smiling at me. I raised my eyebrows at her as a gesture to ask why she was looking at me but she only smiled and shook her head before returning her gaze to the moon.

“Coming~ The porridge is coming~” Before I could understand what Meng De meant, Xiahou Yuan had brought me a bowl of porridge,

“Ah, thanks.” I nodded at Xiahou Yuan as I received the porridge.

I looked down and found that there were quite a lot of ingredients. Apart from corn rice as a staple, there were pieces of meat and vegetable leaves. For this era, this sort of porridge was rather top cla.s.s.

“Come, have a taste.” Cao Song said softly as he looked at the moon as usual, “You should always have some porridge when you view the moon.”

Un, I’ll have a taste then, I picked up a spoon nearby and stirred it a little before I picked up some porridge and delivered it into my mouth.

Un~ This taste is just like century egg and pork porridge. There’s no century egg but the meat is superb.

“Is it good?” Meng De asked.

“It’s good.” I smiled as I replied at which Meng De smiled back.

It really is good, I thought as I raised another spoon towards my mouth–

“If you don’t mind, you can have your pick of any girl from either the Cao or Xiahou family for your bride.”

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