Chapter 190 (2/2)

When he snapped out of it, Gong Yue immediately fell to his knees without saying a word.

Bang!

His knees. .h.i.t the ground with a deep, loud sound.

“Father, I was wrong.”

At this time, the dignified, ill.u.s.trious Ministry of War's Vice Minister Gong Yue is kneeling on the ground like a child who did something wrong and is begging his father for forgiveness.

“Please punish me.”

Does Gong Yue really think that he was wrong? No, not at all.

–filial piety.

Just as he is trying everything he can to heal his son so that the latter can succeed the clan, he also must serve and respect his father with all his heart.

However, he drew the ire of his father. That is the reason why he knelt on the floor and admitted his mistake.

It's rather contradictory. Although he clearly doesn't like what his father likes and think what his father thinks, but he believes that everything he does is for the happiness of the clan and his father.

Well, people are inherently contradictory.

Probably because his heartstrings were tugged at, Gong Jing sighed ruefully.

“Just this once.”

Gong Yue didn't get up immediately. Instead, he lowered his head. After a while, he said convincingly, “Thank you, father, for your understanding.”

“Get up.”

After Gong Yue complied and got up, Gong Jing looked out the window at the moon again.

“There is still some time before the Mid-Autumn Festival… I wonder if we can have a nice meal this year?”

Darkness can swallow everything.

The voice filled with sorrow lingered in the study for only a moment before it melted away into the darkness.

“Name?”

“Xue Qilin.”

“So your name is Qilin. It looks like your parents have high hopes for you…”

A clerk in charge of the recording sighed, and then filled in the words “Xue Qilin” in a new column of the entry record book.

“Where are you from?”

“Luoyang.”

“Occupation?”

“Youxia [2].”

Xue Qilin paused, and then answered the way Xia Xue taught her. Martial pract.i.tioner is not a profession, but an appellation. Strictly speaking, martial pract.i.tioners of sects can only be regarded as rangers.

As for youxia, it refers to rangers who have no sect, or who have left their sect for various reasons.

“Youxia…?” The clerk looked up at Xue Qilin, “Isn't that just vagrant?”

Vagrant, that's so unpleasant to the ear! The dissatisfied Xue Qilin quickly corrected the other party, “It's 'youxia', not vagrant.”

“Then in what field you employed? Or do you engage in commerce?”

“Uh, it's neither…”

A laugh escaped the clerk's lips, and then he asked without raising his head.

“What do you call a person who isn't employed, isn't it vagrant?”

Xue Qilin was left speechless. After all, she really doesn't do anything.

This was the first time she heard that youxia is equivalent to unemployed vagrant in the Hua Dynasty's society.

As he babbled “bears the high hopes of her parents, yet idles her time away like a parasite”, the clerk filled in the word “vagrant” in the occupation column of the entry record book and rolled his eyes at Xue Qilin.

[1] – Lian'er (怜儿) means: pity + son

[2] – youxia

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