C44 (1/2)
He looked at the little girl he was holding in his other hand. She had big eyes and a small mouth. Her face was so similar to Qing Shui's, but her facial features were exactly the same as Qiao Liangjin's as a child.
Qiao Zheng sucked in a breath of cold air as he weakly sat on the ground.
His cute daughter was actually secretly knotted with the Seventh Marquis when they were secretly touching!
At this moment, his mind was in a mess. No wonder he cleared the request for marriage. No wonder his daughter had always refused.
No wonder he rarely came to this courtyard.
Qiao Zheng held onto his own hair nonstop. Heavens, this was the biggest scandal in the world.
Qiao Liangjin looked at Qiao Zheng's expression and knew what he was thinking. She did not know whether to laugh or cry as she explained, ”Father, this is not my child.”
Qiao Zheng's head was buzzing as he could not hear Qiao Liangjin's words.
He raised his head and sighed, sadly saying to the sky, ”I let you down. I didn't take good care of our daughter.”
He then shook his head and stood up. Suddenly, his steps looked old. Step by step, he walked towards the outside of the Flower Ginseng Pavilion.
Qiao Liangjin blinked her eyes and looked at Yuesheng and the Spirit Swirling Swirl. She pointed at her own face and asked, ”Do they look like me?”
The people standing in the yard all nodded.
Qiao Liangjin bent her waist as she smiled. She pinched Yu Sheng's face and then the Spirit Swirl's face before saying, ”Hurry up and call me mother.”
Qiao Zheng sat in his study room in a daze as he could not hear a word that Joan of Arc had said.
After thinking for a long time, Qiao Zheng abruptly stood up and pushed his away. He said, ”If there's anything I need to say, I'll come back first. I need to go out now.”
Zhen Yuan looked at Qiao Zheng's back as he left and lowered his head. There were countless words written on the paper – Child.
He was in the middle of dealing with some official business when he heard the butler say that Prime Minister Qiao was seeking an audience at the door.
Surprised, he quickly went out to greet them.
Looking at Qiao Zheng's gloomy expression, he did not know how he had offended him.
He welcomed the person into the hall.
Before he could take his seat, Qiao Zheng cut straight to the point. ”I wonder how Seventh Prince plans on dealing with Jin'er and those two children.”
”Huh?” A pair of children?
He looked at Qiao Zheng blankly.
Qiao Zheng looked on in confusion as his anger flared. So it turned out that this ungrateful man had no idea he still had a child!
”Seventh Prince, as a man, what responsibilities do you have to understand? Why do you treat your own children so indifferently when all you know is that you shoulder the responsibility of the King?”
He still looked confused.
Children? Children? Why did he suddenly have a girl and a son?
Could it be … Was Qiao Liangjin pregnant?
Whose child was he carrying?
Qiao Zheng looked at Qing Qing's shocked expression and thought he had remembered. He flung his sleeves and snorted. ”Look at that son. He was carved from the same mold as you.”
Qing Qing rubbed her nose. A son that looked quite similar to her?
He suddenly realized what had happened. He had thought that Yu Sheng was the son of Qiao Liangjin and himself!
He couldn't help but laugh.
”Master, This King understands.” He heaved a sigh of relief and sat down on the chair opposite Qiao Zheng.
Seeing that he had acknowledged her, Qiao Zheng gave an inexplicable sigh of relief. Then he said, ”Then when is the Seventh Prince planning to marry Jin'er? Since we already have children, it's better to be early rather than late. ”
Su Chen cleared his throat and thought back to how Qiao Liangjin rejected him for a thousand miles. The smile on his face disappeared and he paused for a moment before he shook his head and sighed, ”I can't marry him.”
Qiao Zheng was unhappy. What did it mean that he could not marry? What did 'can't marry' mean?
You've already accepted this child, so why can't you marry him?
Qiao Zheng stood up and pointed at his clean nose, his fingers trembling uncontrollably.
Ye Zichen pointed at her nose for a long time, but didn't say anything in the end.
Flinging his sleeves, he left the Seventh Marquis Mansion in a fit of rage.
He sat calmly in his seat.
It wasn't that he didn't want to marry, but she didn't want to.
He never wanted to force her to do anything she didn't like.
Life was still very long, and he remembered her writing on a piece of paper as she said, ”In this life, I must be willing to marry the person I love and give birth to a bunch of children. If you're unhappy, you won't be happy even if you're immortal. ”
She didn't even know how much trouble that ”I can't marry” had caused her.
Qiao Liangjin still ate, ate and slept every day. When she was free, she would go to the grocer's to listen to Bai Wu's zither play.
Strangely enough, Ning Xi had not come since the last time she had come to admire the flowers.
Qiao Liangjin did not intend to ask.
Occasionally, he would take out the jade green flute in his sleeve to play with it.
Qiao Liangjin realized that Qiao Zheng had been very busy lately. He would only occasionally see her in the garden and would only shake his head slightly.
When he arrived at the little grocer's lodge, he heard about the big thing his father was doing.
His father was searching everywhere for evidence to clear up the matter and was preparing to send it to the imperial court.
Qiao Liangjin rubbed the tip of her nose and pondered deeply all the while. What's wrong with his father? Didn't she say he was going to hide his strength to recuperate?
Why did it have to be opposed to clearing up the tension?
Chopsticks lightly tapped on the table.
Bai Wuxun served the wine and asked, ”What's the matter, Miss Qiao?”
”It's nothing. Bai Wu, do you know martial arts? ” Qiao Liangjin propped herself up and looked at the man in plain clothes.
Bai Wu shook his head and passed his arm to Qiao Liangjin. He said softly, ”I can't learn without such good Innate Ability.”
Qiao Liangjin knew what he meant. She wanted to test if Su Chen had any inner strength.
She pushed his arm away and shook her head with a smile. ”Forget it, you won't. I'll protect you from now on.”