Chapter 29 (2/2)

“Xiao-er, don’t be rude. I don’t think I ever taught you this way,” Long YinLian scolded Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao felt that he was wronged. He was only like this because he didn’t want any danger to come their way during their travel. ‘If Master Ping doesn’t come with us, the travel would be easier,’ Lin Xiao thought before he let out a heavy sigh. “Lin Xiao admits his mistake, Shizun, don’t be mad anymore, alright?” Lin Xiao said as he tries to appease the older male.

“En. Since we will be travel companion, let us all get along well,” Long YinLian said before he addressed Ping Jianyu. “Master Ping, those tables are indeed for the White Swan members but there are some seats on out table. How about you come and sit with us instead?” Long YinLian offered.

“Is that alright?” Ping Jianyu asked, feeling touched with Long YinLian’s generosity.

“Of course. But your guards will have to sit elsewhere,” Long YinLian answered.

“That’s not a problem at all!” Ping Jianyu replied before he turned to the guards he hired and then handed them several pieces of silver. “Here, you go and find your seat and eat your meal.”

After he dismissed the guards, Ping Jianyu went to Lin Xiao’s table with his daughter. Of course, since he didn’t want his daughter to sit close to another men, he let his daughter sit beside Fei YuXing who is the only lady on the table.

Ping QiaoLian didn’t seem to be pleased with the arrangement, but she understood her father’s thought, so she didn’t say anything. But that doesn’t mean that she likes it. Both Lin Xiao and Fei YuXing could sense her hostility, even Long YinLian felt it despite him being blind.

The atmosphere was tense and Long YinLian felt that he needs to do something to remedy the tense atmosphere.

“Master Ping, why have you decided to travel to the capital? I hear that you are a merchant. It is quite unusual for a merchant to attend his own caravan,” Long YinLian asked after a careful thought. He felt that in order to ease the tension, it is better to get to know their travelling companion better.

“Ah, yes! That is true. Actually, this caravan is not only to deliver goods. I am moving to the capital since the business has gone well,” Ping Jianyu answered. “My daughter has long dreamed about going to the capital and there is also rumors that the current Emperor is being pressured to establish his harem so if she could enter the palace, her life would be even better!”

At the mention of the Imperial Harem, Lin Xiao just scoffed only to have his thigh pinched by Long YinLian. “Behave,” Long YinLian whispered to him and Lin Xiao can only lower his head in defeat.

‘Shizun is bullying me…’ was all Lin Xiao can say in his heart.