The Phoenix is Back - Chapter 113

Chapter 113 Father-daughter Harmony
That night, Xiao Xiyang did not return to his mansion.

Shuying Pavilion, brightly lit.

Xiao Xiwei walked around the room with a confused mind.

Finally, the door opened.

“How is it? Any news?” Xiao Xiwei couldn’t wait to see Chu Xizhi enter.

Chu Xizhi knitted his eyebrows and heavily walked to the warm bed to sit down.

“Xi Zhi, you must be talking!” Xiao Xiwei said anxiously.

Chu Xizhi slowly lowered his eyes, and his hoarse voice slowly sounded, “Drunken to the point of being grounded.”

“Ninth Princess?”

Chu Xizhi smiled. He raised his head and looked at Xiao Xiwei. “I wonder where she heard about the wedding bestowed by her father. She ran to the Chongde Hall and made a fuss, but her father grounded her in anger.”

Hearing this, Xiao Xiwei’s heart skipped a beat and she sat back on the couch. It took her a long time to recover her voice. “It seems like this marriage can’t be avoided.”

The Emperor had clearly made up his mind to put Lin Yushi next to his brother. When she got married, Marquis Mansion did not have a mistress, and this young lady who had just passed through the door happened to take over the right of housekeeper Marquis Mansion. At that time, it would be extremely easy for her to do something.

For a moment, neither of them spoke.

After a long time, Xiao Xiwei chuckled softly, “Your Majesty, this move of yours is really good!”

“Perhaps, there’s another way.” Chu Xizhi looked up at Xiao Xiwei.

Xiao Xiwei raised his eyebrows.

“If she wants to interfere in the commoner affairs of the Marquis Manor, then she has to stay in the Marquis Manor first!” Chu Xizhi looked at Xiao Xi and said.

Xiao Xiwei’s eyes suddenly lit up. “You mean … to ask her to follow my brother to Wu City? But the Emperor won’t agree easily, right?”

“It’s up to the old marquis.” Chu Xizhi’s lips curved into a faint arc.

Xiao Xiwei’s eyes lit up when she heard Chu Xizhi’s words.

Yes, others said it might not work, but her grandfather was different. Grandfather stayed in Wu City for most of his life, guarding the border for Great Yue. The husband and wife were separated, and the father and son were separated. If he lodged a complaint for his brother, the Emperor would not refuse. Moreover, if he placed her in Wu City, there might be a place where she could be used in the future.

“But I’m still worried.” Xiao Xiwei raised his hand and placed it on the table in front of the warm bed. His clear eyes were still unable to conceal his worry and disgust.

She really hated Lin Yushi to the extreme. If she was still under her nose in the capital, she would not be able to flip the big waves. However, if she followed her brother to Wu City, she might do something, and her brother was careless, what would she do if she plotted against him?

“Wei’er, you really care, but it’s chaotic!” Chu Xizhi reached out to cover Xiao Xiwei’s hand on the table and smiled softly. “Wu City is thousands of miles away from the capital. At that time, even if Lin Yushi has something to do, I’m afraid she won’t receive any news from the capital.”

Xiao Xi raised her eyes slightly to look into Chu Xizhi’s eyes.

Although those ink jade-like eyes contained a faint smile, a trace of cold killing intent flashed through the depths of their eyes.

Xiao Xiwei held Chu Xizhi’s hand and frowned slightly. “Xizhi, isn’t he already suspicious of you? If it’s really Ru Ru, why don’t we …”

“Wei’er.” Chu Xizhi suddenly stood up and forcefully shouted Xiao Xiwei’s words.

The blood on Xiao Xiwei’s face faded when he shouted.

Seemingly sensing that his tone was heavy, Chu Xizhi hurriedly stepped in front of Xiao Xiwei and reached out to hold her in his arms. “I’m sorry, Wei’er, I didn’t mean to.”

The familiar ambergris at the tip of his nose greeted him.

Xiao Xiwei allowed Chu Xizhi to hold her for a long time without saying a word.

“Xiwei” Seeing that the person in his arms did not speak for a long time, Chu Xizhi anxiously helped Xiao Xiwei up and shouted worriedly.

Xiao Xiwei looked up at Chu Xizhi quietly and remained silent.

Chu Xizhi sighed, “Wei’er, have you considered the position of the Marquis of Loyalty?”

Even though they supported him in his struggle for the position, it did not mean that they supported his rebellion. Especially Old Marquis Xiao Qi. He had been loyal to the Emperor all his life and was proud of it. If he really rebelled as Xiwei had said, even if Old Marquis had no choice but to accept it, it would probably become a problem for him. And Xiwei was such an emotional person, she was afraid that she would not be able to bear the consequences herself. Moreover, the time had not yet come. There were 100,000 guards in the capital, and this’rebellion ‘was not so easy to’plot’.

Hearing Chu Xizhi’s words, Xiao Xiwei suddenly realized that she was really extreme just now.

“Sorry, I just …”

“I know.” Chu Xizhi sighed and reached out to embrace Xiao Xi.

If she wasn’t worried about herself, why would she say such words impulsively?

Not long after the imperial edict was given, the triennial Spring Week arrived. As Chu Xizhi had expected, the Emperor had indeed asked Xiao Yan to become an invigilator, but what was unexpected was that Lu Haiyang was also an invigilator like Xiao Yan.

Xiao Xiwei was originally worried that Lu Haiyang would secretly cause trouble, but Chu Xizhi made Zi Yan relax. On the other side, The matriarch returned home because of Xiao Qi. In addition, Marquis Mansion’s direct son and daughter were married on the same day. Her spirits were unexpectedly good. These two days, she personally took charge of the common affairs of the manor. Xiao Xiwei was originally worried that Old Lady Jun’s body would not be able to withstand it, but with Nanny Liu’s help and Concubine Zhou’s help, Old Lady Jun’s interest was so high that she could only accept it happily. However, there were some things that she had to take care of personally. This time, Marquis Mansion was not only going to marry a woman, he was also going to marry a wife. Fortunately, her embroidery was prepared by the palace. As long as the palace brought the embroidery, she only needed to embroider the last needle symbolically. This really saved Xiao Xiwei a lot of effort.

Just as the Marquis of Loyalty was busy with the wedding, the Spring Festival was over. There was still a month left before the release of the rankings, but people were not in the mood to discuss which candidates were most likely to enter the Spring Festival Rankings, because the most eye-catching wedding of the two people in the capital was about to arrive.

One day before the wedding, she waited for her husband to marry her.

The matriarch gave Xiao Xiwei a lot of dowry, a three-storey house, two villas, four shops, a set of yellow pear furniture, and a lot of jewelry at the bottom of the box. He even took out half of the dowry left behind by Xiao Xiwei’s birth mother, Chen shi. There were all kinds of antiques, precious stones, corals, silk and satin inside. In Matriarch’s words, it was to make up for the late Chen shi.

Xiao Yan looked at the piles of dowries in the courtyard. Most of them were Chen shi’s dowries, while Xiao Xiwei stood in the courtyard wearing a light red dress. Suddenly, his heart was filled with mixed feelings.

It turned out that, unknowingly, so many years had already passed.

However, he suddenly remembered that Qing Wan had just married Marquis Mansion, but he only blinked his eyes. Both he and Qing Wan’s daughter were going to get married.

Time passed too quickly.

“Father.” Seeing that Xiao Yan had been watching the dowry in the courtyard without saying anything, Xiao Xiwei shouted softly.

This’father ‘made Xiao Yan come back to his senses. He looked at Xiao Xiwei and was stunned for a moment. He raised his hand and summoned the followers behind him. “These paintings are my father’s treasures over the years. You’re right, I never understood these paintings, so I’ll give them all to you …”

As soon as Xiao Yan finished speaking, the seven or eight attendants behind him brought Xiao Yan’s precious words over and placed them in front of Xiao Xiwei.

“Father” Xiao Xi pursed the corners of her lips and looked at Xiao Yan, suddenly not knowing what to say.

These past few years, Xiao Yan was so fond of painting that even Xi Ming, who was once his father’s favorite, accidentally stained his painting with ink, was fiercely slapped ten times with a stick. He even punished him for not eating for three days, almost crippling Xi Ming’s right hand. And today, he actually wanted to give all of these paintings to her? Just because she was so embarrassed that she blurted out that sentence?

Xiao Yan suddenly raised his hand and leaned towards Xiao Xiwei, but Xiao Xiwei subconsciously retreated and dodged. His hand froze awkwardly in mid-air. After a while, he smiled, “In the blink of an eye, you’ve grown so big. When you were a child, you stumbled over and grabbed my robe, calling out ‘Daddy hug’, as if it was only yesterday …”

“Father.”

Father …

Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Xiwei and his smile suddenly froze at the corner of his mouth.

Since when did the little girl who had been pestering him to hug and call him’daddy ‘grow up so big? Furthermore, she never called him’daddy’ again. Father, these two words are the same as’father ‘, but why does it sound a little more distant and indifferent?

It seems …

It seems …

When his children grew up, they didn’t call him’father ‘anymore. Instead, they called him’father’ respectfully and estranged.

In the past, he didn’t feel it, but now, why did it sound like it made him feel inexplicably sad?

Is he old?

For the first time, Xiao Yan felt that he had lived for so long and had never understood what he really wanted.

“In the future, live a good life with the Swallow King. If you’re fine … go home often to take a look when you’re fine.” After he hurriedly told Xiao Xiwei a few words, he turned around and couldn’t wait to leave.

“Daddy.” Behind him, Xiao Xiwei’s clear voice sounded.

Xiao Yan froze in place.

“Daddy.” Xiao Xiwei looked at Xiao Yan’s back and shouted again.

Over the years, her relationship with Xiao Yan’s father and daughter had been weak. In her opinion, this father had never taken these children to heart. In his eyes, only power and status were calculated. However, was what she said she saw the real Xiao Yan? She had never known him? Since she and Xiao Yan had come to this point, could it be that she did not have any responsibility on her own?

For a moment, Xiao Xiwei suddenly felt that he had done too little to Xiao Yan in the past.

She walked in front of Xiao Yan and reached out to grab Xiao Yan’s hand. The corners of her mouth tightly pulled into a smile, “Daddy.”

Xiao Yan looked at Xiao Xiwei. His usually solemn eyes suddenly turned red. He held Xiao Xiwei’s hand and replied forcefully, “Ah.”

“That’s right. There should be peace between father and daughter.” The matriarch held Nurse Liu’s hand and smiled as she stood at the corridor corner of the courtyard.

Over the years, it wasn’t that she didn’t know the knot between Yan’er and Xiwei. However, Yan’er’s temper did not listen to her words, and Xiwei’s cold temper was always concerned about Yan’er’s actions. Even if she wanted to adjust the relationship between the two of them, she had nowhere to start. Now that she saw this scene, her heart, which she had been worried about for so many years, could finally be relieved.