Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 814 Anger Over the Father-Son Rift (3)

Chapter 814: Chapter 814 Anger Over the Father-Son Rift (3)

"Neigh-neigh—" The horse couldn’t understand Mo Yan’s words, but felt her kindness and happily snorted at her.

Mo Yan, with a full head of black lines, silently took out a handkerchief and wiped off the saliva on her face, resolutely deciding in her heart to cut out most of the treats she had earlier promised.

Xiao Ruiyuan patted the playful horse and said to Mo Yan, "Rest well when you get home, I will handle that matter; you don’t have to worry."

"I will, and you too!" Mo Yan replied with a slight smile, readily agreeing. The Emperor Huian’s marriage decree at the banquet indeed made her feel uneasy, fearing some twist of fate. Now that they had talked it out in the carriage, she was not so worried anymore.

Xiao Ruiyuan had yet to speak when Xiao Eleven, unable to wait, said, "If the marriage between the master and the County Lord could have been decided earlier, there wouldn’t have been so much trouble! Those who came before the New Year to probe, they almost trampled the threshold of the Hou Mansion; the steward has complained to me many times, saying he’d rather work the hardest and most tiring jobs on the estate than deal with those people again."

"Shut up!" Xiao Ruiyuan sternly reprimanded with a frown, "After returning, receive ten lashes by yourself; remember this lesson!"

"Yes!" Xiao Eleven accepted the punishment without a word then immediately changed his tone, complaining, "Master, I’m willing to accept the punishment, but what I said is also true. Aren’t you tired of those people too? If the marriage were settled, would they still interfere?"

"Another ten lashes for you. Wait under that big tree and don’t come over!"

Xiao Ruiyuan ordered Xiao Eleven away with a dark face and then said to the thoughtful Mo Yan, "Do not let Eleven’s words trouble you; such annoyances are not our fault."

Mo Yan sighed with a wry smile, "What Shiyi said is not wrong either; if our affair was settled sooner, we wouldn’t have these problems."

Xiao Ruiyuan’s eyes flashed as he comforted, "I can handle these matters. And Yan’er, you will soon be coming of age; three years will pass by quickly."

Mo Yan was silent, not saying a word. Three years might seem short, but no one could predict if there would be mishaps along the way.

Xuetuan once told her that they shared a bond from past lives, but she could detect the regret in Xuetuan’s voice when speaking of it. She didn’t know about the other lives, but in the first one, they had met; yet one died, and the other lived a life of displacement, never really getting to know each other, let alone fall in love.

In this life, although they knew and loved each other, who knew if other twists of fate would arise? Today’s words and actions of Emperor Huian had already sounded an alarm for them; she had to be on guard...

The sounds of the carriage wheels gradually faded until they were no longer heard, and then Xiao Ruiyuan finally mounted his horse, ready to leave.

"Master, you can’t abandon me; I know I was wrong!" Xiao Eleven, standing under the tree, called out with a woeful face. Without Xiao Ruiyuan’s command, he didn’t dare to move.

"You managed to be smart today; you don’t need to receive the twenty army staff!" Xiao Ruiyuan rode away without turning back, but his voice revealed rare pleasure.

Xiao Eleven didn’t react at first; once he grasped his master’s meaning, he jumped three feet high for joy and quickly mounted his horse to follow.

Having finally made a meritorious deed and escaped the twenty army staff, how could he not return and show off properly?

...

When Mo Yan got home, other than Mo Qingze waiting for her in the small room while reading a book, he had sent everyone else back to their rooms to sleep.

Seeing his daughter’s face barely concealing her fatigue, Mo Qingze simply asked a couple of questions, then told her and Lizhong to go to their room to rest, and instructed them to sleep in a little longer the next morning and that it wouldn’t matter if they visited the village to extend New Year’s greetings a bit later.