The Eldest Daughter of a Rural Family
Chapter 675: Imitating a Night Flight (3)_1

Chapter 675: Chapter 675: Imitating a Night Flight (3)_1

Pei Qin responded with a formal cupped-hand salute.

Pei Qian watched and, without speaking, curtsied as well.

Xiao Guangjing paid it no mind, "This must be Little Radish!"

Little Radish turned to look at her mother. She didn’t recognize this person and didn’t know what to call him.

"Call him uncle," Pei Qin instructed her.

Little Radish immediately said politely, "Uncle!"

Xiao Guangjing laughed and, reaching out to hold her, said, "If we go by what your Uncle Yong says, you should be calling me grandfather!"

Pei Qin’s expression stiffened and darkened, "Then I suppose I should also call you ’Dad’, shouldn’t I?" The last time they met, he almost had her killed. Now he’s taking advantage at their next meeting.

Listening to her, Xiao Guangjing burst into loud laughter, "If you’re willing, you can also call me uncle!"

Creepy, huh! Pei Qin rolled her eyes. Wasn’t this guy under a decree not to leave his fiefdom and wander about? Him suddenly showing up here couldn’t just be to glance at his own son.

Xiao Guangjing had come to see Mo Heng.

To avoid the eyes of Xiao Guangbi’s spies, the butler from the Yong’an Prince Mansion stopped sending things to Xiao Yong and sending holiday gifts to them. No longer was there a convenient channel for passing messages. Therefore, Xiao Guangjing decided to come see Mo Heng and to look at his son as well.

Xiao Guangjing then took Little Radish to pick peach blossoms, while speaking with Pei Qin, "This little song, though colloquial, when savored carefully has a charm of its own. I had not expected the lady to be a learned woman!"

Pei Qin chuckled, "It’s borrowed." It was just a little show-off moment and someone had to catch her in the act.

"As you say," Xiao Guangjing looked at her intently, a slight smile on his lips with a deep meaning.

"Who said that?" Pei Qin’s first thought was he had secretly investigated her. If Mo Heng could find out the differences between her and Shen Songming, then deduce their origins, Xiao Guangjing was certainly no fool.

"Yongyong said he’s learning from you, and he admires you greatly. He seldom praises and admires someone so much." And for Mo Heng to willingly marry her, she couldn’t be that simple.

Even if the Radishes belonged to another family, after taking care of them for a long time, Pei Qin unconsciously treated them as her own Little Radishes. It made no sense to only teach Pei Wendong and Chang Yonglin while letting him watch with longing eyes. As such, Pei Qin also included Xiao Yong, the Little Radish, teaching him arithmetic.

Xiao Yong hadn’t told him what he was learning, but in just a few sentences, one could see his admiration for Pei Qin. Xiao Guangjing assessed her again, "Had Mo Heng not run into trouble six years ago, the Wei Shu whom we met earlier would have been Mo Heng’s wife!"

Pei Qin raised an eyebrow, "It’s meaningless to speculate on what-ifs after the fact has occurred, isn’t it, Prince?" She did wonder, but the fact was, she was now Mo Heng’s wife!

"It’s not all hypothetical. If Mo Heng had been willing, the two might have eloped overnight just like Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun..." Xiao Guangjing didn’t finish his sentence, looking at Pei Qin.

"Eloping is not right! But if they wished to, I would be very willing to indulge them!" Pei Qin nodded earnestly. That brooding man, not everyone could endure him!

Yet, in an instant, Pei Qian felt a dislike for this Prince of Yong’an. That Old Mr. Wei, being a Great Scholar from a prestigious family, had also been courted by the Prince, surely aiming to win him over, to use him to forge connections with the students of Songyang Academy and the aristocratic families behind those students. Seeing how that Wei Shu behaved so closely with her sister’s husband and how dismissive they were of her sister and them, if Wei Shu demanded it, would the Prince of Yong’an indeed force her sister and brother-in-law to separate?

"Jiujiu! Come here!" Pei Qian, gathering her courage, went up and took Jiujiu.

Xiao Guangjing, observing her actions, his eyes filled with a deeper amusement, "Songyang Academy is a fine place, with pleasant scenery. Would you like to walk to other places, my lady?"

"With a heart full of scenery, spring is everywhere!" Pei Qin enjoyed landscapes but had no interest in going sightseeing with him. A Radish produced by the Royal Family was barely tolerable, but the old Radishes were adept conspirators. Someone of her level was just a Xiaobai in front of them, they could sell her off and she wouldn’t even realize it.

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