The Prime Minister's Darling
Chapter 1240 - 1240 607 Recognizing Each Other (2nd watch)

Chapter 1240: 607 Recognizing Each Other (2nd watch) Chapter 1240: 607 Recognizing Each Other (2nd watch) His voice was drowned out in the dense, pounding rain.

No matter how he called out, the figure of the Marquis of Xuanping disappeared into the curtain of rain.

Xiao Hen’s strength was finally drained at this moment. He collapsed and sat down in a puddle by the side of the Official Road, the downpour mercilessly beating against his back.

He clutched the roadside stones tightly.

The rain was ice cold, but when it fell into his eyes and flowed out, it became scalding hot.

He ultimately failed to stop him.

He had still left.

It turns out that there are some people, some things, once missed, truly never present another opportunity.

It was never that he hadn’t cherished his son properly; rather, this son had not cherished that father.

He no longer had the chance… to call him “father” anymore.

“What did you just call me?”

A familiar voice suddenly rang out above him. Xiao Hen shuddered, thinking he had heard wrong, but he still blankly looked up.

He saw the Marquis of Xuanping in a straw rain cape, wearing a bamboo hat, mounted on the tall horse that had accompanied him in battles on all fronts.

The Marquis of Xuanping looked down at him from the horse and asked again, “What did you just call me?”

Xiao Hen lifted his hand, which was pressed down in the puddle, and his heart suddenly brightened; his grief and regret abruptly stopped, and he turned his face and snorted, “Nothing… Nothing at all.”

“Nothing? Then I’m leaving.” The Marquis of Xuanping said, pulling the reins tight and turning Mama in another direction.

“Father, Father!”

Xiao Hen spoke through gritted teeth.

The Marquis of Xuanping’s lips curled mischievously as he turned the horse around, looking cockily at his own son, “You chased me for hundreds of miles just to call me ‘Dad’?”

“It was one hundred thirteen miles.”

Not hundreds.

Xiao Hen corrected him meticulously and irritatedly.

The Marquis of Xuanping laughed, a rather taunting one, as he leaned down and extended his hand toward Xiao Hen.

Xiao Hen was so exhausted he couldn’t even stand.

He still had the strength to lift his hand, but Xiao Hen didn’t want to deal with him.

The Marquis of Xuanping was thick-skinned; if his son ignored him, he could pay attention to his son. Besides, his son had just called him “Dad”, how obedient.

The Marquis of Xuanping directly grabbed Xiao Hen’s arm and pulled him onto the horseback; with his martial skills, even injured, lifting a grown man was still well within his capability.

Father and son rode together, with Xiao Hen sitting behind.

At this moment, father and son finally recognized each other for the truth.

The Marquis of Xuanping was in a good mood, the corners of his lips kept turned up, “I’m going to kill someone. Are you coming with me, or should I drop you off at the village below to take shelter?”

Xiao Hen’s body jolted, You’re willing to die and you want to drag me in with you! How much resentment do you have towards your own son!

“We can’t go,” Xiao Hen said earnestly.

“I won’t let anyone know it was me who killed him.” The Marquis of Xuanping didn’t deliberately bring up whom he was going to kill, but he guessed his son must have known, otherwise, he wouldn’t have followed him to the Prince of Liang’s fief.

Xiao Hen said, “Not that, there’s going to be a landslide soon, which will cause a mudslide. The whole Official Road ahead, including the village below, will be buried by the collapsed mountain and the mudslide.”

The Marquis of Xuanping asked, “Who told you that?”

Xiao Hen said with an impassive face, “I’m a Hanlin scholar. I study geographical records and understand observing the stars at night.”

The Marquis of Xuanping said with an almost mocking smile, “Observing the stars at night? Isn’t that the business of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau?”

“I can do it too,” Xiao Hen said boldly.

The Marquis of Xuanping smiled, “My son really is impressive.”

That was clearly the tone used to coax a child.

Xiao Hen understood that his father wasn’t taking him seriously, not because he truly didn’t believe him, but because he trusted his own ability to get through it more.

The severity of this natural disaster was that it came almost without any warning. By the time the mountains began to slide, half the mountaintop had already internally collapsed.

Xiao Hen said seriously, “I said you cannot go, and that means you cannot!”

The Marquis of Xuanping looked back slightly, helplessly saying, “Ahen, stop causing trouble.”

Xiao Hen still acted up, “I’m injured. I can’t ride a horse, I can’t get caught in the rain!”

The Marquis of Xuanping glanced down at the village below, and Xiao Hen immediately said, “The villagers have evacuated long ago, there’s no doctor there.”

The Marquis of Xuanping eventually admitted defeat, “Alright, I’ll take you to the post station first.”

He remembered there was a small post station about ten miles back on the road.

Xiao Hen silently calculated the speed and distance in his mind; if they arrived there and delayed for a bit, they should be able to avoid the landslide.

He did not object.

The Marquis of Xuanping rode the horse, carrying his son back the way they came.

True to a First-rank military Marquis’ horse, while other horses were too scared to move, this one could still gallivant happily, unbothered by carrying an extra person.

The last time Xiao Hen sat on the Marquis of Xuanping’s horse was when he was a child, sitting in the front, his small body held in the arms of the Marquis of Xuanping.

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