The assistant responded from the passenger seat to Moses’s command. Moses didn’t pay any attention to him and gently lifted his hand to discard the bloodied tissue in his hand.
"Your friend is injured. Do you want me to contact a doctor for him?"
Gan Yuan raised her eyebrows slightly, her tone indifferent, "Qiao Liang is not my friend. His father is no ordinary man—an elderly person who, having lost a son, would be capable of anything. ’Do not court trouble lightly,’ that’s what you taught me."
Moses laughed softly, reaching out to affectionately ruffle her hair at the top of her head.
"I know, my Gaia is the most sensible. Where are you heading to, the Duke Residence or somewhere else? Speaking of which, I have yet to meet Xiaotang. That child’s eyes are very much like yours."
Hearing him mention Gan Tang’s name, Gan Yuan’s heart tightened further, but her face remained serene, "You can meet him tomorrow."
Moses smiled faintly, "That’s good. I have prepared quite a few gifts for the little guy."
Looking at the time on her wristwatch, Gan Yuan spoke again.
"It’s getting late. I’ll go back and pack my things."
"Should I pick you up tomorrow morning?"
"No need. We’ll meet at the airport to avoid the back-and-forth hassle." Gan Yuan glanced sideways, "Stop the car by the roadside up ahead."
The driver remained silent but looked up at Moses in the rearview mirror, his gaze questioning. Moses frowned.
"She said to stop the car. Didn’t you hear her?"
The car stopped at the roadside.
Gan Yuan pushed open the car door, stretching one foot out of the car, then turned back to look at him.
"Remember to tell the butler to make a ricotta cheese roll for me. The ones outside never taste as authentic as his."
Moses lifted the corners of his lips.
"I knew Brother Moses dotes on me the most." She turned, reaching out naturally to wrap her arms around his neck and gently kissed his cheek like she used to, "See you tomorrow!"
She climbed out of the car, casually closing the door behind her, stood by the roadside and waved to him, then turned and walked across the street.
The driver started the car, speaking softly.
"Should we follow her?"
Lifting his left hand, Moses touched the cheek she had kissed and shook his head slightly.
That girl was always stubborn and willful, sometimes, out of a fit of pique with him, she could be gone for ten to fifteen days. Once she had enough fun, she would naturally come back to his side.
This time was no different. It’s just that she had been away for a bit longer.
The driver and assistant exchanged glances, neither speaking again. They hadn’t been with Moses long enough to fully understand the past between him and Gan Yuan.
Within the vast field, only two horses were running back and forth.
On the empty stands, there sat just one person.
Seeing the little guy score again, Huangfu Yaoyang immediately picked up the whistle on the table and blew it.
"Time out, take a break, have some water!"
In the field, Gan Tang and Leng Xiaoye immediately rode over together, handing the water bottle to his own ’wife’ while Huangfu Yaoyang stretched out his hand to lift the little guy from the horse’s back onto the table and took the cup his subordinate passed to him and handed it to the child.
"Drink slowly, don’t swallow too fast. Let the water moisten your entire mouth first..."
"Then swallow it down little by little." Xiaotang said with a smile, taking over his sentence, "Mommy taught me."
"Right!" Leng Xiaoye sat beside him, "Does your mommy know a lot?"
"Of course." The little guy spoke with pride when he mentioned his mother, "Mommy is very amazing. Everything I know is taught by her."