“Master, but your body…” Could he travel long distances?
The servants, in the meantime, had brought over his medicine, which Pei Fengtang drank in one gulp. “It’s been a month and I’m almost completely recovered. There is no problem with me taking the carriage to Qingzhou!”
“Alright then.”
“I’ll be staying in Qingzhou City for a few days to get some rest during this trip. After that, I will probably return to the capital directly. So please pack up as much of the luggage as possible tonight. I’ll leave first thing tomorrow morning. As for the luggage, you can send some people to have it delivered to the Capital City directly.”
“Understood.”
Li Qing was a little excited when he said this.
He had always thought that if his master were to pass on, he would only be able to spend his twilight years in Baishui Town, acting as the caretaker of this residence until he was an old man.
He did not expect that he would be able to accompany his master back to the Capital City in his lifetime!
He wondered if the scenery in Capital City had changed in this time…
Li Qing was suddenly in a nostalgic mood!
…
During their journey home, Qi Qingyao and the children, who had eaten their fill, had become so sleepy they dozed off to sleep.
After Si Jin covered them with a blanket, he climbed onto the shaft of the carriage and sat together with Jiang Yeqian, manning the carriage together.
Pretending that it did not bother him, Jiang Yeqian asked, “Did something happen between her and Heir Pei today?”
“Yeah.” Si Jin pursed his lips as he said somewhat gloomily.
“There was?” Jiang Yeqian was so startled that he almost pulled on the reins. However, he managed to calm down during this critical moment and did not make any wild movements.
He turned his head to look at Si Jin.
Si Jin puffed his cheeks as he said rather enviously, “Heir Pei actually called her Yaoyao. Don’t you think the nickname is too intimate?”
Jiang Yeqian’s brain blacked out for a moment. He finally returned to his senses after three seconds before he gulped and asked, “Yaoyao? Are you sure you did not hear it wrong?”
Si Jin replied indignantly, “I’m certain I did not hear it wrong. Lu Yan also heard that she was called Yaoyao!”
Jiang Yeqian, “…”
A cold wind was blowing on his neck but Jiang Yeqian could not seem to feel any coldness.
Beneath the mask, his lips had fallen into a thin straight line.
After that, Jiang Yeqian and Si Jin said nothing more. The sky had turned dark by the time they returned to the town inn. Si Jin and Jiang Yeqian first carried the children into their room upstairs. They took off their little shoes and pulled the blanket over them. Si Jin said he was going to head down to carry Qi Qingyao but Jiang Yeqian insisted that he would do it.
When he went downstairs to the stable, he first fed the horse concentrated feed before going to the carriage. Just as he was about to carry her back, he pondered a little before quickly waking Qi Qingyao up and telling her that they had arrived home!
Qi Qingyao rubbed her eyes and sat up, yawning.
Jiang Yeqian sat beside her and asked with a dark expression, “Why did Pei Fengtang call you Yaoyao?”
The recently awoken woman answered with a dazed expression, “How should I know?”
Jiang Yeqian asked expressionlessly, “Do you not know how to reject that?”
Qi Qingyao was fully awake now. She heard the man’s question and after regaining her rationality, she asked with confusion, “Heir Pei referred to me so intimately surely because he wanted to make me one of his own. To be regarded as one of Heir Pei’s people is a good thing! I will have good backing! Heir Pei will definitely take care of me regardless of what happens in the future.”
What on earth did she mean by ‘his people’. “And what if he takes a fancy on you?”
“Take a fancy?” Qi Qingyao glanced at him contemptuously before patting him on the shoulder unreservedly. Eyes squinting, she said, “My brother! Why would a lord fall in love with a single woman with three children like me? Are you f*cking kidding me?”
After saying this, she no longer bothered to entertain Jiang Yeqian’s thoughts.
She took the liberty of hopping down from the carriage unaided.
She then realized that the horse was already eating hay in the stable. Qi Qingyao faced Jiang Yeqian and spoke.
“He’s only using me to get to Su Hexiao, since he thinks I know him.”