Chapter 76: When weirdos converse, the dialog is weird
"Xi Ning, where's my dad?" After Chu Qing-Yan looked around and couldn't find him, she asked Xi Ning who stood at the side waiting upon her.
Seeing her family's master looking so worried, Xi Ning immediately replied. "Just now, this servant seemed to have heard Master parent-in-law say he wanted to go to the pond to take a look."
"The pond? Which pond?" Chu Qing-Yan was baffled. Prince Ying's manor was very large and she hadn't even had the chance to walk once through it. Now hearing this, she couldn't help but have some misgivings.
At this moment, Mother Chu suddenly thought of something, she immediately said. "Could it be the lake your father and I pa.s.sed by on our way here just now?"
Xi Ning also showed her agreement. "Master, the front courtyard has a lotus flower pond, maybe Master parent-in-law has gone there! These days, the lotuses in the pond have been growing extremely well. This servant had originally wanted to wait until master's injured foot had gotten better so that this servant could then bring you over to have a look!"
The corner of Chu Qing-Yan's mouth twitched, she said to Xi Ning. "You, quickly go search for my daddy. By all means, don't let him get into trouble!"
Xi Ning didn't know that Father Chu's state right now was no different from a child's, seeing master was so worried, she immediately broke into a run to search. Mother Chu couldn't feel at ease and also followed after her.
Chu Qing-Yan held her forehead, she could never forget when they were still in Mao village, their neighbor, Elder Aunt Li planted a lot of taros in the soil. She did it in preparation to get through the winter and was waiting for the harvest days in the future. How could she have known that once Daddy saw those leaves were good-looking, he would pull them out one stalk at a time, then pick off the leaves and build a canopy against the rain for the bird nest on a tree? It enraged Elder Aunt Li to the point that she lied on the floor wanting to cry but lacked the tears. In the end, it was mother who personally carried a bag of white flour to Elder Aunt Li to apologize and make amends, only then did Elder Aunt Li beam with joy and let bygones be bygones.
This time, seeing those lotus leaves are even bigger than those taro leaves, she didn't know what kind of ghostly idea her Daddy would come up with, probably pick those leaves to make a rain canopy ah!