Chapter 814 Anger Over the Father-Son Rift (3)
"Neigh-neigh—" The horse couldn’t understand Mo Yan’s words, but felt her kindness and happily snorted at her.
Mo Yan, with a full head of black lines, silently took out a handkerchief and wiped off the saliva on her face, resolutely deciding in her heart to cut out most of the treats she had earlier promised.
Xiao Ruiyuan patted the playful horse and said to Mo Yan, "Rest well when you get home, I will handle that matter; you don’t have to worry."
"I will, and you too!" Mo Yan replied with a slight smile, readily agreeing. The Emperor Huian’s marriage decree at the banquet indeed made her feel uneasy, fearing some twist of fate. Now that they had talked it out in the carriage, she was not so worried anymore.
Xiao Ruiyuan had yet to speak when Xiao Eleven, unable to wait, said, "If the marriage between the master and the County Lord could have been decided earlier, there wouldn’t have been so much trouble! Those who came before the New Year to probe, they almost trampled the threshold of the Hou Mansion; the steward has complained to me many times, saying he’d rather work the hardest and most tiring jobs on the estate than deal with those people again."
"Shut up!" Xiao Ruiyuan sternly reprimanded with a frown, "After returning, receive ten lashes by yourself; remember this lesson!"
"Yes!" Xiao Eleven accepted the punishment without a word then immediately changed his tone, complaining, "Master, I’m willing to accept the punishment, but what I said is also true. Aren’t you tired of those people too? If the marriage were settled, would they still interfere?"
"Another ten lashes for you. Wait under that big tree and don’t come over!"
Xiao Ruiyuan ordered Xiao Eleven away with a dark face and then said to the thoughtful Mo Yan, "Do not let Eleven’s words trouble you; such annoyances are not our fault."
Mo Yan sighed with a wry smile, "What Shiyi said is not wrong either; if our affair was settled sooner, we wouldn’t have these problems."