Chapter 11: See a Doctor if You're Sick
Su Li bowed slightly, greeting Jun Mo with a polite gesture, then turned her head and preteo admire the flowers.
Things couldn't be rushed. Let him know that she was skilled in medie, and that would be enough for now.
Once she had created the medie to cure his leg ailment, she would deal with it then.
Wei Yuanling gave Jun Mo a disappointed gnce, sighed, and said, “Let’s go.”
He then turo his two younger sisters, saying, “Tell Mother, Ziyan and I have business ao leave first.”
“Farewell, Yhness, King Jing!”
Ohe two were out of sight, Wei Yuanyao pulled Su Li aside and whispered, “Cousin, don’t you think His Highness, King Jing, is a bit cold?”
Su Li was surprised. The young dies of the capital often said King Jing was the most gentle and approachable man, as he always smiled. But it seemed her cousin had a different opinion.
Notig Su Li’s surprise, Wei Yuanyao tinued, “Really. Don’t be fooled by His Highness’s polite exterior; I just feel like his smile never reaches his eyes. You might think he’s easy to approach, but he never gets close to others.”
Su Li replied, “He’s a good person.”
“Huh?” Wei Yuanyao was taken aback by this response.
“I didn’t say he was bad, it’s just that I feel a little afraid of him,” Wei Yuanyao fessed, a little embarrassed.
Su Li smiled inwardly. No wonder she hadn’t said much with King Jing around.
Suddenly, Wei Yuanyao said, “By the way, Li’er, in two days, it will be the Qiong Flower Feast. Will you go?”
Su Li shook her head and replied, “I won’t go.”
Wei Yuanyao thought it was because of Su Li’s insecurity, so she quickly reassured her, “Li’er, don’t be afraid. I’m here, and no one will dare ugh at you! Just e with me, those girls are all s. They only care about powder and makeup, secretly looking down on me. Everyone avoids me except for Zhirou.”
Remembering she had to ihe grain, Su Li politely refused again, “Cousin, I really have something to do. Please bear with me this time, and I’ll definitely go with you ime.”
Wei Yuanyao pouted. “Alright then.”
Thinking about her father’s return home today, Su Li chatted with Wei Yuanyao for a while in the garden, theo visit Old Madam Wei to say her farewells.
Whe home, the servant told her that her father had returned and was in the main courtyard.
Su Li went straight to her mother’s courtyard.
Before entering, she heard the sound of Su Yue’s sweet voice.
“Father, you’re back! Yue’er missed you so much! I didn’t go aoday, just waiting for you to e home.”
Su Li sneered inwardly. This was a deliberate attempt to manipute her father!
She had known her father wouldn’t return until the afternoon, so she had already goo visit her maternal grandmother.
Su Li walked straight in.
Entering the courtyard, she called out brightly, “Father!”
Her eyes immediately reddened.
Looking at the man with still dark hair and dignified bearing, Su Li felt a lump ihroat.
Her father wasn’t a man of many words, and since her disfigurement, his ess had made it even harder for him to approach her.
In her past life, she had insisted on marrying Zhao Huai’an, causing a huge rift with her father.
It was the first time she had seen this man cry, a she had been smug, thinking that, as Aunt Xia had said, as long as she didn’t give up, her father would eventually accept her true love.
After her marriage, she frequently visited her father, asking him to promote Zhao Huai’an.
Though her father had beeant, he had secretly helped her.
Little did she know, Zhao Huai’an was a white-eyed wolf, and in the end, it was he who led her father to be wrongly accused, ultimately losing his life!
Seeing his eldest daughter standing in front of the courtyard door, eyes red, Su Father was greatly surprised.
How could his usually strong-willed daughter be in such a state? What kind of tremendous grievance had she suffered?
“Li’er, e here, let Father take a look. Your mother said you caught a bad chill. Are you feelier?”
Su Li stepped forward and tightly held onto Su Father’s arm, resting her head on his shoulder.
She loo colpse into his arms and cry her heart out.
But she was also afraid of making her father suspicious.
Seeing his daughter’s abnormal behavior, Su Father g his wife and then looked at the top of his daughter’s head. “What’s going on? Has your chill not recovered? Or did you catch a cold again, and are you feeling unwell?”
Su Li shook her head. “I’ve already recovered, Father. Don’t worry about me.”
Su Yue, feeling ed, gritted her teeth.
This Su Li was gettier at pretending!
“Father, how Sister still not be fully recovered if she’s already out and about?”
Su Li stood up and looked at Su Father. “Father, please don’t bme me. I just went to the Duke’s mansion to visit Grandmother.”
Su Father gently stroked his daughter’s hair and said, “Your mother said yrowing up well. It seems true. You haven’t visited Grandmother in a while.”
Su Li raised her head to look at her father, sincerely admitting, “I wasn’t good before, but Aunt Xia told me that my appearance might make Grandmother and my uncle sad, so I…”
Su Father frowned. “What’s this about?”
Su Yue quickly interjected, “Father, Sister misuood. At the time, she had just been disfigured. Mother said she should avoid seeing them for a while, but who knew she would still be avoiding them to this day?”
Su Mother stepped forward and looked at Su Yue. “You should go baow. Your father just came home. Let him rest.”
Su Yue had a mission to plete and couldn’t leave that easily.
She looked at Su Father, feigning a pitiful expression. “Father, Mother has been ill these past few days. But since she heard you were ing back today, she insisted oing out of bed to cook your favorite dishes. No matter how I tried to persuade her, she wouldn’t listen. You should go and see her.”
Su Li smiled lightly. “Sister, Mother is standing here in perfect health.”
Su Yue was suddenly speechless when Su Li turned her gaze to Su Mother.
Su Father’s expression darkened. “If she’s ill, she should see a doctor. I don’t o go. It won’t help.”
Su Yue, feeling wronged, said, “Father, you’re not going? But Mother... Aunt Xia really is very ill.”
Su Mother snapped, “She wasn’t ill before, and now she’s suddenly sick just when you e back. Always this trick. Does she think we’re fools? Let’s go! I’ll bring the doctor to see her.”
Su Li silently ughed to herself. Her mother was a daughter of the Duke’s mansion, aemper was naturally fierce.
She hadn’t paid much attention to Aunt Xia before, but since she learhat Aunt Xia might not be a good person, she no longer allowed her to act recklessly.
If Aunt Xia was genuinely ill, that would be fine. But if she retending, her mother wouldn’t let her get away with it.
Su Yue was stunned by Su Mother’s words.
In the past, this tactic had always worked, but today it seemed to have no effect.
“No need!” Su Yue hurriedly protested.
Thinking she had rejected too harshly, she quickly added, “Aunt Xia has already seen a doctor. I’ll go bad persuade her to rest more. Please, Father, let me leave now.”
Having failed to get Su Father to go, Su Yue left the room.
Su Li smiled as she took her mother’s arm with one hand and her father’s arm with the other, cheerfully saying, “Alright, fet about Aunt Xia. Go to the kit ahem to prepare a feast for us tonight. Let’s have a nice family meal together.”
Wang Xia responded with a smile ahe courtyard.
Su Father, pleasantly surprised that his daughter wao dih them, said, “This family meal... I’ve been waiting for nearly two years.”
Su Li felt a pang of guilt in her heart, but didn’t fet to tease the West Garden a little, saying, “Father, Aunt Xia said that now that I’m disfigured, if I keep appearing in front of you, you might grow to despise me, so…”
“Ridiculous!” Su Father shouted angrily. “I’ve beebroken enough over you; how could I despise you? She’s the one who’s being more and more disrespectful!”
Su Mother was both shocked and furious. She hadn’t realized that her daughter’s ges over the past two years had been influenced by that woman behind the ses!
“Master, there’s one more thing I must tell you. The shopkeeper, Xia, from Zui Xianju, has been caught embezzling funds, and Li’er found out about it.”
Su Mother told Su Father everything about Xia Jiang’s misdeeds.
Su Father’s face darkened, his anger rising. “At first, she said her brother would help, and I saw that Xia Jiang had some skills. Over these past ten years, the Xia family had been doing well, so I agreed. But who knew something like this would happen!”
“Uable! I’m going to the West Garden right now to settle this!”
Su Mother held him back. “Let’s eat first. You don’t want to go over there aheir food, do you? I’ve never cared before, but now I won’t give them face.”
Su Father paused in his steps.
His daughter had finally agreed to dih him, so he would take care of things ter.
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