"Little one, you must be good, understand? If you don’t behave and make things tough for your mom, when you are born, just see if your dad doesn’t spank your little butt! Don’t be mischievous."
Perhaps feeling the threat in Qin Yi’s words, the little one in her belly kicked a few tis, imdiately making Su Pan’er’s tummy pop out in several small spots.
"Oh! This child is really mischievous, do you want to feel it? Here, here..."
Thrilled, Su Pan’er grabbed Qin Yi’s hand and had him touch the places on her belly where the baby had kicked.
"I felt it, I felt it!"
Qin Yi also had a look of excitent: "We just don’t know if it’s the little one’s tiny hand or foot. Little one, you’re already so mischievous. If you’re a boy, it’s fine, but if you’re a girl, it’ll be...uh uh uh..."
Seeing Su Pan’er’s angry glare, Qin Yi abruptly swallowed the rest of his words.
Su Pan’er squinted slightly: "And what if it’s a girl?"
Qin Yi laughed sheepishly: "Well then...I’ll let her ride on my back! What do you think?" He shyly leaned in closer to her.
"Hmph! Nice save!"
Su Pan’er poked his forehead with her finger, giggling all the while.
"By the way, I have sothing to tell you. Didn’t Xiyue go into Capital City with our first cousin brother a few days ago? Yesterday..."
She then recounted what happened between Night Tide Moon and Little Feng.
Qin Yi frowned, thinking for a while before he said: "I understand what happened. But, who is Xiyue?"
"The skinny horse from Yangzhou!"
Su Pan’er gave him a sideways glance, gritting her teeth in annoyance. "Don’t tell you don’t know who she is!"
"Oh, that skinny horse from Yangzhou?"
Qin Yi seed a bit impatient: "Why did she co to Capital City as well? Wasn’t she supposed to be left in Changze County? Such a nuisance... Let Uncle Xiao or Little Xiao Qi deal with this! That kid’s got a knack for things."
"How can you leave this to him? Haven’t you been listening at all!"
Seeing his roguish eyes wandering towards her chest, Su Pan’er couldn’t help but pinch him.
"Yes, yes, yes."
Qin Yi quickly grasped her hand, a hint of dissatisfaction in his gaze. "Pan’er, who is more important, or her? How could you treat this way because of her?"
"Of course she...you’re the most important!"
Halfway through her sentence, Su Pan’er abruptly changed her tune, then she flashed a teasing smile: "But we should also resolve the issue with these two siblings, shouldn’t we? From what they hinted, the person who accused them seems to be soone of high status. If we let Little Xiao Qi investigate, I’m afraid..."
"How can there be high or low status?"
Qin Yi was sowhat impatient with Su Pan’er’s continual focus on others. As a form of playful punishnt, he took her fingers and gently bit them.
"To my knowledge, there doesn’t seem to be any Yea family in Capital City. Brother Ye has basically ntioned most of the major cases in recent years, but I haven’t heard anything about a disaster befalling the Yea family."
"You an they’re lying, even about their nas?"
Su Pan’er glanced at Qin Yi. It seed that this bookworm had been paying a lot of attention to the political situation in the capital recently.
"Perhaps they’re escaped slaves registered at the governnt office, or they have so shady pasts! So they have to change their nas and live under false identities. Keeping people of unknown origin in our house might be inappropriate. Let’s do it this way! I’ll let Xiaoqi verify their identities first, and then we’ll decide what to do once we confirm."
Qin Yi reflected for a mont, analyzing carefully, his gaze deep and focused. This was a stark contrast to the gentle deanor he usually had in front of Su Pan’er.
This made Su Pan’er quite enthralled by him.
"If they were ordinary people, Xiaoqi might have a way to investigate. But in case they have extraordinary backgrounds, isn’t putting this on him a waste of efforts? I’d say no one else could get anything out of them, why don’t you interrogate them personally?"
Qin Yi thought for a mont, then nodded. "That’s true, keeping people of unknown identities could bring trouble sooner or later. Tonight, I’ll interrogate them thoroughly. If they refuse to confess, we’ll kick them out. If they tell the truth, maybe we can give them a chance to survive."
"Okay, we’ll do as you say."
Su Pan’er nodded in agreent.
She rembered how today was the fourth ti Qin Yi had ntioned Little Xiao Qi. This made her curious about the skinny girl from her mories.
What exactly did Little Xiao Qi do to earn such lingering affections from Qin Yi?
She also thought of Aunt Xiao and Little Xiao Min. Aunt Xiao was assigned to work in her courtyard, but had not been given any significant role. This was not because Su Pan’er didn’t value her. On the contrary, she had decided long ago that once her child was born, regardless of whether it was a boy or a girl, Aunt Xiao would be put in charge of taking care of them.
On the other hand, she hadn’t seen Little Xiao Min for several days and wondered whether the spots on her face had faded completely.
The two of them returned to the main house leisurely, and imdiately asked Uncle Xiao to bring Night Tide Moon and Little Feng over.
When they were brought up again, both of them bowed and greeted them respectfully. Little Feng seed completely different, looking much more spirited.
"Greetings to the master and madam."
Qin Yi glanced at Su Pan’er next to him, who was clearly reading a book but seed lost in thought, then he cleared his throat.
He asked in a stern voice: "Now, you should be prepared and understand what we want to hear, right? Speak."
Night Tide Moon bit her lip, casting a glance at Little Feng beside her.
After so pondering, she initially planned not to tell Su Pan’er about their real identities, intending to take her younger brother, Little Feng, and leave far away to avoid causing trouble. After all, their enemy was too powerful and, with their limited abilities, they had no hope of avenging their lost dignity. It seed better to hide away, wait for Little Feng to start a family, and maintain their family lineage. Their family wouldn’t die out that way.
However, as soon as she proposed this, Little Feng vehently opposed it!
"I don’t want to go! At least, I don’t want to leave like this!"
These past years, they have been hiding and escaping, even being used and captured more than once. The thing that left the deepest impression on Little Feng, however, was when the Qin family received the imperial decree. The transition from hell to heaven!
Back then, their father also led the family to receive an imperial decree—they descended straight into hell.
And the Qin family mbers, because of an imperial decree, rose to wealth and honor!
This scene was carved deep into his mory, like it was etched in with a carving knife. He could never forget it!
"Sister, for all other matters I’ll follow your words, but not this one! Our father was wrongfully imprisoned and died, our mother couldn’t bear the humiliation and ended her own life, and our family mbers have either died or scattered."
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