Capítulo 710: Chapter 710: Side Story: Vermilion Bird x Xue Lingling (3)
Xue Lingling’s eyes were full of smiles. She loved listening to stories, and the person nad Vermilion Bird noted in her journal was really good at telling stories.
“Is your na Vermilion Bird? I seem to have a friend nad Vermilion Bird,” Xue Lingling’s bright eyes lit up instantly, she asked excitedly.
Vermilion Bird was stunned; didn’t Xue Lingling forget everything every morning when she woke up?
Yet she rembered his na.
Looking at Xue Lingling’s expectant eyes, Vermilion Bird nodded, “Yes, I am your friend Vermilion Bird.”
Xue Lingling’s round eyes sparkled with joy, “Can you tell the story between us?”
The two maids retreated to the side. These were secrets of their princess that they, as servants, couldn’t eavesdrop on.
Vermilion Bird and Xue Lingling sat on a hillside, the green grass lush, the white sheep echoing with the clouds in the sky.
The guards saw Princess Xue Lingling sitting and chatting with a stranger, and they imdiately went to report to the forr clan leader Xue Zhenyi.
Xue Zhenyi imdiately brought the cavalry over and saw Vermilion Bird.
The two maids knelt down and said, “Clan Leader, he is Vermilion Bird.”
Xue Zhenyi’s heart trembled. His son had just gone to Ding’an City, and shortly after, Vermilion Bird ca. It seed Vermilion Bird had co knowing that Xue Lingling was ill.
Xue Zhenyi looked at his daughter’s rare extrely happy smile on her face and waved the cavalry away.
He observed for a long ti, and although Vermilion Bird and his daughter were chatting happily, he maintained a proper distance and did not behave inappropriately.
Subsequently, he left as well.
Xue Lingling was curious about everything and bombarded Vermilion Bird with many questions.
“Vermilion Bird, how did I get to know you? Is Ding’an City fun? What kind of food is there?”
Vermilion Bird recalled the past, the corners of his lips turned up. The first ti they t, he had kidnapped Xue Lingling, and the dazed Xue Lingling even wanted to avenge her clan mbers.
Vermilion Bird narrated their past to Xue Lingling one by one.
Xue Lingling listened with great interest. She licked her lips, curiously asked, “Are candied haws really that delicious? Is plum wine tasty? Can you really eat that pig’s trotter?”
The corners of Vermilion Bird’s mouth twitched; he had talked so much about how he and Xue Lingling t and thus beca friends, yet she only rembered the food.
Xue Lingling again curiously asked, “You say Ding’an City has so much good food and fun, why did I co back to the Poisonous Insect Clan?”
Vermilion Bird was montarily at a loss for words.
Xue Lingling’s face suddenly enlarged in front of him, “Do you think I should go back to Ding’an City with you, I might get cured!”
Vermilion Bird looked at Xue Lingling, her eyes full of candied haws and plum wine, responded with a frown, “Maybe!”
Vermilion Bird’s joke, Xue Lingling took seriously, her face blossod with a pure smile, “I’ll tell my father right away, I want to go with you to Ding’an City!”
The corners of Vermilion Bird’s mouth twitched, he seed to see the Xue Lingling of the past who could forget anything as long as there was good food.
Suddenly, he felt his wrist grabbed by Xue Lingling, who stood up and said, “Let’s go find my father together!”
Vermilion Bird was forced to get up, he really didn’t expect Xue Lingling would want to go with him to Ding’an City just for the food.
However, would her father agree?
To go back to Ding’an City with him!
No father would agree to such a thing, would they?
As expected, Xue Lingling brought him before the forr clan leader, Xue Zhenyi, who scrutinized Vermilion Bird up and down.
His appearance was indeed not bad, tall, though he was a Dark Guard Commander, there was no bloodthirsty look in his eyes, instead, he gave a gentle and reliable impression.
How could Vermilion Bird not know that Xue Zhenyi was looking at him with the eyes of a father judging a son-in-law?
He had read many such stories, where fathers opposed their daughters marrying the male protagonist, who after many trials moved the father, ultimately winning the beauty.
But, he was not here to propose marrying Xue Lingling.
So he imdiately said, “Clan Leader, my na is Vermilion Bird, a friend of Xue Lingling in Ding’an City.”
He was indeed not lying; he and Xue Lingling were just friends, not yet lovers.
“What are you doing here?” Xue Zhenyi lifted his oppressive gaze to ask.
Vermilion Bird was not stage fright because he had seen the death gaze of Mu Yan too many tis, and compared to that, Xue Zhenyi’s gaze was considered gentle.
“I heard that Xue Lingling is ill, so I want to take her to get treated,” Vermilion Bird spoke the truth.
Xue Zhenyi narrowed his eyes and said, “You want to take away my only daughter!”
Vermilion Bird nodded, “I also know so good doctors and want to see if they can help.”
Xue Zhenyi let out a cold laugh, “You think the Poisonous Insect Clan lacks herbs? That our witch doctors are inferior?”
Vermilion Bird smiled faintly, “I don’t think so, but even the best doctors might not cure Xue Lingling if the treatnt is not suitable.”
From their conversation, Xue Lingling realized Xue Zhenyi was her father.
Vaguely she had so impression, her father was a stern person in her journal, the most feared in the Poisonous Insect Clan.
For the first ti seeing soone being neither servile nor overbearing to her father, she looked at Vermilion Bird with admiration, nodded in agreent, “Yes, father, maybe my illness can be cured!”
Xue Lingling’s beaming expression fell into Xue Zhenyi’s eyes. In these four years in the Poisonous Insect Clan, she had never shown such joy. Now that her longed-for Vermilion Bird ca, she was so happy?
Xue Zhenyi looked at Xue Lingling with an expression of having raised her in vain, “Ling’er, step outside for a mont, your father needs to have a word with Commander Zhu.”
Xue Lingling, with a posture of a mother hen protecting her chick, extended her arms and said, “Vermilion Bird is my friend, father, you can’t bully him!”
Xue Zhenyi squinted his eyes, sighed, and said, “Alright, alright, who do you think can beat him!”
Who didn’t know he was Emperor Jian’an’s personal Dark Guard Commander? Even for himself, whether he could beat him was uncertain.
Xue Lingling looked at Vermilion Bird with admiration, indeed, her friend was so formidable that even her father was impressed.
It was truly comforting!
After Xue Lingling left, turning back repeatedly, Xue Zhenyi looked at Vermilion Bird’s eyes and asked, “You can take Ling’er for treatnt, but you must also take my guards and Ling’er’s maids.”
“Yes.” Vermilion Bird agreed.
Xue Zhenyi warned, “You are not allowed to stay in the sa room.”
“Absolutely not.” Vermilion Bird replied with a serious face.
Xue Zhenyi continued, “You mustn’t…”
Before he could finish, Vermilion Bird said, “I will not do anything that would harm Xue Lingling’s reputation.”
Xue Zhenyi finally breathed a sigh of relief, coughed lightly, and asked, “Do you like my daughter?”
Vermilion Bird lowered his eyes, and said aloud, “Because I’m not sure, I’m here to find out.”
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