Chapter 290: Are You Trying To Use Moral Coercion?
Rong Zhi returned home with a cartload of gifts, while Qin Wanwan was in the courtyard, holding a small shovel and digging dirt with her butt stuck out.
This morning, she held a small funeral for the bees that heroically sacrificed themselves yesterday using flower petals, and then she would plant beautiful flowers on and around their graves.
They would surely be happy, after all, bees love flowers the most.
The plump little fox also helped with its claws, its snow-white fur becoming dirty.
“Miss Wanwan, the Master has returned.”
Upon hearing that Daddy had returned, she immediately dropped the small shovel in her hand and ran towards the door with her short legs.
“Daddy, why are you back so early today, did anyone bully you?”
Qin Wanwan currently loved her Father Rong dearly.
Rong Zhi looked at the dirty little milk ball and took out a clean handkerchief to wipe her face.
“No one bullied me.”
“Digging dirt again?”
Qin Wanwan tilted her pretty little face and obediently stayed still to be wiped.
“Mhm, I want to plant more and more beautiful flowers, short and plump osmanthus, little orange trees, and little grapevines…”
“Daddy, why are you back so early today, is your work finished?”
Rong Zhi nodded, wiped her little face and hands clean, and then spoke about Yin Yuanli.
“Brother Yuanli is back?”
Qin Wanwan’s eyes lit up when she heard Yin Yuanli’s name: “Then when can Wanwan look for him, and the Tenth Prince, the Eleventh Prince, and the Twelfth Prince.”
“Or they can come find me to play.”
Rong Zhi: “I don’t know, I’ll ask for you.”
“He asked me to bring you some things.”
Qin Wanwan immediately and cheerfully asked: “Where, where, Daddy, quickly take Wanwan to see.”
Then Qin Wanwan saw a cart full of gifts.
“Wow… so many.”
The servants carefully unloaded the items from the carriage one by one.
“What is this?”
Keke: “That’s a ship model.”
“And this?”
“A waterwheel model. This thing is usually built in big rivers for irrigating crops.”
“I know this, it’s a miniature carriage, and there’s even a little horse, wow, it moves!”
The gifts Yin Yuanli sent were mostly not very valuable, but they were exquisite and indeed suitable for children to play with.
At least Qin Wanwan had a lot of fun.
She actually had many toys already; Shang Wuyang was skilled in mechanical arts, so making small gadgets was not a problem.
However, she still cherished every toy.
After putting away all the models and toys, there were also some food items, which were preserved dried fruits and preserved fruits that could be stored for a long time.
Among them were some particularly beautiful stones and shells.
This time, Yin Yuanli went to disaster relief in a coastal area, and while he was there, he asked people to buy local specialties, whether food or toys.
These shells and pretty stones were obtained from there.
There were several different types of shells, but undoubtedly, each one was exceptionally beautiful and could be considered a work of art.
Then there were some beautiful fabrics, hair accessories, and seeds of various plants.
Yin Yuanli himself did not recognize these seeds or seedlings, but after having them identified to ensure none were poisonous, they were collected.
It can be said to be very thoughtful.
After Qin Wanwan received the gifts, she immediately scurried back.
“I want to prepare a gift for Brother Yuanli too, Daddy, please help me give it to him then.”
Rong Zhi: …………
Suddenly, he felt that the Crown Prince was not pleasing to his eye in any way. Was it his illusion?
Just as Qin Wanwan was rummaging through her inventory to prepare a gift for Yin Yuanli, someone announced that Rong Linzhong and his group had arrived again.
The Emperor’s oral decree from the palace had not yet been issued. These fellows probably had people watching the Rong Prime Minister’s Mansion all along, and they rushed over as soon as they knew Rong Zhi was back.
Even though they were still bruised and swollen.
Even after a day, their faces looked even more terrifying.
Rong Zhi did not avoid them; upon hearing the news, he merely said he knew.
When he went out, Qin Wanwan was holding a brick, with over a dozen hornets and yellow jackets, as well as bumblebees, flying around her.
She walked ahead with her small but fierce ‘little guards’.
A tiny person with great courage.
“I want to protect Daddy!”
Rong Zhi looked at his good daughter, who was walking ahead with a fiercely cute expression, and couldn’t stop smiling.
At the doorway, Rong Linzhong and his party were wailing, and this time they came prepared and had even called for quite a few spectators.
So there were quite a few people at the Rong Prime Minister’s Mansion’s doorway now.
Keke, with its wings akimbo, said: “What’s up? Are you trying to play the card of moral coercion?”
Qin Wanwan also stood at the main gate with her little hands on her hips: “Are you trying to engage in moral coercion?”
Behind her, Rong Zhi watched the group at the doorway with a detached expression.
Besides Rong Linzhong, Yuan Qingfang, and their sons and grandsons, there was also a woman Rong Zhi did not recognize accompanying them.
The woman appeared to be in her mid-teens, and could be described as young and beautiful, but her gaze and demeanor made Rong Zhi feel disgusted.
This was because she resembled Yuan Qingfang too much.
Both the similarity in appearance and the mannerisms reminded Rong Zhi of when his father’s concubine was still around.
“You unfilial son! Yesterday, we traveled a thousand miles to find you, and not only did you have me, your father, driven away, but you also sent people to beat us up at night, injuring us elders and brothers like this. Do you admit it or not!”
Rong Zhi’s voice was faint: “I do not admit it.”
“You claim I sent people to beat you up last night; do you have any evidence?”
Qin Wanwan’s little voice was extremely loud: “Do you have any evidence?”
Rong Zhi coldly glanced at them, as if to say, I just won’t admit it, what can you do about it?
“You, you… For a government official, you’re a hypocrite who dares not to admit his deeds!”
“So you won’t let us in, and you don’t want to acknowledge me as your father. That’s definitely true, isn’t it?”
Rong Zhi’s mouth turned up in a smile. Those who knew him well knew that he was angry.
But those who didn’t know him would only think he looked good when he smiled.
For example, the niece Yuan Qingfang brought was currently gazing at him adoringly.
“You say you are my father.”
Rong Zhi’s voice was clear and melodious: “Do you happen to know when my birthday is?”
As soon as these words were spoken, the onlookers turned their attention to Rong Linzhong.
Rong Linzhong’s eyes darted around, his brain spinning frantically: “This… this…”
Dead brain, think fast!
Keke: “Pfft, you can’t even remember your own son’s birthday. It’s understandable if you don’t remember the birthdays of your many illegitimate sons, but he’s the first son born to your principal wife! You call yourself his father, yet you never celebrated his birthday in the Rong Mansion!”
The surrounding onlookers looked at him with condemning eyes.
Yuan Qingfang’s voice shrieked: “Master is so busy with so many matters on a daily basis, where would he have the time to remember trivial things like a child’s birthday?”
Keke said sarcastically: “Indeed, very busy, busy visiting brothels, otherwise, where would you have come from.”
Yuan Qingfang’s chest heaved with anger. The thing she hated most in her life was people calling her a brothel prostitute, yet after coming here, that flying beast had brought it up repeatedly!
