Chapter 9 The Honest Man My Father Found
My father said he’d found me an honest man to marry.
The Emperor kept teasing, holding back the details.
My father didn’t tell me anything either, just said the man would come pick me up in three days.
“Won’t Father come back?”
“Doesn’t he need to report to the capital or at least come see me?”
I climbed up the tree and sat on a branch.
After leaving the palace, I’d let all the maids and servants go.
I returned their contracts and gave them silver.
Now only Chen Bo remained, the old steward who’d followed my father for years.
If his leg hadn’t been injured in battle long ago, he probably would have gone to the border with Father thirteen years earlier.
Chen Bo was afraid I’d fall. “Little Miss, come down quickly. There are so many things outside waiting for you to handle.”
What things?
Just that when I was little in the palace, Jing Xuan tricked me into climbing a tree, saying I could see my father from up there.
I huffed and puffed my way up, lost my balance, and fell.
After that I never dared go high again.
“Chen Bo.”
“Today, no matter who comes looking for me, I won’t see them.”
I jumped down from the tree. Chen Bo let out an “aiyo.”
He told me Father had already gone to Jiangnan.
Once everything was settled there, we would arrive around the same time.
What settling did Father have to do?
The house in Jiangnan was bought the year my parents married.
Everything Mother left behind had long been moved there.
He just missed her and went to see the house to remember her.