Maybe it was because the half bowl of hot soup before the meal that made my stomach feel soothed, and it was not too difficult to swallow this meal, especially when Miaoyan even picked up food for me.

During the year I lived with me in Jixiang Village, she had already figured out my eating habits. I almost only knew the dishes on a table that I could hold in front of myself, but if she liked them, I would hold them for her to eat no matter how far away. So when I only held the plate of side dishes in front of me, Miaoyan picked up a piece of fresh rabbit meat and put it in my bowl.

"Mom, eat meat."

“…”

I was stunned for a moment, then looked up at her.

It has been so long since this has been so smart and sensible, and with a little reckless and innocent, my daughter, and she is healthy in front of me.

Thinking of this, my smile couldn't be suppressed and I nodded, lowered my head and started eating.

And she seemed to have grasped my habit. When I finished eating, she started to pick up food and meat in my bowl one after another. I didn’t eat much, but this meal was urged by her.

In the end, a piece of chicken was squeezed into my bowl again.

I had eaten a lot and was really overwhelmed. I was about to look up and smile and beg for her, but I found that the other end of the chopsticks was Pei Yuanhao's hand.

He looked at me and smiled.

That smile, with a little temptation, looks like a child again.

I was stunned for a moment, subconsciously frowned, and Miaoyan next to me had already held his breath at this time, holding the bowl and looking at us.

I also looked at her, and the candlelight reflected in her eyes, as if there were stars.

It also seems that I have seen myself many years ago.

After a while of silence, I picked up the piece of chicken and slowly put it into my mouth.

At this time, I heard the two people around me breathing a sigh of relief, as if someone had just strangled their throats. When I bit this bite, I bit off the rope that strangled their necks, and both of them showed happy expressions.

And for some reason, the chicken bite in my mouth, but it was inexplicably bitter.

At this time, Miaoyan seemed to have been filled with honey by someone, and her eyes were bent in laughter. Then she turned to Pei Yuanhao and said, "Father, what do you like to eat? Can I pick it up for you?"

Pei Yuanhao smiled and said, "I like to eat whatever you pick up."

When Miaoyan heard this, she laughed so hard that her eyes were gone. So she kept picking up food in his bowl. He was happy and ate it one after another.

The atmosphere also became slightly eased by Miaoyan's laughter.

However, we didn't have a conversation.

Actually, I can feel the caution of the three people.

If we must be considered as a family of three, then we have almost never had the warmth and sweetness that a family should have. Even all the information Miaoyan received after healing is unpleasant. We have no resources to talk about, and we cannot even talk about anyone around us easily, because no one knows whether it will involve memories that are unbearable to look back on the other end.

So, until after dinner, the Yihua Palace was still very quiet.

Madam Wu and the others were waiting outside, and at this time they came in and presented water and towels for their mouthwashing. Outside the yard, Eunuch Yu and the others were already seen from afar.

Miaoyan immediately asked, as if she understood what she had come, “Is Father leaving?”

After Pei Yuanhao rinsed his mouth, he wiped his face hard with a towel, and then smiled and said to her: "I still have a lot to deal with. I won't be with you and your mother tonight."

"oh……"

She was a little disappointed, but immediately said, "Can I sleep with my mother tonight?"

Before Pei Yuanhao could speak, she said, "I have a lot to say and want to say to my mother."

“…”

I looked down at her and smiled.

Actually, I also have a lot to say to her.

Since she recovered, we have faced too many unexpected changes. Although now, she has accepted Pei Yuanhao and accepted the past between us - I don't know how Pei Yuanhao explained to her, but no matter what, for a child, accepting his parents is the first step to accepting himself - but the bigger problem is that she and I have not completely spent.

About Liu Qinghan.

I have already said everything I can say, but I still want to hear my daughter say how to face the future path.

Because—my next path may be between her and him, there is a choice.

Thinking of this, I also looked up at Pei Yuanhao, but found that he closed his eyes, then opened it suddenly, blinked a few times, and then smiled and said, "Of course."

Miaoyan immediately said, "Thank you, Father!"

I glanced at Pei Yuanhao and didn't say anything.

He wiped his face again, then picked up the table, took a sip of the hot tea that Su Su had just served, and then stood up with the edge of the table.

Instead of leaving immediately, he looked down at me and said softly: "You have a good rest."

I was silent and nodded gently.

Then he walked out.

I stood up with Miaoyan and kept watching him walk out. The Yu Eunuch outside and the others came to meet him immediately with lanterns. At this time, Miaoyan beside me gently held my sleeve and pulled it. I looked down at her. She opened her eyes widened with black and white and looked up at me: "Mom, you haven't answered that question just now."

"……What?"

I was stunned, and I was still a little overwhelmed. She looked at me seriously: "Our family, father, you, and me, can we have dinner together like this often?"

“…”

I remembered that this was what she asked before the meal. Pei Yuanhao asked her to ask me, but I just let it go with me perfunctory.

But unexpectedly, she still remembered that after dinner, she never forgot to ask.

Can our family still do this often?

I subconsciously frowned and did not answer her immediately. Instead, I turned around and looked at the desk beside the window, which was the book Yan Qingchen wrote to me.

How should I answer her?

Just when I was slightly confused and didn't know how to speak, I suddenly heard a panic sound from outside, and many people shouted outside--

"emperor!"

"What's wrong with the emperor?"

"Hurry, be careful!"

This is--

My heart suddenly sank and I hurried out. As soon as I walked down the steps, I saw the door of Yihua Palace, the people who had come to meet Pei Yuanhao in line before, were already in chaos at this moment, and they were all around there, shouting in horror.
Chapter completed!