Sometimes it is not necessarily a good thing for a little daughter to be too smart.
Qin Songmo bent down in front of his little daughter but did not speak directly.
Instead, he asked Meng Jiuan and the other two to leave first, and he stayed alone with his little daughter for a while.
Hearing this, Meng Jiuan and Shen Wangchen just glanced deeply at the little girl sitting on the couch.
Just one glance and Li Shengyi frowned on the couch.
After the two of them left the study and silence returned to the room, she withdrew her gaze and looked up to meet the eyes of the person in front of her.
"Daddy, why are they looking at me like that?"
Especially Meng Jiuan, who has a poor brain and all his emotions are revealed in his eyes.
Even though his eyes were red from crying, the look he and Shen Wangchen gave her just now still made her feel like her heart was being squeezed hard.
The pain made her almost unable to breathe.
"Won't they go with us to the south of the Yangtze River for a trip next spring?"
If that's the case, why do the two of them look at me with such reluctance?
The look in their eyes that showed they missed her even before she left made her heart soften.
Li Shengyi wrinkled his nose and asked tentatively, "Could it be that His Majesty doesn't want them to leave?"
"Dad, you are a pillar of the country. It's normal for His Majesty to be reluctant to leave you suddenly. It seems normal to leave Meng Jiuan and the other two behind as well."
"Seeing someone reminds me of them!"
Qin Songmo knelt on one knee in front of his little daughter, listening to her speculations and watching the expression on her little face.
After a long moment, he raised his hand and gently stroked her pink little face, "Shengyi, are you hiding something from Daddy?"
Li Shengyi shook his head without even thinking, "Of course not!"
"I usually stay with Daddy and never go anywhere. How could I hide something from Daddy?"
The tone of her voice was so certain that Qin Songmo was dazzled by the certainty on her face.
The corners of his lips curled up slightly as he pressed, "Are you sure?"
"when......"
[Oh no! Could it be that my dad knows that I took a bite of the apple in the study a few days ago, but it was too sour, so I put it back?]
[Or was it that I went to the kitchen to get some pastries and secretly ate two on the way, and my dad found out?]
[There shouldn't be any cake crumbs at the corners of my mouth. I remember wiping them clean before entering.]
In front of Qin Songmo, Li Shengyi carefully touched the corner of her mouth. After confirming that there were no pastry crumbs at the corner of her mouth, she breathed a sigh of relief.
She said, her head like a sieve, "I am absolutely sure that I have not hidden anything from Dad."
"Dad, please stop playing dumb with me. And the way Meng Jiuan and the others are looking at me, could it be that I... have some incurable disease? Are you hiding it from me?"
When he thought that this was indeed a possibility, Li Shengyi immediately touched himself all over.
[That's not right. I've been eating well lately and feeling great. How could I possibly be sick?]
Qin Songmo reached out and grabbed her little hand that was touching her arm. He raised his eyelids, and his dark eyes looked straight into his little daughter's eyes.
"There is one thing Daddy needs to admit to you, but before that, Shengyi needs to promise Daddy that no matter what happens, Shengyi will never leave Daddy."
"Daddy...I can't leave you without kindness."
Li Shengyi didn’t know if she was hallucinating, but she always felt that the last words her father said were full of loneliness.
Looking at her father's eyes again, she subconsciously wanted to reach out and scratch her little face, only to find that her hand was tightly held in her father's palm.
Frowning slightly, she asked him, "Did you secretly get married without telling me? Or did you secretly have an illegitimate child without telling me?"
"If neither of those are the case, then I promise that I, Li Shengyi, will never leave Daddy."
"Yeah, pinky promise."
Li Shengyi lowered his eyes to look at the little finger that appeared in front of him, moved the corners of his lips, pulled out one hand and made a pinky promise with him.
After the father and daughter put their thumbtips together and the seal took effect, Qin Songmo opened his thin lips.
He told her that he could hear her thoughts when they first met, and that Meng Jiuan and Shen Wangchen could also hear her thoughts.
He told her everything about the ending of the three of them, the direction of the entire story, and his guess that he was not real but a character in a book.
"...In this case, will Shengyi leave Daddy?"
Qin Songmo's voice became a little hoarse after talking so much.
His eyes were fixed on the little daughter in front of him, and he didn't dare to blink, for fear of missing the changes in the expression on his little daughter's face.
The study became quiet again.
Li Shengyi sat on the couch motionless.
She just looked at the person in front of her. If her eyes were not still moving, someone else who came in would probably suspect that she was just a puppet.
Qin Songmo was not in a hurry because she would tell him the answer as soon as possible.
He just stared at her with his dark eyes, which were filled with the tenderness that father and daughter usually showed when they were together.
Charcoal was burning in the corner of the study, and the occasional slight noise finally made Li Shengyi react.
She blinked and whispered to the person in front of her, "Isn't it uncomfortable for you to kneel like this?"
Qin Songmo didn't expect that the first thing his little daughter did after coming to her senses was to care about him.
To reassure her, he stood up and moved a chair to sit in front of her.
At this moment, Li Shengyi slowly recovered from his shock.
She looked at the man sitting in front of her. Under his seemingly calm appearance, he was already crazy inside.
What did he just say? He said he could hear my thoughts? And Meng Jiuan and Shen Wangchen could hear them too?
[What a joke! Even these days, paper figures can tell jokes? If they could really hear my inner voice, what would I have left to say?]
My dear old swan, if this is true, then this joke you played on me is really too big. What have I been thinking about all this time? If they all knew, I...
Li Shengyi raised his head with a tired look on his face, his eyebrows drooping, and his little face showed a look as if the sky had fallen.
"So, what you said is true? Can you really hear it?"
Qin Songmo's hands on his knees curled up slightly. He nodded and whispered, "Daddy has never seen Shengyi's underwear."
Li Shengyi: ...
Is this a question of underwear or not?!
Taking a deep breath, she raised her hands to cover her face. "Is there a cave in our house? I want to go there to calm down."
Qin Songmo shook his head. "No, but there is an ice cellar in the mansion. It's cold, so it's better for Shengyi not to go. Otherwise, he might catch a cold and need medicine to recover."
He still remembered that his youngest daughter hated taking medicine the most.
Qin Songmo has been an official for many years and has experienced countless disputes, but this is the first time he feels like this, like a student facing his teacher, too nervous to say much.
He was afraid that if he talked too much, his little daughter would be scared away.
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