Pan Feng did indeed come to Xia Wuyou to learn swordsmanship. Over time, Xia Xiaomao and she became quite familiar with each other, which was a feast for the eyes of everyone. Every day, they could see the beautiful young woman training hard with another small, pretty girl.
Damn, what kind of gender-swapped Might Guy is this?
Jiang Chengcheng became closer to Xie Qingyan, and the two studied a lot of special materials such as silver pine trees together. They also seriously discussed how to apply them to existing technologies, and the project on superpower transplantation made some progress.
What about then?
Xu was shopping.
This person has always been like this: he would rather trouble others than trouble himself. Since there are other people to do the important things, he is happy to leisurely experience the local customs and culture of Silver Pine Island every day.
He had also surveyed the back mountain, and it was indeed suitable for building a communication base station. Even if construction couldn't begin, the preparatory work had to be done well... Apart from that, he spent his days getting along well with everyone, taking his beloved daughter and the guards with him.
Sometimes he would bring Yu Xingchuan along and enjoy her 360-degree, sycophantic flattery; other times he would go to Chen Qin and tease her, enjoying her expression of wanting to kill him but being unable to, which was also a kind of fun.
However, over this period of time, he could sense that Shen Qin's hostility towards him seemed to have lessened—this was not because his good sister's mentality had changed, but simply because of the inevitable consequence of the continuous loss of memories related to Shen He.
Even the faint, ethereal "sinking river aura" emanating from him was a factor that made the other party knowingly drink poison to quench their thirst, despite knowing it was impossible.
Until this day.
As night fell, just after seeing Xia Ke'an off to play with the mischievous children on the island, Xu Shi discovered that he had another little tail following him.
He didn't care who the other person was, and even deliberately led them in circles.
Then, in a secluded corner, he suddenly turned around and asked, "Little Ling, why have you been following me?"
"I……"
Pan Ling, who was not far away, peeked out from behind the tree, clearly embarrassed that he had discovered her. "I, I'm fine..."
"You still say it's nothing?"
Xu Shi's tone hardened slightly, "Come here."
Xiao Ling then cautiously approached.
"I'm not a bad person, why are you so afraid of me?"
Xu Shi smiled and gestured for her to sit down on a nearby rock. "You must have something on your mind since you're following me this late... Just tell me what it is."
He knew that his younger sister was introverted by nature. These days, he had often gone to Pan Cheng's house to eat, drink, and have fun. Pan Ling had always been like this, keeping her distance from him. After learning swordsmanship from Xia Wuyou for a few days with her sister, she never went there again.
On the contrary, the outgoing older sister, Pan Feng, addressed Xu as "Uncle Xu" so affectionately.
"...I, I do have something to ask you."
His attitude was very gentle, which reassured Xiaoling a little. "But, if I tell you about this, I'm afraid you'll be unhappy..."
How would you know if you didn't tell me?
Xu Shi patiently guided me; communicating with Yin Ka is really troublesome...
"Then, I'll tell you."
Since that was the case, Pan Ling stopped hiding it and boldly spoke out.
"Uncle Xu, you...you were lying that day, weren't you?"
? !
Xu Shi was stunned for a moment, but quickly realized that the little girl was referring to the conflict with Luo Yu that day.
Why do you think that?
Xu Shi found it amusing, so he asked in return.
"No, it's not that I think it, it's that I can feel it..."
Pan Feng stammered in response, "I... I've always been able to roughly sense what other people are thinking, so I know that although you were very polite that day and said it was okay, you didn't seem to really mean it... and you were the same when you explained it to my sister..."
Oh ho?
Xu Shi was even more surprised, clearly not expecting that she had come to expose him.
That was truly unexpected. After all, the girl is still so young. How could she, at only fifteen years old, see through so many things? Her older sister is a year older than her, and after explaining that day, everything was fine immediately.
"Then tell me, what are my true thoughts?"
Realizing this, Xu Shi looked at her with interest and asked.
"..."
Pan Ling remained silent. She didn't dare say that your true thoughts were dangerous, as dark as ink in her perception.
"Then let's rephrase the question: What else did you feel?"
Xu Shi thought about it and changed his words. Asking a child like that would indeed put them under psychological pressure.
"I... I can still sense that Father wasn't being sincere. He was intentionally hiding the truth from Brother Luo Yu and the rest of you..."
The young girl, Xiaofeng, was still quite naive and easily tricked into revealing information by him with just a few words.
Good heavens?
Xu Shi was a little surprised. How could she see through him so clearly?
In fact, he had long known that Pan Cheng also had his own selfish motives at the time. He was not only worried that if he really had ulterior motives, would he still be sitting here calmly? He was also worried that if he spoke out, his relationship with Pan Cheng would change. He also wanted to make those bronze knights suffer a loss.
After all, he was forced to go to sea and almost didn't make it back. It would be a lie to say he wasn't angry, but he couldn't openly resist, so he came up with this idea.
In a sense, this could be considered a case of using someone else to do someone a favor... Fortunately, Xu Shi was also unhappy at the time, so he didn't hold it against her afterwards and just treated it as a favor.
But when Pan Ling said those words, it was a different story altogether.
"So? What are you trying to tell me?"
Xu Shi gently beckoned with his finger, using a bit of his power, hoping to hear more from her.
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