At Sun Mian's residence in the capital.
Fine snow was falling from the sky. Sun Mian could feel the snowflakes falling on his face, melting as soon as they touched his skin, like a gentle rain.
He walked alone in the back garden and unknowingly walked to the fish pond in the garden.
Watching the snowflakes fall into the pond, he couldn't help but ask the servants to bring him some fish food.
Sun Mian threw fish food into the water, attracting a group of koi carp to approach.
He squinted, watching the fish scramble to swim over, their mouths opening and closing as they fought for the delicious food.
Seeing that there wasn't much food, the big carp immediately flicked its tail, and the small fish scattered. But even after they scattered, they quickly swam back, waiting for an opportunity to swallow the bait.
The big carp only picks to eat the largest bait, and doesn't seem to care that the smaller fish fight over the scraps.
After the large baits were eaten, the big carp swam to the surface, opening and closing its mouth as if it were begging for food.
Seeing this, Sun Mian couldn't help but sigh, "Even fish will fight over things."
"Big fish eat big food, small fish eat scraps."
"But what you don't know is that whether a fish is big or small, it doesn't know whether it will have anything to eat; it's all up to the person feeding it."
"What you don't know is that, in all the fighting, the fattest and biggest one will eventually be caught by the fish farmer and become his meal."
At this point, Sun Mian sighed again.
"Perhaps, when you are about to be killed, you will hope to receive the fish farmer's final favor and die a quick death!"
"Lin Wenzhong, Li Hu, Li Liang, Ling Tiande. We are all fish in a pond!"
"Why..."
No sooner had the words left his mouth than a clear, crisp voice rang out: "Father."
Sun Mian turned around and saw that the person who came was none other than his second female lead, Sun Ruoxi.
Sun Ruoxi walked over with light steps, a faint smile on her delicate face with bright eyes and white teeth.
As soon as Sun Mian saw her coming, he immediately got up and prepared to leave.
"Father, what are you doing?" Sun Ruoxi asked anxiously. "Why do you want to leave as soon as you see your daughter?"
Sun Mian forced a smile, "Who said Dad was leaving? Dad just got tired of sitting and wanted to stretch his muscles."
Sun Ruoxi's lips gradually curved into a smile, revealing a pair of dimples on her cheeks. She chuckled softly and said, "Father, you should know about what happened in Shu, right?"
Sun Mian frowned. "Why should a young woman like you care about these things?" He replied, "Are national affairs something you should be concerned about?"
"They don't have time to care about national affairs!" Sun Ruoxi said. "My daughter cares about Brother Lin Mo!"
Upon hearing this, Sun Mian's heart trembled.
His daughter was his "late-life child," so he naturally doted on her more than his other children.
The Sun and Lin families have been on good terms for generations, and Sun Ruoxi is two years younger than Lin Mo. They were childhood sweethearts and grew up together.
When Lin Wenzhong was alive, he once jokingly suggested to Sun Mian that they should make a marriage agreement so that the two families could become even closer.
Sun Mian readily agreed at the time.
However, since it was at a dinner party and both of them drank quite a bit, it wasn't a formal engagement.
The very next morning, Lin Wenzhong received an urgent military intelligence and led his troops out to war.
This battle lasted for three years. As the woman, she couldn't very well bring up the matter herself and ask, "Lin Wenzhong, you said before that you wanted your son to marry my daughter. Are you going to do it or not?"
If you say it like that, it makes it sound like your daughter is unwanted and can't get married.
Later, Lin Wenzhong was bestowed with "steamed goose" by the Empress, and the Lin family declined.
The matter of marriage was never resolved.
However, Sun Ruoxi and Lin Mo were childhood sweethearts, and she had admired Lin Mo since she was a child. After overhearing that half-joking engagement, she decided in her heart that she was Lin Mo's future wife.
Therefore, she paid close attention to Lin Mo's every move.
When Lin Mo was banished to Shu, she cried for days and nights because she also believed that Lin Mo was doomed to die on this journey.
At the same time, she was prepared to never get married in her life.
Unexpectedly, Lin Mo repeatedly made actions that shocked the Great Xia Dynasty.
In a short period of time, they wiped out bandits in Sichuan, suppressed the rebellion of the traitor Yang Fei, and annihilated the Doskago tribe that had invaded the border, killing more than 100,000 enemy soldiers.
Not long ago, news came that Lin Mo led his troops to annihilate more than 500,000 Dos Allied Forces.
This can be considered the most glorious achievement since the founding of the Great Xia Dynasty.
And she, Sun Ruoxi, will be Lin Mo's princess!
Unfortunately, she didn't know that Lin Mo had gotten married, because Lin Mo and Su Qing'er didn't have a wedding ceremony!
"Ruoxi!" Sun Mian hesitated, "I've told you many times that your marriage to Lin Mo was just a joke he made after drinking. You'd better not take it too seriously!"
Speaking of which, young master Zhang, what do you think? His family has always been associated with the Great Xia Dynasty...
"Father, I've told you this many times already," Sun Ruoxi rolled her eyes, "I will marry no one but Lin Mo. If you insist on forcing me to marry someone else, I'll shave my head and become a nun!"
Sun Mian sighed, "Let's leave it at that. Let's not talk about it anymore!"
"Then Father, let's talk about Brother Lin Mo!" Sun Ruoxi said. "Is the news from Shu true? Brother Lin Mo, he..."
Sun Mian frowned, scratched his head, and said, "About Shu? What happened? Is there any news? Father doesn't know."
"You don't know??" Sun Ruoxi looked incredulous. "Father, how could you not know?"
Sun Mian, with an innocent expression, spread his hands and said, "I stopped caring about these things a long time ago. Now I'm just an old man, spending my days raising flowers and admiring fish. I don't worry about these things at all."
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