Sheng Linyuan naturally refused to obey and was about to resist when he heard the boy whisper a threat in his ear.
"I saw you and Sheng Yu talking secretly this morning. Can you tell me about it?"
Sheng Linyuan was surprised, and after thinking for a moment, replied: "Just like what you and the Empress Dowager said, it must be kept secret for now."
He didn't want to keep it from Jinjin, but now was not the time to tell her.
"It can be kept secret, but there are conditions~" Si Jin said, and then ordered someone to drive the carriage.
After the carriage started moving, he pressed Sheng Linyuan against the edge of the window, reached out and braced his shoulder, and took out the rabbit ears.
"Your Excellency," he smiled, "from Manjianglou to the Duke's Mansion, it's a journey across half the capital. Would you be willing to wear your ear and accompany me on this tour?"
Should the whole capital know that the Duke of Liang is raising a rabbit-like prime minister?
Sheng Linyuan smiled with relief—as expected, Jinjin was a little crazy, she just loved playing with thrills.
"Yes, young master."
But there's no way around it; you have to take care of your own people, of course.
Apart from Jinjin, he has nothing left to cherish in this world.
Sheng Linyuan put on his ears, but Si Jin was no longer in a hurry to go back.
Every now and then, he would buy some snacks on the street and would even ask Sheng Linyuan to stick his head out to get them.
Sheng Linyuan always managed to hide back before being discovered, which was quite reminiscent of a cunning rabbit having three burrows.
Si Jin had been teasing people all the way before finally arriving at the Duke's mansion. As soon as the carriage stopped, someone knocked on it: "Young Master, the Empress Dowager has asked me to bring you something."
He was Zheng Yingqin, the Empress Dowager's personal eunuch.
Just as Si Jin was about to get up and get out of the car, Sheng Linyuan raised his hand and pressed it against the edge of the car window.
His movements were a bit too large, causing the carriage to shake slightly, which made Zheng Yingqin a little puzzled: "Young Master? Are you there?"
"Yes... um..." Si Jin had barely uttered a word when her lips were captured in his.
The car overturned; the rabbit, cornered, bit.
Sheng Linyuan calculated Zheng Yingqin's patience, and just before he was about to lift the carriage curtain, he let go of him, secretly buried his head in his chest, and hid.
Si Jin smiled, turned around, lifted the carriage curtain, and looked at the old eunuch outside: "Eunuch Zheng, what is it?"
"Oh, the Empress Dowager sent this old servant to bring you some snacks. If the young master enjoys them, you can go to the palace to get more from him tomorrow evening."
"Then... thank you very much, Father-in-law." Si Jin said, raising her hand to take the pastry, "accidentally" touching the rabbit's ears.
Zheng Yingqin noticed the twitching of the ear.
But he only caught a glimpse of an ear tip and chuckled, "Young Master, are you raising rabbits?"
"Hmm." Si Jin nodded, playfully hooking her finger around Sheng Linyuan's belt: "He's just not very well-behaved."
"Then this snack must not be given to the rabbit, it's bad for its health."
"Okay." Si Jin replied, put down the snacks, got out of the car to see Zheng Yingqin off, ignoring the rabbit in the car whose breathing was disordered from being teased.
As a result, as soon as he returned to his bedchamber, he was pinned against the door by a certain rabbit: "Rabbits can't eat snacks, rabbits need to eat something else."
Si Jin felt that Xiao A Yuan in this dimension was incredibly fierce.
I hope I can meet a well-behaved one in the next world, preferably someone who's all smiles and no substance, that would be even more interesting.
… …
Meanwhile, at a post station 800 li outside the capital, Sheng Linfeng, the younger brother of Sheng Linyuan and the regent of the Dayong Dynasty, received a letter sent back by Sheng Yu.
He carefully read through the letter, then burned it. His gaze, reflected in the candlelight, revealed neither joy nor anger.
"It seems that my imperial brother really likes him and is truly reluctant to kill him." Sheng Linfeng muttered to himself, then picked up the scroll beside him.
Above them stood the dashing Si Jin, dressed in fine clothes and riding a spirited horse.
"That's true. Such a beautiful and skilled fighter, with some influence in the martial arts world behind her, would be the best tool to unify the world if we got her. Who wouldn't like that?"
As he spoke, he lowered his head and lightly kissed Si Jin's thin lips in the portrait.
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