Starting with a cub, the superpower boss becomes the richest man by lying flat

Chapter 97 You can’t wake up someone who is pretending to be asleep

After returning to the new house, Lin Xin put Lin Nan down and asked him to go play with Cui Shi and Meng Yichen, while she went into the kitchen and promised to make a good meal to satisfy everyone's cravings.

Mo Ziyuan followed him in calmly. Seeing Lin Xin pondering over the dishes in the kitchen, he walked over and whispered, "Let me help you. What do you need?"

Lin Xin tilted her head to look over. "Nothing I need help with. I can handle it on my own."

Mo Ziyuan walked over unwillingly, picked up the vegetable basket, and said, "How about I help you wash the vegetables?"

Seeing his resolute attitude, Lin Xin nodded indifferently, "That's fine! You're all carnivores, and I don't really like vegetables, so I don't need to wash too much."

"Okay!" Mo Ziyuan responded, and happily brought in a large basin of water and started washing the vegetables. He actually washed them quite well.

After watching him for a while to make sure he wouldn't make the mistake of throwing away the edible parts and leaving the inedible ones, Lin Xin ignored him and started chopping ribs and cutting meat.

Mo Ziyuan was very obedient. When Lin Xin told him not to wash too many vegetables, he only washed one or two and put them in a basin to drain the water. Then he took the knife from her hand and started chopping the meat.

"Lin Xin, what are your plans for the future? Have you ever thought about leaving the village and going out to see the world?" After completing the preparations, it was still early to start cooking, so the two sat in the kitchen and started chatting casually.

"In the future?" Lin Xin tucked her fallen hair behind her ear, thought for a moment, and said, "I definitely have to go out. Nan Nan will take the imperial examination, and we're the only two left in my family, siblings, to rely on each other. We definitely won't be separated."

"You won't separate? Lin Xin, you'll eventually get married, and Nan Nan will too."

"That's not a conflict! We can just buy two houses next to each other! But I don't plan to get married. I'll be so free by myself, with no one to say anything or to bother me. If I get married, I'll have to serve the man's family. I'm afraid I won't be able to control myself and do something." Lin Xin said as she twisted a straw stick between her fingers.

"Not getting married?" Mo Ziyuan felt a few black lines cross his head. "How can I not get married? A woman needs a husband to support her for the rest of her life! Otherwise, what will happen to you when you get old? To put it bluntly, when you die, there won't even be anyone to mourn you. You'll just be a lonely ghost."

"Puchi," Lin Xin laughed at his serious expression. Recalling a joke circulating online before the apocalypse, she cleared her throat and said, "It's just that no one's burning paper for me! Worse still, I can start burning it myself now and save it for when I die. If that doesn't work out, my parents are in the afterlife, so I can just borrow some from them when the time comes!"

"You..." Mo Ziyuan had never heard such an argument before, and was speechless for a moment.

"But won't you feel lonely when you're alone?" he said after thinking for a while.

"No! Look," she said, counting on her fingers, "Nannan will definitely become an official in the future. Then he will be rich, and he will definitely give me money to spend! I can use the money to hire people to entertain me! If I want to listen to opera, I can listen to opera. If I want to watch dancing, I can watch dancing. If I want to listen to storytelling, I can listen to storytelling. They have to perform well for me after taking my money. It's better than the intrigues of a whole family!"

Mo Ziyuan had never felt so at a loss for words before. He even felt that if he continued beating around the bush like this, he might suffocate to death before Lin Xin knew his feelings.

"Lin Xin, I'm serious. I like you and want to become a family with you, the kind where we can take care of each other and support each other." Mo Ziyuan looked at her seriously and said.

Lin Xin sighed inwardly. She had been rambling for a long time, but he finally said it out loud.

In fact, she was attracted by his looks and had a good impression of him as a person, but when she thought of his family background, she immediately gave up. Dingguo Mansion! She didn't want to live in a deep courtyard for the rest of her life, having to prepare a draft in her stomach before saying anything, and kneeling and bowing from time to time. She couldn't do that!
"If you're truly just a hunter, then I'd really consider it," Lin Xin said after carefully considering her words. "You have me in your heart, right? You just don't like my family background, so that's why you say that, right?" Mo Ziyuan was depressed for a moment, but then quickly became excited again, looking at her with bright eyes. "What if I could give up my family background? Would you be willing?"

This time, it was Lin Xin who was surprised. She stared at him with wide eyes, "Are you crazy? Can you just give up your family background?"

"Believe me, give me some time, and I will definitely show you my innocent self." Mo Ziyuan couldn't help but raise his voice.

"Wait a minute, what do you mean by innocent? Is this what we are talking about?" Lin Xin held her forehead with her hand.

"Yes, it's my fault. I didn't express myself clearly." Mo Ziyuan scratched his head, and rarely showed an expression that was very inconsistent with his usual behavior.

"Let me say it again. You probably don't know much about my family. Although I am the current prince of Duke Dingguo, my father doesn't like me. It's just that my position as prince was decided by His Majesty, and he can't change it. Otherwise, he would have replaced the prince with his beloved youngest son long ago." Mo Ziyuan didn't think that this was exposing his family's dirty laundry at all. Instead, he felt a little happy.

"The current wife of Duke Dingguo is not my mother. My mother passed away when I was ten years old. Before she died, she begged my grandfather for mercy. My grandfather went to the palace and begged His Majesty, and that's how I became the Crown Prince."

"Huh?" Lin Xin was a little stunned. What was this? A novel reflected in reality?
"So you don't have a good relationship with your father?"

"How could it possibly be good? The Dingguo Mansion was founded on martial arts, and our ancestors once fought for the throne under Emperor Taizu. But the descendants of the Mohist family couldn't bear the hardship of practicing martial arts, and no one like our ancestors ever emerged again. The Mohist family gradually declined. They themselves didn't want to practice martial arts, and when I did, they felt I was stealing their limelight. In short, they just don't like me."

"Ah? Why? Is that your biological father?" Lin Xin blurted out, only to realize belatedly that her words were unkind to Mo Ziyuan's mother. She quickly apologized, "I'm sorry!"

Mo Ziyuan waved his hand. "When I was born, a wandering monk read my fortune and said that I was the reincarnation of the auxiliary star of Ziwei Star, and that those who assist others will surely ascend to the highest position."

"Then your father should immediately worship you. With this sentence, you will definitely be able to succeed the dragon!"

"That's just nonsense, but my father was very unhappy at the time. He even said I was a bad omen and would bring disaster to the family. He wanted to strangle me to death, but my mother stopped him. She asked to go to the family temple so that I could survive."

"Is there another woman around your father?" Lin Xin thought of the plots in the novels she had read. She always felt that the appearance of that monk was too coincidental, and it was very similar to the plots in some novels.

"Yes! She is the current Lady of the Duke of Dingguo. Because concubines cannot be promoted to the position of the Duke's wife, my father went to great lengths to ensure that she could take the position. He raised her as a concubine for ten years until my mother passed away. He then brought her back to the palace and made her the Lady of the Duke."

"Could it be that this lady has sent this monk?"

After hearing this, Mo Ziyuan had a strange look on his face, as if he wanted to laugh but couldn't. Lin Xin felt quite uncomfortable seeing this.

"Look, just by listening to me, you can guess that the man was sent by her, but even when the evidence was placed in front of my father, he refused to believe it! Isn't that ridiculous?"

"Alas!" Lin Xin hadn't expected Mo Ziyuan to have experienced such a thing. She sighed and consoled him, "Don't take it too seriously. You have to know that you can't wake someone who's pretending to be asleep."

(End of this chapter)