The mistress who remarried has returned.

She didn't know how to respond to Qin Huai. Back then, she had personally admitted to sleeping with the Crown Prince, and the fact was that she was now a concubine in the Eastern Palace. If she were to deny it now, it would seem coy and make her a laughingstock. She also didn't have the confidence to question him about his reasons for using her to spite Xue Wenying, a former married woman.

Unable to reconcile his words, he simply said, "He has a younger sister, and I have a younger brother, so we don't often have the opportunity to travel alone."

"The year of the Empress Dowager's sixtieth birthday, your brother was ill and couldn't attend, but his sister rode with the Empress." Qin Huai slightly parted his long legs and gently patted his thigh. "Is this so discreet and unwilling to reveal details of your time alone together because you're afraid I'll change my mind and refuse to treat him?"

Su Yunxi's heart skipped a beat. She had thought that he had been extremely annoyed with her for the past four years and had ignored her. How could he be so clear about such small details? Now she was in his hands and at his mercy. She had not expected that he would do this to her. Did he have the thought of killing her to have a drink when he saw the Crown Prince draping a robe over her or when she got into the Crown Prince's carriage?

She glanced at his legs and understood that he wanted her to sit on them. He had never been interested in her body and would not have done this unless it was to humiliate her.

The fact that the General Protector of the Nation personally went down to humiliate her shows how much she had angered him.

She didn't sit down right away.

Although she had never experienced sexual intercourse, she had a vague idea of ​​what could happen between men and women. At this moment, it wasn't that she regretted selling herself for medicine, but rather that she was worried about her mother and brothers. Besides, Xue Wenying had probably sat on his legs quite a few times.

As they were about to pass the Su residence, she hurriedly said, "My clothes are dirty. Sitting on your lap next to you has made you look disheveled too. Since we still have some time, could you put me down at the Su residence? I'll go home and change into some clean clothes before coming back..."

Qin Huai leaned lazily against the car body, his hands already in her grasp, it was only a matter of time before he made things difficult for her. He merely glanced at the cloak he was wearing on her, said nothing, and instructed Liu Shun: "Liu Shun, stop briefly at the entrance of Su Mansion Alley."

Liu Shun stopped the carriage.

Su Yunxi got off the carriage and strolled towards the Su residence.

Liu Shun clicked his tongue and said to General Qin, "Sir, she might be up to some trick. She looks harmless, but she's actually cunning and malicious. She just went back to the manor wearing your cloak. Her father is no good either."

Qin Huai said casually, "Oh, I didn't notice she put on my cloak. Why didn't you remind me sooner?"

Liu Shun was left speechless by the question.

Qin Huai added, "This was your oversight."

Liu Shun turned around and looked at the general.

Su Yunxi arrived at the gate of the Su residence and saw Lord Su ordering people to bring the carriage into the residence.

Lord Su spent the last half month in eastern Henan assisting the Ministry of Revenue with its affairs, and brought back a large truckload of local specialties from eastern Henan.

Su Yunxi approached Lord Su, bowed to him, and said softly, "Father."

Due to her circumstances, Su Yunxi learned to call that scumbag father.

Upon hearing Su Yunxi's voice, Su's father immediately frowned. Without turning his head, he directly retorted, "Going to the Eastern Palace again? You're always colluding with traitors who murdered the emperor. Aren't you afraid the Emperor will twist your father's head off?"

Su Yunxi's expression was extremely indifferent. She would not feel the slightest sadness if the Emperor twisted off her father's head. If that were the case, the Emperor would be punishing evil and eliminating wickedness.

She reached into the car to touch the local specialties, and found a solid bag of Henan jujubes. "My father brought so many local specialties home."

Su's father raised his hand and slapped Su Yunxi's hand away in disgust, saying impatiently, "What's the rush? Gui Rong will arrange the assignments. Look at you, so unsophisticated. Haven't you ever eaten dates before?"

Wang Guirong was her father's new wife, whom he had divorced many years ago.

Su Yunxi's hand was slapped so hard by her father that she hissed and pulled her hand back. She looked at her hand, then at the big bag of dates, and then at her handsome father, who was only in his early forties and in the prime of his life.

Su Yunxi finally lowered her hand, realizing that there were no jujubes for her.

When Su's father heard his daughter's cry of pain, he turned around to look at Su Yunxi, ignoring her many wounds and assuming that she had just made a fool of herself and upset Gui Rong, so she deserved to be beaten.

"Spare the rod and spoil the child." Xixi was like a wild horse, so Guirong had every right to discipline her.

Even her own father thought she was being unreasonable, showing no respect whatsoever to Gui Rong! Gui Rong was clearly a very sensible person.

But then he noticed that his daughter was wearing a man's cloak, which looked quite valuable. The Eastern Palace had been ransacked by the court, leaving not a single piece of fine cloth behind.

Whose clothes are these? The fabric is just as good as the Emperor's dragon robe.

Su Yunxi noticed her father's gaze, looked down, and realized that she had rushed off the carriage in such a hurry that she had come wearing Qin Huai's cloak. She suddenly understood that Qin Huai had looked at her cloak before she got off the carriage.

Su Yunxi pulled her cloak collar down and glanced at Qin Huai's carriage at the alley entrance. Qin Huai was bound to be suspicious. He had always assumed that she had been by his side for ulterior motives all those years.

Su Yunxi paced back and forth beside her father, neither speaking nor leaving.

Su's father gave Su Yunxi a disdainful look. Every time she came to ask for money, she was this persistent and shameless. She never said a kind word, and she was stubborn as a mule. No matter how many times he beat her, she wouldn't learn anything. If she didn't want money, she wouldn't come looking for her father!

She wants money but doesn't even know to kowtow and say nice things to her biological father. Without him, would she have the life to enjoy endless riches and honors with him? Could she have changed her birth to become a daughter of an official?

Indeed, what good son could a weaver possibly have? It's as if he owes her money. From the very beginning, he was the one being married off.

But since his daughter's cloak was too conspicuous, Su's father looked towards the far end of the alley and saw a large carriage parked there. Such a carriage was too expensive for ordinary people to afford, and even officials could not afford it.

Su's father stared at the cloak on Su Yunxi's body, pondered for a long time, and then said thoughtfully, "Go home first."

Su Yunxi returned to the Su residence as instructed. Upon arriving home, she planned to change her clothes first. She encountered her mother drinking cold water in the backyard to stave off hunger. She guessed that the wild vegetable buns that her mother had divided in half that morning had been given to her younger brother, meaning that her mother hadn't eaten anything since morning.

Her mother didn't notice she had returned, and was gulping down plain water in the dead of winter.

After finishing her cold water, Su's mother saw her daughter return. She glanced at the water glass, looking rather reserved, and put it down. Noticing her daughter's serious expression as she looked at her, she quickly said, "Mother just finished washing clothes and is a little thirsty, Xixi."

Su Yunxi's eyes were sore and sore, but she didn't expose her mother's decency. Even though she knew that her mother was just drinking cold water to fill her stomach, she didn't point it out.