Chapter 931: Chapter 740: Feigning Weakness Before Father!
A certain Southern Emperor was spinning around in circles on a hot pan, and surrounding her, Flower Peacock Yue Xilou, with his colorful robes, was looking increasingly invigorated, while Borjigin Nian was completely watching the show, without a hint of concealment.
"What to do? What to do? Why did dad quietly enter the Capital City?" Gu Changsheng said while spinning in circles, anxiously rubbing her hands.
What’s going on? Sneak into town, but don’t shoot?
But she’d rather be the bird startled by a gunshot!
Her dad is someone with the utmost discipline, and seeing the commotion brewing at the gate, he must know she hasn’t been very quiet these days! What should she do? Would she really be subjected to domestic violence?
Gu Changsheng looked up at the sky, feeling thirty degrees of sorrow. It’s possible, very possible!
Logically, when her dad enters the Capital City, she and Zhou Mu should be going ten miles outside the City Gate to the Ten Miles Long Pavilion to greet him. She already had the preparations for the welcoming ready on her end, but who knew her dad would play a surprise attack on her!
Now it’s great, it really had the effect of an unexpected army! It scared baby Changsheng to death!
"Mommy, Old Handsome Grandpa is here, you better run, or when grandpa catches you, he’ll definitely smack your butt!" Xiao Gu Ze said while biting his finger, looking at his mommy with great sympathy and giving a heartfelt suggestion.
"Pfft!"
"..."
Suddenly, laughter erupted around them.
"Shut up!" Hearing this, Gu Changsheng immediately glared angrily. Whose son is this anyway? She definitely never had a son who would take advantage of his mom in such a manner!
Getting smacked on the butt is...
How can she, the dignified Southern Emperor, get her butt smacked? Her already scarce dignity, if smacked on the butt, truly becomes an embarrassment!
Oh...
What to do?
"Gu Changsheng, I think Xiao Gu Ze has a point. Rather than being smacked on the butt on the street, you might as well avoid it, this is called avoiding the edge!" Borjigin Nian spoke with schadenfreude, watching Gu Changsheng, as if making a serious suggestion.
Gu Changsheng turned, fixing Borjigin Nian with a piercing gaze, speaking with resentment, "If I dare avoid the edge, do you believe my dad would have a tent set up outside my traveling palace gate, blocking the entrance and not coming in?"
Thinking about it, it really is quite possible!
A painful realization, one that makes Gu Changsheng want to die!
If she knew her dad would play this card, she would definitely pretend to be dead in Capital City, never doing anything out of line!
Now it’s happened, caught by her dad!
In both her past and present lives, when she was in school she always had to invite parents, and it was always the old man, never her dad who caught her! This feeling came too suddenly, she was completely unprepared mentally, and never experienced it, hence feeling very anxious at heart!
"Girl, stretching your head or retracting your head is the same blade, you can’t avoid it anyway, so why not swiftly go out, we can think of a way, why not place a cushion on your butt, it won’t hurt when you’re spanked ..." Yue Xilou said with a wicked grin on his demonically beautiful face, very eye-catching.
"Isn’t it embarrassing for you?" Gu Changsheng glared at him with a sharp tone.
This and that, in the end, it’s still domestic violence! Why is her family so fixated on her butt! After all, she is the Southern Emperor! Even if she’s a bit unrestrained, she’s still the Southern Emperor, isn’t she?
"If I’d known today, why did I do it back then..." Hearing Gu Changsheng’s words, Yue Xilou smiled as radiantly as the moonlight after a storm, flicking open the folding fan, swaying to and fro, full of captivating charm.
"You! You! All of you, get out!" Gu Changsheng was truly angry this time.
Who said three humble tailors are better than Zhuge Liang? A con job!
Three humble tailors dragging down Zhuge Liang is the truth, damn it!
Keep spinning circles, oh dear phone, she can imagine how angry her dad must be, hence she doesn’t dare go out to greet him!
But hanging around like this isn’t a solution either!
"Mommy, why don’t you pretend to be sick!" The humble tailor Xiao Gu Ze again bit his finger and suggested.
"Slap."
A little palm unapologetically smacked his little forehead.
Gu Changsheng gritted her teeth, "Are you really my son? Cursing your mom like this?"
The slapped Xiao Gu Ze felt very wronged, his big round eyes full of innocence, spoke in a faltering voice, "But, every time I don’t want to practice martial arts and study, I pretend to be sick, pressing my stomach and wailing, oh it’s so painful, tummy hurts, Peacock, Lion, and Tiger and God-grandpa immediately let me rest..."
The more Xiao Gu Ze spoke, the more he felt it made sense, even seriously nodding.
Upon hearing this, Gu Changsheng’s eyes suddenly sparkled. This trick might work!
Even if her dad was furious, he was still her real dad, right? By pretending to be sick, he would be too worried to stay angry, and wouldn’t cause a scene, right?
As long as she doesn’t get her butt whooped in public, if her dad wants to give her a beating behind closed doors, then so be it. After all, she’s got thick skin and can take it!
This trick will definitely buy her some time for a reprieve!
Gu Changsheng immediately stopped pacing in circles. Under everyone’s puzzled and uncertain gaze, she declared decisively, "Let’s do it this way!"
Decision made, no going back!
"Gu Changsheng..." Borjigin Nian was speechless.
"Girl..." Yue Xilou’s beautiful eyes sparkled, wondering how things could have developed this way?
Pretending to be sick? Only this girl could think of such a sneaky and tasteless trick!
Before they could even blink, still reeling from shock, Gu Changsheng had already called Xiao Cui to fetch the dressing mirror, while she sat in front of it, frantically getting things together.
"Gu Changsheng, are you really going to do this? Uncle Gu would be heartbroken if he found out..." Borjigin Nian spoke awkwardly.
"I just want some time, nothing else matters now." Gu Changsheng continued without pause, using Loh Dai to paint dark circles under her eyes, making herself look authentically sick...
"Girl, exploiting Uncle Gu’s love for you isn’t right, is it?" Yue Xilou’s lips twitched, watching the pale and sickly face of the girl in the dressing mirror, his own beautiful face twitching along with it.
Only Gu Changsheng could pull off something like this. If it were him, he’d rather die than make himself look so ugly!
Hearing this, Gu Changsheng rolled her eyes at him, continuing her busy work. Her dad was still standing at the front gate, who knew if she’d be dawdling too long, would her dad get so angry he’d tear down the gate?
Highly possible!
Because after her careful treatment, her dad was in excellent health, very robust indeed!
With this thought, Gu Changsheng’s hands moved even faster.
Meanwhile, her little son, seeing his mother adopting his suggestion, lifted his little head proudly, looking around at others. Noticing that their Lion Tiger and Aunt Nian were holding him back, he snorted haughtily, "What do you know! This is called feigning weakness to deceive the enemy! Get it?"
"Pop!"
Before the little son’s words were finished, a rouge box knocked him on the head.
"Feigning weakness to deceive the enemy, my foot! That’s your grandpa!" Gu Changsheng continued working, glaring angrily at her unfilial little son.
"Uh... if it’s not feigning weakness, then what is it? This is how mom taught me..." After being hit, the little son rubbed his head, feeling utterly wronged.
He wasn’t wrong; this was how his mom explained strategies to him!
"..." Gu Changsheng, stumped by her precious son’s question, froze for a moment, then sheepishly declared, "Feigning weakness for dad!"
Little son: "..."
His chubby face twitched, showing signs of turning expressionless.
His... his mom tricked him!
Yue Xilou and Borjigin Nian, hearing this, also twitched at the corners of their mouths and eyes, utterly speechless.
Gu Changsheng’s personal maid and the surrounding female officials buried their heads in their chests, refusing to look up, but the tremor of their backs revealed their troubled state.
While Gu Changsheng was frantically getting her sickly beauty look ready, Mr. Ban Shan, informed of the situation, was already striding towards the Heavenly Palace Gate.
At the Heavenly Palace Gate, the Southern Country’s old ministers and countless female officials had already been kowtowing in fear, showing no signs of getting up anytime soon.
The onlookers had also turned into wooden stakes one by one, staring blankly at the increasingly bizarre scene at the Southern Country Heavenly Palace Gate.
"A wise friend travels from afar, and it is proper for an elder brother to greet you humbly. Now it seems rude, please do not take offense!"
Even before reaching the gate, Mr. Ban Shan raised his wide scholar’s sleeves in salute, hurriedly going towards the figure in front of the carriage.
Being a decade older than Gu Taitian, Mr. Ban Shan confidently addressed him as a junior.
Adding that they had long exchanged letters, it didn’t feel distant at the moment.
Gu Taitian, who was staring furiously at the Southern Country’s old ministers kneeling on the ground before him, heaved his chest upon hearing this, looked up toward the Heavenly Palace steps, and saw an elegant old gentleman in a wide-sleeved robe hurriedly coming this way, immediately forgot about the anger, let go of the horse rein, and briskly stepped forward, bowing with respect, "This foolish brother, Taitian, greets Elder Brother Ban Shan. I have long heard that Master Wen’s reputation as the elder of the literary world, known throughout the scholars of the world as Wen Banshan, is deservedly."
"Today, having met you, I am truly impressed. This foolish brother thanks you for your protection and guidance towards Changsheng. Brother, please accept my bow!"
As Gu Taitian spoke, he was about to bow, but Mr. Ban Shan quickly stepped forward and lifted Gu Taitian with both hands, his old face filled with shame, "These words make me ashamed, my dear brother! I have failed your expectations while presiding over your daughter Changsheng’s wedding preparations in the Capital City, not having disciplined her reckless behavior, and made a laughingstock before the world. Utterly ashamed..."
Seeing Mr. Ban Shan’s sincere words and no formalities, Gu Taitian did not insist on bowing, and standing hand in hand as two fathers, he said, "Elder brother, in a family, we don’t speak separately. As I arrived in this Capital City, I heard quite a few rumors, saying that Changsheng, that unfilial daughter of mine..."