A clever young servant brought a tray with tea and fruits. The middle-aged man, known as the “guardian father”, seeing An’er had let go, hurried to comfort him. An’er stared with round eyes, feeling a bit aggrieved – he loved his daddy’s soft smell!
The little fellow was unhappy. Xu Wanzhi glanced at the man speaking softly, suppressing the discomfort rising in her body. An’er kept turning to look at her, his eyes pitiful like a small deer. She couldn’t help but smile slightly, leaning forward past the man, lifting An’er and placing him back on the bed. She pulled up the small blanket, covering him thoroughly, wrapping his neck and shoulders.
Her movements were crisp and clean.
The men, whose hands were frozen mid-air, had never seen such actions and were stunned, turning to look at their master by the bed, each with different thoughts.
Xu Wanzhi at the bedside paid no attention to their thoughts, instead turning to the child wrapped like a dumpling and smiling softly.
“My lord, please have tea,” the tea-serving servant bowed. Xu Wanzhi slightly furrowed her delicate eyebrows, casually taking the tea cup and taking a sip. Seeing they still showed no reaction, she finally impatiently tapped the cup’s rim: “Leave.”
Was this a dismissal? The servants in the room looked up in confusion. Qi’er, who had been standing in the corner since entering, suddenly stepped forward, blocking part of the view, and with a subtle smile interjected: “Brothers, please rest outside. Last time, the young master said he wanted to talk privately with the master, and we shouldn’t hear it.”
She began leading the nearest young servant out, inwardly sighing helplessly, knowing this action would likely earn her many hidden resentments. But she had no choice. The master sitting firmly like a mountain had been behaving unusually recently. For over ten days, he had been unwilling to see anyone except her. Today’s visit to see the young master might be due to parental instinct, but who else could enter his sight?
Though he had never shown anger towards her, the strange and distant feeling emanating from his bones was clear. Young as she was, having been a servant from childhood and learned to read expressions, she understood intuitively.
