Bibi Dong looked at him. "Teacher... where have you been?"
Qian Xunji was stunned for a moment, then raised the thing in his hand. "I went to do some business Research Institute. By the way... I bought you some food."
"Look, you liked eating candied haws a lot last time."
"The grilled chicken legs here are also delicious."
Bibi Dong looked at him and suddenly felt his nose was sore and his heart became even more angry.
It's Research Institute again.
He is still lying to me.
"Oh, thank you teacher, but... I'm not hungry, you can eat by yourself."
After saying that, she turned around and left.
Qian Xunji was completely confused.
He stood there and watched her leaving, then looked down at the carefully selected food in his hand, confused.
He looked at the guard next to him. "What's wrong with her?"
The two guards shook their heads quickly. "I don't know."
Qian Xunji frowned and quickly chased after him without any time to think.
"Dong'er!"
He caught up with her in the corridor, reached out and held her wrist, "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Bibi Dong stopped but did not look back.
"Teacher... where did you go today?"
"I said, go to Research Institute..."
"But Bishop Salas said you have never been there at all!"
Bibi Dong turned around suddenly, her eyes already filled with tears, but she stubbornly refused to let them fall.
"I went to the western suburbs to ask in the afternoon. He said that you have never been to Research Institute from this morning to now."
Qian Xunji was stunned.
He opened his mouth to explain, but he swallowed the words again.
He couldn't say, "I went to plant tulips and wanted to give you a surprise, so I kept it secret from you," right?
Then the surprise is gone?
This moment of silence, in Bibi Dong's eyes, became the default.
She looked at Qian Xunji who was hesitant to speak, and her heart sank a little bit.
He didn't even want to explain.
So... you're really lying to me.
The tears finally couldn't be controlled and fell down.
She shook off Qian Xunji's hand, and her voice became colder. "It's my disciple's fault. I shouldn't be interfering with the teacher's whereabouts."
After saying that, she stopped looking at him, turned around and left quickly.
This time he really ran away and disappeared around the corner of the corridor.
Qian Xunji stood there, still holding the food in his hands.
He sighed, put his things on the stone bench by the corridor, and looked in the direction Bibi Dong left.
You have to find a way to explain it.
But this surprise... can it still be considered a surprise?
[System warning: "Bibi Dong" has been detected to have severe mood swings, and its favorability is reduced by 5%. Current favorability: 70%.]
"Hey, it seems...Dong'er is really angry."
He whispered to himself, raising his hand to rub the center of his brow.
Suddenly, the shadow of another person appeared in my mind.
That guy who always likes to raise his orchid fingers and talk like a girl.
"Yue Guan... this guy."
Qian Xunji turned around and walked towards the Pope Palace.
Pope Palace was brightly lit, and Qian Xunji sat down on the main seat for less than half a cup of tea when elder Qian Jun came in with Yue Guan.
"See His Holiness the Pope..." Yue Guan saluted.
"Well, get up."
"I wonder what the important matter is for calling my subordinates here late at night?"
Qian Xunji looked at him and asked, "Yue Guan, Research Institute's project, are you responsible for it?"
Yue Guan's heart skipped a beat and nodded, "Yes, yes."
"Then why today - Bishop Salas is supervising the work at the construction site, but you... are not here?"
Yue Guan began to sweat on his forehead. "Hui, Hui Mian, my subordinate... has been at the construction site today."
"In the morning I was checking the building materials list, in the afternoon I was supervising the excavation of the foundation, and in the evening I had a progress meeting with the foremen."
"Really?"
"Then why when Saintess went to Research Institute, he only saw Salas but not you?"
"Sheng, Saintess is gone?"
"She, when did she go?!"
"I don't know." Qian Xunji said lightly, "Besides, Salas told her that I have never been to Research Institute from this morning until now."
These words were like a basin of ice water poured over Yue Guan.
His legs softened and he knelt down with a thump, his face as white as paper.
It's over.
It's all over.
Two days ago, Qian Xunji specially told him in private: If Saintess comes to Research Institute to find her, tell her that he is busy with important matters there, and advise her to go back first on the grounds that "the construction site is very dusty and the environment is noisy".
The purpose is to hide it from her for a few days, wait for Tulip Flower Field to take shape, and then surprise her.
At that time, Yue Guan patted her chest and promised, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, I will take care of this little thing. If Saintess comes, I promise to coax her to go back happily!"
But today...
"Mian, Mianxia..."
"Today afternoon... the Huyan Zhen sect leader of the Elephant Armor Sect suddenly came to visit. He said he wanted to see how the Research Institute was built, and he also wanted help from the sect."
"My subordinates were thinking... I am the master of Lower Four Sects after all, so I shouldn't be neglectful, so I went to receive him."
"At that time, my subordinates felt that... it could not be such a coincidence that we would just receive you for a while. Saintess just came to Research Institute at this time."
"So... let Salas watch the construction site first..."
Qian Xunji said nothing, just looked at him.
Yue Guan Cold sweat soaked the clothes on his back. "Later, Huyan Zhen master did not stay long, drank a cup of tea and left."
"But this subordinate... I really didn't know that Saintess had been here, let alone that she had returned to the palace... I thought she was still at Anping Village."
"Your Majesty... Subordinate, I really didn't mean it... you can punish me."