"Heh, my father is good at everything, except he's afraid of little bugs."
Jiang Shuyue: [You'd never guess. A tough man with a timid streak.]
Huahua: [The world is so vast, nothing is too strange to exist! Anyway, Liu Shi and his concubine are plotting together. No, blackmailing would be more accurate.]
[The concubine was blinded by love when she was young and had an illicit affair. Liu Shi is using that secret to get Yuanyuan brought over. They settled it today, and a matchmaker will come to propose first thing tomorrow morning.]
"Outrageous!"
Thousand-Household Commander Qin slammed the table and sprang up again, startling Jiang Shuyue so badly that the meat on her chopsticks fell to the floor.
Such a big piece of prime braised pork~~!
Jiang Shuyue mourned the braised pork pitifully for one second: [This Thousand-Household Commander jumps at every little thing. He could put on an entire play all by himself. I have to hand it to him!]
Thousand-Household Commander Qin flushed and sat back down with his head drooping.
He was anxious about Yuanyuan, but he also wanted to hear more.
For instance, how the baby had been switched with Yuanyuan.
When the two children were born, he had stood guard right outside the door.
He had personally watched the Midwife carry out the stillborn baby. How could that have been faked?
Huahua: [The concubine was the one whose baby was stillborn. When she went to deliver money to Liu Shi, she ran into her old lover, and they both drank too much. Who would have thought drinking would cause trouble when she was already over eight months pregnant? She gave birth right there in Liu Shi's room, and the baby stopped breathing within a quarter of an hour.]
*[Then the three of them put