Jiang Yingcheng felt wronged that her cozy father-daughter time caring for her beautiful Imperial Father had been interrupted.
Chi Jingyang felt every bit as wronged.
While the little girl was coaxed into the house to pack her luggage, Chi Jingyang faced Emperor Mingze's death glare and nearly became a grown man in tears!
He fired off words like cannonballs.
"Yes, I know we came back a little too quickly, but can you blame me?!"
"There wasn't a single edible fruit in that forest. You wanted me to take your Little Highness wandering around? Fine, no problem. But this Little Highness of yours!" Chi Jingyang set the little bundle he had cradled the whole way onto the stone table and tugged at his hair twice in despair. "She suddenly squatted behind a tree and dug a couple of times, and a whole heap of fresh fruit appeared in that tiny hole!"
"A whole heap!" He pointed at the bundle. "That hole couldn't even hold that much fruit!"
If he hadn't kept his wits about him and never taken his eyes off the little girl, he wouldn't even have known where the fruit had come from!
Did that make any sense at all?!
Jiang Yanchuan: "..."
Gao Siyuan: "..."
Liaochen: "..."
Jiang Yanchuan calmly changed the subject. "We've imposed on you quite a bit these past few days, but I'm sorry for the trouble, Brother Chi-we'll need you to come with us again."
The man was from Beiming, after all. Unless he kept him close at all times, he had no way of knowing whether Chi Jingyang would reveal his whereabouts.
Chi Jingyang froze. "Where?"
Jiang Yanchuan looked away. "You'll find out later."
Chi Jingyang: "..."
Fine, then.
Around noon, Jiang Yingcheng took her little shovel into the forest again and "dug