Mo Qiang felt a shiver climb up her spine. She turned and looked behind her but found no one staring at her, as Fu Shi was no longer looking in her direction.
"Weird," Mo Qiang muttered as she turned to look away.
"Qi Qi!" Wen Gui walked over to where his daughter was standing and took her hand in his. "Are you feeling alright? Do you want to rest? If it's too much, then you don't have to continue staying here."
Mo Qiang shook her head. "I am fine, Daddy," she told Wen Gui with a smile. "I am not feeling any kind of discomfort; looks like my body is more robust than I thought it was?"
She paused before adding, "Or maybe I ended up getting stronger with all the dangerous risks I have taken? Haha." Indeed, she was doing fine. Xiao Jiao had done everything that she could to ensure Mo Qiang's complete recovery. So how could she not be fine? Not only was Mo Qiang perfectly healed, she felt strong as if she could actually lift an elephant if she wanted.
"You still know how to laugh!" Wen Gui rolled his eyes as he raised his hand and smacked Mo Qiang lightly on her arm. "You really know how to make this old daddy of yours worry about you. Am I at that age where I should be worrying about you?"
Though Wen Gui pretended to be angry, he was more worried and concerned, but he knew that even if he wanted to take Mo Qiang away from this banquet, he couldn't. After all, this banquet was arranged by the Empress and his daughter was the special guest of this banquet. So if Wen Gui were to take Mo Qiang away, it would naturally bring a lot of complaints from others but of course if his daughter wanted to leave, then he wouldn't have cared about the opinion of others.
Mo Qiang simply chuckled and didn't say anything. She turned around and was about to speak to her husbands when one of the ministers came swaggering with a wine glass in her hands and looked at Mo Qiang with a soft and flattering smile.
"Miss Mo, this new wine that you have brewed is really good," said the woman in an oily voice. "I really cannot help but have a few glasses every day. I can't tell you how it irks my husband." freewёbnoνel.com
"I know, right," another minister chortled as she found her way past the crowd and came to a stop in front of Mo Qiang and said to her with a sigh, "These days I get drunk and don't wake up on time; my husbands are getting annoyed with me; they always—"
Mo Qiang tuned out the nonsense these women were saying to her; she laughed when they laughed and frowned when they did. She had no desire to get involved with the officials of the court but Mo Qiang knew that even if she was valued by the empress, she couldn't run amok.
When Yin Fu and the rest saw that Mo Qiang was occupied by the ministers, they sighed in regret. If they knew that such a thing would happen, they would have definitely dragged Mo Qiang away.
Now that their wife was captured by these sly ministers, there was no way they could rescue her.
Shao Hui pouted as he looked at the crowd of ministers nearly swallowing his wife. He turned to look at Yin Fu and Xie Jie before saying, "Are we going to let them do whatever they want now?"
"Or else?" Xie Jie glanced at the mer before stating in a quiet voice, "You are forgetting that these are the officials of the court. Even if you do not respect them, you need to show them adequate respect."
This was the harsh truth.
These women and men might not be worthy of respect but who asked them to be the ministers in the court? They had no choice but to respect them!
"Let's go; we will pick up a few things from the snacks table," said Yin Fu as he moved to the long table that was set with platters of fruit and a few dishes that were prepared by Ling Chu.
Xie Jie and Shao Hui also walked past the crowd with Yin Fu in their disguises.
The three mers came to a stop and Yin Fu picked up a few pieces of rambutan from the tray and served it to Xie Jie and Shao Hui.
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