Chapter 206: He is Shameless!
Zhou Wenzhi froze.
Everyone also looked at him with wide eyes, full of horror.
Even his subordinates looked like they had seen a ghost. Did they accidentally hear something they shouldn’t have?! Is it too late to retreat now?
He quickly recovered his calmness. "Mr. Su, you jest."
[Why is my cheap father at a full power attack right now that he has recovered his memories?] Xiao Qingya pondered, dissolving the slightly tense atmosphere.
Xiao Yuanwei didn’t seem embarrassed or flustered at all when he heard his youngest daughter blatantly exposing his intention.
Meanwhile, Zhou Anran took a while before she recovered, taking a deep breath. Her feelings were rather complicated.
"Father-in-law, I am not joking. Don’t you recognize me?" Xiao Yuanwei said in a familiar tone that his former self at Hejia Village would always use.
He was also smiling widely, radiating a kind aura, causing Zhou Anran to fall into a trance and remembered the old memories.
Xiao Yuanwei secretly glanced at her and their children. It would be a lie to say that he wasn’t anxious, but if he didn’t do that and catch Zhou Wenzhi off guard, he suspected that the entire family would keep treating him as a stranger.
Zhou Wenzhi would have been fooled if Xiao Yuanwei weren’t using his current attire, which instantly pulled him back and reminded him of his son-in-law’s current status.
He cleared his throat and found himself repeating Zhou Anran’s previous words. "Mr. Su, this is not the place to talk about this."
Xiao Yuanwei nodded cooperatively, and he started acting shameless. "This son-in-law will visit your house tomorrow."
Everyone’s mouth twitched, and was quite stunned when they heard such shameless words coming out of his mouth, especially his subordinates.
When did their master gain a wife and so many children? The way he was acting... it also wasn’t in line with his usual stern, unapproachable temperament.
They almost suspected that he had been replaced!
Xiao Yuanwei’s eyes swept over his subordinates and most of them immediately looked away. Fortunately, the installation of the bamboo irrigation was almost finished for today.
"Wife, I will visit you again and the kids tomorrow," he said in the softest voice he could muster, almost causing his subordinates to stumble because they didn’t watch where they were going.
With that, Xiao Yuanwei turned around and went to his carriage.
After delivering such a shocking change of attitude, he knew they would need to get used to it, especially his children who had been stunned speechless.
"Second Brother..." Xiao Yuxi whispered, her eyes wide. "I didn’t hallucinate, did I?"
Xiao Fenghao took a deep breath, his eyes glinted. "We saw the same thing, how can you call it hallucinating?"
They secretly paid attention to their mother and grandfather.
Zhou Wenzhi glanced at his stunned daughter. Xiao Yuanwei’s subordinates were also slowly wrapping up their works for the day and followed their master back.
"Let’s go back," he told them, and everyone nodded.
Only Xiao Qingya was the calmest one, looking like a little adult as Xiao Jingran picked her up and brought her back to their carriages.
[My father can be so shameless. I wasn’t born yet when he was with the family, but... was he always like that around my mother?] She was full of curiosity.
Her elder siblings instantly coughed, because...
Zhou Anran’s face also started to burn. Why did her youngest daughter say such an embarrassing thing about her and Xiao Yuanwei in her mind?
She kept her silence, not daring to turn and look at the expression of her children and father.
They all went through the journey home in an uncomfortable atmosphere. They didn’t consider the carriage a safe place to discuss such a thing, so they refrained themselves.
Upon arriving home, the family immediately gathered.
"Ran’er, how long have you known that Mr. Su is Xiao Wei?" Zhou Wenzhi took a deep breath and asked.
Zhou Anran bit her lip. Her father started with one of the most difficult questions.
"Back in Qingshan county," she finally admitted.
Zhou Wenzhi let out a breath. "The reason you didn’t recognize him right away..."
She let out a sigh. It was better to be frank to her father right now.
Before she could open her mouth, Zhou Shuran suddenly entered the room. Guo Tianliang had called her to go back inside the house, saying her family had an important thing to discuss.
She had heard the bits of their discussion and was stunned. "Mr. Su is my elder sister’s husband?"
Zhou Wenzhi slowly nodded, letting Zhou Shuran digest the surprising information first. After all, most of them already knew this and had already sorted their emotions, but she hadn’t.
Seeing her younger sister staring at her with wide eyes, Zhou Anran bit her lip. "Father, it’s because of his identity. I suppose that before he went missing in our county, he was the son of a noble family in the Capital."
"Besides, there is no point in recognizing him if he doesn’t recognize me," she muttered, her voice unconsciously tinged with a hint of bitterness.
Who wouldn’t feel some grievance when their husband didn’t even recognize them anymore? Even though he didn’t deliberately do it, she would still feel uncomfortable.
She wasn’t the type to cling too much to the past, so she also slowly tried to let go since his identity and condition made it impossible for both of them.
Zhou Wenzhi knew that these noble families in the Capital were even more strict when it came to choosing a wife for their son...
He understood his daughter’s struggle and felt bad for her. Alas, they were just commoners now. Even if they wanted to begin a career in the court, no one in the family was suitable for it.
Xiao Jingran liked medicine so much and Xiao Fenghao wasn’t suited for studying to be an official.
In these noble households, commoners usually could only be concubines...
"Ran’er, do you know what his current identity is?" He asked.
Zhou Anran blurted out, "He is the Emperor."