Yan Qi smiled: "Are you testing me?"
Xia Dongcao blinked: "It's just a casual question. Sir, I don't know the specific reason. It's in vain for me to ask."
Yan Qi smiled: "No, you are not asking in vain, you are asking the right person."
"ah?"
Xia Dongcao's eyes widened: "Do you know why my father put me in confinement?"
"Know!"
"Sir, please speak."
Yan Qi's eyes were solemn: "Your father suspected that someone was deliberately targeting you and was afraid that you would be in danger, so he didn't let you go out. It was a solitary confinement in name, but in fact he was protecting you."
Xia Dongcao's chest rose and fell: "Sir, you really know!"
Yan Qi boasted: "I am a man of God. Is there anything in heaven and on earth that I don't know?"
"Tch, sir, you are bragging again!"
"It's a long night, what else can you do if you don't brag?"
Xia Dongcao suddenly flashed her beautiful eyes and stared at Yan Qi: "How did you guess that I was in danger?"
Yan Qi smiled: "As I said, I was blinded."
Xia Dongcao twisted her waist and acted coquettishly for the first time: "Oh, sir, just tell me."
"Oh my God!"
Yan Qi looked Xia Dongcao up and down: "You, a shrewd woman, can actually act like a spoiled brat?"
Xia Dongcao shook her head carelessly: "Being coquettish is the most basic nature of a woman. Who doesn't know how to do this? I can do it naturally."
Yan Qi nodded: "I understand."
Xia Dongcao was impatient: "Sir, just do it and tell me how you guessed it."
Yan Qidao: "Because your family's situation is very special! Xia Ming and Cao Chunqiu are inextricably linked. The reason why they can't get rid of the reputation of being a traitor is because your father is a student of Cao Chunqiu. And It’s normal for you to be implicated.”
"Secondly, talented people or family members who can enter the Royal Academy must have talent and virtue, or have no talent and virtue. In short, the word "virtue" is a must."
"But, suddenly one day, your roommates teamed up for no reason and deliberately targeted you. This is unusual."
"Because according to the normal logic of things, your temperament is not annoying, so it is even more unlikely that you will be targeted by all the girls in the dormitory."
"It's very unusual for you to be targeted for the first time. Your father is well-versed in the world and cautious. He has already smelled something unusual, so he forced you to drop out of school."
"However, although your father is suspicious, he cannot be 100% sure that someone is deliberately targeting you. Later, the Tang family came to plead for mercy, and your father thought twice and decided to let you go to school."
"However, there was another incident of head shaving in the middle of the night, which was extremely unusual."
"Your father made a decisive decision and asked you to drop out of school without further discussion. Because your father is 100% sure that someone is deliberately trying to harm you."
Xia Dongcao's eyes flashed with surprise: "Sir, do you know how my father deduced it?"
Yan Qidao: "I don't know how your father deduced it, but I can deduce it."
"My lord, how do you deduce this?"
"Classmate Xiaocao, if your roommates really want to remove your hair, they won't use scissors. Wouldn't it be better to burn your hair with fire? Why do they have to use scissors? Do you need a group of people to hold it down?”
"The only explanation is that they wanted to kill you, but when you found out, they changed their story and said they would shave your head."
Xia Dongcao stared at Yan Qi without blinking.
Yan Qi waved his hand in front of Xia Dongcao: "Classmate Xiaocao, what's wrong with you?"
"Oh my God!"
After a long time.
Xia Dongcao just breathed a sigh of relief and stared at Yan Qi with a light of incomparable reverence: "How come Sir, your reasoning is so accurate? It is exactly the same as what my father described."
Yan Qi smiled: "This is called heroes seeing the same thing."
Xia Dongcao recalled this incident with infinite melancholy: "Your Excellency's reasoning is very accurate. Later, after my father verified it in many ways, these roommates who intended to commit murder on me were all arranged by Qian Lu. Qian Lu arranged for them to commit murder on me. The purpose of the murder was to torture my father and make him fall into despair."
Yan Qi stared out the window: "It seems there is an ambush in everything. Xiaocao, are you tired?"
"tired!"
Xia Dongcao walked to Yan Qi wearing a tattered quilt and looked at the dim moonlight outside the window: "How can I not feel tired? But my father is even more tired."
"For more than ten years, my father has been walking very hard and cautiously, for fear of taking a wrong step and entering a situation of eternal destruction. But in the end, he still... ugh."
"In the past ten years, he has endured the criticism of the world, the accusations of thousands of people, the pressure of the imperial authority, and the psychological trauma."
"He was so tired that he didn't even dare to commit suicide. Because once he commits suicide, the reputation of being a traitor will be stuck on his head. It will be passed down from generation to generation and will be infamy for thousands of years. From now on, he will never think about taking it off again..."
At this point, Xia Dongcao couldn't say any more.
"Woooooooo..."
Her shoulders trembled and she cried uncontrollably.
This little girl has a fierce temper.
He also cried loudly and grandly.
The sound was as loud as thunder.
"Xiaocao-san."
Yan Qi poked her lower back: "Stop crying. If you cry like a wolf, others will think I did something to you."
"grown ups!"
Xia Dongcao buried her head into Yan Qi's chest.
Yan Qi's body was stiff and he did not dare to move.
Is this chick looking for comfort?
Or what?
Want me to hold her?
Can I hug you or not?
Hesitating.
Xia Dongcao rubbed Yan Qi's chest hard and then pushed Yan Qi away.
Yan Qi lowered his head and looked at his chest.
Depend on!
A large area was wet.
This little girl used my clothes to wipe her tears.
What a loss.
"Well, after crying, I feel much better."
Xia Dongcao's eyes were red, but she smiled again: "Nine times out of ten things will go wrong as you wish. After being sad, you must be strong. Since you are alive, you must live well in the present moment."
Yan Qi smiled: "You are really optimistic."
"You have to be optimistic."
Xia Dongcao shook off his unhappy emotions and stared at Yan Qi with his beautiful eyes: "Sir, you came to me in the middle of the night. What's the matter? You can't just chat with me, right?"
"You are very smart!"
Yan Qi smiled slightly, took out a painting from his sleeve, and unfolded it in front of Xia Dongcao: "Do you know this painting?"
Xia Dongcao looked at this painting and his heart sank. The happy mood just now was suppressed by the heavy reality.
"How could I not know about this painting? Isn't it the famous 'Tao Li silently makes his own mistakes'? Haha, in this life, my father fell into the trap of this painting by Cao Chunqiu."
Yan Qi asked Xia Dongcao: "Did your father see any mystery about this painting?"
Xia Dongcao shook his head: "No."
Yan Qi frowned: "Your father really didn't see it. What's the mystery in this painting?"
Xia Dongcao pursed her red lips: "What other secrets can you have about this painting? If you don't say anything, you will make your own mistakes. Isn't this Cao Chunqiu's way of expressing the teacher-student relationship with my father? What else can there be besides this? explain?"
"You don't understand, you really don't understand."
Yan Qi was a little uninterested: "I thought your father was a student of Cao Chunqiu and could understand the meaning of Cao Chunqiu's painting. He would secretly tell you the meaning. But I never expected that in this world, No one can understand Cao Chunqiu’s paintings.”
Xia Dongcao shook his head, his expression narrowed: "No one in this world understands Cao Chunqiu's paintings? Hehe, sir, what you said is wrong."