flstandardbreds Chapter 165 The Kong Family Father and Daughter Who Have a Fate with Bai Mengran
Chapter 165 The Kong Family Father and Daughter Who Have a Fate with Bai Mengran
It is said that Kong Nishang went home early yesterday afternoon to write her essay, because her father said he would check her studies from the past few days after returning home...
When Magistrate Kong returned to his residence in the evening, he kept his word and took away the article that Kong Nishang had painstakingly written all afternoon. He then went to the study and began to read it carefully with his eyes half-closed.
As he looked around, he gradually realized that something seemed amiss...
Why is there a faint aroma of roasted meat wafting into his nose from this paper? It keeps interrupting his thoughts...
I must say, this smells rather tempting?
Magistrate Kong sniffed, getting more and more excited as he smelled the paper. He pressed his face closer and closer to the paper, wishing he could bite into it like a piece of roasted meat and taste it.
He simply couldn't bear to read his daughter's halting writing anymore; his eyes, nose, and mouth were completely captivated by the aroma of roasted meat.
No, he had to find out where this smell was coming from today. He wondered if his daughter, who usually loved to eat this, was secretly eating it all by herself again.
He hurriedly reached his daughter's room, then slowed down and stopped.
Just as I was about to knock on the door, I heard a "click" and a "hiss" sound from inside...
Hearing this, Magistrate Kong, who was standing outside the door, suddenly felt a bit hungry for some reason.
He swallowed hard, knocked gently on the door a few times, and heard rustling sounds inside, rising and falling back down. He guessed that his daughter had hidden some delicious food...
When Kong Nishang finally opened the door, a familiar aroma of meat wafted into Magistrate Kong's nose from inside the house.
"Ahem, Yiyi, your father noticed that your writing has improved today, so I wanted to ask you how you suddenly had a breakthrough?"
Kong Nishang was just eating a huge bag of cumin-roasted meat flavored potato chips in her bedroom when she casually opened a bottle of melon soda, ready to drink it. She was feeling rather down...
She was startled by her father's knocking on the door and quickly stuffed all the food under the bed.
Hearing that her father had come to ask her how she wrote the article, Kong Nishang couldn't help but mutter to herself.
How did you write it? You barely managed to squeeze out a line of characters while holding a cumin-flavored roasted meat potato chip in your left hand and a calligraphy brush in your right.
As for how she came up with this article, it's all thanks to potato chips that she was able to keep herself going and that inspired her to write it!
But she couldn't let her father know, so she gave Kong Wenfeng a slightly guilty smile and said, "Father, I've been going out more often with your permission lately, so naturally I've had more inspiration!"
"Really?" Magistrate Kong clearly didn't believe it. "Then where have you been these past few days?"
"Well...where else can we go? We can only browse around the food streets and jewelry shops, that's about it..."
Kong Nishang decided to keep the fact that she had been to a nice place from her father these past few days a secret.
Firstly, she felt guilty for secretly taking her father's jade pendant; secondly, she was afraid that if her father found out about such a wonderful place, he would think she was not interested in studying and forbid her from going out.
After considering it over, she realized that telling her father the truth would be more disadvantageous to her, so she decided to keep her mouth shut and not make a sound!
Seeing that he couldn't get any information out of him, Magistrate Kong changed the subject, "Recently, within Father's jurisdiction, I heard that a new place called Fairyland has opened. Have you heard of it?"
Upon hearing this, Kong Nishang was instantly startled. Could it be that her father still knew where she had gone to play? Was he lying to her or hinting at something?
She stole a few glances at her father, but he didn't seem like it, so she figured her mother probably wouldn't betray her.
She simply denied it, saying, "My daughter has no way of asking around and has never heard of it..."
Magistrate Kong was just learning and applying what he had learned, and when he heard that his daughter was even behind in the news this time, he immediately felt that he had regained some face.
He then recounted to his daughter the unique features of the "fairyland" that he had just heard from the yamen runner that day.
Finally, he couldn't resist a boast, "Haha, it's all thanks to your father being the county magistrate that you young people in town know where things are popular, right?"
Since Kong Nishang was already pretending not to know, she had no choice but to cooperate with her father and act it out the whole time.
She gave a perfunctory reply, "As expected of my father, as the magistrate of a county, he is always mindful of the people's conditions."
Then, when her father mentioned the newly released bracelet from [Fairyland], Kong Nishang was so shocked that she quickly hid her hands behind her back.
How did her dad know everything? That's terrifying...
After finally managing to get her father away, Kong Nishang breathed a sigh of relief, then raised her wrist to look at the bracelet that Sister Bai had given her.
Hmm, she needs to go to Wonderland again early tomorrow to activate the bracelet...
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Bai Mengran sat with Kong Nishang on the second floor of the restaurant for a while. Seeing that Kong Nishang was enjoying her meal, she got up and said goodbye to her for the time being.
As Bai Mengran walked downstairs, she unexpectedly encountered Magistrate Kong and Assistant Magistrate Shen together in the [Fairyland]...
Wow, she really has a special connection with this father and daughter!
However, Bai Mengran seemed to have heard from Yi Yi that she had sneaked away without her father's knowledge, so she wondered if she should go and send her a message.
Just then, the two men walked towards her. County Magistrate Shen recognized Bai Mengran as the owner of [Fairyland], so he led County Magistrate Kong over.
"Hello, Miss Bai, it's great to see you here."
This is Magistrate Kong of Yongle County. Magistrate Kong, and this young lady in white is the owner of this "Fairyland."
"I have long admired Lord Kong's great reputation. It is truly an honor to have both of you grace our humble abode with your presence today."
After speaking, Bai Mengran respectfully bowed to Magistrate Kong and Assistant Magistrate Shen.
"Miss Bai, you're too kind. If you have some free time today, I hope you could introduce me to someone?" Kong Wenfeng said with a kind smile.
Kong Wenfeng looked at the once-popular owner of "Fairyland" and was surprised to find that she was so young, about the same age as his youngest daughter.
For a moment, a pang of sadness welled up in his heart.
Thinking about how he had to force his own daughter to study, and wondering when she would ever amount to anything, he couldn't help but lament how different the two women were...
However, upon thinking that Kong Nishang was still diligently studying in the study when he left, he felt quite gratified. Although his daughter was a little slow-witted, she was at least conscientious and well-behaved.
At this moment, Bai Mengran was only thinking about how to inform Yiyi as soon as possible, so she pretended that she had never heard of Magistrate Kong and said that she would send her employees over to explain and asked them to wait a moment.
She called the system to call Xiao Yi over, and Xiao Yi arrived from outside the door in less than a minute after the system message was sent.
"My lords, this young man is our chief manager here, and he knows everything about the shop."
Please have her accompany you on the tour and arrange your meals. If you have any questions or needs, please feel free to ask her.
Bai Mengran cleverly handed over the important task of receiving guests to the professional Xiao Yi, then politely took her leave.
However, at that moment, Magistrate Shen suddenly asked Xiao Yi about the newly opened restaurant.
It turned out that on their way in, the two of them had heard the locals praising the dumplings and wontons there as incredibly delicious. Since they were both hungry, they decided to give them a try.
Upon hearing this, Bai Mengran immediately felt a sense of foreboding. Kong Nishang was still eating dumplings and wontons at that restaurant...