King's Regrets
Eps 72's

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Xia Lian An opened the room door while carrying a tray filled with food for her sister. Because since last afternoon Min'er came, he did not want to eat his food even if only one mouthful.

Xia Lian An saw her sister still lying on the bed, she placed the tray filled with food on the table.

"Min'er, brother brought you some food. You have to eat it before it gets cold."

Min'er did not reply, she only saw him from the top of the bed.

Xia Lian An walked up to her younger brother, and sat down beside Min'er's bed.

"Everyone will get what he has done, the laws of the world will never treat us unfairly."

Min'er looked at her brother, she then hugged Xia Lian An abruptly.

"Sister, are you going to leave me alone?" Min'er.

Xia Lian An was stunned by what her sister said, gently Xia Lian An patted Min'er on the back to calm her down.

"I'm your brother, of course I'll never leave you."

"But I'm not...."

"You're my real sister, stop thinking that you're not my sister. I'll always protect you, we'll live together."

Min'er nodded.

Xia Lian An let go of their embrace "Now you have to eat, I don't want my sister to be sick from not wanting to eat. I've already put your rabbit's heart on you."

Min'er nodded, then got off her bed and walked towards the chair and sat there.

"Is all this the brother who cooked it?"

"Of course, you want to make food for you so you can eat full."

"Thank you brother."

Xia Lian An nodded while smiling "Eat."

Min'er nodded, she then started to eat the food that Xia Lian An had brought.

Xia Lian An was happy that Min'er could accept all reality with great heart and strength. Because not everyone can accept his family destroyed like Min'er.

"You have to live well, Min'er."

After a few minutes, Min'er had finished the food that Xia Lian An had brought. Xia Lian An was happy to see Min'er eating all the food she brought.

"Tomorrow to come with my sister." Xia Lian An.

"Where are you going?"

"So I want to fish in the river."

"Me... Fishing?"

Xia Lian An nodded, she knew the real Min'er and Xia Lian An had never fished in the river. So tomorrow he'll take his little brother out fishing for the first time.

"A... Does your sister know how to fish?"

"Of course, I'll teach you later, we'll definitely get a big, big fish."

Min'er saw her brother who was very confident if he could fish, it was because all this time he had never seen his brother fishing.

Seeing Min'er's incredulous gaze on her, Xia Lian An patted Min'er on the shoulder.

"If you don't believe it, then tomorrow you'll have to go with brother. Brother will show you the greatness of brother fishing."

"All right then, brother."

Xia Lian An nodded with certainty while smiling at her sister.

At least by inviting Min'er to go fishing, can be a little comforting from yesterday's events.

"Miss, miss." Xiao Wei's voice rang out, and before long he was already standing in front of Min'er's room door.

"What's wrong, why are you running like that?"

"Miss, someone's looking for you. He said if he wanted to rent your restaurant."

"Hire my restaurant?"

"Truly miss."

Xia Lian An and Min'er stared at each other for a moment, then they walked out of Min'er's room to meet the person told by Xiao Wei.

"sorry. Are you Miss Xia, the owner of the restaurant next to the market?" Asked a man after meeting Xia Lian An and Min'er.

"True sir, I am the owner of that restaurant. My name is Xia Lian An."

"Look lady, my family is surnamed Lu. The only family surnamed Lu in this town.... So Miss Xia, next week I want to have an engagement party with my future wife. Because my future wife's house is under renovation, so we can't have our engagement party at her house. And I came here... Want to rent Miss Xia's restaurant, for my engagement party venue and my future wife's in three days."

Xia Lian An fell silent, she was thinking of agreeing or not with what the man surnamed Lu had said.

"Look, Mr. Lu, I could have rented my restaurant to you one day. But... I want you to also use all the workers and chefs in my restaurant."

"Well Miss Xia, I agree."

"And for the price...."

"I'll give you 50 gold coins to rent your restaurant and all your workers in one day." Master Lu gave one bag of 50 gold coins to Xia Lian An.

Xia Lian An thought that if master Lu was a very good and loyal rich man.50 gold coins just to rent a restaurant and its workers a day, this was too much.

"Master Lu, the price I gave you was 30 gold coins. So you keep 20 gold coins back." Xia Lian An.

"It's okay, miss, just think of it as an expression of my gratitude and my future wife, because Miss Xia is willing to rent out Miss Xia's restaurant to us."

Xia Lian An received the bag containing 50 gold coins from that master Lu.

"All right, Mr. Lu, thank you. I'll tell the chefs to serve the best meal at Mr. Lu's engagement party and Mr. Lu's future wife."

"Thank you Miss Xia."

"And also, congratulations on your engagement and your future wife. May you always be happy forever."

"Thank you for the words and prayers of Miss Xia. Then I say goodbye, Miss Xia."

"Please Mr. Lu."

The man named Mr. Lu left Xia Lian An's house.

"It seems, sister's restaurant will become more famous after master Lu's engagement party later, and many will join in renting sister's restaurant."

"This is a good start, brother is sure we will be able to stand up to the abilities we have."

"Right sister, I really admire the greatness of big brother in this endeavor."

"You should also help brother keep an eye on the new inn."

"Sure sister, I'll always help sister."

"Good then, from now on we will live and work together."

"But... What if the crown prince of the Ming country still wanted to marry big brother, would big brother leave Yu city and live in Ming country?"

"You know why you chose this city as the place you chose to continue living after leaving the palace, rather than the other cities you chose, Min'er?"

Min'er shook her head.

"Because this Yu city is the birthplace of big brother, in this city big brother and mother live first. And in this Yu city as well, brother was born by the birth mother of brother with great difficulty who was helped by the people here. Therefore, big brother wants to settle down and stay in this Yu city. Brother wants to live in this city until brother dies."

"So, is big brother going to reject the crown prince of that Ming country?"

"He is the future emperor of the Ming country, he must stay inside his palace. And it was definitely impossible to stay in Yu city which was still within the territory of this Qin state."

"But... If he wants to live with his brother here, how?"

"You are, don't be original....."

Xia Lian An did not continue her remarks when she saw crown prince Zhang standing in front of the gate of his house that was still open.

All Min'er said was to provoke an answer from Xia Lian An if crown prince Zhang still wanted to marry her. But not yet knowing the reason, Xia Lian An had already seen crown prince Zhang standing there.

"Why did you stop talking Miss Xia? I also want to know your other reasons, other than this Yu city is your homeland."

"Tu... Lord Jiang, since when have you.... Was there?"

"Since Miss Xia said if this Yu city is the city where Miss Xia was born, and I cannot possibly live in a city that is still within the Qin state territory.

Xia Lian An was speechless, crown prince Zhang said almost everything he said to Min'er earlier. So that meant, he had been in front of Xia Lian An's house for quite a while without her knowing.

Xia Lian An could only smile awkwardly at crown prince Zhang. It was because he did not know that crown prince Zhang was already in front of his house when he gave an answer to the question that Min'er asked him.

If he had known from the very beginning that crown prince Zhang was there, he would have preferred not to answer.

Crown Prince Zhang walked up to Xia Lian An, Min'er who saw that slowly walked away leaving her brother with crown prince Zhang.

"Ep.... Mr. Jiang."

"Yes Miss Xia." Said crown prince Zhang as he continued walking towards Xia Lian An.

"I'll make tea for you, please go to the hall, Mr. Jiang." Xia Lian An tried to divert the trial.

Crown Prince Zhang who knew that Xia Lian An had already panicked, and was switching their conversation only smiled and nodded.

"Alright, if that's what Miss Xia wants."

Xia Lian An smiled stiffly at crown prince Zhang before she walked first in front of crown prince Zhang.

Crown Prince Zhang saw Xia Lian An walking faster than usual.

"When she was panicking like that, she looked really adorable."