After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine
Chapter 197

“I didn’t name you. Better stop talking and have something to eat.” His voice actually softened a bit with a sprinkle of coaxing.

This was the first time Huo Yuyan had seen Huo Wujiu acting like this.

Facing a man, he softly spoke and smilingly. He obviously was hooked.

However, a crisp ‘da’ sounded on the opposite side.

Huo Yuyan followed the noise and realized that the seated Jingwang threw his chopsticks onto the plate.

“What is there to eat?” He raised his eyebrows, raised his chin, and looked at the table with dullness and disgust. “What happened to the royal chef today? This squirrel fish is too salty.”

Huo Wujiu hastily raised his hand and summoned several eunuchs.

“Why don’t you go and change the squirrel fish on Jingwang’s table?” His expression cooled down, and his eyebrows all regained their usual sharpness. “Go and ask the imperial chef how he’s doing his job. Better go, cook a new one and send it here this instant.”

The eunuchs nodded repeatedly and swiftly went forward to remove the squirrel fish from Jiang Suizhou’s table.

Huo Yuyan raised an eyebrow.

When Huo Wujiu turned his head, he curled his lips towards Jingwang. Jingwang merely gave him a glance, took his chopsticks and started to eat another dish. The pale eunuch beside him also diligently stepped forward and repeatedly flattered him in an attempt to calm him down. He asked him to try other dishes to see if they were to his liking.

Huo Yuyan restrained his emotions and glanced at Huo Wujiu.

Huo Wujiu, however, smiled at him calmly, and with helplessness painted on his face, he said, “Elder Brother, I’ve made you laugh. He’s really spoiled.”

Huo Yuyan froze and barely forced a smile.

“There’s no harm done,” he said.

In this way, Huo Yuyan justified his suspicions.

Why did Huo Wujiu inexplicably show so much malice towards him? Yet, he was sometimes good and sometimes bad, keep him guessing why. On top of that, why did Huo Wujiu assign Southern Jing’s courtiers to important positions, but left his soldiers behind.

It must be because of this Jingwang.

He did not expect that Huo Wujiu would one day become a hero who became a prisoner of love… not to mention the so-called ‘beauty’ was a man.

Huo Yuyan’s eyes deepened in an instant.

He feigned nonchalance, but was keeping tabs on the interaction between Huo Wujiu and Jingwang the whole time.

This was the Huo Wujiu he had never seen before.

Indulgent, and even a little gentle. He glanced at Jingwang more than once, and his smile oozed with a bit of ambiguity. That Jingwang also feared nothing with somebody at his back. He was picky at the banquet, and spoke with veiled sarcasm to Huo Wujiu. However, Huo Wujiu indulged him. The look in his eyes was that of a bewitched man.

Under such circumstances, everything would be easy to handle or not.

Huo Wujiu’s attitude made Huo Yuyan feel relieved. He not only believed that he did not yet discover a thing about all his doings, but also that he could make proper use of him.

But Jingwang posed a problem.

Huo Wujiu was deeply captivated by him, making him grant all his requests, which was indeed a handle. But whether this handle was his weakness, or a vermin buried in his side, depended on whether Jingwang was a brainless good-for-nothing.

Huo Yuyan fell into contemplation.

The banquet was nearing its end, Jiang Suizhou also showed a hint of drunkenness from his seat on the left. He slouched in his chair, yawned, then raised his hand.

The eunuch beside him hurried forward and held his hand.

“This Prince is tired, so I’m heading back to rest first.” He ordered lazily, “I won’t disturb you two brothers from catching up.”

Huo Yuyan nodded with a light smile and said, “Jingwang’s health is important. Since you’re tired, you can head back first.”

Jiang Suizhou gave him a sweeping glance, and an unfathomable smile seeped out of the corners of his lips. A twinkle sparkled in his eyes as he gave Huo Wujiu a glance.

Huo Wujiu let out a deep laugh and said, “Don’t forget to leave the door open for me when you go back.”

At this time, the banquet hall was a hub hub of voices. His voice wasn’t that loud, and the officials beneath didn’t catch a word of it. However, they audibly fell into Jiang Suizhou and Huo Yuyan’s ears.

Jiang Suizhou answered with a couple of laughter, neither agreeing nor disagreeing. He clasped Meng Qianshan’s hand on his side, turned around and left.

Huo Yuyan watched his back disappear into the back of the hall, then turned his attention back to Huo Wujiu.

“What’s going on between you two?” He frowned, showing some disapproval on his face. He gave off the impression of a good brother worried about his younger brother.

Huo Wujiu put down his wine cup, looked up at him, smiled lightly, and said offhandedly, “Nothing’s going on. It’s just as Imperial Brother saw.”

“Do you really want to keep him by your side?” Huo Yuyan asked with a frown.

Huo Wujiu leaned back on his chair and said with an unrestrained and frank posture, “Elder Brother, don’t look at him as a man. He’s interesting.”

His smile radiated two points of contentment.

Huo Yuyan gritted his teeth, his expression bearing pain and anguish: “But he is clearly…”

“It doesn’t matter what it is. He doesn’t take himself seriously. If not, do you think he would have waited for the state to be destroyed and still stay by my side so willingly? He’s terrified of death and just wants to rely on me for survival, so why don’t I let him have his wish?” Huo Wujiu said carelessly. “Just treat him as a plaything.”

His demeanor indeed looked as if he has a canary by his side to play with and relieve his boredom.

In that moment, Huo Yuyan couldn’t determine if he really meant it.

He thought for a moment and said, “If you want to keep him for fun, it’s inconvenient for me to say anything more. But Wujiu, you are now looking at turning twenty-four. You have long reached the age of forming a family, but it has been delayed only because of the war some years ago. Now that you have me in the court, you don’t have to worry about anything. You still have to decide on a marriage partner and start a family as soon as possible.”

Hearing this, Huo Wujiu was indifferent.