The Prime Minister’s Darling-Chapter 1527 - 741 Sly Jiaojiao_2

Gu Jiao leaned against the big tree and sat down, and Xiaojiu walked over and snuggled into her arms.

Mu Qingchen brought the sleeping Little Princess over, paused, and sat down on the other side of Xiaojiu.

He looked at the two of them strangely and said, "You... don’t seem to have seen each other many times, so how come you’re so close?"

At the polo match, Xiaojiu could pretend to be meeting Gu Jiao for the first time, but in these perilous woods, his dependence on Gu Jiao became hard to hide.

Gu Jiao replied impassively, "Maybe because I naturally have an affinity?"

Mu Qingchen: "..."

Mu Qingchen thought about how the Little Princess also took to Gu Jiao as her teacher after just one meeting, and could only attribute it to Gu Jiao indeed having a charm with kids.

Gu Jiao, leaning against the big tree and holding Xiaojiu in her arms, asked, "Are you hungry?"

Xiaojiu hesitated for a moment and nodded honestly, "Hungry."

Gu Jiao asked, "How long have you been hungry?"

Xiaojiu thought about it and said, "One day."

Gu Jiao had never let Xiaojiu go hungry for a meal at home, and neither had Xiao Hen.

Gu Jiao didn’t have any food on her, but there were a few pieces of dextrose in the First Aid Kit.

Gu Jiao opened the little box and handed him a piece.

Xiaojiu didn’t eat it but instead fed it to Gu Jiao’s mouth, "Liulang eat."

"I’m not hungry," Gu Jiao said.

He also said this to Xiaoxue, but he was really hungry, so Jiaojiao must be really hungry too.

Xiaojiu insisted on feeding Gu Jiao first, and after she ate a piece, he then joyfully picked up a piece of candy and put it in his mouth.

Mu Qingchen frowned inexplicably, why didn’t he say that brother Qingchen should also eat?

He didn’t want it, anyway.

There was so little candy, he would only eat one piece; the rest had to be for Jiaojiao.

"Go pick some fruit," Mu Qingchen ordered his guard.

"Yes."

The guard went to pick nearby fruit.

Mu Qingchen said to Gu Jiao with distant tone, "This place is quite hidden, no one should come by for now. Once you regain some strength, we’ll leave here."

Gu Jiao didn’t mind his intentional alienation, "Okay."

Mu Qingchen frowned.

Xiaojiu fluttered his wings and landed on the branch above Gu Jiao’s head.

Mu Qingchen looked up at Xiaojiu, paused, and asked, "Is this eagle... yours?"

Gu Jiao said, "Sort of."

What does ’sort of’ mean?

Never mind, their current relationship made such a question seem redundant.

Mu Qingchen wasn’t surprised that Gu Jiao would come out to look for someone. Gu Jiao was the Little Princess’s teacher, and with the Little Princess missing, it was reasonable for her to contribute.

He just didn’t understand how she came to confront those people?

Mu Qingchen removed the veil from his face and revealed to Gu Jiao the doubts from the bottom of his heart.

Xiaojiu, with candy in his mouth, comfortably nestled in Gu Jiao’s embrace, enjoying the hug and her scent.

He felt incredibly happy at that moment and even started humming a little tune, swinging his little feet.

Gu Jiao looked at him with amusement.

Mu Qingchen thought Gu Jiao hadn’t heard and was about to ask again when Gu Jiao spoke up, "They wanted to take the Little Princess away, and I didn’t want to hand her over."

Mu Qingchen’s eyebrows furrowed, "You—"

Gu Jiao said indifferently, "Yes, I want to take the credit. Who wouldn’t want such a great accomplishment?"

After Mu Qingchen heard this, irritation flared up, "So you really are that kind of person."

A strong whiff of gunpowder filled the air.

Mu Qingchen turned away his gaze in annoyance, not knowing what he was angry about, but feeling as though there was a fire trapped inside him.

"It’s not like that," Xiaojiu lifted his little head from Gu Jiao’s arms and said earnestly, "They are bad people. They all wanted to snatch Xiaoxue, nobody was letting go, and they even caused Xiaoxue to fall. They didn’t care if Xiaoxue was in pain; they just kept grabbing at her."

Mu Qingchen felt a jolt in his chest and turned to Gu Jiao, his mouth opening, "You..."

"Humph," Gu Jiao turned her face away.

Mu Qingchen: "..."

Gu Jiao wasn’t the sort to respond to soft approaches, nor did she care about misunderstandings from others, and never bothered to defend herself.

But Xiaojiu cared.

Jiaojiao was the best Jiaojiao in the world, and he didn’t want anyone to misunderstand her.

Xiaojiu said to Mu Qingchen, "Brother Qingchen, it was them who started it. They wanted to harm Jiaojiao and tried to capture me and Xiaoxue. If they had taken us away, they definitely wouldn’t have given us anything to eat."

Mu Qingchen sincerely came looking for the Little Princess, so he naturally thought others would envision the situation the same as he did.

But Xiaojiu’s description clearly painted a different picture.

The ones truly wanting to take credit weren’t Xiao Liulang, but rather the major families.

Couldn’t this guy just explain things clearly? He preferred being misunderstood rather than saying a few more words? Was he so insignificant in his eyes?