The Prince & The Knight (Eng)

10 : Knight's Dad

Weizhou remained lying on Jingyu's bed, waiting for Jingyu. He started to feel bored and took out one of Jingyu's books. It was a notebook. Weizhou opened it and laughed a little.

"His writing is very bad ...", then suddenly a hand pulled the book.

"Hey!!! Jingyu, how is it...", before Weizhou had time to finish his question, Jingyu had scolded him again.

"GO !!!".

"What? I can't go now! Your father asked me to have dinner here and I agreed".

"I don't care. Just make up a reason and get out now!!!".

"Why? Are you still angry?? Okay, alright, I admit I was wrong. I'm sorry".

Jingyu grabbed Weizhou's hand and forced him out of his room. Weizhou felt a slight pain in his wrist.

"Jingyu!!! Stop it!!", suddenly his father's voice startled Jingyu and Weizhou. Jingyu immediately let go of his grip on Weizhou's hand.

"What happened? Are you going to hurt your friend again?", asked Jingyu's father in a slightly harsh tone.

"Papa... I never... I mean, I didn't mean...", Jingyu walked past his father, but Weizhou caught his hand.

"Uncle, it's not his fault. I know he has dyslexia...."

Jingyu was shocked to hear that as the thought of "how he could possibly know that?!?!" flashed through his mind.

"But I still laughed at his writing. I'm sorry Jingyu, it must have hurt you, I'm so sorry. Uncle, it's getting late. I better go home", Weizhou said goodbye feeling guilty.

"But you haven't had dinner yet," replied Jingyu's father.

"It's okay, I don't want to make Jingyu feel uncomfortable in his own home. So goodbye Uncle and good night Jingyu".

Jingyu felt he was too harsh on Weizhou. Whatever Peng said really poisoned his mind. Weizhou was nothing but really nice to him, regardless of whether Weizhou had bad intentions towards him indeed or not, he was being too harsh to Weizhou right now, and that was something he certainly didn't deserve.

Weizhou turned and walked away. But after walking merely a few steps, Jingyu called out to him.

"Weizhou...wait!! You..you.. I think there will be no problem if you join us for dinner".

"Ah...it's okay, Jingyu. I don't want to make you feel...".

"I'm fine. Stop acting like you don't want it!!!".

"Really???", Weizhou turned around and smiled widely.

Jingyu just nodded and left Weizhou and his father. Weizhou just chuckled.

"Let's go in", Jingyu's father led the way and Weizhou followed him.

The dinner at Jingyu's house surprised Weizhou a little. He was only served a few different kinds of vegetables and something that looked like meat. No appetizers, no desserts.

"Uuhhmmm...Sorry Jingyu. Is this the only menu?" asked Weizhou.

"Yes. Why? You don't like it? Sorry, we are poor people, so we can't cook a lot of dishes to satisfy you", Jingyu replied sarcastically.

"No...no...this is enough. I really like it. Uncle, this food is very delicious. Auntie must be very good at cooking".

<cough...uhukkk.uuhhuukk>, suddenly Jingyu coughed.

"Uuhhmmm.... actually my wife didn't cook all this. In fact, she's still in her office. My son is the one who actually cooked it".

"Really??? Jingyu, you're so cool. I think you can work at my house", Weizhou was very enthusiastic.