Chapter 2195: Chapter 2195: Why Bite Me?

Xia Jian was initially quite puzzled about why the Empress Dowager wanted him to come along, but considering that the four children were practically raised by him, he didn’t dwell on it too much.

Fine, I’ll go. It’s not like I have anything to hide anyway.

Meanwhile, An Jiuyue was busy coaxing her little baby, Little Nuonuo, who was at the age of being a little glutton, wanting to try everything he saw.

Just earlier, he had picked a Spicy Fruit in the Microcosm and took a bite of it directly.

Ordinary chili peppers weren’t planted in the Microcosm by An Jiuyue, but Spicy Fruits were medicinal plants. She had planted just one shrub that had recently borne a lot of small purple fruits.

No one would have expected that Little Nuonuo would toddle his way over to the Spicy Fruit shrub, pick one, and shove it into his mouth.

When Wei Na heard the crying, he found the little baby sitting beside the Spicy Fruit, mouth wide open, bawling his eyes out. Anxiously, Wei Na dug the Spicy Fruit out of the little baby’s mouth, only to get bitten in the process.

“I didn’t even give it to you. Why are you biting me?”

Wei Na felt utterly wronged. How did he end up getting bitten for no reason?

Although he couldn’t feel pain, Little Nuonuo’s mouth was burning, and he could feel the spiciness–it was an indescribably bizarre kind of sensation!

“Alright, go rinse it out.”

At that moment, An Jiuyue wasn’t in the mood to pay attention to Wei Na. She was focused on comforting her little baby.

“Nuonuo, be good. Take a sip of milk, rinse your mouth, and it won’t be spicy anymore.”

She mixed up a glass of milk with warm water, added ice cubes, and brought it to the little baby’s lips, gently coaxing him to drink.

“Wah, it hurts, it hurts.”

Little Nuonuo didn’t understand spiciness, but he knew his mouth hurt. Clinging to his mama, he cried fiercely. The worst part was that he couldn’t close his mouth, and drool kept dripping down, making him barely able to speak.

“Be good, just take a sip, and it won’t hurt. It’s nice and icy cool.”

An Jiuyue kept coaxing him as she held the cup to the little baby’s mouth, gesturing for him to drink.

The little baby, though in pain, always listened to his mama. He began sipping the milk in tiny gulps while pitifully glancing at her with teary eyes.

“Pfft!”

An Jiuyue couldn’t help but laugh as she looked at her son’s pitifully adorable “abandoned little deer” expression.

He was just too cute. How could her son be so silly–grabbing something random from the ground and putting it straight into his mouth? If it weren’t her son, she’d probably have laughed herself to tears.

Thankfully, the Spicy Fruit wasn’t poisonous, and eating it wouldn’t cause any harm.

“Mama is bad, bad.”

Little Nuonuo saw his mama laughing and pouted.

Mama must be laughing at him! How was he supposed to know that fruit tasted so bad and made his mouth hurt?

“Alright, Mama’s bad, but Nuonuo is the most well-behaved. Come on, have a couple more sips, and you’ll feel better.” An Jiuyue continued coaxing him as she grabbed a handkerchief to wipe the baby’s drool.

“Wei Na, from now on, put protective shields around all the medicinal plants,” she instructed Wei Na.

“Understood.”

Wei Na nodded in agreement.

This time, he truly hadn’t seen it coming. After all, Little Nuonuo usually stayed in the male master’s Microcosm and rarely came to his mistress’s Microcosm.

He hadn’t even thought about the Spicy Fruit.

Besides, who could have expected that Little Nuonuo would run all the way from the courtyard, pick a Spicy Fruit, and eat it?