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Chapter 101: Chapter 100: Holding His Face Mask, As Reminded Of A Person?
Chapter 101: Chapter 100: Holding His Face Mask, As Reminded Of A Person?
Xiao Jinyu, after escorting Miss Han back to her residence, promptly returned to the palace with the cage in hand.
Pingping stared at the peach blossom hairpin with a face full of smiles, “Young Master Xiao really treats Miss Han well.
This hairpin is also very beautiful.”
Han Yan’s slender fingers removed the hairpin from her temple and looked down at it in her hand.
It was simply three small peach blossoms, simple in design but exquisitely made.
*
Xiao Jinyu arrived at the East Palace with the cage, just in time to meet his brother Xiao Jinyan returning from outside, his peach blossom eyes curving in greeting.
“Brother, guess what I brought you?”
Xiao Jinyan asked, “What?”
Xiao Jinyu excitedly lifted the black cloth, revealing the little creature inside to Xiao Jinyan, “Take a look.”
Xiao Jinyan glanced down and saw several yellow young ones.
Unlike the previous ones, these had flat beaks, likely a different species.
He lifted his gaze to his brother, “What do you mean by this?”
Xiao Jinyu said, “Brother, aren’t you wanting to make it up to sister-in-law?
She must be bored with the previous ones, so I specially picked a different one on the street.
Sister-in-law will definitely like it.”
“How can all girls like this kind of thing?” Xiao Jinyan complained verbally, yet he still took the cage from Liu Xi’s hands.
Xiao Jinyu leaned in, whispering mysteriously, “Brother, I have something to ask you.”
Xiao Jinyan replied, “Go ahead.”
Xiao Jinyu asked, “What do you think would be the best status for bringing a girl into the palace?”
Xiao Jinyan coldly inquired, “What girl?”
“I mean, I saw injustice on the road and drew my sword to help.
I rescued a woman from the Devil’s clutches.
She’s all alone and quite pitiable, so I thought of bringing her back to the Qiancheng Hall to take care of her.”
As he spoke these words, Xiao Jinyu was still somewhat excited.
But he dared not mention she was from Paradise, so he told a kind lie.
Xiao Jinyan coldly said, “Do you know her origins?
Family background?
How did she fall into the Devil’s grasp?”
Xiao Jinyu hadn’t expected his Crown Prince brother to toss three questions at him in a row, and he was momentarily stunned.
He couldn’t help complaining internally that his brother really thought of everything.
“Brother, she has no one and is very delicate, she seems even younger than me,” Xiao Jinyu insisted, judging by appearance, she truly looked younger than him.
“Besides, if I hadn’t rescued her, she would have become an object of play for a group of men.
That’s too pitiable.”
Xiao Jinyan advised, “Check her background carefully.
Don’t give those with ulterior motives any opportunity.”
“Brother, I understand.
So next time I enter the palace, shall I bring her in?” Xiao Jinyu asked tentatively.
Xiao Jinyan questioned, “Do you have her date and time of birth?”
Xiao Jinyu shook his head, “She’s a maiden.
It wouldn’t be proper for me to ask for her date and time of birth, would it?”
Xiao Jinyan felt the same, asking a girl for her date and time of birth outright was indeed against decorum.
“Then bring her here first for this palace to see.”
Xiao Jinyu was a bit troubled.
He couldn’t help but think about Miss Han’s height, which was nearly the same as the Crown Prince’s.
What if it was awkward for them to stand together?
Xiao Jinyan’s voice grew deeper, “What’s the matter?”
“I’m afraid Miss Han would be too shy to meet people.
Brother, you don’t understand, a maiden who hasn’t debuted into society gets very embarrassed around strange men.
She’s even shy around me,” Xiao Jinyu claimed, his face not betraying the slightest blush.
Xiao Jinyan thought of Shen Chuwei at these words; her face would turn very red when she was shy.
“Then be cautious yourself.
One can never be too careful.”
Xiao Jinyu quietly breathed a sigh of relief, “Understood, brother.”
*
As the weather grew cooler, Shen Chuwei had Little Guizi spread some dry straw in the chicken coop.
The dry straw came from the Cold Palace and Xiaoxiang Pavilion, dried under the sun before being transported here.
Afterward, she went to the vegetable patch.
Seeing that the bok choy had grown sufficiently, she instructed Gui Xiang, “Pull out all the bok choy and dry them.”
Gui Xiang began pulling out the bok choy with efficient moves.
Chun Xi curiously asked, “Young Mistress, why pull out all the good bok choy?
We can’t finish it all at once; it’s wasteful.”
Shen Chuwei proudly replied, “They can be pickled.
They’ll be fine even until next year.”
“Bok choy can be pickled?” Chun Xi truly gained new knowledge.
Radishes can be pickled, meat can be pickled, beef can be pickled…
was there anything that couldn’t be pickled?
Little Anzi ran over and said, “Young Mistress, the fish pond is ready.
Please come and have a look.”
“Let’s go.” Shen Chuwei led the way, lifting the hem of her dress.
Chun Xi and Little Anzi followed behind her.
Upon reaching the fish pond, Shen Chuwei took a look.
It was nearly done, right by the wall.
Pointing to a spot below the wall, Shen Chuwei said, “Little Anzi, dig through there, connecting it to the outside lotus pond.
That way, the water will be flowing.”
“Understood, Young Mistress,” Little Anzi replied, hopping down with a shovel to start digging.
After Shen Chuwei busied herself for a while, she touched her stomach, “Chun Xi, I’m very hungry.
Prepare some snacks for me.”
“Right away, I’ll go prepare them,” Chun Xi said, stepping lively towards the small kitchen.
Shen Chuwei sat down on a wicker chair; a sable fur blanket was spread out on it, making it soft and comfortable to lie on, and not at all cold.
Eyeing the flour figure in the white jade vase, she licked her lips, struggling several times to resist eating it.
But whenever she picked it up and brought it close to her mouth, the sight of Xiao Jinyan’s handsome face made it feel very odd.
Thus, every day, she went through the repetitive motion of picking it up and putting it back again.
She stood up, picked up the flour figure, and studied it for a while, thinking of her own figure that Xiao Jinyan perhaps had already consumed.
While Shen Chuwei was deliberating whether to eat it, Xiao Jinyan walked in with the cage, just in time to see her holding his flour figure, staring at it intensely.
Her earnest, focused expression resembled that of someone filled with longing for another.
Which made Xiao Jinyan feel even more fortunate, assured that Shen Chuwei truly liked him a lot.
He cleared his throat softly, “Xiao Jiu.”
Xiao Jiu was a name that existed only in dreams, so when Shen Chuwei heard this nickname, it gave her the illusion of being in a dream.
Holding the flour figure, she slowly turned around and saw Xiao Jinyan standing less than two meters behind her, looking at her.
She gripped the flour figure a little guiltily.
She had nearly succumbed to eating it just now, and it was fortunate she hadn’t, or Xiao Jinyan would have caught her in the act.
Knowing full well, Xiao Jinyan asked, “Looking at the flour figure?”
Shen Chuwei, afraid that Xiao Jinyan wouldn’t believe her, nodded vigorously, taking the opportunity to offer some compliments.
“Your Highness is so handsome and extraordinary, Chenqie simply couldn’t resist taking a few extra glances.”
Xiao Jinyan, confident in his own appearance, had never before heard a woman praise him so directly and unabashedly to his face.
“Always quick with words,” he said.
Shen Chuwei smiled and added another compliment, “The flour figure is not as handsome as Your Highness in person.”
Xiao Jinyan glanced at the flour figure.
It bore a seven to eight-part resemblance to him, even wearing clothes he often donned.
Of course, it was no match for his actual presence.
Shen Chuwei suddenly became curious, “Your Highness, is Chenqie’s flour figure still around?”
If he had eaten it, then she wouldn’t need to be courteous anymore and could satisfy her craving.
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