Chapter 29 [VIP]

Having not slept well all night, and then being startled by Xiao Chua in the morning, Mi Yao slept past noon, not opening her eyes until almost Shenshi (3-5 PM).

"Mother..."

Xiao Shan held her face in her hands and stood guard by the bed. Because she had been waiting for so long, her two eyebrows were slightly furrowed, and she looked aggrieved.

Hearing her soft, tearful cry, Mi Yao got into the mood for acting. She sniffed and reached out tremblingly to stroke her head: "I'm afraid your mother won't be able to stay with you anymore. You must take good care of yourself from now on... cough cough."

After speaking in a barely audible voice, Mi Yao coughed twice, as if she were about to die, to enhance the dramatic tension.

"Mother, I don't want to! I don't want to!"

Xiao Shan's sobbing intensified, and her previously indistinct words became much clearer, though her voice was still sharp and somewhat jarring.

"Remember, child, never seek revenge..."

After Mi Yao finished speaking with a smile, she was wondering whether to add a scene that ended abruptly when she heard a deep, stern male voice in the room: "What's wrong with you?"

Xiao Shan was suddenly grabbed by the shoulder and turned around. Her mouth, which was about to burst into tears, stopped. She looked at Xiao Chua with a blank look and a hint of fear. As soon as he let go, she shrank back to the edge of the bed and tried to climb into Mi Yao's arms.

The anger in Xiao Chuan's eyes came and went quickly. Seeing Xiao Shan's tearless face, he asked again the question he had just asked: "What's wrong with you two?"

"Xiao Lang, what are you doing in the room?"

Mi Yao covered her lips and yawned. She thought about how long she had slept and her hair was probably a mess. She felt comfortable with Xiao Shan, but she felt a little awkward in front of Xiao Chuan.

So she covered her face after yawning.

"My lord, don't look at me. You've almost forgotten what I look like when I just woke up. Let me get ready before you look at me."

The more she said this, the less Xiao Chuan's gaze seemed to shift from her.

Upon looking at it, he realized there was nothing to see.

Compared to usual, she was not wearing jewelry or fancy clothes, but her face was still the same. However, because her hair was messy, she had an unusual charm.

Staring at the strand of hair clinging to her lips, he suspected that she was deliberately saying she didn't want him to see, but actually wanted to trick him into looking at her, and then use a coquettish gesture to seduce him.

Xiao Shan glanced at Xiao Shan, who was not only about to leave the bedside but also actively trying to shield Mi Yao's face with his chubby little paws, and then looked away: "If you keep sleeping, it'll be dark soon. What's the point of getting ready?"

"Then see me again tomorrow, my lord."

Xiao Chuan scoffed: "Go and comb your hair, then come over and explain what you were doing just now."

After saying that, before leaving, Xiao Chuan couldn't help but reach out and pull out a few strands of hair that Mi Yao had in her mouth.

"I'm asking you to comb my hair, not to eat it."

Mi Yao was completely unaware that she had hair in her mouth. After being scolded like that, she felt even more that she didn't look good.

She put on her clothes and got off the bed. Xiao Shan naturally followed behind her, but after only two steps, Xiao Shan was grabbed by the back of the neck by Xiao Chuan and taken to the other side: "Come here with me."

Xiao Shan kicked his feet in the air in protest, clearly unwilling.

No! No! No, no!

"Is this the only word you've learned to speak clearly?"

Xiao Shan saw her trying to run away, so Xiao Chuan grabbed her sparsely haired braid.

As soon as he pulled, Xiao Shan burst into tears. Unlike her earlier outburst with Mi Yao, this time her face was truly wet with tears.

Tears streamed down her wide-open eyes as she continued to curse.

"Bad! Bad! Terribly bad..."

Xiao Chuan's expression was cold and hard. When Mi Yao returned, he sternly threw the blame onto her: "What did you teach her?"

I heard that Mi Yao was teaching Xiao Shan to speak, and Xiao Shan actually opened his mouth and said a few words.

He also thought that although Mi Yao was troublesome, she was still somewhat useful. If Xiao Shanzhen learned to speak under her guidance, he would remember her as a merit, and he would spare her half her life if she made any mistakes in the future.

But who would have thought that all her teachings only made Xiao Shan cling to her more, and made Xiao Shan see everyone else as a villain.

"Don't even mention my young lady. If I were to take a pair of scissors and cut off a patch of my husband's hair, making him bald, would he be able to laugh?"

Upon seeing Mi Yao, Xiao Shan stopped crying, but instead covered his head, tilting his head back with reddened eyes, looking at her like a bullied little rabbit.

Knowing what Xiao Shan was upset about, Mi Yao squatted down and blew on her braids.

"Some adults, when they grow up, forget how weak and helpless they were when they were young and faced with adults. Because they have forgotten what they were like when they were young, they cannot put themselves in the shoes of children to think about what they care about. Your father is not bullying you, he just does not know that he is bullying you."

Xiao Shan had been eating well lately, and although her hair was still sparse, it was much darker than before. Seeing that no one was laughing at her, she started wearing less hat and showing more of her head, and asked Shi Ya to braid a few thin little braids for her.

He has a straight braid, and he swings it at people whenever he has nothing to do.

Xiao Chuan's forceful grabbing of her hair was a major taboo for her, and she probably won't hold back tonight, so she'll beat him up in her dreams.

After Mi Yao finished speaking, she looked at Xiao Chuan and waited for two breaths. When he didn't react, she whispered, "My lord, please apologize."

She spoke in a low voice, while Xiao Shan, who was looking at her with wide, round eyes, waited for her to apologize.

So she lowered her voice

Xiao Chuan had never apologized to a child, nor had he ever seen an adult like Mi Yao, who would squat down and look a three-year-old in the eye, speaking earnestly as if the child could understand, telling the child what was wrong and why.

He didn't know if Xiao Shan understood what Mi Yao said, but he knew that Xiao Shan understood and he wanted to apologize to her.

He met Xiao Shan's large, angry eyes on his fleshy face.

Xiao Chu: ...

He discovered that after Mi Yao joined the mansion, Xiao Shan became less and less afraid of him, as if he felt that he had a powerful backer.

Little did she know that her powerful backer had been crying on his lap just hours before.

I shouldn't have pulled your hair.

Under the gaze of two pairs of watery eyes in the room, Xiao Chuan glanced away and spoke calmly.

Before the two could say anything more, he immediately continued, "What were you arguing about with her when you woke up? Is this how you usually teach her to speak?"

Facing Xiao Chuan's cold expression, Mi Yao nodded without hesitation: "I once read in a journal that some children don't like to talk, but you can use an exaggerated tone to attract their attention, which will make them want to imitate you."

She had actually seen this claim.

But the main reason she played around with Xiao Shan like that was because she had nothing better to do, plus she discovered that Xiao Shan liked to fake cry.

With a relaxed lifestyle and a good partner, her screenwriting inspiration was rekindled.

After Mi Yao finished explaining, Xiao Chuan's cold expression didn't disappear: "You think acting in this kind of play is interesting?"

"have!"

A child's tender voice rang out. This was Xiao Shan answering Xiao Chuan. She tilted her head forward, pouted, and after speaking, her big eyes began to stare at Xiao Chuan again.

Mi Yao watched this scene as if it were a spectacle.

Xiao Shan's attitude towards Xiao Chuan was much more interesting than that of her two older brothers. Xiao Shan was not afraid of Xiao Chuan, and even though there was a huge difference in their physical strength, she would not stop crying under Xiao Chuan's violent coercion.

On the contrary, he could even kick Xiao Chua a few times with his short legs.

Because Xiao Shan was the youngest child and a girl, Xiao Chuan treated her like a paper tiger. No matter how fierce his face was, it was useless if Xiao Shan didn't take it seriously.

"It's not fun to joke about life and death."

Xiao Chuan bent slightly, trying to look Xiao Shan in the eye and reason with her, just like Mi Yao had done.

Unfortunately, Xiao Shan couldn't grasp the underlying meaning of his words. She only knew that he was contradicting her, so she opened her mouth and started spitting: "Mi Huai!"

Watching Xiao Shan's saliva droplets land on Xiao Chu's cold and aloof face, Mi Yao burst out laughing.

To avoid dying there, she glanced at Xiao Chu's stiff face, left a message to wipe Xiao Shan's mouth, then picked up Xiao Shan and rushed back to her own residence.

Once they arrived and closed the door, she began to laugh heartily, even choking on her laughter a few times.

Seeing Mi Yao laugh, Xiao Shan laughed along. When Mi Yao stopped, she tilted her head and asked, "Mother doesn't like Father?"

Over the past few days, Xiao Shan has learned the best way to address someone as "mother." As for the word "father," Mi Yao never taught it to him, and she has never heard him say it before. It was probably Xiao Liang and the others who taught him.

Looking at Mi Yao's expression, Xiao Shan thought for a moment and said definitively, "I don't like it either!"

“I don’t dislike your father.”

Mi Yao felt it was important to make things clear so that Xiao Luobo wouldn't let something slip and cause trouble for her.

He rubbed the little radish's soft, smooth face, "Just like I like to play around with you, I also like to play around with your dad."

"You even secretly...did that night with him!"

Speaking of this, Xiao Shan showed a tearful face. Her mother was clearly there before she went to sleep, but when she woke up, her mother was gone. She searched for a long time and finally knocked on the door for a long time before her bad father allowed her to enter, saying that her mother was sleeping in his bed.

"It doesn't smell good!"

Xiao Shan listed Xiao Chuan's shortcomings, wanting to let Mi Yao know that sleeping with him was no fun and that she shouldn't sneak away in the future.

"It's not only not fragrant, but it's also not soft."

Thinking of Xiao Chu's muscular physique, even after sleeping for so long, she still felt pain all over her body, as if she had been run over.

Fortunately, this only happened twice a month.

If it happens to coincide with her period, she can probably get one exemption.

*

"Sister, you've suffered so much!"

While watching the play in Xiao Chuan's room, Mi Yao didn't feel it, but after she finished coaxing Xiao Shan, she felt her back ache. So she got off the couch and lay back down on it, with a mink-fur pillow under her back and a brocade cashmere blanket draped over her body. Before she could even touch the book by the pillow, Yu Xiu, who had brought her some snacks, entered the room and started crying and pleading for her.

One leaves, another arrives.

Mi Yao blinked, suspecting that Xiao Shan and Yu Xiu had secretly formed a friendly relationship without her knowledge and were using her as a pawn in a relay race.

"What suffering have I endured this time?"

Mi Yao sat up and took a bite of water chestnut cake.

She didn't feel hungry when she woke up, but as soon as food entered her mouth, her stomach started rumbling, telling her that she had exercised all night and that she had burned more calories than she had ingested, so it was time to eat something good.

She raised her hand to stop Yu Xiu from saying what she was about to say, and first instructed Shi Ya to have the small kitchen bring up the stewed chicken soup.

"Besides the soup, let's make Ants Climbing a Tree." After saying that, Mi Yao still wanted to eat roast goose, so she looked at Yu Xiu and said, "You can eat with me later, and make another Eight Treasure Roast Goose and a bowl of ham stewed with shark fin."

Mi Yao likes to eat but doesn't have a big appetite. She usually brings Xiao Liang to eat with her, not only because she feels he's lonely eating alone, but also because having more people means they can order more dishes.

However, no matter how big Xiao Shan and the others' appetites were, they were still children. The main person who made it easy for her to order food was still Yu Xiu, who was still in her developmental stage.

After giving Shiya her instructions, Mi Yao saw that Yu Xiu was still in tears but hadn't been distracted by her interruption, so she sighed and said, "Alright, you can start now."

“My sister was bullied by her brother-in-law again. I feel sorry for her.”

Seeing Mi Yao's weary expression, Yu Xiu said angrily, "Didn't my sister say that if we sleep in separate rooms from now on, my brother-in-law will stop hitting my sister!"

Tears welled up in Yu Xiu's eyes. As she wiped them away, she took out some ointment from her pocket and began to pull at Mi Yao's clothes.

How could Mi Yao let a young girl who hadn't even reached marriageable age see the marks on her body? She hurriedly threw away the half-eaten water chestnut cake, pressed down on her collar, and looked at Yu Xiu in horror.

“What is there for my sister to hide from me? If the wound is not treated as soon as possible, it will leave a scar.”

Mi Yao blocked quickly, but Yu Xiu still saw many red marks on her fair neck, which she couldn't tell whether they were from being bitten or whipped.

Thinking that her beautiful older sister might be covered in scars in the future, Yu Xiu burst into tears. Hearing her crying, Mi Yao, who originally thought she was fine, had the illusion that she had indeed suffered a great torment and was about to die.

Of course, she wouldn't dare indulge in any acting at this point.

Seeing that Yu Xiu's grief seemed genuine, Mi Yao suddenly felt a headache coming on.

The original owner's relationship with Yu Xiu was not deep; otherwise, Yu Xiu would not have conspired with Huan Guanbin to drug her and send her away.

After drugging Yu Xiu, she didn't kick her out but only gave her a few warnings.

The reason for the warning, aside from her beauty and kindness, was mainly because she was too lazy to bother with anything.

She knew Yu Xiu's fate in the book, and knew that without her help, Yu Xiu wouldn't cause any trouble, so she didn't care and kept Yu Xiu by her side.

During this time, she asked herself if she had put much effort into Yu Xiu; she had simply let her run wild and not cause her any trouble.

But she didn't know when Yu Xiu's attitude towards her changed. At first, she thought Yu Xiu was just putting on an act, that she couldn't stand Xiao Shan trying to win her favor, so she pretended to be well-behaved in front of her to compete for favor.

Looking back now, the change in attitude is real; Yu Xiu truly considers her her elder sister, someone she can rely on for survival.

This was handled well.

Children come and adults come too; even kindergarten teachers don't have as wide a scope of work as she does.

“Your brother-in-law has changed a lot. He promised me that he would give up his bad habits and become a normal man like everyone else. These marks on my neck are just scary to look at, but they don’t actually hurt.”

Faced with Yu Xiu's disbelieving expression, Mi Yao immediately regretted her previous casual perfunctory attitude towards her in order to save trouble. From now on, if she sleeps with Xiao Chua twice a month, in Yu Xiu's eyes, it's just like dying twice a month.

Believe it or not, Mi Yao coaxed her a couple of times, and when the small kitchen served the food, she saw Yu Xiu eating heartily, so she assumed she had succeeded in coaxing her.

After finishing her meal, fearing that someone might run to her and cry again, Mi Yao dared not lie down anymore. Instead, she asked the servants to prepare hot water, intending to hide in the bathroom alone to calm down.

The original owner of the house knew how to enjoy life. In addition to the exquisite gardens, a large bathhouse was built not far from the main courtyard.

The plan was to bring hot springs into the mansion, but because the project was so massive, Zhao Tianhe beheaded him halfway through, leaving only the heated room that had been built in the mansion.

Although there is no hot spring water, the bathhouse, paved with white marble and heated by charcoal pipes, is still a good place to take a bath.

Stepping barefoot onto the sapphire blue brocade hollyhock patterned carpet, Mi Yao glanced at the slightly faded bright red nail polish on her feet and suddenly remembered Xiao Chuan's quirks.

On their wedding night, she noticed that Xiao Chuan was paying special attention to her toes. She thought it was just her imagination, but this time Xiao Chuan didn't hide his interest.

In the heat of passion, he put her feet on his shoulders. When she struggled and resisted, stepping her feet on his chest, he didn't push them away. Instead, he cupped her feet in his hands and kneaded her toes.

Her eyes were filled with tears, her vision blurred. She vaguely saw Xiao Chuan seem to lower his head and sniff her feet, his deep eyes swirling with dark emotions. She had a feeling that if he didn't know she was still awake, he would kiss her there as if he were kissing her neck...

Thinking about it, Mi Yao not only looked at her own feet, but also pinched them. They were tender and smooth, a different feel from soft flesh.

There was no lingering odor after pinching her fingers, nor did she experience any captivating sensation. She might as well pinch her own butt instead.

Once she was sure there was nothing special about her feet, and that Xiao Chuan playing with her feet was his peculiar fetish, Mi Yao stopped looking at her feet, tested the water temperature, took off her clothes, and went into the pool.

After squinting and soaking in the water for a while, the floating petals wilted and sank to the bottom due to the hot water. Only then did Mi Yao look down at the hickeys on her body.

Xiao Chuan prefers to nibble on people rather than suckle. He can't help but leave a tooth mark after a couple of sucks. He doesn't use much force; he just holds his mouth until he's sure there's a mark before letting go.

If she had thick skin, the bite marks would probably have disappeared in less than fifteen minutes, given the force he used. But unfortunately, she had delicate skin and spent her days taking care of her skin, making it more and more pampered.

Therefore, these bite marks will take at least a day to disappear, while the sucking marks will take at least two or three days.

Rubbing her waist, which had been pinched and bounced by Xiao Chuan, Mi Yao really didn't know where Xiao Chuan had gotten so many tricks from on the second time.

Even with repeated application and rubbing, I'm not afraid of peeling anymore.

After soaking for a while, although she felt it was lewd, she still got a bronze mirror and sat on the rosewood couch to observe her internal body.

Taking advantage of her tiredness and weakness, Xiao Chuan penetrated deeper than last time. At that moment, she suddenly felt a sharp pain and thought that Xiao Chuan had broken through her. She was so frightened that she looked down and found that there was still a large part outside. Her phobia made her almost faint.

Thinking she would play dead to scare Xiao Chua into submission, she stopped feeling pain before she even started pretending. Then, when Xiao Chua started acting up, she forgot all about it.

Looking back now, it probably wasn't that deep.

The visibility from the bronze mirror was too low, and with the rising steam in the room, Mi Yao couldn't see anything except for the redness and swelling on her face. She just thought that she should prepare some paint to label Xiao Chua's things with numbers and strictly regulate how much he could bring in.

Her plan was perfect; all that was missing was persuading Xiao Chuan to agree.

As for persuading her, she believed that if she dared to speak up, Xiao Chuan would dare to use violence to force his way in and desensitize her megalophobia.

So she still had to keep a close eye on Xiao Chu's use of his enormous member every time.

Considering her exceptional bone structure and how many more months she can remain beautiful in her lifetime, this task is truly arduous and far-reaching.

After finishing her work on the fifteenth, Mi Yao took a day to recover her usual leisurely state.

Xiao Chuan, who was elusive, stayed at home for half a day before resuming his routine of leaving early and returning late. Mi Yao initially thought he was embarrassed by Xiao Shan's spittle, but after he hadn't returned for two nights, she asked Pu Qing, who was staying at the mansion, and learned that he had gone to Yizhou.

"The New Year is just around the corner, and the garrison commander is going to inspect the border defenses. If nothing unexpected happens, he should return a few days before the New Year."

Mi Yao glanced at the fine snow outside the corridor and thought that being the male lead wasn't easy either. In this kind of weather, he still had to ride a horse and travel around. If he was unlucky and the enemy had the idea of ​​starting a war, he might have to eat sand in a foreign land during the New Year.

"Before the garrison commander left, he instructed that if the madam needed guards, she should just ask. As long as they did not provoke anyone the Xiao family could not handle, they should follow the madam's orders."

Mi Yao's eyes lit up when she saw that Xiao Chuan had given her such an instruction before leaving.

The reason she came to ask Xiao Chuan why he was nowhere to be seen was not because the marks on her body had faded and she was itching for him to leave a few more, but because the governor's mansion had sent her an invitation.

A few days ago, she mentioned it at Bimo Academy. I heard that the next day, the fourth branch of the Zhao family went to the governor's mansion. When they went there, they looked somber, and when they came out, they were even more dejected.

Her obvious scolding caused rumors to spread throughout Yizhou City. When she first arrived in Yizhou City, she was a fairy under Guanyin's command, but now she had become a ferocious and tyrannical tigress.

It was clearly Xiao Chuan who neglected Ma Xiao Niangzi, but when the story got out, it became that she disliked the Ma family, pushed Ma Xiao Niangzi into the lake, carried the severely ill Ma Xiao Niangzi out of the Xiao family's side residence, and drove away the rest of the Ma family.

In all honesty, when the Ma family knelt before the Xiao family's gate, hoping to use public opinion to persuade Xiao Chuan to show leniency, she was still asleep because she had been working overtime until dawn and had no idea about it.

It was Xiao Chuan who gave the order to drive the Ma family away without any mercy, so how is it all her fault for being heartless?

Call her heartless if you will. Being misunderstood is the fate of a pampered wife. She didn't intend to explain herself, but someone else suddenly appeared to stand up for her and set up a scheme to clear up the rumors.

The person who organized this gathering was Fang, Zhao Tianhe's concubine.

If it were anyone else, she could pretend she didn't see the invitation, but since it came from the governor's residence, regardless of whether Zhao Tianhe was involved or not, she had to accept the invitation.

"I'm going to the plum garden tomorrow. Tell more people to come with me."

Mi Yao paused, then, remembering that the guards couldn't follow her into the garden, reminded them, "Smashing the cup is the order. If I start overturning the table, you all rush into the courtyard to save me."

When he heard Mi Yao tell him to send guards with her to the military governor's private garden, Pu Qing's head broke out in a sweat. When he heard her mention smashing the cup and overturning the table, he broke out in a cold sweat and hot sweat at the same time.

“Madam, you seem to have forgotten what I just said. The garrison commander said that the premise for you to use us is not to provoke people that the Xiao family cannot afford to offend.”

Overturning a table in the governor's private garden is not an act of rebellion against Jiannan.

"The one who sent the invitation was my father's concubine, not my father himself. Do you think your town magistrate is so afraid of even a concubine that he dares not step forward when trouble comes?"

Seeing Pu Qing's conflicted expression as he hesitated to speak, Mi Yao let him off the hook: "I was just joking with you. Father's concubines are his face, so I certainly won't provoke them."

"As long as Madam knows her limits, that's good."

Pu Qing wiped the sweat from his forehead and noticed Mi Yao's meddlesome expression. He couldn't tell which of her words were true and which were false, but he was certain that he would send several more people to secretly accompany her tomorrow.

To prevent her from causing any unmanageable trouble for her master.

*

Mi Yao didn't lie to Pu Qing; she truly knew the truth.

She had originally planned to go to the meeting tomorrow, and if she encountered something she didn't want to deal with, she would just flip the table and swagger away.

But when she realized that her backer was the male protagonist who hadn't yet become king, she abandoned the idea and decided to play it by ear.

Since the banquet was being held in the governor's private garden, it had already passed Zhao Tianhe's notice. As long as Fang Shi and Zhao Qiniang weren't stupid, they wouldn't let anything happen to her in the garden.

If they were really that stupid, handing her a weakness to exploit, then it would be easier for her to make a big scene.

Having figured out how to deal with the situation, Mi Yao began to choose her clothes for going out.

The original owner already had many beautiful clothes, and after getting engaged to Xiao Chuan, Xiao Chuan sent a lot of Shu brocade to the Yu family.

After she took over the management of the household, she made another batch of clothes.

Normally, no matter how beautiful she dresses at home, she won't choose clothes that are too cumbersome. But now that she's going out, she naturally has to pick out all those pretty but useless girls and choose one.

She chose a flowing, two-tone gauze dress that she could barely walk in without a maid's support, paired with a gold and jade hairpin adorned with ruby ​​pendants. She discussed with Shuanghua what hairstyle and hair accessories would suit her for the next day. After finishing everything, she was still in a bad mood, so she simply went to Tingsong Courtyard to pick out clothes for Xiao Yi.

Fang wrote in the invitation that young men and women from various families could attend the banquet together.

Xiao Yi was also involved in provoking the Zhao family, and he was the one who got beaten up. As compensation, she planned to take him along so that he could broaden his horizons and see what it means to not need a supreme status, but just to be arrogant enough so that others wouldn't dare to mess with you.

However, her efforts to lead the group were not very successful. While she was choosing clothes for Xiao Yi, Xiao Liang and Xiao Shan stood by with their big, round eyes, watching her expectantly.

“Mother has such good taste. I also think my brother looks good in this.”

"Hello, Mother!"

"This gold crown and headband are really unique. I have the same gold crown too."

"I want the nest too!"

“Brother, you must be a good boy and listen to me. You don’t smile much. When Mother takes you out tomorrow, you must smile more, otherwise people will think that you don’t want to go out with Mother.”

After watching Mi Yao choose her clothes, Xiao Liang suddenly remembered something and began to give Xiao Yi a serious explanation. Because the explanation was too long, he shook his head as he spoke, swallowing several times as he did so.

Xiao Shan also turned around, his round eyes fixed on Xiao Yi: "Listen to me!"

After saying that, she stood on tiptoe and touched his hair.

Xiao Yi: ...

Sensing that his younger siblings also wanted to go, which was why they were acting like sensible and well-behaved little adults, Xiao Yi hesitated and looked at Mi Yao.

He didn't know what Mi Yao was planning, otherwise he would have directly offered the opportunity to Xiao Liang and Xiao Shan.

Meanwhile, Mi Yao was carefully examining Xiao Liang's rosy cheeks.

Seeing that Xiao Liang's expression was one of feigned ignorance and a desire to appear intelligent, Mi Yao pouted and said, "Second Brother, I didn't expect you to be such a naive girl."

Xiao Liang looked at Mi Yao with a puzzled expression: "Mother, what is natural tea?"

"It's about speaking in a very interesting way that makes the listener happy."

When Mi Yao praised him like that, Xiao Liang's face turned bright red, and he became a little shy: "Mother, do you mean you're happy to hear me talk?"

The tea is ready.

Mi Yao pinched his cheek: "That's roughly the idea."

After saying that, she also pinched Xiao Shan, who was leaning close to her hand, and said, "If you want to go, then come along. Anyway, this banquet isn't charged per person, so it doesn't matter if there's one more or one less person."

She had originally thought that not having to go out would be a reward in this weather, but who would have thought that her two little ones were so resistant to the cold and wanted to go out and join in the fun in the snow.

But thinking about it, it's understandable. Xiao Yi can go out to study on weekdays, but the other two Xiao Chuan are not taken out. They probably don't have any memory of going out.

Since one radish had become a string of radishes, Mi Yao wasn't afraid of having one more, so she asked Yu Xiu.

Without saying a word, Yu Xiu joined the group choosing clothes.

The next day, before the appointed time, the group excitedly dressed themselves and were watched with expectant eyes. Mi Yao, unable to concentrate on reading, simply changed her clothes early as they wished and boarded the carriage with them in a grand procession.

"Although I didn't give you any real money as a gift, the ornaments I gave you are worth several hundred taels of silver, so don't think you're here to freeload. If you find some friends you like, have fun. If you don't find any friends, then eat well. If you feel wronged, cry or make a fuss. Don't let yourselves suffer."

The carriage stopped at the plum garden, and Mi Yao gave a special instruction before getting out.

Xiao Yi is looking for an opportunity to promise Mi Yao that he will take good care of his younger siblings and prevent them from causing trouble outside.

He choked on his words, and hearing his younger siblings' cheerful agreement, he nodded as well: "I understand, I will not back down if I encounter trouble. I will... make Shan'er cry."

As for him, as the eldest brother, how could he act like a child and express his grievances by crying and making a fuss?