Li Huai'an looked down at the broken tea canister on the ground and felt a pang of heartache. This was the priceless Tongue and Belly Tea!

Le Kui was terrified when she saw the broken tea leaves and porcelain shards scattered on the ground. She knelt down with a thud and said tremblingly, "Your Highness, I thought it was a thief, so I threw the peach blossoms at you without thinking. This tea must be very valuable! I... I will find a way to compensate you!"

Li Huai'an caught a glimpse of Zhao Rou, who was wearing a gauze dress, peeking out from behind a beaded curtain hanging inside, looking nervously in their direction.

He gestured for Le Kui to get up quickly, saying that she was also loyal to her master and did not do it intentionally.

Le Kui breathed a sigh of relief.

She deftly picked up the peach basket, preparing to clean up the tea leaves and fragments on the ground.

Zhao Rou stopped her.

"Le Kui, be careful and separate the tea leaves from the shards. Although the tea leaves are no longer drinkable, they can still be used in other ways after being sifted through a sieve."

Zhao Rou slowly walked out from behind the beaded curtain.

Li Huai'an stared at her gauze dress, slightly lost in thought.

Just now, the woman who captivated Li Zan, the father of Zhao Rou, in the Hidden Spring Pavilion was also dressed in a gauze dress, just like Zhao Rou.

"Master, how can you stare at someone like that? It makes me shy~" Zhao Rou had unknowingly walked up to Li Huai'an.

She held out her hand and waved it in front of him. "What are you thinking about, Master?"

Li Huai'an suddenly came to his senses, placed the scroll in his hand on the antique shelf to the side, and instructed Le Kui to take good care of the scroll, as he would take it to his mother tomorrow.

Le Kui shoved the porcelain shards into a dustpan with a clatter, and replied crisply, "Yes, Your Highness!"

The lights that suddenly came on in Zhao Rou's courtyard were particularly eye-catching in the dead of night.

In the Lotus Courtyard, Liu Mei, who was sleeping in the side room, got up in the middle of the night and was preparing to go to bed when she saw the lights in the Pear Fragrance Courtyard suddenly turn on in the distance.

The young master didn't come to their Lotus Courtyard tonight. Bai Yunxiang is pregnant again, so he must have gone to Pear Fragrance Courtyard to find Zhao Rou.

Liu Mei looked resentfully towards the master bedroom. If it weren't for Zhao Yun, the young master wouldn't have been willing to step into this courtyard even once.

She then looked at Bai Yunxiang's Qingfeng Courtyard. Both were concubines, so why was Bai Yunxiang happily promoted to a secondary wife when she became pregnant, while Liu Mei, when she was pregnant, only received a bowl of abortion medicine?

Liu Mei felt extremely resentful, and hatred quietly spread in her heart that night.

After becoming pregnant, Zhao Yun hadn't been sleeping well; the slightest noise could wake her. The sounds of things being smashed and women's cries of surprise in Pear Fragrance Courtyard were particularly jarring in the quiet night, and it was hard for her to ignore them.

"Yu Ming, go and find out what happened to Aunt Rou tomorrow morning," she called Yu Ming over and whispered the instructions.

Yu Ming yawned and agreed.

The next day, Yu Ming and Le Kui went to the kitchen to collect their respective meals from their courtyards. It was from Le Kui that she learned that Li Huai'an and Zhao Rou's relationship had recently improved, and that Le Kui had accidentally broken Li Huai'an's tea canister the night before.

"Young Master is such a kind person, he didn't utter a single word of blame!" Le Kui praised.

She glanced around and, seeing no one else, whispered in Yu Ming's ear, "Yu Ming, you have no idea, the young master didn't return until 7 PM last night. He and our Aunt Rou were making love until dawn, and he even asked for water twice!"

Yu Ming blushed deeply, her face turning bright red. She whispered, "The young master is indeed quite skilled in that area."

"Oh, Yu Ming." Le Kui raised an eyebrow, glanced at her sideways, then slowly circled around her, teasing her with a playful smile, "Your words... could it be that you've personally experienced something like this?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Ming's cheeks turned as red as ripe apples.

She lowered her head, gently pushed Le Kui aside, and hurriedly urged, "Let's go back quickly, or we'll get scolded if the food gets cold!"

"No, back in our Zhao family, the second young lady and our third young lady had the best tempers. The eldest young lady, on the other hand, had a rather peculiar temper," Le Kui muttered softly.

"Watch your mouth! My young lady is now the mistress of your concubine Rou!" Yu Ming kindly reminded her.

Then she sighed, "I wonder where the Second Miss has gone these days?"