Chapter 137 Tianbao and Qinhuo have a quarrel

A hint of doubt flashed through Tianbao's heart, but when she thought of the contract that Xu Laiqing personally kept, she rationally suppressed the strange feeling.

With a sneer, Tian Bao glanced at him with disdain: "Are you crazy too? You say such things to your own sister. If you want to practice, find your future concubine to practice."

Qin Huolang's turbulent thoughts were frozen, and the smile on his face shattered at a visible speed: "My brain is not broken." Then he lowered his head and muttered aggrievedly, "You said it first."

The embarrassment flashed by, and Tian Bao lowered his head in a feigned calmness: "I was just mad at you. Brother Huo, please stop saying such things. It's more greasy than lard."

He was so angry and embarrassed that his tone was inevitably fierce.

This was the most heartbreaking thing. Qin Huo felt a sharp pain in his heart. He lowered his eyes to look at his hands, not knowing how to face the girl in front of him.

Tian Bao was also embarrassed, so he scooped a spoonful of bitter medicine and handed it to his mouth: "Drink it quickly."

The voice was a little softer after all.

Qin Huo stopped pretending and drank the medicine before taking it from her. His heart was already in tatters. Did she not have any romantic feelings for him at all? He had just been so happy that he wanted to jump off the bed and hug her, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

Glancing at the place where Tianbao had just drunk the medicine, he quietly turned the medicine bowl and drank the medicine from the same place without being noticed.

Although it tasted only bitter, he seemed to taste the sweet scent of Tianbao and drank the whole bowl of medicine quickly.

The awkwardness in the room continued to develop, and Tianbao handed over the plate of candied fruit.

Qin Huo wanted to act coquettishly and ask her to feed him, but considering the situation just now, he didn't dare to be presumptuous. He took one and stuffed it into his mouth with a wronged look.

The bayberry preserves were sour and sweet, which did not match his current bitter mood at all.

Awkward and speechless, Tian Bao, who was fidgeting restlessly, picked up the empty medicine bowl and stood up to go out. Just as he turned around and took two steps, he heard a low, pleading voice behind him: "Tian Huan, please don't hate me, okay?"

What the girl didn't see was that there was clearly a hint of humility and flattery in the boy's eyes.

This tone made Tianbao's scalp numb: "I don't hate you."

"Then where are you going?" Qin Huo didn't dare to ask any more questions. He was afraid that going too far would make things worse and that scaring her away would be counterproductive.

Tian Bao shook the empty bowl in his hand and said, "Let's go to the kitchen and see what we have for lunch."

Qin Huo knew it was just an excuse, but when he heard she wasn't going to leave the Regent's Palace, he finally relaxed. "Well, just tell the cook to make you something. If there's anything we don't have, I'll send someone out to buy it."

Tianbao nodded and quickly went out to get some fresh air as if escaping.

"Someone come here!" After Tianbao's footsteps faded away, Qin Huo hurriedly sent someone with his badge into the palace to invite the Fourth Princess.

When the Fourth Princess arrived, lunch at the Regent's Mansion had just been prepared, and Tianbao was struggling with whether to eat in the same room with Qin Huo.

The fourth princess took a quick look and said, "I'm here just in time."

"Why is my sister here?" Tianbao breathed a sigh of relief. With one more person to face Qin Huo together, she would not be so embarrassed.

The fourth princess curled her lips and said, "I heard he fell off his horse? I came to see if he broke his leg."

Tian Bao had all the food delivered to Qin Huo's room. She took the Fourth Princess' arm and warned, "Don't say this when we meet later. He's injured. Sister, please be magnanimous and let him go."

"I'm not an adult, I'm just a little girl." The fourth princess raised her little face, with an uncontrollable smile on her lips.

You see, it's obvious that he cares a lot about Qin Huo.

Tian Bao stopped the fourth princess and said, "Sister, just consider it as a plea from me. His ankle is swollen like a bun. Please don't be angry with him. If you can't do it, I will accompany you out for dinner."

The fourth princess pinched her cheek and said, "Since you're so cute, I'll reluctantly agree to your request. I'm starving and can't wait to go out and eat."

During lunch, there was little interaction between Qin Huo and Tian Bao, and the Fourth Princess just lowered her head to eat. The atmosphere was so weird that it was even more awkward than before.

The eunuch who invited the Fourth Princess here didn't say anything extra. She only noticed something was wrong halfway through her meal: "Did you have a fight?"

Qin Huo looked at Tianbao with resentment in his eyes.

Tian Bao lowered her head and didn't look at him: "No."

"You two usually talk so much, why are you so quiet today?" The fourth princess looked thoughtfully at the maidservant not far away and nudged Tianbao with her elbow. "Have you also noticed something is wrong?"

"What?" Tianbao was confused, not knowing why she was suddenly so mysterious.

The Fourth Princess nodded at the maids and said, "I'm nineteen years old. I don't have any concubines or maids. People who don't know me would think I'm keeping my virginity for you. Tsk tsk tsk tsk, I know it's just flattering words from outsiders."

Qin Huo raised his eyebrows. If he hadn't already formed an alliance with the Fourth Princess, he wouldn't have allowed her to stay for dinner.

Listen! The first half of the sentence sounds like human language, but what does the second half mean?

Tianbao quickly glanced at Qin Huo, and then looked at the maids that the Fourth Princess pointed to. She also found that they were indeed all beautiful women, but which maid in the royal palace did not have a dignified appearance?

The Fourth Princess squinted at Qin Huo with disdain: "You've been hanging out with the maids privately for a long time, haven't you? How many of them have warmed your bed?"

"..." Qin Huo's surroundings suddenly turned cold. The right corner of his lips raised slightly, but his eyes were gloomy and cold. "If you are tired of living, just say it."

The Fourth Princess rarely confronted him head-on. The coldness that penetrated her eyes and struck her heart made her shiver. She retorted with a weak tone, "Second Brother, Fourth Brother, Fifth Brother, all the maids in their mansion are as beautiful as flowers, and many of them have been touched by them. How dare you say you haven't?"

Qin Huo's unhappiness relaxed, and the Fourth Princess immediately felt that the invisible pressure had eased.

Qin Huo moved his eyes away leisurely, and glanced at the maids with the same eyes as if he were looking at stones, tables and chairs: "I didn't choose them. In my eyes, they are no different from you."

The fourth princess was speechless. She looked at the maids and then looked down at herself.

What's the same?

She always felt that Qin Huo was scolding her, but she had no evidence.

Qin Huo turned his head to look at Tian Bao and spoke to her for the first time at the dinner table: "Do you think they are pretty?"

Tian Bao couldn't figure out what Qin Huo was thinking, so she instinctively looked at the maids and said sweetly, "They're pretty, all very pretty..."

Before he finished speaking, the young man opposite him said in a flat voice, "Pack up and take the money home. The Prince Regent's Palace will no longer need maids in the future."

What a sudden disaster!

The maids were stunned. No one dared to cry and beg for mercy. They just knelt down, wiping their tears and looking pitifully at the hard-hearted regent!

The Regent remained indifferent and didn't even look at them.

All the maids could only look at Tianbao subconsciously, and the brave ones choked out their tears, "Princess Yongle, please have mercy! My parents are old, and I have a brother who is still unmarried. They all rely on my monthly salary to support them."

Tian Bao resisted the urge to ask her brother why he didn't support the family. She glanced at Qin Huo and said to the maids, "Why are you asking me for help instead of him regarding the affairs of the Prince Regent's Mansion?"