Chapter 122 A Moment of Tenderness

Fortunately, it is early summer and not too cold.

Xu Shuyao was wearing a thin dress and was able to move quite freely.

When the accident happened, she was thrown directly into the water by the impact of the collision between the two ships.

She couldn't swim, but she knew how to slide her hands forward as hard as she could, trying desperately to reach something.

But the more she did this, the faster she felt her body sink.

When she was drowned by the water, Xu Shuyao thought of her younger brother who was studying at the Imperial College, and she wondered what Shu Heng would do when he knew what happened to her.

I originally thought that the prince might help take care of me for my own reasons.

Then she suddenly realized that the other person was on the ship in front and would probably suffer the same fate as her.

Is such a bad guy going to become a ghost with me?

She couldn't escape even as a ghost?

Xu Shuyao's head was dizzy, and she suddenly felt something grabbing her neck.

Her heart suddenly filled with joy. Someone came to save her?

She quickly reached out and touched it, and it really was the texture of clothing.

Xu Shuyao grabbed the straw as if it were a life-saving straw, and she held on tightly until she lost consciousness.

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself lying on a soft couch with a fire burning beside her and a steaming earthenware pot on top of her.

The man fiddling with the jar had his back to her.

Looking at the man's back, Xu Shuyao called out tentatively, "Master!"

Xiao Mo turned his head and asked, "Awake?"

At a time like this, I should have said thank you, but I thought about the bad things the person in front of me had done to me.

In the end, she just asked softly: "Where are those people? Are they all okay?"

But she remembered that Xiao Mo was accompanied by Princess Huayang and the eldest prince at that time.

Moreover, his cousin Xiao Jinru was also on this pleasure boat.

Xiao Mo stared at her, "There are too many people. I don't know who you want to ask the most."

Xu Shuyao was embarrassed. "My maid? And my cousin..."

The other party then said: "It's all right. The black-sailed boats nearby are always on standby. It's just that the situation is a little urgent."

He didn't know that his sister would bring Xu Shuyao onto the boat.

Thinking about the back of the head I saw when I was on the boat, I was glad I saw it...

Only then did Xu Shuyao feel the couch she was sleeping on was shaking slightly. "Are we still on the boat? It's getting dark..."

Is it okay not to go back after dark?

Just as he finished speaking, he heard the man in front of him say, "I've sent someone back with the message. We'll be staying at a nearby farm for the night."

After Xiao Mo said this, both of them fell silent for a while.

After a while, the prince took two ceramic bowls from behind and placed them on the small table. He then picked up the ceramic pot that was steaming and tilted it towards the mouth of the bowl.

Xu Shuyao smelled the aroma of rice porridge and was suddenly surprised.

She didn't expect that this prince, who usually never did housework, could cook.

She was already hungry by now, and was busy getting ready to put on her shoes. She lifted the quilt wrapped around her, only to find that she was only wearing a black dress.

Xu Shuyao looked at Xiao Mo opposite her, and the man’s outer robe... seemed to be on her own body.

Xiao Mo drank his porridge and said, "You were wet then."

Then he pointed again.

Xu Shuyao followed the direction of his finger and saw her clothes hanging on a rack not far away.

"You...you changed it?" she said, her face filled with anxiety and anger.

Xiao Mo looked back at her, his brows knitted slightly, but he spoke very seriously, "At that time, it was just me and a few guards."

Xu Shuyao was completely speechless. She curled up on the couch, wrapped in a small quilt.

There were no chopsticks, so the prince had to hold the cup while drinking.

Xu Shuyao watched him finish his bowl before turning her head to look at the couch.

Suddenly, he stood up, walked to the rack, took the clothes and threw them to her, then left.

Xu Shuyao looked at the scattered clothes around her and hurriedly changed into them as quickly as possible.

Her shoes were wet, so she put on the pair of men's shoes beside the bed.

Seeing that he had not returned, she picked up the earthenware bowl on the table.

The rice porridge is slightly warm in the mouth, which is just right.

Maybe it’s because it’s simmered in a clay pot, so it tastes soft, sticky, and fragrant.

Or maybe it was because she was really hungry and everything tasted delicious.

When she finished her porridge, the prince had not returned yet.

Xu Shuyao watched the fire in the black boat getting smaller and smaller, and couldn't help but walk to the curtain and peek outside, but she was met by the nosy guard.

Wuying saw her and said with an attentive smile: "Miss, have you finished eating?"

Xu Shuyao nodded and looked at the small deck.

Wuying's voice came from the front again, "The prince still has some things to deal with. Don't worry, young lady. There will be a carriage waiting for you when you get ashore. The manor is not far away."

Xu Shuyao looked at the guard's sparkling eyes in the darkness. After a long pause, she nodded, "Oh, okay."

Wuying was also sighing at this time.

Thinking about how the master was so anxious to find the cousin that he actually threw away the opportunity to save the future crown prince, fortunately they had taken precautions in advance, and the eldest prince also had all the manpower, including the princess who accidentally strayed in, and they were all rescued in the end.

But while the young lady was unconscious, she kept muttering "brother", then "father" and "mother", muttering that she had not fulfilled her responsibilities as a sister and asked her parents not to blame her.

The prince was watching from the side at the time, and no one knew what was going on in his mind. He originally asked him to find a maid to help the young lady change her clothes, but in the end he did it himself.

Wuying couldn't help laughing when he thought about how his master had helped this cousin change her clothes and had her swim several times in the water before getting on the boat.

Xu Shuyao was sitting on a stool, thinking about something, when she heard the guard beside her suddenly laugh.

Seeing her looking over, the man couldn't help but twist his mouth.

"What are you laughing at?" she asked.

"Nothing... nothing." Wuying panicked for a moment, then slowly calmed down.

The master said that he was a person who easily showed his emotions and was not suitable to be a guard.

As long as he is not a guard, he can just run around in the martial arts world or escort a few convoys.

With his abilities, he can live a carefree life.

But Wuying met the prince when he was twelve or thirteen years old. The little bully asked him to follow him as soon as he asked.

Wuying had just come out of the mountains and had no idea what true power and nobility were.

Later, he followed his master, who was about the same age as him, from the border to the capital, and only then did he understand, but it was too late.

The prince said that he and Wuming were not good guards, but living people.

Perhaps the life of that favored child of heaven is also lonely, right?

"We're almost at the shore." Wuying was thinking when he heard the boatman on the other side say.