Chapter 111 Acting like a spoiled child to Xie Guanlan

Xie Guanlan: "I know."

Wen Xingluo tilted his head.

She stared at the young man's superior bone structure and whispered to him, "The commander also doesn't like my contact with Shen Yu, so he took advantage of the situation and took me away, right?"

She called him, "Commander-in-Chief."

The hot air exhaled from the girl's lips and teeth lingered around Xie Guanlan's ear, bringing with it the moist fragrance of flowers and fruits. A lock of black hair brushed lightly against his cheek, making him feel a little itchy, like sleeping under a fruit tree in midsummer, with the branches drooping to the tip of his nose, and inhaling the apple fragrance into his lungs in an instant.

Fresh, sweet and sour, warm and romantic.

Xie Guanlan's throat tightened, but he didn't say anything.

Fushan urged the carriage of the Zhenbei Palace to come.

After getting on the carriage, Xie Guanlan opened the medicine box, held Wen Xingluo's hand, used tweezers to remove the tiny stones embedded in it one by one, and then washed her clean with clean water.

Wen Xingluo couldn't help but let out a soft hiss.

Xie Guanlan: "I thought Wen Ningning didn't feel pain."

He wiped the water off her hands little by little with a soft cloth.

The little girl's palms were white and tender, and even if they were just slightly rubbed and a few red bloodstains oozed out, it looked very shocking.

He lowered his eyes with a dark look, and the big palm holding her small hand couldn't help but tighten quietly.

It's a very strange feeling.

As if he wished he could...bear all this for her.

Wen Xingluo no longer felt any pain.

She watched Xie Guanlan apply medicine to her and said, "It's just a minor injury. It might have healed before we even get back to the prefectural governor's mansion. It's a bit of an overreaction for you to apply such a thick layer of medicine on me, brother. Someone who doesn't know would think my hand is broken."

Xie Guanlan said nothing, but just kept wrapping her hands with heavy gauze.

Wen Xingluo looked at him, and her cherry lips suddenly curved into a sweet arc.

"alright."

Xie Guanlan tied a beautiful bow, and just as she looked up, she met the little girl's smiling almond eyes, which were like amber honey syrup with gentle ripples.

His face was cold, "What are you laughing at?"

"No..." Wen Xingluo suppressed his smile, "I'm not laughing at anything."

Xie Guanlan looked at her silently.

The young man's face really wasn't good looking.

Wen Xingluo slowly lowered his head and glanced at his red clothes out of the corner of his eyes, "Brother is angry."

"If you don't want me to accompany Mu Zhiqiu to the Liyuan Opera, you can just say it directly. Why be so roundabout?" Xie Guanlan looked at her expressionlessly. "Didn't it hurt when you fell to the ground?"

She was so delicate, like a slender butterfly. Even if she framed others, he felt that others were bullying her. He wished that all the misery and sorrow in the world would leave her and that she would live in spring and sunshine forever.

Wen Xingluo still kept his head down.

Her fingertips silently stroked the gauze bow on her palm.

On the surface, she was just Xie Guanlan's stepsister, and she had no right to stop him from getting married.

Her thoughts are like a rat in the gutter and a poisonous snake in the corner. She can never tell others about them. She can only taste the ups and downs of life alone and enjoy this carnival alone.

Even if she wanted to pick this flower from the high mountain, she could only use the most shady means.

She betrayed her grandmother and her father, she tried to monopolize Xie Guanlan, she was a heretic, and she had bad intentions!

Xie Guanlan was not wrong at first.

She pretends to be innocent, but she is really...

She's not a good girl who keeps to herself.

The girl's eyes were as red as water, revealing a strong sense of aggression, "I——"

The carriage suddenly stopped.

Fushan's voice came from outside, "Master, there's a troupe of opera singers passing by on the street. It's a bit congested for now, so we'll have to wait a while before we can move forward."

Xie Guanlan opened the curtains.

The daughter of the prefect is going to hold her coming-of-age ceremony, and the city is busier than usual. Actors and actors of all kinds are carrying props through the streets, and all the carriages are stuck here.

He was about to lower the curtains when he suddenly caught sight of a brother and sister standing by the roadside.

The little girl grabbed her brother's sleeve tightly, pointing at the candied haws and begging, "Brother, please buy me a candied haws! Please! I want to eat that!"

"What are you eating? You just ate yesterday!"

"So what?! I don't care. If you don't buy it for me, I'll go home and tell Mom! I'll never talk to you again!" The little girl pouted and turned her head away. Seeing that her brother was not scared at all, she grabbed his sleeve again and said, "Just buy it for me. Just buy one string, okay? Just one string! Brother, you're the best!"

Her brother couldn't stand her annoyance and had to buy her a string.

Xie Guanlan looked at them for a long time, then suddenly began to choose his words carefully. "You and I are brother and sister. I've seen other sisters act like spoiled brats, so naturally you can do the same. If something like today happens again, just act like a spoiled brat. You don't have to resort to any tricks."

Wen Xingluo: “…”

Just now when Xie Guanlan lifted the curtain, she also saw the scene outside.

So, he wanted them to get along the same way as other siblings?

Act like a spoiled child to Xie Guanlan...

Wen Xingluo imagined it——

Wen Xingluo tugged at Xie Guanlan's sleeve and said, "Brother, I want to eat candied haws, so please buy me a bunch. Please!"

Xie Guanlan said coldly: "Get lost!"

Wen Xingluo pouted: "If you don't buy it for me, I'll go home and tell my grandmother! I'll never talk to you again!"

Xie Guanlan: "Get away!"

Wen Xingluo stomped her feet and twisted her body delicately, continuing to nudge him: "Good brother, just buy me a string of candied haws! Brother Ziheng is the best!"

The opera troupe had passed by and the carriage started moving again.

Xie Guanlan looked at Wen Xingluo.

No one knew what the little girl was thinking, her facial features were distorted and her expression was weird.

He was displeased, "Wen Ningning?"

Wen Xingluo came back to his senses and was so disgusted by the scene he had just imagined that his hair stood on end.

She coughed lightly to hide her embarrassment, "I'm not going to act like a spoiled child."

Xie Guanlan looked at the two little red clouds that appeared on her cheeks and asked, "What were you thinking about just now?"

"nothing……"

The girl lowered her brows and avoided his gaze.

Back at the prefect's residence, the girl, who claimed to have twisted her ankle, nimbly jumped off the carriage, lifted up her intricate and gorgeous skirt, and flew straight into her boudoir like a little bird returning from foraging in autumn.

Xie Guanlan put his hands behind his back and said, "I often can't figure out what she's thinking."

Fushan smiled and said with his eyes downcast: "Young girls are at an age when they are most worried."

…

The golden crow sets in the west.

Wen Xingluo usually puts on a full show. He claimed during the day that he had twisted his ankle, and since returning home he has been pretending to be sick, sitting on the bed.

When Mu Zhiqiu brought the court doctor over, he saw that she was wearing plain clothes, with her thick black hair casually hanging down behind her waist, revealing a pitiful little face without any makeup.

She hid the disgust in her eyes and said with a smile, "I brought the court doctor here to check on your sister's injuries."

Wen Xingluo had been accustomed to seeing Wen Yueyin's sickly appearance since she was a child, so she had copied her frail, sickly demeanor to a considerable degree. She spoke delicately and innocently, "It's all my fault. I've made it so that my elder brother doesn't have time to accompany Sister Mu, and I've ruined Sister Mu's enjoyment of the opera."

Mu Zhiqiu had a polite smile on his face, but a cold look flashed across his eyes, and he gave the court doctor another look.

The court doctor understood and immediately stepped forward to examine Wen Xingluo.

Untying the heavy gauze on the palm of the hand, the court doctor paused and laughed angrily, "If I had come a little later, I'm afraid the wound on the girl's hand would have healed!"

Cuicui yelled, "What do you know?! My lady just sprained her foot!"

The court doctor wanted to examine him, but Wen Xingluo held the quilt down and said, "Men and women should not touch each other."

Mu Zhiqiu also laughed in anger, "I also know a little about the art of medicine. If you are worried about the intimacy between men and women, why don't you let me come and treat your injuries myself?"

She wanted to expose her stepsister's cunning and scheming in front of Xie Guanlan, and clear all obstacles for her to marry into the Zhenbei Palace.

However, just as she finished her words, Xie Guanlan came in with a bowl of medicine.

Wen Xingluo called out, "Brother..."

"You are injured, so there is no need to stand up and salute."

Xie Guanlan sat on the embroidered cushion and personally scooped up a spoonful of medicine and fed it to her.

Mu Zhiqiu frowned.

Wen Xingluo wasn't injured at all, what kind of medicine did she drink?!

She finally couldn't help it and stepped forward to pull back the quilt.

The girl was not wearing stockings, her feet were white and tender, and her ankles were as smooth as jade.

Mu Zhiqiu smiled with satisfaction.

She said to Xie Guanlan, "The Commander's sister is really good at acting and has great skills."