Chapter 140 Are you jealous?

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Yes, what else could she do with the scissors at this hour of night? Zhong Min smiled. She didn't look like someone who would hide in the house doing needlework at this hour of night, so the scissors must have other uses.

"Why bother with so much? Just go get it." She joked, "Don't worry, at most she'll just have her hair cut off and become a nun. She's not going to commit suicide by slitting her wrists with scissors, is she?"

"Pooh, pooh, pooh!" Xier uttered three times in a row, trying to dispel the bad luck in Zhong Min's words. "What nonsense! A nun and a suicide? You don't know how to say anything nice for no reason. You just keep saying nonsense. Don't you think it's bad luck?"

Zhong Min felt that Xier was adorable when she was angry. These days, the careful and patient Xier was like her little housekeeper, and she didn't have to worry about anything.

"Don't worry, Xier, with you around, how can I bear to stay away from the world? Go ahead, I'm really useful." She said with a grin, then bent down to play with Ruyi at her feet.

Seeing her state, Xi'er could only shake her head helplessly and go out to find her a pair of scissors. Zhong Min's temper has always been like this, sometimes even without a serious look. I really don't know how there can be such a casual woman in the world.

"Ruyi, Ruyi, I've already showered and am ready for bed. I can't hold you anymore today." Reaching out and patting Ruyi's head, Zhong Min said to it seriously, "Although I'm not a germaphobe, your hair falls off so easily. If you toss around in my arms a few times, I'm sure you'll get all covered in hair again. I don't want to sleep with a furry body, understand?"

Ruyi seemed to understand what Zhong Min said. She just acted coquettishly at her feet, but no longer jumped directly into Zhong Min's arms as usual. This made Zhong Min even happier.

"Ruyi is so sweet and smart. I'll definitely take you with me tomorrow when I go out to play, okay?" Zhong Min said to Ruyi with a smile, "It's not that I didn't want to take you with me today, but I just didn't know where you'd go to play by then. Don't get angry, or you'll turn into an ugly monster, right?"

As he was talking, someone seemed to be approaching from behind. Zhong Min paid no attention, thinking it was Xier coming back with the scissors. Without even turning around, he teased Ruyi while saying to Xier, "Put the scissors there. I'll do it myself later."

"What do you want the scissors for?" An extremely familiar voice suddenly rang out, and the whole room was suddenly filled with an indescribable sense of surprise.

Hearing the voice, Zhong Min realized that it was not Xier at all. She quickly turned around and saw Xiao Mingzheng standing behind her looking at her with a smile on his face, holding a pair of silver scissors in his hand.

"Why are you here at this hour?" She quickly stood up and looked at Xiao Mingzheng in surprise, as if she had seen him wrongly. Why was he not spending such a beautiful night with Jiang Meiren instead of coming to her place? This man was really getting weirder and weirder.

Hearing Zhong Min's words, Xiao Mingzheng seemed very amused and immediately asked, "Where do you think I should be at this time?"

Just now, when he saw Zhong Min seemed a little unhappy to leave, he was very happy in his heart. After she left, he naturally had no intention of dealing with Jiang Xiyan anymore. After sending Jiang Xiyan back to Tingyu Pavilion, he found a reason to leave after a while.

At this moment, Zhong Min's long black hair was draped over her shoulders, and her whole body was rosy after bathing, making her look particularly refreshed and healthy, like an alluring red apple, exuding a unique fragrance. Xiao Mingzheng was slightly dazed, and felt that Zhong Min at this moment had an indescribable charm.

"Needless to say, it should be with the princess. Such a beautiful scenery and the company of a beautiful woman, how can we waste it in vain." Zhong Min said as he took the scissors directly from Xiao Mingzheng's hand, gestured with it slightly, and felt that it should be quite sharp.

Seeing this, Xiao Mingzheng's smile grew even more intense. He looked at Zhong Min's slightly lowered eyes and whispered, "Why do you sound so sour? Is Min'er jealous?"

"What a joke! How could I possibly be jealous of her?" Zhong Min blurted out. As soon as she said that, she seemed to feel something was amiss. With a stern face, she said to Xiao Mingzheng, "Your Highness, why are you up in the middle of the night and running here? If you have nothing else to do, please go back. I need to rest."

"If you're not jealous, then you're not jealous. Why are you so angry?" Xiao Mingzheng didn't care about Zhong Min's attitude at all. He was still smiling, looking very happy. "You haven't rested yet, so chatting won't take too long. Why are you asking Xier to get the scissors now?"

Seeing that Xiao Mingzheng seemed to be refusing to leave, Zhong Min simply twisted the scissors in his hand twice in the air. He didn't bother to exchange pleasantries with Xiao Mingzheng and sat down first. "Isn't it okay to just play with it?"

"What's so fun about this?" Xiao Mingzheng naturally heard the impatience in Zhong Min's words, but acted as if he didn't know. He found a chair and sat down while talking, continuing to chat with Zhong Min. It seemed that he would not stop until he got to the bottom of it.

Zhong Min resisted the urge to roll her eyes. She really didn't know when Xiao Mingzheng had become such a scoundrel. He knew that no one liked him but he still stayed around like nothing had happened. There was no trace of his usual dignity.

"Your Highness, you have so many important things to do, aren't you bothered by my trivial matters?" The more this happened, the more irritated she became. Even though she knew this person was doing it on purpose, she still couldn't calm down and deal with it rationally. It was like he was just sulking, and he just couldn't get over it.

"Not annoying." Xiao Mingzheng shook his head seriously, "Sometimes it's only when there aren't these little things that we get annoyed."

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhong Min was stunned. It took her a while to come back to her senses. She turned her eyes away, looked elsewhere casually, and simply stopped talking.

Seeing this, Xiao Mingzheng didn't care. He glanced around the room and then his eyes fell on the plum blossom jade hairpin placed casually on the dressing table, as if he was thinking about something.

After a moment, he stood up and picked up the jade hairpin. While turning it back and forth in his hand, he said to Zhong Min, "Do you like this hairpin?"

"So what if I like it? So what if I don't?" Zhong Min replied grumpily, internally wondering how long this guy was going to keep rambling on. Perhaps he'd drunk too much and forgotten his own temper, hanging around like a little scoundrel. It was truly annoying.

"So do you like it or not?" Xiao Mingzheng continued to ask with a smile as if he was arguing with Zhong Min. His expression was neither hurried nor impatient, as if he would not give up until he got an answer that he was satisfied with.

Zhong Min really wanted to curse, but seeing Xiao Mingzheng's relaxed and contented demeanor, she took a deep breath and held it back. Okay, this guy was obviously doing this on purpose. She really couldn't fall for his tricks. Did he want to see her furious? And he couldn't please her!

"It's okay. I wouldn't say I like it too much, but I don't hate it either." She suppressed her temper and imitated Xiao Mingzheng's current behavior, saying word by word with a smile on her face: "If it were silver, I would naturally like it more."

Hearing this, Xiao Mingzheng couldn't help but laugh out loud. After a moment, he nodded repeatedly and said, "That's the truth. You really do prefer more money."

Thinking back to when he went to Lin County before, Zhong Min accepted two hundred taels of silver as a bribe to find a beautiful woman for him, Xiao Mingzheng found it even more interesting. He guessed that only she would have the courage to do such a thing.

"Are you short of money?" He didn't remember that Prince Mu's Mansion had ever treated her harshly. She shouldn't have to worry about food, clothing, and other expenses.

"Your Highness, this is the second time you've asked me this question." Zhong Min said with a forced smile, "I still have the rest of my life to live. To support myself, I naturally need money."

Xiao Mingzheng stopped laughing at this time, but just looked at Zhong Min seriously, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Such a gaze made Zhong Min feel strange all over. After enduring for a while, she could no longer bear it and could only frown and say to him, "Why are you looking at me like that? I didn't steal your money!"

"Since you don't particularly like this hairpin, you should wear it less often in the future to avoid Jiaxing's misunderstanding." Xiao Mingzheng did not respond to Zhong Min's words, but spoke to himself and put the plum blossom jade hairpin in his hand back to its original place.

He turned back and stood next to Zhong Min, glancing at the scissors in her hand again: "You still haven't told me what you want to do with these scissors?"

Xiao Mingzheng's words about avoiding Jiaxing's misunderstanding had left Zhong Min momentarily bewildered. However, she quickly recovered and ignored the remark, instead picking up Xiao Mingzheng's next words and replying, "It's nothing. I just think my hair is too long and a nuisance, so I want to cut it shorter."

Cut hair? This answer really surprised Xiao Mingzheng, but he soon stopped thinking it was ridiculous. After all, it came from Zhong Min's mouth, so he was not surprised at all.

The hair on your body is given by your parents, how can you cut it off at will? Xiao Mingzheng originally wanted to say this, but he felt that it was too rigid a sermon for Zhong Min. It seemed that this girl did not think it was so serious.

"You have such beautiful black hair, why cut it? Everyone's hair is like this. I've never heard anyone complain about having hair except you." He looked at her and sometimes felt that he could not see into her heart at all, nor could he figure out what she was thinking about all day long.

"Actually, I really don't think hair needs to be that long. Besides, if you cut it short, it'll grow back anyway. It's just like trimming your nails, nothing special." Zhong Min looked at Xiao Mingzheng, pouting and looking a little unhappy. "Your Highness, you won't even dictate whether I cut my hair or not, will you? This is my own business and doesn't affect anyone else."