His possessiveness towards Huaixu had reached a level that even he found terrifying. Just as he had said to Huaixu, he imagined that the other person's heart and eyes were only for him.
Noticing his gaze, Chu Huaixu reached out and gently tapped the tip of his nose: "I'm really hungry, go roast a rabbit."
Tonight, Chu Huaixu was like a seductive ghost, bewitching Song Ting. She was so captivated that she wouldn't even hesitate to roast herself, let alone roast a rabbit.
"I'm sorry, little rabbit, I wanted to spare your life, but you were unlucky enough to run into the fierce and ruthless commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guard."
"Our commander is ruthless and heartless. If you fall into his hands, you will only face death."
"Sigh, so I have no choice but to eat you. But every wrong has its perpetrator, and every debt has its debtor. If you want revenge, you must go after him, not me..."
The freshly killed and skinned rabbit was roasted until crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. One bite left a lingering fragrance on the lips and teeth. Chu Huaixu's appetite was whetted, and he unknowingly ate more than half of the rabbit. While eating, he also poured his heart out to the poor little rabbit who was "dying with its eyes wide open," telling the little rabbit to seek revenge on Song Ting.
Meanwhile, Commander Song, who claimed to be hungry as well, was diligently flipping another rabbit over without eating a single bite.
Listening to Huai Xu's rambling, a smile unconsciously crept onto his originally indifferent lips.
Such quiet and peaceful time together is truly precious for the two of them now.
But back when they were in the Prince's mansion, they often did this. Huaixu liked to go hunting in the woods north of the city, but he didn't know how to start a fire to cook things, so Song would hear about these things.
They roasted rabbits, pheasants, fish, and even two sparrows.
Huaixu disliked the sparrows, saying they looked terrifying. Upon seeing the two bloodied sparrows, he told Song Ting to move them away. Even after they were roasted, he refused to touch them.
Huai Xu has always been like this; if he doesn't want to touch a food, he will absolutely not try it no matter how much others urge him.
"That's about enough, it'll burn if you keep roasting it." Chu Huaixu reminded Song Ting as he was lost in his memories.
"Hmm." Song Ting handed over the roasted rabbit, and Chu Huaixu looked blank. "What are you doing?"
"Give me another one." Song Ting replaced the rabbit that he had eaten until it was just a skeleton with a freshly roasted one, and then quietly began to eat.
Chu Huaixu paused for a moment, then lowered his eyes and smiled.
He was already full, but he couldn't refuse Commander Song's kind offer, so he accepted it.
"The little emperor is almost crying, but the master is still roasting rabbit for me here. If the little emperor finds out, he'll surely chop off the master's head."
The surroundings were quiet, with only the occasional night breeze brushing against her face. Song Ting was still wearing the black python robe bestowed upon her by the emperor, but she gave off a very different feeling than usual.
It was as if the night had melted away the murderous aura emanating from him, allowing him to briefly become Song Ting instead of the Jinyiwei commander whom everyone avoided like the plague.
Song Ting wasn't the only one who recalled those past events.
At times like these, Chu Huaixu always wanted to dig out this person's heart to see if it was truly black.
The rabbit meat had been torn clean, and even the bones had been removed. Song Ting threw the broken bones into the fire and added some more firewood.
As he got up, his expression suddenly changed, and he began to gag, vomiting up everything he had just eaten.
"What's going on?" Chu Huaixu frowned, somewhat surprised. He unconsciously moved closer.
"It's alright." Song Ting stopped him from getting closer. "The rabbit wasn't poisonous; it's my own fault."
"..." Chu Huaixu didn't care about that at all, but Song Ting's words reminded him. He went back and sat on the rock, staring at the man's back, and snorted coldly.
"That's not necessarily true. Next time I eat something that belongs to an adult, I'll have to test it for poison first."
"There are so many people who want your life, sir. I don't want to die for no reason."
Song Ting turned to the side, but before he could speak, a rabbit was tossed into his arms. Chu Huaixu leaned against a rock, looking bored: "I'm not eating anymore, I have no appetite."
Song didn't say anything, stood there and started gnawing on the rabbit, but after only a couple of bites, he started vomiting again.
Chu Huaixu glanced at him and said, "If you can't eat it, then don't. Is it that you can't eat rabbit meat? I've never seen you have this problem before."
The most common prey in the forest is rabbits. In the past, Song Ting could eat three or four rabbits by himself, and he would even gnaw on the rabbit heads with relish, as if he were a starving ghost who hadn't eaten his fill for eight hundred years.
But I've never seen him vomit.
"Stop eating."
Song Ting, unusually, didn't listen to him. She ate and vomited, but refused to stop.
"Are you sick?" Chu Huaixu was furious and snatched the rabbit away. "The rabbit is so cute. Not only did it lose its life for nothing, but you also ruined it. I'll eat it."
This time, Song didn't confront him.
Chu Huaixu ate almost two rabbits by himself, his stomach was so full that it felt like the rabbit meat was stuffed up to his throat.
He probably won't want to eat rabbit meat for the next few months.
Song Ting handed him a handkerchief, but he slapped it away, saying, "I think you don't want to poison me, you want to stuff me to death."
Song Ting reverted to her dull, wooden self, taking Chu Huaixu's hand and carefully wiping the oil stains off his hands.
The first rooster crowed in the distance, and the watchman struck the gong for the next hour.
They hadn't realized they'd spent so much time in the back mountains.
"Let's go, the monks in the temple will be waking up soon." Chu Huaixu stood up, supporting himself on a stone.
Because he had eaten too much, Chu Huaixu couldn't fall asleep for a long time after returning to his room. It wasn't until the temple bell rang that he gradually drifted off to sleep.
I slept until the sun was high in the sky. When I opened my eyes, my head was spinning and I felt a little dizzy.
The person guarding outside the door was Qi Zhou.
"Where are your parents?" he asked habitually.
Qi Zhou: "The lord has gone down the mountain to investigate the case."
Dozens of lives are hanging over the young emperor's head. If the matter isn't thoroughly investigated, he might not be able to sit still in his chair.
"Would you like breakfast, young master?" Qi Zhou asked.
"No need." He ate so much rabbit meat last night, and it still felt stuffy in his stomach. He didn't want to eat anything right now.
But Chu Huaixu suddenly remembered something and changed his mind, saying, "Let's eat some."
Qi Zhou brought over a bowl of bird's nest and lotus seed soup and two steamed buns. Chu Huaixu scooped them up with a porcelain spoon, but didn't eat them.
"When did your family stop eating meat?"
Although the adults hadn't told him, Qi Zhou instinctively felt that this shouldn't be said.
Chu Huaixu rested his chin on his hand and looked up at him: "I am your master's master, you should know that, right?"
Qi Zhou was taken aback: "I think I guessed it."
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