Chapter 134

The little girl nodded her head foolishly. Her chubby cheeks still made her look cute and adorable. Xue Yili smiled and reached out to touch her head. His deep voice revealed his unconcealed joy. "Then you take a rest first. I'll come over at dinner time."

Ji Jinyou was dazzled by that brilliant smile and nodded again. Xue Yili couldn't help himself and leaned over to give her a light kiss on the forehead. The kiss was as fleeting as a dragonfly touching the water.

A warm touch fell on his forehead, and Ji Jinyou's heart suddenly jumped, and he subconsciously reached out to push him.

Xue Yili stood up, smiled at her, turned around and left. Passing by her two shoes that were lying on the ground, he bent down to pick them up, turned back, and placed them neatly beside the bed before leaving.

Looking at the tall and slender figure, Ji Jinyou's heart was beating like a little rabbit.

She lay down on the bed and pulled the quilt over her face, but her face was burning. She kicked the quilt away and fanned herself in front of her face with both hands.

After fanning for a while, there was no improvement at all, so she turned over and lay on the bed, pounding the bed with her fists.

Beauty is harmful! She didn't want to marry someone so far away, why did she agree so vaguely just now?

After seeing off His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Jin Xing felt uneasy and went into the inner room to check. As soon as she entered, she saw her little princess lying on the bed, pounding it and kicking her legs, looking very annoyed.

Jin Xing walked over and asked with concern, "What's wrong, young master?"

With her mother not around, Ji Jinyou sat up straight and threw herself into Jin Xing's arms, saying, "Xing Xing, I miss my mother."

Jin Xing held her little mistress in her arms, patted her back gently, and coaxed her softly, "We are going back soon, and we will be able to see the queen soon."

Ji Jinyou shook his head a little embarrassedly: "I won't go back yet. I'll wait until after A Yao's engagement party is over."

Thinking of her young master's hesitation, and then thinking of the Crown Prince's smiling face when he walked out just now, Jin Xing had a vague guess in her heart. She wanted to ask, but after a little thought, she decided not to do it.

Although her young master is young, he has been very intelligent since childhood and has his own ideas on everything. Even Concubine Ru does not interfere too much in the young master's decision, so how could it be her turn as a servant to take charge?

But, Dayao is so far away...

Forget it, it was just her guess, maybe she was wrong.

Jin Xing shook her head and stopped having wild thoughts. She just held tightly the little girl who was nestled in her arms like a little quail, stroking her head to comfort her silently.

Ji Jinyou was held in Jin Xing's arms, secretly regretting how she had agreed to Xue Yili so easily. Besides feeling regretful, she also felt a sense of inexplicable joy and excitement.

After a while, Ji Jinyou slowly calmed down, got up from Jin Xing's arms, and said nonchalantly, "Let's unpack the boxes."

Jin Xing agreed and added, "I will also send someone to guard the palace gate at the young master's place. I will tell him that I will not leave."

Ji Jinyou slapped his forehead and said, "Go quickly, go quickly."

When Xue Yili said that to her before, she was panicked for a moment, and the first thought in her mind was to go home. When she came back, she first told Jin Xing to pack her bags, and then asked someone to go out of the palace to find the young master and ask him to pack his things as well.

Yu'er has a hot temper. Knowing that she has to go home suddenly, she will definitely run to the palace and ask her what's wrong and who bullied her.

Thinking of his eldest nephew's attitude of asking questions, Ji Jinyou felt a headache and ordered: "Tell him that I missed home before, but now I feel better. I decided not to leave yet. Let him go and play, and he doesn't need to come to see me."

Thinking that with the young master's impatient temper, he would probably be entering the palace soon, Jin Xing replied yes, walked out quickly and told a young eunuch brought from Dasheng to go to the road to meet the young master.

The young eunuch blocked the young master at the palace gate, but failed to stop him. The young master came over with a dark face, and as soon as he saw Ji Jinyou, he asked who made her angry or if she had suffered any injustice, otherwise why did she suddenly want to go home.

As an elder, Ji Jinyou was of course embarrassed to tell the truth in front of the younger one, so he used both coaxing and deceiving people, and finally managed to coax the young master out of the palace.

Watching the young master leave, Ji Jinyou couldn't help but feel a headache when he thought of his family members in the Dasheng Palace.

She had always regarded Xue Yili as her brother. Logically, she should have resisted and rejected what he said to her. But strangely, apart from being shocked, she did not have any negative emotions.

Even, a different kind of emotion arose.

Intellectually, she knew she shouldn't agree to his request, but inexplicably, she nodded.

Could it be that she actually likes him, but she just doesn't know it?

Or did she subconsciously know that if the two of them didn't work out, they would never be able to go back to the simple brother-sister relationship they had before, so she was reluctant to refuse?

Or maybe, it was because Xue Yili had such a good-looking face.

Thinking of Xue Yili's handsome face, Ji Jinyou nodded, feeling that this was very possible.

She sighed softly and thought, if she were the emperor, she would definitely be a lustful and tyrant ruler.

In the evening, Xue Yili came to have dinner with Ji Jinyou. After the food was served, Ji Jinyou asked Jin Xing and the others to go down first.

In the past, the two of them often dined together and always sat next to each other, but today Ji Jinyou and Xue Yili sat two seats apart.

Xue Yili looked normal, but Ji Jinyou felt a little awkward. In the past, when she treated Xue Yili as her brother, she always admired his beauty openly, but now she couldn't stare at him so openly, especially when she met his half-smile eyes, she felt inexplicably hot on her face.

Xue Yili noticed the girl's embarrassment, raised his lips, picked up the chopsticks, picked up some food for her, and said with a smile, "Eat."

I don’t know if it’s because the relationship between the two has become subtle, or because Xue Yili’s smile was particularly beautiful today, but Ji Jinyou was stunned by that smiling face again.

Xue Yili was very pleased to be stared at by the little girl. He reached out and gently rubbed her head, saying in a doting tone, "Eat first and watch later."

Ji Jinyou blushed and glared at Xue Yili, secretly cursing herself for being useless.

After the meal, the two of them went out for a slow walk to digest their food as usual. Then Xue Yili sent her back, gave her a few words of advice, watched her go in, and then left.

Jin Xing looked at the sweet smile on her young master's face and sighed in her heart, thinking that her guess might really come true.

Ji Jinyou felt relaxed and happy, and she unconsciously hummed a little tune while taking a bath.

But when she lay down on the bed and was alone, she became troubled again.

At the same time, she was thinking that if she and Xue Yili didn't end up together, not only would they no longer be able to be brother and sister, they would probably never see each other again, which would only add to the awkwardness.

At the same time, she was thinking that if she finally decided to be with him, she would have to leave her mother, her seventeenth brother, her father, her mother, her brothers and sisters, and she might not see them once a year. The thought made her sad.

Ji Jinyou rolled over on the bed a few times, feeling irritated. She really wanted to find Xue Yili immediately and tell him that she would not marry him.

But when she thought of Xue Yili's handsome face, his strong and slender figure, all the good things he had done to her in the past, the promises he had made to her, and his warm big hand and the kiss that gently fell on her forehead, her face became hot and her heart beat uncontrollably.

When she thought of these, her heart felt sweet and she couldn't bear to leave him.

In the following days, apart from handling government affairs, Xue Yili spent his days accompanying Ji Jinyou, eating, taking walks, and admiring flowers with her. He also accompanied her out of the palace twice. He met all her requests and took care of her in every possible way.

Joy and happiness gradually overwhelmed the conflicting and complicated emotions in Ji Jinyou's heart. She enjoyed being with Xue Yili.

She thought, if the two of them continued like this, after the New Year and Ah Yao's engagement party, when he asked her if she was willing to marry him, perhaps she would agree.

But man proposes, and on the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the fifteenth and seventeenth princes hurried over. In Ji Jinyou's surprised eyes, the fifteenth prince said with a sad face, "Xiaojiu, I'm afraid that the Empress Dowager will not survive this year, so the Emperor asked us to take you back."