"Brother Kai, do you want to try it? It tastes good." Xie Xiuer said with a smile.
"good."
Jing Kai picked up a piece and ate it, and a strange feeling arose in his heart.
It was still that familiar taste. The girl knew that Ruan Qing liked to eat osmanthus cake, so she secretly made a lot of it.
Maybe he hasn't finished eating yet.
"Yun Qiao, do you still have the osmanthus honey you made? I want to take some back to eat." Jing Kai said.
Xie Xiuer's hand holding the pastry suddenly stopped, the smile on her face disappeared, a sinister look flashed in her eyes, and when she raised her head and looked at Jing Kai again, a smile appeared on her face again.
"Brother Kai, why do I remember that you don't seem to like sweets?"
In order to please him, she made many snacks for him, but he refused to accept them, thinking that he told her that he didn't like sweets.
But now he was staring at the osmanthus cake in his hand in a daze, and asked for a jar of osmanthus honey, and her suspicious heart began to doubt again.
Could it be that he knew something?
"Yun Qiao, have you forgotten? Although Jing Kai doesn't like sweets, this osmanthus cake is his mother's and my favorite cake. Jing Kai and you both like it very much.
In the past, only your aunt could make it, and we ate it together.
After your aunt passed away, I never ate osmanthus cake again.
The osmanthus cake you made tastes very good." Ruan Qing said.
Xie Xiuer was stunned for a moment, and a glimmer flashed in her eyes.
"Mother, I was still young at that time and I have forgotten everything. I only remember that you liked to eat it." Xie Xiuer said hurriedly.
"That's true. When your aunt left, you were only three years old, and Jing Kai was already six years old." Ruan Qing said, tears welling up in her eyes.
Her younger sister was afraid that she would be lonely, so she married her and went to Baiyue.
In order to stay with Baiyue for a long time, she married the general who defended the country. However, her fate was unfortunate. After giving birth to Jing Kai, she fell ill with a strange disease and her health became worse day by day.
She sought out many famous doctors for her, but it was of no use.
Later, my sister finally couldn't bear it anymore and passed away in the sixth year of her marriage.
"Mother, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to mention these old things to make you sad." Seeing Ruan Qing crying, Xie Xiu'er hurriedly took out a handkerchief to wipe Ruan Qing's tears.
Ruan Qing patted Xie Xiu'er's hand and gave her a gentle smile. She said, "How can you say it has anything to do with you? I just have my own feelings.
If it weren't for you, I might not have been able to eat such delicious osmanthus cake."
"If you like it, I will do it for you again in the future." Xie Xiuer said.
Looking at Xie Xiu'er and Ruan Qing being so loving and filial to each other, Jing Kai felt it was particularly irritating.
Even though the person is clearly her daughter, she refuses to acknowledge her and insists on treating her as her own daughter, taking good care of her and loving her.
That's why that silly girl insisted on saying her name was Yun Qiao outside.
"Jing Kai, are you feeling unwell?" Ruan Qing suddenly asked, looking at Jing Kai with concern.
Jing Kai said to Ruan Qing, "I just miss my mother a little bit."
Ruan Qing's expression changed and tears welled up in his eyes again.
Jing Kai added, "I'm sorry. It's my fault. I shouldn't have mentioned it again."
"It's okay, you two young people can go out and chat. I'm tired and want to rest for a while." Ruan Qing said.
This was an order to expel them, and Xie Xiuer was naturally happy about it. She took Jing Kai's hand and walked towards the garden.
"Brother Kai, didn't you say last time that you wanted to go to the garden to appreciate the flowers? Then you left for something. This time you must accompany me to appreciate the flowers and help me catch butterflies." Xie Xiuer said.
As they walked along the road, they could see the cinchona trees planted in the palace garden from afar. There were layers of red and green. The red leaves were new, and the green leaves were old. They overlapped with each other, and from a distance they looked like rooster tails.
It is summer now, and the trees are full of small white flowers, which are very beautiful.
Jing Kai chatted with Xie Xiuer for a while and helped her catch a few butterflies before he found an excuse to leave the palace.
After seeing Jing Kai leave, the smile on Xie Xiu'er's face immediately disappeared. She said, "Follow him closely for me. No matter what happens, report every detail to me."
"Prince, it seems someone is following us." Jing Kai's men said.
Jing Kai knew who was following him without even turning around: "Don't worry, let's go back home first."
When Xie Xiuer's men saw Jing Kai returned to the mansion and couldn't get in, they stayed near the general's mansion and observed.
Jing Kai returned to the general's mansion, changed his clothes and went out through the secret passage. When he arrived at the villa, the mute old woman hurriedly gestured to him.
Jing Kai frowned slightly and said, "She refuses to eat? Why doesn't she eat?"
The mute old woman gestured and said she didn't know. Xie Yunjiao not only refused to take medicine, but also refused to eat. She locked herself in the room and didn't let anyone in.
She didn't know what was going on now.
Jing Kai frowned even more.
He asked the mute old woman to use osmanthus honey to make osmanthus cake, and then send it to Xie Yunjiao after it was done.
The mute old woman asked him why he didn't go see Xie Yunjiao. Jing Kai smiled bitterly and said, "She probably doesn't want to see me."
After Jing Kai gave the osmanthus honey to the mute old woman, he went to the study.
After a while, the mute old woman came back with a happy face and told Jing Kai that Xie Yunjiao had eaten all the osmanthus cakes.
Jing Kai curled his lips and murmured to himself, "I knew she would like it."
Xie Yunjiao felt very strange. She clearly didn't want to eat Jing Kai's food. She locked the door of the room and hid in the space. She picked chestnuts from the tree and made roasted chestnuts to eat.
She was already half full when suddenly the mute old woman came knocking on the door. She was afraid of being exposed, so she had to come out of the space.
The mute old lady gestured to her and told her that she had made osmanthus cake. In fact, she could smell the fragrance of osmanthus just by smelling it without the mute old lady saying anything.
Strangely enough, she didn't really want to eat this before she saw it. After all, it's not autumn yet, and the osmanthus flowers are not in full bloom yet.
But as soon as she saw the osmanthus cake in the mute old woman's hand, she couldn't help swallowing.
Finally, he couldn't control himself anymore and after testing it with a silver needle to find out if it was poisonous, he ate it with relish.
The mute old woman asked her to eat slowly, fearing that she would choke.
She didn't care and ate a few pieces in a row and finished them in a short while.
Only then did he drink his tea contentedly.
"Why are there osmanthus flowers at this time?" Xie Yunjiao asked the mute old woman.
The mute old woman hurriedly gestured to Xie Yunjiao that the osmanthus honey was brought by the prince.
Xie Yunjiao's expression suddenly changed and she immediately drove the customer away.
After the mute old woman went out, she slammed the door shut.
The mute old woman also heard the sound of the door being bolted.
The mute old woman shook her head sadly. Xie Yunjiao obviously liked the prince so much before, why did she become like this now?
What happened during those two years when she was gone that made the prince and her so estranged?
Jing Kai couldn't help it and went to Xie Yunjiao's room.
Xie Yunjiao heard footsteps outside the door. She rushed to the door, opened it, and said to Jing Kai, "When are you going to let me leave?!"
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