In the afternoon, a batch of flower seedlings that Jiang Muyu had someone buy arrived, so she changed into some light clothes and went to the garden to dig the soil and plant the flowers herself.

Many of the flowers in the garden were plucked out by her use to develop skin care products, so she had to buy a new batch to plant.

Yunshan helped her sort the seedlings and asked, "Madam, why can we trouble you to plant the flowers yourself? Just ask the servants in the mansion to do it."

Jiang Muyu picked up a shovel and started digging the soil, saying, "I'm free now. I have nothing to do, so I might as well plant some flowers."

Tangtang was also digging a small hole with a wooden shovel. After a while, she called out, "Sister Yunyan, quickly release Miaomiao."

Yunyan glanced at the earth pit she had dug and said with a smile, "Princess, the pit is too shallow. Planting is not possible."

"Ah?" Tangtang looked at the hole she dug and thought it was deep enough. Then she looked at the hole Jiang Muyu dug next to her, which was almost deeper than her legs. Her face wrinkled into a ball, "The hole dug by mother is big enough to plant Tangtang."

Jiang Muyu smiled and said, "Then I will plant the sugar candies, and many of them will grow next year."

"Ah?" Tangtang pouted, "Isn't it enough for mom to have me as her own Tangtang?"

"Hahaha... That's enough, our Tangtang is a one-of-a-kind little baby."

Tangtang was satisfied and continued to dig the soil with a small shovel.

Jiang Muyu had already planted a row of flower seedlings. He turned around and saw Tangtang had just dug a hole.

"Sister Yunyan, let Miaomiao go!" Tangtang stood up and shouted happily.

As a result, she was too excited and didn't pay attention to her feet. Her heel stepped on the edge of the pit, and her body lost balance and fell backwards. She fell upside down into the pit she had dug.

Jiang Muyu was startled at first, and subconsciously put down the shovel and went to help her, but she saw her lying in the pit. She was stunned for a moment, and suddenly burst into laughter, "Mom, Tangtang planted herself in the pit."

Seeing this, the few people who were originally nervous breathed a sigh of relief and started laughing.

Jiang Muyu walked over, put his hands under her armpits, and lifted the little girl out of the pit. After she stood up, he brushed the dust off her body.

"Tangtang, be careful next time. You're lucky you didn't get hurt this time, but you may not be so lucky in the future, okay?"

"I know, I know." Tangtang shook off the dirt on her body, picked up the small shovel on the ground, and ran to the other side to dig a hole without paying attention to Jiang Muyu's obstruction.

Jiang Muyu shook his head helplessly.

Tangtang is still young and has not yet matured. She is afraid of being criticized for being nagging if she talks too much.

I spent the whole afternoon planting flower seedlings and returned to Qingyu Courtyard only at dinner time.

Tangtang got tired and hid in the pavilion to play with the fish in the lotus pond. Now she was hungry, so she sat at the dining table and ate rice with a bowl.

After a while, he suddenly said, "Mom, I see the fish in the pond are so cute and plump. When can we cook them and eat them?"

"Huh?" Jiang Muyu didn't understand. "You've been teasing the fish for over an hour and you actually want to eat them?"

Tangtang blinked her big watery eyes and said, "Aren't fish meant to be eaten?"

Jiang Muyu had already imagined Tangtang lying on the railing of the pavilion, drooling at the big red carp in the lotus pond.

Liang Qingchen smiled as he picked up some food for his daughter. "Tangtang is right. Fish are indeed for eating. When the fish in the lotus pond are fatter, Daddy will catch them and cook them for Tangtang."

Tangtang said happily: "Okay, okay."

"Hmm?" Jiang Muyu leaned over and said in a low voice, "I remember that you spent a huge amount of money to buy those red carps. Are you really going to cook them?"

"It doesn't matter how expensive it is, it's just a few fish, as long as Tangtang is happy."

Jiang Muyu didn't say anything else.

After dinner, Jiang Muyu locked himself in the study and started doing research.

She has converted half of the study into a small laboratory, on which are placed various glass and ceramic vessels. Conditions are limited now, so she has tried her best to restore the equipment. The materials extracted from the petals are enough for her to make some trial devices.

She decided to take the craftsmen to Lihua Manor tomorrow to arrange the vegetable greenhouses and field ditches, and then go to another farm to make some reforms.

It was getting dark. There was only one bright moon in the sky. The silvery moonlight sprinkled on the ground. In the distance, the sound of crickets could be heard.

The fragrance of the night permeated the air, weaving a soft net that enveloped all the scenery.

After taking a bath, Jiang Muyu sat on the stone table in the yard, staring at the night sky in a daze.

When Liang Qingchen came over, he heard her suddenly let out a long sigh.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

Jiang Muyu looked at him. He had just come out of the clean room, and his body was still smelling of hot and wet water vapor. He wore a white leggings on his lower body and a casual outer robe on his upper body. The gauze on his body had been removed, and his fair and strong upper body was exposed in front of her. There were several small cuts on his upper body, some of which were covered with brown scabs, and some had already fallen off and turned into a light pink mark. Among them, the longest mark was the one from his left waist to his abdomen.

Jiang Muyu remembered that he was injured in Putuo Temple. He was injured again before he had even recovered from the injury. It was like a new injury added to the old one.

She licked her lower lip subconsciously and said, "Is it okay for you to touch the water now?"

"It's okay." Liang Qingchen walked up to her, and the scent of rose and soapberry that filled her nose made her stunned for a moment.

He raised his hand and removed a leaf that had fallen into her hair.

"Do you have any fine print?" he asked.

Jiang Muyu shook his head. "We don't use nicknames in our place, but we do have nicknames. We'll also be given nicknames after we go to school, but most of them are rather... ugly."

"What's your nickname?"

"This..." She touched her nose and said, "When I was born, there was a traffic jam downstairs of the hospital. My mother listened to the honking of horns all day and simply named me Dudu."

He didn't understand some of the words, but he understood the last sentence and said with a smile, "Dudu, this name is quite interesting."

"But after my parents passed away, no one calls me that anymore." She slowly lowered her eyelashes, looking a little lonely.

Liang Qingchen realized for the first time that she had lost both her parents in another world. No wonder she had so many things, it seemed that she had suffered a lot.

He felt a little compassion and said, "I will call you like this from now on."

Jiang Muyu said quickly: "Please don't do that. This title sounds rather awkward."

"Ugly?"

"Oh, at least don't call me that. It makes it seem like we have a very close relationship."

"But we have a very close relationship."

Jiang Muyu frowned, "You and I are just husband and wife in name only, aren't we?"

Hearing this, Liang Qingchen frowned, and a dark color flashed across his eyes. He placed his hands on the stone table behind her, leaned forward, and lowered his head slightly, so that the tips of their noses touched.

"Who told you that we are just a couple in name only? You and I were married by the decree of the late emperor, and the world has known it. I even used ten li of red makeup and an eight-lift sedan chair to welcome you home. You are my only princess, and even if you are not the original Jiang Muyu, you should fulfill your obligations since you are occupying her body."

Jiang Muyu wanted to retreat, but his waist was blocked by the stone table, and his left and right sides were restrained by his long arms, thus blocking all his escape routes.

She widened her eyes in horror and swallowed, "What...what do you want to do?"

"Do what I have always wanted to do."

He finished speaking, pinched her thin pointed chin with one hand, lifted it up, leaned over and kissed her moist lips.

The soft lips with a hint of coolness came close to hers. Jiang Muyu was stunned. She raised her hand to push him away, but failed. He then changed the hand that was pinching her chin to pressing the back of her head and kissed her more deeply.

Jiang Muyu tried to push him away in a hurry, and suddenly heard a muffled groan from his lips. She guessed that she had touched his injured part, but he still did not let go. Instead, he bit her lips punishingly.

She felt pain and frowned, then a pair of big hands covered her eyes, and everything went dark before her eyes. She subconsciously grabbed his sleeve.

The next second, she felt him backing away. She was stunned, thinking he was going to let her go.

Unexpectedly, he grabbed her waist and she felt her body lighten.

Liang Qingchen held her waist and lifted her up, then sat back in her original position, letting her sit on his thighs, and then released his hand that was covering her eyes.

Before Jiang Muyu could see clearly what was in front of her, a big hand grabbed the back of her head and pressed it down, and she kissed him on the lips again.