Perhaps due to excessive exercise today, Ye Jinghe had a rare good nap this afternoon. When he woke up, he was surprised to find his brother guarding his bedside.
The older brother was holding a light green flower in his hand.
"Brother, is this flower for me?" he asked happily.
“Yes, this is the most special flower in the garden. I think it’s a perfect match for Jinghe, so I picked it and gave it to him,” Ye Jingchen said with a smile.
Although "green tea" isn't a good word in modern times, Ye Jingchen thinks it depends on the person; it's definitely cute when applied to Xiao Jinghe.
The charming little scenes of tea conversation are the cutest and also a great way to motivate kids.
Unfortunately, Ye Jinghe didn't know the "green tea" meme.
He was already completely overwhelmed by the fact that he could see his brother as soon as he opened his eyes and that his brother had given him the most special flowers.
He happily accepted the flowers and looked around the bedroom, trying to find a container to grow them.
But the surprise Ye Jingchen brought him today was not just the green tea flower. He then took out candied hawthorn, maltose, and peach blossom pastry that he had bought outside the palace.
Ye Jinghe carefully placed the green camellia flowers into the blue and white porcelain vase on the table, which was used as an ornament, before accepting the food that Ye Jingchen handed him.
Candied hawthorn berries are sweet and sour, maltose is sweet and sticky, and peach blossom pastries are fragrant and sweet.
Ye Jinghe felt sweetness in his mouth, and even sweeter in his heart.
Of course, when Ye Jingchen fed him these things, he sent Fang Xi and Fang Rui away and also told Ye Jinghe not to let anyone know. After all, these things were obviously only available outside the palace. If the palace maids saw him, wouldn't his secret escape from the palace be exposed?
Ye Jinghe nodded in agreement without hesitation. He knew how good his brother was to him, but of course he wouldn't tell anyone else!
The next day, during the break between classes, Ye Jingchen gave Ye Jingshu the peony flower in her hair.
Ye Jingshu was overjoyed to receive the hair accessory. She held it in her hands and played with it for a while before finally putting it in her hair.
After finishing her hair, she took out a palm-sized bronze mirror from her sleeve and admired herself in the mirror with great satisfaction.
Suddenly, she caught Ye Jinghe staring at her hair accessory in the mirror, turned her head and smiled smugly at Ye Jinghe, "What, my brother gave me a hair accessory but not you, are you jealous?"
Ye Jinghe, who had already eaten the gift, slowly shook his head.
For Ye Jinghe, nothing was more important than the food he ate. Besides, his brother had only given Ye Jingshu a pretty but useless hair accessory, while he had given him a beautiful and fragrant real flower, along with lots of delicious food.
Unfortunately, he promised his brother he wouldn't tell anyone, otherwise he would definitely have bragged about it to Ye Jingshu.
He lowered his head with a hint of regret.
Otherwise, he could bring the green tea flowers his brother gave him to the Wenhua Hall tomorrow to show these people.
But those were flowers his brother gave him, and he couldn't bear to show them to anyone else.
Moreover, the flowers are delicate; what if they accidentally damage them?
It's such a shame I can't show off the gift my brother gave me!
Seeing Ye Jinghe lower his head again, Ye Jingshu imagined his eyes were red and he looked like he was about to cry from anger. She laughed out loud at the scene she had imagined.
"Ahem—Jinghe, even if you haven't received any gifts from your brother, don't be sad. After all, we're siblings from the same mother, so our relationship is special. Naturally, he'll be closer to me!" Ye Jingshu offered a somewhat insincere consolation.
Ye Jinghe was feeling regretful when he heard Ye Jingshu say that, and a flash of red light appeared in his eyes.
He was indeed still very jealous of Ye Jingshu.
"Since you know how good your brother is to you, then try your best to be a useful person to Dayuan!" Ye Jinghe said with his head down and a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
He still remembered what his brother said to Ye Jingshu when he stared at the unfinished porridge on the second day after he arrived at the East Palace.
My brother said that as princes and princesses, receiving the nation's salary and being supported by the entire country, we should also make the most of our abilities and become useful to Da Yuan.
"This princess will always remember this; you don't need to remind me!"
Ye Jingshu's usual gentleness was just an act; in essence, she was still the spoiled, domineering princess who disliked Ye Jinghe. She couldn't withstand the slightest provocation from Ye Jinghe.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Ye Jingchen picked up a peach blossom pastry with his left hand and a crystal cake with his right hand, and handed them to the two people at the same time.
The turmoil was thus averted.
Ye Jingchen had a slight headache, after all, he didn't have a third hand, but soon, Wenhua Hall would not only have Ye Jinghe and Ye Jingshu.
After class that day, Chenxi told Ye Jingchen that the Ji family was about to make a move.
At the same time, he also discovered that the prefect actually had children from his concubines, and not just one, but a son and a daughter, born to two different concubines.
And this was actually discovered by someone who followed the Ji family.
In other words, the Ji family had already investigated the Prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture.
The Ji family's methods are evident.
The Ji family's intentions in visiting the prefect's mistress were self-evident.
They were simply following the same plan as Ye Jingchen, wanting to muddy the waters even further in the prefect's household and force the prefect to make a choice.
"Just find someone to keep an eye on things from the shadows, and also keep an eye on the follow-up of the Yizhou people's lawsuit against the Jiang family for forcibly seizing farmland and forcing people into slavery," Ye Jingchen instructed.
He trusted Xie Chang'an, but this matter was also important to him because his desire to deal with the aristocratic families was just as urgent as Xie Chang'an's.
"Today is also the day the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion will be subject to a joint trial by three courts." Chenxi casually mentioned this when the topic of Xie Chang'an came up.
Ye Jingchen was somewhat surprised, "A joint trial? What are they going to do? How loyal is the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion to Dayuan?"
The Duke of Zhenguo's mansion is suspected of treason, and there are two crimes involved.
First, Jiang He testified that the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion colluded with the Northern Barbarians; second, the Imperial Guards discovered the Xie family army's waist token on the assassin who attempted to kill the Crown Prince.
Regarding the first point, once Sun Yan, the commander of the Imperial Guards, discovered that the person who reported Jiang He came from the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion, the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion was naturally cleared of suspicion.
As for the second point, on the day of the assassination, Ye Jingchen deliberately asked Sun Yan a question on the spot to prevent anyone from framing him, just to give Sun Yan a heads-up, and Sun Yan's answer at the time was exactly what he expected.
Sun Yan herself said that a qualified assassin would not carry any special marks or items that would expose his identity, but Chen He turned around and found Xie Family Army waist tokens on the assassin. If Sun Yan had any sense, she would have realized that Chen He was suspicious and that this assassination was a conspiracy against the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion.
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