Outside the garden, the red plum blossoms stood proudly in the cold wind, their crimson petals imbued with life by winter, blooming along with the fluttering snowflakes.
The snow is thick, and the branches are covered with ice and snow year after year.
A snow-covered petal fell into Hang Suisui's delicate palm.
This is her second year in this world, and her first year with Yin Huaizhu.
Why are you waiting outside the garden?
Hang Suisui turned around at the sound and saw Qin Yu getting out of the carriage, with several servants holding umbrellas to shield her from the fine snow blowing in.
Qin Yu strode forward with agile movements.
Seeing this, Hang Suisui quickened her pace and stepped forward to support Qin Yu's wrist.
"You'd better be careful, the ground is slippery after the snow, you should be extra careful."
Qin Yu grabbed Hang Suisui's hand and pulled her into the bamboo garden: "What's wrong with you lately? You're always so careful around me. It makes me feel weird."
[001, are you sure Qin Yu is really pregnant? She doesn't look pregnant at all to me.]
Faced with Hang Suisui's doubts, 001 investigated Qin Yu again and then said with certainty.
[Host, I'm certain the female lead is over three months pregnant; it's just that due to her constitution, she's not experiencing any unusual physical symptoms.]
Watching Qin Yu, who was pulling her along with great speed, Hang Suisui sighed inwardly.
Didn't Qin Yu find it strange at all that she hadn't had her period for three months?
Or perhaps, having grown up surrounded by assassins, she forgot she was a woman?
Thinking about it, that makes sense. In the original script, Qin Yu lacked common sense in this area and was slow to realize it. She only realized it when her belly was obviously growing bigger, which led to the scene in the original script where she ran away with the baby in her arms.
As they spoke, the two entered the Bamboo Garden.
Upon entering the living room, Qin Yu picked up the tea on the table and was about to drink it when Hang Suisui quickly stepped forward to stop him.
"Ugh! Don't drink this!"
Unexpectedly, Qin Yu twisted his wrist and dodged Hang Suisui's outstretched hand.
She looked at Hang Suisui strangely: "Is there anything about this tea that you can't drink?"
Over this period of time, the two have gotten along even better than when Hang Suisui was still the eldest daughter of the Hang family.
Qin Yu frequently visited the Yin family and Lanzhu Garden, where he felt much more at ease and relaxed than before.
Hang Sui Sui choked, unable to explain why.
Qin Yu raised the cup without hesitation and was about to drink it down.
Hang Suisui subtly tapped her fingertip to the side, and the tea in the teacup was replaced with honey water that had been prepared on the table.
This tea was brewed when Yin Huaizhu was here. The old man had just called someone over from his garden.
The honey water has a floral aroma and is sweet.
Qin Yu didn't notice and drank it all in one gulp before realizing that the tea had been changed.
She put down her teacup and looked at Hang Suisui.
Hang Suisui pretended to be nonchalant as she looked at the flowers on the table.
I gazed at the flowers with admiration.
Qin Yu, furious, crossed her arms and said, "You won't even let me have a cup of tea? How precious is this tea?"
It's not the tea that's precious, it's her!
Hang Suisui had no choice but to smile and pull the person to sit next to her: "Oh, don't be angry. The tea isn't very hot anymore. Here, here, the honey water is still warm. It's so cold outside, drink this."
She picked up the cup next to her, put it in Qin Yu's hand, and then picked up another cup and drank it herself.
She also gestured to Qin Yu to watch as she drank as well.
Qin Yu held the cup, thinking it was just a glass of water; it didn't matter what he drank.
"Fifth Master didn't keep you company today?"
This shouldn't be happening during the Lunar New Year.
Hang Suisui swallowed the honey water and said, "After we ate together, he was called away by Old Master Yin. He asked me to go with him, but I thought it would be too much trouble with too many people, so I didn't go."
Qin Yu nodded upon hearing this. She had secretly slipped out today while Hang Wei and Xie Yuan were keeping vigil for the New Year.
She hesitated before asking, "Sister... do you really not want to go home?"
Hang Suisui paused in her grip on the cup, then looked at Qin Yu with a serious expression and said, "Qin Yu, if I go back, I will one day cause them repeated harm."
Hang Suisui opened her mouth as if to say something, but only her lips moved without making a sound.
Qin Yu stared at Hang Sui Sui's slightly parted lips in confusion, and finally heard only one sentence.
"You... take good care of them."
After a long silence, Qin Yu finally nodded: ".............Okay."
The two talked for a while, and then an old man in his sixties with a beard came in through the door.
When Hang Suisui saw the person who came, she got up and went forward, turning to Qin Yu and saying.
"This is the doctor living in the Yin family's residence. He is a very skilled traditional Chinese medicine doctor. I've been having trouble sleeping lately, so I'd like to have him take a look at what's wrong."
As she spoke, she beckoned the old Chinese medicine doctor Zeng to come to Qin Yu's side. Hang Sui Sui sat down next to Qin Yu and stretched out her wrist for the doctor to take her pulse.
[Host, you're amazing! Western medicine requires machines to detect these things, but a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner can find them just by taking a pulse!]
Hang Suisui came up with this idea out of desperation; she couldn't very well just go up to Qin Yu and tell him she was pregnant, could she?
Moreover, she has been pretending not to know anything about Qin Yu and Huo Zhou's affair.
Qin Yu looked at the two people taking his pulse and was a little confused. Why would someone seek medical treatment at this time of year?
After a short while, Old Zeng withdrew his hand: "The young lady is in very good health, much better than the average person. There's nothing seriously wrong with her. She's just overthinking things. Just relax."
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