Whether he is friend or foe, he has gone to such lengths to ruin my plans time and time again. He is my enemy, Ah Hua. The fox will eventually show his tail.
Let's wait and see.
However, the arrangements made by this sickly prince were indeed those of a professional. Sure enough, the three houses in this small courtyard were built in just three days, and Ye Chen also helped to make some furniture, which looked quite nice.
Zhou Lang and I went to town again and bought some flowers and plants to decorate the courtyard.
"Orchids, lotuses, chrysanthemums, all we need is a plum tree to make our little courtyard perfect." I stood in the courtyard, rambling on, while Zhou Lang sat on a stone bench, propping his head up and looking at me with a smirk.
Ye Chen sat beside us, doing laundry and cooking, and, for some reason, he glared at us with a rather unpleasant sideways glance.
I didn't care whether he lived or died, and completely ignored his existence. I sat on Zhou Lang's lap, put my arms around his neck, and said gently, "I heard that moving into a new house in the mortal world is a joyous occasion, and it's time to have a big banquet to celebrate. Let's have a banquet and invite some people to celebrate."
Zhou Lang raised his hand, gently stroking the hair by my ear as he looked at me tenderly: "Okay, I'll listen to Ahua."
Ye Chen, who was standing to the side, also became interested and said, "Okay, okay, I'll take charge of the cooking."
Zhou Lang and I set three days from now as the official housewarming day, and sent invitations to Uncle Yuan, the waiter, the sickly prince, and Qingyan.
When the day arrived, Uncle Yuan only sent a congratulatory gift through someone, saying that this was a gathering for young people and that he, being an old man, would not participate, but would make up for it another day when he had time. He did not attend the banquet.
The waiter, needless to say, simply replied, "The store has been too busy lately, I haven't had time to come over."
The sickly prince also sent a message saying, "I have important matters to attend to and cannot come at the moment." He declined with this excuse.
Look at this prince, he's so pragmatic. Just because you didn't agree to be his subordinate last time, he's showing no respect this time and not coming at all!
However, I really liked the pair of congratulatory gifts he sent me through Qingyan. They were a pair of jade pendants with dragon and phoenix patterns, which could be combined into one.
Upon receiving the congratulatory gift, we immediately put it on Zhou Lang and me.
But Qingyan, in a rather vulgar way, gave me a large ingot of silver and slipped me a note along with it: "Go buy whatever you want!"
"Vulgar! So vulgar! But I like it!" I smiled at her ingratiatingly. The note she handed me was about something I had asked her to do, and she hadn't disappointed me; she had investigated it for me.
Unfolding the note, I roughly understood that Ye Chen was indeed a liar full of lies.
"Is there anything I can do for you?" Qingyan asked me very kindly at this moment, which touched me quite a bit.
However, Ye Chen's motives are impure, and his true identity has not yet been confirmed. If he is an ordinary mortal, I can handle him by myself. If he is some kind of demon or monster, I cannot drag her into this mess.
Now that we roughly know that Ye Chen's identity is not true, as long as we are prepared, no matter what he is up to, we will not fall into his trap.
So I patted my chest confidently and said to her, "No need, Zhou Lang and I can do it together."
"I like your gift even more!" I said to her with a sly grin.
Seeing my reaction, she actually showed no mercy and said that she needed to go back as soon as possible to protect her master's safety and would not linger there. She left with the words, "Then be careful in everything."
We invited a whole bunch of people, but none of them showed up. Zhou Lang, Ye Chen, and I stared blankly at the table laden with delicious food: "With so much food, we'll just have to eat it all ourselves."
Ye Chen's cooking skills are quite good. He makes a variety of delicious and colorful dishes that are delicious in both appearance and aroma, making your mouth water just by looking at them.
Even the neighbor's kid smelled the aroma and lingered at the door, looking on with longing.
"Little friend, come here!" Just when I was feeling lonely, this child brought some life to my life, so I generously invited this only little customer to come and visit.
The little boy was probably too greedy. When I called him, he obediently walked up to us and unceremoniously pulled off the roast duck's thigh and began to eat it with relish.
However, the child's mother, who had only taken a couple of bites, came over, put on a terrified look, and dragged the child back.
"How boring. We're not going to eat this child, so why did even our only little guest run away? In that case, all this delicious food can only be enjoyed by Zhou Lang and me." I picked up my chopsticks and filled Zhou Lang's plate with various dishes.
Zhou Lang also took the opportunity to put a lot of food into my bowl.
Only Ye Chen remained unusually silent, staring at me and Zhou Lang.
"Why aren't you eating? Did you poison the food? Are you too scared to eat it?" I suddenly stopped and asked Ye Chen, half seriously and half jokingly.
"Miss Ahua, you're joking. I wouldn't dare poison the food even if you gave me ten lives!" Ye Chen said with a grin as he put food into his own bowl, pretending to eat. "You eat, you eat."
“We eat after we watch you eat it,” I said.
"Okay, okay, I'll eat." Ye Chen finally stuffed his mouth full of food.
Then I very attentively brought out a pot of wine and filled everyone's cups: "Today we won't leave until we're drunk! But I still want to thank Young Master Ye Chen for his hard work, which allowed me to move into the new house so quickly! This wine is for you!"
After saying that, she tilted her head back and prepared to drink it all in one gulp, but Zhou Lang stopped her halfway and snatched it away: "Ahua, you can't drink alcohol, I'll drink it for you!"
Before he could finish his drink, he had already downed the wine in my hand.
"No, this is a toast to Young Master Ye Chen. Of course, you must drink it yourself. No one else can drink it for you!" So I poured myself another glass of wine, stood up, offered a toast, and then drank it all in one gulp.
Seeing my boldness, Ye Chen wisely raised his glass to toast me, saying, "Alright, I'll drink it too."
Seeing that he finally drank the cup of wine I had poured for him in one gulp, Zhou Lang and I exchanged a glance and smiled wickedly.
"A big fish has taken the bait."
Sure enough, Ye Chen lay down on the table and didn't move for a long time.
After Zhou Lang and Ye Chen tied him to the seat with a thick rope, we poured a basin of cold water on him.
After being woken up by the bucket of cold water that Zhou Lang and I poured on him, Ye Chen asked me with a look of confusion and innocence, "Miss Ahua, it's not even night yet, why did you tie me up again?"
"Tell me yourself, why did I tie you up again?"
I patted his face and asked him smugly.
"Ye Chen has never done anything against his conscience, has he?" Ye Chen continued with an innocent look.
"Stop pretending! I'll see how long you keep this up. Zhou Lang, bring me a torch!"
After hearing my instructions, Zhou Lang obediently took the torch, which was burning fiercely, and handed it to me.
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