Chapter 30: Possessing a Treasure
From this angle, it was discovered that she had also been bitten behind the ear.
He coughed lightly and said, "Since it attracts mosquitoes, you can ask Chunsheng to find someone to fumigate your house with mugwort."
Song Zijin shook his head, "Thank you, Your Highness, but I don't like the smell of things like mugwort."
"Squeamish."
Song Zijin didn't like what she said, "I'm not being squeamish. I just feel uncomfortable breathing when I smell mugwort."
Xiao Linyuan put down the official newspaper in his hand and laughed, "So you have to cover your nose during the Dragon Boat Festival?"
In fact, for her sake, the Song family only ate rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival without hanging mugwort or anything like that, but it was hard to say that.
At this time, the secret guard knocked on the door and interrupted their conversation.
Song Zijin explained the shape characteristics of the two medicinal herbs very clearly, and also taught the two how to confirm their medicinal properties using other methods.
Seeing the two of them looking at him with admiration, Song Zijin couldn't help but curl his lips, with an unconcealable arrogance in his eyes.
Xiao Linyuan picked up the tea and took a sip. Today's tea was sweet.
After sending off the two secret guards, Song Zijin had no reason to stay here anymore, so he stood up and left.
Xiao Linyuan glanced at the clock and didn't stop it.
The sun was already shining brightly outside, and it was quite scorching. Just as Song Zijin was walking from the main house to the east wing, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
She breathed a sigh of relief when she thought that the east wing was on the shady side and shouldn't be so hot during the day.
But as soon as I opened the door of the east wing, I was hit by such a cold air. What was going on?
Fu Yue's eyes lit up, and she jumped over the threshold. She immediately saw two ice basins in the middle of the room, "Girl, there's ice!"
After saying that, he ran to the west wing like a hairy monkey and ran back with a smile, "There are some in the west room too!"
Song Zijin raised the corners of his lips slightly, "Maybe it's because the prince's mansion is so wealthy that there's ice in all the rooms. I said the prince is a really good man!"
"Yeah, yeah, with the prince here, the master and the others will be fine!"
Song Zijin smiled and nodded, but felt a little melancholy in his heart.
I don’t know how the two secret guards who went to Cangzhou are progressing. I hope they can rescue their family members without anyone noticing before Xiao Jin finds out.
…
With Bing, Fu Yue is more motivated to do things.
Thinking of the mosquito bites on the girl's neck, she decided to embroider sachets and hang a few by the bed to drive away mosquitoes.
Fu Yue did it right away and shamelessly went to the warehouse to ask for some fabric.
Hearing that she was a maidservant of the prince's concubine, the maid in the storeroom stuffed a lot of gold and silver threads into her.
It's like this thing is free.
Fu Yue was laughing foolishly while holding a pile of cloth. Song Zijin was tired from working and came over to sit next to her. "What are you laughing at?"
"Miss, I was thinking that it would be nice if you really became the prince's concubine. Look at this pile of stuff! I've never touched so much gold thread in our mansion in all the past ten years!"
Song Zijin pursed her lips and said, "Are you getting rid of with just a ball of gold thread?"
"This isn't about the gold thread. A beautiful girl deserves the best."
Song Zijin poked Fu Yue's forehead and said, "Silly girl, lean on the mountain and the mountain will fall. After a year in the Xiao Mansion, don't you understand this principle?"
"How can that scumbag be compared with the prince!" Fu Yue was dissatisfied.
"This is not the time for you to keep complaining about men being heartless."
"That's because I didn't know the prince at that time. Look, young lady, whether it's the master or the prince, they are both talented and virtuous people. That's why there are still many good people in this world."
Song Zijin disagreed, "We are lucky to have met the prince. What if it was someone like Sun Shoucheng... There are many Sun Shouchengs in the capital."
"The girl is too beautiful, and possessing a treasure is a crime. Only someone with power like the prince can protect her."
"Silly girl, you only saw the prince's glory, but didn't see how miserable he was when he was unconscious, and he had to be taken advantage of by a weak woman like me..." Thinking of those scenes, Song Zijin couldn't help but blushing.
Fu Yue smirked, "So the girl is already the prince's woman, and the prince should be responsible for her. Not to mention that the girl is the prince's savior. As the saying goes, a life-saving grace should be repaid with one's own body!"
Song Zijin picked up a piece of cake from the plate and stuffed it into Fu Yue's chattering mouth.
"Eat more and stop thinking about these trivial things. The prince also saved my life, he doesn't owe me anything. He is a great hero, his eyes will not linger on women. Besides, this kind of family pays the most attention to the matching of social status. I am a second marriage, I can't even be a concubine."
Fu Yue felt sorry for her, "The girl is obviously innocent! What will happen if she can't get married in the future?"
"Who says women must get married? The prince said women can also achieve great things. I don't know martial arts, so I have no chance of fighting on the battlefield, but I have medical skills. I can save the dying and heal the wounded, and I will be remembered in history in the future~"
She looked at the sycamore tree outside the window with a firm look in her eyes.
In her eighteen years of life, she had never known what she wanted as clearly as she did now.
Fu Yue nodded and smiled, "No matter what the girl wants to do, I will accompany her and never leave her."
Song Zijin was not very good at needlework.
It took me an hour of stumbling and struggling to cut out two of them. They were bulging, and even before I stuffed cloves into them, they already looked like they were stuffed with half a pound of cloves.
Look at Fu Yue again, she is very clever and deft. She cuts out five pieces in a short while and even embroiders a pattern on one of them.
…
The lunch was very sumptuous, so sumptuous that the table on the small couch could not hold all of it, so a round table was set up in the outer room.
There are four main dishes: crispy duck, stir-fried lamb with green onions, steamed pork with lotus leaf flour, and salt and pepper shrimp.
There are also three stir-fried seasonal vegetables, a winter melon and pork ribs soup, a plate of candied osmanthus cake and a plate of glutinous rice balls.
It was delicious and fragrant. Just by looking at it, Song Zijin felt full.
In fact, when Xiao Linyuan picked up his chopsticks, he didn't eat much meat, but kept eating vegetables.
Gradually, Song Zijin didn't dare to pick up her chopsticks. She followed Xiao Linyuan and took a bite of vegetables, but was stopped by Xiao Linyuan's eyes.
"These two plates are all I can eat, and you still want to snatch them?"
“…” If you didn’t know, you would think these two plates of vegetables were some kind of delicacies.
"Your Majesty, don't you like meat dishes?"
Song Zijin's experience at the Xiao Mansion this year made him realize that there are many people in the world who cannot afford to eat meat, and many more people cannot even eat a few mouthfuls of white rice all year round.
Even before the incident at the Song Mansion, when the income from my mother's shop was enough to cover the family expenses, the Song Mansion did not have more than two meat dishes for every meal.
The Song Mansion only has such a sumptuous feast during the Chinese New Year.
"I can't eat anything too greasy right now."
After saying that, he gave Fu Yue a look, and Fu Yue hurriedly picked up two more ribs for Song Zijin.
"Your Highness, I can't eat anymore." Afraid that he wouldn't believe her, Song Zijin burped on purpose.
Xiao Linyuan glanced at her pointed chin and thought that she was so thin because she usually ate cat food.
"Eat these two pieces, don't waste them."
He was extremely serious, like an old scholar who was about to jump up and slap a student on the hand.
"Okay." Song Zijin said reluctantly.
His cheeks are puffed up like a little squirrel.
Xiao Linyuan pinched his fingertips, a smile in his eyes.
Song Zijin was concentrating on fighting with the spare ribs, but in his heart he was blaming the chef of the palace for cooking too large a portion of the dish.
She felt like her stomach was filled with half a pork chop.
After the meal, Chunsheng and Fuyue took away the leftovers. Song Zijin patted his stomach and called Chunsheng.
"Let the chef make something light for dinner."
Xiao Linyuan turned around and looked at her, "Why, you don't like greasy food?"
"No, it's delicious. But I thought, Your Highness can't eat greasy food, so why not stir-fry some more vegetables?"
"The palace doesn't lack this little bit of meat."
Song Zijin frowned. Isn't this a waste?
Chunsheng quickly explained, "Miss, although our palace is a royal palace of a different surname, the standards for dining and traveling are no less than those of a prince. In the royal family, a meal must have dozens of dishes, regardless of whether the master likes it or not, or whether he or she eats it or not. This is the rule. Our palace is already low-key enough, and we only made less than ten dishes for this meal."
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