Although he had never tasted Ranmei's cooking, Ye An believed in his own and other customers' judgment and boldly took a bite of the bun.
For a moment, he almost cried. Ranmei was simply a cooking god. She perfectly recreated the taste of the bun shop downstairs from his house. It was so delicious.
"This is the same as what I wanted to eat before!"
Ye An quickly finished a whole bun to show his love for it. While expressing his feelings, he almost exposed his identity as a time traveler.
Wen Ziran said happily: "As long as the young master likes it."
After eating the bun, Ye An wiped his mouth and named the bun "Ruyi Bun" with interest. Wen Ziran quickly took notes.
Speaking of buns, Ran Mei thought of another one and asked expectantly, "Master, is the little...Master okay?"
People only knew that the eldest prince was born, but they had no idea what he looked like and it was impossible for them to have seen him.
Ye An smiled: "He's doing well, almost four months old, and looks a lot like me. I even gave him a nickname, Dou Dou. Ranmei makes delicious buns, and she's also very good at other cooking skills."
Doudou? Wen Ziran's eyes lit up.
Ye An knew that Ran Mei was thinking about the little prince and wanted to talk more about him, but he had stayed at the bun stall for a long time without realizing it. Mu Ci had to urge him. Ye An reluctantly said goodbye to Wen Ziran and Chen Yun. At least Ran's sister did not leave the imperial city, and they would see each other again in the future.
Wen Ziran said, "Master, I have changed my name to Chen Ran. If you want to find me in the future, you can use this name. When we open a restaurant, you are welcome to be our guest."
Ye An nodded in agreement, thinking that Chen Ran just took Chen Yun's surname, and Ran Mei really follows her husband wherever he goes.
Then next time he goes out, he might as well try changing his name to Mu An.
Mu Ci took Ye An and rushed to the palace at lightning speed. On the way, Ye An saw someone selling sugar-roasted chestnuts. He actually forgot to buy some this time. What should he do? He wanted to eat them so much. As soon as he opened his mouth, his mouth was filled with wind. Then, several bags of sugar-roasted chestnuts appeared in his arms out of thin air.
An old man selling chestnuts was hawking his wares on the street when suddenly a fast horse passed by. In an instant, half of the bags of chestnuts he had put out were gone. The old man was disappointed, thinking that he had been robbed. He looked again and found that a silver ingot had appeared in his arms. The ingot was enough to buy all his chestnuts. The old man kept the silver and wished that the horse would come more often.
“…For you.”
Mu Ci concentrated on riding his horse without looking around.
Ye An didn't know how he did it. This is not the point. Ye An happily put away the chestnuts. When returning to the palace, he specifically asked to sit sideways so that he could hug someone more conveniently. Now he happily hugged Mu Ci and rubbed against him.
The horse was running very fast, so no one should have seen it, but Mu Ci's ears felt a little hot.
After returning to the Xuan De Hall, just under two hours had passed. Ye An changed into the dragon robe, and Mu Ci also had to deal with palace affairs. He called people into the hall, and the servants thought that the emperor and the concubine were taking a nap, after all, the two of them often went to bed while talking.
Ye An took out all the precious chestnuts and placed them in a crystal fruit plate like treasures. He couldn't help but throw a wink at Mu Ci. He was worthy of being his man. Brother Ci was really capable.
He hadn't seen his son for a while. He sneaked out to play and left the baby in the palace. Ye An felt a little guilty and planned to go to Changle Palace to bring the little prince back. The Queen Mother also sent someone to invite Ye An to visit, and they returned to the palace at the perfect time.
Mu Ci finished all the palace affairs and felt a little tired. He supported his forehead with his hand for a while and decided to take a rest. When he looked up, he saw Ye An walking in from outside the hall with a big belly.
Mu Ci: “…”
Ye An let out a soft hiss, lifted up his dragon robe, and took out the little prince who had been hidden in his clothes.
The Queen Mother tried to monopolize Doudou for herself and refused to let him go. Ye An took the baby away secretly while the Queen Mother was not paying attention.
Mu Ci laughed: "Don't keep him depressed."
Ye An said: "I'll block it with my hands and watch it all the way, nothing will happen."
What Ye An said was right. Dou Dou's face was rosy and his eyes were shining. When he saw his fathers, he opened his little mouth and shouted, full of energy and indeed, he was not bored at all.
The distance from Changle Palace to Xuande Hall was not short for a child. Mu Ci asked in surprise, "Didn't he cry?"
Ye An chuckled twice and shook his head. In order to prevent the cub from crying, he had put in a lot of effort and fed it several mouthfuls of milk on the dragon chariot!
Thinking back to the time when he accidentally drank fish soup and had milk, he took turns with the wet nurse for the first three months. Originally, he was supposed to stop feeding after a hundred days. He has also been taking milk-suppressing medicine in recent days, but it has not been completely stopped. Ye An believed that it would be a waste if he didn't drink it, so he did not hesitate to show his secret weapon that could win over the cub in one fell swoop.
"Brother Aci, are you tired? Let's take a rest together."
Ye An held the baby in one hand and pulled Mu Ci with the other. He noticed that Mu Ci looked tired, which was rare for him. He was very sleepy after all the hard work.
Mu Ci hesitated, and Ye An comforted him, "Doudou has eaten and drunk enough, and his diaper has been changed in advance. There is nothing to worry about."
Mu Ci then nodded.
The little prince was placed at the innermost end of the dragon bed first, followed by Ye An. However, Ye An immediately thought that his sleeping posture seemed unfriendly. What if he fell asleep and crushed his son? So, he wisely let Mu Ci sleep in the middle and he lay down at the outermost end.
Ye An yawned, tears welled up in his eyes, and he naturally hugged Mu Ci's arm. Suddenly, he heard a slight yawn from the other side.
Ye An opened his eyes wide and looked over. It turned out that the kid sleeping over there was imitating him, not only yawning like him, but also holding Mu Ci's arm like him.
Ye An was a little jealous and teased him, "This is mine, you are not allowed to snatch it!"
The cub clung to his father with his little paws, and not to be outdone, he uttered twice, as if to say, "It's me!"
Mu Ci: “…”
Mu Ci hugged Ye Xiaoan, who was about to teach the kid a lesson, into his arms. The child was weak, so he didn't dare to use force. He used his arms to make a circle and circled Doudou. This time both sides were satisfied.
For Ye An, who got pregnant not long after her marriage, the clingy period had not yet passed. Once she got close to Mu Ci, she couldn't help but want to kiss and hug him. This time was no exception. She kissed him before going to bed, and then she found that her baby was staring at them without blinking.
It was the first time that Ye An blushed when his son looked at him. This would have a bad influence, so he did something bad. He held his son's little butt and turned the boy around so that he could only see the tent and not them. Ye An continued, and everyone was happy.
Half an hour later, Ye An woke up and found Mu Ci was still sleeping soundly. Ye An's gentle gaze fell on Mu Ci's face, then moved to the other side and was horrified to find that his son, who was held by Mu Ci, was gone.
Ye An was so frightened that he almost cried out. He quickly covered his mouth and searched the bed. Finally, he found a cub at the end of the bed, with its butt sticking up and trying hard to turn over.
Ye An: “…”
Doudou is less than four months old, and turning over is too difficult for him. Originally facing up, he has to turn his body sideways to take a breath, and then struggle with his limbs to turn over and face down. But in this way, one hand will always be pressed by the body. When Ye An found Doudou, Doudou was trying hard to pull out his trapped little paw like pulling a carrot.
Ye An then realized that he had just turned over. It must have taken him several turns to get from the head of the bed to the foot of the bed. What a naughty kid who is never easy to take care of.
Ye An watched for a while, but Dou Dou still didn't pull out his claws, so Ye An picked up his son with a wicked grin and laid him face up.
Doudou:? ? ?
Doudou originally wanted to lie face down, and after trying for a long time, he was pushed back by his bad father Ye Xiaoan.
Tears welled up in Doudou's eyes and he burst into tears. When Ye An saw that he had caused trouble, he tried to comfort Mu Ci anxiously, but Mu Ci was still sleeping. Was this unfilial boy trying to wake Mu Ci up?
Ye An has always been good at bullying children, not good at coaxing them. Among the people in the palace who can coax children, the wet nurse is ranked first, the Queen Mother and Mu Ci are ranked second, and Ye is ranked last. However, Ye An has a secret weapon. Seeing that the unfilial son is about to wake up his other father by howling, Ye An can only shamelessly take off his shirt and use his secret weapon to block his son's mouth.
A quarter of an hour later, the unfilial boy fell asleep in Ye An's arms. Ye An rubbed his eyes and felt a little sleepy again.
When Mu Ci stood up, he found Ye An lying at the end of the bed with his body hunched over, and Dou Dou lying in his arms, wrapped up in his undershirt so he wouldn't catch a cold.
Mu Ci sat over and looked at the two very similar sleeping faces of Wuyou, one big and one small, for a while, then leaned over and kissed Ye An on the lips, then rubbed the top of Dou Dou's head and covered them both with a quilt.
Ye An only remembered the fish in the water bag the next day. Fortunately, Mu Ci had already put the fish into the empty water tank in Zhaoyang Palace for him.
This tank was where he raised fish last time. Ye An didn't realize until he was able to get out of bed that all the fish had died on the day he gave birth.
When Ye An heard the news for the first time, his scalp went numb. It was hard to imagine how Mu Ci would feel when he saw it with his own eyes.
Moreover, he had just finished processing the fish and when he returned he found that he almost tripped, causing the operation to take place before the day calculated by the imperial physician. Even he himself felt that it was unlucky, let alone Mu Ci at that time? No wonder Mu Ci insisted on accompanying him throughout the whole process...
Before leaving the palace this time, Ye An had decided that he must raise fish again. This was a continuation of his stubbornness. The empty water tanks in Zhaoyang Palace always made him feel uneasy.
The fish that were raised again also made Mu Ci realize some suspicious things that he didn't have time to notice at first.
Ye An was tripped by Jinzhu on the day of her delivery. It was someone's fault. Knowing this fact, sending him to Zhaoyang Palace to watch the fish seemed like a deliberate attempt to lead him away.
"Xiao An, do you still remember why you asked me to go fish watching on the day of delivery?"
Ye An had a more vivid memory of nearly tripping, and could not remember the rest. He said blankly, "It seems... someone said that the fish in Zhaoyang Palace looked a little wilted."
In Ye An's eyes, the few fish were almost like tokens of love. He would take a look at them almost every day before his body sank. It was only because he was about to give birth and it was inconvenient for him to leave the hall that he put them aside temporarily.
Upon learning that the little fish was in poor condition, Ye An immediately found someone to check it out. He often dragged Mu Ci to check on the fish together. Mu Ci also knew the significance of this fish. It would be almost the same for Mu Ci to check it out as for him, so Ye An found Mu Ci without even thinking twice.
Ye An also thought of this and said in shock: "Could it be that someone used me to get you away, and then, and then..."
"It's very likely." Mu Ci said, "Do you really not remember who it is?"
Ye An thought about it and shook his head irritably: "If he is a suspicious person, why didn't I find him?"
Mu Ci was stunned, and Ye An finally remembered something that might be useful: "I was too flustered on the day of delivery, and the things were too complicated, so I really can't remember it, but there was another time before when I was almost tripped by a golden bead, and I remember it clearly. They all used golden beads, and the methods were similar. Could it be the same person? The people present at the time were Li Guiji, Qiao Fei, and Yang Fei. I once suspected Yang Fei, and she was confined by the Queen Mother because of this, but later Yang Fei said almost the same thing as you."
“If I use the Yang family’s gold beads to harm others, it will be too obvious to him.”
The methods were similar, and coupled with Yang Shuxuan's defense, Ye An's intuition had always been accurate, and Mu Ci also agreed that it was most likely the same person who was responsible. It seems that this person has been harming Ye An for a long time, and there may be another charge that he plotted to murder the dragon heir.
Ye An's recollection of the past unexpectedly makes the person behind the scenes almost surface.
After all, Concubine Yang was dead, and the only suspicious people left were Concubine Li and Concubine Qiao.
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Ye An will not have a second child for the time being, so the description of the second child will definitely not be as detailed as the first one.
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