Chu Changying tried his best to explain the whole story in words that Ling Shumo could understand. "Your Highness's favorability towards me is only 12 points now, and I have already exchanged these 12 points into gold coins and spent them all. I came to see Your Highness this time to verify whether Your Highness can control his favorability towards me. Increasing the favorability is the ultimate goal; how it is achieved is not important."
The system now finally understood what Chu Changying was trying to do. Chu Changying was using a bug here.
It was so angry that it was about to curse, but it saw on the system panel that Ling Shumo's favorability value towards Chu Changying had risen to one hundred, two hundred, and two hundred and fifty-nine, and there was a trend of continued rise.
If the system were a mortal, it would probably be vomiting blood in anger by now. "Host, I believe I have never done anything to offend you, and yet you actually exploited a loophole to illegally gain favorability points. With such a huge loophole, I'm afraid my salary for the next year will be deducted..."
Just as the system was about to manually repair the vulnerability, Chu Changying had already quickly converted the favorability points into gold coins, and then quickly bought two longevity pills in the mall. He used the remaining fifty-nine gold coins to buy a few random items.
Two longevity pills and several bottles and jars appeared out of thin air in Chu Changying's hands.
Ling Shumo didn't have time to marvel at the magic of this scene. She picked up the teacup, took a sip of water, stuffed two pills into her mouth, and then carefully helped Pei Jiusheng up.
Pei Jiusheng felt something soft pressing against his lips, and then a small mouthful of water was passed into his mouth, and two longevity pills immediately flowed down his throat.
Products produced by the system must be of high quality.
Almost at the same time as he swallowed the pill, Pei Jiusheng's eyes opened.
Chu Changying collected a pile of bottles and jars and quietly left the carriage.
Ling Shumo immediately hugged Pei Jiusheng in her arms. After the joy of regaining what she had lost, a huge sadness surged in her heart again.
Pei Jiusheng's life can only be extended for another two days.
At this time two days later, he will leave her completely.
Pei Jiusheng stayed quietly in Ling Shumo's arms for a while, then gently pushed Ling Shumo away. He opened the drawer in front of him and took out a food box from it. "This is the cake I made last night. I thought Your Highness would be in a hurry to get up early and his breakfast would not be very fine, so I specially brought it to Your Highness to eat on the road. However, I didn't see the food box when I got on the carriage just now. I was so anxious that I fainted. It was really a big joke. I also caused Your Highness to worry about me so much."
Ling Shumo went to look at the food box, and saw twelve pieces of plum cake neatly placed inside.
She picked up one of the plum cakes and took a bite. The cake was cold, but it was not greasy and the crust was crispy.
Ling Shumo could savor the first few bites, but after that she ate faster and faster. In the end, she simply stuffed the pastry into her mouth and swallowed it whole.
She was really afraid that if she didn't quickly cover her mouth with cakes, she would burst into tears.
The scene of the wedding night uncontrollably appeared in front of Ling Shumo's eyes.
Ling Shumo picked up the second piece of plum blossom cake. This time, she didn't eat it, but carefully examined the patterns on the cake. "The capital doesn't produce fresh honey fruit. It's extremely rare that you can find fresh honey fruit and squeeze it into juice to use as dye. I think your plum blossom painting skills have improved compared to your wedding night."
Ling Shumo said this as she turned the plum blossom cake over. She had thought it would still contain a poem praising plum blossoms, but instead, she saw only the words written in small, hairpin-shaped calligraphy: "I offer my humble life as a sacrifice to the heavens, hoping only that Your Highness will be as constant as the moon and as rising as the sun, and that you may enjoy peace and joy year after year, and success in all things."
Ling Shumo took out another piece of plum blossom cake from the plate. This time, she turned it over and said, "I won't be able to wait until next winter. If Your Highness eats this piece of cake with plum blossoms pressed on it, it will be like we grow old together."
Ling Shumo's hands couldn't stop shaking. She turned the pastry over and saw a picture of a plum branch bent by the snow.
In the back hills of Changle Palace, Pei Jiusheng asked her, "Your Highness, next winter, can you accompany me and my servant to the Snow Plum Forest again?"
She didn't understand the real meaning of Pei Jiusheng's words at that time, but now she understands everything.
"If we can get wet in the snow together one day, we can grow old together in this life."
Pei Jiusheng took the piece of cake with snow-pressed plum branches from Ling Shumo's hand, and then handed it to Ling Shumo's lips.
He smiled, his eyes curved, and urged softly, "I thought Your Highness would be eager to eat this cake, but why do you look so reluctant? Your Highness, are you unwilling to spend the rest of your life with me?"
Ling Shumo gently took the cake, but did not eat it. Instead, she put the cake back into the food box very carefully.
Under Pei Jiusheng's puzzled gaze, Ling Shumo turned her head and wiped the moisture from the corner of her eyes at an angle that Pei Jiusheng couldn't see. "I can't bear to eat it. I'm going to find someone to seal all these cakes up, and when I miss you, I'll take them out and look at them, like this... like this..."
Ling Shumo couldn't continue speaking, and Pei Jiusheng hugged her from behind, "There's nothing to be reluctant about. I've been working on a purse these past few days, embroidering it with a snow-capped plum forest scene on the mountain behind Changle Palace. I wrote the patterns on the front of the plum cakes and the words on the back on separate slips of paper and placed them neatly in the purse.
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