Chapter 280 is really clever.
The waiter nodded like a chick pecking at rice: "Yes, that's right! This is very important."
Little Baozhu looked bewildered: "Huh? What's important?"
The waiter stared wide-eyed: "Little sister, didn't you see? Today, the second young master came to see Mother on his own initiative!"
Ping'er nodded: "Yes, he also looked at Mother with that disgusting look."
Xiao Er nodded: "Yes, I felt that Mother was going to hit him, but Mother didn't make a move in the end."
Ping'er nodded earnestly, "Yes, Mother rarely shows mercy to people."
Xiao Er nodded again: "Yes. Brother is absolutely right."
Little Baozhu looked at her older brother, then at her second older brother, her little head spinning. After a while, she timidly asked, "Brothers, what's important?"
"Silly girl," the second son said, exasperated, "Of course Mother is more important! We must help Father protect Mother now. We can't let Mother think that Xie Liangchen, that bad guy, is good!"
Ping'er said, "We need to come up with a thorough plan."
"That's so difficult!" Little Baozhu said, resting her chin on her hand.
She looked up and saw her two older brothers looking at her.
"What's difficult?"
Little Baozhu hesitated, "But Xie Liangchen, that slovenly guy, is better looking than Daddy. Daddy is such a big, big guy. And super fierce."
As she spoke, Little Baozhu stretched out her arms with difficulty and gestured, saying, "So, so big."
She added, "The slovenly girl has a pretty face, and she's fair-skinned too." After saying that, she gestured to her own face.
As soon as she finished speaking, the surroundings fell silent. Little Baozhu sensed something was wrong and timidly looked up at her two older brothers, only to see them staring at her with narrowed eyes. Baozhu immediately covered her mouth, blinking her big, dark grape-like eyes: "Did I...did I say something wrong?"
Li Junping stared at his younger sister for a long time before finally giving in. He sighed and said earnestly, "Let me tell you, Father isn't fierce. He's just more manly than others, understand?"
Baozhu blinked her confused eyes again: "Huh? Really?"
Li Junping nodded seriously: "If you don't believe me, ask your second brother."
Both of them looked at the waiter.
Xiao Er stared blankly for a while, not nodding, but looking at Li Junping beside him with difficulty, and asked, "Brother, do you really think Father isn't fierce?"
Speaking of which, wasn't my older brother the one who got scolded by our father the most?
Li Junping: "."
The three children fell into a long silence, seemingly lost in thought.
Xiao Er frowned and broke the silence first: "Ahem, Xie Liangchen is always smiling. He's especially good at bewitching Xin Xin."
Li Junping: "Isn't this inciting people's hearts?"
The waiter said, "That's not important. The point is that he speaks in a gentle and mild manner, and seems like a good person. I've noticed that when he rides to the academy, there are always women secretly watching him from behind."
Li Junping rubbed his temples in frustration, and seeing his younger siblings looking dejected, he glared at them.
"You are not allowed to boost the morale of others while diminishing your own! In the past, when Father went out, didn't there also be women watching him?"
The waiter honestly added, "But look at Father's group—they're all people like Widow Wang."
"you!"
Li Junping glared angrily.
The waiter immediately covered his mouth and dared not utter a sound.
Li Junping took a deep breath and slammed his hand on the table, saying, "I will write a letter to Father today! Tell Father to hurry up and write a letter to appease Mother."
As he said this, he picked up his pen and began to write in a flowing, natural style.
"Brother, don't forget, you must tell Dad that you mustn't forget to buy Mom a gift. Even Grandpa Niu next door remembers to buy Grandma Niu a gift," said Xiao Er.
"Yes, yes, brother also wants to tell father to wash himself clean and dress up nicely when he comes home," Baozhu said.
Li Junping nodded as he filled in what his younger siblings had said, checking it twice from top to bottom. He breathed a sigh of relief when he found nothing missing, but then his face stiffened again.
"What's wrong, brother? While it's still early, hurry up and mail this letter," the waiter said.
Li Junping frowned deeply: "But we only know that Father went to Canglin, we don't know where Father is."
Upon hearing this, the waiter was stunned, scratching his head and looking distressed.
Little Baozhu plopped down on the ground with a thud: "Oh dear, what are we going to do? Brothers, please think of something!"
Li Junping frowned for a while: "We should still try sending a letter. Send it to the city gate, and Father might see it as he walks by."
"But what if Father didn't see it?" Xiao Er asked.
“Then we’ll have to come!” Li Junping said. “We weren’t entirely counting on Father anyway.”
Xiao Er and Baozhu stared at Li Junping with curiosity.
Li Junping waved to them, and when they came closer, he lowered his voice and said, "Let's prepare a gift for Mother together. We can just say it was prepared by Father. Mother will surely be happy."
"No, no, no, this won't do! Brother, isn't this lying to Mother? I won't do it!" said the waiter.
“Yes, that’s right! We can’t lie to Mother,” Baozhu said.
Looking at his righteously indignant younger siblings, Li Junping squinted and asked, "Do you even want Daddy and Mommy to be happy together? Do you want to watch Mommy be taken away by that bad guy Xie Liangchen?"
The two younger children fell silent for a while before the waiter scratched his head and asked, "But what should we deliver?"
Li Junping tapped the waiter on the head: "You decide for yourself! And your little treasure, you need to think about it too. Anyway, we all have to bring gifts."
He thought about it again and felt it wasn't a good idea, so he added, "From now on, I will send Mother a gift every five days, in case she forgets about Father after a long time."
Immediately afterward, the three children returned to their dejected state. Pretending to be their father and giving their mother a gift? What on earth were they giving her?
"What are you kids chatting about? The noodles are ready, come and help!"
"Hey, we're here." Hearing Jiang Nuanzhi's call, the three children immediately responded, exchanged glances, and then ran to Jiang Nuanzhi.
Jiang Nuan set up several racks and put in most of the noodles she had cooked at once to bake. Once they were almost done baking, she deep-fried them to speed things up a bit. Then she busied herself making the sauce.
Even so, Chen Shu only managed to get the instant noodles after a long struggle.
This time, they made quite a lot. Chen Shu didn't get to taste the instant noodles, but he ate three big bowls of the fried noodles with soybean paste made by Jiang Nuanzhi in one go. Even at the end, he still seemed to want more.
Looking at the pile of instant noodles, he didn't take too many, just wrapped one in a package, and said with a smile, "Doctor Jiang, you really don't need so many. I'll take these back to report to my master. I won't stay any longer, I'll take my leave now. I hope you take care."
Jiang Nuanzhi didn't insist and got up to see him to the door.
Chen Shu clasped his hands in a fist salute to Jiang Nuanzhi, stared intently at her face once more, and without a word, mounted his horse and rode straight to the inn.
Now, all his thoughts are focused on that painting.
He continued drawing without rest until the moon hung high in the sky before finally stopping.
"Wow, that's wonderful! It's been so long since I've painted such a beautiful picture!"
He couldn't help but pick it up and admire it for a moment, exclaiming, "Wow! Who else could paint this man and woman so divinely and otherworldly? I'm afraid only I could do it!"
The image of the boy and girl standing together in broad daylight is vividly depicted on the paper.
Chen Shu, however, was a bit smarter and replaced the man's face with that of her own Duke.
He held the painting and looked at it again and again: "Tsk tsk, I'm so clever. When the Duke sees him and the woman he's after standing like this in the painting, he'll be overjoyed. My good days are just around the corner!"
The thought of being given an important position in the future filled him with excitement, and he leaped into the air, landing on the bed.
"Click"
Upon hearing this sound, he froze. When he moved his buttocks, he heard several more clicking sounds.
Subconsciously, I reached under my butt and saw that it was Dr. Jiang's package containing instant noodles.
Uh... He's already done such a great job, so it should be fine if the noodles are a little crushed, right?
(End of this chapter)
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