Chapter 11
"Why don't you eat, Master? I washed my hands."
Li Youfu, who was standing by, was shocked to hear him ask such a question. He was so clueless! He didn't even bother looking in the mirror to see what he looked like. Even if a fairy appeared, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince would never eat food fed by someone else's hands, let alone someone with his appearance!
Just when Li Youfu thought His Highness would be displeased, he heard—
"The claws are too dark and affect my appetite."
Li Youfu just thought that he had misheard. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was not a person who liked to joke around, and there was a hint of teasing in his tone.
Gu Yanling didn't notice the complicated look Li Youfu was giving her. When she heard Xiao Xinghan compare her hands to claws, she wanted to throw candy in his face. What claws? Whose hands are claws? His hands are so beautiful!
Gu Yanling cursed Xiao Xinghan in her heart, but she had to put on a pitiful expression on her face, saying aggrievedly, "Young Master, how can you still judge people by appearance? Although my skin color is a little darker, I wash it very clean every day, and it still smells good."
Xiao Xinghan did not comment and did not continue the topic.
Servants filed in and placed the food on the table. Gu Yanling picked up the chopsticks and was about to serve the food, but then put them down again and said in a pretentious tone, "Will my dirty hands affect the young master's mood for dinner?"
Xiao Xinghan didn't buy his trick at all: "Li Youfu."
Gu Yanling immediately waved her hands, picked up the dishes, and used to find a way out for herself, "Let me do it, let me do it. I was the one who served you this morning, and it didn't affect the young master's appetite at all."
Seeing His Highness's attitude, Li Youfu's heart was in turmoil again. This was clearly connivance!
After all, having served His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for many years, Li Youfu must be able to guess His Royal Highness's thoughts better than others. It seems that from the very beginning, His Royal Highness's attitude towards this kid was unusual!
Gu Yanling was not a quiet person and soon started talking. "Master, is the pigeon meat crispy?"
"The tendons look pretty well-cooked."
"Master, this steamed fish has bones. Be careful when eating it so it doesn't get stuck in your throat."
He was the one talking all the time, Xiao Xinghan ignored him. Li Youfu saw him chattering about the fish bones, but he never saw him pick them out for His Highness. When he saw His Highness pick out two fish bones with his own hands, Li Youfu's eyelids twitched.
Gu Yanling herself was not good at serving people, so she just followed Xiao Xinghan's instructions and picked up a few pieces of each dish with chopsticks and put them in the bowl and plate. Finally, lunch ended with a bowl of soup.
However, Xiao Xinghan didn't leave after rinsing his mouth and washing his hands. Gu Yanling looked at him and hinted, "Master, I'm hungry. I'm afraid my stomach's growling with hunger will disturb your ears."
Xiao Xinghan: "Yeah."
Gu Yanling: "Then I'll start eating. I'm full so that I can better serve the young master."
Xiao Xinghan didn't say anything, and Gu Yanling took it as her tacit approval. She sat down on the stool and glanced at Li Youfu, who looked a little shocked. "Let's eat together. There's so much."
The master's leftover meals would indeed be shared by the palace servants. After all, everything the master ate was carefully cooked with the best and freshest ingredients. Some of the dishes were things that ordinary people would never be able to eat in their lifetime. However, this tacit understanding was never made public, let alone in front of the master.
Li Youfu knelt on the ground immediately after being greeted by Gu Yanling, "Master, please forgive me."
Gu Yanling was startled by his sudden action. She paused with the chopsticks that were about to reach her mouth. For a moment, she didn't know whether to continue eating or put down the chopsticks, so she had to look at Xiao Xinghan.
He was a little confused as to why Li Youfu knelt down at every turn.
Xiao Xinghan said calmly: "Get up and pick up some things you like to use."
Li Youfu: "Thank you for the reward, Master."
What kind of reward is this? It's just some leftover food. Gu Yanling feels more and more that Li Youfu's previous statement that he had received all kinds of rewards by serving the young master was just bragging!
It seems that Xiao Xinghan is not as generous as him.
Li Youfu stood up, took some dishes to himself, and then went to the side hall to eat.
Gu Yanling didn't think much about it and just thought that people from the capital had more rules. Anyway, he was not from the capital, and he didn't sell it to Xiao Xinghan.
"Master, Li Youfu is already old, why does he kneel down at every turn? Did he sign a contract to sell himself to you?"
Xiao Xinghan: "Don't talk while eating."
Gu Yanling didn't take it seriously: "I didn't spit out any rice grains. I only spoke because I had nothing in my mouth. If you don't believe me, just look."
As he spoke, he opened his mouth.
Xiao Xinghan glanced at the red tongue looming in his mouth and said, "Shut up."
Gu Yanling had no other intentions, she just wanted to prove that she had nothing to eat. Suddenly, she thought of Xiao Xinghan's homosexuality. Would her actions be a bit seductive? Thinking of her current appearance, haha, she felt that she was really overthinking it.
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But in the end, he still kept his mouth shut and began to eat quietly. He could feel Xiao Xinghan staring at him, so he looked up, met Xiao Xinghan's bottomless eyes, swallowed the food in his mouth, and blinked: "Master, why are you always staring at me?"
Xiao Xinghan's expression remained unchanged. Instead of answering, he asked, "Why didn't you open your mouth for me to see just now?"
Upon hearing this, Gu Yanling immediately lowered her head and took a mouthful of rice, chewing absentmindedly for a few times. No way—
The young master wouldn't fall for him, would he? Although I look very ordinary now, with a dark complexion, and I wouldn't be able to find him in a crowd, he is still a man after all. What if the young master has unique tastes and likes someone like him?
He had observed carefully these past few days. Although the servants in the courtyard were fair-skinned and tender-looking, only Li Youfu served Xiao Xinghan, and no one else got close to him.
Could he really be attracted to me? Otherwise, I'd repeatedly upset him, yet he hadn't punished me.
The more Gu Yanling thought about it, the more possible it seemed!
But he is a man of principles.
He is really not the kind of person who will do anything to achieve his goal!
Although Gu Yanling was still a boy, he knew a lot. He was not good at studying and would feel dizzy and uncomfortable all over when he read. However, he had a wide range of knowledge in miscellaneous books.
He naturally knew what being a male concubine meant! The thought of Xiao Xinghan pressing him down on the bed and doing this and that… Wuuuuuu, no, no! He couldn’t do that!
Seeing that Gu Yanling was about to bury her face in the bowl, Xiao Xinghan suddenly shook his head as if thinking of something, "No what?"
Gu Yanling didn't expect that she had spoken subconsciously. Seeing Xiao Xinghan asking, she shook her head guiltily again, "No, nothing."
Xiao Xinghan: "Raise your head."
Gu Yanling was deeply traumatized at this moment. All he could think about was Xiao Xinghan pressing him down on the bed. He naturally refused to look him in the eye. "Don't talk while eating. The young master just said it himself. I'm going to eat."
Seeing this, Xiao Xinghan didn't continue and stood up: "Come to the study after dinner."
Gu Yanling: “…”
After watching Xiao Xinghan leave, Gu Yanling no longer had the mood to eat. All she could think about was why he was going to the study?!
Could it be that you can't wait any longer and don't want to push him onto the bed, so you want to push him onto the table? It's not impossible!
There are many such stories in those miscellaneous books, where the young master and his servant boy hang out in the study when they get interested!
Li Youfu led the servants to clean up and saw Gu Yanling sitting motionless on the stool with a blank look in her eyes. "Are you still going to eat?"
Gu Yanling came back to her senses, her dull eyes finally regaining their alertness: "Youfu, the young master asked me to go to the study after dinner."
Li Youfu was, after all, the head eunuch of the Eastern Palace, and an old man in the palace. Being called Youfu disrespectfully by a young boy, he didn't know what expression to use for a moment. Seeing Gu Yanling's sad face, he felt a little gloating: "You know that the young master is going to punish you, and now you are afraid? Let's see if you dare to take the young master to such a shady place in the future."
If he is not taught a lesson, who knows what kind of trouble he might cause in the future. Thinking of his evil intentions, Li Youfu... Li Youfu really couldn't understand where he got the confidence to come up with such an idea.
Gu Yanling: "You don't understand."
The young master wanted to punish him, but not that kind of punishment, but that kind of punishment!!
Li Youfu felt that although Gu Yanling had only said three words, her rich expression made it seem as if she had mumbled a lot. Before he could ask what she didn't understand, Gu Yanling suddenly stood up and said in a tone as heroic as a warrior cutting his wrists before his death, "I'm going!"
Li Youfu: “…”
Gu Yanling had already made up his mind that if Xiao Xinghan really wanted to do something to him, he would rather die than obey. Being a male concubine required mutual consent.
The study door was closed. Gu Yanling knocked on the door from outside: "Master, I'm coming in."
Not expecting Xiao Xinghan to respond, Gu Yanling pushed open the door. She was about to close it from the inside, but when she thought of what might happen next, she paused and withdrew her hand. It would be better to leave the door open!
Xiao Xinghan didn't hear the footsteps: "Come here."
Gu Yanling: "Oh."
Xiao Xinghan: "Close the door."
Gu Yanling: "It's hot in the room, open the door to cool it down."
Xiao Xinghan then glanced at him and saw him hesitating at the door. "I don't want to repeat it a second time."
Gu Yanling closed the door reluctantly, facing Xiao Xinghan's deep eyes, and slowly walked to the table, "Master, what did you call me for? I have to make sachets for you later. The process is quite complicated and will take the whole afternoon."
Xiao Xinghan: "This matter is not urgent."
This is not urgent, why rush?
Gu Yanling simply couldn't bear to think: "Young Master's health is a big deal, how can we not be anxious! Long-term poor sleep will harm the body!"
Xiao Xinghan was too lazy to listen to his nonsense. "Before you leave the house today, what promises can you make? If you can't satisfy me, I will do whatever I want."
Here it comes! He knew it would be like this! This wasn't the treatment he had mentioned at the time!
Gu Yanling took a step back and defended himself, "That's because the young master didn't go in to experience it. If the young master went in to experience it, he would definitely like it and would definitely be satisfied."
Xiao Xinghan: "Outrageous."
Gu Yanling had heard too much insolence recently, but this was the first time she heard it from Xiao Xinghan. Although his tone was not harsh and was no different from his usual calm tone, it gave people a feeling of excessive oppression. Gu Yanling was so scared that her legs went weak and she subconsciously admitted her mistake to Xiao Xinghan.
Xiao Xinghan: "What's wrong?"
Gu Yanling had no idea what she did wrong.
Xiao Xinghan: "It seems that I don't know."
Gu Yanling simply steeled herself and stared at him, "What you're saying is that you just want to get rid of me, right?"
Xiao Xinghan: "You don't know your fault and still talk back, shouldn't you be punished?"
Gu Yanling naturally disagreed: "I am not wrong. The young master is a man of many years. I took him to Nanfeng Pavilion because I wanted to please him. What's wrong with that?"
But it seems that the young master likes this look after he changed his appearance. It seems that those fair-skinned and handsome young men in Nanfeng Pavilion are really not in the young master's eyes.
"I'm gay." Xiao Xinghan chewed these four words over and over again in his mouth. He was not surprised at all that Gu Yanling could say such a ridiculous thing.
Gu Yanling saw Xiao Xinghan suddenly laugh. It was such a terrifying scene. Although Xiao Xinghan looked handsome, he had no expression on his face all day long. Naturally, people could not feel the feeling of melting ice and snow and spring breeze blowing on their faces, but only a chill on their backs.
"Laugh, what are you laughing at?"
Xiao Xinghan: "Come here."
Gu Yanling wished she could take root: "I'll just stand here and listen."
Xiao Xinghan leisurely admired his expression: "If you don't want to please me, you don't need anyone else, just you."
Seeing that he finally revealed his true face, Gu Yanling was so frightened that she quickly covered her back, her head shaking like a shadow: "I don't want to, this matter requires mutual consent. Don't think that you can do whatever you want just because you are a young master!"
Xiao Xinghan didn't expect that he actually took it seriously: "..."
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