Chapter 28
"I didn't go to Nanfeng Pavilion today. After buying some herbs and spices, I went to the teahouse to listen to a storyteller."
Gu Yanling put her arms around Xiao Xinghan's neck, sat on his lap, and chatted with him, "Guess what I heard?"
Seeing his expression of asking quickly, Xiao Xinghan followed his meaning and asked, "What did you hear?"
Gu Yanling leaned close to his ear and said, "I heard the elder brother next to me say that the prefect has a male lover and is very fond of him, which has made the prefect's wife unhappy. Our prefect is over fifty years old and still looks so strong and healthy. It's really impressive."
Xiao Xinghan: "..."
Gu Yanling sighed again: "Master, it's a good thing you haven't married yet, otherwise you dote on me so much, and if Madam knew, she would be unhappy."
But this is not true. If Xiao Xinghan really married, Gu Yanling would not be his male concubine. He is not such a casual person. He only agreed reluctantly because Xiao Xinghan is handsome and has not yet married!
Seeing his cocky look, Xiao Xinghan teased him, "How do you know I'm not married?"
Gu Yanling blinked: "I knew it."
Xiao Xinghan pinched his cheek: "Did your elder brother Chang Feng say that again?"
Gu Yanling took his hand away and held her face with both hands. "Ah, don't pull me, it hurts. I heard you were jealous. I haven't been in contact with Brother Chang Feng recently."
"I'm jealous." Xiao Xinghan just found it funny.
Gu Yanling: "There's nothing between me and Brother Chang Feng. I just treat him as a brother."
Xiao Xinghan put his big hand on Gu Yanling's back and asked slowly, "Then what do you think I am?"
Gu Yanling met Xiao Xinghan's deep eyes, quickly put her arms around his neck, and kissed him on the mouth. She was in no hurry to leave, and her lips caressed his mouth. "Master, you ask me even though you already know the answer. What can I think of you as? Master, you are naturally my man."
Gu Yanling came up with these words effortlessly. He didn't read so many storybooks for nothing, he just picked out the ones that sounded good.
It really pleased Xiao Xinghan.
It was broad daylight, in public, with servants nearby. Even though they all lowered their heads, Gu Yanling was still a little shy when Xiao Xinghan held her in his arms and sucked her mouth.
He still has some sense of shame! Unlike Xiao Xinghan, he is so shameless and calm!
Gu Yanling straightened her clothes, got up from Xiao Xinghan's lap, sat on a stone bench beside her, and poured herself a cup of tea. "I'm so thirsty."
Before Xiao Xinghan could remind him, he had already taken a sip. The tea had just boiled, and he drank it directly. The heat made his little face wrinkle in pain, and his eyes turned red in an instant.
As Xiao Xinghan pulled the man into his arms, he instructed Li Youfu at the foot of the stairs, "Go get some cold water and call the doctor."
Li Youfu hurriedly asked someone to get some cold water and sent someone to call the imperial physician.
Gu Yanling was in so much pain that she burst into tears.
Xiao Xinghan pinched his jaw and motioned him to open his mouth: "Let me see if there are any blisters."
While crying, Gu Yanling obediently stuck out a piece of her tongue. Xiao Xinghan checked carefully and found that there were indeed small blisters caused by the burn.
After all, Gu Yanling was young and tender-skinned, and she drank such a big gulp of hot tea in a hurry.
Seeing how pitifully he was crying, Xiao Xinghan swallowed back his words of scolding him. Li Youfu hurriedly brought cold water over and fed it to Gu Yanling's mouth, "Rinse your mouth."
Gu Yanling rinsed her mouth, then took a sip of cold water. Her cheeks were puffed up and she looked at Xiao Xinghan with tears in her eyes.
Xiao Xinghan: "Remember this next time."
Gu Yanling originally wanted him to comfort her, but she couldn't bear to hear him scold her. Naturally, she felt a little aggrieved and started crying again.
Xiao Xinghan paused, raised his hand to wipe his tears, and said in a softer tone, "You drank so fast and so hastily, and you got burned. Who do you want to blame?"
Gu Yanling became even angrier and started crying as she tried to get up from his legs. The doctor hurried over carrying a medicine box.
Xiao Xinghan took the handkerchief handed to him by Li Youfu and wiped Gu Yanling's face clean. "Let the doctor take a look."
Gu Yanling spit out the water and opened her mouth for the doctor to see.
Pao Xiao rinsed his mouth with cold water again and found nothing serious. However, everyone knew the relationship between him and the prince, so they naturally did not dare to be negligent. They checked him very carefully and gave him a lot of instructions, including some foods to avoid. Then he left with the medicine box on his back.
After the pain passed, Gu Yanling stopped crying, because Xiao Xinghan not only did not coax him tenderly, but also said that he was impulsive. He was unhappy and disliked Xiao Xinghan anyway. He stood up and left, and even his back conveyed that he was angry.
Xiao Xinghan: "..."
Gu Yanling took the herbs and spices back to the west wing. The little parrot was pecking at the feathers on its wings. Seeing him come back, it flapped its wings and said, "Yuanbao is the smartest kid in the world!"
Gu Yanling snorted, sat down with her back to the door, and ignored it.
The little parrot started to cry again: "Young Master is the biggest idiot in the world!"
Gu Yanling then spoke: "He is it!"
"Is there really such a person as him? I've been burned, shouldn't he hold me in his arms and show me some tenderness? In the storybooks, it's like 'My dear, the pain is in my heart even though you're hurt,' but he's just short of saying I'm being impulsive and asking me to learn my lesson!"
Xiao Xinghan thought about Gu Yanling's pitiful look just now and ran over to comfort him, but then he heard Gu Yanling's words. Not only that, the parrot in the cage also shouted loudly: "Young Master is the biggest idiot in the world! Young Master is the biggest idiot in the world!"
What he learned was naturally Gu Yanling's tone. I think it was this guy who taught him. After all, parrots can only imitate speech.
Gu Yanling didn't notice Xiao Xinghan coming over and continued to curse, "He's not only the biggest idiot in the world! He's also the biggest villain in the world! A big pervert! He has no heart at all!"
The little parrot suddenly jumped up and down: "The bad guy is coming! The bad guy is coming!"
When Gu Yanling heard this, she turned around subconsciously.
Xiao Xinghan stood outside the door and said calmly, "You cursed so loudly, it seems the injury is not serious."
Gu Yanling: “…”
After saying that, Xiao Xinghan turned and left. Gu Yanling wanted to get up and chase him, but sat back down in a huff.
"Why is he so angry? I was just talking, there was nothing I said wrong, wuwuwu, not only do I let him play with my body every day, but I also have to make him happy, and today I even went out to buy medicinal herbs to make sachets for him..." At the end, Gu Yanling began to sob and cry again, and she took a big grudge against Xiao Xinghan in her heart.
After Gu Yanling stopped crying due to exhaustion, the eunuch holding a copper basin outside hurried into the room and handed her a hot towel, "Master Yuanbao, wipe your face."
Gu Yanling took the handkerchief and wiped her face clean, then said to him, "You don't have to send me dinner. I'm going to bed, so don't call me."
After saying that, he went into the inner room, took off his outer robe, and got into bed.
He will never try to coax Xiao Xinghan again this time!
Gu Yanling closed his eyes with great determination, waiting for Xiao Xinghan to lower his head.
He waited and waited until Gu Yanling's eyelids became heavy and he woke up from a nap, only to find that the room was dark and no one had come.
Gu Yanling's stomach was so hungry that it was empty. Seeing that Xiao Xinghan was so cruel, she felt angry and aggrieved, and buried her face in the pillow and cried.
Xiao Xinghan opened the bed curtains, sat down beside his bed, and said helplessly, "Why are you crying so much?"
Gu Yanling heard Xiao Xinghan's voice, raised her head from the pillow, and wiped her tears with the back of her hand, "What are you still doing here?"
Xiao Xinghan said indifferently, "I brought you food. I feel sorry that you didn't have a meal tonight. After all, if you're hungry, I'm also feeling the pain."
Gu Yanling sat up and curled her lips: "Don't think I will forgive you just because you said a few nice words. I didn't eat dinner tonight. Why did you come now?"
Xiao Xinghan: "You fell asleep during dinner."
Gu Yanling then stood up and lit a candle in the room. In an instant, the candlelight became bright. The eunuch placed the meal on the table in the inner room. Gu Yanling rinsed his mouth with tea and washed his hands before sitting down to eat.
Xiao Xinghan didn't leave either. He sat next to him and looked at him.
Gu Yanling said awkwardly: "In the afternoon——"
Xiao Xinghan: "Alright, let's eat first and talk after we're done."
Gu Yanling was indeed very hungry. After drinking a mouthful of soup, he began to eat his rice. While eating, he thought to himself that Xiao Xinghan still had a conscience and knew to bring him food. Since he was willing to bow his head, and he was not a stingy person, he would generously forgive him this time.
The room was quiet. Gu Yanling concentrated on eating. She finished two bowls of rice and a bowl of soup before putting down her chopsticks and waiting for the servants to clear the table.
There were only two of them left in the inner room.
Gu Yanling glanced at Xiao Xinghan, waiting for him to say something.
Xiao Xinghan looked at his little appearance and said, "What did you want to say during the meal just now? Go ahead."
Gu Yanling curled her lips: "I won't say it, you say it first."
Xiao Xinghan: "What do you want to hear me say?"
Gu Yanling became unhappy when he heard this. Originally, he thought that Xiao Xinghan came over to him to show his respect, so he just gave him a way out and the matter would be over. But now, seeing Xiao Xinghan's attitude, he didn't think it was what he expected. "You have read so much, don't you know what to say?"
Xiao Xinghan said indifferently, "Of course, I haven't read as many storybooks as you have. Books don't teach you how to coax villains, big perverts, and heartless people."
Gu Yanling saw that he had something else in his words and started to sob again: "You are always like this. I think you just like my body, not me as a person. I am afraid that you will eat me up completely and throw me aside when you get tired of me."
Xiao Xinghan: "..."
Gu Yanling was pulled into Xiao Xinghan's arms, tears still hanging on her eyelashes. She just looked at him like that. Xiao Xinghan was completely lost in temper by his crying. He said expressionlessly: "It breaks my heart to make you cry. You didn't eat tonight and you are hungry. I must feel bad."
Gu Yanling felt that this was not something Xiao Xinghan would say, especially since he said it so coldly and emotionlessly, without any emotion at all. "Don't think I didn't see that you were just being perfunctory—wuuuu."
Xiao Xinghan thought he was too noisy and directly blocked Gu Yanling's mouth.
Sure enough, he became obedient after a kiss.
Gu Yanling felt dizzy from the kiss and could no longer utter a word. She could only swallow continuously.
Xiao Xinghan reached out and wiped the saliva from the corner of his lips.
Gu Yanling: "You just bully me."
Xiao Xinghan: "How is this bullying?"
Gu Yanling hasn't spoken yet.
Xiao Xinghan touched his lower back and said, "You'll know what bullying means later."
Gu Yanling heard what he meant and was so scared that she dared not say anything.
Xiao Xinghan gave him a meaningful look.
Gu Yanling quickly lowered her head and didn't bother to ask Xiao Xinghan to admit his mistake.
Xiao Xinghan: "Little coward."
Gu Yanling was laughed at but didn’t dare to speak. Woo woo woo, who made him really afraid of Xiao Xinghan’s ferocious bird!!!
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