Chapter 75 The Moon Shines Brightly
The jade-white spoon gently touched the wall of the bowl, making a tiny tinkling sound.
The wind blew away the wisteria petals, which fell into the lotus pond, causing tiny ripples.
Shi Jianli's eyes moved, and she sat upright with the bowl in her hands, staring at him quietly, without answering. After a moment, she lowered her eyes.
Mingzhao was still feeling down, but then he gradually calmed down, his smile unchanged. "Okay, I understand. It's okay, I'll ask next time. I was just anxious."
After adjusting his mood, he pushed the plate towards her and said, "Ask the kitchen to make some milk cake. Try it."
The corners of her lips curled up, she tilted her head slightly and said, "Okay."
Mingzhao withdrew his hand, hooked his hand around his waist and rubbed the white jade pendant with a double fish playing in the water ring. His eyes fell on the corners of her curved lips, moved slightly to her soft and rosy lips, and then quickly lowered his eyes, which became more and more rude.
Shi Jianli put down the bowl in her hand, picked up a piece of milk cake with her cold fingers, glanced at him, put it in her mouth and took a bite, feeling a little annoyed with him.
Mingzhao paused for a moment, his heartbeat suddenly quickening as he reacted first.
He suddenly raised his eyes and stared at her closely. Seeing the look of shame and annoyance between her eyebrows, his Adam's apple rolled slightly. He confirmed: "What do you mean? Can I ask for your hand in marriage, or can I ask you next time?"
His gaze seemed to become scorching in an instant. Shi Jianli's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she lowered her eyes: "It's all right."
There was a crisp "click" sound, and the jade pendant in his hand was broken into two pieces.
"Then I'll ask Mother to inform Second Aunt tomorrow?"
Mingzhao's lips corners were raised, and his eyebrows and eyes were relaxed as if he was intoxicated by the afternoon sunlight.
Shi Jianli's gaze rested on his face for a moment, she swallowed the cake in her mouth, wiped her fingers with a handkerchief embroidered with lotus flowers, and picked up the sour plum soup again, "You can go whenever you want."
Mingzhao loosened his hand, and a fish fell into the palm of his hand. The tassels brushed against the skin of his palm, causing a slight itch. When he looked at her, the corners of his lips couldn't help but curl up again.
Shi Jianli clasped the bowl tightly with her fingertips, pursed her lips, put the bowl down and stretched out her palm towards him.
He placed the fish jade pendant in her hand, and his fingertips touched her soft palm.
This Pisces jade pendant with a title tail is of buckle type and can be detached. It can be worn with or without buckling.
Her hands were a little cold, so the temperature of his fingertips seemed a little high. Shi Jianli's eyelashes blinked, and her fingers curled back slightly to hold the jade pendant. "What I want is fish food."
"Don't like it?" He smiled slightly, and bent his index and middle fingers together, trying to pick up the jade pendant.
Shi Jianli didn't move either. She just held up the jade pendant and looked at him, humming almost silently.
"I've accepted them all. You have to take them even if you don't like them." Mingzhao saw what she meant and realized that he couldn't tease her. Instead, he pressed her fingers on the fish, pressing his fingertips on the tassels that fell on the edge of her palm to hold her hand down. "The fish food is by the pond."
Two fish are holding each other's tails, and I give you one of them: I wish you a long-lasting relationship, two: I wish you deep love, and three: I wish we can see each other often.
"I like it." The warmth of his palm still remained on the jade pendant, and a subtle smile was reflected in her eyes.
Meeting his completely undisguised gaze, Shi Jianli paused, stood up and walked towards the lotus pond, her fingertips stroking the forbidden steps at her waist, and lowered her head to hang the jade pendant.
A shadow fell beside him, blocking out the sunlight. Shi Shishili stopped and looked sideways.
Mingzhao bent down, hooked his fingers through the jade in her palm, lowered his eyes and tied the jade carefully.
"Okay." After a while, he curved his lips towards her, and as their eyes met, he said, "Call me Jingyao, that's my given name."
"When I came of age, I was still at the border. The situation there was tense, and the ceremony was simple. My grandfather wrote to me and gave me the given name. There were eighteen characters written on a single sheet of paper."
"The bright moon shines back, its scenery is clear and brilliant. The road ahead is deserted and the way is bright. The scenery is brilliant."
He leaned close, and the scent of spikenard wrapped around her breath and seeped into her heartbeat, a little throbbing and a little nervous.
"Looking forward to it earnestly has a very good meaning and is also worthy of your name."
Mingzhao gave a slight push with his fingertips, and the fish clicked against the jade ring on the forbidden step. He straightened up and chuckled softly, "I suddenly remembered the day I really met you. You introduced yourself in the same way, and I probably said the same thing about yourself."
So, he called her "Miss Shi", and the argumentative girl began to call him "Prince" coldly.
Later, he didn't want her to call him Prince, and finally, he couldn't stand her calling him Prince.
Because she would cut off ties with him without any hesitation and get engaged to someone else without any regrets.
He is just one of her many choices. She can accept his feelings or abandon him completely.
Shi Jianli looked at him and said, "The prince was extremely majestic that day, and everyone was the center of attention."
"You're too kind." Mingzhao coughed lightly, went to get the bowl of fish food from the shade and handed it to her.
Shi Jianli reached out to take it, but he retracted his hand, "I'll help you."
"Oh." She squatted down by the pond, then turned to look at him. After he squatted down and handed her the fish food, she grabbed a handful and threw it into the pond.
Then, my thoughts began to wander.
Seeing her pouring handfuls of fish food, Mingzhao noticed her lost eyes and asked jokingly, "Are you trying to fatten up all the koi so you can send them to the kitchen?"
When Shi Jianli came to her senses, she had fed out half of the basin of fish food.
"What are you thinking about?" Mingzhao had just agreed to his proposal and could become lost in thought when being with him. He still doubted that he had any weight in her heart.
Shi Jianli grabbed a handful of fish food and threw it away without looking at him. "Koi fish don't taste good. I'm going to go find my aunt later. I'm not a cat. I won't think about eating fish every day."
When she was a child, Duzhou's family also raised a pond of koi. She was greedy and asked someone to catch the koi and eat them, but she found that no other fish tasted as good.
Glancing at the tips of her slightly red ears, Mingzhao's smile deepened, "Yeah."
When the fish popped up, he poked their heads one by one and scattered all the fish food. Just as Shi Jianli was about to take out a handkerchief, he handed her a white handkerchief.
She gave it to him last time.
Shi Jianli took it and wanted to put it away after wiping it, but he stretched out his hand, staring into her eyes, and said in a serious and unreasonable tone: "Aren't you going to give it back to me? You already gave me this one."
Shi Jianli pursed her lips slightly, took out a jade-white handkerchief embroidered with pear blossoms from her sleeve and slapped it into his palm.
He lowered his eyes to glance at it, put it away, and the smile on his brows became even wider. "Are you leaving?"
"Well, I'll go find my aunt. Otherwise, even if the Duke's wife goes, my aunt will refuse." But Minglu's relationship was secretive, like an affair.
It is true that he always asked Tianfeng and Tianyu to pay attention to whether there was anyone around, but Shi Jianli still felt a little uneasy.
It's not impossible to keep him hanging, but she still has to consider her own reputation. Not many people in the mansion are stupid.
"Okay, do you want me to take you there?"
"No." Shi Jianli looked for her two maids and waved at them.
Seeing that she really left without looking back, Mingzhao waved his hand helplessly at Tianfeng Tianyu and said, "Go to Fushoutang."
Xianyue observed the changing expressions on her daughter's face and asked, "Miss, what did the prince say to you?"
She seemed shy, nervous, and worried. It was the first time in all the years she had been in the Duke's Mansion that the girl had such a complicated expression.
Seeing that there was an extra piece of jade in the forbidden belt on her waist, Xianyue had some guesses in her mind.
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