He grabbed the orange on the table and peeled it. It was so sweet that Lin Chunhuan squinted his eyes.
She didn't have any grand ambitions. If it weren't for Xiao Cen's favor, she would have been just a nobody, at most a pretty nobody.
She is narrow-minded and doesn't remember the importance of forgiving others when possible. Even after being reborn, to be honest, she doesn't have any lofty goals. From the time she married Xiao Cen until now, everything she did had only two purposes.
One is to live a good life in the second half of your life.
Another thing is that everyone who made her live a miserable life in her previous life will live a miserable life too.
That's all.
So whether Lin Chunuan hated her, whether the Lin family treated her as if she didn't exist, or what people outside said about her, she didn't care.
There was only one thing she had to do and could do.
Make good use of the gift in the brocade bag and hold on to Xiao Cen.
"This orange is so sweet, it seems that it is not the variety from our capital." Lin Chunhuan said, and stuffed a slice into Xiao Cen's mouth. The sweet juice flowed into his mouth through the gaps between his teeth, carrying with it an inextricable tenderness and sweetness.
Looking at the pair of eyes in front of him that were smiling, Xiao Cen smiled and shook his head without saying a single extra word, let alone accusations.
When the prince saw the blood jade on Lin Chunuan's wrist, his expression changed for a moment, but it was only for a moment, and before anyone could even notice, he had returned to normal.
At first, Lin Chu Nuan was thinking of making a complaint, but she didn't expect that after she finally met the prince, the man who had his eyes full of her in the past, would not even look at her today.
It was as if he had placed all his thoughts on the Crown Princess, and his eyes never left her.
If the prince had not stayed in her bed every day, Lin Chu Nuan would have doubted whether these two were really so deeply in love!
The lively atmosphere of the banquet contrasted sharply with the deserted backyard.
Eunuch Qi took two large steaming buns, a small dish of braised meat and some fruits and placed them in front of the little beggar. He also poured him a cup of hot tea and said, "Eat quickly."
"I'll get you some later. Don't come here again. Be good."
Before Eunuch Qi finished speaking, the little beggar had already started to gnaw on the steamed buns in big mouthfuls, and even stuffed the meat directly into his mouth, as if he was going to swallow it without even chewing it.
Sure enough, he choked and his face turned red and his neck became thick after a while.
Fortunately, Eunuch Qi smiled and helped to feed the little beggar some tea to help him breathe more smoothly. The little beggar finally managed to catch his breath and said, "Thank you, uncle! Don't worry, I will return these things to you in the future!"
"Good boy." Eunuch Qi's smile never faded. "I don't want you to return the things. Just live well and that will be your repayment to my family."
The little beggar did not respond to Eunuch Qi's words. He just buried his head and kept eating. However, this time he drank some water from time to time to prevent himself from choking.
"Good boy, what's your name?"
It was obvious that Eunuch Qi had some fondness for the little beggar. Since the nobles were all enjoying the opera and music, he decided to stay and talk to the man in front of him. "Why would you go to the casino and cheat for no reason?"
"Uncle, what else can we go to the casino for besides making money? Isn't this asking even though we already know the answer?" The little beggar chuckled, his mouth never idle. "You can just call me Wuji."
Instead, Eunuch Qi uttered a cry of joy, raised his still fair and tender fingers, and gently tapped Wuji's forehead, "Such a big name, aren't you afraid of being crushed to death!"
"From the way you talk, do you seem to have read some books?"
"I read some of it, but then something happened at home, so I stopped reading it."
When talking about his family, Wuji's tone was a little depressed, but it looked like he didn't want to talk about it in depth, so Eunuch Qi didn't ask any further questions. Instead, he was silent for a while and asked a few more questions.
Only then did I discover that Wuji was not only literate but also knew some simple math. Although he had a somewhat eccentric personality, he was a likable person. What was rare was that he knew how to adapt to the times.
Hesitantly, Eunuch Qi asked the last question.
"Wuji, there were so many distinguished people outside the courtyard at that time, why did you choose to go to that one person? Do you know who that person is?"
Wuji shook his head very honestly, "I don't know who she is, but seeing how gorgeously she's dressed, she must be someone of some stature. Plus, there were so many people present, and everyone else was avoiding their gazes when looking at that sister, so I assumed she was someone with some influence."
"Plus, she is pregnant. As the saying goes, love your own children as well as other people's children. I bet that sister is soft-hearted towards children. Isn't my bet right!" As he said this, Wuji shook the steamed bun in his hand, which made Eunuch Qi laugh and cry.
Reaching out, he pinched Wuji's cheek. "You! I'm warning you. That's Princess Pingyang, a very honorable lady. Don't act like that next time you see her!"
"For someone like me, life is worth less than grass. Don't worry, uncle... I might not even survive this winter."
"What if I'm willing to let you stay and be my apprentice?"
Eunuch Qi had a smile on his face. Actually, he didn't have this idea at first, but Xiao Wuji was really smart. Besides, this person had shown his face in front of Princess Pingyang, so you never know when he might be useful.
After much thought, he decided to keep a trick.
Looking at the stunned Wuji, Eunuch Qi leaned down and asked, "How about it? Are you willing?"
However, what Eunuch Qi did not expect was that there was no joy on Wuji's face, and he even looked like he was about to cry from fear.
Before Eunuch Qi could understand what was going on, the steamed bun in Wuji's hand fell directly onto the table, and he covered his crotch with both hands, "Is it okay if I don't eat the steamed buns?"
"Uncle, you didn't say you would bite my vitals just for eating a steamed bun!"
Eunuch Qi was so angry that he choked, "Bah! You little rascal!"
The banquet lasted until late at night. Lin Chunhuan returned to the palace early, but Xiao Cen did not enter until three o'clock in the morning. The strong smell of alcohol on his body could make even an uninitiated person drunk to 30%.
Of course, no matter how drunk he was, it was not the turn of Lin Chunhuan, a pregnant woman, to take care of him.
However, Lin Chunhuan still couldn't fall asleep that night, or rather, she was deliberately waiting for dawn, waiting for something she had been looking forward to for a long time to happen.
Sure enough, at daybreak the next day, there was a knock on the palace gate.
Although it was only the second day of the Lunar New Year and the sky was just beginning to brighten, there were not many people on the street, but the loud noise of knocking on the door still attracted a lot of attention.
When the palace's gatekeeper looked outside, a group of people had already gathered.
The doorman was still half asleep, but he instantly woke up when he saw who was knocking on the door. "Master Lin? Why are you here?!"
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