"Are you feeling unwell?"
Shen Ruorou pretended to be calm: "It's okay, it's probably a mosquito bite." But the itchiness became more and more intense, as if countless needles were pricking her, making her unable to help twisting and turning on the spot.
Shen Weiwan changed into a new pomegranate red dress and came out. She happened to see Shen Ruoruo's shy look. She almost couldn't hold back her laughter in her heart, but she asked with concern on her face: "Cousin, why are you moving all the time? Did you get bit by a mosquito too?"
"You were bitten by a mosquito!" Shen Ruoruo glared at her unhappily, but because she scratched herself too hard, she accidentally knocked off the pearl flower on her temples.
"Oh, cousin, your pearl flower!" Shen Weiwan exclaimed and went to pick it up, but when she bent down, her skirt rubbed against Shen Ruorou's calf. Shen Ruorou felt a sharp itch on her leg and almost cried out.
"Enough!" Shen Ruorou couldn't bear it anymore, she covered her legs and ran to the side hall, "I'm going to change clothes!"
Looking at her embarrassed back, Madam Taifu frowned: "Why is this child acting so strange today?"
Shen Weiwan sighed at the right time and whispered: "Maybe my cousin is too enthusiastic. She insisted on lending me her skirt just now, but she herself wore her casual clothes stained with grass debris..."
"Grass scraps?" Madam Taifu raised her eyebrows.
Shen Weiwan immediately covered her mouth, as if she had let something slip: "I...I just said it casually, my cousin said it was just ordinary grass clippings..."
The noble ladies beside them had already pricked up their ears and started whispering. Shen Weiwan knew that this wave of "grass scraps moving" magic operation was a complete success.
"Madam," she tugged at Madam Taifu's sleeve and pointed at her new pomegranate-red dress, "This dress is really beautiful, but I don't know if it will last. What if it gets dirty again?"
The Taifu's wife was amused by her and said, "Silly child, just change it when it gets dirty. Come to the Taifu's mansion often in the future. Madam has a lot of fine materials here."
Shen Weiwan immediately smiled with her eyebrows curved: "Thank you, Madam!"
On the waterside pavilion not far away, Xiao Yu waved his folding fan, taking it all in. When he saw Shen Weiwan "accidentally" rubbing Shen Ruorou's calf with the hem of her skirt, he couldn't help but laugh softly.
"Your Highness, this Miss Shen is really..." The guard wanted to say "cunning", but felt that it was not appropriate enough.
"It's interesting," Xiao Yu interrupted, his eyes gleaming with interest. "Using grass clippings as weapons, and even making them look like 'moving', only she could come up with that."
He watched Shen Weiwan jumping around in her pomegranate red skirt, like a little fox that had stolen honey, and the smile on his lips grew deeper and deeper.
"Let's go," Xiao Yu closed his folding fan, "I'll go see what new tricks she can come up with."
At this moment, in the side hall, Shen Ruoruo was frantically tearing off her casual clothes. Red bumps appeared on her snow-white skin, which made her scratch her ears and cheeks so itchy that her makeup was ruined.
"Qinghe! Hurry! Find me some ointment!" she screamed, but she didn't notice that the fallen grass clippings were stuck to her new underwear.
Qing He said with a sad face: "Miss, the ointment is all used up!"
"Waste! A bunch of waste!" Shen Ruorou was so angry that she threw her underwear on the ground, but suddenly she felt an itch on her back. She was horrified to find that grass clippings had already covered the lining of her underwear without her knowing when!
"Chen Weiwan!" She gritted her teeth and said the name, her eyes full of resentment, "I'm not done with you!"
But she didn't know that this was just the beginning of Shen Weiwan's "grass clippings transfer technique". The real fun was yet to come.
Shen Weiwan stood among the peonies, looking at the dust rising from the side hall, a smug smile on her lips.
Chen Ruorou, you want to trick me? First ask the "Grass Dust Transfer Technique" in my sleeve if it agrees! Next time, I'll have to find some more powerful "ingredients" and prepare a bigger "surprise" for you!
Chun Tao came over and asked in a low voice: "Miss, do you think Shen Ruorou is so itchy that she wants to hit her head against the wall now?"
Shen Weiwan blinked, looking at her new pomegranate red skirt, in a good mood: "Not only is she banging her head against the wall, she's probably trying to peel her skin off! Let's go get some snacks and let her itch slowly!"
The master and servant walked towards the banquet table chatting and laughing, leaving behind the noble ladies' discussions about "Second Miss Shen's strange illness" and Xiao Yu's increasingly deep smile on the waterside pavilion.
This war sparked by "borrowing clothes" has just reached its climax. And Shen Weiwan's sand sculpture counterattack is destined to make the whole capital laugh.
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