Another three years passed. On a sunny summer afternoon, beneath the lakeside pavilion of the Ningyuan Marquis's mansion, a lovely little girl lay soundly asleep on the back of her maid.
A handsome young man in his early twenties was standing on a small boat heading towards the shore of the lake, holding in his hand a handful of lotus flowers and lotus pods that he had just picked.
Seeing the little girl sleeping soundly from afar, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, his eyes full of smiles.
When I was sleeping soundly, I smelled the fragrance of lotus flowers at the tip of my nose.
The little girl woke up in a daze as she was smelling the scent. When she opened her sleepy eyes, she saw a bunch of lotus flowers in front of her.
"Why aren't you sleeping?" The young master's joking voice came to my ears.
Following the sound, she turned her head and saw a tall and straight young man standing two steps away with a smile on his face, peeling lotus seeds one by one. The little girl looked at the white and tender lotus seeds, rubbed her eyes, and said coquettishly, "Brother Ye, I want to eat lotus seeds tomorrow."
After Minglan finished speaking, she lay back on the maid's back, her mouth open waiting for Gu Tingye to feed her. Gu Tingye shook his head and said, "Ming'er, you can sleep for ten hours a day. You are always sleepy in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Get up quickly."
After blinking her big eyes, Minglan continued to open her mouth and moan. Gu Tingye closed his eyes and laughed a few times, then walked over obediently and fed Minglan the peeled lotus seeds one by one.
The maid Xiaotao sat there with her eyes on her nose and her nose on her heart, letting Minglan lean on her, pretending that she didn't exist.
After eating more than a dozen lotus seeds, Gu Tingye stopped feeding them and discussed with Minglan, "How about having the cook make a sweet soup with the remaining lotus seeds, and the lotus flowers and lotus leaves into snacks?"
Minglan clapped her hands and said, "Okay, I'll listen to Brother Ye."
After the Lotus Feast, Minglan suddenly lost her temper and left Ningyuan Marquis Mansion crying. Gu Tingye chased after her with a puzzled look on his face. It was not until he spent an hour in the Sheng family's flower hall that Gu Tingye realized how he had offended Minglan.
After scratching his head, Gu Tingye muttered to himself: "Ming'er was indeed very ugly when he was just born!"
If Minglan knew that Gu Tingye dared to say this, she would have scratched him with her little claws.
In the end, it was Xin Ge'er who came up with the idea and asked Gu Tingye to order food from Fanlou. Gu Tingye ordered the food and sent it to the Sheng family. After feeding them for three days, Minglan finally forgave Gu Tingye.
The Sheng family's private school is still in operation today, and there are three girls who attended the school with Minglan: Princess Yunran, Yu Yanran, and Gu Tingcan. Minglan and Yanran are of the same age, while Princess Yunran and Gu Tingcan are over a year apart.
The boys included Sheng Xian, Gu Tingye, Xin Ge'er, and Princess Pingning's son Qi Heng. Qi Heng and Xin Ge'er followed Gu Tingye around all day. If Molan saw Qi Heng now, she wouldn't believe he was the young master Qi Heng from that life.
Perhaps because her eyes were still good, Princess Pingning didn't feel the same frustration towards Qi Heng. Her daily discipline of Qi Heng was no different from any other mother's. Besides urging Qi Heng to study hard, she didn't impose any other restrictions on him.
Following Gu Tingye in horse stance, and occasionally playing and practicing martial arts with several other boys, after running throughout the entire summer, Qi Heng's originally fair skin became slightly darker.
Xin Ge'er was still chubby, but he could run very fast, sometimes even Qi Heng couldn't catch up with him. After a few years, he could squat and wield a spear with ease.
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