Ah Chou gestured to Zhong Mingwei and continued to rub his shoulders: "It took me three full days to finish the meal, hehe. After I finished, I made up my mind that I would take over the work of the imperial kitchen! Other palace people thought I was crazy, how could they know that there was such a good thing? From then on, my meals were not just steamed buns and pickles, hehe!"
"Eunuch Xie is really good to me. Every time I went to deliver clothes to him, he would give me something to eat, sometimes a small plate of braised meat, sometimes two eggs. Sometimes I hadn't eaten anything, but in short, it was all delicious. Hehe. I like eating braised bones the most. Not only is the meat fragrant, but you can even drink the marrow after cracking the bones. But there are too few braised bones. I've only eaten them a few times in total." As Ah Chou spoke, his voice became increasingly gentle. It was as if that Eunuch Xie was right in front of her. "But he was not of high rank at that time. He always avoided people when giving me food. During the Dragon Boat Festival, he would secretly leave a chestnut and egg yolk rice dumpling for me. He said it was prepared for the master. He was afraid of being seen, so he made me finish it in front of him before letting me leave. Later, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, he left me two mooncakes stuffed with venison, and made me finish them in front of him. When I was eating, he looked around nervously. He was obviously very nervous, but he said that he would leave dumplings for me on New Year's Eve. Hehe, how can there be such an interesting old man?"
Zhong Mingwei looked at the dimples on Ah Chou's face. Her dimples were very shallow, two soybean-sized dimples in her fair skin. Those dimples must be very soft and warm, as she always smiled so much. He really wanted to poke them...
Zhong Mingwei's fingers suddenly moved.
It was just a slight movement, and Ah Chou didn't notice it. She continued to rub Zhong Mingwei's shoulders until she noticed that Zhong Mingwei's eyes were not right. Then she stopped and asked hurriedly: "What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Zhong Mingwei didn't say anything. His lips were tightly clenched and his teeth were clenched together. The fine beads of sweat on his forehead gathered into streams and sank into his temples.
"Zhong Mingwei!" Ah Chou was frightened. She stared at Zhong Mingwei's face with her eyes wide open. Her thin hands froze in mid-air, at a loss. She wanted to touch Zhong Mingwei's face, pat his cheek, or take a handkerchief to wipe his sweat, but her hands were completely unable to move because a warm big hand gently held hers, but the force was not strong and her fingers were slightly stiff.
"You...your arm can move?" Ah Chou was so excited that her voice was trembling. She suddenly held that hand, she was so excited that she didn't know what to do. She stroked every inch of the hand, from the palm to the back of the hand. Then she suddenly buried her face in that big hand and rubbed it again and again, like a coquettish cat, but Ah Chou didn't know how to act coquettishly. She just rubbed it again and again. When she spoke again, she was choked with sobs, "That's great, Zhong Mingwei, that's great. I told you that you would definitely get better, but you didn't believe it..."
Feeling the warmth and wetness in his palms, Zhong Mingwei's heart also became wet. He tried to move his fingers to wipe away the tears from the girl's eyes. It was really heartbreaking to see such a cheerful girl cry.
"Don't cry," the fingers groped for a long time, finally stopping at Ah Chou's moist eyes, wiping them clumsily and carefully, "Girl, don't cry."
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