Duan Tingxuan didn't come back until the evening, and his face didn't look good. Su Nuannuan rarely quarreled with him. After hearing that he was hungry for a day, she went to the kitchen to make cabbage meatball soup. Sure enough, the young marquis suddenly became energetic and looked like he wanted to rush over with his light body kung fu. After sitting down, he looked around vigilantly, which made Su Nuannuan curious and asked in confusion: "What are you looking at?"
"That girl Honglian isn't here, right?"
The young marquis' tone of voice was filled with lingering fear. This kind of emotion was rarer than a phoenix feather in his body, which aroused Su Nuannuan's gossiping mind. She smiled as she served him food, "He's not here. The kitchen sent some spare ribs in the evening. I thought the beans would be ready in a few days, so I asked her to marinate the spare ribs and save them for stewing with beans."
"We have plenty of fresh meat at home, why bother to pickle and stew spareribs with beans?" Duan Tingxuan was quickly attracted by the food, but he heard Su Nuannuan say: "Fresh meat is also good, but the spareribs are not cut into pieces, just split them up and pickle them, and then stew them in a big pot with potatoes and beans. That will be a different flavor. You will know when you eat it. You haven't told me what you are looking for Honglian for?"
"Hey! She's just a maid, why did I look for her? I was just scared by her. At noon, she said something that made me rush to the palace without even drinking soup. If she was still here now and said something unlucky again, wouldn't I starve to death? Really, why didn't I know she was a jinx before?"
Su Nuannuan resonated with this and nodded, "You are right. This girl would say something shocking from time to time, and it often comes true. Well! You don't have to be afraid of her. I won't let her appear in front of you in the future..."
Before he could finish, Duan Tingxuan laughed and said, "No, this girl is not a real crow. I don't believe she will only report bad news every day. Honglian is very nice most of the time. I don't have any other girls around me, only Caiyun, who has to take care of the study. Siping and Shuangxi can't enter the backyard. Once there is no one around, I still hope to use her."
The young marquis knew very well that his wife was still very cold to him, but his heart was warming up little by little. If they wanted to have a loving relationship in the future, they would need the help of the sensible Honglian, so they could not stay away from that good girl just because of what she said today.
Su Nuannuan didn't know what Duan Tingxuan was thinking, so she didn't say much. She was more concerned about another thing: "Why are you in such a hurry to go to the palace today? Why did the Queen summon you? She didn't even ask the master to go? In the afternoon, the master sent someone to find you, asking why you forgot his instructions. When he heard that you had entered the palace, he sent another message to ask you to go tonight."
Duan Tingxuan drank a bowl of soup in one go. He handed the bowl to Su Nuannuan, signaling her to have another bowl. He then wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and said calmly, "It's nothing. The emperor suddenly fainted at the queen's place today, and the queen was a little panicked for a while. So she called the prince and me into the palace, but not long after we went there, the emperor woke up, and the imperial physician said he was fine."
"Heatstroke?" Su Nuannuan finally let go of her worries after hearing this, but she saw Duan Tingxuan shaking his head and saying, "How is it possible? The emperor likes heat and fears cold, and he is in good health, so how could he have heatstroke? I'm afraid there must be something wrong, but it's a pity that the imperial doctors are so mediocre that they can't find any clues. It's enough for you to know about this matter, and most ministers don't know this news now."
Su Nuannuan nodded, looked at Duan Tingxuan's face, and suddenly whispered: "According to what you said, the problem is not very big, but why do you look so ugly? Is there any uncontrollable danger?"
Duan Tingxuan looked at his wife in surprise, then smiled after a moment and said, "Nuannuan, you have really changed a lot now. Your insight is so sharp that my worries can't escape your eyes."
Su Nuannuan coughed, thinking, "It's obviously your acting skills that are not up to par, okay?" In the past, Su Mengnuan could not detect your thoughts because of her limited knowledge. Unlike me, I have read "The Self-cultivation of Actors" and even performed in a few extras in Hengdian. Two of them even had a few lines. With your poor acting skills, can you hide it from me?
But of course he didn't say that. The couple ate in silence. Duan Tingxuan drank two more bowls of soup, then he breathed a sigh of satisfaction. Seeing that there were still a few meatballs left in Dahai's bowl, he quickly scooped them into his own bowl and said with a chuckle, "Is this the meatball I chopped? There are still some left? No wonder you only let me chop it with wood. The taste is indeed different, very tender and bouncy. The most amazing thing is the gravy, which is extremely fragrant and fresh. But this job really requires a lot of strength. Without me, I'm afraid you can't do it with just you."
Su Nuannuan just rolled her eyes at his boasting. When she saw her husband put down his chopsticks, she pointed at the meatballs in the bowl and said, "What do you mean by that? If you're not going to eat them, why are you putting them in the bowl?"
"Who said I don't want to eat? I'm just too full now and can't eat any more. Let me move around and eat some more." Duan Tingxuan said as he stood up and paced back and forth in the dining room. Su Nuannuan was so angry at his protective attitude that she almost dumped the bowl on his head.
"I have been doing horse stance these days. Now I feel more stable. Isn't it time for you to teach me some real kung fu?" After finishing the last grain of rice in the bowl, Su Nuannuan decided to have a good talk with Duan Tingxuan about this issue: at her current progress in learning kung fu, even if she let the scumbag eat and drink for free for the rest of her life, she would not be able to learn any real kung fu except for fancy moves.
"Impossible." Duan Tingxuan rejected Su Nuannuan's request: "How many days have you practiced horse stance? How many rounds of heaven and earth energy have you taken in? I remember that several masters said that I was a martial arts genius with excellent physique. Even so, I practiced horse stance for a whole year before I started to learn other kung fu."
"If you say so? Doesn't that mean I will never be able to learn it in my entire life?" Su Nuannuan finally got the real answer from Duan Tingxuan. She wanted to cry but had no tears: Is her dream of being a female knight going to be completely shattered?
"Oh, it's certainly impossible to learn to my level, but you can still climb over a wall and walk on the roof." When the young marquis saw his wife's "heartbroken" look, he was afraid that he would never be able to eat delicious food again, so he quickly threw a few glimmers of hope to Su Nuannuan.
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