Chapter 426, Heartwarming
"Are you really here?"
Xiao Yeyang looked at Daohua in surprise and wanted to get up to pull her, but as soon as he moved, he pulled the wound on his back and his brows frowned in pain.
Seeing this, Daohua quickly supported herself on the ground with her hands and nimbly climbed up. While rubbing her numb arm, she said, "Don't move. I just applied medicine on you. If you pull the wound, it will open again."
Hearing this, Xiao Yeyang's expression changed, and he tightened his clothes awkwardly: "Can you apply medicine to me?"
Daohua continued to rub her arm and said unhappily, "I am the master's apprentice and a doctor with authentic mastery. What's wrong with me giving you medicine?" As she said that, she shook her numb arm.
Xiao Yeyang: "What's wrong with your arm?"
Daohua glanced at him and said, "What do you think?"
Xiao Yeyang thought of the tender hand he held when he just woke up, and a warm current suddenly flowed through his heart. He glanced at Daohua, and a smile gradually filled his eyes: "I thought I was dreaming, but I didn't expect it to be you."
Daohua glanced at him and said, "Thank you for treating my hand as a pillow instead of a chicken drumstick when you were dreaming."
Hearing this, Xiao Yeyang couldn't help laughing: "What would you do if I were treated as a chicken leg?"
Daohua glared: "Of course I pinched you awake!"
Seeing her pretending to be fierce, Xiao Yeyang smiled and glanced out the window: "What time is it now?"
Daohua took out the pocket watch hanging around her neck and looked at it. "It's already 1:30 PM (2:45 PM)!" She didn't realize it's already past noon. No wonder she felt a little hungry.
Xiao Yeyang lifted the quilt and wanted to get out of bed.
Daohua quickly stopped him: "You are injured, you should just lie down on the bed."
Xiao Yeyang shook his head: "Aren't you hungry? I'll take you to eat."
Daohua: "Just ask Defu to deliver the food. You don't need to get up." After saying that, she turned around and opened the door.
“Blessed!”
"Man'er!"
Daohua stood at the door and called a few times, but no one responded.
"Where did Defu and Man'er go?"
Daohua muttered as she returned to the house. As soon as she entered, she saw Xiao Yeyang struggling to put on his clothes. She hurried over and took the robe from his hand.
"Didn't I tell you not to move around? Be careful not to tear the wound. It's winter now, and wounds don't heal easily. Your wound is so big, and if it keeps opening, it will be even harder to heal."
"I told you a long time ago to be careful and not to think you were safe just because you had enough people with you. As I expected, you got hurt."
"You're injured, but instead of recuperating, you have to run out and get yourself into a fever, and you're satisfied. You're already such a grown-up, yet you still cause me so much worry."
Daohua helped Xiao Yeyang put on his clothes while scolding him.
Xiao Yeyang stood quietly, letting Daohua help him dress and let her lecture him. His eyes followed her movements and there was always a gentle smile on his face.
Looking at the chattering rice flowers, Xiao Yeyang felt very close to them. Although it was already winter, his heart was warm.
"Can we stay like this forever?"
Daohua had just helped Xiao Yeyang put on his sleeves when she heard these inexplicable words. She didn't quite understand what was going on and looked up at Xiao Yeyang in surprise: "What did you say?"
Xiao Yeyang looked down at the rice flowers that were looking at him. Since she was a head shorter than him, he could see her expression clearly. It was a rare opportunity to be close to her, so he naturally didn't want to miss it.
He carefully examined her eyebrows, eyes, nose and lips, and saw his face clearly reflected in her clear and bright black eyes. He couldn't help but reach out and touch her cheek.
Xiao Yeyang's sudden action stunned Daohua. She forgot to react and just stared at him blankly.
"Oh, the door is open. The girl must have woken up."
Wang Maner and Defu walked quickly into the house, and then saw Xiao Yeyang and Daohua looking at each other.
Hearing the noise, Daohua blinked and came back to her senses. She quickly took a few steps back, putting some distance between herself and Xiao Yeyang. She glanced at Wang Maner uncomfortably, "Where did you go just now?"
Wang Maner was still immersed in the scene just now and was too confused to come back to her senses.
Finally, Defu stepped forward with a smile and said, "I was worried that the master and Miss Yan would be hungry when they woke up, so I took Miss Man'er to the barracks kitchen to get some food."
As he spoke, he put the lunch box on the table. Seeing that Xiao Yeyang's robe was not yet buttoned, he quickly walked over and helped him tidy up his clothes.
Daohua turned around, wanting to quickly dispel the awkwardness, and walked towards the food box: "What kind of food do you have?"
Wang Man'er had come to her senses and quickly opened the food box and took out the food inside: "Miss, the food in the military camp is a bit rough, you may have to make do with it."
Daohua looked at the food: a plate of cabbage stewed with pork, a dish of pickles, a dish of braised pork, a pot of radish soup, a few mixed-noodle pot cakes, and two bowls of brown rice.
"Is this all you eat here?"
Defu had already helped Xiao Yeyang put on her clothes and immediately smiled, "Miss Yan, this is already good enough. Ordinary soldiers can only eat pickles and pancakes. Even cabbage stewed with pork can only be eaten every few days."
Xiao Yeyang walked to the basin and washed his hands, then wrung out the handkerchief and handed it to Daohua: "Wipe your hands."
Daohua took it, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, and then casually returned it to Xiao Yeyang.
Xiao Yeyang took it with a smile, soaked it with water again, wrung it out and placed it on the basin rack, then walked to the table and sat down, picked up a pot cake and handed it to Daohua: "Try it, it tastes delicious to me."
Daohua took the Guokui, broke off a piece, put it in her mouth, chewed it for a few times, and nodded: "It is quite fragrant, but it is too big. I can't finish it."
A pot-cake, bigger than her face.
Xiao Yeyang took the pot cake and broke it into two halves.
"I want the smaller half."
Daohua took the pot cake and ate it with a bowl of carrot soup.
"This braised meat is delicious, try it."
Daohua nodded, and then saw Xiao Yeyang trying to pick up the fatty pork from the cabbage for her, so she quickly said, "I don't want to eat the fatty meat, Xiao Yeyang, you eat yours, I'll pick it up myself if I want to."
Seeing that she was not dissatisfied with the food, Xiao Yeyang smiled, stopped eating, and lowered his head to eat in big mouthfuls.
While breaking the pot cake, Daohua would occasionally glance at Xiao Yeyang who was eating rice with big mouthfuls.
She was really surprised that Xiao Yeyang could get used to eating such simple and rough food, and eat it with relish.
For ordinary people, such food is actually quite good, but he is a member of the royal family who is used to living a life of luxury and fine food.
For some reason, Daohua felt a little sad.
Xiao Yeyang noticed Daohua looking at him, smiled at her, and said jokingly: "What do you think, my face is pretty good, right? I'll show it to you every day from now on, okay?"
Daohua glared at him and said, "You are becoming more and more shameless." Then she withdrew her gaze and lowered her head to drink the carrot soup.
(End of this chapter)
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