Jiang Yanyi paused: "If you don't pour the medicine, I won't come over."
"I won't fall down until I fall down. I will drink right here!"
Seeing that she had no intention of coming forward, Feng Shuo tilted his head back and swallowed all the medicine. His sense of taste was still sensitive at this distance, and it was the first time he drank something so unpalatable with his sense of taste. It was so bitter that his whole face was distorted.
Jiang Yanyi looked at him terrified: "Are you okay?"
Feng Shuo squeezed out two words from between his teeth: "It's okay."
Jiang Yanyi wanted to say that judging from your expression, you seemed to have something wrong, but he didn't have the courage to say it out loud.
Feng Shuo strode back to the stone table, picked up the teapot on the table and prepared to take a few gulps to rinse his mouth.
Jiang Yanyi discovered his intention and quickly pressed the teapot: "Tea can neutralize the drug. Let me boil some water for you."
When she boiled the water, Feng Shuo felt that he might go to hell because of the smell.
He stared at Jiang Yanyi fiercely: "You did it on purpose!"
Although his expression was fierce, Jiang Yanyi strangely did not feel scared. She even felt like laughing for some reason. She could not hold it back and the corners of her lips curled up.
Feng Shuo's expression became even uglier: "What are you laughing at?"
Jiang Yanyi took out a bag of pine nut candy from her sleeve pocket. She bought this for Qiu Kui when she went to the market to buy ginseng. Qiu Kui usually loved these sweets, and she didn't expect them to come in handy here.
She said, "The medicine is a bit bitter, you can eat something sweet to reduce the bitterness."
Feng Shuo turned his face away: "Are you treating me like a three-year-old child?"
Jiang Yanyi picked up a piece and started eating it: "Who said only children can eat candy?"
Feng Shuo turned his head and suddenly grabbed her hand that was holding half a piece of pine nut candy. He opened his mouth and bit off the half-eaten piece of pine nut candy, chewing it into pieces with a crunching sound, as if he was not chewing the pine nut candy, but her.
Jiang Yanyi didn't expect him to be like this and was stunned for a moment.
Feng Shuo's eyes were full of anger: "You know what I feel for you. If you haven't made that plan, don't provoke me!"
He took the initiative to open the screen paper. After Jiang Yanyi's embarrassment, she suddenly felt courageous. She met his gaze and asked, "Your Majesty... what did you see in me?"
She had a pair of extremely beautiful eyes. When she looked at someone intently, she always gave people the illusion of being affectionate.
Feng Shuo's grip on her wrist never loosened, and even tightened. He stared into her clear and sparkling eyes and said, "If only I knew."
The fair wrist he held was slender and soft, and so fragile that it seemed like it would break with a slight bend. The temperature he felt with his fingertips extended to his heart like a tiny bud, making his heart beat uncontrollably and the romantic thoughts in his mind grow like wild weeds.
Feng Shuo withdrew his hand irritably, turned his face away from Jiang Yanyi and said, "Go away."
Jiang Yanyi suddenly got angry: "Just because you are the prince, if you are interested in me, do I have to respond to you?"
"Your Majesty, you may just be in a momentary mood, but I will have to pay for it with my whole life. I am timid and dare not marry someone who is too high."
Feng Shuo heard the twist in her words and shouted, "Who said that I was just in a spur of the moment?"
He stared at Jiang Yanyi and said, "As long as you say yes, I will immediately send a matchmaker to your house and marry you with three matchmakers and six betrothals."
Jiang Yanyi nearly choked to death on his own saliva. What was going on in this guy's brain? Why did he suddenly talk about marriage
She said, "You are the prince, how can you choose the princess casually?"
Three matchmakers and six betrothals are the treatment only for marrying a wife.
In his position, his wife and concubines must have been carefully selected for him by his staff. They must either be powerful in the court or be able to help him in the army. He would never marry a woman who could not help him at all.
Feng Shuo understood her implication and sneered, "I had nothing back then but I still built up the foundation for today. If I can't even decide on my own whether to get married, then wouldn't all my efforts over the years have been in vain?"
His eyes fell on Jiang Yanyi and became serious: "Whether you are willing or not is up to you."
Jiang Yanyi was a little confused for a moment. She thought she had to face the question of whether to accept the confession, but now it became whether to accept the proposal
Seeing that things were becoming more and more complicated, she raised her hand to stop Feng Shuo from continuing: "Wait... Let's sort things out first."
Feng Shuo looked at her silently, waiting for her to speak.
Jiang Yanyi pointed at himself with mixed feelings and a dull look: "Do you like me?"
Feng Shuo hummed, and his ears turned slightly red.
Jiang Yanyi continued, "But you have never formally expressed your feelings to me. Today is the first time."
Feng Shuo retorted: "I asked you before."
Although that was a misunderstanding.
Apparently Jiang Yanyi also remembered which time he had "asked before", but before she could say anything, Feng Shuo said directly: "Today is the first time."
Jiang Yanyi nodded and continued, "So, you see, you expressed your feelings to me, but I haven't confirmed it yet... Isn't it too fast for you to talk about marriage all of a sudden?"
Feng Shuo thought to himself that he had no idea that liking someone was so troublesome. It didn't take long for them to fall in love. Anyway, he liked her right away.
But most women are shy, so you have to give them some way out.
Eh? Wait!
Feng Shuo suddenly raised his eyes that were as bright as stars and said, "You mean, we can talk about marriage later?"
Wouldn't it be interesting if it were translated
Jiang Yanyi felt uneasy under his fiery gaze, and quickly said, "This doesn't mean I've agreed to your request. We can... try it out first, and then consider the future after both sides have adjusted their temperaments."
Maybe it was because of the pine nut candy, Feng Shuo now felt that the taste in his mouth was not bitter at all.
How smart he was. Jiang Yanyi's words were subtle, but he insisted on asking for the answer he wanted: "Are you also attracted to me?"
Jiang Yanyi was not as thick-skinned as him, his face turned red, and he looked at him angrily.
How could I not be tempted? It's just that I have been hiding too much from him and have always kept my distance from him.
Feng Shuo was in a rare good mood, laughing recklessly. He took her hand and was about to walk out: "You haven't seen the mother yet, I will take you to see the mother!"
Jiang Yanyi almost knelt down in front of him. How could he be like this? He wanted to get married and meet the parents just because of a disagreement. She was not mentally prepared at all!
Jiang Yanyi held his hand tightly, "Your Majesty... this is too hasty, I haven't agreed to accept your love yet!"
Feng Shuo was slightly startled, and his brows knitted again: "Aren't you also fond of me?"
Perhaps knowing that he was not as vicious as he appeared, Jiang Yanyi became bolder. She mustered up her courage and said, "There are many infatuated men and resentful women in this world. Sometimes, it is not possible to be together just because they love each other. I am terrified to be loved by the prince. I also respect the prince, but... I have something to hide from the prince, and I feel guilty."
"How about you give me a little more time, my lord? When I think it through, I will tell you what I have been hiding from you, and I will give you an answer."
"What a hassle." Feng Shuo frowned: "What do you have that I don't know?"
The only thing he could think of was that she had concealed her identity. He wanted to tell her at this moment that he already knew her identity, but Jiang Yanyi said, "A lot."
"Once I have thought it through, I will inform Your Majesty."
When Feng Shuo heard the word "a lot", he took back the words that were on the tip of his tongue and said, "You have to give me a deadline."
Jiang Yanyi thought for a moment and said, "How about a month?"
In a month, as long as you have more contact with him, you can at least understand a person's character and see whether he is worthy of trust.
"Okay, one month is just one month!" If Feng Shuo had a tail, it would have almost reached the sky at this moment.
He threw all the chess pieces on the chessboard back into the chess basket, and said in a very good mood: "It just so happens that I don't have to go to the military camp these few days, so I can take you out of the pass on horseback. You haven't seen the cymbidium on the grassland, right? When it blooms, it looks like a sea of fire!"
At this moment, he really looked like a young boy, with his thoughts written all over his face.
Jiang Yanyi silently interrupted him: "Your Majesty, you should take good care of yourself first."
When talking about recuperation, Feng Shuo thought of the bowl of extremely bitter medicine, and his expression changed instantly: "The king is fine."
Jiang Yanyi looked at her without saying anything.
Feng Shuo thought that if she wasn't here, he wouldn't taste much bitterness when he drank the medicine, so he frowned and said, "I will take the medicine on time from now on."
Jiang Yanyi said: "The weather is getting colder, it's better for you to avoid the wind."
Feng Shuo: “…”
***
The distorted expression on Feng Shuo's handsome face when he drank the medicine has been lingering in Jiang Yanyi's mind.
After thinking about it, she decided to inform the housekeeper Fuxi about the matter and asked if it was possible to replace some of the strong-flavored medicinal ingredients and turn them into medicinal food.
After hearing about it, Fuxi went to see a doctor, who prescribed another prescription, using a two-pronged approach of medicated diet and medicated baths.
Fuxi entrusted the task of preparing medicinal food to Jiang Yanyi, saying that the kitchen in the mansion was not very convenient and the Empress Dowager did not like the taste of medicine, so she offered a high price to ask Jiang Yanyi to help cook it.
Jiang Yanyi knew that this was Feng Shuo's intention, so she refused on the grounds that the store was busy. Fuxi transferred two guards from the palace to serve as waiters for her. She said that she still had to take care of the accounts, so Fuxi directly lent her the accountant in the palace.
With three more helpers, Jiang Yanyi was now completely free. Thinking that he had to get to know Feng Shuo better, he took on the job of making medicinal food. He could also devote more energy to taking care of his pepper seedlings every day.
Fortunately, she had spent some time in the countryside in her previous life. She would go back to her grandmother's house during festivals and help her grandmother with a lot of farm work. Although she did not learn how to grow pepper seedlings directly, every household grew seedlings during the busy farming season, so she still knew the process of growing seedlings. Although the crop varieties were different, the seedling growing techniques were similar.
After hardening off, the pepper seedlings can be divided into two plants. The small handful of pepper seeds at the beginning has now become hundreds of seedlings.
The peppers take about two to three months to mature, and once winter is over, this batch of peppers will be ready for harvest. By then, I will have more pepper seeds, and in the spring, I can rent a few acres of land to grow seedlings again, and ask the tenants to help me take care of it. When I have time, I can go over to inspect it.
Jiang Yanyi felt that he might be able to achieve freedom for his chili pepper soon.
Because she was in a good mood, the corners of her mouth were upturned when she went to get the food box containing medicinal food for Feng Shuo.
These days, whenever she prepared medicinal food, she would take the food box to Feng Shuo first, and then go to the greenhouse to check on the pepper seedlings. When she came out of the greenhouse, Feng Shuo would almost have finished eating, so she would just go and get the food box.
"Are you so happy to come back from playing in the mud?"
Jiang Yanyi had just walked to the door when he heard his voice.
The weather has been very dry and cold recently, and Feng Shuo's old injuries have been affected by the climate. He has not been playing chess or reading in the yard these days.
After sending him medicinal food for several days in a row, Jiang Yanyi probably got to know his temper a little bit. When he was really angry and when he was just being rude were two different things.
Now is obviously the time to be rude.
Jiang Yanyi said, "Didn't you go to the greenhouse to play in the mud before?"
She was talking about the day she opened the shop and he helped her water the pepper seedlings in the greenhouse.
Feng Shuo's face turned unhappy as his past was exposed.
He sat cross-legged on the futon, with the room heated by a heating system. He was physically fit, but he had to put on more clothes when he went out because his old injuries started to ache when the weather got cold. Now he didn't feel cold wearing only a single layer of clothing indoors.
The collar of his ink-black robe was slightly slanted, revealing a delicate collarbone. His long hair was not tied up, but only restrained by a forehead band. Compared to his usual cold and stern appearance, he now looked a little more lazy and casual.
There is a chessboard in front of him, and he always plays chess with himself in his spare time.
When Jiang Yanyi was collecting the bowls and chopsticks, he found that the meat and soup in the bowl were gone, and all the vegetables and edible medicinal materials used to stew the soup had been picked out.
She couldn't help but ask, "Do you only eat meat?"
Feng Shuo gave her a matter-of-fact look in return: "Eat the meat and you'll be full."
When I was in the military camp, the only way to avoid getting hungry so quickly was to eat enough meat every day.
In the early years, Feng Shuo had no sense of taste, so of course he chose to eat meat, which was the most filling and the most hunger-suppressing. Now that his sense of taste has been restored... What are vegetarian dishes? Do they smell like meat
Jiang Yanyi simply couldn't stand his picky eating. Anyway, the medicinal effects had all been absorbed into the soup, and since he had already drunk the soup, Jiang Yanyi didn't say anything more.
Feng Shuo played chess with himself for a few days. He was a little bored and suddenly asked Jiang Yanyi: "Do you know how to play chess?"
"Won't."
"Come here, I'll teach you." Feng Shuo became interested.
When Jiang Yanyi read novels in the past, the protagonists often played chess. Jiang Yanyi always thought it was very cool. Now that Feng Shuo mentioned it, she was thinking about learning it.
She walked over and sat cross-legged on the futon opposite Feng Shuo, giving him a heads-up in advance: "That... I really can't play at all."
Feng Shuo still said the same thing: "I'll teach you."
Unconsciously, he rarely called himself "the King" in front of her.
Jiang Yanyi holds the black pieces, and Feng Shuo holds the white pieces.
He said, "The black piece falls first."
Jiang Yanyi placed a piece at the intersection of the chessboard. Feng Shuo frowned at the position she placed the piece, but said nothing. He also placed a piece and continued to explain to Jiang Yanyi: "Only pieces on the chessboard can be alive if they have Qi. Chess pieces with Qi are alive, and chess pieces without Qi are dead."
As the two of them dropped more and more chess pieces, he pointed to Jiang Yanyi and said, "Look, if you drop a piece here, all the pieces in this area will be dead. If you drop it here, your chess piece will survive."
"Oh, thank you." Jiang Yanyi readily picked up the chess piece he had just dropped and put it in the live chess position that Feng Shuo mentioned.
Feng Shuo's eyelids jumped: "A true gentleman watches chess without saying a word, and a true man makes a move without regrets. How can you play chess like this?"
Jiang Yanyi blinked and said, "I am neither a gentleman nor a husband."
Feng Shuo was silent and had nothing to say for a moment.
He had great attainments in Go. Jiang Yanyi, although she didn't think she had much talent, learned very quickly. After a few games, she was basically able to fight Feng Shuo for a few rounds.
"It's boring to just play chess, how about we raise the stakes?" Jiang Yanyi quickly became arrogant.
Feng Shuo raised his eyebrows: "What do you want to bet on?"
Jiang Yanyi stood up and ran to his desk, took some scraps of paper, tore them into strips, and said excitedly, "Whoever loses will have the strips stuck on their foreheads."
Feng Shuo: “… childish.”
Jiang Yanyi said arrogantly: "Why don't you add a truth-telling question? I almost beat you in the last round."
Feng Shuo didn't say anything, just chuckled softly.
After a few rounds, Jiang Yanyi was completely beaten. The game was over before she had even made a few moves. There were more and more notes stuck on both sides of her forehead, and she had to use one hand to push them away so that they would not block her vision.
Feng Shuo remained calm and composed the entire time. He only asked his questions slowly while drinking tea when Jiang Yanyi lost a round:
"Do you like this king?"
"What do you like about me?"
"When did you fall in love with me?"
…
He did not feel ashamed of asking these questions, but Jiang Yanyi's head was almost hanging to the ground.
Why did she want to play Go with him
Jiang Yanyi tore off the paper on his forehead and said angrily, "I am a beginner in Go, so I can't beat you. Let's play Gobang! I will definitely beat you!"
Feng Shuo frowned: "Gobang? Never heard of it."
Jiang Yanyi has already seen the dawn of hope for a comeback. She has been playing Go from elementary school to high school and has almost never lost. There is no reason why she cannot win back.
She smiled, revealing her beautiful white teeth. "It's very simple, you can learn it in no time. Although I'm very good at Gobang, I will let you win in the early stages."
Feng Shuo supported his chin with one hand, his eyes fell on Jiang Yanyi's bright red lips, his eyes became darker: "You don't have to let me, but this bet can be placed again."
The author has something to say: A crappy author can't write a love story well. Even if he is bald, he can only write about the daily love life of elementary school students (沧桑点烟.jpg)