“Great.” Chu Jinshuo straightened out a little wrinkle in his robe nonchalantly. “It must be hard on you to help me and take care of your mother!”
Chu Jinshuo suddenly raised his head and sighed, “I can’t help remembering how loyal you are just thinking about this!”
Chu Jinshuo sudden calmness sounded ambiguous, so Su Ming didn’t know for certain whether he was commending him or implying otherwise.
Since Su Ming was unsure what Chu Jinshuo meant, he didn’t dare to speak.
Chu Jinshuo retrieved a small high-quality jade buddha from his sleeve and laughed without inhibition. “I got my hands on this baby recently. Why don’t you take a look at it?”
Su Ming’s expression instantly looked worried as he said in his heart, “Oh no.”
On the day he was made the deputy minister of the ministry of revenue, he obtained the jade buddha from the temple for his mother’s health and safety.
Why was it in the ei
“Master, Prince Xuan is here…” Xiaowu wanted to explain more, but Chu Yunshen interrupted sternly. “I can see that.” Chu Yunshen glanced at them and said, “I told you no guests today.”Xiaowu immediately knelt and wanted to acknowledge his mistake. “Brother Yunshen, I followed him in, so it’s not his fault,” interrupted Chu Hongyi anxiously. Chu Yunshen couldn’t be bothered to even look at him. Instead, he glanced at Xiaowu. “25 paddles from the punishment officer!”“Yes, master,” said Xiaowu readily before he quickly went to receive punishment. Only Chu Hongyi and Chu Yunshen were left in the room. Chu Hongyi came closer to Chu Yunshen with a mysterious look on his face. “Brother Yunshen, is the cat around?”The moment Chu Hongyi asked about Cheng Xiaoxiao, Chu Yunshen felt angry. Sure enough, Chu Hongyi was up to no good and still coveted his cat. “She’s not h
Chu Yunshen woke up early and headed to the justice department. Wan Xia did a good job taking care of Cheng Xiaoxiao, and Cheng Xiaoxiao didn’t make trouble while she was with her, so Chu Yunshen sent Cheng Xiaoxiao to Wan Xia after dressing her. Cheng Xiaoxiao darted to the rockery when Wan Xia quietly let her go play. Chu Hongyi was already there waiting for her after climbing the wall. Indeed, they were going to discuss what to do about imperial consort Zhao today. Since Cheng Xiaoxiao was only able to meow and gesture, Chu Hongyi couldn’t understand a word she was saying. “Hear my order, jade pendant, and open my eyes!” Cheng Xiaoxiao crumpled her face sadly, “Doudou, what should I do? Any ideas?”Doudou wagged his head as he suggested, “I could have killed him! Wouldn’t you be able to communicate once he becomes a ghost?”Cheng Xiaoxiao went speechless. She felt like
“Are you afraid of me?” Imperial consort Su gestured nonchalantly. Nanny Liu dragged the young palace maid over and pressed her head on the shiny marble ground. “No, Your… Your Grace…” The palace maid spoke with great difficulty. However, Nanny Liu quickly covered her mouth and stifled her words. The palace maid stopped breathing after struggling briefly. Imperial consort Su told Nanny Liu to take care of the maid without even opening her eyes. “Leave no clues behind.”“Yes, Your Grace.” Nanny Liu dragged the young palace maid out of Shufang palace effortlessly. The marble floor was mopped a few times even though it was so clean that reflections could be seen while a threatening glow radiated from it. Chu Hongyi spent a few days acting sick and had just passed out in front of all the maids and servants at Jinxiu Palace. Regardless of how the imperial physicians examined him, he failed t
No way!She couldn’t let anything happen to imperial consort Zhao!If anything befell imperial consort Zhao, what would happen to Prince Qing?They would be done for!Lots of images flashed through Wet Nurse Zhao’s head. They had done so many deeds all these years. Wet Nurse Zhao swiftly took the talisman used to control the altar from imperial consort Zhao and pasted it on herself. She hastily slapped herself twice hard before she knelt on the ground in front of imperial consort Zhao and implored loudly, “Forgive me! I deserve a thousand deaths!”“What are you doing?”Imperial consort Zhao wanted to pull Wet Nurse Zhao up after she slapped herself. Just as her hands were about to reach Wet Nurse Zhao, Wet Nurse Zhao squeezed imperial consort Zhao’s hand hard. Imperial consort Zhao swiftly realized what Wet Nurse Zhao was trying to do. “How dare you h
“I singlehandedly set up the altar and manipulated it. Her Grace simply thought I was praying for Prince Xuan. She only realized I was lying when she caught me performing dark magic today.”For time immemorial, an emperor’s wrath knew no bounds.It was forbidden for dark magic to be performed in the palace to begin with, so it was even more unpardonable to use it to hurt a prince. Imperial consort Zhao sadly smiled as she raised her head to look at Chu Hongzhen and choked, “I’m sure it was just a moment’s folly on Wet Nurse Zhao’s part. I was trying to convince her to stop when Your Highness came in. Your Highness, please…” She held her forehead mid-sentence and looked at the emperor pitifully as though she was innocent. Imperial consort Zhao looked absolutely miserable and frail with her eyes red.Imperial consort Su couldn’t help feeling disgusted when she saw how pretentious imperial consort Zhao was
Everyone in the palace learned of this news the next day. Chu Hongzhen’s orders arrived at Weiyang Palace along with all kinds of gifts such as exotic treasure, fabric, and Chinese herbs. Imperial consort Su told Nanny Liu to give Yuan Qing a huge gift and congratulated her before leaving. All the maids and servants were dismissed, leaving only imperial consort Su in the hall. She touched the gifts with a smile on her face. The gold hairpin in her hair gently swayed with every step to sparkle brightly and made her look captivating. Cheng Xiaoxiao and Chu Hongyi made a great team when they fought imperial consort Zhao.Chu Hongyi certainly felt that way. He even decided that Cheng Xiaoxiao was his best friend and only second to his fourth older brother. Cheng Xiaoxiao grudgingly accepted Chu Hongyi as her partner in crime. Now that everything was over, Cheng Xiaoxiao went h
Chu Hongyi couldn’t help feel happy when he heard her excited voice. “Sure! As you wish.”“Heheh. I didn’t expect you to be so nice. Let’s go.” Cheng Xiaoxiao frolicked to the bun stall after she heard what Chu Hongyi said. “Boss, I want 20 buns! I want every flavor you have!”Chu Hongyi wasn’t able to keep up with Cheng Xiaoxiao. By the time he came close enough, he could hear Cheng Xiaoxiao decisively made an order.“Xiaoxiao, we can’t finish 20 buns, right?” Chu Hongyi was slightly worried that Cheng Xiaoxiao would overeat before they got to the good stuff. He couldn’t just buy buns for Cheng Xiaoxiao now that they were finally out. “Don’t worry! I’m a big eater! I can eat heaps!” Cheng Xiaoxiao patted Chu Hongyi’s shoulder nonchalantly. “Oh yes. You need to eat too! Boss, 20 more!”Cheng Xiaoxiao turned to talk to the hawker as she gobbled the 20 buns which the hawker had just packed for her.
Cheng Xiaoxiao gestured for Chu Yunshen to stop before she jumped down and walked over to Wan Xia. Wan Xia could sense a warm furry cat rubbing her hand as though she was comforting her. “Meow…” Cheng Xiaoxiao wanted to tell her to stop crying and hug her. She leaned against Wan Xia intimately and didn’t want to leave. Wan Xia raised her head to look at Chu Yunshen pitifully without daring to touch Cheng Xiaoxiao.Chu Yunshen saw the cat’s behavior and couldn’t help feeling upset. Despite his kindness towards her, the ingrate got along with anyone who gave her food and was far friendlier to people other than him. Wan Xia didn’t dare to move without Chu Yunshen’s order. Her eyes were red and slightly swollen, so she must have cried for a long time. Cheng Xiaoxiao couldn’t help feeling guilty and rubbed Wan Xia’s arm even harder.Wan Xia finally couldn’t bear it and furtively
As it turns out, a trick can lose its effectiveness after a while.The lion cat's eyes were blinking painfully, and the corners of his eyes were nearly cramped, but Chu Yunshen still had that impassive look, not even moving his eyebrows.Okay, you're tough! I say you're tough, and not a flabby earwig!The lion cat suddenly froze in his tracks, a mist rising quickly from his heterochromatic eyes.The watery eyes looked like oceans of water, and this transformation managed to scare Chu Yunshen's eyes.Chu Yunshen reached out his hand to hug the lion cat, but was stopped by the helpless expression on the lion cat's stubbornly tilted little face.A light coughing sound ended and the man's somewhat dry voice rang out:"To the Returning Sun Desert, it's windy and sandy out there."It's windy and sandy. - So?Can't you see I've got a cramp in my eye? I'm having a hard time!Cheng Xiaoxiao didn't understand what Chu Yunshen was tal
Yun Shen, what do you think about this matter?The lion cat cheered for Chu Yunshen while frantically questioning him with his eyes.What's he doing here again? You're Chu, why don't you do something?"Why don't I go to the meeting?"Mu Bai, the chatterbox, couldn't help himself, he raised his eyebrows, squinted those peach blossom eyes with interest, and said to the blackbird outside the window:"It's strange though, seeing as how it's been following us for some time now, it didn't make a move on me just now."As he spoke, he suddenly revealed an evil smile to Chu Yunshen: "It's rather like those wild bees and butterflies that chased you back then, following you over and doing nothing, but it's indeed endless."That was more than enough to make the lion cat's eyes light up.She carefully sized up Mu Bai once more, and after realizing that the other party did not look like she was joking, she jerked her head up to look at Chu Yunshen a
The lion cat looked wan and hid in Chu Yunshen's arms reflecting on her flow, not understanding just how outstanding her beauty was to be able to make even a bird so moved.Such a relentless pursuit, I'm afraid that the love is so deep that I can't even let go. Really make people head big, is not only can blame Cheng Xiaoxiao this damn charm.Blame her. Blame her for being overly beautiful.Shaking her head helplessly was just futile, Cheng Xiaoxiao still needed to give some feedback to this kind of 'avid suitor', or else if she went more and more overboard later on and did other excessive things, wouldn't it be an irresponsible behavior for everyone.Said Cheng Xiaoxiao herself was touched, she almost believed that what she had just thought was true.It's not like they don't want to go head-to-head again, at least not right now, and not want to get into any more trouble.Songtao's injuries are still not healed, Cheng Xiaoxiao herself has only jus
Every year the whole capital half of the people will come to the show, it is said that one year even the long-lasting master Chu Hongzhen have come out to see the final field in private clothes.If this token was really useful, then did this group of people intend to let him participate in the Poetry Festival?The more Ren Yanlai thought about it, the more he felt that this was more likely.After all, it wasn't as if he hadn't thought of this method before, and as long as he won the Poetry Conference at the Wangjing Teahouse in one fell swoop, he would surely be a sensation in the capital.When that time comes when everyone in the capital knows about it, he won't need to go around looking for people to line up scrolls everywhere.Only this idea was later dismissed by him, and the reason was also very simple, he did not even have the money to attend the tea house poetry party.The entry fee for the Wangjing Teahouse could not be taken on credit and
Later on, she was able to react a bit more and needed to organize her head, which was why she sized up Chu Yunshen and refused to go over.It wasn't until Chu Yunshen approached her that she smelled that all too familiar grassy fragrance.A person's olfactory memory tends to be more immediate and deeper than other memories.Only in that moment emotions swept over her like a tidal wave, all the memories of Chu Yunshen and all the things she had crossed over surrounded her quickly.Including the voice she heard in the nothingness, she also reacted to the fact that the person was Chu Yunshen.At that moment Cheng Xiaoxiao only thought of getting close to Chu Yunshen immediately, so she couldn't help but reveal her lion cat nature.Carelessness is carelessness.The lion cat that was lying in Chu Yunshen's arms again still felt slightly humiliated, she rubbed her burning face with her paws and was a little embarrassed to look up at Chu Yunshen.
The black bird snapped its head up, tilted its head back to open its beak wide, and gave a hawkish cry to the sky.This time, the eagle's cry was different from the two sounds that Chu Yunshen had just heard, originally, as long as the black bird cried, the lion cat would tremble and then enter into a state of response to the enemy.However, this did not have any effect on Chu Yunshen, he just felt it was a bit jarring to his ears.Now it's different.As soon as the black bird's voice came out, the lion cat was again in the same fried state it was in just now, and Chu Yunshen and the others covered their ears with it.Chu Yunshen couldn't spare his hands as he hugged the lion cat, and his reaction was indeed smaller.He held the lion cat in one hand, while gazing at his breath and pressing the tip of his tongue dead center against his palate. From his tense facial expression, one could tell that he would be in a state where he wouldn't dare to rel
If you ask Cheng Xiaoxia if she's happy eating now, she also thinks it's quite okay.It was just that she always felt that her back was hairy, as if a camera had been installed and someone was always watching her and Chu Yunshen.This time Cheng Xiaoxiao's intuition really didn't go wrong, not only this time, but yesterday's rain her sudden freeze was also not an illusion.The cause of it all was now stretching its wings on that bough, and it hopped and jumped from one branch to the other, looking no different from the little bird that had been squawking.However, nothing is as it seems.If it was really that bland, then Cheng Xiaoxiao wouldn't have reacted so strongly.The bowl of milky paste dwindled, and the lion cat's consciousness drifted away again.The black bird on the boughs of the tree had stopped hopping at some point, and it paid unseeing attention to that direction of the lion cat, with a strange glint in its eyes and a hint of
Songtao did things neatly, plus this was the first time Ren Yanlai had eaten and drunk enough in days and slept well, so this series of actions did not wake him up.Not only that, Ren Yanlai did not even change the sleeping position, only to maintain that side lying position until the dawn descends.As soon as dawn broke outside the broken temple, the light outside brightened up a little.The heavy rain had stopped at some point, and an unknown bird made a twittering sound on the dead tree outside the broken temple, which sounded quite cheerful, but was quickly replaced by a wail, and the original leaping instantly came to an abrupt end.Fixed his eyes to see, is that has been making noise of the bird was a black bird hard peck, scared feathers trembling, fluttering wings hurriedly flew away, the joyful bird call also naturally disappeared.The blackbird cast another oblique glance at the other birds lingering on the boughs of the tree, and wondered how
The danfeng eyes were even darker, and the eyes that looked at Ren Yanlai did not have the same indifference as a moment ago, Chu Yunshen's face was expressionless as he opened his mouth at the right time, "Xiaoxiao, you can't sit for a long time after eating, get up and move around.""Since when did we have this extra rule in our house?"Cheng Xiaoxiao was a bit bewildered, tilting her head to carefully survey Chu Yunshen, until she looked Chu Yunshen to the point of being uncomfortable she didn't withdraw her eyes.Let's just say that Chu Yunshen was out of sorts tonight, earlier she was being gentle with Ren Yanlai and now she was making demands on her.Just now I was allowed to have an extra bowl of soup, but now I'm being so harsh."All the time."When he heard Cheng Xiaoxiao's soft voice say the words 'our family', Chu Yunshen's heart jumped uncontrollably, and his danfeng eyes rose slightly with it.However, he still said those words