Chapter 17

"My lord!" Jin Ge'er stared at Yan Shi with a gleaming gaze, "The Crown Princess isn't in the government either, he can follow you, why can't I?"

    Yan Shi lost his smile, he didn't expect Jin Ge'er to be such a smart boy, he had no choice but to take him with him.

    Naturally, Jin was very happy, and as he walked past Hua Ling, he deliberately turned his nostrils to the sky and grunted at him. However, when he reached the entrance of the restaurant, he slightly regretted it, he didn't know that they were coming to eat before, how could he look like a dabbler now?

    This time it was Hua Ling who walked past him with his head up and chest out in a dignified manner.

    Yan Shi asked for a first floor elegant room by the window, and ordered eight more signature dishes, no wine, just a pot of tea.

    Hua Ling diligently poured a cup of tea for Yan Shi, Jin Ge'er was not willing to lag behind and also poured a cup for Yan Shi, Yan Shi looked at the two cups of tea in front of him and was quite helpless, stretched out his left and right hands and put the tea poured by each of them back in front of them, "No one is allowed to touch it again."

    Hua Ling obediently obeyed and did not dare to move again, neither did Jin Ge'er. Yan Shi took the teapot and first poured Jiang Qingyue a cup of tea, then poured himself another cup.

    Hua Ling took his own cup of tea and quickly swapped it with Jiang Qingyue's, "I want to drink this."

    Jin Ge'er saw that Yan Shi had already taken a sip from his teacup, so he had no choice but to pick up his own teacup and take a sip as well.

    Hua Ling held the cup of tea in his hand and took a small sip, how could this tea be so sweet.

    Jiang Qingyue looked at the cup of tea in front of him and then at Yan Shi who was sitting across from him, but smiled without saying anything.

    The food soon came up, and Hua Ling and Jin wanted to give Yan Shi a dish, but neither of them dared to do so when they thought of the tea they had just poured.

    During the meal, Yan Shi and Jiang Qingyue chatted casually while the other two remained silent.

    At this moment, Jin felt more and more embarrassed. In all his life, he had never even seen such delicious food, let alone eaten it. When he remembered that he had just been so shameless as to insist on coming along, he felt ashamed.

    He swallowed a few times when no one was looking, but he didn't have the heart to eat the dishes on the table.

    A few moments later, Yan Shi saw him and asked, "Why don't you eat?"

    "I ..." said Jin, lowering his head and not knowing what to say.

    He used his chopsticks to give Jin a dish on his plate and put it in his bowl: "Eat up, finish it early so you can get to the case sooner."

    "Hey!" He looked at the dishes in his bowl and answered loudly, this adult was different from all the adults he had seen before, he was good looking, gentle and did not have any official attitude, he liked it very much.

    Hearing Yan Shi's words, Jin was afraid that he would drag them down, so he gradually stopped being formal and ate with his bowl of rice.

    The other side of the table was unhappy. Hua Ling only felt that everything he ate was sour, the smell of vinegar in the air alone was going to drown him.

    The careless prince obviously didn't feel the change in his little princess mood, and it was only when Yan Shi was about to finish eating that he realised the little princess hadn't finished half of the rice in his bowl. Don't look at Hua Ling's skinny appearance, but he is a very good eater. Let's put it this way, two Yan Shi together can't even eat one of him.

    Yan Shi finally asked, "Is it not to your liking?"

    Hua Ling shook his head sullenly, and Yan Shi said that the child's face changed at the drop of a hat.

    "Try this, it's delicious." Yan Shi couldn't understand what the young princess was thinking, but seeing how little he ate, he still put a piece of vegetable into his bowl.

    Immediately, Hua Ling's eyes were starry, brother has given me a piece of vegetable! The gloom in his heart was instantly cleared away, and he ate three big bowls of rice in a row, rubbing his stomach in contentment.

    "You can really eat." Jin Ge'er muttered in a small voice.

    Hua Ling raised his eyebrows and heard Yan Shi say, "Mingting is still young and is still growing, so it's only right that he eats more. You should eat more too, so that you can grow taller in the future."

    Jin immediately tilted his head, "Can I grow as tall as you?"

    Yan Shi smiled slightly, "Of course you can."

    Hua Ling tilted his head with his hands on his cheeks and watched, his brother looked so pretty when he smiled.

    After lunch, the four of them were just walking to the entrance of the restaurant when they came across some servants surrounding a young gentleman who was walking inside.

    "Yo, isn't this the eldest brother?" It was this young gentleman who spoke, dressed in fancy clothes, who looked a bit similar to Yan Shi, who was the current Third Prince, Yan Sheng.

    His mother was Consort Rong, who was very much loved by Emperor Chongzheng, and the power of his mother's family was not to be underestimated.

    When he came that way, Yan Shi saw him and wanted to avoid him, but he couldn't: "Third brother is also here for dinner?"

    "Naturally, I see that the eldest brother has already finished his meal, but what a coincidence, otherwise the two of us would be having a drink together." The prince had a faint smile on his face, but it looked very uncomfortable, like sweat on his back, "By the way, I had something to do on the day of my brother's wedding, so I hope you will forgive me for not being at the wedding."

    "No matter," said Yan Shi, "I will not go to your wedding either."

    Prince Yan Sheng was choked by Yan Shi's words, and his eyes swept over to the place, and settled on Hua Ling, who was simply too beautiful, more beautiful than any beauty he had ever seen.

    "When did the eldest royal brother have such a wonderful person by his side?" If it were the other princes, he would not have dared to say so, but Prince Yan Sheng had never put Yan Shi in his eyes, a mere unpopular prince, what kind of waves could he make?

    "Brother..." Hua Ling's voice was small, like a cat's purr, and he cowered behind Yan Shi's back again.

    Yan Shi's face sank: "Third brother has really become more and more reckless, instead of saluting when he sees his sister-in-law, he says such nonsense."

    "He, the imperial sister-in-law?" It was no secret that Yan Shi had an axe to grind with his successor, and just about anyone knew about it, so naturally Yan Sheng knew about it too. At first, when he found out that the Duke of Kangle was going to marry his son to Yan Shi, he had been gloating for a while, but now he saw that Yan Shi had taken a big advantage!

    Yan Shi's tone became more and more stern: "What? Would I lie to you?"

    "I don't dare, I don't dare," Yan Sheng didn't want to argue too much with Yan Shi yet, lest those officials would watch and censure him again, "I'm just a little surprised, my brother."

    I was only a little surprised," he said, "I'm a little surprised," and then he bowed towards Hua Ling, "Third brother, I'd like to meet sister-in-law." Although his waist was bent, his eyes were darting towards Hua Ling's face, making people very uncomfortable.

    "Alright, go and have your meal, I have things to do." Yan Shi was too lazy to talk more with him and led the men away.

    Yan Sheng stood in place for a moment, a cold smile surfaced on his face, not knowing what he was thinking.