Chapter 53

TRANSLATED BY MYPEN_22

This was originally a family matter for Gao Changgeng and had nothing to do with Yan Shi, but he was still invited into the main hall, and with it, Xiao Bailian, who scratched his head in confusion as he followed Gao Changgeng.

Hua Ling was bored, so he did not go and followed Qu Liujing outside.

"Got something to say to me?" Qu Liujing took a few peanut beans and tossed them into the air, opening his mouth to catch them, only to be cut off by a hand in mid-air, Hua Ling put the peanuts in his mouth and bit into them with a crunch, Qu Liujing glanced at him, "Take them yourself if you want to eat them."

Hua Ling gave him a sidelong glance, "I'm the Prince Wangfei now." Even a royal Wangfeihad to be waited on when he ate.

"Fine, fine, my royal wife." Qu Liujing brought the fruit plate on the table in front of him and bowed, "What would you like to eat, Your Highness? This little one will serve you."

"This Highness doesn't want to eat anything, this Highness wants to beat someone to relieve his boredom." Hua Ling cunningly grabbed a handful of melon seeds from the fruit plate and suddenly threw them into mid-air, the melon seeds then fell down like a fine rain.

Almost as soon as the melon seeds were in Hua Ling's hand, Qu Liujing's side stirred. He turned around and put the fruit plate in his hand on the table next to him, then used his inner strength to draw the melon seeds in the air to one place, and finally they all landed firmly in his hand.

"How's that? Not bad, huh?" Qu Liujing was very proud of himself.

"What are you proud of? You could turn into a flower right now and no one would look at you." Hua Ling said mercilessly, he reached out again and clutched a handful of snow on the railing and casually squeezed it into a shape, "See? I'll show it to brother later, and he'll say it's a pretty white rabbit."

After Hua Ling finished his speech, he pasted the unshapable snow ball onto Qu Liujing's face, and Qu Liujinv did not dodge or budge as if he was frozen in place, nor did he sarcastically show off in front of him. After a few breaths, he seemed to come back to his senses, fluttering the snow off his face and collar with a few strokes, and suddenly came to Hua Ling, crying and hugging one of his arms and shaking it, "You have to help me, I really, really like him."

Although he and Jiang Qingyue were in the same royal residence, they did not have many opportunities to meet. Jiang Qingyue was so cold and aloof that he had always excluded Qu Liujing. Qu Liujing had a lot of ideas and was very good at talking, but for some reason he could not do anything in front of Jiang Qingyue.

Hua Ling pushed his hand away with a disgusted look on his face, "Men don't give consent to men."

"Yes, yes, yes, I'm just in a hurry." Qu Liujing smiled fawningly and let go of his hand, then doggedly dusted Hua Ling's arm with non-existent dust and looked at him with bated breath, "You must have a way, someone like the Prince is now dead set on you. It's a pity that I didn't know I would meet Qingyue, otherwise I would have used this method."

Hua Ling was very happy with the first half of his sentence, but did not forget to tease him "It is not impossible, you find a chance to drop your brain in front of everyone, pretend to faint, and when you wake up, pretend to be dumb in the head, in the end you want to pretend to say anything, but it will be done?"

The Doctor thought it would work, "Yes, little bell, you've got an idea." He rubbed his hands together excitedly, eager to try it now.

Hua Ling slapped him on the head, "Don't go through all these evil ways, how will you end up if he find out later? Don't follow my example, I really have no choice but to do this, every day is a stolen day for me now, I don't know what it will be like when he finds out the truth."

"Don't think so much, the Prince will understand your plight." Qu Liujing put a hand on his shoulder in a gesture of comfort, "What is it you want to talk to me about?" He knew that if Hua Ling hadn't wanted to say something to him, he wouldn't have left Yan Shi by half a step.

Hua Ling said, "It's not really a big deal, I just think that Gao Changgeng said it took him three years to know the true nature of the person on his pillow. I just thought of myself. I wonder if my brother will be as disappointed as Gao Changgeng when he finds out my true nature?"

Qu Liujing reassured him, "You are different from that Cha nan, how can you be compared to him? The Prince will understand your plight."

Hua Ling sighed softly and said nothing more.

Gao Changgeng used this deliberation

It didn't take too long, and the people came out before lunch.

Hua Ling watched with bated breath as the door opened, and hurriedly leapt up, pulling on Yan Shi's hand and pampering him, "Brother, you've finally come out, I've missed you."

Yan Shi smiled and pinched his face "Are you hungry? Let's go eat."

On the way to eat, Gao Changgeng told Hua Ling and Qu Liujing about what had happened just now.

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Xiao Bailian, who is not as sensitive as Gao Changgeng when he talks to him, is no less sensitive to the books than the best hunting dogs are to the prey.

Hua Ling nodded and looked at Gao Changgeng and said, "Bai Lian is so nice and so capable you should marry him."

Gao Changgeng was fine, but Xiao Bailian's face reddened, "No, don't talk nonsense."

"I mean it, you two are a good match." Hua Ling said in a very serious manner.

"I... I'm not talking to you anymore." Xiao Bailian lowered his head and ran away in a huff.

Gao Changgeng had a small smile on his lips as he took up Hua Ling's words, "I think so too."

After lunch, Xiao Bailian had to help Gao Changgeng continue reading the books.

After he woke up from his nap with Hua Ling, he wanted to go outside and build a snowman.

But the snowman didn't get up, the snow didn't fall too heavily before it stopped, so it was impossible to build a snowman.

Hua Ling was a little disappointed, and after a moment's thought, she said, "Would you like to eat some iced candy canes?"

Hua Ling was a little worried, "I don't want to go out of the house, in case I see Cha Nan." It was said that Chanan had come again in the morning, but he had not entered the house.

Yan Shi smiled, "I'll make you some ice gourds, okay?"

Hua Ling's eyes lit up instantly "Brother knows how to make iced sugar gourds?"

"No, I don't." The smile on his face grew even bigger when he saw Hua Ling's glowing look, "But I can try."

Hua Ling happily followed him to the kitchen, there wasn't much hawthorn in the kitchen, but there was enough to make a few sugar gourds.

"Brother, let me help you." Hua Ling felt like shouting with excitement if he didn't do something, he had never dreamed that Yan Shi would make him something to eat.

"Then help me wash the hawthorn." Yan Shi took out a basin and put it in front of Hua Ling, "Mix some hot water with it, to save your hands from freezing."

Hua Ling nodded in agreement and put the hawthorn in the water and washed it carefully, "Brother, do you want to get rid of the seeds inside?"

Yan Shi looked at it, "Put it there, I'll do that."

Hua Ling obediently put it there and looked at the knife that Yan Shi was using to peel the bamboo sticks, "Brother, let me help you peel them."

Yan Shi didn't let him do it, "You can't hold the knife, you'll cut your hand."

Hua Ling sighed imperceptibly, I could use a knife, and I used it well.

It didn't take long for Yan Shi to finish sharpening the bamboo sticks, Hua Ling took a few of them and played with them in his hands, watching Yan Shi use the knife to snap the seeds inside the hawthorn.

"Don't play with the knife any more." Yan Shi instructed.

Hua Ling dared not disobey and nodded his head repeatedly to remember. When Yan Shi finished one hawthorn, Hua Ling skewered one on a bamboo skewer, and when Yan Shi's hawthorn was done, Hua Ling's was also done.

"Brother, let me help you burn the fire."

Looking at the young princess' attentive gaze, Yan shi nodded and agreed "Be careful, don't get the fire on your hands."

Hua Ling smiled "Brother, it's okay, I'm not a child anymore."

In his eyes, Hua Ling was just a child who clamoured for sweets all day long.

Pot roasting

When it was hot, he sprinkled a handful of sugar into the pot, then added water and kept stirring with a spatula, watching the sugar water become sticky and gradually yellow in colour.

"When Huojia was very young, she liked to eat sugar gourds." The imperial kitchen would always make sugar gourds for her to eat, but Mother didn't let her eat them much, saying she was afraid they would break her teeth. When the imperial kitchen was ordered by the Queen Mother, they no longer dared to make sugar gourds for her. But when she couldn't eat the sugar gourd, she cried out with craving, so I sneaked off to the imperial kitchen and asked the Grand Master how to make the sugar gourd. I thought then that if they wouldn't make it for Huojia, then I would make it for her. The great master then told me how to make sugar gourd, but until now I have never made her a sugar gourd to eat ..."

Hua Ling was sad to hear what Yan Shi said, but when he saw that Yan Shi had stopped talking, he pretended that nothing had happened and took the first skewer that Yan Shi dipped into and bit into it "Mmm! Brother, it's delicious, try it!"

The most important thing about dipping sugar gourd is to hang the sugar step, if the sugar is boiled for a short time it will not hang, if it is boiled for a long time he is afraid to boil the sugar bitter. The sugar is not too bad, although it is a bit thin, but not bitter, and the taste of the whole candy gourd is not bad.

Hua Ling put the candy gourd to his mouth and let him taste it too. Looking at the knot in his throat moving up and down, Hua Ling quietly swallowed, how good it would be if he could feed him mouth to mouth.