Qiao Mu contemplated before making a guess with a light cough, “Such as, because his furnace often explodes, he has to be near a water source to ensure his safety. Otherwise, if a fire starts up, he won’t even be able to hide.”
Mo Lian: …
What kind of oddball was this!
“You mean, he intended to jump into the jake if the furnace exploded?”
Qiao Mu nodded.
Mo Lian couldn’t resist bursting into laughter. Afterwards, he pulled the little fellow over and fed her the warm tea. “Forget it, let’s not bother with those miscellaneous people. It’s been so difficult for us to spend the afternoon idly, so talk with Hubby, hm?”
Darling Qiao drank a long gulp of tea before looking up at him and deadpanning, “I’ve been idle every day for the past few days.”
Hearing this, Mo Lian’s eyes instantly lit up. “Then how about I come to see you every day?”
“If I say no, will you not come?”
Mo Lian shook his head rapidly. “No.”
Qiao Mu, however, merely cast him a glance. She didn’t want to bother with him anymore!
As the boat undulated on the lake, the couple chatted away for who knows how long.
He had said that he would send her home after two hours, yet he dragged it out for a whole four hours.
By the time he stealthily sent her back, the sky had already turned dark!
Meanwhile, her younger sister was pouting as she sat inside her room. Consequently, she didn’t even give her a glance when she saw that her older sister had returned!
Liar! She said that she would return in an hour, yet she had made her stay here and put on an act for more than four hours! She was bored to death!
Seeing that her younger sister was angry, Qiao Mu quickly took out a lot of pastries and snacks from her inner world to coax her.
The foodie was very easy to please, and that stern face soon collapsed and turned into a beaming one.
Qiao Lin happily ate the food in her arms as she informed, “Sister, today the sister from the Li Family came to visit you not long after you snuck out. Mother nearly discovered that you weren’t inside your room!”
Qiao Mu was startled. “The sister from the Li Family?”
In her impression, there was seemingly only that person…
“Li Xiu’e, the Third Miss from the family of Assistant Minister Li of the Office of Imperial Banquets?”
“Mhm, mhm. It’s her. Luckily, she was quick-witted. When she discovered that the person inside the room wasn’t you but me, she even helped me coax Mom away,” Qiao Lin tittered while tilting her head.
Qiao Mu also nodded. “What did she say.”
“She said she had come to see Sister as well as give her thanks. She spoke such strange words that I wasn’t able to understand.” Qiao Lin puffed out her cheeks. “She said that she is going to get married at the end of the month, even before Sister.”
“Oh, she embroidered a handkerchief for Sister. She said that even though it may be a meager gift, her feelings were true, and she hoped that Sister would like it.” Afterwards, Qiao Lin took out a small box and stuffed it into Qiao Mu’s hands. She then commented with a wink, “I opened it and took a look. She embroidered it very well.”
Qiao Mu nodded, putting away that box containing the silk handkerchief.
“Sister, are you close to Miss Li?”
“Mhm. She is quite a good person.” She had finally broken free of that loathsome eldest prince and married into a good family.
“Okay, go back to your court to rest.” At the same time, Qiao Mu ruffled her younger sister’s hair.
After sending Xiao Lin’er off, Qiao Mu also went to bed after washing up.
The following few days, she would draw talismans and refine pills inside her room whenever she was idle.
A lot of the time, she would also be embroidering flowers—mhm, embroidering lotus flowers.
That’s right, she only knew how to embroider this one flower.
Her mom praised her talent at the beginning, but three days later, when she saw that her daughter only knew how to embroider a lotus flower, she didn’t say anything after that…
Finally, the day of her coming-of-age hairpin ceremony came at long last.
