After acquiring the Green Tea System, I became a heartthrob.

Chapter 26
When Su Hua delivered the letter to Prince Huai's Mansion, Nan Lu was vividly describing the ups and downs of the Su Mansion in the past few days with Li Xuanzhi, as well as the life events of the eldest daughter of the Su family.

It wasn't until he talked about the emptied dowry that Li Xuanzhi finally had a surprised expression on his face, "Is it really all emptied?"

"It's all empty, only a few rags are left." Nan Lu nodded, not knowing what he thought of, and said with some pity, "Miss Su is really miserable."

Now even Li Xuanzhi felt that she was a little miserable.

After all, in Dachen, if a female member of an official family shows up casually outside, she will be ridiculed, and may even be said to be unruly women.

Therefore, they can neither realize their ambitions by becoming officials like some men, nor can they work hard and do business to make money like some men.

The only thing they can keep with them is the dowry.

If even the dowry is gone...

At this time, footsteps sounded at the door, and soon a maid opened the bead curtain and saluted, "Your Majesty, just now the eldest lady of the Su Mansion sent a message to the concierge, saying that she wanted to talk to you about something."

Before Li Xuanzhi could speak, Nan Lu had already spoken from the side, "What can she do to come to the master now? Is she here to ask for help from the master?"

"We won't know until we see her." Li Xuanzhi pondered for a moment, stood up, dusted his sleeves, and said to the maid, "Fu Feng, go and answer a letter and ask Miss Su to wait for me at Tangyun Xiaozhu."

The maid responded and retreated.

When Su Hua came to Tangyun Xiaozhu as promised, she found that Li Xuuzhi was already sitting in the private room waiting for her.

"Su Hua has met the prince." Su Hua smiled and saluted, "I have kept the prince waiting for a long time."

"Nothing, just sit down." Li Xuanzhi raised the tea cup and blew on it, then took a sip and got straight to the point, "I heard that you came to me for something, but I don't know why?"

The expression on Su Hua's face became slightly embarrassed. After a while, she smiled and whispered, "It was thanks to your help many times at the Tu Lin Banquet that I was able to escape. Therefore, I also promised the prince to give you the Winter Hidden Sword as a gift." .”

Li Xuanzhi took a look at Su Wei, and hummed, "So, did Miss Su bring the Dongzang Sword here today?"

Su Hua paused for a few breaths and laughed twice. Li Xuanzhi put down the tea cup and looked at her with raised eyebrows.

"It's a bit embarrassing to talk about this matter...but I still need to explain it to the prince."

Su Hua smiled, looked up at Li Xuanzhi and told him everything about the dowry that had happened recently.

Finally she said, "Therefore, I don't know where the Winter Hidden Sword has gone now."

After the words fell, Li Xuazhi paused slightly with his tea-drinking hand, and Su Hua hurriedly continued with a smile, "It's just that since I made a promise to the prince, I should naturally keep it."

"So I came to see the prince today just to ask him to give me more time. I will definitely find the Winter Hidden Sword and deliver it to my house."

"Give me more time?" Li Xuanzhi glanced at Su Hua and said calmly, "How long will it take?"

Su Hua felt unsure, so she lowered her eyes and said nothing for a while.

Li Xuanzhi picked up the teacup, took another sip and said, "So after all is said and done, Miss Su wants to default on the bill, right?"

"That's absolutely not what I meant! Your Majesty, you really misunderstood me!" Su Hua quickly explained, "I just don't know what else I can give as a gift in return besides the Winter Hidden Sword."

"On the way here, I also went to the store to look at some other swords and wanted to give me another long sword as a gift. But..." Su Hua pursed her lips and smiled awkwardly, "It's just those slightly better long swords. The sword is expensive, and I don’t have that much money on me.”

This time, Li Xuanzhi put down the teacup and looked seriously at Su Wei, who was lowering his eyes and rubbing the teacup with both hands.

In fact, at first he had the same idea as Nanlu. He also thought that Su Hua came to him to ask for help about the dowry.

First, use the inability to find the Winter Hidden Sword as a pretext, and then play some tricks in order to refuse the return gift. If you really can't refuse it, then ask him to help find the dowry.

I just didn't expect... what she wanted to say was really just this return gift.

Her expression just now had always been a little embarrassed, so embarrassed that it wasn't that her dowry had been emptied, but that she couldn't deliver the return gift she promised him.

Li Xuanzhi looked away, lowered his head and took a sip of tea.

However, for some reason, her appearance didn't seem to completely surprise him.

It was as if his first reaction was that she would be scheming, but somewhere in his heart, he had always had a vague feeling that she seemed to be such a person.

A person who looks weak and has no opinion, but is actually calm and thoughtful, and whose first reaction when encountering a problem is to think about how to solve it, is also...

A person that he couldn't help but always think about doing a favor.

"Actually, speaking of hidden swords, I have a lot of them in my house, but I don't lack this one." Li Xuanzhi cleared his throat and said casually, "If Miss Su really wants to thank me, she might as well be a softie." Give me the cake to eat."

Su Hua was stunned, "Huh? Soft, soft cake?"

"Yes, soft cake, the kind that is white and square in small pieces." Li Xuazhi faced Su Hua's confused eyes and gestured, "It's the kind you brought to Mr. Su yesterday morning. Soft cake.”

Su Hua was really surprised now, "My lord, have you ever eaten the soft cake I made?"

Li Xuanzhi nodded calmly, "Seeing that I was hungry that day, Mrs. Su gave me a few pieces of the soft cake. It tastes good."

"My lord, do you like to eat the pastries I made?" Su Hua laughed, her eyebrows slightly curved and her eyes bright, "That's easy to say, I'll go back to the house now, and I'll have someone deliver it to the prince!"

"There's no need to go back home to do it, you can just do it here." Li Xunzhi crossed the window and nodded toward the low house in the backyard. "This teahouse is my private property, so you can just do it in the backyard. What's missing?" Just let people buy it.”

Su Hua was not shy, she responded with a smile, rolled up her sleeves and headed out to the backyard, "This is better, the soft cake is still delicious hot."

With Li Xuanzhi's order, as soon as Su Wei entered the back kitchen, someone brought up all the ingredients she needed for her to have a look.

Su Hua took a look and pointed at a few of the ingredients to keep. Then she turned around and told Tao Zi to go to the street to buy some more medicinal materials.

After Li Xuanzhi saw it, he asked, "Do you still need medicinal materials?"

Su Hua nodded, "It's almost summer. Add some heat-clearing and fire-removing herbs to it. It's good for your health."

Li Xuanzhi didn't ask any more questions and glanced at Nanlu. Nanlu understood and went out to buy peaches with him.

When everything was ready, Su Hua rolled up her sleeves with hemp rope and started working.

Li Xuanzhi also returned to the private room to continue drinking tea and waiting. Occasionally, he turned his head and glanced at the short room in the backyard.

The wind blew by, and the shadows of the Luan tree in the courtyard were dancing, and the light and shadow fell mottled on Su Hua by the window.

She was concentrating on the shape of a piece of pastry, with her head half lowered, revealing a soft white and slender neck from the collar. Her hair brushed the tip of her nose. She raised her hand to smooth it away, and a little flour was stuck on the tip of her small and pretty nose. superior.

The maid on the side saw it and said something to her. Su Hua raised her hand and wiped it again. Not only was it not wiped clean, but there was a lot of rub on her cheek. The maid was so anxious that she picked up the handkerchief and tried to wipe it for her.

Li Xuanzhi looked at it and couldn't help but laugh softly.

Nan Lu couldn't help but turned his head and glanced at his master suspiciously. Li Xuanzhi suddenly stopped laughing and coughed, picked up the tea cup on the table and took a sip of tea.

(End of this chapter)