The Flirtatious Prince and His Savage Concubine

Liu Lu followed Lu Lingxi's instructions and went to get her some water to wash her face.

Lu Lingxi looked at Xiao Yu'er and said seriously, "Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince already knows my appearance, then there is no need for you to report to him that I deliberately made myself ugly to scare him today, do you understand?"

Xiao Yuer looked at her with amusement and did not answer.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Lu Lingxi took a few steps closer to him, pretending to be vicious, and deliberately scared him with her ugly makeup, and said with bulging eyes: "If you insist on reporting to him, I will... I will... stop being friends with you, and I will embarrass you and torture you every day after you marry into the Prince's Mansion, and I won't let you have a good life. Do you understand?"

Lu Lingxi thought her words were very intimidating, but in Xiaoyuer's eyes, they had no intimidating effect at all, and even looked a little cute. However, Xiaoyuer was very tactful and did not refute her, but made a sincere expression and said, "Well, I understand."

Seeing that Xiao Yuer promised not to report today's events to His Royal Highness, Lu Lingxi felt relieved. Then, seeing that Xiao Yuer had no intention of leaving, he asked, "I have accepted the things the prince asked you to bring. There is nothing else. You should go back and report to His Royal Highness."

Xiao Yuer was a little embarrassed for a moment. This was the first time he had encountered such a straightforward order to leave. After the embarrassment, he explained, "I specially asked for leave from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today to spend your birthday with you. After all, we have been classmates for two months, so we can be considered friends, right? You won't chase me away, right?"

At this time, Liu Lu, who was very nimble, had brought water for washing her face. Lu Lingxi first wet the towel and cleaned it briefly, then wiped his hands while saying, "I won't drive you away, but I really didn't plan your meals." The makeup she had put on in the morning was all over her face, colorful, and Lu Lingxi made a playful expression. Xiao Yu'er, Chunhong, and Liu Lu all laughed.

Chunhong hurriedly stepped forward and took the handkerchief from Lu Lingxi's hand, holding back her laughter and said, "Miss, you can't see where your face is dirty, let me help you clean it." Lu Lingxi readily handed the wet handkerchief in her hand to Chunhong. She could imagine that her makeup was all smudged, which must look funny, and she didn't care about the laughter of the three of them.

Xiao Yu'er calmed down his smile and said, "How can such a large Zhenguo Marquis Mansion be short of food for me? I can't eat much either, so just add a pair of bowls and chopsticks."

While Chunhong was washing his face, Lu Lingxi said, "The Zhenguo Marquis' Mansion has enough food for you, but since you are here to celebrate the birthday, you should also give a gift. Where is your gift for me?" After saying that, he spread out his right palm, waiting for Xiaoyuer to put the gift in his palm.

This was something Xiaoyuer couldn't do. He thought: Didn't I just give you a gift? You want more? Xiaoyuer tried to think back and realized that he hadn't thought of giving you two gifts when he left. Now he didn't have anything decent to show off. It was even harder to say directly that the cat hairpin was given by him.

"Lingxi, didn't I give you a jade pendant when I left the Marquis Zhenguo Mansion last time? It's an old heirloom in our family and it's very precious. How about you treat it as my early birthday gift to you?" This is the only excuse Xiao Yuer could come up with in the end.

When Lu Lingxi heard this, she disagreed and retorted, "I also gave you my own hairpin last time. It was an equal exchange. We were even. How can it be counted this time? No, these are two different things."

Chunhong, who was washing Lu Lingxi's face, was startled by this. She looked at Liu Lu who was standing aside. Liu Lu also winked at Chunhong, as if asking her, "When did this happen? Do you know? With the hairpin and the jade pendant, it looks like they are getting engaged."

Chunhong also responded with a wink: "I don't know, how could this happen when I wasn't paying attention to the young lady for a while?"

Liu Lu continued to wink and said, "That's right. What if the Crown Prince finds out and investigates? How will I explain it?"

Chunhong glanced at Lu Lingxi and told Liulu that she would have a good talk with Lu Lingxi and give her a lesson when no one was around. Liulu nodded in understanding.

I have to say that Chunhong and Liulu have lived together for such a long time that they have a certain tacit understanding between them. If it were an outsider, it would be impossible to guess what their code words mean.

Chunhong made eye contact with Liulu and stopped moving her hands, so Lu Lingxi thought it was clean and said to Chunhong, "Is it clean? If you are done, take the basin away."

Chunhong came back to her senses and replied to Lu Lingxi, "It will be done soon, just one last thing." Then she concentrated on helping Lu Lingxi clean his face.

Seeing that this was not going to work, Xiao Yuer thought for a while while Lu Lingxi and Chunhong were talking, and then said, "Then I'll make it up to you another day when I'm free and bring it to you in person. Is that okay?"

"Huh? Didn't you say before that you usually don't have time and have to keep your whereabouts secret? Why do you seem to be quite free now?" Lu Lingxi couldn't help but ask sincerely after hearing what Xiao Yuer said.

Xiao Yuer was speechless for a moment, thinking: I am not a real secret guard, so of course I don’t need to hide my whereabouts, but I also have a lot of important things to do, I am not as free as you say.

Xiao Yuer really had no other words to say, so he turned around and pretended to leave, pretending to be angry and said, "Since, Lingxi, you don't want me to stay, then forget it. I'm too lazy to think of any gifts. I'll just leave, hum!"

Seeing Xiao Yu'er was about to leave, Lu Lingxi quickly stood up and said with a smile: "Oh! Are you angry? Don't be angry, I was just teasing you. I'm very happy that you took a special leave to spend my birthday with me. Thank you! Let's go, let's go to daddy's place for lunch now. There is wine I brewed some time ago for lunch today. You must taste it later."

When Xiao Yuer heard that there was wine brewed by Lingxi herself for lunch, he didn't care about the verbal dispute with Lu Lingxi just now. He just said along with her: "Oh~ The wine brewed by the daughter of the Zhenguo Marquis? Then I must taste it."

Lu Lingxi walked in front and led the way. He turned back and said to Xiao Yuer with a smile: "Okay, okay, you will definitely be included."

Then he asked Chunhong: "Chunhong, before I left, I asked you to ask people to dig out the wine I buried under the osmanthus tree. Did they dig it out?"

Chunhong: "Miss, it has been dug out and sent to the master."

Although Lu Lingxi didn't feel much about her birthday, she was still looking forward to drinking the wine she brewed herself. She couldn't wait to try it.