Back and forth: I brought supplies to help the impoverished prince

"Miss Qiao?" Mu Qingchen called softly and gestured for her to sit down.

Qiao Shinian came back to his senses and looked at the person who had already sat down. He seemed to like wearing light-colored clothes. Today he was wearing a very light blue shirt with very few accessories. He looked gentle and just like a young man from an ordinary family.

Qiao Shinian looked at Mu Qingchen, hesitated for a few seconds and said tentatively: "Then, I won't be polite."

Mu Qingchen smiled and nodded.

"What does Miss Qiao like to eat?"

"All is fine." Qiao Shinian lowered his eyes slightly.

Mu Qingchen looked at Qingyu, and Qingyu walked out and gave instructions to the people waiting on the side.

"Never been here before?"

"Well! I went shopping with Wen Jiu, and I also watched the Oiran boat ride when I was in Chu Wen Kingdom!" Qiao Shinian couldn't help but raise his voice when he said this.

Mu Qingchen smiled and took a sip of the teacup, saying in a gentle voice, "Why did Miss Qiao give me snacks that day?"

Qiao Shinian retracted his wandering gaze and looked up at Mu Qingchen, "Your Highness, do you want to hear the truth or a lie? Whether it is true or false, you have to forgive me and I will answer."

“I want to hear them all.”

Mu Qingchen's answer was greedy, "So you tell me, I won't blame you, I promise."

"The truth is, I felt that your Highness' back was very lonely, so I wanted to comfort you. The lie is that I wanted to please you and didn't want Wen Jiu to be at odds with you. You and Princess Yu'an are people we cannot offend."

Seeing her sincerity, Mu Qingchen smiled slightly: "Since you have all chosen Yu'an, then what's the matter with you coming out with me?"

"I hate her, but I don't hate you, so I'm willing to accompany you for a walk and a chat. I won't go with Wen Jiu and Princess Yu'an because I hate her." Qiao Shinian tried his best to make his tone calm and natural, his hands under the table tightly grasping his clothes.

Mu Qingchen showed a warm smile, and did not point out Qiao Shinian's nervousness and temptation. He said in a gentle voice: "It is really an honor to get your recognition."

The waiter brought a fruit plate and some pastries as snacks. Qiao Shinian took a look and was not very interested.

After the waiter left, Qiao Shinian responded to Mu Qingchen's words: "Your Highness is gentle and polite to others, and he is a gentleman. How can such a person not be liked? So I am just one of the people who like you. Letting such a beautiful person like you be lonely and alone, anyone would not be able to bear it, and everyone would want to be close to you and accompany you."

"Thank you for your kindness." Mu Qingchen looked at Qiao Shinian's frank look and knew that what she said was different from what he understood as liking someone, but it was really hard to resist seeing her say it so bluntly.

Pianpian said that the person she liked hadn't noticed that the wording was wrong.

No, it’s not that she didn’t realize that the wording was wrong, but that what she thought was liking was different from what he thought was liking.

But it was really hard not to blush when such straightforward words came from a girl's mouth.

Seeing that Mu Qingchen looked strange, Qiao Shinian suddenly took back what he had just said: "Your Highness, don't get me wrong! I don't mean to like you! I don't like you, really! No, I don't have any love for you between men and women, I like you because you are a good person!

It's because your words and deeds are of good character. What I like about your behavior is that you have such good behavior under such an identity!"

Seeing Qiao Shinian's resolute explanation and retraction of his previous remarks, Mu Qingchen couldn't help but chuckle: "Okay, I get it, no need to explain that you don't like me. You'll make me feel like I was just being sentimental."

"Yeah." Qiao Shinian immediately shut up with a smile on his face.

After testing it out, it turned out that Mu Qingchen was not repulsive or disgusted by her unruly behavior. Instead, he rather liked her behavior.

As the sound of the flute rang out, it was followed by the sound of the piano and the pipa.

As the music played, a woman in simple clothes entered the venue first.

Sitcom?

Qiao Shinian thought as he watched the actors gradually come on stage.

The music below gradually became more passionate, but Qiao Shinian was not very interested in such performances. Her attention was on the vocal music.

As she was distractedly watching the dance show below, she caught a glimpse of a man in black saying something in Qingyu's ear and then hurried away.

Qingyu came to Mu Qingchen as soon as that person left and whispered something in his ear.

Mu Qingchen's originally calm face showed some regret. He sighed slightly and saw Qiao Shinian holding a cup of tea and seemed to be watching the performance seriously.

She seemed to hear him sigh and then turned to look at him.

"Your Highness, what happened? Are we going back? That's a pity. Let's make an appointment next time." Qiao Shinian didn't know what happened. They spoke too quietly and it was too noisy here. She stared intently at the people below and pricked up her ears to eavesdrop, but she didn't hear any sound.

But judging from Mu Qingchen's expression, it shouldn't be a good thing.

"No need to go back, it's just that the old lady of the Mu family has passed away." Mu Qingchen picked up a piece of cake and handed it to Qiao Shinian, "Don't be shy, you can eat it with confidence. Of course, this cake is safe, there is no poison, and there is nothing else in it."

Qiao Shinian looked at Mu Qingchen in surprise as he brought her some pastries. She hesitated to take them. To be honest, she had little interest in the pastries here. Unless she was hungry, she would rather eat some fried foods, such as potato chips and potato chips.

"Don't you like these fruits?" Mu Qingchen asked. The grapes in front of him were tribute from the Western Regions, and these fruits were not available to ordinary people.

Qiao Shinian glanced at the fruits in front of him. To be honest, they didn't look very fresh.

Usually, she would let Wen Jiu eat any fruit she had. After all, she could return to modern times once every three months, so she could just go back and order takeout if she wanted to eat something.

She didn't think these things were rare. Unless it was during a famine period, she wouldn't have much interest in these fruits.

"I have never seen these things before. They are too precious and I don't deserve them." Qiao Shinian hesitated and thought about how to refuse.

Mu Qingchen laughed in silence. One should stay calm when lying. This obvious revelation should make him angry or pretend he didn't know.

After Qiao Shinian finished speaking, he realized that he was too nervous and had given himself away, so he quickly changed the subject: "Who is the old lady of the Mu family?"

"Princess Ping'an's grandmother."

"Oh~, her grandmother is gone, how sad she must be." After saying this, Qiao Shinian looked up at Mu Qingchen. The girl liked the man in front of her so much, if he went to comfort her, then maybe she would feel much better.

Seeing that Qiao Shinian had been staring at him, Mu Qingchen did not reject this kind of gaze. He asked, "Do you feel pity for Princess Ping'an?"

"Well, after all, she has lost her relatives, and the only one who can comfort her is her brother." Qiao Shinian nodded.

"that's it?"

"Well, what if?"

Mu Qingchen smiled and shook his head. What he wanted to say was that during the three years of mourning, one was not allowed to talk about marriage, so her age should become a point of criticism in the capital.