Harem Daily Life

"Shouldn't we give her a chance?" Tao Yanyan couldn't wait any longer and wanted to lure her into a trap.

He Linzhang looked at her with a cold gaze: "How could you let an opportunity slip by? You want me to be the bait? Then we can catch her red-handed and punish her on the grounds that she seduced me?"

Tao Yanyan squinted and nodded.

“No.” He Linzhang refused resolutely: “I will never be bait to lure him with my beauty.”

"But……"

"No buts. Right now, we just need to attend Kang Mowan's coronation ceremony, and then discuss Yanran's marriage. After Yanran's marriage, we'll go home. This imposter can be a foot-massaging maid for the Empress Dowager for life; we don't need to pay him any attention."

Seeing He Linzhang's firm refusal, Tao Yanyan didn't say anything more. He couldn't very well force him to cooperate with that imposter, could he?

The coronation ceremony took place on the third day after the arrival of the Great Zhou entourage. Gu Yuanyuan looked surprised, as if she had only realized that this group was the Great Zhou royal family after checking into the Xia Kingdom's inn. She said to everyone she met, "Oh, so it's the Fifth Prince." "Oh, so it's the Sixth Prince."

Her expressions were deliberate, and her acting was not as good as He Xiaoqi's, which made He Xiaoqi complain about her to everyone she met.

"Hehehehehe, that lousy surprised expression, I could beat hers by three points. I wonder who she's trying to impress?"

He Xiaoliu, unable to bear it any longer, frowned and said, "Xiaoqi, can you change your laughter?"

He Xiaoqi tilted her head, "But that's how it's written in the book, the villain's classic laugh: Hehehehehe."

He Xiaoliu covered his ears: "Can't you just listen to our normal laughter? Hahahaha, that's how it should be!"

He Xiaoqi flapped her wings: "No, I don't want to laugh, I want to laugh like a baby. Your laughter is normal, but I'm not normal."

The rebellious parrot took flight, circled three times, and flew out the window.

After He Xiaobao finished correcting He Xiaoliu's homework, he advised, "Just let it go. It's just a laugh, why get angry?"

He Xiaoliu looked displeased: "I can only discipline this one younger brother. Can't I even discipline this little bit?"

Unable to soothe the angry child, He Xiaoliu threw down her homework and ran out the door.

He Xiaobao sighed and glanced at He Yinuo, who was chewing away beside him. "I don't know where Xiao Liu got his stubbornness from. He only feels happy when he has a younger brother to keep him in line. I don't want to take care of my younger brother. Isn't it tiring?"

He Yinuo glanced at him. Beside him were He Xiaoliu's homework and two calligraphy practice books that he needed to keep an eye on.

"Well, from today onwards, can you just stop interfering with Xiao Liu's studies? How about giving him his freedom?"

He Xiaobao was taken aback, then said angrily, "How can that be? As the older brother, how can I not care about my younger brother's studies? You're the older sister, I don't care about your food and drink, but why are you asking me whether I care about my younger brother's studies? Humph! If I'm going to care, then I'll care!"

He Xiaobao tidied up the books on the table, then stormed out, slamming the door behind him.

He Yinuo: "..."

"Have you all eaten firecrackers? You're so easily set on fire?" She picked up another pastry, chewing it slowly. "So what if you're angry? You can leave if you want, I'm not going to coax you! Humph!"

He Xiaoliu searched for He Xiaoqi all over the place, while He Xiaobao searched for He Xiaoliu all over the place. In the end, the two of them and a bird met, but neither of them wanted to lower themselves to make peace first, so they just stood back to back.

When Tao Yanyan arrived, she noticed that the three little ones seemed a bit off. She raised an eyebrow and said, "It's so cold outside, what are you doing standing in the yard? Aren't you afraid of getting cold?"

He Xiaoqi flew to Tao Yanyan's shoulder and landed on her fluffy cloak collar: "Mother, please have another child. Xiaoqi is so pitiful. Xiaoqi is at the bottom of the food chain and has no younger brothers or sisters to take care of."

Tao Yanyan coughed lightly: "Being the youngest baby is pampered, why are you so upset?"

He Xiaoliu's eyes lit up, and he quickly stepped forward to hug Tao Yanyan's leg: "Then I'm the youngest baby, right? The most pampered baby?"

Tao Yanyan patted his head and nodded: "That's right, Xiao Liu is the youngest baby."

"What about me?" He Xiaoqi tilted her bird head: "Am I not the youngest baby?"

Tao Yanyan also patted its head: "You too, as the only bird in our family, you are also the most pampered."

He Xiaobao stood to the side, frowning slightly: "Anyway, I want to be the older brother."

Tao Yanyan reached out and pinched his little face: "In our family, Xiao Bao is also very spoiled."

Everyone is the best baby in her eyes, and she treats everyone equally, nurturing them with love.

For dinner, the whole family gathered together to eat Xia Kingdom dishes specially prepared by the Xia Kingdom's royal chef. He Xiaoliu and He Xiaoqi were on either side of He Linzhang, waiting to be fed by him, but He Linzhang only focused on feeding He Yinuo.

Unable to wait for his father to feed him, He Xiaoliu looked at his mother suspiciously: "Is Mother lying to me? Fifth Sister is clearly the most favored."

Tao Yanyan patted his head: "Your fifth sister is the youngest among the girls, so naturally she is the most favored." After saying that, she peeled a shrimp for him: "You are the youngest among the sons, so your mother dotes on you."

He Xiaoqi tilted her bird head: "Mother's way of speaking is really... enough to confuse people."

Tao Yanyan quickly fed it and stuffed its mouth shut.

Sometimes Tao Yanyan couldn't understand how such a small thing, no bigger than a palm, could be so intelligent and harder to fool.

Gu Yuanyuan stood waiting under the porch. Ever since the Emperor and Empress made their identities clear, she could no longer dine with them, nor even have the chance to stand beside the Empress Dowager to serve them. Watching the handsome man take care of his wife and children with such doting eyes, she couldn't suppress the jealousy in her heart.

She touched the powder in her sleeve pocket. It was left for her by the person who came to make contact, so that she could slip it into the emperor's food whenever she had the chance. It contained top-grade aphrodisiacs, and once she became the emperor's woman, she would enjoy endless wealth and glory in the future.

During this period, she had no chance to administer the drug. Firstly, the emperor was always surrounded by people, so she could not get close to his food. Secondly, she was summoned to serve the Empress Dowager every day, and she had to work as soon as she woke up, without any rest. She was so tired that she would fall asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow every day.

She had originally planned to take it slow, but the man was just too tempting. She wished she could use the top-grade aphrodisiac today and take him down right now.

Because He Yinuo had been coughing for the past two days, Tao Yanyan was worried and agreed to sleep with He Yinuo tonight. Gu Yuanyuan saw that the opportunity had come, so she secretly went to the kitchen of the inn under the cover of night, boiled a pot of tea, and secretly added medicine.

She carried the water herself to He Linzhang's dormitory, and no one stopped her along the way, allowing her to enter as if no one was there.

She initially thought it was because of the cold weather that the servants were being lazy and not guarding the door, completely unaware that this was a trap set specifically for her.

His Majesty, in the end, could not resist the Empress's persistent pleading and used himself as bait to seduce her with his beauty.

He gritted his teeth in the room: "Just you wait, once I deal with this imposter, Yan Yan will definitely make it up to me!"