Chapter 417 The Taste of Ink and Color

Ye Wenyan stuck out her tongue and said, "Don't hit a smiling person. I came here to give you a gift, so you won't really throw me out. You didn't throw away my maid yesterday, so how can you throw mine out today? No way, no way."

As she spoke, she took two steps forward and rudely stuffed the box into Quan Qinghua's arms. Then she walked into the pavilion, sat down on a chair, and stuffed a piece of dessert into her mouth.

Quan Qinghua looked at her rude expression and didn't mind at all. Suddenly, she thought of Princess Zhaolian who was far away in Guiyue.

When he first arrived in Guiyue, everything around him was unfamiliar. Everyone looked at him like a monkey juggling on the street, finding him new and fresh, but also avoiding him. For a long time, he was completely unable to integrate into the life of the people of Guiyue, but he had to attend all the banquets in the palace and the mansion. Not attending would mean not giving face to Guiyue and would make him even more excluded. He gritted his teeth and endured those years, enduring everyone's overt and covert ridicule and mockery. Only Feng Zhaolian was so familiar with him that he would come uninvited, stay at his house for meals, and even tell the cook about his preferences for food.

Guiyue's chef always favors Princess Guiyue, so every time she comes, the chef will cook her favorite dishes, and she eats them with great relish.

It seemed like the first time she met Feng Zhaolian, she was just like now, sitting in front of him, regardless of his indifference, just stuffing a box of snacks in her hand into his arms, saying it was a gift for him. Then she sat in his seat, picked up the snacks and ate them, and after eating, she commented that the snacks in his house were not delicious, and introduced him to a good snack chef next time.

"The dim sum here is not tasty!" Ye Wenyan ate two pieces and didn't want to take any more. He patted the residue on his hands and said to him, "Next time I will introduce you to a good dim sum chef."

Quan Qinghua felt dazed for a moment, as if time had reversed and he was back to the time when he was a proton in Guiyue.

The little girl in front of him seemed to have changed. She was no longer Miss Ye Si who wore an orange dress, but Feng Zhaolian, the niece of King Guiyue who wore red clothes all year round and was the most beloved of the King.

He tried hard to recall what he had said in response to Feng Zhaolian, and soon he remembered: "No need, yours is yours, and mine is mine. I am not familiar with you, so I don't deserve your warmth. Please go back!"

Ye Wenyan was stunned, "Why did you suddenly let me go back? We were fine just now? Brother, we are actually quite familiar with each other. You helped me, I pissed you off, and we even had a fight. Anyway, we have had both good and bad experiences, so we can't be considered unfamiliar with each other."

Quan Qinghua suddenly came back to her senses, and seeing that the person in front of her had turned into Miss Ye Si again, she couldn't help but smile bitterly, "You are right."

He sat down, put the box in his hand aside, and poured tea for Ye Wenyan personally.

"This tea is good, but I think it's definitely not as good as the one you brought. Just drink it. You can't ask me to brew the gift you gave me right now. You can't miss something you gave to others." Ye Wenyan waved his hand, "I don't miss it. I can drink it anytime I want. These two cans are for you, brother. Don't worry about it. I'll get you more when you're done."

He didn't say anything, but turned his head to look at the lakeside, and immediately saw Ye Feizhou leaning against a tree with his arms folded.

Today, the second young master of the Ye family was dressed in white, with a sky-blue waist belt. He was tall and thin, and wearing white made him look even thinner. He looked like a man and a woman, and it was hard to tell whether he was yin or yang, especially his waist. I'm afraid that even the most beautiful girl in Lin'an City would not dare to compare with the second young master of the Ye family.

He turned around and asked Ye Wenyan: "Why did you suddenly give me a gift? I thought that you and I would never have any contact with each other again, and that the best outcome would be to just treat each other as strangers when we meet again. Why did you do this again?"

"I am not cooperating with you, the Fourth Prince." Ye Wenyan leaned forward, "Brother, you conveyed your true strength to me through the mouth of the Ying family. Isn't the purpose to make me ask for your cooperation? So I am here now, and I also brought my sincerity. Do you think my sincerity is enough? If not, I will go back and prepare some good things. Or you can just tell me what you want. As long as you want it and as long as I have it, I will definitely send it to you."

Quan Qinghua looked at her cunning appearance, his eyes narrowed, and he said: "What if I say that I want something I lost? Will you give it to me?"

Ye Wenyan raised the corner of his lips and shook his head, "No need to talk! That was bought with my second brother's life, I won't give it to anyone who wants it."

"Just for your second brother? You're just protecting him like this?"

"Yes!" She nodded and said as a matter of course, "He is my brother, so of course I have to help him. Your Highness, you don't know that I always help my relatives instead of those who are unreasonable. So no matter whether he is right or wrong, as long as he is my brother, I have to help him."

"He is not the only relative in your family." Quan Qinghua tightened his hand holding the teacup, and the joints turned slightly white.

Ye Wenyan then said: "Those who treat me well are my relatives, and those who treat me badly are nothing."

"Your second brother treats you well?" He dared not agree, "You must have forgotten who injured you on the night of the 15th day of the twelfth lunar month."

"Uh..." Ye Wenyan felt a little guilty, "I didn't forget, but we made up later. Just like us, didn't we also have a fight? Aren't we reconciled now?"

"Who made peace with you?" He almost laughed out of anger, "Ye Wenyan, do you have any self-awareness?"

"It's not a reconciliation?" She scratched her head. "That's a bit difficult. But it doesn't matter. I'll comfort you and it will be fine. Or if you want anything else besides those letters, I'll find it for you."

When she said this, she suddenly blinked and said, "Brother, how about I help you chase Feng Zhaolian?"

"Nonsense!" He was so angry that he stood up and shook his sleeves, "Don't talk nonsense."

"Then I'll help you chase my fifth sister!" Ye Wenyan argued with him today, "You have to chase someone anyway! Sooner or later you'll have to get married and start a family. With my help, maybe you can find your target faster. Brother, don't be shy. Tell me, between Feng Zhaolian and my fifth sister, which one do you like? Or maybe you don't like either of them, and the girl you like is someone else?"

"I don't like anyone, and I don't have anyone else. Forget about it." He was so angry that he gritted his teeth. After a long while, he finally sighed, "Forget it, put away your crooked thoughts, I will help you."

"Really?"

"real!"

"It's a deal!" Ye Wenyan jumped up and grabbed his wrist. After grabbing it, he rolled up his sleeves and high-fived him. "It's a deal. Whoever goes back on his word is a puppy."

Quan Qinghua stared blankly at the two palms hitting each other, and couldn't figure out what this hitting meant. However, the bright and eager smile in Ye Wenyan's eyes infected him, and he actually smiled as well.

Ye Wenyan seized this moment and immediately said to him: "Brother, you look better when you smile. Don't always have a stern face. No girl will like you. You don't know that your smile will make people feel like a spring breeze. With your white shirt, people will think you are an immortal who walked out of a painting. I can even smell the scent of ink and color on you."

This is not the first time someone has described him like this. The first person to say that he looked like an immortal in a painting was Feng Zhaolian.

He used to think that Feng Zhaolian described him this way because she just thought he looked good. But later he found out that the girl had someone in her heart, and she thought that person looked like him. When she looked at him, she was just seeing him looking at someone else.

It’s funny to think about it. The so-called other one was just a dream of Feng Zhaolian.

"I wanted to use this cooperation to exchange the three letters with you." Quan Qinghua told Ye Wenyan the truth. "I don't know why you want to open a jewelry store. I only heard Ying Peng say that you seem to want to make jewelry with your own drawings and sell them all over the world, the farther the better, the wider the better. He said that you must have a reason for doing this, but you didn't tell him, so he didn't ask."

"Then do you want to ask?" She looked at Quan Qinghua with a smile.

He shook his head. "No, I just think that if you really want to do this, I'm the one who can help you the most. If I were to exchange the three letters with you, maybe it would work. But I didn't expect you to help your relatives instead of your wife."

"Then why did you agree?" She was puzzled. "It seems that there is no reason for you to help me."

Quan Qinghua reached into his sleeve, took out a letter and handed it over.

"I read Princess Zhaolian's letters to you and me. I've read the one she gave me. She asked me to stand by your side and help you at all times. I can't promise to help my relatives like you did, nor can I promise to give you unconditional support. But just this once, I can still do it. I'll even repay her for taking care of me for the past nine years, and thank her for making sure I don't have to live too hard in Guiyue."

As he spoke, he handed over another thing, a fan-shaped jade plate with a faint green color and a painted word engraved on it.

"With this jade token, all the shops under my name will be open to all. Even if you say you want to close the shop or take all the money on the books, the shopkeeper and the clerks will never say a word of disapproval. As for what my forces are, I will let the Ying family tell you in detail. Take it, take the letter, and go back after reading it!"

He picked up the box on the table and said, "I accept the gift. Thank you." Then he was about to leave.

Ye Wenyan grabbed the man and said, "Just...just leave like this?"

"What else?" His memory became hazy again. It seemed that when Feng Zhaolian came to his house, he was unwilling to stay with her for too long. When he stood up to leave, Feng Zhaolian grabbed him and asked him: Are you leaving just like that? I am a guest sitting here, and you, as the host, are leaving just like that? You don't want to treat me to lunch? How can you be so hospitable?

When he thought of this, he actually asked Ye Wenyan, "Would you like me to treat you to lunch?"

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