A life of ups and downs is pure joy
Chapter 117 She is the Real Princess
"My husband is handling official business here?" Lin Qinghuan walked into the cabinet of Jinglinyuan, her heart beating nervously, especially when she saw that the people leading her to find Xiao Yi were a group of people in official uniforms.
"Well, the eldest son is the Grand Secretary of Jinglin, the highest official here. Those you are looking at, young lady, are his subordinates." Yun Xiang spoke quietly to Lin Qinghuan in a low voice, holding the food box in his hand.
"Princess Changping, the courtyard in front of here is the office of the Grand Secretary." The civil servant scholar who brought the two people said respectfully.
"Thank you for your help, sir." Lin Qinghuan nodded.
"I'll take my leave." The civil official bowed and left.
"My husband has worked so hard. He is still working with a lamp on so late at night. He didn't get a good rest last night." Lin Qinghuan said with concern as she looked at the bright room.
As soon as I walked into the middle of the yard, I heard a woman's laughing voice and Xiao Yi's voice.
Lin Qinghuan looked at Yun curiously, thinking, "Is there...are there any female officials here?"
Yun Xiang shook his head in confusion. He was also very curious about who the woman inside was. He looked at Lin Qinghuan secretly with great uneasiness, and had a bad premonition in his heart.
Lin Qinghuan stood there somewhat confused, not knowing whether to move forward or what.
"Brother Yi, is it delicious? This is your favorite dish, and the meat in sauce I made myself is no worse than the one we had at Jingshui Tower before." The woman's voice came out happily.
"Yes, now you can cook." Xiao Yi's voice pierced Lin Qinghuan's ears steadily.
"I know you love this meat in sauce the most, so I asked the cook in the house to teach me. Humph, this is the only dish you can have." The woman said, and their voices sounded very familiar.
"He is so sensible now, not as naughty as before." Xiao Yi said.
"Then you should eat more, so that Wanwan won't have to work hard all afternoon." The woman smiled and picked up more food for Xiao Yi, happily supporting her chin and watching the man opposite her eat.
Lin Qinghuan, who was in the courtyard, heard the laughter and chatter inside, which was very irritating. He lowered his head and said to Yun Xiang beside him, "Since someone has been sent to accompany us, let's go back."
"Young Madam, why don't you go in and take a look..." Yun Xiang looked at Lin Qinghuan who left the yard without looking back, and then looked at the sauced meat in his hand that Lin Qinghuan had specially learned to make from Mother Huang. At this moment, he felt that the food box was extremely heavy.
On the way back, Lin Qinghuan lowered her eyes and frowned. Why are there so many women around her husband? Not to mention the ones in the yard, not to mention the beauties and the crazy one in Leyinfang. Now she doesn't even dare to go in and see who the woman who is so intimate with her is, and she keeps calling him Brother Yi.
"Yun Xiang, do you know who Wanwan is in that room?" Lin Qinghuan looked up at Yun Xiang who was looking at him worriedly and asked.
"Young Madam, maybe it's Princess Minghui. Her name seems to be Tao Baiwan." Yun Xiang said with some embarrassment.
"Look, here comes another princess." Lin Qinghuan said dejectedly, then glanced at the food box next to her, "What is her relationship with my husband?"
"Well... I only know that they grew up together. Young Madam can only be regarded as the eldest master's sister... just a sister..." Yun Xiang said in a panic. Lin Qinghuan knew from the look on her face that she was not just a sister. Even his own sister had never learned to cook a dish for him personally.
When Xiao Yi finished his official business, the civil servants and scholars who were on night watch had been replaced. He had sent Tao Baiwan to the carriage and had no idea that his little wife had been there, nor did he expect her to come.
When he returned to Qingboyuan, he found that Lin Qinghuan was not at home.
"Didn't the young lady ask anyone to come back and tell her where she was going?" Xiao Yi asked curiously.
"The young lady took Chu Xia and Yun Xiang back to the Marquis' Mansion this morning and has not come back since then. She also didn't send anyone to report the news." Shu Yin said while kneeling beside him, looking at the eldest master with some displeasure in her eyes.
Xiao Yi nodded and let Shuyin go.
"Has Nan'er returned home? If she has, ask her to come to the yard." Xiao Yi said in the house. Shu Yin outside heard it and hurriedly gave orders.
Xiao Qiannan walked in yawning and frowning, only to see her older brother sitting alone at the table drinking water.
"What are you doing, big brother? I'm tired after a whole day and want to go to bed early." Xiao Qiannan said resentfully as she sat down on the round pear blossom stool next to Xiao Yi.
"Did your sister-in-law play with you today?" Xiao Yi asked.
"Well, we spent the whole day at my sister-in-law's mother's house. Hey, that's strange, why did you come back alone?" Xiao Qiannan just came to her senses and felt something was wrong. She looked around and asked curiously, "Didn't my sister-in-law personally make you some braised meat and send it to the cabinet? Why didn't you see her?"
"What did you say? When did it happen?" Xiao Yi put down the shadow blue carved high-footed cup in his hand and asked.
"It was during dinner time. I offered to accompany her but she said no need. Did you guys have another fight?" Xiao Qiannan asked.
"Wanwan came to look for me at that time. If she had come too, she would have known about it." Xiao Yi said, then frowned.
"Oh...oh...my God, then...what should I do?" Xiao Qiannan perked up in an instant. It seemed that the thing she was worried about had happened. How come Princess Minghui, her elder brother's childhood sweetheart, came back again?
"You should go back to the yard and rest. Is she resting in Suheju?" Xiao Yi asked as he stood up.
"Well, my sister-in-law's mother went to Donglin. She was worried about elder sister Qingyao, so she stayed and sent someone to the house to inform my mother. Big brother, are you going to look for my sister-in-law?" Xiao Qiannan ran out after Xiao Yi, and her big brother only left her with a hurried back.
"Hey! Sister-in-law, your love rival is back." Xiao Qiannan said helplessly while standing at the door of the house.
Lin Qinghuan prepared to sleep in the middle of Qianyue Residence with Lin Qingyao.
"Big sister, I'm not happy." Lin Qinghuan sat next to Lin Qingyao and hugged her and said, looking very aggrieved.
"I think there's something wrong with you. What's wrong?" Lin Qingyao asked, gently touching the back of Lin Qinghuan's head.
"My current marriage makes me so tired. I want him and I to be together for the rest of our lives, but there are endless women around him, which makes me very upset. I don't want to share my husband with others in that yard for the rest of my life, and fight with him like my father's concubines did in the past. I don't want that." Lin Qinghuan started to cry in grievance as she spoke.
"Huan'er, aren't there only two concubines in his house? I heard that you all live together in Qingbo Courtyard! Nan'er said that he has never been to other places." Lin Qingyao picked up the silk scarf to wipe her sister's tears and asked with concern.
"If...if it was just the mansion, I wouldn't say anything. After all, they all happened before me. But...but there are so many beautiful flowers and willows outside. Now, there's a Princess Minghui who comes and calls him Brother Yi all the time and even makes meat with sauce...Wuuuuuu...Big sister, I regret liking him." Lin Qinghuan said tearfully.
"This Princess Minghui loved to follow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince when she was a child. I don't know what her relationship with Xiao Yi is. Did you see them together?" Lin Qingyao asked with some heartache.
Lin Qinghuan nodded aggrievedly, "They were having a meal together happily in the Jinglinyuan Cabinet. I was standing in the yard and... I wanted to throw away the worthless food box in my hand. Why should I bring him food? I even followed Mother Huang to learn how to make braised meat. My hands were burned. It's not worth caring about." Lin Qinghuan said angrily, and her tears stopped flowing.
"Let me take a look at your hand. Wow, there's such a big burn. Qiuxiang, get some ointment and ask big sister to apply it on you." Lin Qingyao looked at the blisters on Lin Qinghuan's fair and tender hands and blew on them with heartache.
"I don't want to learn or do anything for him anymore." Lin Qinghuan said as she looked at Lin Qingyao who was carefully applying medicine to her. "And don't drink that bitter soup or medicine anymore. If you can't have a baby, then don't have one."
"You little fool, you just keep saying those angry words. You are the real Madam Xiao. If you don't give birth to children for him, do you want those concubines to be ahead of you?" Lin Qingyao said helplessly, looking at her sister who was throwing a tantrum.
“He is…”
"Miss, Lord Xiao wants to see you in the outer courtyard. He says he's here to look for the fifth lady." Qiu Shi said as he knocked on the door.
"Big sister, look, he must have heard about the good things I saw about him and wants to come and comfort me." Lin Qinghuan became anxious when she heard this, and shouted outside again, "No, no, tell him to go back."
"This..." Qiu Shi murmured in embarrassment outside, and then he could only prepare to go out and reply.
"Wait..." Lin Qingyao shouted outside.
"Big sister, what are you doing?" Lin Qinghuan asked in confusion.
"There's no overnight grudge between husband and wife. Even if there is, you have to get it clear. You can't spend the night in a daze. I guess you won't be able to sleep all night." Lin Qingyao said.
"I don't want to see him. He's so powerful. He can easily coax me into submission." Lin Qinghuan refused.
"Just ask him about his relationship with the princess. He can't lie to you. He must be looking for you because he cares about you and loves you." Lin Qingyao patted Lin Qinghuan's face and straightened her hair. "Listen to your elder sister and don't get angry for no reason. If you're unhappy for a while, just come back to me. I'll wait for you with the light on."
Hearing her elder sister say this, Lin Qinghuan could only wipe away her tears and go out reluctantly. Then she saw the familiar man standing in the corridor. His slender and straight figure was stretched out very long by the afterimage of the moonlight. He was wearing a gray fur-lined straight-collared robe. Lin Qinghuan realized how cold this winter night was.
Xiao Yi saw Lin Qinghuan walking towards him slowly, so he quickened his pace and walked over, untied his outer robe and put it on her.
"I'm not cold, I don't need your clothes." Lin Qinghuan said coldly.
"How can you not be cold? Your face and hands are cold. This hot water bottle is useless. Let me warm your hands for you." Xiao Yi held Lin Qinghuan's small hand tightly and said. Lin Qinghuan felt a burst of warmth.
The couple returned to Suheju and just entered the house. Yun Xiang and Chu Xia walked to the door with the wash basin, and saw Xiao Yi holding Lin Qinghuan and going upstairs. Lin Qinghuan kept slapping him, but it was no use.
"Sister Yunxiang, are we still...going in now?" Chuxia asked, standing at the door.
"Of course we'll retreat first. Maybe the young lady will call us later." Yun Xiang said, and the two of them left the small inner courtyard and went to the water room in the outer courtyard.
Xiao Yi placed the angry Lin Qinghuan on the couch and then sat beside her.
"Huan'er, why didn't you go into the house and come back when you went to look for me?" Xiao Yi asked.
"If I enter the house, wouldn't I be disturbing the fun of my husband and Princess Minghui? Huan'er is definitely not that ignorant." Lin Qinghuan said with a very unhappy expression.
"She and I are just brother and sister. We grew up together and have no other relationship. Huan'er, don't think too much." Xiao Yi stood up again and half-knelt in front of Lin Qinghuan, holding her shoulders and said.
"If we are brother and sister, then so be it. I'm fine now. You've worked hard today and you can go back home and have a rest. I still have to go look for my elder sister." Lin Qinghuan said with her eyes lowered. She suddenly felt very tired.
"Your elder sister has many people to serve her, but I don't. If Huan'er doesn't care about me, I will be so lonely." Xiao Yi held Lin Qinghuan's little face and asked her to look at him.
"Why are you lonely? Everyone in the mansion is eager to serve you, so why do you need me? Now a noble princess's sister has come and worked hard to make the one and only sauced meat in the world for you, your good brother. Why are you coming to me to complain?" Lin Qinghuan said unhappily.
"Huan'er, Minghui just came to see me after not seeing each other for a long time. I will keep my distance from her in the future, okay? I heard that you prepared a sumptuous dinner for me, but is it true?" Xiao Yi looked at Lin Qinghuan's jealous little face and continued with a little guilty feeling.
"No, I naturally don't like the smell of fireworks, so how could I do that? I'm not as virtuous as your good sister." After saying this, Lin Qinghuan retracted her injured hand, not wanting this evil man to see it.
"Huan'er, please don't be angry, okay? If you are unhappy, I will let you beat me and do whatever you want to me, as long as you pay attention to me." Xiao Yi wanted to hold Lin Qinghuan's hand, but found that he couldn't pull it away.
"I won't hit you, and I don't want to forgive you just like that. You make me angry every other day because of these things. Since we can't be together for a lifetime, why should you make me happy for nothing?" Lin Qinghuan said, looking at her husband.
Xiao Yi hugged Lin Qinghuan tightly in his arms, "My dear Huan'er, I love you so much. If you ignore me, I will be heartless. Ever since I fell in love with you, I have only recognized you. Now that I have said this, it is true."
"Is that really the case?" Lin Qinghuan asked, her heart softening when she heard him say this with such tenderness in his eyes.
"Well, I was very anxious when I didn't see you when I returned to the mansion. Then I heard Nan'er say that you went to look for me, which made me even more upset. I want to make you resentful, and as your husband, I feel reluctant to let you go. In the future, I will behave myself and not make you jealous." After Xiao Yi said this, the brainless woman in his arms was no longer angry.
"Really? My husband cares about Huan'er so much?" Lin Qinghuan asked.
Xiao Yi held Lin Qinghuan's small hand, placed it on his mouth and kissed it.
"I love you, Huan'er."
Lin Qinghuan shrank her little hand and frowned in pain.
"What's wrong with this hand?" Xiao Yicai saw the burn on Lin Qinghuan's hand, and picked up her little hand to look at it carefully.
"The meat in the sauce needs to be deep-fried first, but I was so clumsy that I accidentally burned myself," Lin Qinghuan said aggrievedly. "In the end, it all went into the bucket. I wasted all my time."
"I was wrong."
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