Noble Lady

The banquet at the Marquis of Wu'an's mansion ended in laughter and joy.

In a moment of joy, Xue Chenyu also drank a few glasses of fruit wine, so that she felt dizzy and as if floating in the clouds. It was Qiuhua and Yumei who helped her back to life.

"Miss, you are so happy today. Is it because the Marquis is back?" Yumei asked curiously.

Xue Chenyu nodded dazedly, "Of course I can. My father is back. He survived a great disaster and escaped death. This is the most important thing to celebrate. Isn't it worth my happiness?"

Yumei hesitated for a moment and said, "I heard from the second young lady that the prince said he would come to the mansion another day. Is he going to propose marriage?"

The word "propose marriage" suddenly made Xue Chenyu's mind clear up a lot. "You, what did you say?"

"I……"

"Miss, Yumei is young and what she said is nonsense. Please don't take it to heart." Without waiting for Yumei to speak, Qiuhua quickly covered her mouth.

"How did you know?"

Xue Chenyu was mostly sober. She rubbed her aching temples, half-closed her eyes, and felt very oppressed.

Yumei was silent as a cicada.

Qiu Hua carefully chose her words and said, "...It was that day. I was too quick to say anything and let it slip. Please punish me, young lady."

Xue Chenyu looked at her with a half-smile, "You are a good person. You take everything on yourself."

When Qiuhua wanted to explain further, she waved her hand and said, "Go out. You don't need to serve me here."

Yumei and Qiuhua looked at each other and left obediently.

When she closed the door, Qiuhua hesitated and looked inside. She said, "Young lady, if you have any instructions, I will be in the side room."

"Hmm." Xue Chenyu seemed to have a headache and rubbed his temples again.

Qiuhua and Yumei walked towards the corridor.

Yumei even whispered an apology: "...I'm sorry, Sister Qiuhua, it's all my fault for not being careful with my words, and I've gotten you into trouble. I hope the young lady won't blame you?"

"Don't worry, if the girl wanted to blame someone, she would have done it long ago." Qiuhua comforted.

Yumei was still feeling uneasy and apologized several times.

Qiuhua didn't want to tell her that when she said that she let the secret slip, the girl must have seen through her words to protect Yumei, otherwise she wouldn't have said that.

inside the house.

Xue Chenyu shook her dizzy head, stood up and poured herself a cup of hot tea.

The fragrance flowed into my throat, and the alcohol seemed to fade a little.

However, this is all an illusion.

She really couldn't drink, and her head felt a little dizzy again.

But he still noticed some movement, looked towards the window, and said lightly, "Prince, since you are here, please show yourself."

The words fell.

The rear window opened and Situ Zhen jumped in with ease.

But he didn't come empty-handed this time.

He was holding a bamboo tube in his hand, and I didn't know what was in it that made him cherish it so much.

Xue Chenyu felt that she really couldn't hold her liquor, so she held onto the small table on the chaise longue and sat down again.

"Miss Xue has drunk quite a bit of wine tonight. How about trying this hangover soup?" Situ Zhen placed the bamboo tube solemnly in front of her.

Xue Chenyu was stunned for a moment, then raised her eyelids to look around. He had already unscrewed the lid and poured out a cup of sobering soup.

Hangover soups are usually sour and spicy or sweet and sour, in order to sober up, stimulate the appetite and increase food intake.

But surprisingly, this hangover soup did not have the usual strong smell of bamboo shoots, but instead had a light bamboo fragrance.

"Thank you for your trouble, Prince." Xue Chenyu said politely, but he just sniffed it and had no intention of drinking it.

"Miss Xue, why don't you try it? This is made in Hsinchu, so it might taste different from the hangover soup you know."

There was no obvious disappointment on Situ Zhen's face, but from his urgent tone, one could hear that he wanted Xue Chenyu to have a taste.

Xue Chenyu paused, "Did the prince make this hangover soup?"

Situ Zhen pursed his lips, almost unable to suppress the tears, but still said stubbornly, "...I didn't do it on purpose. Someone just mentioned this method and I thought it was interesting, so I gave it a try."

"What a coincidence! Marquis Xue returned home tonight and you happened to have a drink, so I brought it to you to try."

Although he said it casually, his eyes were always fixed on Xue Chenyu, and he almost handed the sobering soup to her mouth.

Xue Chenyu could no longer fail to hear the hidden meaning in his words. She pinched her nose, took the bamboo cup, and drank it all in one gulp.

As expected, it has a refreshing taste when you take a sip, lightly sweet, and even a very light sour taste.

Unlike the usual ones that have a lot of vinegar added, it tastes very sour.

"Are there any special ingredients?" Xue Chenyu asked, putting the cup on the table.

Seeing this, Situ Zhen poured her another glass.

"The sour taste you're tasting isn't ordinary vinegar, it's a sour berry. When the hangover soup is ready, squeeze the juice into it. The heat from the soup will dissolve the sour juice, so the sourness is there without being overpoweringly vinegary."

"I've tried it, and it's quite delicious. What do you think?"

He sat on the other side of the small table, his head tilted, and a look of begging for praise was almost written on his face.

Xue Chenyu couldn't help but feel a little confused. Was she hallucinating because she drank too much, or was Prince Cheng really like a child, begging for her praise.

It was also because of the alcohol that she felt her brain was a little dull. She thought for a long time before coming to the conclusion: it was both.

"Your Highness, you have a brilliant idea. How did you come up with the idea of ​​using these sour berries?"

"These physalis berries were obtained by chance..." Situ Zhen seemed to have opened up a chatterbox and started talking to Xue Chenyu incessantly.

From accidentally eating sour berries, to trying many times to use sour berries instead of vinegar as a seasoning, to using them to make this hangover soup, he took a lot of detours.

The description also goes on to describe many of their situations when they were trapped at the bottom of the ravine, how they found food, and how they found wine.

Brothers in arms, we share life and death.

The friendship of sharing life and death and adversity cannot be replaced by anything else.

Xue Chenyu felt the same way. Just like how Yuzhu blocked the knife for him in his previous life, even after being reborn, she always remembered it. In her heart, Yuzhu was different from others.

However, according to what he said, during the time he was in the valley, he had time to take those detours.

Xue Chenyu held her cheek and listened to him. She didn't know if it was the effect of alcohol or something else, but she suddenly felt that the more she looked at him, the cuter he became.

In the light, his well-defined face looked so delicate, as if he had walked out of a painting.

In the past, I only knew that he was handsome, but during this trip to the northern border, he became darker, thinner, and his features became more mature. I always felt that he was different from before.

More handsome and manly than before.

"Prince, aren't you going to propose marriage?"

Situ Zhen was stunned, his whole body stiff with excitement.

Xue Chenyu blinked her eyes. "Huh? Didn't the prince say that he would propose marriage after you brought my father back safely? What, are you changing your mind?"

"I, no, I didn't. I just…"

Prince Cheng, who has always been eloquent, suddenly became stuttering and was at a loss for words.

He jumped up and paced around in a panic, but when he thought of his words and looked back, he found that Xue Chenyu had fallen asleep on the table.

He sleeps peacefully with a smile on his face.