"Xiyao..." Someone didn't expect Xiyao to trust him so much. Thinking that he actually had something to hide from her, he felt a bit stuffy in his heart.
Xiyao was still happily daydreaming and didn't notice that someone suddenly hugged her affectionately. She was startled and asked, "Huh? What's wrong?"
Someone felt his heart clogged and said in a muffled voice, "Just let me hug you for a while."
Xiyao smiled happily and simply leaned on his chest. His chest was so warm, giving her the broadest world.
Thousands of birds flew across the shadow of the woods. Xiyao didn't notice a gray carrier pigeon had landed at the place where someone often stayed.
...
That night, someone took Xiyao up to the tree - house to sleep. He lay on his side beside her and used a palm - leaf fan to drive away mosquitoes for her.
Xiyao asked, "Does this count as us sleeping together?"
Someone replied, "With the sky as our quilt and the earth as our bed, we sleep together every day."
Xiyao said, "But we're in a tree now, and there's a roof above our heads."
Someone laughed and tapped the tip of her nose. "It's all the same."
"Then will I have your child? Mother said that sleeping together means having a child," Xiyao asked innocently.
Someone blushed and counter - asked, "Do you want to have a child with me?"
Xiyao said cheerfully, "Yes. If we have a child, we can be as happy as Father and Mother."
Someone coughed lightly. "Okay, then shall we have one?"
Xiyao nodded and then gradually fell asleep while someone was slowly fanning the mosquitoes away for her. Please forgive Xiyao's ignorance about sexual life. It's not that Ji Feiyu didn't teach her, but Xiyao was distracted and didn't listen. There was supposed to be a lesson from the nanny about sexual matters before her wedding, but poor Xiyao was taken away by someone that night. So... Xiyao was completely innocent in this regard.
After Xiyao fell asleep, someone whistled, making the gray pigeon fly up. There was a small bamboo slip engraved with words tied to the pigeon's foot. Someone took the bamboo slip down and read it carefully. It said, "If you like her, treat her gently. When the time is ripe, I'll propose marriage on your behalf."
Someone pondered while holding the bamboo slip. When would the time be ripe? He did want to propose marriage. He really liked Xiyao now. If it could be earlier, Xiyao wouldn't have to suffer with him!
After reading the bamboo slip, someone looked at the sleeping Xiyao, sighed softly, and started to engrave a reply on a bamboo slip. It read, "There are many mosquitoes in the wild forest. Father, tell me what can drive them away."
Someone carefully engraved the words in the moonlight. In the moonlight, his serious face was as handsome as a painting.
When the pigeon was released, Xiyao turned over in her sleep and a smile appeared on her lips.
Someone couldn't help but smile. No matter what his purpose was for tricking her out, he really liked her now.
Who was his father? Coincidentally, it was none other than the Butterfly Man. He had learned cooking since childhood just for the day when he could enter the palace to seduce the princess.
He once asked his father why he had to do this. His father said, "This is the grudge of the previous generation. You just need to remember to find the woman with the butterfly jade pendant in her hand. She's the daughter - in - law I've chosen for you. Also, remember to treat her well."
Someone listened to the teachings carefully, and that's how the following events happened. At first, when he got in touch with her, he really thought this princess was very troublesome. But as they got along more, he found that this princess was actually quite cute - although she liked to act coquettishly, she knew her limits. She didn't mind his humble status as a cook and was neither afraid of hardship nor tiredness. She was really rare.
He often wondered what kind of emperor and empress could raise such a princess. What exactly was the grudge of the previous generation that his father mentioned?
He remembered that when he took Xiyao away, following his father's instructions, he left a letter. He couldn't help but find it funny. Wasn't this clearly telling the emperor his identity? If there really was a grudge, why did he take the emperor's princess away and still have to tell his own identity? Wouldn't it be better to hide in a place without telling him?
One night passed quickly in his wild thoughts. Three days also passed in their chasing, playing, and enjoying all kinds of delicious food.
Someone was a royal chef, so his cooking skills were naturally excellent. As long as he had ingredients, utensils, and fire, he could make different delicious foods every day.
Xiyao sat around the campfire, leaning on someone. She said contentedly, "Ooh, it's really good to be with you. You can make such delicious food. I'll never get tired of it."
Someone let Xiyao lean on him and calmly sprinkled spices on the roasted meat. "So do you like me as a person, or the food I cook and the flowers I carve?"
Xiyao looked up, pinched his face and said, "Naturally, it's you. Without you, where would all these delicious foods and beautiful carvings come from?"
"You're a slippery one!" Someone poked Xiyao's head and then looked at her tenderly and lovingly. Just then, the gray pigeon came again. Someone helped Xiyao sit steadily and said, "I'll go to relieve myself."
Xiyao sat still and then smiled. "Go ahead."
So someone went behind a tree and summoned the pigeon. The pigeon landed, and someone took the bamboo slip down. The bamboo slip was densely written with what kind of flowers and grasses could repel mosquitoes, what they looked like, and where they grew. At the end, it also mentioned, "Empress Ransu is an expert in using poison. How could she not prepare a sachet to prevent insect and snake bites for her daughter? Are you sure she's the daughter of Empress Ransu?"
Someone felt embarrassed. After releasing the pigeon, he still decided to go look for the herbs to prevent mosquito bites nearby.
He told Xiyao about looking for the herbs, and Xiyao said she wanted to go too. While they were looking for the flowers and grasses, someone asked the question his father had.
"In the palace before, there were also mosquitoes. How did you prevent mosquito bites?"
Xiyao was startled when she heard this. Then she felt around on her body. "Oh, I remember! Mother made me a sachet to prevent mosquitoes. I really wasn't bitten at that time. But I seem to have left in a hurry and forgotten to bring it..."
Someone was helpless. Father must have thought too much. So after they found the herbs, someone wrote another letter to let his father rest assured.
After that, they smoked the herbs every day, and indeed no mosquitoes came to bite Xiyao. And after living in the jungle for a long time, Xiyao became bolder.
Actually, Xiyao wasn't very naughty. She just occasionally poked a beehive for fun, and then made someone else block the bees for her. He was stung all over his head, while she hid in a small stream near the jungle; she just used stones to drive away the flying birds in the jungle, and then the birds retaliated by shitting a lot on the roof of their tree - house; she almost killed the gray pigeon someone had raised once, which scared someone so much that he forbade Xiyao to get close to the pigeon anymore; she just ran around in the jungle, saw a strange plant and picked it, and then got her hands full of some mysterious liquid that couldn't be washed off.