The moonlight is sultry.
Xuanfeng brought a plate of fried rabbit meat and a bottle of wine to find Biyue.
"Biyue, the fingertip knife is ready, here it is for you."
Biyue took the small box and opened it. It was such a delicate fingertip knife. She immediately put it on her hand and tried the feel.
"Why did you give it to me? The princess said she would bring it to me immediately after it was built."
"Haha... The princess is busy... Biyue, are you hungry? I brought you a plate of rabbit meat."
Bi Yue glanced at him curiously. It was already this hour and she had already had dinner, so how could she be hungry? But when it came to rabbit meat, she was a little greedy and couldn't help but open the food box in his hand.
The aroma of stir-fried rabbit fills your nostrils.
"Then eat some."
Biyue smacked her lips.
Xuanfeng's heart moved. This little smacking look was so cute.
"I also have a bottle of wine here. I heard that this wine is slightly strong and not sweet."
Biyue looked at him suspiciously, as if she knew that she liked rabbit meat and not sweets. What happened today?
However, it was not convenient for a man to enter her room in the middle of the night, so she pointed to the pavilion in the yard.
"Let's go there and eat."
"Okay, wear more clothes, it's cold outside."
Xuanfeng looked at Biyue with a satisfied look on her face and was filled with joy. With such a thin body, she practiced martial arts every day, so how could she bear it if she didn't eat more.
Biyue saw that he didn't move his chopsticks, but just watched her eat quietly, feeling very strange.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"You are too thin, eat more."
"...You are very strange today. What happened?"
Xuanfeng's heart beat faster, and he was so nervous that he could clearly hear the pulsing sound in his head. He mustered up the courage to express his love to Biyue.
"Biyue, I like you - the way you eat rabbit meat..."
When the words came to his lips, his tone of voice changed.
Biyue frowned and looked at the dumbfounded Xuanfeng. Could this be a confession to herself?
Her heart was beating loudly.
"How do you know that I like to eat rabbit meat?"
Xuanfeng replied honestly: "The princess told me..."
"The princess is really thoughtful..."
Biyue didn't expect that her love for rabbit meat would be discovered by Lin Yi, but she couldn't remember when she had eaten rabbit meat in front of Lin Yi.
"Then... why did you prepare rabbit meat for me..."
Why is this mouth so stupid? Xuanfeng wanted to express his feelings but was unable to say a word. He really wanted to incite himself.
Looking at Biyue's cold and bright face under the moonlight, Xuanfeng took a deep breath and let go.
"Biyue, I have always been pleased with you."
He didn't dare to look into her eyes, just waiting for her reaction with bated breath.
"Um."
Biyue immediately stood up and turned her back to him. At this time, her face was as red as an apple.
Suddenly she walked quickly to her private room.
Looking at her leaving figure, Xuanfeng jumped up in panic.
What does this "um" mean?
Why did she walk away?
Did it scare her?
Xuanfeng regretted infinitely and stood there in despair. If he hadn't said anything, he could still practice with her. Now that the layer of paper had been broken, how could he recover?
He was depressed and helpless. Looking at the rabbit meat on the table, he really wanted to fry himself.
At this time, Biyue ran towards him again with light steps.
"These are throat pills. The princess taught me how to make them a few days ago. I saw that you have been coughing a lot these days, so I made one for you."
Biyue took his hand and thrust a white porcelain bottle into his hand.
"Thank you, thank you."
Xuanfeng swept away the previous disappointment, his eyes sparkled, it was great, she did not reject herself.
Biyue pursed her lips and smiled.
"Biyue, the rabbit meat is cold. I'll go find the cook to heat it up again."
"No, I'm full. Why don't you come with me for a walk."
Biyue smiled shyly, then turned around and walked slowly towards the flower bed.
At this time, Xuan Feng seemed to have opened up the two channels of Ren and Du. His whole body felt comfortable and his mind was clear. He followed happily.
The two of them took advantage of the moonlight and took a walk in the yard.
Although nothing is said, everything is left unsaid.
Dong Dong——
It's time.
Xuanfeng raised his head and glanced at the moon, and said reluctantly: "It's getting late, I'll take you back."
"Um."
Just as Biyue was about to open the door of the wing, she suddenly remembered some recent little things.
"Xuanfeng, that girl Cui Xi is a little weird lately."
"What's wrong?"
Xuanfeng casually pushed her into the house and stood obediently at the door.
The fireplace in the house was burning brightly, and Biyue unbuttoned her cloak.
"She seems to be very concerned about the whereabouts of the princess. I wonder if she is overthinking it."
"Well, everyone likes the princess very much and must care about her. You go to bed early and I'll leave first."
Xuanfeng didn't think much about it. After all, Lin Yi was kind to others and the servants also liked her very much.
When he returned to the inner court, he saw Li Shang with his head drooped and a look of exhaustion on his face.
Xuanfeng was a little confused. He didn't have any tasks recently. Why did he look like this?
"Brother Xuan, don't ask."
"..."
Li Shang handed a bag in his hand to Xuan Feng.
Xuanfeng took the bag suspiciously, as if the contents inside were squirming.
He opened it and saw that it was full of mice. Their fur was shiny, but they were all a little wilted at this time.
"...There are so many rats in the house?"
"There are no mice in the house. We caught them in the fields."
"..."
Xuanfeng frowned and stayed up late at night to catch mice? !
As if seeing his doubts, Li Shang sighed and said, "The princess's order."
Xuanfeng was speechless. Although the princess was indeed different from ordinary women, what else could she do to a mouse?
Did you hear it correctly?
"Princess wants a mouse...?"
"Yes, the master said that the rats in the city are too dirty, so he specially asked me to catch them in Uncle Xu's field."
Xuanfeng patted Li Shang on the shoulder sympathetically. Former Agriculture Secretary Xu Bo's farmland was two hours away from the capital. It was really troublesome to catch a mouse.
However, the mice that Li Shang worked so hard to catch were seen as endless helplessness in Lin Yi's eyes. In fact, it would be enough to catch five or six mice, and there was really no need for so many.
"Biyue, the mice Li Shang caught are quite fat. There are so many..."
"This is the mouse Li Shang went to catch in the fields."
Lin Yi sighed deeply, could this be the commonly known field mouse? No wonder I always feel that they look different from ordinary mice. They are honest, plump, and very delicious.
"Then I'll choose a few, and take the rest to the kitchen for Shui Han to make some stir-fried rat meat."
"..."
Biyue forced down her thoughts. She really didn't understand that the princess actually wanted to eat these densely packed animals.
"Princess, the master may not eat these things..."
Lin Yi chuckled and said: "I haven't eaten it either. I think it tastes good. Anyway, I will have to breed mice by then. I will have endless descendants and there will be an endless supply of mouse meat."
With that said, Lin Yi took out a field mouse from the cage.
The fur is brown and the tail is short. To be honest, it is not easy to catch, but Lin Yi still grabs its back and controls it firmly in the palm of his hand.
female.
Lin Yi carefully put it into the bag aside.
Biyue froze aside, her mind filled with the sight of rats swarming incessantly. She finally couldn't bear it anymore!
Huh——
Biyue quickly covered her mouth, but fortunately she didn't spit anything out.
Lin Yi couldn't help but turn to look at her.
"Princess, forgive me."
"But where is the discomfort?"
Lin Yi put down the field mouse in her hand and hurriedly walked to Biyue. She instinctively grabbed Biyue's arm and prepared to take her pulse.
Biyue recalled that Lin Yi had grabbed the mouse's hand just now and couldn't help but step back.
"Slave, slave, everything is fine."
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, feeling that something was wrong.
"Biyue, are you really okay?"
"...No, it's okay."
Lin Yi sighed. She rarely saw Biyue like this. Could it be because of what she said to Xuanfeng yesterday?
"Biyue, what did Xuanfeng tell you?"
Bi Yue's face turned red, why did she suddenly mention this matter?
It seemed that Xuanfeng must have said something, and Lin Yi couldn't help but become nervous. Although she felt that the two of them were a perfect match, what if Luo Hua Qing Liu Shui was interested?
"How do you feel about Xuanfeng?"
"This slave... thinks... Brother Xuan is very good."
"That's it!"
Lin Yi clapped her hands and showed a motherly smile.
"When I see Shui Han, I will immediately tell him to get you two married as soon as possible."
"No, no, Princess, not yet. When that happens, please Princess—"
Biyue was so anxious that she didn't know what to say. Xuanfeng did confess to her yesterday. Although she was interested in him deep down in her heart, she didn't want to get married right away.
Lin Yi giggled out loud, but it was right to think about it. You shouldn't rush things in relationships. They might have just pierced the layer of paper, and he was too nosy!
She turned back to continue selecting voles, but suddenly she found that the vole she had just picked escaped from the sack!
"Oops, a mouse escaped, Biyue, we have to catch the mouse first!"
Biyue swallowed, looking at a loss.
"Biyue! Biyue! It seems to be there!"
Lin Yi stuck her butt out and got half of her body under the bed. The direction of her finger was the corner of the bed.
"Biyue, I'll get something to drive it out. You can catch it later."
Biyue finally couldn't hold it back and confessed: "Princess, I can't do this! I'm afraid of mice!"
Afraid of mice?
Lin Yi got out, looked at Biyue's crying face, and finally understood why she was acting like that just now.
"Then you go out quickly and call someone who is not afraid of mice. Although I am not afraid of it, I don't know martial arts and I can't outrun it. This thing is very naive, but you can't let it scare Shui Han."
It's so naive...
Biyue felt that her aesthetics was inconsistent with Lin Yi.
"Biyue, hurry! Hurry! It seems to have run out! Get out quickly and remember to close the door!"
A small black dumpling popped out.
Biyue was stunned for a moment, and then flew out. Seeing the guards at the entrance of the courtyard, she shouted directly: "Princess, Princess, inside the house——"
The guard looked at Biyue with a confused look on his face. He had never seen her so nervous before.
"Guard Bi, please tell me slowly, what happened to the princess?"
The person who asked the question was the Yulin Guards. They are a branch of the Yulin Army and specialize in protecting the prince. They can be called orthodox guards.
But after arriving at Prince Han's Mansion, I found out that Biyue, Xuanfeng and others were the guards recruited by Prince Han. Not only were they highly skilled in martial arts, they even had different names.
What happens to the prince's personal soldiers and makes them lose their sense of proportion?
"Child guard, old, mouse, there is a mouse in the princess's room..."
"..."
Yu Linwei named Tong Mingyan and Cheng Xian, who was also a Yu Linwei next to him, looked at each other. They wanted to laugh but did not dare to laugh. They could only hold their breath for a while to calm down.
"Guard Bi, I'm afraid it's inappropriate for us to enter the princess's inner chamber."
Biyue stamped her feet. She also knew that something was wrong. There was nothing she could do about it.
"But if the princess is bitten by a mouse, we can't afford it..."
Cheng Xian was silent for a moment and nodded to Tong Mingyan. The princess's safety comes first.
They were almost punished corporally for not stopping Princess Chu before. They knew the princess' status in the prince's heart.
"Guard Bi, please lead the way."
After a few steps, they heard Lin Yi's thumping sound coming from inside the house.
Biyue took a deep breath, called "Princess" and opened the door.
As expected, the house was in a mess. Lin Yi's hairpin on her head had long been crooked due to crawling around. Because she couldn't reach the mouse, she could only swing it around with a towel.
Lin Yi looked embarrassed when she saw the guards at the entrance of the courtyard. She had the impression that these two guards were meticulous and did not say a few words.
"Um, I'm sorry, Guard Tong, Guard Cheng, this field mouse can run pretty fast, hehehe..."
Tong Mingyan and Cheng Xian were also a little embarrassed. This was their first time entering the princess's inner room. It seemed a little different from ordinary women's inner rooms. Except for the gorgeous wardrobe and clothes racks that showed that the owner was a woman, everything else was close to the feeling of a prince's bedroom. .
"My subordinate is rude."
The two of them nodded and bowed before entering Lin Yi's house.
Lin Yi wiped the sweat from her head, then simply retreated outside and closed the door.
"Bi Yue, I'm sorry, I have wronged you. I didn't expect you to be so afraid of mice. Unfortunately, I don't know martial arts and can't catch it at all. That little thing moves too fast!"
"Princess, you are a useless slave. You are even afraid of a mouse..."
"Why does this become useless? Although I am not afraid of mice, I am afraid of many other things."
Bi Yue glanced at Lin Yi. Although she didn't know martial arts, she didn't seem to be afraid of anything!
What would the princess be afraid of?
After a while, the door opened.
Tong Mingyan walked out carrying a killed mouse.
"Princess Qi, the mouse has been killed by a subordinate."
"We have a young guard..."
Looking at the body of the vole, Lin Yi felt a little regretful. The female vole looked quite healthy and could definitely give birth to many cubs.
Cheng Xian glanced at Lin Yi carefully and asked after thinking of the cage of rats on the table in the room.
"Princess, I see there is a cage of rats in the house. Do you want me to deal with it?"
Lin Yi couldn't help but laugh. Li Shang finally caught it, how could he just deal with it casually?
"No, no, no, those mice have great uses."
"yes."
"By the way, Guard Tong and Guard Cheng, those are not mice, they are field mice."
"..."
Tong Mingyan glanced at the mouse corpse in his hand. What's the difference?
"Mouse is quite dirty, so I don't recommend eating it, but the taste of field mice should be good. I suggest you try it for dinner."
Biyue lowered her head expressionlessly. Lin Yi was indeed a different woman.
Tong Mingyan looked at the mouse corpse in his hand with a complicated expression. Is this thing still edible?
He glanced at Biyue with some sympathy. Such a princess was a bit difficult to take care of.
Cheng Xian stared at the mouse corpse thoughtfully. This little thing moved very fast. The meat seemed to be very strong. Maybe it tasted good. You can try it for dinner!
When Qin Shuihan arrived at Jinghan Pavilion, Lin Yi was sitting at the table reading a book. The house seemed particularly neat today, and everything seemed to have been tidied up recently. He couldn't help but glance at Lin Yi suspiciously.
"You're here. Have you had dinner?"
"not yet."
"What's that in your hand?"
Qin Shuihan put the cage in his hand on the table. It was an iron cage with a little squirrel inside.
"squirrel?"
Lin Yi's eyes lit up, this tail is so cute.
"Like it?"
"Well, it's a pity that there is only one, the number is too small."
"..."
Qin Shuihan looked confused. Does Yiyi like squirrels so much? Want a lot of them?
"How...how many do you want?"
Lin Yi smiled slightly. She just went to the kitchen to see Chef Li. After killing more than a dozen mice, there was not much meat. It was definitely not enough for the people in the mansion. Fortunately, not everyone accepted vole meat, but she was very greedy because It tastes so good.
"I think if you want to make a small stir-fry, you might have to catch a dozen or so."
Stir-fried?
Qin Shuihan suspected that his ears had heard wrongly.
"Yiyi, do you want to eat squirrel meat?"
Lin Yi scratched his head and asked in confusion: "What are you doing? Do you want to keep it as a pet?"
She approached the cage and took a look at the squirrels inside. Raising animals was actually very troublesome. If it weren't for the deletion of medicines, she really wouldn't want to raise voles.
Qin Shuihan was very confused. Why did Yiyi ask Li Shang to catch mice before?
Lin Yi looked at him with a puzzled look on his face, and she was also a little confused.
"Then why did you catch it?"
"Li Shang said you wanted mice. I thought you liked small animals and thought squirrels were cuter than mice, so I caught one and gave it to you."
Lin Yi dug at her skirt with her fingers. It seemed that she didn't explain clearly. She spread the word too much and completely changed her meaning.
"Shui Han, sit down first, I'll ask the maids to serve the food, and I'll talk to you while eating."
Lin Yi walked to the door and called Cuixi Caiyun and ordered them to serve the food.
Looking at today's dinner, Qin Shuihan noticed an unfamiliar dish among them.
"Shui Han, I want mice to test medicine, not to keep them as pets. Li Shang seems to have misunderstood me and caught a lot of voles, but I only need four."
She pointed at the dish Qin Shuihan didn't recognize.
"This is the fate of the remaining voles. I think it's delicious, but some people won't eat it. Do you want to try it?"
After saying that, Lin Yi took a piece of vole meat and put it into his mouth. It was indeed low in fat and high in protein and tasted good.
Qin Shuihan sneered. It turned out to be vole meat, but it smelled very fragrant. He naturally picked a piece and put it in his mouth. The meat was firm and tender.
good!
"Yiyi, you don't have any objection to mice. Why don't you like bear paws?"
Lin Yi was slightly stunned. It turned out that he knew that he didn't like bear meat.
"There is no guilt in eating rats, unlike bears."
Qin Shuihan took a sip of wine and asked, "Why are bears different?"
Lin Yi remembered the news about people harvesting bear bile today. In order to continuously obtain bear bile, the bear was imprisoned and a catheter was inserted into its gallbladder.
The bear was tortured to the point of death, it was really pitiful.
"Some animals are poultry and can be domesticated by us, such as chickens, ducks, pigs and cows, to provide us with meat. Some animals reproduce too fast, such as rats, and these animals cannot be eaten all. But bears are different. Their numbers are originally There aren’t many, and they can’t be kept in captivity. I feel like there’s less to eat than one…”
Qin Shuihan thought for a moment. Although Yiyi was right, he still didn't see the causal relationship.
“What will be the effect of eating all the bears?”
Lin Yi put down her chopsticks. It was difficult to answer this question, but she felt it was necessary to persuade Qin Shuihan.
"Lonely."
"Lonely?"
"What a shame if we eat all the bears and our children ask us what a bear is, we won't be able to show them."
Qin Shuihan squinted his eyes and recalled the time when he faced off against the bear.
It is really a huge beast, very ferocious. It is necessary for your children to learn to defeat bears. It does have the meaning of existence.
"Well, yes, bears are still very useful."
Lin Yi thought he understood the importance of biological diversity. She curled her lips and picked up another piece of vole meat with her chopsticks.
He is worthy of being his own male god, he can get it right with just one click!
