A rebellious minister forced me to be a foolish king

Chapter 546 White Cat Meets the Righteous Master

Yuwen Huaibi was in such a state of embarrassment and anger at being caught, even with the Nuo mask covering his face, he could not hide his anxious voice:
"Don't come over! It's muddy here..." Then a weak and sharp meow was heard.

When he raised his eyes in surprise, the girl was already in front of him.

"Xiao Tongyan just said that you were outside the city, but I didn't believe it. It's a good thing that it's warm in your carriage. Please warm it up. The little guy's fur is all tangled from the cold."

The man tried his best not to think about the dirty mud on the toes of his boots. He stood up straight with his thin waist and looked at the ball of fur in the little girl's arms.

A head was sticking out from the ball of white fur, looking at him with a pair of golden and blue cat eyes. This guy had two pink and white ear tips, and several long, stubborn hairs were sticking out of his ear cochlea.

"Where did the Odd-Eyed Persian cat come from? Which small country in the Western Regions have you contacted?" Yuwen Huaibi seemed quite happy with the first sentence, but started to ask questions with the second one.

Yuan Wuyou looked at the man in white shirt under the Nuo mask, his deep blue phoenix eyes looking suspicious and interrogating, and felt guilty for a moment.

"No, I picked it up with Xiao Tongyan." After saying that, she turned her head to find Xiao Tongyan to verify her testimony, but she only saw Xiao Tongyan's back as he left, shaking his straw raincoat.

She could only smile and turn away, "She did good things but didn't want to leave her name behind. By the way, you are quite knowledgeable, right? Are there cats in the palace?"

Yuwen Huaibi lowered his eyelashes slightly and said calmly:
"I raised it for a few days, but then my sixth brother came to ask for it. I didn't give it to him, so he stole it and beat me to death."

"He stole and was beaten to death?" Yuan Wuyou frowned and looked angry, unable to hide his shock. "What kind of devil is this... And he actually dared to enter the palace to steal things?"

Jialuo and Yuwen Xiaobo, who were standing by, each holding an umbrella, watched the two people chatting in the mud in silence.

When Yuwen Huaibi recalled this incident, even though his tone was calm, a sense of sadness and helplessness could be seen between the lines of his words.

"Later he brought back a cat skin and a bowl of cat meat soup."

Yuan Wuyou felt a chill down his spine when he heard this. "That brat is too cruel. As the eldest brother, you should spank him."

The Xianbei man in front of him heard this, and the deep blue phoenix eyes under the Nuo mask became even darker, "How dare I? Since I was a child, every time he snatched my things, if I didn't give them to him, the Queen Mother would cry and beat and scold me."

"Then your house is too dangerous..." Yuan Wuyou was worried about the cat at the moment, "It's a pity that I can't keep a cat even if I run around everywhere. I want to give it to you... but you can't protect it."

Yuwen Huaibi's phoenix eyes suddenly glared, "I was just talking about what happened in the past. What right do you have to doubt that I can't protect it now? Give it to me, and I guarantee that it will be very strong when you return to Chang'an to resume your position."

The red-shirted girl holding the white fur ball said, "Send it to your sixth brother's house, and then raise it to be plump and white for me to see, right?"

Yuwen Huaibi's throat choked when he heard this. He used the Nuo mask to hide all the emotions on his face, and tried his best to speak calmly and seriously:
"I can send it to Zhongwai Mansion. Lord Sima Qu of the Mansion particularly likes cats, and the old man is very stubborn. He doesn't obey anyone, even the face of the Prime Minister. He dares to reject me, but I am a close friend regardless of age. In addition, Zhongwai Mansion is very close to the Imperial Palace and the Prime Minister's Mansion, so it is very convenient for me to visit it, and the Prime Minister can suppress my sixth brother."

"Since you have arranged it so carefully and know so much about cats, I will give it to you."

Yuan Wuyou stretched out his right arm and handed the white flour bun in his arms to the man in white in front of him.

She also kindly reminded him, "Its claws may be a little dirty. If you are afraid of dirtying such a clean white dress, I will--"

"I don't mind."

Yuwen Huaibi hurriedly took over the conversation! He stretched out his arms to take the palm-sized white-haired ball, and brought the excellent etiquette of China to the extreme of expressing respect and treating people.

When he carefully held the white flour bun in his arms, the kitten, who didn't know the value of it, was frightened and kept kicking the white jade belt around his narrow waist with its dirty paws.

He was not angry, but patiently scratched the kitten's forehead with his long, porcelain-like fingers. The man stared at the white ball in his arms, without raising his head, and said in a gentle tone:
"Does it have a name?"

"shop."

"Which shop? What does it mean?"

Yuan Wuyou looked at the cat in his palm with resentment. The little guy was too familiar with him. In a few seconds, he started playing with his hand with well-proportioned joints and slender white fingers. He even schemingly put away his sharp nails and used his paw pads to play with him.

How come when he was in her arms just now, he just ate and slept? She didn't know who to envy for a moment, so she said unhappily.

"I picked it up in a pastry shop, so it's called a shop."

The man then raised his head, and his deep blue eyes under the Nuo mask shone brightly. "Why not call it pastry?" He then refuted himself, "Yes, I don't like the word high."

"...How did the word Gao irritate you?" Yuan Wuyou blurted out the question before realizing that he was asking a question he already knew the answer to.

Fortunately, the man in front of me was very generous.

"But I still admire Gao Changgong very much. The name Gaodian is not bad, which sounds like Gaodian, meaning rising straight to the sky."

At this point, Yuan Wuyou suddenly remembered the meeting place with Xiao Tongyan, and asked casually:
"Do you like cakes?"

Yuwen Huaibi's eyelashes suddenly raised, and his eyes were slightly stunned.

"Quite like."

"wait for me."

Yuan Wuyou was a man of action. He waved his hand to let Jialuo stay and left.

So Yuwen Huaibi stared blankly at the girl's back as she left, then lowered his eyes to look at the white cat "Cake" in his arms, and his pair of small white boots covered with black mud, and then hurriedly called out:
"Xiaobo! Go get a pair of boots from the carriage!!"

...After a while, Yuan Wuyou came back with two bags of fragrant things.

The two carriages that were waiting outside the city had also stopped on the spacious official road. As Yuwen Xiaobo led the way, she lifted the door curtain and boarded the carriage. She saw that there were several seats inside. There was also a table. With the help of the lamp on the table, she saw a man in black clothes and a Nuo mask sitting there. In his arms was a white cat that was snoring.

Yuan Wuyou was no longer surprised by Yuwen Huaibi's habit of cleanliness and his love of changing clothes.

She stretched out her arm and handed him the two packets of pastries in her hand.

"To feed the cat."

The man was stunned for a moment, then he remembered what she said just now before she left without saying anything, and he didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

"I... am a cat?"

"This cat also loves to eat this cake, and will feed you too."

Having said that, Yuan Wuyou walked into the carriage and sat next to the Xianbei man.

As soon as she sat down, she smelled a faint fragrance. Yuan Wuyou leaned forward to sniff and found that it was coming from the man beside her.

"It smells so good... What kind of spice is that?"

The man in the Nuo mask has a smile in his phoenix eyes.

"Ambergris is something that only two people in the Great Zhou Kingdom can use."

"Who is the second person?"

"Dazai."

"..."

Yuan Wuyou was about to ridicule him, "Why are you so flamboyant with everyone?" But he suddenly said this. This made both of them feel awkward.