Strategy of Prince's Concubine's Rebellion

Chapter 1677 Ending
"No, you are not Brother Chen!
Oh my God, who are you?

How come you look so much like Brother Chen! "

Vanilla was so startled that the door of the private room upstairs creaked open.

There were heavy footsteps on the stairs, but they suddenly stopped.

The black-haired young man in front of him said to the man behind him: "Second brother, long time no see."

Vanilla turned around to look at Chen Guang, then looked at the man in front of her, and then she suddenly realized.

"So they are brothers. No wonder they look so alike. Brother Chen, you have a brother? Why have I never heard you mention him? I was so scared just now."

Chen Guang was silent for a while, then said to Xiangcao, "Please prepare a pot of good wine for me and send it upstairs."

Chen Guang took his brother upstairs and they sat down in a private room.

Even though we haven't seen each other for many years, I have a lot to say and ask, but no one knows how to start.

After a while, Vanilla brought the wine.

He looked at the two brothers carefully again and said with a grin, "When the shopkeeper comes back later, I guarantee she will be scared."

After Xiangcao went out, Murong Guang finally spoke first.

"Is Xue'er okay?"

Murong Chen nodded: "Very good."

The two brothers were silent again.

Murong Guang picked up the wine jug, poured a glass for Murong Chen and himself, and looked out at the busy street.

"Does Xue'er like life here?"

"like very much."

"Does the second brother like it?"

Murong Chen's hand that was about to pick up the wine glass suddenly stopped, and then he smiled helplessly.

"Xue'er is a stubborn girl who insists that people give up everything to love her."

Yes, the dignified King of Sizhan, Lord of Southern Yan, is now just a waiter working as a bill collector in a restaurant in the small town of Guhe.

What else do people need to give up?

Murong Guang lowered his head and held the wine glass tightly.

For some reason, he didn't dare to look at his second brother now.

My second brother is actually a very good person now, just as brave and handsome as before.

His originally gray hair gradually turned into mottled gray because of being with Xue’er in the past few years.

Except for his hair, my second brother is no different now than before.

But he just didn't dare to look at him.

I'm afraid that if I look at him a few more times, this tall and strong man will shed tears.

"Second brother, eldest brother has been looking for you all these years. He wants you to go back and see him."

Murong Chen stopped the wine glass that was placed at his lips.

After thinking for a moment, he drank the whole glass in one gulp and put it on the table.

"I brought Xue'er here because I wanted to break away from the past."

"Second brother, I know you hate your eldest brother. You hate him for asking someone to kill Xue'er.

At the beginning, Zi Yan couldn't bear to see Xue'er die alone, so she secretly gave her a drug that would cause her to fake death, and also soaked her clothes in an ointment that would extinguish itself when in contact with fire.

If it weren't for Lu Ziqing's arrow, Xue'er wouldn't have been injured so badly and wouldn't have almost lost her life.

However, ever since I found out that your hair turned white in an instant, I have regretted it.

He blames himself every day, but he can't find you..."

"Xiao Guang, let the past be the past.

There is no Murong Chen from Beiyan and no Princess Yingxue from Nanchu in this world now.

There are only Chen Guang, the accountant, and Ying Xue, the shopkeeper in Zhenwei Pavilion. "

"Second brother, I'm sure you know about the Lu family hiring someone to pretend to be a royal descendant.

Big brother has no one to succeed him, and the only person he cares about the most has always been you.

Second brother, with your great talent and strategy, you are born to realize the great cause of unifying the north and the south, to be the master of this world..."

As the morning sun grew hotter, Murong Chen became more and more anxious.

"Xiao Guang, please sit here first. It's almost noon, and I suddenly remembered that I have something to do."

Murong Chen hurried downstairs and headed straight for the private kitchen in the back room of the kitchen. He walked in, put on an apron, lit the stove, heated the pot, cut the meat into pieces, and prepared the seasonings.

All the movements are skillful and quick.

When the heat is almost right, add the chopped pork fat and seasonings.

The hot pot sizzles, emitting waves of aroma.

"Does Second Brother also do these on weekdays?"

Murong Chen turned around and realized that Murong Guang had also followed him.

The hand that once held a halberd and commanded thousands of troops is now boiling lard.

He suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

“Xue Er said that this base oil is the key to delicious cooking.

She didn't want other cooks to know how to prepare it, so she always made it herself.

It wasn’t until we got married that I was taught that.”

"So, second brother has been boiling lard every day for so many years?"

Murong Chen's expression paused.

Just as I was in a trance, thick smoke billowed out of the pot.

Murong Chen quickly scooped out the lard, turned off the fire, and hurriedly poured the lard into a flour jar.

He was still a little embarrassed.

"While I was talking to you, the oil has cooled down.

It can be used to cool down the dough quickly and avoid waste.

If you are not in a hurry to leave, I will make you some thousand-layer cakes tomorrow."

Murong Guang's throat tightened and his eyes suddenly turned red.

He wanted to walk over and hug his second brother tightly.

But then I thought, what's the point of hugging him? Say that I feel sorry for him, or comfort him?
The second brother clearly didn't seem to feel aggrieved at all, as if he was born to work in the kitchen.

It seemed as if his life mission had never been to conquer the battlefields, expand territory, or unify the north and the south, but simply to... boil a pot of the best lard!

Murong Guang tried hard to hold back his tears: "Second brother, what you actually know, the secret recipe, is meaningless at all. Everyone in Guhe Town is yours."

Murong Chen was silent again.

Then he smiled and said, “But Xue’er cares.”

"The shopkeeper is back!"

Vanilla's cheerful voice was heard outside the kitchen.

"Why are you going to the market to buy things again? Didn't Brother Chen tell you to go to the next door and not go far?"

Hearing Vanilla's voice, Murong Chen's originally gloomy eyes suddenly became lively.

"I have to go check on Xue'er. This girl is very stubborn. The more you tell her not to do something, the more she insists on doing it."

Murong Chen took off his apron and hurried out.

Looking at the two strings of candied haws in Princess Yingxue's hand, he said unhappily, "Didn't I tell you that if you want to go shopping, just go to the shop next door and don't go too far?"

Xiang Yingxue took a bite of the candied haws nonchalantly.

"But the shop next door doesn't have candied haws."

"Then tell the waiter at the shop next door and he will buy it for you. Do you have to walk so far alone with a big belly?"

"Oh, don't be so exaggerated. It's not even five months yet and you're not even showing your pregnancy."

"I always turn a deaf ear to what you say!
What if you bump into something at the market?
Even if you really want to go, you should come back and let me know so that I can go with you!"

"Daddy, it's Xuan'er who wants to eat candied haws, why are you being so mean to mom?"

The baby's sweet cry made Murong Chen's heart soften instantly.

He immediately squatted down and picked up the delicate little doll beside Princess Yingxue.

"Silly girl, Daddy is not mean to Mommy. Daddy is just worried about Mommy and the little brother in Mommy's belly."

"You are fierce, and you still say that your mother is disobedient!"

"Daddy did say that Mom was disobedient, but Daddy wasn't mean. Daddy has fixed your little wooden horse. Xiaoxuan'er, do you want to go and take a look?"

Seeing their husband with a strong temper being subdued by the little baby, Princess Yingxue and Vanilla smiled at each other.

Princess Yingxue turned her eyes and suddenly saw a tall man who looked extremely similar to her husband.

(End of this chapter)