On the way to escape, I found a big boss’s mother

Chapter 17 Caiyi’s Story

Jin Chu didn't know what happened last night. Yi Xiu came early in the morning. The secret guard put down a food box and disappeared like a shadow.

"This is the smoked rabbit I brought from the imperial kitchen. I remember you said that you love rabbit meat the most."

Aunt Gu smiled, served two bowls of white porridge, a plate of pickles, divided the rabbit meat into small pieces, and left.

Jin Chu picked up a piece of meat, raised his eyes and smiled at Yi Xiu, "Don't lie to me, how can you eat rabbit meat in the imperial kitchen?"

"Father lost in the chess game with the master last night and went hunting in the countryside in the middle of the night. I begged him to bring you one."

"It turns out that I borrowed the master's light."

When the Eleventh Prince saw how delicious Jinchu's food was, his eyebrows curled up: "Do you have anything else you want to eat? I'll get it for you another day."

"I'm not a picky eater."

Jinchu told the truth. She used to be a fish raised by the Queen Mother and had eaten a lot of good food. However, the food in heaven looked gaudy, such as dragon liver and phoenix marrow, fairy fruit and peaches, and the taste was not appetizing.

On the way to escape from the famine, Jinchu ate grass roots, rats, and even insects. Half of the hard corn saved her and her father's lives.

She came from hard times, how could she be picky about food?

"So easy to take care of?" Yi Xiu couldn't help but smile again: "Then I will arrange a delicious meal for you today!"

So, the two of them got on the carriage and went to the suburbs. Autumn was getting stronger, the rice in the fields was golden, and the air was filled with a refreshing fragrance, with a hint of sweetness.

"You wait on the shore."

"Yeah." Jinchu looked at the rice field. She really didn't want to go down there. It rained early in the morning and the ground was a little muddy.

Yi Xiu carried a newly braided bamboo basket and went down to the field. Jinchu saw him picking up something, snails, yes, they should be called snails.

Jinchu raised his voice and asked, "Can this be eaten?"

"Not only does it work, it's also very delicious." Yixiu turned his back to Jinchu and kept picking snails in the field.

About half an hour later, he picked up a large bamboo basket full. Jinchu never thought that the snails would be so delicious, with their meat being soft and their soup being delicious.

"Like eating it so much? I'll pick it up tomorrow."

"Since you know so much...why do they still call you the idiot prince?" Jinchu put his chin in his hands and blinked his big misty eyes.

Yixiu pointed to his head: "I used to have a bad mind and only knew how to be stupid. But then when I met you, an idea flashed in my head and I became smarter!"

snort!
Jinchu didn't believe this nonsense. The eleventh prince had a faint purple aura lingering on his head. Jun Yan had always been pretentious and he would not accept a stupid student.

Yi Xiu hadn't seen Jin Chu so happy for a long time, so he smiled and asked, "What kind of clothes do you want to wear? I'll make them for you."

"What do you mean?"

"I can draw. I learned it from my master."

What he meant was to show Jinchu the drawing first, and if he liked it, he would follow it.

Later, Yixiu spent a day learning to make clothes from Grandma Gu, and then he drew particularly beautiful dresses. There were six styles in total, and he asked Jinchu to choose the three he liked the most.

"Yixiu, is there anything in this world that you can't do?" Jinchu liked everything. "I like to hear this. If you know how to praise me, just praise me more!"

"Pfft..." Jin Chu was amused by him, and Yi Xiu also looked at her and smiled.

The young man's handsome face and foxy eyes with a smile look very much like... very much like Jun Yan!

Sure enough, both a big fox and a little fox like to act crazy and act stupid.

Jinchu often went to Caiyi's place, and Caiyi said that it was her father who asked her to leave the fourth prince in Nanfeng Pavilion, but the fourth prince was possessed.

The eldest princess went to Nanfeng Pavilion three days later and used all the soft and hard ones. However, the fourth prince threatened her with death, so she finally had to leave him. The eldest princess told Caiyi that if the fourth prince lost a hair, she would pluck out all her hair. s hair!
That day Jinchu went to Nanfeng Pavilion, and Caiyi was telling Wanyan Qingan a story.

"When I first entered Tianxiang House, I always cried. I thought about my mother who couldn't bear the burden of life and ran away with me. I hated my father who hung around the gambling house day and night and didn't hesitate to sell his daughter to gamble. I blamed the old madam for being so hard-hearted and ignoring others. I begged hard and forced her into prostitution, fearing that I would be like the girl in the building, treated like an old lady, and thrown into a mass grave on the outskirts of the city with a roll of torn straw mat."

Wanyan Qing'an took out the handkerchief and handed it to Cai Yi. Cai Yi glared at her and retracted her hand.

"Later, my mother thought I was unlucky for crying, so she locked me in a woodshed. She didn't give me any water or rice for three days, and she only left me a lively cat."

"Cat? Is she afraid you'll be alone?"

Jin Chu peeled off an orange and put it in front of Cai Yi. The fourth prince gave him a sharp look: "Sister Cai Yi doesn't like oranges, sister, eat grapes!"

Caiyi threw a peeled grape into her mouth, touched Wanyan Qing'an's head, and the corner of Jinchu's mouth twitched.

"Mom said if you want to die, do it quickly. If you still want to live, then use all your strength. Tianxiang Tower doesn't support whimpering trash."

Jinchu somewhat understood what the cat did. Yes, even if she was very hungry, she would still treat the cute rabbit as food.

"The cat was raised by Miss Haitang. She wanted to be a good person, but her mother was unhappy. Qiuqiu was raised as a close relative. She came to smell my hand docilely. I touched its smooth fur, hugged my knees and huddled in the corner, crying silently."

Cai Yi sighed, who doesn't want to be someone else's daughter?Who doesn’t want to grow old together with the one they love?If she hadn't met Chu Li, she might have lived in a brothel for the rest of her life.

The golden crow fell to the west, the jade rabbit rose to the east, and after three days and nights without rice or water, Caiyi completely succumbed.

There seemed to be a fire burning in her belly, pulling her internal organs together, and she banged the wooden door of the woodshed desperately.

The turtle slaves outside the door were laughing and joking, and the dice were shaking. They could hear it, but they ignored it.

Night fell again, and Cai Yi curled up on the ground, waking up from her drowsiness again.

At night, when Tianxianglou's business is at its best, silk and bamboo orchestral music, accompanied by laughter, could be heard faintly in the backyard. Caiyi imagined the various delicacies on the table, and a gurgling sound in her stomach sounded like thunder.

A beam of moonlight squeezed in through the gap in the door and shone on Qiuqiu. It squatted in the corner with its back to Caiyi, patiently waiting for the mouse in the hole to come out.

"What happened next? You went to eat mice like cats?"

Wanyan Qingan scratched his head, can mice be eaten?
Caiyi touched his head again, and Wanyan Qingan leaned on her shoulder, acting as obediently as a cat in front of Caiyi.

"After experiencing this, I learned a truth. No one cares about tears in this world. If you want to live well, you have to work hard to climb up!"

Wanyan Qing'an nodded in understanding. Caiyi was the smartest and prettiest woman he had ever seen, and the only woman who didn't treat him as a fool, so whatever she said was right!
"Since then, I have had an enlightenment. In just a few years, I have become the new leader of Tianxiang Tower. Jinchu, the fourth prince, you remember, the more painful it is, the brighter your smile will be!"

(End of this chapter)