Young man, please stay

Chapter 299 Wormwood 2.0
"Have you heard? There will be no Dragon Boat Festival banquet in the palace this year."

"Huh? Why?"

"I don't know. There is a rumor that His Majesty will spend the Dragon Boat Festival at Princess Qingli's residence."

"Well... we don't have to rush... Eh? Could it be because of the Regent? After all, after what happened in Yangzhou, the people in the palace who supported the Regent have been speaking louder than before..."

"Hush! What nonsense are you talking about, little girls like me? Are you trying to kill yourself?"

……

On the corridor of Taihua Palace, two maids on night patrol were pushing and shoving each other and chatting. Inside Taihua Palace, Su Yupan, who had not been able to fall asleep for a long time, was staring at the bright moon in the sky, and he didn't know how long he had been in a daze.

Tomorrow is Dragon Boat Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival is not the Mid-Autumn Festival, but why is my heart filled with sorrow?

Su Yupan nodded slightly, and the dragon pattern on the hem of his Shuiyun long sleeves came into view.

When the Emperor...

But it’s really boring…

If it weren't for the emperor, Su Yupan wouldn't have to think so much. She might have married and become someone's wife. Even if she couldn't become the main wife, she could have been a concubine.

At least... no matter how bad or scumbag that man is, he will not be fickle and will not be partial to any of the women around him.

Just like this, Su Yupan was already content.

Of course, Su Yupan also knew that many people in the world would love to be the emperor, and she was not the kind of person who would rather eat meat than drink. But that was human nature. People would always desire things they could not get, and would never be satisfied with what they had.

I have to admit that although everyone knows the four words "contentment brings happiness", it is really a very high state of mind...

Tsk, it’s broken.

When I think of "contentment is the greatest happiness", I think of him again.

Su Yupan felt that ever since she fell in love with that man, she seemed to be trapped in a whirlpool from which she could not escape.

I thought things would be better after I confronted my sister, but the truth was that she was still with him during the day, and now as soon as she returned to the palace, she started to worry and feel anxious, even more so than previous nights.

Perhaps this is the greed in human nature.

"call……"

Su Yupan held her cheeks, sighed deeply, looked in the direction of the Princess' Mansion for a long time, and then her heart suddenly moved. Although she knew that she was alone in the huge Taihua Palace, she still blinked her beautiful eyes guiltily, looked around, then closed her eyes and made a hand gesture with her jade hand.

"what?"

After a moment, the empress, who had only intended to take a peek at her beloved, cried out in surprise and discovered something strange.

"What is Third Senior Sister doing?"

In the empress's perception, Qin Lang and Zhuo Beibei were not asleep at the moment, but this was not strange. What was strange was that there was a faint breath of Zhuo Beibei, connecting from the west room of the princess's mansion to the east room, which was the location of her sister Su Yinping.

Su Yupan wanted to track it more carefully but he couldn't do it. After all, that was the aura of the third senior sister. In the end, he could only give up all the unreliable guesses and planned to ask Zhuo Beibei in person tomorrow.

……

At this time, some magical things were indeed happening in the Princess's Mansion.

……

"Qin Lang... hurry up..."

"receive."

"!——~"

In the west room, Zhuo Beibei's little face tilted back. In the east room, Su Yinping, who had just opened the [Golden Cicada], felt as if she had been electrocuted.

Through [Golden Cicada], Zhuo Beibei's feelings were copied to Su Yinping exactly as they were.

I can only say that you don’t know until you experience it. This experience…

"..."

Tsk, after tonight’s experience, I’m afraid relying solely on a brush won’t be of much use in the future.

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The night passed.

The next day, the fifth day of May, was the Dragon Boat Festival.

"Third Sister, stop running around!"

"Jin'er, how much rice have you washed?"

"It's one basin. Do you want help wrapping it?"

……

At noon, several people, including the empress who arrived early in the morning, finally began to wrap rice dumplings in a happy festive atmosphere.

The division of labor among the people was clear. The Su sisters were responsible for washing the rice leaves and wrapping the dumplings, Qin Lang and Gu Jin were responsible for washing the glutinous rice and other ingredients, and occasionally helped to wrap a few.

Originally Zhuo Beibei also belonged to Qin Lang's side, but she was too dishonest. After washing for a while, she pouted and refused.

"I'm so tired, I might as well just step on it with my feet~"

"..."

To be honest, Qin Lang was tempted at that time. After all, Third Senior Sister was a woman who had never been stained by dust, and the glutinous rice she stepped on might have an unexpected special fragrance.

But the problem was that she wasn't going to eat the rice dumplings alone, so Qin Lang stopped her in time and sent her aside to play.

The remaining few people were wrapping dumplings and chatting at the same time. It looked like they were just talking about daily life, but if you listened carefully occasionally, you could hear conversations like "The Ox Nose of Wuliang Mountain is gone", "The Tianhe Sect actually sent gifts this year", "I really want to chop off the head of the Minister of Personnel" which were definitely not ordinary daily conversations.

In fact, such conversations are not very smooth, because they are interrupted from time to time by Taoer who comes to report news.

"Your Majesty, Madam, the Minister of Rites outside wants to see you."

"Your Majesty, Madam, Lord Feng from the Ministry of War is waiting outside."

"Your Majesty, Madam, Chief Liu from Jiuzhou Escort Agency is here to visit you."

……

The empress declined all the routine visits from princes and ministers and sent them away casually. Su Yupan just wanted to spend this Dragon Boat Festival peacefully with Qin Lang... and of course her sister and others.

"Oh, it seems like there's a lot of rice dumpling leaves missing. I must have bought the wrong ones before."

"Then let Tao'er make a trip."

"Hey, it's okay, don't bother the little girl, I'll go to the street to buy some."

"Then go and come back quickly."

Qin Langba had to go to the streets during the festival to take a look, as these were scenes he had never seen in Tianshan, so he offered to run errands and went straight to the place selling rice dumplings leaves on the street as soon as he left the mansion.

What is quite coincidental is that at the same time, a distinguished young man in white also arrived in Beijing.

(End of this chapter)