Chapter 232 Who Kicked Me

Xiao Jing came in, greeted them, and then sat quietly aside, without looking away. He was a person who was used to joking around on weekdays, but suddenly he became so quiet, making the atmosphere on the scene indescribably awkward and weird.

Everyone racked their brains and managed to say some irrelevant words. The old ancestor said, "Alas, I am old and useless. I started to feel sleepy after talking for a while. You guys go and have fun. You don't have to accompany an old woman like me."

Yi De also thought of it and said, "I'll go see what dishes are prepared in the kitchen. This is Ruan's first time here, so we can't neglect him."

Ye Jiayao took the opportunity to say, "Princess, I'll go with you. I haven't cooked for a long time, and my hands are itching to cook."

Xia Chunyu was annoyed. You all found excuses to avoid him. What should he do? He couldn't stay and get in the way, nor could he say he would follow you to the kitchen, right?

There was really no good excuse to come up with, so I could only say, "I'm going to go see the golden retriever that Helian Xuan raised."

Poor guy, he can only play with the dog.

After a while, everyone left and only Aruan and Xiaojing were left in the room.

A'ruan was a simple-minded person and couldn't understand why everyone left suddenly.

"Xiao Jing, do you think I should go and help?" A Ruan felt embarrassed.

Xiao Jing looked a little unnatural. Normally, he was open-hearted and had no distractions when facing A'ruan, so he could handle it with ease. But now, facing A'ruan, his heart was confused, it was a tangled mess and he couldn't make sense of it.

"Oh, no thanks, you're a guest!"

Although it was just a perfunctory remark, the simple-minded A Ruan felt relieved and said with a smile: "Xiao Jing, your family is really nice! I thought the old ancestor was a dignified old lady, but I didn't expect that she was so kind and amiable. My grandmother is a very strict person. She is stern and fierce to everyone. It was only on the first night of my visit to Jinling that she smiled at me and hugged me... In fact, I know that she is also cold on the outside but warm on the inside. She loves us in her heart. Alas... Now that I think about it, I miss her so much. I don't know when I can see her again."

As he spoke, A'ruan's voice became lower and his smile became stiff.

Xiao Jing's heart twitched slightly, and an inexplicable feeling grew and spread in her heart, a little distressed, a little sad. She was racking her brains to comfort her, only to hear her say again: "Your mother is also very good, just like my mother, Xiao Jing, I like your family very much!"

Xiao Jing swallowed the words that were about to come out of his mouth. How could he respond? If you like my family, then come to my house! No, no, he hasn't thought about it yet. What if he regrets it again?
"Well, my family is very friendly and they are very good to Yaoyao." Xiao Jing said after hesitating for a moment.

Ah Ruan changed her seat and moved closer to Xiao Jing. She put her hands on her knees, swayed her feet, tilted her head, and said with envy, "Brother Chunyu is really good to Sister Yaoyao! I envy him so much. In the future, I want to find a husband who loves me as much as Brother Chunyu loves Sister Yaoyao."

Xiao Jing stared at her blankly, thinking that he was far away from her goal. Maybe Yaoyao had misunderstood him! Maybe Aruan didn't mean that. Aruan just had more contact with him, and he was so easy-going and easy to talk to, so she just had a good impression of him.

Thinking of this, the burden in my heart suddenly became lighter: "Haha, you will definitely find it."

Ah Ruan turned her head and looked at him, her big eyes blinking with a sly light, and her dimples appeared again: "Maybe, I have found it!"

Xiao Jing suddenly became nervous again. Why was she looking at him with such suggestive eyes? Huh? He actually saw that this was a hint. Xiao Jing laughed dryly in annoyance and muttered in his heart: You are not talking about me, you are not talking about me...

While eating, Xia Chunyu showed his affection and picked up some food for Ye Jiayao from time to time, asking her to eat more of this and more of that. When A Ruan saw this, she kicked Xiao Jing under the table.

Xiao Jing was disturbed and his hands shook, so the beef fillet he had just picked up fell off.

"Who kicked me..."

Everyone at the table immediately turned their eyes to A'ruan sitting across from them.

A Ruan blinked innocently, but a blush slowly appeared on her face.

Yide glared at his ignorant son and took the responsibility: "I kicked him. You were so busy eating that you didn't even pick up some food for us. I'm wasting my love on you."

A Ruan's face turned even redder.

Yide scolded him again: "Learn from your brother Chunyu, you should know how to love others, do you understand? You are stupid."

Then he picked up a meatball for Ah Ruan and said with a friendly smile: "Ah Ruan, this is authentic Jinling lion's head, made by your sister Yaoyao. Eat more."

Xiao Jing was confused by the scolding. Chunyu brother picked up the food for his sweetheart, and he didn't have a sweetheart. Besides, if he really picked up the food for his sweetheart, he would probably not be able to leave this room, and his bones would be torn apart. He filled a bowl of yam and purple potato soup for the ancestor with a sullen smile and said, "Ancestor, this bowl of soup is for your honor."

The old ancestor smiled and said, "Today, you are the host and A'ruan is the guest. You must entertain A'ruan well."

Xiao Jing had no choice but to fill another bowl for A Ruan as well.

Ah Ruan smiled shyly: "Thank you, Xiao Jing."

Ye Jiayao sighed in her heart, and really wanted to knock this stupid person with a chopstick to wake him up. After lunch, Ye Jiayao said goodbye to Xia Chunyu, and let Xiaojing face Aruan by himself.

"Stupid, so stupid." In the carriage, Ye Jiayao was angry at his lack of fighting spirit and cursed in a low voice.

Xia Chunyu sneered: "Xiao Jing is not stupid, he just hasn't figured out some things."

I added in my mind, after all, it was you who caused all this. If you had explained it clearly to Xiaojing earlier, nothing would have happened.

Ye Jiayao said angrily: "No, I have to think of a way, otherwise Xiaojing will definitely regret it."

Xia Chunyu pinched her nose and said, "You'd better not interfere. For matters like this, it depends on the parties involved. External interference may backfire."

"What should we do? What if the emperor marries A'ruan to someone else?" Ye Jiayao worried.

Xia Chunyu put one hand behind her and said casually, "You think A'ruan is the princess of Huai Song! Unless A'ruan nods herself, the emperor can't make the decision on her husband."

Ye Jiayao was skeptical: "Really?"

"That should be the case. Anyway, if A'ruan didn't marry Xiaojing, she would most likely be the third prince." Xia Chunyu didn't dare to make any guarantees. Everything is unpredictable.

Ye Jiayao leaned in his arms, thinking, and said faintly: "I've heard you talk about the third prince recently. He's so decisive and resourceful. Will he endanger the position of the crown prince?"

Xia Chunyu quickly blocked her mouth: "You can say this kind of thing in front of me, but you can never say it outside."

Ye Jiayao laughed: "Do you think I'm stupid? Don't you want to live?"

Xia Chunyu's dark eyes were as deep as the starry sky, filled with hidden worries.

Song Qi asked outside: "My Lord, are you going back home?"

Xia Chunyu said casually: "Go back home."

"No, I want to go to Tianshangju." Ye Jiayao immediately denied it.

"Why go to Tianshangju? Manager Zhao and Zhong Xiang are here. You can rest more when you have time." Xia Chunyu said. Moreover, the key point is that he rarely has a few days of free time, so he wants to accompany her well.

Ye Jiayao couldn't say that she didn't go back to the mansion to avoid villains, so she said, "I remembered that I have something else to do in Tianshangju! The cows in our farm have started to produce milk, I'll go and see if the quality is okay."

"Will it be different tomorrow?"

"You know me. I have to do what I think of. I will feel uncomfortable if I don't do it." Ye Jiayao pulled his clothes and acted coquettishly.

"How about you go back and rest first?"

Xia Chunyu couldn't persuade her: "Forget it, I'll go with you!"

Ye Jiayao rewarded him with a kiss and pecked him lightly on the cheek, but he held her down and ravaged her fiercely until Song Qi asked depressedly, "My Lord, where are you going?"

We were discussing it just now, but now it's silent again.

Ye Jiayao struggled to break free from his deep kiss, took a breath, and said, "Let's go to Tianshangju."

Xia Chunyu had never paid much attention to things on the farm. Today, when talking about milk, he found out that not only did they start to supply their own milk, but even vegetables were delivered from the vegetable garden, and in the future there would be fruits and flowers.

"That's not all. I asked Manager Bai to dig a pond in the farm and draw water from the river. We can raise fish and grow lotus roots here, which will facilitate the irrigation of the farm, vegetable garden and flower bed. It can also store water, so there's no need to worry about droughts. Well, wife Zhu Wang also raises a lot of chickens and ducks..." Ye Jiayao said complacently. She put a lot of thought into building this ecological farm.

"That's very thoughtful." Xia Chunyu praised sincerely. Yaoyao's ideas in this regard were definitely ahead of the times.

"Not only that, I plan to demolish the existing yard in the farm and rebuild it to build a separate yard. When we are free, we can go to the separate yard for vacation. We can't go to far places, but it's okay to stay in our own farm for a few days."

"This is a great idea. Master Jiren is very knowledgeable about architecture. I will go to him someday and ask him to design a blueprint." Xia Chunyu agreed with both hands. Most of the princes and nobles in Jinling City have villas outside the city. For example, Zhao Qixuan has one near the White Pagoda Temple. He went there once and found it very elegantly built. He also wanted to build one, but he didn't have so much time. Now that Yaoyao has this idea, he must squeeze out time to get this done.

Ye Jiayao was not surprised at all that Master Jiren knew about architecture, nor was she surprised that Master Jiren could make muskets and cannons. No matter how ordinary a person from the future was, he or she would have thousands of years more experience and knowledge than the people of the present. Suddenly, she thought of a good way to avoid villains.

Since there were no outsiders around, Ye Jiayao sat in his arms, hugged his neck, and said with a smile: "Chun Yu, don't you still have a few days of vacation? How about we go to the village tomorrow? And measure the land and make a rough plan?"

(End of this chapter)