When ZiLi woke up, the burning sensation all over his body had subsided, and his head was no longer foggy, but what followed was an unbearable itch all over his body. Every time he could not help but wanting to scratch, a group of people would scream as if they had seen a ghost, then swarm around him, bombarding him with pleas and admonitions. Moreover, the rich and delicious food had been replaced by plain rice congee at every meal! Fine, he could consider it a cleanse for his system if he ate it once or twice, but after four or five days, he could not help but fume with frustration!
Feeling physically uncomfortable was one thing, but now even his right to enjoy food was taken away. ZiLi full of pent-up anger, paced back and forth in the stifling room!
“What is wrong, baby? Why are you not having breakfast?” Hong Xu, who had just finished the Imperial morning court, walked in and seeing ZiLi’s angry expression, asked in a doting tone.
ZiLi glared at him, rubbing his itchy back through his clothes. When he was about to scratch his face Hong Xu quickly reacted and grabbed his small hand, coaxing, “All right, all right, if you do not want to eat then you do not have to eat. Having some pastries to fill your stomach is fine as well. Baby, don’t scratch yourself!”
ZiLi was unbearably uncomfortable, his face covered in ugly bumps. “I want a bronze mirror!”
“Baby, wait until you get better before taking a look!”
“No, I want to look now! I want a bronze mirror!”
Hong Xu looked at ZiLi’s face, covered in little bumps with his cheeks puffed out, and quickly turned his head away.
“You, you……” ZiLi pointed at him, his face turning red with anger, saying, “You are actually laughing at me? You are laughing at me, ah――”
“No, no, baby, I was not laughing!”
“Do you think I am a three-year-old child? I clearly saw you holding back laughter just now! Ah, that’s it, Hong Xu you bastard, you heartless guy, seeing me like this and you still laugh?”
“All right, all right, baby, I was wrong. Don’t be mad, how about you hit me!”
“Get out, I don’t want to see you! Get out――” ZiLi angrily kicked Hong Xu twice, then pushed him out the door and slammed it shut with a bang.
The others, seeing their wise and mighty Emperor being thrown out by their master, could not help but cover their mouths and snicker.
Hong Xu coughed once, his sharp gaze sweeping back, and the maids behind him immediately fell silent!
With no place to vent his anger, ZiLi grabbed a pillow and violently slammed it against the bed. Just as he was lifting it, he was suddenly hugged tightly from behind!
“Why did you come in again?” ZiLi asked angrily, struggling against the other’s grip.
“Baby, I was wrong, don’t be angry. If you get sick from anger, I will be heartbroken!” Hong Xu spoke, taking the pillow from ZiLi’s hands.
“It’s all your fault. If you had not left because of your pettiness, how would I have gotten sick?”
“All right, all right, it is all my fault!” Hong Xu kissed ZiLi’s lips to comfort the other.
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ZiLi quickly leaned back, looking up as he asked, “Hong Xu, chickenpox is an easily treatable disease where I come from. But in ancient times, was it not always considered a contagious and deadly plague? Why do you all seem not to be afraid at all?”Hong Xu raised an eyebrow, “Is it that serious? In our dynasty, chickenpox is no longer a difficult disease, so naturally, we are not afraid of it!”
“It seems this time and space are actually quite different from the ancient times I know!”
“Hmn?”
“Don’t hug me, it makes me more uncomfortable!”
Hong Xu let go as told!
“Baby, are you hungry?”
Although he actually did not want to admit it, ZiLi still nodded pitifully.
Hong Xu looked at ZiLi’s awkward expression with amusement and clapped his hands. The maids came in and set out several kinds of simple pastries. Hong Xu pulled him to sit down, picked up a piece of Water Chestnut Cake
馬蹄糕
Máhtài Gōu
One of the standard dishes found in the dim sum cuisine of Guangdong.
Something like this, I think:
1 , and brought it to ZiLi’s mouth as he said, “For this period of time, baby, you can only eat light things. Once you are well again, I will make up for it.”
Máhtài Gōu
One of the standard dishes found in the dim sum cuisine of Guangdong.
Something like this, I think:
ZiLi snatched it up in one bite and wolfed it down, stuffing it into his stomach. His dark, glossy eyes glanced at Hong Xu, noticing that the other had not started eating at all. The indulgent look in Hong Xu’s eyes made ZiLi’s cheeks burn, and even the little bumps that were already lively seemed to grow all the more vibrant.
After suffering for ten days, the chickenpox on his face finally subsided and scabbed over. When the last scab fell off, revealing flawless skin beneath, it also signaled that the days of quarantine had finally come to an end!
After being cooped up inside the room for more than ten days, the moment ZiLi stepped out the door he was so delighted he was like a little bird released from its cage. With a joyful cry he ran forward, threw himself into the thick pile of fallen leaves, and rolled around a few times. Then, smiling broadly, he looked at a line of wild geese flying south, saying, “Freedom feels so good!”
Following closely behind, Hong Xu, now dressed in casual clothes, said, “Baby, I will take you to see something!”
“What is it?” ZiLi asked in high spirits.
“Follow me and you will find out!” Hong Xu said with a smile on his face.
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“Okay!” ZiLi patted his butt, stood up, and followed the mysterious Hong Xu out of Xia He Palace!***
In front of them was a racecourse that was connected to a forest and hillside!“Ah great, horseback riding! It’s been so long since I had a good ride!” ZiLi said, eager to get into action.
Hong Xu just smiled without speaking. The guards and stable hands, seeing Hong Xu and ZiLi, all knelt and bowed, saying, “Paying our respect to Your Majesty, and the Third Prince of Bei Ling!”
“You may rise! Where is that horse?”
“Answering to Your Majesty, it is in the stable. That horse is very wild. Even several of us stable hands could not calm it down, and it nearly kicked one of us injured,” a guard replied.
“Just like its owner, a stubborn little fellow. Take Us to see it!”
“Yes!”
The group had not yet reached the stable when they heard the threatening whinnies of a horse and the urgent shouts of the stable hands, “Stop it, hold it back!”
“Your Majesty, Your Highness, be careful!” Suddenly, a black horse charged out of the stable towards them, causing the nearby guards to panic and yell in alarm!
But Hong Xu remained calm and composed, unmoved. ZiLi, on the other hand, widened his eyes and stared at the approaching black horse getting closer and closer! Suddenly, he shouted, pointing at it with shining eyes, saying, “Qu, Qu Zi
The horse lives! Qu Zi is the horse ZiLi bought early on, when he was escaping from Hong Xu back in Chapter 41.
2 ! So it actually turns out you weren’t slaughtered, ah! You have gotten a lot stronger, that’s great!”
As if the black horse stumbled for a moment, its full-speed charge gradually slowed down, and came to an abrupt halt about two meters from ZiLi and Hong Xu!
ZiLi excitedly ran forward, arms outstretched for a warm hug, but Qu Zi’s loud snort kept him frozen in place! ZiLi closed his eyes and pursed his lips as Qu Zi’s snot dripped unpleasantly onto his face!
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Qu Zi bared its teeth, its spirited eyes seemingly bending in smug satisfaction!Hong Xu wiped the dirt off ZiLi’s face with a handkerchief, then cast a sharp gaze that made the usually lofty and arrogant Qu Zi retreat two steps in fear!
“So disgusting, Qu Zi, you actually did that to me!” ZiLi wiped his cheek and pretended to be sad, then pounced forward again, hugging the horse's neck and rubbing against it repeatedly! Although Qu Zi did not like being touched this way, the imposing man next to him made it afraid to shake off ZiLi and run away. It could only stand there, letting ZiLi pinch and pull at its ears!
“Hong Xu, how did you know about it and find it?”
“As long as it is something my baby wants, I can find a way to get it!” Hong Xu answered, dodging the real issue. Of course, Hong Xu could not remind his baby that when the other left the palace, he had at least two groups of people secretly protecting and monitoring ZiLi. Every move ZiLi made, every word and action, was probably more known to Hong Xu than to ZiLi himself. So finding this Hequ horse was naturally not an issue!
Having played enough with Qu Zi’s ears, ZiLi immediately mounted the horse and said, “Hong Xu, you pick a horse too. How about we race?”
“Heh heh!” Hong Xu chuckled softly, then he effortlessly jumped and sat behind ZiLi, wrapping his arms around the other’s waist, and taking the reins as he said, “Today, I do not want to race. I just want to ride with my baby.”
ZiLi’s face turned slightly red. This Hong Xu! With so many people watching, he actually made such an intimate move!
“You do not need to follow us!” Hong Xu instructed the guards behind them, then shook the reins and guided the horse towards the Maple forest.
In autumn, the Maple leaves were as red as fire, clustering together and covering the sky like a curtain. On the ground, there was a thick, carpet-like layer, with leisurely floating red leaves adorning the scene, making it look as beautiful as a painting!
“Baby, is it beautiful?” Hong Xu whispered into ZiLi’s ear, his warm breath making ZiLi ticklish and pull back his neck!
“Beau― beautiful!”
Riding on Qu Zi’s back at an unhurried pace, the two of them moved through the Maple forest, looking more like immortals in a painting! One was extraordinarily handsome, the other was ethereally elegant!
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“Baby, let’s go sit over there!” Hong Xu said, pointing to a pavilion in the center of the Maple forest.“Okay!” ZiLi wanted to jump off the horse, but Hong Xu scooped him up and, with a leap, used his Qinggong to fly to the front of the pavilion.
Inside the pavilion, there was a stone table and stone benches, but what surprised ZiLi was that the table was filled with delicious food!
Heh, so it had been planned all along! Looking back at Hong Xu, he indeed saw the other with an expression that said ‘Aren’t you quite surprised?’
ZiLi wrinkled his nose, jumped down from Hong Xu’s arms, and hopped up the stone steps!
Wow, it is really abundant!
“I have let my baby suffer hardships for more than ten days, so it is time to make up for it!” Hong Xu said, sitting down after him, watching ZiLi, who had already picked up a piece of marinated pig’s trotter and was stuffing it into his mouth.
“Mm-hmm!” ZiLi nodded, his eyes sparkling, and said with his mouth full of food, “Do you know what it’s like to go half a month without eating meat? It felt like true hunger! I was so hungry that all I could think about was meat!”
“Hehe, baby, don’t choke, eat slowly!”
“Cough, cough, cough, cough……” Just as Hong Xu finished speaking, ZiLi started patting his chest, asking for water! Seeing a jade jug next to him, he quickly grabbed it and gulped down the liquid.
“Whew――” Finally catching his breath, he smacked his lips. “What kind of tea is this? Why does it taste strange?”
“Baby, that was not tea, it is wine! This is the tea!” Hong Xu held the cup in his hand in front of ZiLi’s face. When he saw ZiLi choking, he hurriedly poured some tea, but when he turned around, he saw ZiLi already gulping down the wine jug! That wine, called Qiu Hua Wine, was rich and mellow when entering one’s mouth, without the usual harshness of alcohol, but it had a strong aftereffect! Even he did not dare drink much of it! And this little fool had downed the whole jug!
ZiLi hiccupped, and a soft pink blush instantly spread across his face! His clear eyes also became alluringly moist! Hong Xu gazed at him, captivated! Suddenly, ZiLi giggled back at him! Then, swaying, he leaned forward, cupped Hong Xu’s face with both hands, and said, “Hong... Hong Xu, you are really good-looking!”
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Hong Xu just smiled without speaking!ZiLi then staggered up, climbed onto the table, and gave Hong Xu a loud kiss on the lips.
Hehe, such a cute little thing, only daring to be so bold when drunk!
ZiLi, with cloudy intoxicated eyes, tugged at Hong Xu’s clothes, pulling open the other’s collar and peeking inside! Hong Xu remained motionless, allowing this little pervert to mess around!
“No, no chest! Why, don’t you have a chest?” ZiLi said, raising his head, and foolishly pouting.
“Because I am not a woman!” Hong Xu said, licking those tempting cherry lips.
“Hic! Then, why, why aren’t you a woman?”
“Baby, that is not something I can decide!”
ZiLi tilted his head, pondering with great distress, “Then why am I a woman?”
“Hehe, baby, you are drunk! You are not a woman, you are a man too!”
“I, I’m a man too?” ZiLi shook his head. “Then why do I, have to be like a woman, ly―, lying, lying under you, and being taken?”
Hong Xu was suddenly taken aback as he looked at ZiLi who had adorably tilted his head and was waiting for his answer. He suddenly let out a bitter smile, hugged the other tightly, and spoke, “Baby, I have never thought of you as a woman……”
After a long silence, when he looked down again, he found that ZiLi had already fallen into a deep sleep!
“Sigh!” With a light sigh, he carried ZiLi and flew away, leaving behind the red Maple forest.
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