Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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When Su Xi finished her homework and went online again, she saw that the cub was no longer in firewood yard. She didn’t know what he was doing.
When suddenly a task popped up on the interface:
“Please accept the third main mission: Please make friends with the Second Prince during the hunting trip at Qiuyan Mountain! And successfully enter the Imperial Academy.”
“Difficulty level 6, gold coin reward 200, point reward 12.”
Su Xi was stunned for a moment, full of questions. What on earth was the cub doing? How come there was an extra task issued during the time she was just doing her homework?!
These main quests could only be triggered when the protagonist came into contact with relevant information. If a task popped up here, it meant that the protagonist had this calculation and idea in his heart, or what he wanted to do next was related to this.
Su Xi opened the map and looked at the location of the baby. She saw that the baby was in the old lady’s Mei’an Garden and had not moved for half an hour.
What were they talking about?
Although she didn’t know what they talked about, Su Xi could roughly guess.
The system explained: “After the last incident, the old lady dislikes Lu Wenxiu and feels that he will not be able to achieve anything great. She thus intentionally sent the protagonist to the second prince, hoping that the protagonist would be able to gain the second prince’s appreciation and become his companion.”
Although the Second Prince was not from the Eastern Palace, he was also quite powerful. Once he became his companion, he would at least become a minister. By then, even if he was born from a concubine, he should not be underestimated.
Lady Ning Wang would then no longer dare to act rashly or plot murder.
In addition, there was also an opportunity to enter Imperial Academy.
When Su Xi was tidying up the closet, apart from the worn-out clothes, all she saw were books. She knew that the cub probably didn’t care about making friends with the Second Prince but wanted very much to enter the Imperial Academy!
He was only fourteen years old, but all the Four Books and Five Classics in his closet had been read to pieces. He would not be able to learn anything at the ordinary private school outside Ning Wang’s Mansion. If he wanted to learn more, he would have to enter the Imperial Academy, which all princes would enter, to learn how to govern the country.
What’s more, Su Xi had seen in the background introduction that there was a very famous Taifu teacher in Taixue Academy.
So rather than saying that this mission was to make friends with the Second Prince, it would be more accurate to say that it was to use the Second Prince to enter the Imperial Academy.
Although the ultimate goal of this game was to support the protagonist to ascend to the throne, the cub had been low-key before, such that Su Xi almost forgot his ambition. Now that the main task was getting closer to the goal step by step, Su Xi could vaguely see the cub’s ambition.
It’s a good thing to be ambitious!
“Then when you ascend the throne, can you start choosing concubines?!”
System:”……”
Su Xi was immediately excited when she thought of so many beauties from the folk people standing in front of her, the empress dowager, with their chins raised and their eyes full of autumnal waves, waiting to be chosen by her, and she was eager to increase her points.
Last night she repaired the chicken coop and tilled the land, which improved the external environment. The system gave her two extra points, and now she had 13 points.
But there was still a long way to go before unlocking the next section!
No, my son is pursuing his career, how can I slack off?
Taking advantage of this time, Su Xi frantically looked for places that could be improved in the game character’s house. Seeing that the bamboo forest leading to the outside was leaning to one side and the other, she simply straightened all the crooked bamboos in one go. Her fingers were almost broken from tapping, but finally she got one more point!
Then, she ran to the kitchen and washed all the piles of firewood and the messy pots and pans.
Almost all the work that could be done had been done!
….
The points slowly increased to 15.
Finally, she could unlock another section. Su Xi collapsed on the bed, breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately asked the system: “Where is he now?”
System: “He has left the old lady’s Mei’an Garden and is now in the fourth aunt’s yard.”
Su Xi immediately asked the system to unlock the fourth aunt’s yard.
The fourth concubine’s courtyard was very small. Once it was unlocked, the courtyards of some servants nearby and the courtyards of other concubines were also unlocked.
This was an unfamiliar place for Su Xi. The blue-gray brick road was covered with snow. However, it was still better than the cub’s yard. There were servants sweeping the snow aside to prevent people from slipping. It was obvious that Ning Wang treated his fourth concubine much better than the cub.
When the cub saw the extra typhoid medicine, he was worried that Fourth Aunt’s concubine’s daughter might have caught a cold, so he brought the medicine over.
But the fourth concubine always tried to protect herself and would not tolerate any kindness from the baby.
Su Xi immediately felt a little angry, but knowing that this was a game setting, she quickly suppressed her anger.
She swiped the screen in Fourth Aunt’s courtyard and walked along the corridor. Soon, a small white figure wearing an old robe appeared in her field of vision
It was the cub. He was standing in the corridor. It seemed that he had finished delivering the medicine and was about to go back.
But for some reason, he had stopped for a moment at the end of the corridor.
What was he looking at?
Su Xi followed his line of sight and changed the perspective, and saw a nanny under the eaves, holding a bowl of prepared osmanthus cake and giving it to a little maid who looked about eleven or twelve years old.
The nanny touched the little maid’s head lovingly and whispered, “Eat slowly. Today is your birthday. There’s no rush.”
The names of the two people slowly appeared on the interface.
Nanny A, maid A.
Su Xi: …………
Could this game name people less arbitrarily and insanely?!
But Su Xi understood that this nanny and the maid should be mother and daughter. The nanny was on duty beside Ning Wang’s wife and was seen by the stream last time.
This little maid was sent to the Fourth Aunt by Lady Ning to most likely keep an eye on her.
But no matter how much intrigue there was between the lady and the concubine, the maid’s mother still remembered her birthday and risked her life to run over and give her a hot bite of food.
Su Xi looked towards the cub in the corridor again but saw that the figure in the old white robe had left at some point.
Su Xi:?
Su Xi suddenly asked, “When is the protagonist’s birthday?”
The system opened the background introduction and showed it to her again—
It was today!
Her pig-brained self didn’t remember anything when she watched the background animation!
The background text said:
[The bast**d Lu Huan was born on the same day as the current Crown Prince, but their time of birth conflicted. At the moment of his birth, Ning Wang offended the Emperor in the palace and was almost dismissed from his post. Since then, Ning Wang believed that Lu Huan was blocking his path to officialdom and treated him very coldly. He hastily buried his mother who had a difficult birth, and did not allow anyone in Ning Wang’s mansion to remember Lu Huan’s birthday.]
No wonder Su Xi had just discovered that there was a festive atmosphere outside the courtyard wall, with lights and decorations, and even the sound of music. It turned out to be the birthday of the current Crown Prince of the East Palace, and the whole capital was celebrating. A banquet was held in the palace, and the streets were also bustling.
But on the same day, the cub’s firewood yard was deserted and lonely, and the footprints he left when he walked alone were covered by the wind and snow.
….
Su Xi felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, and suddenly she thought of something. She quickly cut the scene back to the firewood yard!
She asked the system: “How long will it take for the baby to come back?!”
The system estimated: “He has reached the stream, and there are still three minutes of walking time.”
Enough!
Su Xi quickly opened the mall and made her selection.
There were a lot of birthday gifts in the mall – all of them were gifts from ancient mortal world, such as rabbit lanterns, sugar figures, calligraphy and paintings, etc., but Su Xi didn’t have the time to choose.
She searched for a long time and finally found the longevity noodles section.
Then she carefully selected a bowl of longevity noodles that looked the hottest.
She quickly placed the bowl of noodles on the stove in the kitchen. As soon as the noodles fell on the stove, white mist rose up and was illuminated by the faint firelight in the stove, making it look particularly delicious.
Su Xi also put a soft-boiled egg in the noodles.
Just at this moment, footsteps were heard from the bamboo forest.
Su Xi was afraid that the game character would go straight to sleep after coming back and would not come to the kitchen, so he would not see the bowl of noodles.
She was nervous, so she used her last bit of energy to cut to the outside of the kitchen, where she hung a shaky rabbit lamp hanging on the eaves of the kitchen.
….
Lu Huan walked back through the bamboo forest and naturally heard the lively scene of the entire capital outside the Ning Wang Mansion. He pursed his lips and had an indescribable expression on his face. In fact, this day every year was just like this for him, and he was really used to it.
But that person…
He had not appeared for three consecutive days.
…Would he never appear again?
Or was it, as he had expected, that sending something occasionally was just a whim of the other party. Although he had no intention of harming him, he was just teasing him, or was it a short-lived and fleeting sympathy? Otherwise, wouldn’t it be strange that he had to go through so much trouble for a mere bast**d?
Lu Huan lowered his eyes, a hint of irony flashing through his mind.
He clenched his fists, trying hard not to think about it anymore. No matter what the other party said, he could just ignore it and not let his mind be shaken, otherwise he would play into the other party’s hands.
He then quickened his pace and walked towards the firewood yard.
But just as he passed the kitchen, he seemed to suddenly realize something and raised his head inadvertently.
At that moment, snowflakes slowly fell on his shoulders. He stopped in his tracks and stared at the eaves with a stunned look.
Behind him was a cool bamboo forest, a trail of footprints coming from a lone person, and in front of him were three wooden houses, which seemed no different from usual, except for the addition of –
There was a bright yellow rabbit lantern under the eaves.
The lamp was swaying in the wind, and the tiny, fluttering light penetrated the darkness and snow and fell into his dark eyes.
“…”
This was–?
His breath leaked out, and his heart, which had been upset just now, suddenly beat harder because of the flickering candlelight that seemed to welcome him home.
Then, “plop,” “plop,” it jumped faster and faster.
He walked quickly into the kitchen.
Empty.
It was very quiet.
A hint of disappointment flashed across Lu Huan’s eyes.
…Until he turned around and saw the bowl of longevity noodles on the stove which was steaming warm.
The author has something to say:
Su Xi: When you ascend the throne, can I start choosing concubines for my son?!!
The cub: Haha, did you get so drunk after eating a few peanuts?
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