Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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For Lu Huan, his birthday was just one of countless lonely days, nothing special about it.
No one in the Ning Wang Mansion would remember, not even the Fourth Aunt. When Lu Huan went to deliver medicine today, the Fourth Aunt held her daughter in tears and thanked him repeatedly, but she did not remember that today was Lu Huan’s birthday. It was normal for her not to remember, as Ning Wang had long ago ordered the entire mansion not to mention Lu Huan’s birth date, so even if she remembered, she could not do anything for Lu Huan.
Therefore, Lu Huan just pretended that this day never happened.
Anyway, if the capital city had not been decorated with lights and colors to celebrate for the Eastern Palace on this day every year, he would probably have forgotten it long ago.
Birthday.
Lu Huan knew these two words from books, as well as from the birthday celebration of the Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace and Lu Yu’an’s birthday banquet.
Every year at Lu Yu’an’s birthday banquet, the mansion was extremely lively and the kitchen was extremely busy.
Lady Ning would specially prepare two things for her eldest son, Lu Yu’an. One was longevity noodles. A whole noodle was stacked into a full bowl, and the soup was drunk after eating, symbolizing longevity and good fortune.
The other was a peach of longevity, the top of which was dyed red with red paper to symbolize avoiding bad luck.
At that time, Lu Huan could only stay under Wu Qing’s courtyard wall with his servants, waiting to receive rewards.
….
No one ever remembered his birthday, so he had long been accustomed to it. Therefore, he never thought that one day, when he returned from the snow, he would actually see a bowl of longevity noodles quietly placed on the stove for him.
In the remaining light from the stove, the noodles in the bowl were long and moist, the soup was thick, and there was a soft-boiled egg on top, the red and white color was about to overflow, dotted with some chopped green onions, and it was steaming hot.
…this scene was so real that it seemed unreal.
Lu Huan’s throat tightened and he subconsciously walked over and slowly picked up the longevity noodle bowl. Warmth instantly spread from his palms, making his eyebrows jump slightly – it turned out that he was not dreaming!
But was this longevity noodle really made for him…?
…How could anyone remember his birthday…
…How could someone specially celebrate for him…How could someone specially give him these good things?
What was his purpose…what did he want to get from him…?
Lu Huan’s heart was in turmoil, and he forced himself to calm down his disordered breathing.
However, he held the bowl of longevity noodles, which he had obtained for the first time in his life, tightly in both hands. He could not help but hold it tighter and tighter, feeling the warmth falling on his cold palms, and could not let go for a long time…
After a moment, he took a breath and forced himself to calm down.
He raised his eyes and looked around the kitchen and was slightly startled again.
He was so surprised when he saw the rabbit lantern and the bowl of longevity noodles under the eaves just now that he only noticed now –
The messy pile of firewood that he had thrown in the corner of the kitchen a few days ago, which could cause tripping, was neatly stacked and placed in the corner at some point.
Also, because he had caught typhoid fever a few days ago, he had not had time to clean up the slight dirt on the stove, it was also cleaned up now, and even the pots and pans were all brand new and stacked together.
He didn’t know who cleaned the entire kitchen. The food was skewered and hung on the wall. It looked not much different from the big kitchen in Prince Ning’s Mansion now.
As if Lu Huan had a premonition of something, he turned around and walked out, holding the longevity noodles in his hand. He took down the shaky rabbit lantern under the eaves, held the lantern in his hand, and walked towards the entire firewood courtyard.
Only then did he realize that at some point, the protruding horizontal branches around the bamboo forest that might have tripped him had been removed. There was a cold-proof shed over by the chicken coop, but he left in a hurry this morning and didn’t go there, so he didn’t notice it.
Besides.
Lu Huan carried the lantern and returned to the house with noodles in his hands, trying to find more traces of the man’s presence. Sure enough, he found the traces. When he opened the closet, he discovered that his robes had been sewn.
The stitches were fine and dense, and the animal skin was sewn onto the original robe tightly, making it look extremely warm. It seemed that the man had noticed that he had tried to sew but failed, so he deliberately helped him.
Lu Huan’s dark eyelashes trembled slightly.
One by one, one thing after another, why?
Making a bowl of noodles was not an easy task, and hanging the rabbit lanterns was more like a unique way to treat him well. In addition, the man was so thoughtful, doing so much for him from the kitchen to the bamboo forest to the robes. This was the first time in his life that someone treated him like this…
He sat down at the table, his heart full of mixed emotions. He wiped the rabbit lamp carefully with his sleeve, and after looking at the lifelike rabbit eating grass on it for a while, he carefully placed it on the table.
He placed the longevity noodles in front of him, picked up the chopsticks, and stared at the noodles for a long time. The heat fell on his face, a real and gentle touch.
These were the good things he had never had.
He had never had such luck in his life.
Although he had no idea what that person’s purpose was, why he would give him these things, why he never showed up, and why he hadn’t shown any intention of asking for anything in return until now.
Was it just a prank or was there some other intention?
Would the man finally reveal his true intentions after he had fallen into the trap little by little?
…But this bowl of noodles still meant a lot to him after these fourteen years of loneliness and coldness.
Therefore, this time, he couldn’t just pour the longevity noodles into the stable without being moved like he did last time.
He stared at the bowl of longevity noodles, and as always, he took out a silver needle from his pocket and tested it again to see if it was poisonous.
Non-toxic.
Seeing that there was no change on the silver needle, although there was no expression on his face, his dark eyes flashed with a barely perceptible light.
He held the bowl of noodles in his palm, slowly lowered his head, drank a sip of soup, then picked up the noodles with chopsticks and finally took a bite.
As the warmth entered his stomach, the light in his eyes became brighter.
….
Su Xi outside the screen had no idea how complicated and confused the mood of the little character in the game was. From her perspective, it was just that the cub was standing stunned in the kitchen!
Then he went out and was shocked by the changes in the bamboo forest and the chicken coop!
After returning to the house, he was shocked again by the animal skin robe -!
When he was stunned, the whole scene was frozen, while the small figure clenched his fists and didn’t move! He was at a loss!
Su Xi: Hahahahaha, I’m almost dying of cuteness.
Then, Su Xi saw the cub sitting at the table again. This time, although he still cautiously used a silver needle to test whether it was poisonous, unlike the last time with the braised pork with preserved vegetables, this time, he finally ate it.
She then saw the little man on the screen holding a bowl as big as his head, slurping noodles in small mouthfuls, his chubby face puffing up.
It must taste very delicious!
The groundhog in Su Xi screamed–Ahhh, the character creation in this game is too cute!
….
At this time, there was a snowstorm outside the firewood house. But inside the firewood house, there was a yellow rabbit lamp. The door was not closed. A little man sat alone at the table, eating longevity noodles with a bowl in his hand. Here Su Xi was holding her face outside the screen, watching quietly. Then she couldn’t help but take a screenshot.
She suddenly felt very satisfied.
This sense of satisfaction did not come from the sense of achievement of seeing the baby go from being bullied by servants in the beginning to finally having a yard and being able to wear warm clothes and have enough food –
Of course, this sense of achievement from nothing also made Su Xi quite satisfied.
But what made her even more addicted was seeing with her own eyes that the cub, who was like a hedgehog covered with thorns at the beginning, had finally opened up a little bit and developed a little trust in her…
This made her nose sour.
Of course, the hedgehog cub still had many concerns and precautions. It was impossible for him to let her rub its soft belly all at once. But Su Xi was not in a hurry. There was still a long time to come, and she could continue playing this game!
…She felt that because of this unique game character, she had become addicted to the game.
….
After eating the longevity noodles, Lu Huan went to check the renovated chicken coop. He had to admit that after being secretly renovated with the help of that person, the chicken coop was indeed much warmer, and the chickens were visibly livelier.
Lu Huan returned to the house and secretly noted down this date.
He always felt that the time when that person appeared seemed to be traceable. It seemed that he appeared once every two days and one night, and each time he appeared, it was when he was asleep or out.
In other words, the other party didn’t seem to want to see him face to face?
Lu Huan stared at the empty bowl of noodles. He brought it back into the room and placed it beside the bed – he knew that he was being too passive.
The other person appeared very casually, but he knew nothing about him or her.
He didn’t know the other party’s identity, and he couldn’t even clearly determine the time when he appeared and disappeared. He couldn’t understand how the other party could come and go freely in Ning Wang’s Mansion without touching the traces he had set up.
The other party was really mysterious.
But no matter what, he had to find a way to find out who that person was. Not only because as he didn’t know the other party’s identity and purpose, this passive feeling made Lu Huan feel a sense of crisis.
It was also because, that night, he received from the other party a bowl of longevity noodles that he would never forget in his life.
This was the first time in his empty life that he received such a gift.
He wanted to know who that person was, and wanted to meet that person, no matter what that person’s purpose was or what his identity was. If that person was using and playing with him, then he would…
Lu Huan’s eyebrows twitched slightly.
In the silent night, he clenched the warm, sewn robe in his hands.
He suddenly got out of bed, walked to the table in his thin undershirt, spread out his writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote a few words on the paper:
——”Who are you?”
Who on earth suddenly broke into his stagnant life?
After writing, he blew the words dry and pressed them with ink to prevent them from being blown away by the wind.
He looked up at the endless darkness and heavy snow outside the window, his expression unclear under the candlelight. He was not sure whether the man would see it or answer him when he came again.
The author has something to say:
Cub: Who are you?
Su Xi: The Gray Prince’s fairy godmother.
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