C106 The Gift Is More Important than the Words!

To be able to get San Qi to do it, it must be something very secretive. San Qi didn’t dare to waste any more time. She changed her clothes and pretended to go.

Lan Qingqian was eating the pig trotters with her head down, like a puppy that was chewing on bones.

The corner of her mouth was still dripping with soup. When she saw Gu Jun’an staring at her, she thought that Gu Jun’an was hungry. “Do you want to have a bite?”

Gu Jun’an shook his head and sat beside her. “If Lan Lichui comes, do you want to see him?”

She opened her mouth, but the words were stuck in her throat.

Lan Qingqian lowered her voice. “If he comes, he will come to find me. If he doesn’t come to find me, why should I go and see him?” She sounded a little angry.

Gu Jun’an poked her cheeks. “Then, if he doesn’t know that you are here?”

“Then I will tell him that I am here. When I see him, I will beat him up. I will ask him if he is a coward. That day when I was sending off my relatives, I promised that he would come. However, he didn’t come. No one came to send me off, and he didn’t come either. He is a liar.”

Her eyes were filled with tears, but her mouth was still chewing on the pig trotters. Her sadness didn’t affect her appetite.

Gu Jun’an felt a little helpless. “I’ll pat her head and bring you out to play tomorrow night.”

Lan Qingqian nodded her head. She thought that it was a game of catching grasshoppers.

When they were in the barracks, Gu Jun’an regretted it. If he had known that he would bring her here, he would have brought her along. Now, not only did he have to wash her, but he also had to bathe her.

The bath tub was too big, so Gu Jun’an had to find a big wooden tub to fetch two big tubs of hot water from the head cook. He filled the tub with hot water and pulled the screen.

“Take off your clothes and wash them. After you are done, call me. I will wash your hair.” Gu Jun’an glanced at her.

“Are you not going to help me wash? In the past, it was Chun Luo who helped me wash.” She was used to being taken care of since she was young, so she really couldn’t do these things.

“Men and women shouldn’t be intimate with each other. You can wash it yourself. Just wash it casually. After tomorrow, go back to the capital and find a girl to help you wash.” She didn’t know what was the difference between men and women, but Gu Jun’an did.

Lan Qingqian pouted unhappily. Gu Jun’an ignored her and waited at the door.

After a long time, the sound of water splashing came from inside. Gu Jun’an frowned. She was playing with the water?

He warned her coldly, “Quickly wash it. Don’t play with the water.”

The obedient voice came, “Oh!”

When Gu Jun’an was impatient, Lan Qingqian finally came out.

He told her to lie on the bed, then Gu Jun’an changed the hot water to wash her hair.

The strength was a bit stiff and big. It was uncomfortable to pull her hair. The little girl pouted unhappily, “You are so clumsy! You hurt my hair!”

“Shut up!” Gu Jun’an said coldly, but the strength in his hand slowed down a lot.

He had never washed the hair of a weak little girl in his sixteen years. He had to wash it for half a day before he found a handkerchief to wrap her hair and then he was busy pouring the water that she was washing.

Gu Jun’an felt even more tired than fighting.

When she came in, the girl was still holding her legs and waiting for him to wipe her hair.

“Don’t you know how to do it yourself? You don’t have hands?”

Lan Qingqian said confidently, “No!”

“If you don’t know how to do it, then learn!”

“Then learn!”

“Then learn!” “Then learn!” “Then learn!”

Lan Qingqian felt relieved and said, “Phew, it’s finally done.” It seemed like she was the one who was suffering.

However, when she saw Gu Jun’an’s dark face, Lan Qingqian immediately squeezed out a sweet smile and said, “Old Prince Consort, practice more. You’ll definitely be able to do it!”

“That’s called ‘Proficiency’!” Gu Jun’an felt like her books had all been read by dogs.

She learned what she should learn and learned what she shouldn’t. She learned a bunch of things that she shouldn’t.

“Oh!”

Lan Qingqian changed her clothes early in the morning the next day. When Gu Jun’an brought her to the top of the mountain, it was still early and the moon had just risen.

“Old Prince Consort, why don’t you bring a cage when you catch the crickets? And why do you need San Qi and the others to guard the bottom of the mountain? Isn’t it better to let San Qi catch them?”

“We’re not here to catch crickets!”

“Then why are we here? Can we catch pheasants at night?” She thought they were here to hunt pheasants, but the pheasants had all gone to sleep.

Gu Jun’an didn’t answer her directly. He pointed at the moon and said, “Watch the moon!”

Lan Qingqian sat beside him and looked down at the distant mountains and rivers of the West Province.

She hummed a little tune:

The moon is round, the stars are bright, the birds are busy making bridges.

The night breeze blew past, the river rippled, and the bamboo shoots and green plum trees were on the bed.

The little girl sat on the boat at 7 PM on the seventh day of the seventh month.

Gu Jun’an couldn’t hear what she was singing. She could only hear the melody.

“Who taught you to sing?”

“It was an auntie in the palace. She said that when the moon heard me sing, it would help me fulfill my wish.”

The two of them were talking. Lan Qingqian sighed, “I’m starving from singing. It feels like drinking a sip of the moon and eating a star!”

Gu Jun’an said coldly, “Why don’t you go and eat the sun?”

“It burns my mouth!” Lan Qingqian had her own strange reason. “The moon is round and big. It must be juicy like an orange and it looks good. It must be sweet. The star is like a little pastry. It must be fragrant. The sun is so hot. It must be hot and spicy. How can I eat when my mouth burns?”

Sure enough, food was the only thing in the eyes of foodies. It was reasonable.

Gu Jun’an took out a small bag and threw it on her leg. “If I don’t feed you enough, you can go out and eat people!”

Lan Qingqian opened the bag. There was beef brine, chestnut jam, and pastries.

Lan Qingqian was excited, “I finally believe that you’re here to watch the moon. Otherwise, why would you bring so much food?”

Gu Jun’an just watched her eat with her head down.

The moonlight was getting darker and darker. Lan Qingqian was getting drowsy and her head was falling down bit by bit.

Gu Jun’an reached out and wrapped her up tightly, letting her sleep against him.

After an unknown amount of time, he heard a voice.

Gu Jun’an turned around and saw a skinny man standing next to San San. He was dressed in black and had a half mask on his face. The mask seemed to be the tail of a phoenix.

Seeing the little figure in his arms, Lan Licheng was excited. He walked over and patted the little girl who was still asleep.

“Little Jiu, Little Jiu?”

Lan Qingqian was still dreaming. The house was lined up with chicken, duck, fish, and chicken wings, and they were all being sent into her mouth. It was a joyous occasion.

She opened her eyes in a daze and saw the familiar phoenix tail mask. Her body trembled slightly and she cried out in surprise and fear, “Ah Che?”

She reached out to take off Lan Licheng’s mask.

Seeing the familiar face, Lan Qingqian didn’t go over, but she was instantly teary.

Lan Licheng lifted her up and stood in front of her. Lan Qingqian took a few steps back.

“Don’t come over, liar! You’re a coward!”

“Don’t you want to hug me, Little Jiu?”

“What are you calling Little Jiu? You’re rude. You should call me aunt!”