Chapter 332: Telling Stories
Today there was an Earthquake.
Princess Huiyun moved into her biological son’s home.
She watched her biological son call his wife away.
Leaving her all alone.
She inexplicably felt a bit strange.
The charcoal brazier was lit in the room, and the temperature was comfortable.
She was preparing to wash up when a knock sounded at the door.
It was actually that little one, Mianmian.
She hadn’t gone to sleep yet.
Mianmian thought about how when she was at the Princess’s Mansion, Grandmother Princess always slept with her.
Since the Princess had come to her home, she might not be used to it, so even though she had already laid down, she heard the commotion and ran over.
She prepared to sacrifice herself to sleep with Grandmother Princess.
Princess Huiyun looked at the little girl dressed all in white, wearing a fluffy hat on her head and snow-white socks on her feet, looking as soft as a cloud, so cute that it made one’s heart melt.
Princess Huiyun couldn’t help but hug the little girl and kiss her.
Mianmian reached out and wiped her left and right cheeks.
Even though it was the Princess kissing her, she still disliked the saliva.
“Grandmother, hurry and wash up. I’ll sleep with you. Mother doesn’t let me sleep too late; Mother says if I sleep too late, I won’t grow tall.”
As she spoke, she let out a little yawn.
Her little face was perhaps flushed from the heat.
Her eyes were half-open and half-closed as she lay on the bed waiting for her.
Princess Huiyun looked at the lump on the kang and felt warm inside.
She had originally thought she would feel uncomfortable.
As it turned out, the servants were very professional in helping her wash up.
The facial cream here actually smelled better than what she usually used, with a faint floral scent, and it felt very moisturizing. It was a white paste that, when applied to her face, made it feel tender and smooth.
When she put on her nightgown, a little head poked out from the lump on the bed.
“Princess, please get on the bed.” A soft, sweet voice filled with laughter rang out.
Every time the Princess heard her granddaughter call her Princess, she felt a bit unsettled.
But she also felt she was too cute.
She got on the bed and laid down.
Then she closed her eyes to sleep.
The little one asked, “Grandmother, can you have someone blow out the candles? I can’t sleep with the light on.”
Princess Huiyun looked at how she was dressed like a silkworm, wrapped from head to toe, and even wearing a white mask over her eyes, yet she still wouldn’t allow the candles to be lit?
She always had someone keeping watch while she slept, so naturally, it was kept lit.
But since the little one wouldn’t allow the candles to be lit, she had someone blow them out.
In the darkness, she felt a petite body leaning against her.
After adapting to the darkness.
Looking closely, it seemed she had taken off her eye mask; in the dark night, a pair of black, gem-like eyes were rolling around.
The little girl who had just been clingy and about to fall asleep was now awake once the candles were extinguished.
Leaning against Grandmother Princess, she started chatting.
Princess Huiyun:…
She would have been a bit afraid, but now she wasn’t afraid of the dark; she was just afraid that the little girl’s dark circles would be too obvious tomorrow.
“Grandmother, let me tell you a story.”
Princess Huiyun: “Don’t you want to sleep? Didn’t your Mother tell you to sleep early?”
“I’ll sleep after I finish telling it.”
“Grandmother, do you think the group name I came up with today sounds good?”
Princess Huiyun’s mind went through a string of names and finally settled on: “The Black-Hearted Cotton group?”
Jiang Mianmian:…This abbreviated name doesn’t seem very good.
Forget it, I’ll think of another one.
“Grandmother, let me tell you a story about the Jianghu; it’s very fun.”
“Mm, go ahead.”
Princess Huiyun, who hadn’t been close to anyone for decades, now had a fluffy little head leaning against her.
“Then I’ll tell you a Jianghu story from ‘Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils’.”
Princess Huiyun stroked the hat on the little head and said, “Alright, go ahead. Why do you wear a hat to sleep?”
“This way my hair won’t get pulled by the pillow, and I can lose less hair. I’m starting the story now, Grandmother, don’t interrupt.”
The dark night.
No candlelight.
The kang still had residual heat.
There was the sound of cold wind outside.
Beating against the doors and windows.
“…The young man surnamed Duan smiled and said, ‘I have the single name Yu, and I have never learned any martial arts…'”
A soft, sweet voice narrated slowly.
Princess Huiyun thought the little one would just babble nonsense.
After all, based on the time she had spent with the little one, she always said some strange things.
Like always calling her Princess, saying ‘Princess, please get in the carriage,’ and so on…
But then she suddenly started telling a story very seriously.
Really very serious.
It seemed like a very serious story.
This’several parts’ or whatever, isn’t that a Buddhist scripture?
Princess Huiyun listened intently and was instantly captivated.
Until the little one reached: “Duan Yu fell off a cliff…”
She asked, “And then what happened?”
Mianmian yawned and said, “Later, I’m sleepy and want to sleep. If I don’t sleep, Mother will beat me tomorrow. Grandmother, let me tell you, Mother is very strong, and it hurts a lot when she hits people. Although Mother won’t hit you, if Mother is unhappy, Father will be even unhappier. If Father is unhappy, I guess you won’t be happy either, so let’s sleep.”
Princess Huiyun:…Why did she have to listen to the story?
When it got to the exciting part, he fell off a cliff, and then what?
If this wasn’t her own granddaughter, the Princess would have forced someone to shake her awake to continue.
Before long, she heard the little one beside her fall asleep, emitting steady breathing sounds.
Princess Huiyun tossed and turned, unable to sleep, absolutely unable to sleep.
Whose child is this, so annoying.
Telling a story only halfway.
She touched the soft little one beside her. Forget it, forget it, I’ll listen tomorrow, sleep first.
Princess Huiyun struggled for a while, resigned herself, and went to sleep too.
She put on the same eye mask as the little one.
Although it was already dark everywhere, wearing the eye mask seemed to make it easier to sleep.
Slowly, she also fell into a dark dream.
In her dream, Princess Huiyun fell off a cliff several times…
After Qin Luoxia finished hosting Grandmother Princess and chatting for a long time, she was called back by her husband.
Sure enough, she was called to soak her feet together.
Sure enough, her husband massaged her feet.
Qin Luoxia was a bit embarrassed.
But her husband liked doing this, and she didn’t stop him.
The two fell asleep in each other’s arms.
They fell asleep quickly.
Just as dawn broke.
Jiang Changtian got up and went to the yamen.
Qin Luoxia also happened to want to go see the tunnel she had dug.
Actually, she had been thinking about it all day.
The last Earthquake had destroyed the basement she had made in Jingzhou.
Now that there was an Earthquake in the capital, she didn’t know if there would be any impact.
This time she had considered what to do in case of an Earthquake beforehand and had made it extra sturdy.
As a result, when she went to look in the morning, Qin Luoxia was a bit stunned.
She had thought it would be fine, but it turned out the tunnel she dug had become a water tunnel. She didn’t know where the water had gushed in from, or where it had cracked, or where the water connected to.
Thinking that Grandmother Princess had clothes for going into the water, she wondered how to get a set to go down and take a look.
In the morning, the Princess opened her eyes.
Her whole body was sore.
Last night she fell off the cliff eight hundred times in her dream.
She looked at the well-behaved little one lying beside her, and seeing her open her eyes, Princess Huiyun asked, “What happened after Duan Yu fell off the cliff?”
Jiang Mianmian turned over, facing her bottom toward Princess Huiyun, and said, “Grandmother, let’s sleep a little longer. It’s still early. Children need to take a nap to grow tall. Let’s talk after I wake up.”
Princess Huiyun:…!!!
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