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"How is it? What delicious food do we have today?"
"Braised Pork Ribs!" madam Tu said, presenting a large plate of ribs from the food box, making Liu Ruyan's mouth water.
"You don't need to look; that doesn't belong to you. This is yours!" Ke Dao said, pushing a bowl of yam porridge in front of Liu Ruyan.
"Yam porridge again?" Liu Ruyan's face fell. Since she entered the valley, her meals had been nothing but yam porridge or hawthorn porridge. She was used to feasting on meat with her parents, and while it was somewhat fresh for the first few days, after more than half a month, just the sight of porridge made her want to vomit.
madam Tu patted her head. "Hurry and eat while it's hot. Young Master Shao is doing this for your own good. It's rare for Young Master Shao to be so thoughtful, cooking porridge for you every day!"
"He cooked this porridge?"
Liu Ruyan was taken aback, staring at the bowl of yam porridge in front of her. Suddenly, she raised her head. "He wouldn't have put something in it to poison me, would he?"
Ke Dao took a big bite of rice and asked through a mouthful, "Miss Liu, where did that come from?"
"From the fact that he looks down on me!"
Liu Ruyan pouted in complaint. "You all get to eat good food, yet I only get this watery porridge! If you make a mistake, you might just lose some pay; if I make a mistake, I’m punished with hard labor. They actually expect me, a delicate girl, to fetch water and chop wood! If I don’t do it, I won’t even get any porridge to drink..."
"I have to defend Young Master Shao here," Ke Dao said while serving himself more rice. "Our Young Master Shao is not unreasonable; there must be a reason for how he treats you. Moreover, I heard that when he found out you were coming to Ling Tai Valley, he even sent Xueinn out to fetch you! He treasures Xueinn so much that he only takes it out for important matters. In all my years in the valley, I've never seen him send Xueinn out alone like that!"
"How did he know I was coming to Ling Tai Valley?"
"By carrier pigeon!" Ke Dao exclaimed in shock. "You didn't know? I saw Young Master receive a message from the pigeon and hurriedly take Xueinn to the valley entrance to meet you!"
Liu Ruyan suddenly felt something was off. Her mother had clearly said that she and her father had stolen things from Ling Tai Valley before, so they dared not come back casually.
How could there possibly be any connection with Ling Tai Valley?
Besides, Jun Shaoyan took pleasure in tormenting her; how could he be so kind as to send Xueinn to guide her?
"So you're saying that day in the bamboo forest wasn’t an accident but something he arranged on purpose?" Liu Ruyan's mind was in a whirl. Why did what she saw seem so different from what they were saying?
madam Tu smiled mysteriously: "This is just my and Dong Nan's guess. We don't know what Young Master Shao is thinking!" Liu Ruyan felt her eyelids jump. Could it be that the guy is really a person who is cold on the outside but warm on the inside? Then could it be that the very vivid dream she had that night was actually true? As soon as this thought came up, Liu Ruyan was frightened by herself, and her face suddenly became hot. She quickly picked up the chopsticks and stretched them to the plate of braised pork ribs on the table. "Hey, Miss Liu, Young Master Shao specifically instructed that you can't touch any of the dishes on the table!" Ke Dao said, and quickly moved the dishes on the table in front of him. "That's right, Young Master Shao said that your diet and daily life must be managed by him personally. If we dare to let you eat our dishes, he will tell us that we can't even eat white rice in the future! "What?" Liu Ruyan slammed the table and stood up. The slight good impression she had just had on Jun Shaoyan disappeared instantly, "Abuse! He is simply abusing me! Why should a patient like me have to eat such a nutritious meal three times a day? Where is he? I'll go and argue with him right now! "I'm here!" Jun Shaoyan's voice suddenly came from outside the door, startling the three people in the room. "Well, Young Master Shao, you guys take your time to talk, we'd better go out to eat!" Madam Tu winked at Ke Dao, and the two hurriedly ran away with their bowls, fearing that if they ran a step slower, Jun Shaoyan would come after them. Although Liu Ruyan shouted louder than anyone else, for some reason, she became half a head shorter when she saw Jun Shaoyan. "Here, I'm warning you! Don't mess around! It's broad daylight, even if there's no one watching, I will shout too!" She said as she stepped back a few steps. Jun Shaoyan did not speak either, but stared at her with a pair of dark ink-colored eyes, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth: "Why are you so afraid of me? Didn't you just want to argue with me?" "That's right! Argument!!" Liu Ruyan swallowed hard and bluffed, "Why can madam Tu eat meat and fish every day, but I can only drink porridge? "You have a heart disease. During the acupuncture treatment, you must not eat those greasy foods!"
"That's ridiculous! You haven't even treated me, how would you know I have a heart condition? Besides, do you really think you would be so kind as to help me? Do you take me for a three-year-old?"
Liu Ruyan said, lifting her chin, but accidentally bumped into his slowly approaching face, causing her to quickly retract her neck in surprise.
Jun Shaoyan firmly grasped her chin, frowning. "It seems that when you see your mother next time, you should really ask her if you're actually her biological child!"
"What do you mean by that?"
"Nothing much. Your mother stole something very important from our Ling Tai Valley years ago, and just a few days ago, they caught it when my father went out to visit friends. So now they've taken you as a hostage in our Ling Tai Valley again!"
As he spoke, he suddenly smiled slightly. "Of course, as a condition for returning the treasure, I still need to treat your illness. By the way, it's time for your acupuncture again today. Considering how poorly you slept last time with the Soul Calming Incense—drooling and talking in your sleep—I decided to make things easier this time!"
He stepped forward swiftly and grabbed her shoulders, raising his left hand to gently remove the jade hairpin from her hair.
Liu Ruyan shivered all over. "You..."
"Shh!" He said, revealing a long silver needle in his hand that seemed to appear out of nowhere. "It won't hurt!"
"Oh, I forgot to remind you..." He breathed softly, his fingers gliding over her scalp like they were charged with electricity. "Remember to return the book you stole from me last time after you're done reading it!"
Liu Ruyan opened her mouth but couldn't close it for a long while, feeling that tingling sensation on her head return. It was as if she could hear the sizzling sound of her own face cooking like meat on a grill.
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