Chapter 2685: Suffered a Loss

Xuexue: "Prince, a gentleman’s revenge can wait ten years, we don’t need to hurry."

Long Rui: "But I’m anxious, I can’t rest until I’ve finished him off. I feel like my wife got a bad deal."

Xuexue suddenly leaned in and whispered a few words in Long Rui’s ear.

"Good!"

No one knew what Xuexue said, but just a moment ago Long Rui was furious, and now he was laughing. Everyone wondered, what did the Princess Consort say to the Prince to make him so happy?

Afterward, Zi Xia helped Xuexue freshen up, and then, as usual, Long Rui and Xuexue went out after having breakfast.

"Miss, what did you say to the Prince? Why did he suddenly stop bothering Old Master Gu?" Zi Xia was very curious about this matter.

Xuexue lightly wiped the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief: "You want to know about the Prince and my secret too?"

Zi Xia remembered Long Yi’s words and blushed deeply, protesting teasingly, "Miss, you’re so bad!"

Xuexue glanced at her sidelong, with a half-smile, and said, "Is it your Miss or is it just that you’re too curious?"

Flap flap, Xiao Jiu flapped its wings and flew in, chirping loudly: "It’s Zi Xia who’s too curious, too curious."

"Tsk tsk tsk! Just one night, and you’re no longer calling her a tigress?"

Xuexue was very curious; Xiao Jiu was thrown out by Long Rui last night. It should’ve held a grudge against Zi Xia, who gave away its secret, but now it seemed to have made peace with her.

Xiao Jiu: "Kind to others, hehe...!"

Xuexue expressed disbelief: "You surely have something on you that Zi Xia caught hold of."

"Master, you’ve got the wrong mentality, too pessimistic. Why think of the bad, and not the good?" Xiao Jiu said from Xuexue’s shoulder, tilting its bird head.

Zi Xia agreed: "Exactly, Miss, we realized internal conflicts aren’t good, and it wouldn’t be good if one day it delays Miss’s matters."

Finally, she added with a bootlicking smile: "Miss, isn’t what I said right?"

Xuexue nodded: "It’s good that you have that awareness."

Zi Xia: "Miss, where are we going today?"

Xuexue: "Same as usual, shop inspection!"

Xiao Jiu tilted its bird head and asked: "Master, aren’t you bored inspecting the shops every day?"

At this, Zi Xia couldn’t help but laugh: "Xiao Jiu, asking Miss like this, aren’t you a fool?"

"Don’t think that just because I don’t call you a tigress, you can bully me. Am I a fool? Am I a fool?" Hearing Zi Xia call it a fool, Xiao Jiu immediately exploded.

Zi Xia raised her voice too: "Why the fierceness? No matter how fierce, you’re just a bird."

Xiao Jiu flapped its wings, brandishing claws, and cawed loudly: "Don’t bully the bird, I tell you, birds aren’t easy to bully either."

"Right, you’re hard to bully. Last night, don’t know who couldn’t even handle a spider web. I kindly saved it, and today it comes barking at me again." Zi Xia pouted, glanced sidelong at Xiao Jiu, and asked, "Smelly bird, was it you?"

Xiao Jiu suddenly deflated, its voice lowering: "Who told you to call me a fool?"

Zi Xia: "What’s wrong? Aren’t you convinced if I call you a fool? What does Miss usually like the most?"

"The Prince."

"Wrong."

"The shops!"

"A little bit right, guess again."

"Hmm...! Silver!"

"Correct, someone who loves silver so much like Miss, would she ever get bored inspecting shops every day?"

"No."

"Exactly, so weren’t you foolish just now?"

Oh, Xiao Jiu thought, she’s right. With a master who loves money so much, how could inspecting shops every day be boring? Of course not.