The Favored Concubine: The Doting Prince

"I thought you were going to sleep until dark?" Gu Fanqiu joked as soon as he went out.

"No, I didn't~" Fan Yue walked forward and naturally put her arm around Fan Qiu's arm, and the two beautiful figures walked towards the garden playfully.

"What do you want to talk to my sister about?"

"I want to ask my sister for someone."

"Ok?"

"Juanniang, you said that if I get married, I will miss home and have poor diet. I will be so pitiful. I just want to take Juanniang with me. My sister and brother-in-law are not as greedy as Yue'er, so they were not in a hurry at first, but I didn't expect that there is only a month left. So I hurried to find my sister so that she can ask the housekeeper to hire a new cook." Gu Fanyue squinted her eyes and laughed.

"Why recruit a new chef? Oh, there isn't even a chef for a newly built prince's mansion? I'm used to eating Juanniang's cooking." Gu Fanqiu's eyes were full of smiles as he teased Fanyue.

"Oh, dear sister~ I will lose weight if I don't eat well, don't you feel sorry for me?" Gu Fanyue acted coquettishly while grabbing Fan Qiu's green sleeves with her two little hands and shaking them back and forth. The whole set of movements seemed very natural.

At first, she couldn't accept the setting of having to act coquettishly anytime and anywhere, but later she found that this method was very effective. Wang Yueran worked hard to learn it for a while, and finally she no longer had a creepy fake smile on her face.

"Okay, I'll give it to you, you give it to you." Fan Qiu pinched Fan Yue's pink little face.

"You came for the crisp peaches, right?"

Fan Yue nodded, not trying to hide it. "Yes, I thought the little girl was cute, so I dragged her from the kitchen to my side. Now I have to drag her to the Prince's Mansion. The Prince's Mansion is not like the backyard of our palace where I can see her whenever I want."

Fan Qiu admired her little sister's kindness, "Since Cui Taojuan Niang belongs to you in the future, there are some things I still need to tell you."

The two sisters found a pavilion to sit down. The maid who was cleaning nearby served them tea and snacks. After the maid left, Fan Qiu continued, "Cui Tao is not Juanniang's biological maid. She was picked up by Juanniang."

Gu Fanyue originally thought that her sister would still say some old advice, such as "watch the peaches and don't let her do anything stupid again", but she didn't expect it to be such a big deal. She almost choked while drinking tea.

As far as Gu Fanyue knew, Juanniang doted on Cuitao very much. Even though she didn't have much money, she was like a hen protecting her chicks. No one in the palace except the master of the family could bully Cuitao. So even though Cuitao was just a little maid, she grew up to be a carefree person.

Gu Fanqiu tilted his head to make sure there was no one around before he spoke in detail.

It turned out that Juanniang was a poor woman. She was originally from the countryside. She got married and gave birth to a daughter, but the daughter fell ill. Her husband's family didn't pay any attention to her and didn't give her any money because she was a girl. Juanniang had no money, so the child eventually died of the illness. Juanniang was disheartened and wanted to divorce, but her husband actually divorced her.

Divorce is very different from divorce, so Juanniang thought that since she could no longer stay in the countryside, she might as well come to the city to earn some money to support herself.

Fan Yue listened carefully, without eating a single bite of the cake. The tea in her hand had gone cold.

Fan Qiu took her teacup and put it on the table and continued, "Juan Niang had just arrived in the city. She couldn't find a job for a while, and she didn't have money to stay in an inn at night, so she just found a straw shack. But she didn't expect to see a child sleeping inside when she entered. She waited for a long time but no adult came back, so she thought that God had given her another daughter, so she kept the child by her side."

Seeing that Fan Yue's little face was tense, Fan Qiu poured more hot tea for her sister. She didn't intend to explain it in detail to avoid making her little Fan Yue unhappy.

"But it's even harder to find a job with a child. Luckily, the housekeeper of our palace saw me and asked me about it. I felt sorry for her and decided to let her stay in the palace. Juanniang's cooking is delicious and easy to learn. I even paid for some new dishes and learned how to make them myself. It's very practical."

Gu Fanyue nodded, still frowning with pity, "But why didn't you look for Cuitao's biological parents?"

Fan Qiu shook his head, a sneer on his face, "According to Juanniang, the child was in a coma at the time. She thought the child was sick again and wanted to do everything she could to save him, so she consulted a doctor, who told her that the child was drugged. However, the child was too young and the drug was too strong, so he woke up later. So most likely the family didn't want him anymore, so they drugged him and threw him out, and he didn't get lost."

Fan Yue could feel Fan Qiu's anger when she looked at her, but she couldn't help pursing her lips and scratching her own hands with her nails. The one who was thrown out looked very much like her.

Fan Qiu turned her head and saw Fan Yue sitting next to her, looking very sad, with her eyes slightly red. Well, abandoning a child is too sad and infuriating, and she couldn't bear to think too much about her Yue'er.

"Cuitao is a filial girl. She always makes Juanniang happy. It is a blessing for her to be by your side. Telling you all this is also a way for you to know her inside and out."

"Well, I see."

On the way back to his own yard from the garden, Fan Yue kept thinking that this Cui Tao was such a cute little girl but sometimes she was really a little silly. It must be the sequelae of the drugs she took at that time, which damaged her brain. It was really pitiful. It was really hateful to use drugs on a child.

After returning to the yard, Fan Yue was still carefully recalling the evidence that Cui Tao had "injured his brain" in his life, when he saw Cui Tao coming back from outside.

"Slave, Cuitao is back from outside." I saw Cuitao with his right hand outside and his left hand inside, raising his hands to his chest, nodding his head and bending his knees.

"Okay, I understand." Fan Yue nodded.

After hearing this, Cuitao stood up straight immediately, a smile spread across his face, and he returned to his normal silly self.

The two sentences just now were just a formality. No matter if the personal servant was resting or going out to do business, he had to tell his master as soon as he left the palace gate, and he had to tell him when he came back. Other servants of lower rank had to tell the housekeeper.

Fanyue always felt that since there was no one else in the room, this rule could be waived, but Cuitao disagreed.

"Are you happy to go out today?" Fan Yue waved and let Cui Tao come closer.

"Yeah, happy." Cuitao smiled and nodded heavily.

Looking at the silly-smiling girl in front of him, Fan Yue's heart tightened. If Juanniang had not stayed in that shack and had chosen to splurge and stay in a hotel, would this girl...

Seeing Fan Yue looking at her with pity, Cui Tao asked tremblingly, "Miss, do you know everything?"

Got it? I learned quite a lot today, but Fan Yue didn't dare to say anything.

"Ok?"

"Yes, I met the Seventh Prince when I was buying gifts."

So this happened. Fan Yue really didn't know about it. Cui Tao was honest and told it very clearly and vividly, playing multiple roles and narrating the whole process.

Finally, he added, I didn't embarrass the lady.

Gu Fanyue was still Xin Yuanye's friend and would not get angry with a little girl, but the idea of ​​giving her gold was really unexpected.

"There is no gold left, so I used it to buy things for them." Cuitao admitted her mistake and lowered her head, her thick eyelashes trembling.

"Why buy things for them?" Cuitao is a little greedy, but she is diligent and definitely not the kind of kid who spends money recklessly. There must be a reason.

I didn't expect Fan Yue to ask this question. Cuitao obviously had no prepared answer. She looked up suddenly, her eyes wide open, like a frightened deer.

"Nothing~" Cuitao replied in a low voice.

"We have to go to Manxianglou tonight." Fan Yue didn't ask any more questions, but just drank tea and observed Cuitao's expression. Sure enough, Cuitao pouted and looked very aggrieved.

"It seems that Cuitao is hiding something from me and is no longer close to me." Fan Yue pretended to be very sad.

How could Crisp Peach resist the threats and inducements?

"They took my things, so they can't talk nonsense from now on," Crunchy Peach suddenly became a little serious.

"What?"

"It's just bullshit like, the young lady won't be happy if she marries a sickly man. From now on, I can only say auspicious words about the young lady!"

Looking at Cuitao's puffy little face, Fanyue smiled out loud, but there was mist in her eyes.

"But I owe the Seventh Prince money."

"It's okay. I'll pay him back when I have a chance."

This ingot of gold will make her little peach very worried.

"But, I owe it to you, why is Miss paying it back?"

"You call me Miss for nothing. I'll make the decision for you. Besides, our prince is rich."

Cuitao didn't seem to understand how the money became the prince's debt, but she still nodded hesitantly.

Fanyue pointed to the table where she usually dressed and said, "Go and get some silver from that small box." Fanqiu always gave Fanyue some pocket money, fearing that his sister needed something but was too embarrassed to ask for it, but Fanyue usually never had the chance to use it.

"You and Yinggui should be serving at Manxianglou today, so don't worry about the leftovers. Use this money to ask the waiter to buy some new food. Ask for roasted lamb chops, and your favorite steamed buns, dried shrimps, bamboo shoots, spicy rice cakes, etc. Take care of them. If you want something that you don't usually eat at home, we can bring it back for you to eat."

"Ah? Really, miss?" Cuitao was stunned for a moment, then she squinted her eyes and smiled, and ran to the box to get the money.

Gu Fanyue was generous to Xin Yuanye, but for Cuitao, it was a life-and-death experience, so he had to let her have a good meal so that she would forget about it.

"Miss, I'll order it when we're almost leaving so we can have something hot when we get back."

Fan Yue nodded in appreciation. When it came to eating, Crunchy Peach was very smart.