Farewell Flower Festival

After Eunuch Wu brought the last dish to the table, the New Year’s Eve dinner officially began.

Mu Tianling also changed into new clothes, looking more handsome and elegant than usual. He stole a glance at Yan and sighed in his heart that clothes make the man.

Chaoyan raised her glass first, and then Eunuch Wu also raised his glass. They both looked at Mu Tianling expectantly. After waiting for two seconds, he raised his glass. Chaoyan smiled and said, "Cheers~" and stretched out her hand to clink glasses. Eunuch Wu was a beat slower and didn't understand what "cheers" meant at first.

They had to clink glasses before drinking. Mu Tianling felt it was a bit strange, but he still held out his glass and clinked it with the two of them. After clinking glasses, he drank the wine. The taste seemed to be different from usual...

After putting down the wine glass, Chaoyan smiled and said, "Your Highness, please go first~" Eunuch Wu recommended the main dish of the night, roast goose, to Mu Tianling. Chaoyan's heart skipped a beat, "Uncle, you won't give Xiaobai to..." Eunuch Wu smiled and said, "Xiaobai is too old, the meat is not tender." Chaoyan didn't know how to complain in her heart, she felt that Uncle was a little unfathomable in many ways~

After eating, Chaoyan would sincerely praise Wu Gonggong's cooking skills for each dish. Wu Gonggong was also happy to hear that, and drank two more glasses of wine. He told Chaoyan about Mu Tianling's childhood embarrassment. One time, he refused to eat out of spite and starved himself to death. Another time, he refused to sleep out of spite and practiced calligraphy all night. As a result, he couldn't even hold chopsticks the next day. He refused to eat again out of spite. Wu Gonggong had no choice but to go to the kitchen to steam two steamed buns for him to hang around his neck.

Chaoyan almost spit out her food when she heard this. Mu Tianling glanced at her with a gloomy look. She buried her head in her food and saw him standing up and walking towards her. Chaoyan thought that he would not hit her on New Year's Day. She just smiled and it shouldn't happen. Mu Tianling stretched out a hand, and Chaoyan instinctively hugged her head. The next moment, he grabbed her arm and dragged her away.

Eunuch Wu looked at Chao Yan's back as she was dragged away by Mu Tianling, and a relieved smile appeared on his face.

There was a rumbling sound coming from the distance, and one firework after another bloomed in the night sky, shining with colorful and brilliant light, illuminating most of the night sky.

Chaoyan pointed at the fireworks in the distance excitedly and said, "Your Highness, look, the fireworks are being set off~" Mu Tianling looked at the fireworks rising into the sky in the distance with a dim eye. The depths of his pupils could not reflect any of the splendor of the fireworks. Instead, there was a deep disgust and indifference. He coldly said two words, "Boring." Turning and walking away, Chaoyan called him and chased after him to give him something. It was a red paper crane that she had folded herself. This was also her tradition during the New Year at home. She would fold a bright and festive red paper crane and give it to her family, with words of blessing written inside. It was a small amulet she gave to her family.

Mu Tianling looked at the red paper crane in her hand, a little confused, and didn't recognize what it was.

"This is a thousand paper cranes, which can bring good luck to people." Chao Yan showed a sincere smile on her face, "Your Highness, please accept it."

"The color is so bright, it's eye-catching." Mu Tianling said.

Chao Yan: "..." Just accept it if I give it to you. Why are you talking so much nonsense! "It's just for the sake of celebration. Your Highness, just accept it."

"Don't sleep in tomorrow." Mu Tianling took the paper crane from her hand and walked away. Chaoyan looked at his back with a relieved smile on her face, turned around to watch the fireworks, and made a wish to a firework that had just risen into the sky, hoping that Mu Tianling would smile more in the future.

When Chaoyan returned to the room, Eunuch Wu was cleaning up the dishes. He asked her if she was full. If not, he would go to the kitchen to cook her a bowl of noodles. Chaoyan said she was a little full, and came over to give Eunuch Wu a red paper crane, saying it was a talisman that could summon good luck. Eunuch Wu first wiped his hands with a handkerchief, then accepted the gift, asked Chaoyan to wait a moment, and said he also had a gift for her.

When Eunuch Wu went back to the room to get the gift, Chaoyan helped to continue cleaning up the dishes. When Eunuch Wu came back, the table had been cleaned up. Eunuch Wu gave the gift to Chaoyan and asked her to go back to the room to see if she liked it.

The gift was packed in a brocade box with exquisite patterns painted on it, and it looked not cheap.

Chaoyan couldn't help but wonder if her uncle had saved up a small treasury. She opened the brocade box, which contained two boxes of exquisite rouge. She admired the exquisite patterns carved on the box for a while, then opened one of the boxes. A light floral scent wafted out, which was very pleasant. Then she picked up a little and applied it on her face. It spread easily with a light touch. It was very delicate and smooth, and was perfect for moisturizing the skin in winter.

However, the rouge and powder she used on a daily basis were all good, with a fine texture. They were obviously top-quality products, and they were very light and breathable when applied on the face, and not greasy at all. The materials used were all pure natural herbs and animal collagen, which were better than the skin care products she used at home, and she was also very economical in using them.

When she first came, Eunuch Wu bought her two boxes of rouge and a box of powder. She has been using them until now, almost half a year. One box of rouge has been used up, and there is still half a box left in the other box, which can last for another month if she is frugal. There is still more than half a box of powder left. She only uses a little to cover scars on a daily basis, and her skin is fair, so she doesn't need powder to whiten it. She does use eyebrow pencil quite frequently.

At first she was not used to the eyebrow-drawing method here, and her technique was unfamiliar, so her eyebrows were crooked and ugly. After diligent practice, she gradually mastered the essence, and now she can draw a pair of beautiful eyebrows with ease. However, her original eyebrows were also beautiful, which was the latter of the "delicate eyebrows" often praised in books. They were very pleasing to the eye with a slight drawing. Her lips were also beautiful, but the lip color was a little pale, which was the "root cause" left by long-term malnutrition. However, it could be compensated by applying some lip balm.

Chaoyan looked at her face in the bronze mirror. Her skin, as white and delicate as a porcelain doll, had gradually returned, and her hair, as soft and smooth as silk, was almost restored... She admired herself in front of the mirror for a while, and suddenly remembered something very important. She immediately got up and left the room.

We have to stay up all night on New Year’s Eve. I almost forgot such an important thing.

Chaoyan first found Eunuch Wu, and then pulled him away while he was washing dishes in the kitchen. When the two came over, Mu Tianling was reading in the room. He glanced at Chaoyan and asked her what she was doing. Chaoyan smiled and said she was here to celebrate the New Year. Mu Tianling asked her to go back to her room to celebrate.

After a while, voices were heard in the room. Chao Yan and Eunuch Wu were gossiping while eating melon seeds. Mu Tianling frowned slightly and asked them to be quiet. After the two really stopped talking, he felt that the room seemed too quiet.

There was silence for less than half a minute. The two continued to gossip in low voices, and he did not speak again to ask them to be quiet.

By the fourth watch, Chao Yan couldn't stand it any longer. Her eyelids seemed to be fighting, opening and closing. Eunuch Wu brought a blanket and spread it on the couch, asking her to go to sleep for a while. She persisted for about a quarter of an hour, and finally couldn't stand it any longer and went to sleep. Before closing her eyes, she glanced at Mu Tianling and saw that he was still reading. She thought to herself, he can really endure.

The light in the room became a little dim, and Eunuch Wu took a pair of scissors to cut the wick shorter, and the room became brighter again.

Chaoyan was curled up in the quilt like a kitten. Mu Tianling glanced at her, then glanced again after a while. He saw her cheeks bulging and she was mumbling in her sleep, "Delicious... " He smiled a little, then immediately stopped smiling, as if nothing had happened.

However, it was still seen by Eunuch Wu. Eunuch Wu looked outside the door with a smile and said in his heart: Your Majesty, did you see that? The prince just smiled.

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