Jingzhe was keeping an eye on Mingzhu at the tea party which was now a wine and flower competition party. He could not begin to understand how the tea party had changed form after the Empress Mother arrived but it had done so.
Lunch had been ordered from the royal palace and it was delivered. Ladies had eaten and stayed around because etiquette did not allow them to leave before the Empress Mother left or called it a day.
His mother was interacting with the noble won, waiting for the Empress Mother to declare it cake ti. He was doing his best to stop Mingzhu from plucking leaves or flowers from the expensive orchids that the noble won had called their servants to bring over.
He knew all of i i’s history by heart. Mingzhu’s habit of destroying leaves, flowers and papers was just like i i’s childhood habit of doing the exact sa thing.
Jingzhe received a call from i i sharing her current location. He winced.
Sothing shattered.
Without raising his eyes, he just knew that either Mingzhu or one of the Empress Mother’s dogs had broken a flower pot.
It was both!
And the two criminals were looking up with wide eyes. The dog ran away, Mingzhu was left at the cri scene alone.
"Daddy...." Mingzhu’s lips trembled.
Jingzhe walked forward and squatted before her. He wiped the tears that were forming in her eyes. "No crying. You are going to apologize and compensate....." He looked at the na that was engraved into a large broken piece of porcelain that was once a flower pot. "Lady Jiang Shubin. You are going to compensate her with your own money, not mine or your mother’s."
Mingzhu nodded.
Jingzhe led her to the parlor were the ladies were gathered, told his mother what had happened and then she requested Lady Jiang Shubin to step aside for a word.
As it turned out, the orchid cost even less than the porcelain in which it lived. Overall, the compensation was five hundred forty thousand yuan.
"Will you touch the flowers again?" Jingzhe asked Mingzhu when it was all said and done.
She shook her head. The money which had been used for the paynt was supposed to contribute to her new float. Her small heart ached because of the loss.
"Let’s cut the cake." The Empress Mother announced.
Madam Feng sighed in relief.
Jingzhe picked up Mingzhu. It was almost ti to head ho and then he could rush and find his i i before so male model seduced her.
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When i i and Rize arrived, Manchu and Rose had already booked a karaoke room. The biggest and most expensive one. They were already going through a list of songs which they planned to sing.
A team of servers was placing down drinks, food and other easy snacks which would accompany the ladies as they had fun. There was not a single male model in sight.
"Aunt, where is the fashion show? I thought we would sit outside and watch the runway." i i tossed her bag down and sat down in a cushy white sofa that ward her butt imdiately.
Su Manchu pointed the the hologram circling above a long glass table on which the food and drinks were placed. "You can watch it on the hologram. You are just recovering from scandal, people don’t need to see you in the company of a male model."
"The peep star has eyes everywhere, rember?" Rose handed i i a glass of wine. "Tonight, we are just singing and eating."
"And complaining about your uncles sword toe nails." Rize held her hand up and a server handed her a glass.
The servers backed out of the room slowly to give the ladies complete privacy. A slow rendition of the song The moon represents my heart started to play.
"I am singing that one." Rose raised her hand quickly and eagerly.
"Sword toe nails." i i turned to her aunt. "What exactly are sword toe nails?"
Rize swirled her wine slowly, "His socks always seem to have holes. We buy new socks on a weekly basis. If his toe nails are not swords, I have no idea how to explain it."
"He is your husband, shouldn’t you know what his toe nails look like?" Rose asked her.
Su Manchu grabbed the microphone and started singing along to the very song which Rose had booked. Everyone turned to her and either laughed or rolled their eyes. Rose hurried to pause the song and stop her aunt from stealing the song which she was best at singing.
As they needlessly argued about it, i i started eating. "Just choose another song Rose." She suggested. "We can sing Bohemian Rhapsody. Wasn’t it your favorite song when you were fourteen? You stopped from singing it at your wedding. I worked hard to morize those lyrics."
"And she hired a choir to sing along with her." Rize shared.
"She was going to sing the song Little Apple while sitting on the back of our horse Little Apple." Rose spilled.
i i gasped. "You knew!"
She was sure that she had kept that secret ...well...a secret! Rose and Mingzhu seed to share secret agent DNA.
This mory brought up other old mories and they started talking about the past while eating and drinking. Between that, they sung a few songs loudly.
Rose and Manchu made peace and decided to sing their song together. Both won were smiling and heaving when they finished. It almost like they had run a marathon and not simply sung a song that did not need so much exertion.
Manchu was even sweating!!!
Out of the blue, Rize revealed that the forr Emperor had once been so drunk that he knighted a horse as the Imperial commander.
As they laughed, Manchu revealed that Jun Liping had been banned from two dating apps because they thought she was a con artist. Nobody could believe that a Jun needed an app to get a date.
The door was opened and Chi Lian walked in with a dog at her side. "I see you are all having fun without ." She comnted.
"I invited you and you said you had business to handle." Manchu reminded her.
Chi Lian grabbed a microphone and took a deep breath. It was ti to dazzle everyone with her singing prowess. anwhile, i i tried to coax Black Guard, the dog with a fatty piece of fried at.
It laid on the chair and ignored her.
She sighed and muttered. "Your grudge is deeper than an ocean old friend."
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