"No Wedding Unless Enemies and Lovers" 《不是冤家不拜堂》Chapter 113

He saw Ji Ling Xue riding a hundred metres away on the horse, she turned her head to give him a smile, "Prince, it's fine sunny weather today, the sun shines brightly, the air is fresh and crisp, is very suitable for plucking and appreciating flowers, I wont' disturb prince's mood to pick flowers." Finished speaking she rode off with the dust, leaving Xiao Yi Chen standing in the wind holding the flower in a mess.

Xiao Yi Chen: Ji Ling Xue, are you taking revenge?

An Ge hiding shrank his neck, you can offend anyone but women in the world, see what happened to the prince, really pitiful.

Xiao Yi Chen raised his head to the sky, throwing the flower behind him, calling for his own secret guard: "Go find a horse for this prince!"

Let's see how he'll deal with Ji Ling Xue when he returns, reviving the husband principle.

The secret guard replied quickly and disappeared, Xiao Yi Chen waited on the spot, quarter of an hour passed, two hours passed, four hours passed, the secret guard still didn't return.

Xiao Yi Chen's secret guard said in pain: Prince, it's not because this subordinate is slow, I was plotted against by the princess's secret guard, I'm still hanging in a tree...

The next day, Xiao Yi Chen returned covered in morning dew, yesterday when his secret guard didn't return, he knew something had happened, he spent some time finding the secret guard, in the end he used his light martial arts to toll away for hours to come back.

Xiao Yi Chen returned to his own room to freshen up and bathe in a rage, in a flash it was dawn, Ji Yu Qing and Zi Su had already been standing at the door for some time.

No one was permitted to enter Xiao Yi Chen's bedroom without his permission, even the princess wouldn't be able to, thus Ji Yu Qing and Zi Su stood holding birthday presents outside the door early in the morning, to give Xiao Yi Chen a surprise.

Xiao Yi Chen actually fell asleep leaning in the cask bathtub, if the water hadn't turned cold he wouldn't have woken, he would have most likely slept longer.

Getting out of the bathtub he wore a snowy white gown, he opened his room door and was stunned, "Zi Su, Qing Er, how long have you been standing here?"

Ji Yu Qing smiled shaking her head: "Prince, this concubine was afraid of disturbing prince's sleep, so I stood outside for a little bit, this is the birthday present this concubine prepared for prince, prince happy birthday!"

Xiao Yi Chen depressed mood dissipated a little, he was angered by Ji Ling Xue so much that he almost lost a year of his life. He nearly forgot about his birthday today.

Zi Su hurriedly knelt down in greetings, she was a concubine, not much different from a servant, she still had to give her old servant's greeting, "Servant greets the prince, prince this is the clothes this servant personally made, wishing prince a happy birthday, may your wishes come true."

Xiao Yi Chen nodded, waving his hand: "Come in, help this prince change."

All along, Xiao Yi Chen never allowed anyone to help him change clothes, today he made an exception. 

Wearing the clothes and shoes, Xiao Yi Chen spun around on the spot, praising: "Zi Su's embroidery skills are getting better and better, from now on all of this prince's clothes will be made by you..." He paused, he took Ji Yu Qing's hand, "Qing Er, your boots fit me perfectly, this prince likes, let's go, have breakfast with this prince."

Xiao Yi Chen took Zi Su and Ji Yu Qing, a woman on each arm, to the reception pavilion, the table at the pavilion was completely empty, there wasn't a single item of breakfast on it.

JI Yu Qing quickly berated the maid watching over the pavilion, "What are you doing, where is prince's breakfast, why isn't it ready?"

The two maids fell to their kneels together, begging for forgiveness: "Please forgive us prince, today this servant went to the kitchen to get breakfast, the chef in charge of prince's meals is resting today, I heard the princess is preparing it today, princess is currently in the kitchen..."

Hearing this, Xiao Yi Chen's anger diminished by half, Ji Ling Xue still had some conscious, she knew to use good food to coax him.

Xiao Yi Chen sat down, waving his hand, he got Zi Su and Ji Yu Qing to sit to his left and right, deliberately not leaving a place for Ji Ling Xue, he decided to punish Ji Ling Xue a little, let her understand if she doesn't please him, there were other women beside him who would do that.

In a blink of an eye, a quarter of an hour went by, the table was still empty as before, Xiao Yi Chen sent a maid to the kitchen to look, that maid was gone forever.

Again in another blink, an hour went by, Ji Yu Qing held her rumbling stomach saying: "Prince, how come older sister hasn't finished preparing breakfast, it's already been so long."

Xiao Yi Chen's patience was also at it's tethers, he stood up wanting to go criticise her heavily, the next moment Mo Xiang carried a huge peach of immortality over, it stunned everyone.

Ji Yu Qing blinked, "Heavens, I'm seeing this right, that is a peach of immortality!"

Zi Su said: "There's no wrong in giving a peach of immortality for a birthday."

Xiao Yi Chen's lips twitched, "Why does this prince feel like it's his seventieth birthday?"

The custom here was when it is the birthday of an elderly person, as a daughter she would give an immortality peach to their parent, to wish the elderly person a healthy and long, blessed life. In the olden days people felt an elderly person eating an immortality peach would make them younger and therefore live longer.

Why were peaches so significant when it came to birthdays? This was most likely related to the believe in peach trees and the folklore of Xi Wangmu the queen mother of the West, keeper of the peaches of immortality. <Classic of the deities and the extraordinary> records: There's a tree in the East, around fifty zhangs high, known of it's peaches. They were three feet wide, three feet in length, and was a delicacy which allowed people longevity. 

Mo Xiang watched Xiao Yi Chen's everchanging expression from afar, she shuddered, very worried that she and the peach would be taken outside for a beating...

Mo Xiang: Mistress, you can't push me in a pit!

Among this tense atmosphere, Ji Ling Xue who had disappeared for the morning came out, carrying a bowl of longevity noodles with a smiled, "Prince, happy birthday!"

Xiao Yi Chen's face was black at this moment, Ji Ling Xue was delivering the longevity noodles so she can explain why she gave him a peach? Was she telling him to turn old?

Pointing at the peach, Xiao Yi Chen said through gritted teeth: "You spent this entire morning making this for the prince?"

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Ji Ling Xue blinked: "Yes, I learned a new cake recipe, it came from Dayan, it's very tasty, prince you've tried the cake?"

Xiao Yi Chen sighed, telling himself not to be angry, hearing the word cake from Ji Ling Xue, his wasn't as angry.

Xiao Yi Chen said: "What cake?" This was clearly a peach.

Ji Ling Xue put down the bowl and chopsticks, she reached out sticking a finger into the peach, smearing the cream onto Xiao Yi Chen's cheek, smiling: "This is called cream, I studied it for a long time before I finally succeeded, sorry for making prince wait." As she spoke she laughed.

Xiao Yi Chen reached out a finger putting the cream smeared onto his cheek into his mouth to try, his anger completely vanished.

Xiao Yi Chen: considering this so called cake was tasty, this prince will forgive you for abandoning him yesterday.

JI Yu Qing blinked, seeing Xiao Yi Chen's face relax, he appeared to be enjoying it, her heart itched, she also wanted to give the peach a taste.

Xiao Yi Chen coughed once, "Why is everyone standing, sit down and eat together..."

Ji Ling Xue gave Mo Xiang a wink, she seemed to be saying: What do you think, this princess said the prince wouldn't be angry.

Mo Xiang: Princess, this servant truly broke out into cold sweat because of you.

The peach cake was placed on the table, Zi Su and Ji Yu Qing looked at each other in dismay.

JI Ling Xue passed a knife to Xiao Yi Chen: "Today is prince's birthday, this peach will be cut by prince."

Xiao Yi Chen took the knife and cut down, Ji Yu Qing felt coldness on her cheek, she raised her to rub at it,  fruit juice had splattered onto her face.

Xiao Yi Chen put the knife down, on each person's empty plate a piece of cream cake was placed, and the peach placed in the middle had disappeared, revealing a platter of fruit, apple slices, grapes and tangerines, arranged in a design.

Zi Su opened her mouth in surprise, Ji Yu Qing was jealous.

Xiao Yi Chen looked at Ji Ling Xue: "Princess's gift is extremely pleasing, this prince really like it."

Ji Yu Qing felt a sense of loss, she had thought her gift was the most considerate, soft winter boots, the belt was also made of the highest grade silk that she chose, but it still couldn't beat Ji Ling Xue's peach.

Ji Ling Xue pushed the longevity noodles towards Xiao Yi Chen: "Prince, this is the longevity noodles I specially made for you, the entire bowl is one strand, you cannot break it up."

Xiao Yi Chen laughed nodding, picking up the chopsticks he began eating, he was cursing in his mind: Why is this noodle so long...

After breakfast, Xiao Yi Chen took out three red envelopes as a reward, Ji Ling Xue took the biggest one.

Ji Yu Qing only took an ordinary thickness one, she walked beside Ji Ling Xue smiling: "Older sister is so witty, you can make such a special peach cake to gain prince's favour."

Ji Ling Xue smiled, "Younger sister's hands are more skilful than mine, the quality of material on prince's belt is out of the ordinary, I can tell a lot of thought was put into it."

The two women were complimenting each other, Xiao Yi Chen suddenly took off his boots: "This shoe...which is there something chafing my foot..."

Ji Yu Qing was alarmed, she turned to look at Xiao Yi Chen, seeing him stick his hand in the boot to search around, a moment later he took out a little paper doll.

Ji Yu Qing paled, quickly walking to Xiao Yi Chen's side taking the paper doll: "Trample on a despicable person, trample on the princess...prince, why is this piece of paper in the shoe I made, prince, you need to believe me, I didn't put that paper there...there must be someone who wants to frame me..."

Ji Yu Qing felt more aggrieved as she spoke, tears dripped down, she tugged on Xiao Yi Chen's sleeves pleading.

"Ji Yu Qing, why did you do this?" Xiao Yi Chen's expression wasn't good, he hated witchcraft actually being used on him. Ever since Ji Yu Qing stole his residence's layout plan, he disliked Ji Yu Qing more and more.

Xiao Yi Chen tugged his sleeve out of Ji Yu Qing's hands: "You've always been jealous of Xue Er, but why do you have to use such a method to curse her, she is your older sister, this prince's princess?"

"I didn't, prince..." Ji Yu Qing said tearfully.

Xiao Yi Chen ordered: "Someone come,  shut imperial concubine Qing in the ancestral hall to ponder over her mistakes, copy the Lessons for Women a hundred times, she can't come out before she's done!"

Ji Yu Qing turned to glare at Zi Su, did she set her up? Why didn't she notice this woman had such thoughts.

Ji Yu Qing was taken away, Zi Su shivered from Ji Yu Qing's glance just now.

Ji Ling Xue was watching from the side, not saying a word.

Xiao Yi Chen burned the paper doll in front of Ji Ling Xue, pulling on Ji Ling Xue's hand he said: "Xue Er, this prince won't let anyone bully you anymore."

JI Ling Xue smiled, looking very forgiving, "Prince calm down, it exists when you believe, I don't mind these things."

Xiao Yi Chen took Ji Ling Xue into his arms, "Xue Er, this prince will protect you!"