Chapter 456: Chapter 425, Heartwarming_1
“You really came?”
Xiao Yeyang looked at Daohua with surprise, wanting to get up and pull her to him, but as soon as he moved, he pulled at the wound on his back, causing his eyebrows to immediately knit together in pain.
Seeing this, Daohua quickly propped herself with her hands and deftly climbed up, rubbing her numb arm while saying, “Don’t move around, I just applied medicine to you. If you pull at it, the wound might open up again.”
At her words, Xiao Yeyang’s expression shifted, and with a bit of embarrassment, he tightened the clothes on his body, “You applied the medicine to me?”
Daohua continued to rub her arm, her tone laced with irritation, “I am the disciple of my master, a doctor with genuine lineage, what’s wrong with me applying medicine to you?” As she spoke, she shook her numb arm.
Xiao Yeyang asked, “What’s wrong with your arm?”
Daohua gave him a look, “What do you think!”
Xiao Yeyang, recalling the moment he had awakened with her tender arm in his hand, felt a warm current slide through his heart. He glanced at Daohua, his eyes gradually filling with a deep smile, “I thought I was dreaming, I didn’t expect… it was really you.”
Daohua glanced at him, “I should thank you that in your dreams, you only used my hand as a pillow and not a chicken leg.”
Upon hearing this, Xiao Yeyang couldn’t help but laugh out, “Had I mistook it for a chicken leg, what would you have done?”
Daohua glared, “I would have pinched you awake, of course!”
Seeing her pretending to be fierce, Xiao Yeyang pressed his lips together in a smile and glanced out of the window, “What time is it now?”
Daohua took out the pocket watch hanging around her neck and looked at it, “It’s the second quarter of the hour of Wei (1:30 pm), I didn’t realize it was past noon already. No wonder I’m feeling a bit hungry.”
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Xiao Yeyang lifted the quilt, intending to get out of bed.
Daohua quickly stopped him, “You are injured, you should stay in bed.”
Xiao Yeyang shook his head, “Aren’t you hungry? I’ll take you to eat.”
Daohua replied, “They can just bring the food directly here, there’s no need for you to get up.” Saying that, she turned to open the door.
“Defu!”
“Manman!”
Daohua stood at the doorway calling out a few times, but no one responded.
“Where did Defu and Manman run off to?”
Daohua muttered to herself as she went back into the room, where she saw Xiao Yeyang struggling to get dressed. She quickly walked over and took the robe from his hands.
“Didn’t I tell you not to move around carelessly, to be careful not to pull at the wound? It’s winter now, and wounds are not easy to heal. With your injury being so severe, if it keeps opening up, it’ll be even harder to heal.”
“I’ve always warned you to be careful, not to think you’re safe just because you have enough people with you. Just as I expected, you got hurt. And after getting hurt, instead of properly recuperating, you want to go out and overexert yourself, making yourself get a fever. Are you satisfied now? You’re grown up, yet you still make others worry about you so much.”
As Daohua helped Xiao Yeyang get dressed, she scolded him.
Xiao Yeyang stood there quietly, letting Daohua dress him and lecture him. His gaze followed her constantly, his face always holding a gentle smile.
Looking at the ceaselessly chattering Daohua, Xiao Yeyang felt a deep affinity with her. Though it was now the cold winter, his heart was warm and cozy.
“How about we always stay like this?”
Just as Daohua had finished slipping on his sleeves, she heard this sudden remark, somewhat puzzled, she raised her head to look at Xiao Yeyang, “What did you say?”
Xiao Yeyang looked down at Daohua, who was a head shorter than him. Because of her height, he could see all her expressions clearly. He didn’t want to miss this rare closeness.
He studied her brows, eyes, nose, and lips closely, observing his own face clearly reflected in her bright, clear black eyes. He couldn’t resist reaching out to touch her cheek.
The sudden gesture from Xiao Yeyang stunned Daohua, who forgot to react and just stared at him.
“Oh my, the door’s open. The young lady must be awake.”
Wang Manman and Defu walked briskly into the house, only to see Xiao Yeyang and Daohua gazing intently into each other’s eyes.
Hearing the noise, Daohua blinked and snapped out of her daze. She quickly stepped back a few paces, distancing herself from Xiao Yeyang, and looked at Wang Manman somewhat uncomfortably, “Where did you two go just now?”
Wang Manman was still immersed in the scene she had just witnessed and didn’t snap back to reality.
It was Defu who stepped forward with a smile and said, “This servant was worried that the master and Miss Yan would be hungry upon waking, so I took Miss Manman to the military camp’s kitchen to prepare some food to bring back.”
As he spoke, he placed the food box on the table. Seeing that Xiao Yeyang hadn’t fastened his robe yet, he quickly went over to help him with his clothing.
Turning away, Daohua tried to quickly dissolve the awkwardness from before and walked towards the food box, “What kind of food is there?”
Having regained her senses, Wang Manman hurriedly opened the food box and took out the meals inside, “Miss, the food in the camp is a bit rough. You might have to make do.”
Daohua looked at the food, a plate of cabbage stewed with pork, a dish of salted vegetables, a dish of soy sauce meat, a basin of radish soup, a few mixed flour flatbreads, and two bowls of coarse rice.
“Is this what you eat here?”
Defu, having finished helping Xiao Yeyang with his clothes, immediately laughed and said, “Miss Yan, this is actually quite good. The ordinary soldiers can only eat salted vegetables with flatbread, and they can only have cabbage stewed pork once every few days.”
Xiao Yeyang went to the basin to wash his hands, then squeezed a towel and handed it to Daohua, “Wipe your hands.”
Daohua took it, wiped her hands with the towel, then casually handed it back to Xiao Yeyang.
Xiao Yeyang received the towel with a smile, rinsed it again with water, wrung it out, and placed it on the basin rack before sitting down at the table. He picked up a piece of flatbread and offered it to Daohua, “Try this, I find it quite fragrant.”
Daohua took the flatbread, broke off a piece and put it in her mouth. After chewing a few times, she nodded, “It is fragrant, but it’s too big, I can’t finish it.”
The flatbread was bigger than her face.
Xiao Yeyang took the flatbread and directly broke it in half.
“I’ll take the smaller half.”
Daohua took the flatbread and served herself a bowl of radish soup to eat with it.
“This soy sauce meat is well-stewed, give it a try.”
Daohua nodded, then saw Xiao Yeyang about to pick out some greasy pork from the cabbage for her. She quickly said, “I don’t want the fatty meat, Xiao Yeyang, you eat yours, I’ll pick my own.”
Seeing that she wasn’t put off by the food, Xiao Yeyang smiled and didn’t continue. He bowed his head and began to eat heartily.
As Daohua broke the flatbread, she occasionally glanced at Xiao Yeyang who was gobbling down his food.
She was genuinely surprised that Xiao Yeyang could adapt to such simple, coarse food and even enjoy it.
For ordinary people, such meals would be considered quite good, but he was a member of the Imperial Family, accustomed to luxurious living and fine dining.
Somehow, Daohua felt a sourness in her heart.
Xiao Yeyang noticed Daohua examining him and looked at her with a teasing smile, “What do you think? My face isn’t too bad, right? How about I let you look at it every day, would that be okay?”
Daohua glared at him, “Your skin’s getting thicker.” Saying that, she withdrew her gaze and lowered her head to drink her radish soup.