CH 101

Zhao Zhi also felt bad inside, he held both of her hands, “If you really want to gift her something as a token of your sincerity, just pick something from my treasury.”

Ming Zhu immediately responded, “No need.”

Zhao Xin’s face did not look good, “She has always wanted the precious blue coral stored in my treasury, you bring it to her on the day we go to the palace.”

Zhao Xin had been tiresomely begging and pestering him for it for a long time, Zhao Zhi was usually generous, but he had always been unwilling to give her this precious blue coral.

Ming Zhu didn’t have any thought: “Oh.”

Chapter 101

(36.2)

A spring rain had been falling down for a while and it finally cleared up two days before the summer solstice.

During spring days, one occasionally still needed to wear cotton-paded clothes, but now it was no longer necessary, wearing thin and light clothes was just right, it wasn’t cold nor hot.

After the rain, the flowers in the garden also started to blossom. The sun was shining this day, the peach blossoms were now completely open.

These days, Ming Zhu was no longer idle, Zhao Zhi would give her assignments to do everyday, forcing her to study highly philosophical and literate books and not letting her go to bed until she had written down five times sections of the texts.

Seeing those complex and difficult to understand sentences, Ming Zhu would get a headache. There were also those few rare and complex words, which she couldn’t even pronounce, let alone understand their intricate meaning.

That day, she had a sore neck and her eyes were painful after copying a section twice. It was still early in the day, so it wouldn’t be too late to continue copying in the afternoon. Thus, Ming Zhu took the scissors and went to the garden.

The pear and peach flowers had all blossomed, Ming Zhu cut a few peach branches and put them in a vase to decorate the room, making it more spring-like. The peach blossoms were densely fragrant, with the branches soaked in water, the flowers on the branches could last for a few more days.

Ming Zhu liked to arrange flowers and plants, after finishing arranging the vase, she resumed embroidering her handkerchief.

Biying looked out of the window at the gradually declining sun and kindly reminded her, “Miss, you still have to copy the section three times,  His Highness will check them when he returns.”

When Ming Zhu heard the word “copy”, her hands started to hurt. Did Zhao Zhi understand or not, that even if she copied books a hundred times, she still wouldn’t become a talented girl ?

Ming Zhu said, “How about you copy in my stead ?”

“That won’t work, His Highness recognizes your handwriting.”

“I haven’t taken my afternoon nap today.”

“How about finishing writing and then sleeping?”

Ming Zhu had no other way, “Okay.”

Zhao Zhi let her use the study, when Ming Zhu was feeling annoyed in her heart, she would go through his drawer, and rummage through the paperwork and the pile of folders, her hands wouldn’t listen to her brain’s instructions, and she couldn’t help but feel like squeezing the documents, yet she also didn’t dare to use too much force, afraid that if she left wrinkles on the documents, he would find out.

She also didn’t know how long she could along with him, but there had to be an end to these days. As long as she was still alive, Zhao Zhi wouldn’t let go of her. She would be brandred as his belonging and even if she died, she could only die in front of him.

Ming Zhu didn’t read those fairytales books for nothing, she got inspired by those short stories. When the time comes, she would lit a fire and burn down her courtyard.

The only thing she would leave to him would be her bone ashes.

Ming Zhu closed the drawer and laid on his desk as she continued to copy the section, one stroke at a time, writing very carefully. Perhaps she had no talent in this area, but even as she seriously  copied the words, the esthetic result wasn’t the one intended.

The daylight slipped in from the window, shining on the side of the young girl’s shoulders. Being under the light, she began to doze off, her eyelids weren’t able to stay open.

The brush she was holding in her hand fell on the floor, totally unnoticed.

Ming Zhu fell asleep on the table, and when she opened her eyes, she discovered that it was already dark outside.

Naturally, she had yet to finish copying the section.

She put the paper and brush away, hiding them in a place that was hard to find. She thought that maybe Zhao Zhi wouldn’t even have the time to check her homework.

It was just Ming Zhu’s luck that as soon as Zhao Zhi came back, he asked where she was. He then walked straight towards the study.

Ming Zhu was different from usual, “Your Highness, do you want to eat first?”

Zhao Zhi found it both amusing and upsetting, the words “guilty conscience” were almost written on her face. Moreover, she usually wasn’t so enthusiastic towards him, “There’s no hurry.”

Ming Zhu was afraid that he would remember her homework, so she tried her best to change the subject, “Then would you like to eat some fruit first?”

She liked to eat melons and fruits, which Zhao Zhi rarely seemed to touch.”You eat it.”

Those melons and fruits of the season were originally what Zhao Zhi had specially ordered people to deliver to her, so why would he snatch these from her?

The corners of Zhao Zhi’s eyes carried a smile as he asked, “Have you finished practicing your words today?”

Ming Zhu hesitated, lying about this kind of thing could be immediately exposed, she could only make a vague statement: “More or less.”

Zhao Zhi then asked, “How much is more or less ?”

Ming Zhu had the urge to bite him so that he would stop this kind of interrogation.

But thinking was just thinking, and she still had to answer. She turned her face away from him and avoided his eyes, with a guilty look, “Not much, just half.”

“Continue writing after dinner, once you’re done, you can go to sleep.”

Ming Zhu secretly scolded him in her mind heart for being small-minded, couldn’t he be accommodating for one day? He was too petty.
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