frightfiction Chapter 1280 Is there still a place for him?
Chapter 1280 Is there still a place for him?
Upon realizing this, Yang Qian immediately asked Chunyu, who was standing next to him, "Chunyu, have the Wenren family members arrived? Is Vice Minister Wenren present?"
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Minister Wenren and his wife have arrived at the front courtyard. The Vice Minister is on the register, but he has not yet entered the mansion."
"What? He didn't come? Send someone to find out where he is!"
"Yes, my lord, I will arrange for someone to investigate."
Meanwhile, Wenren Qichi, who was being thought of, was sitting by a fire, holding a wooden stick and roasting a rabbit over the fire.
Feng Qi swallowed hard, smelling the aroma of meat, while Cheng Rong stared intently at the rabbit on the stick.
"Don't stare at me like that. If you want to eat, go roast them yourselves." Wenren Shilang pointed to the two unprocessed rabbit carcasses over there.
Feng Qi snorted when she heard his words, glanced at the bloody rabbit, frowned, and looked at Cheng Rong beside her.
"Cheng Rong, you should be able to handle this, right?"
"No, it's too dirty. I always carry dry food with me when I go out, or I follow Cheng Shi around." Cheng Rong silently took out a dry biscuit from her pocket, took a bite, and said.
Even though I'm not hungry, the smell of meat makes me want to eat! This person is so cunning, tempting them like this. They would never betray their young master and mistress for a bite to eat! Humph!
"Young Master Qi, weren't you always traveling around? Haven't you learned how to take care of yourself yet?" Cheng Rong asked Feng Qi angrily, taking a bite of her dry biscuit.
Feng Qi, sensing Cheng Rong's anger, awkwardly said, "With Xingyi and the others following me, I don't need to lift a finger."
The key issue is that he doesn't know how to handle such bloody things, but he felt so hungry! He hadn't felt anything when he was facing life and death, but now that he was rescued and relaxed, he felt so hungry, so very hungry.
"Here, take this half of the pancake! I usually only carry enough pancakes for two days. I think it will take time for them to rescue us from such a high mountain. Have this to tide you over." Cheng Rong said, breaking the pancake in half for Feng Qi.
Feng Qi immediately accepted it without hesitation. As soon as she took a bite, she smelled the aroma of meat.
Wenren Qichi had already broken off the roasted rabbit leg, and the meat tasted even better.
"Minister Wenren, go out to eat. Don't try to entice us here," Feng Qi said angrily.
"Young Master Qi, don't you feel any remorse saying that? I saved your life, otherwise you wouldn't be sitting here eating pancakes."
After Wenren Qichi finished speaking, he took a bite out of the rabbit leg. Feng Qi, watching this, felt a burning urge and angrily took a bite out of her own pancake. This person was too hateful, simply...
Wenren Qichi looked at Feng Qi, whose cheeks were puffed up with anger, smiled, and tore off the other rabbit leg, handing it to him.
"Give!"
He broke the rabbit in half and handed it to Cheng Rong, who had been watching with a sidelong glance.
"Cheng Rong is for you."
"Thank you, Young Master Wenren, you're so kind!" Cheng Rong immediately smiled and accepted the rabbit meat, putting away the pancake in her hand. She took a bite and her eyes lit up.
"Wow...so delicious..." It was so fast that Wenren Qichi barely had a chance to back out.
But Feng Qi resisted the urge to take it, and Wenren Qichi raised his arm and chuckled, "Young Master Qi, aren't you going to eat?"
“Minister Wenren, let me tell you, even if you give it to me, I won’t say a good word for you if you want to enter Sister Yue’s harem. In fact, I won’t say a good word for you when the other brothers are putting you down.”
Upon hearing Feng Qi's words, Wenren Qichi laughed and stuffed the rabbit leg directly into Feng Qi's mouth.
"Mmm...you..." Feng Qi took a bite of the rabbit leg as she took it off, and said almost without hesitation, "It's so delicious!"
After that, Feng Qi and Cheng Rong stopped talking and looking at anything and started eating heartily.
Wenren Qichi watched the two men's actions, a slight smile playing on his lips. He finished the rabbit leg in his hand, then went to where the rabbit carcasses had been and dealt with the other two smaller ones as well.
After the two finished eating, they were still staring at the rabbit that Wenren Qichi was roasting, not wanting to stop.
"Young Master Wenren, your cooking skills are quite good, even better than Cheng Shi's."
"It's alright. I used to travel around a lot, and after spending a lot of time away from home, I found that the dry rations I brought weren't very tasty, so I learned to hunt small game and roast them myself."
“You have a real talent for cooking. If Cheng Shi ever gets to eat your roasted rabbit, he’ll probably be chasing after you, waiting to see how well you cook and what ingredients you use,” Cheng Rong said with a smile.
"Then have him come to me later, and I'll teach him myself."
"Great! If I learn how to cook, I can eat it again when I go out in the future," Cheng Rong said with a smile.
Wenren Qichi looked at Cheng Rong, who agreed without hesitation, and said with a smile, "Cheng Rong, I really want to enter Lady Su's harem. Your young master and your brother are both the Lady's husbands. You and Cheng Yao will have to have more contact with me. Aren't you afraid they will misunderstand?"
"What misunderstanding? The number of people in the Queen's harem has nothing to do with me. Whether the young master and Chengyan can keep the Queen's heart is their ability. Besides, the Queen will not dislike or neglect them just because of you."
"Cheng Rong, you know Sister Yue so well."
“Once you get to know Lady Su, you can easily guess her personality. She’s not scheming at all, and she’s good to her husband. The fact that the young master and Cheng Yan are both so infatuated proves that Lady Su’s character is top-notch,” Cheng Rong said with a smile.
"Sister Yue has a good character, otherwise how could she attract so many suitors!" Feng Qi said sourly.
He is still two years away from coming of age, and Sister Yue has never explicitly said that she wants to marry him. Now that a new brother is coming into the family, is there still a place for him?
Waaah... It makes me so sad, even the rabbit leg doesn't taste good anymore.
Cheng Rong glanced at Feng Qi, who had suddenly become dejected, and then looked at Wenren Qichi, who was now trying hard to marry into the family.
“Young Master Wenren, but I don’t think you have much of a chance of entering the Empress’s harem.”
Upon hearing Cheng Rong's words, Wenren Qichi snapped out of his reverie and said firmly, "The chances are slim, but there is still a chance. Even a virtuous woman can be won over by persistent suitors, as the saying goes since ancient times."
"Since you gave me a rabbit leg, I'll tell you something. The Queen doesn't want to marry. She feels she already has enough husbands. If she marries too many, she'll feel guilty towards the husbands in the back courtyard. She can't get over that mental hurdle. If Young Master Wenren can break that hurdle, it will be easy for her to enter the family."
"There is another path, the one my brother Chengyan took: spending time together and falling in love, everything becomes easier."
Wenren Qichi fell silent again after hearing this, while Feng Qi looked intently at Cheng Rong.
"Cheng Rong, you... know Sister Yue so well, could it be... could it be that you've also fallen for her?"
Hearing Feng Qi's exclamation, Cheng Rong reached out and patted him.