The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 81 Pets
In the small courtyard, Xueli was lying on the couch in a daze, the cold wind whimpered outside the window, making her feel so lonely.

Hearing movement outside, she went to the door to see five eunuchs came aggressively, four of them belonged to the imperial court, and the other didn't know each other.

She didn't know what was going on, she was so frightened that she couldn't speak steadily after welcoming her out: "Several nobles..."

The leader was a little higher in rank, and swept her up and down: "Ma'am, it's cold outside, let's go in and talk."

Sydney's heart was pounding: I'm so scared, so scared!The most fearful thing is that these people are here to ask her how she thinks about her past, and she basically doesn't think about anything...

After entering the small hall, they lifted the small wooden box in their hands and put it on the ground.

The wooden box was about ten feet long and wide, and looked thick and heavy.Xueli was wondering why there were so many small holes around, and the eunuch who persuaded her to enter the house just now said: "This is a New Year gift from His Majesty to the lady, please open it, lady, if there is nothing wrong, we will go back and report to you. "

What the hell is this...

Sydney's uneasiness just now was gone, and her heart was filled with curiosity about this New Year's ceremony.Crouching down to look into the small hole, it was so dark that nothing could be seen, so he reached out and opened the box.

What caught her eyes startled her!
The thing inside was sleeping at first, but it was startled when the light came in suddenly, and it opened its eyes vigilantly, and looked around to see that there seemed to be no danger, and it looked lazy again.

The look of surprise and joy on Xue Li's face was too obvious, the four imperial servants looked at each other, gave each other a wink, and left without saying a word.

When she regained her senses and looked up again, there was the one she didn't recognize at all.

"This, this is..." She stared dumbfounded at the big brown hair ball in the box, and wanted to reach out to touch it but dared not.

The eunuch looked only fourteen or fifteen, stepped forward and smiled, "Don't be afraid, lady, it's not yet full moon, it's been with people since birth, very docile."

"Oh..." Xueli still didn't dare to stretch out her hand, and she was scared when she saw it holding it there, squinting her eyes, baring her teeth and flicking her tail.

—It is a lion after all!
After one person and one lion stared at each other for a while, the little lion woke up, yawned loudly, got up, walked to Xueli, stood up and put his paws on the edge of the box...

There are two words written in the pair of black tricks: who are you?
Sydney's heart is crisp.

Without hesitation or fear, I touched its ears. Its ears are round and its hair is a little prickly.After three or two strokes, I don't know whether it was comfortable to touch or what, the little lion raised his head and rubbed his head into her palm!
Ahhh are you a lion?Aren't lions very fierce?You are a bigger cat!

Sydney was no longer afraid of being rubbed by it, hugged her in her arms and coaxed her. In fact, she was "coaxed" by the little lion so badly that she forgot everything, and it took a long time even for a big living person to be pestered next to her. Only then did I react.

After she realized it, she was a little embarrassed: "Thank you. You can go back. I will thank His Majesty some other day."

But the eunuch smiled: "Miss, you can't keep this thing yourself. The little one belongs to the Beast Taming Division. Your Majesty personally ordered the little one to stay with the lady."

Sydney: "..." How can I give a lion and take someone else?

But since "His Majesty personally ordered", it is not something she can politely refuse.Hurry up and tidy up a place for him to live in, and the house that Yue Tingxian vacated will be given to him.

After settling down, she asked her name and age and chatted about other things. Sydney learned that the eunuch was Yang Mingquan, who was 15 years old this year. He had been in the Animal Taming Department since he entered the palace when he was eight years old. He had more dealings with animals than people.

Yang Mingquan said: "It's fine for the female officer to call me Xiaoquanzi. The grown-ups call me that, even the names and surnames seem to be separate."

Sydney didn't argue with him much about this matter, and after exchanging pleasantries, she took some broken silver to take away and gave him some snacks as a meeting gift.Dim sum is worthless to say, but look at Sydney, his eyes are brighter when he sees dim sum than silver!

That's right, eunuchs are different from their maids. The maids are all chosen by ordinary people, and they have to be released from the palace to marry when they reach the age. Said otherwise.

Therefore, the little eunuch who didn't get ahead suffered a lot, and he didn't see much profit in a month.

After thinking about it for a while, Xue Li asked him to rest first, and she quietly called Fugui over, and she said to Fugui, "The new Xiao Quanzi is three years older than you, but you need to take care of him— —Look, he is much thinner than you, and he may not eat as good as a 'beast' at the Beast Taming Division!"

Fugui agreed without saying a word, patted his chest and assured, "Sister Ruan, I am sure I am not ambiguous about what you confessed."

Then Fugui looked familiar to Yang Mingquan with a heavy burden on his face. Xueli breathed a sigh of relief, squatted down and smiled at the little lion lying at his feet, and spread her hands: "Come and hug!"

The little lion can understand...it's strange.

It was confused by her, looked up at her face, looked down at her hands, looked up at her face again, tilted its head and thought for a while, stretched out its paws and placed them in her palms.

Sydney said "so cute" in her heart, reached out and hugged it.After smelling it, it should be washed very frequently and smells good, so I put it on the couch with peace of mind, and played happily all afternoon!
The depression that had accumulated for a few days was swept away, and even the fact that he was thinking about it behind closed doors was thrown out of the blue. He just felt that this little lion couldn't get enough of it.When it is energetic, she chases it back and forth to tease it, and when it is sleepy, she hugs it to sleep, while scratching its stomach and counting the small black spots on its body that have not faded due to its young age.

The little lion stretched or turned over occasionally, looked up at the human who was hugging him and smirking, and continued to sleep.

When Su Zixian came back from duty, the little lion was having fun in the yard.

Zixian screamed in fright, and after a long while, tremblingly asked Xue Li: "You you you...you raised?"

"Your Majesty rewarded it." Xue Li took the cub into her arms and walked towards Su Zixian. Fortunately, Su Zixian was not timid, so she reached out to stroke its head after she calmed down.

The small courtyard was completely lively that night.

Xue Lizi, Xian Fugui, played around the lion together, and listened to Xiaoquanzi talk about all kinds of interesting stories about raising lions. When he said, "This is the cub born to your majesty's pair of clouds, three in a litter", Dousha was recuperating I couldn't help but come out.Recently, she had a low-grade fever due to that injury, and she didn't feel uncomfortable when she saw the lion. She rubbed and petted it very happily.

--What?Sydney was thinking about it, is it inappropriate for them to make too much trouble together?
Who still remembers!
When the little lion yawned again and felt drowsy, Xiao Quanzi got milk for it and put it in a basin for him to drink by himself.

Xue Li curiously pointed her finger a little closer to her nose and sniffed it: "Is it lion's milk?"

Xiao Quanzi couldn't help laughing: "This is goat's milk, sometimes cow's milk is also used, I heard it's more docile when fed this way."

Does eating the milk of docile animals make you more docile?It also seems to make sense.

The next day, the so-called "thinking about mistakes behind closed doors" meant that she slept with the little lion in her arms until the sun was up, and felt very hungry after waking up, because she was too tired from playing yesterday.

Xueli continued to enjoy herself, and Su Zixian, who was on duty, entered the Zichen Palace in fear.

Counting it, she met the emperor twice in total, the first time was the day of the New Year's Eve, and the second time was today—didn't the last time say that you should remember the thirty-three stick duty first, and beat it together if you make a mistake?All the way Zixian wondered what mistake she made again!
It happened to be the time when the courtiers who came to see the New Year in the morning left.It's already the seventh day of the lunar new year, and there are obviously fewer people. After you exit, please go to the side hall. It's noon, and the Shangshi Bureau has presented a meal order.

Zixian followed Xu Shishui through the crowd of courtiers, entered the inner hall, and saluted without daring to breathe.

"How is Sydney?" the emperor asked bluntly.

Zixian was taken aback, struggling with which answer to give...

She also knows that His Majesty has been protecting Sydney, so if she said it badly, she might be worried; but if she said, "It's been great and I had a lot of fun with the lion, don't worry, Your Majesty"...it seemed like she was looking for death.

Xueli thinks about her mistakes behind closed doors, it's better to say that she thinks about her mistakes behind closed doors, it seems that she knows that she is wrong, so it will be more in line with His Majesty's wishes!
So Zixian kowtowed: "I've been bored in the room for several days, I don't eat much, and I don't talk much."

The emperor shivered slightly: "Is it the same yesterday and today?"

"Hmm..." Su Zixian felt guilty, and held her breath again, "Yesterday it was the same. Today... I haven't seen her yet."

She deluded herself into thinking that at least the last sentence was true—she had been on duty early in the morning, and Sydney hadn't woken up yet!

Xie Zhao's heart sank to the point where he couldn't move.

He wanted Sydney to figure things out for herself, but he didn't want to bore her with it.

After a moment of silence in the hall, the emperor asked Su Zixian to retreat, and after a while of silence, he got up and went out: "Go and see Sydney."

Chen Jijiang hesitated, and persuaded: "Your Excellency will see you in the afternoon..."

"Don't miss the business." Xie Zhao said calmly.

Chen Jijiang saw it, well, His Majesty saved lunch again.

The emperor walked all the way in a hurry, and Chen Jijiang struggled to chase him, but before he reached the small courtyard, he heard laughter. Chen Jijiang said in his heart, "Your Majesty Su, are you deceiving the emperor?!" He looked relieved.

Xie Zhao slowly walked in with a smile, and the little lion was just being chased by Xue Li and ran towards this side, and was hugged by him.

"... Your Majesty's peace!" Xue Li bowed pale, and Xie Zhao walked towards the house with the little lion under his arm.

Stepping over the threshold, he turned to her and said, "Come in."

Xueli hurriedly got up from the ground and followed in. The little lion was held by him, looking at her pitifully. Xie Zhao frowned, and handed the lion into her arms: "Hold."

Xue Li hugged the cub, lowered her eyes, and looked obediently obediently.

Xie Zhao frowned after standing for a while: "You don't invite me to sit?"

Sydney continued to bow her head: "Your Majesty, sit down."

Xie Zhao glared at her, took a seat at the table next to him, and said to her, "Lion down, sit down."

She hurriedly put the little lion on the ground as she said, but she felt something was wrong when she was about to sit down, so she went to make tea and served it, and then went to sit down with a low eyebrow.

Xie Zhao drank tea with a straight face, and looked at her out of the corner of his eye: she really lost weight.

Frowning slightly, he calmly asked her, "Do you understand?"

"..." Xue Li was most afraid that he would ask this, her face tensed for a long time before she shook her head.

The layer she "wanted to understand" was thanked the other day, and that was definitely not what he wanted to hear.

The little lion squatted next to the emperor with its front paws propped up. Seeing the two of them talking and ignoring it, it felt a little disappointed, and threw itself on the emperor's feet to attract attention.

The emperor glanced at him, lifted his foot and turned it belly up, stepped on it lightly, and there were three words in his eyes: be honest.

The little lion struggled for a while to no avail, biting his mouth and having no teeth, Xie Zhao followed the little thing to make noise under his feet, drinking tea calmly: "Do you know that you are the master in this small courtyard?"

Sydney nodded: "I know." She still has this awareness.

This courtyard was given to her, and the others lived with her.Although it can't be called "master and servant", it can basically be distinguished as "master and guest", so she can make up her mind about anything.

Such as ordering meals every day.

Xie Zhao looked at her with a ignorant expression and smiled lightly: "You are the master here, you have the final say on the affairs of this yard, and you have the highest status here, if you don't get along well with anyone, you can Just let her go."

Xue Li agreed with him, then lowered her head and murmured: "I am sorry to say..."

With someone who has worked together for so long, how can she blow him out with her own mouth...

"You can tell Chen Jijiang if you can't save yourself, or come and tell me." Xie Zhao said slowly, and couldn't find the meaning of "speaking" in his gentle tone. Seeing her bowing her head in thought, she continued, "But You chose the most ugly way. Arguing with her face to face? It doesn't matter if Dou Sha is hurt or not, your face as the master has already been lost."

Sydney looked surprised, this was something she had never thought of.

Yue Tingxian didn't resent her "showing off" with "Imperial Catering Lady", but if she thought about it carefully, if she insisted on using this position to overwhelm her that day, to support herself, she would probably have to give in.

After all, this is a palace with strict hierarchy.

She was thinking thoughtfully, pondering over and over again, when suddenly there was another voice in her ear: "Stupid Lizi!"

"Huh?" Xueli responded without thinking, and blushed immediately after realizing it: Who is Dumb Lizi!
Seeing that she really agreed, Xie Zhao put on a funny face, ignored her resentment, took a sip of tea leisurely, glanced down and found that the cubs who had given up struggling were all dozing off under his feet.

"..." He picked it up and put it on the table, looking serious, he said again: "Listen."

Sydney sat upright and listened attentively.

"You can be tougher, hold your breath first, even if you accidentally make a fuss, I will take care of it for you."

He spoke calmly, but Xueli shuddered for a moment.

She looked at him a little bewilderedly, and suddenly felt that he was gently touching the little lion like this...

Inexplicably, she couldn't come back to her senses.

(End of this chapter)