4.4 Letting Go in Reluctance (15)
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Standing by the large door is a man in white robes, holding a folded fan in his grasp while looking around the library pagoda. Dong Li Hua stepped up and went towards him. "Brother Li sent that palace maid?" she asked after arriving in front if Li Si.
"En." he nodded. "You forgot this earring." Li Si took out a handkerchief his sleeve pocket and opened it. A air of white jade lotus earring is resting there.
"Brother Li, thank you for the earring!" Dong Li Hua reached out of it. The pair of earrings came from Ying Zheng. There were priceless and if she lost them, she cant even use all her monthly salary as an exchange!
"Take care of it. Anyway, Little Plum suites the earrings. Wear it often." he faintly smiled.
By the open window, Ying Zheng and Xie Er were eavesdropping. The two teenagers are starting to consume vinegars.
"How is Xie Er as a guide? She's a pretty cute girl." Dong Li Hua sneered in her heart. She wanted to give Xie Er a brownie point from Li Si then tell it to the young girl. It might give Xie Er more motivation to stay beside Li Si.
"The younger personal maid? Well, she is indeed amusing. However, I don't know why that girl kept hiding her visage." Li Si's words made Xie Er flushed. She only did that, afraid that Li Si sees her blushing, ah.
"Oh." You insensible scholar. She's shy around you, alright?! Dong Li Hua thought. Why is Li Si unable to notice the signs of a girl liking him? He is the dame as Dong Chun Wu even when it comes to girls. They were like a blank sheet of paper.
"I should leave. Sorry to disrupt your work."
"Take care. See you again next time then." she waved her hand, watching Li Si disappear as he left. Afterwards, Dong Li Hua went back to her work and it took her hours to complete the seven floors with the help of five maids. Its already late at night once she is finished and went off to have her dinner with the other maids.
Dong Li Hua just took her night bathe when Xie Er entered her room without a warning. "Sister Hua! Ying Zheng is getting unreasonable again!" Xie Er grabbed her hand and took her out of the courtyard.
"How? Why?" Dong Li Hua asked in puzzlement. Ying Zheng have been calm since she became his personal servant but why did Xie Er said he's getting unreasonable?
"He barely finished his dinner then kept missing with the empty xuan papers. Ying Zheng bullied the eunuchs around him by throwing crumpled xuan papers inside his room to make them restless. Its his tantrum getting best of him again, sigh." Xie Er explained, reaching the dragon chamber when a jade sculpture was thrown outside, nearly hitting them.
"Get out at once!" Ying Zheng bellowed within the dragon chamber as eunuchs scurried outside. "And don't call Lady Mother here or else!"
"Ying Zheng, what's wrong with you?" after all eunuchs left, Dong Li Hua entered the chamber. Ying Zheng is leaning at the headboard on the large opulent bed while his whole room was filled with shattered jades and crumpled papers.
"Hmph!" he simply snorted then looking away from Dong Li Hua. "You go away with that Li Si!"
"Huh?" Dong Li Hua was puzzled when Xie Er tugged at her sleeve.
"Ying Zheng is jealous you spend more time with Li Si than him." she whispered hurriedly, leaving the chamber in fear of Ying Zheng's tantrum.
"I see." Dong Li Hua thought then arriving by the bedside. "Ying Zheng, what made you turn like this? Xie Er told me you're jealous and jealousy is not a good thing for monarchs. If you want to have a better future, control your emotions. You're no longer a prince so act more like a king!"
"Its your fault so don't push the blame to me!" Ying Zheng glared before covering himself with the quilt. Dong Li Hua's lips twitched and a blue vein is about to pop. How can this Ying Zheng be so hard to deal with? He is blaming her but what did this great aunt did? Is this boy even the future dragon emperor?!
"Sigh. What should Li Hua do to quell your anger?" she gave up in rebuking him. Ying Zheng lowered the quilt then an idea popped in his mind.
"Sing."
"Seriously?" Dong Li Hua asked in confusion.
"Seriously." he threw a sharp gaze at her as Dong Li Hua smiled. Singing is easy since she is gifted with a sweet voice.
"The waves drowned the night in silence
Cross over the sky
Cross over above the head
Big fish swims through the c***k of dreams
Gaze at the outline of your deep sleep
Blowing away the vast mist with you hand in hand
The wings of the big fish are too broad
I loosen the rope of time
Greater than my fear of you leaving
Is my fear of you becoming stranded here
Every tears flow for you
The waves drowned the night in silence
Gaze at the outline of your deep sleep
Look at the sea and sky
Listen to the wind and rain
Blowing away the vast mist with you hand in hand
The wings of the big fish are too broad
I loosen the rope of time
Seeing that you are born to soar in the heavens above
Even as I watch you fly away
Leaving me behind
Every tears flow for you
Reminiscing the back to the moment we first met
Ah..."
"What is that song? I've never heard it before." Ying Zheng's fuming temperament was calmed down successfully. He never knew Dong Li Hua could sing so well that it sounds like a snow fairy's voice, dragging anyone to sink in an abyssal oblivion.
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