At this moment, Chu Yao was standing by her bedside. Didn't Wu Hui and Wu You already know everything?
Wu Shuang quickly turned around to look, but the bed was empty, and there was no one else in the tent except for her and Chu Yao.
It's the kind of situation where someone with a weaker mind would be scared to death.
"Why did you sneak in like that?" Wushuang said, displeased. "What if someone saw you?"
"Sneaking around like this seems particularly interesting," Chu Yao replied casually.
Wushuang choked for a moment, feeling slightly choked up.
"Get out!" She reached out and pushed Chu Yao.
Unfortunately, he was too weak. Not only did he fail to push her away, but Chu Yao even plopped down on her bed, his entire back resting lazily on Wu Shuang's legs through the summer blanket.
"Hurry up and go out, they might be back soon." Wushuang was so anxious that she raised her little fist and punched him on the back.
"Mmm, that feels good. Use a little more force, go down a bit." Chu Yao actually treated Wushuang as if she were giving him a back massage, and started giving Jiangshan pointers without any politeness.
Wushuang angrily withdrew her hand, pulled the blanket over her head, and fell back onto the bed.
Chu Yao refused to let her go and followed her to try and take the blanket from her.
"If I don't come to see you, am I supposed to just let you sulk all by yourself?"
"Who's angry? I'm not angry at all," Wushuang said in a muffled voice, curled up in the blanket.
She wasn't lying. Although she lost the competition, she had saved face and dignity, so what was there to be angry about?
"Who is that little girl with the dark face who led Yunmo away? Why does she look so much like our Shuangshuang?" Chu Yao asked with a smile.
"Who says this belongs to you? I belong to this family!"
Wushuang retorted that she wasn't even officially married yet! Before the formal marriage, she was a member of the Marquis of Runan's household, not the Prince of Ying's household.
"It's no use denying it; it'll happen sooner or later anyway," Chu Yao scoffed.
Wushuang sat up abruptly, clutching the blanket with one hand and pushing Chu Yao away with the other: "Stop talking, you should leave now."
No one expected that no matter how much they pushed him, Chu Yao remained as immovable as a mountain, but now, with a casual push, he fell backward and crashed to the ground.
Chu Yao was still holding the blanket in his hand. When he fell, Wu Shuang was dragged down with him and fell to the ground.
Fortunately, there was a wool felt on the ground, so Chu Yao didn't get hurt from the fall.
Fortunately, Wushuang landed on Chu Yao, and with the cushion of flesh, it not only didn't hurt, but it was actually quite comfortable.
The only unfortunate thing is that things aren't getting better.
Because she was wrapped in a blanket, Wushuang's small hands couldn't reach the ground, so she could only touch Chu Yao's body. But she couldn't bring herself to use his body as a fulcrum. After a while, she couldn't get any leverage, but she ended up touching almost the entire upper body of Chu Yao.
"Are you satisfied with what you touched?" Chu Yao laughed loudly.
Wushuang was stunned for a moment before she realized what was happening. She was furious and embarrassed, and pulled her two small hands away. However, without support, the angle between them was gone, and their bodies were pressed tightly together.
In the darkness, her lips were less than half a finger's width away from his.
Chu Yao used his waist and abdomen to lift his upper body, and just as he was about to touch Wu Shuang's lips, he suddenly heard a woman's soft voice outside the tent.
Wu Shuang, who had been stunned, immediately came to her senses. Regardless of whether Chu Yao was in pain, she pressed on his chest, got up, and jumped back onto the bed.
"You, you, you... quickly hide inside the trunk." She pointed to the carved camphor wood trunk three steps away.
"Oh dear! How come there are so many rats!" Lu Peng exclaimed from outside the tent.
"A mouse? Where is it?" This is without regret.
Then came Wuyou: "Ah...I'm scared..."
Lu Peng then said, "Don't be afraid, ladies. Why don't you go and sit in the old lady's tent for a while? I'll take the guards and catch all the rats, then I'll go and invite you back."
They all recognized Lu Peng as Chu Yao's bodyguard and naturally trusted him implicitly.
"Then we'll be going now. Be careful not to miss anything." Wu Hui was bolder and could speak more clearly. "Look, Second Sister is almost scared to death. If you miss anything and she sneaks into our tent at night and scares her half to death, Third Sister will definitely not let the Prince let you off the hook."
"What do you intend to do to stop me?"
Inside the tent, Chu Yao lit a candle and smiled as he looked at Wu Shuang's still-rosy cheeks.
The following afternoon, Chu Yun, accompanied by two guards, carried a whole sheep to Yu Xiangxiang's tent.
Upon hearing the maid's report, Yu Xiangxiang lifted the curtain and came out to see.
“I hunted this on the grasslands this morning,” Chu Yun said. “I remember you were very eager to try roasted whole lamb from beyond the Great Wall, so I brought it to you as soon as possible.”
"Fifth cousin, you're so kind," Yu Xiangxiang said politely.
She looked at the snow-white lamb, which was tied upside down to a bamboo pole.
"How do you roast this lamb?" Yu Xiangxiang was visiting the grassland for the first time and didn't know much about it.
"You don't need to worry about that, leave it all to me. I'll take them downstairs now to slaughter the sheep, then set up a fire to roast it. If you're interested, you can come and watch the roasting sheep." Chu Yun didn't miss any opportunity to curry favor.
The two guards lifted the bamboo pole again and were about to leave when the little lamb suddenly bleated pitifully, as if it knew its fate and was desperately pleading for help.
Yu Xiangxiang, with a soft heart, couldn't bear it and said, "It was so small, and it died like that. It's so pitiful..."
"Xiangxiang, you're so kind-hearted. Why don't we raise it? It'll be fun to watch, and when it gets bigger, we can even milk it." Chu Yun immediately seized the opportunity.