Chapter 260 - Intuition (2/2)

Even if Zhu Junyang didn’t have his special ability, he would be able to tell that Yu Xiaocao was quite angry. He asked in a puzzled voice, “This prince wasn’t talking about you, why are you throwing a temper tantrum ah?”

“They are all of my friends. If you don’t respect them, it’s the same as not respecting me!” Yu Xiaocao puffed up her face and angrily glared at him before she turned around and only let him look at the back of her head.

Zhu Junyang frowned and then looked in the direction of the little girls again. His ability told him that within that group of girls, there was at least one of them that didn’t have pure intentions. He was afraid that that girl would end up influencing or harming Xiaocao, so he wanted to warn her but he didn’t know how to explain.

Awkward silence prevailed for a bit and then he finally said, “You must be cautious when choosing your friends! If you’re not, you might end up harming yourself as well as causing problems for other people…”

When Yu Xiaocao noticed that he was being quite serious, she placed the mushroom in her hands into the basket and looked him in the eye, “Do you know something? Is there someone in that group who wants to hurt me?”

“Whether or not she’ll hurt you, I can’t tell at this moment. However, someone within that group of girls doesn’t have pure motives. You need to be careful…” Zhu Junyang was afraid she would end up getting hurt in the end, so he ended up giving her a warning.

“Them? One of them doesn’t have pure motives?” Within the group of four girls, three of them were all considered Xiaocao’s close friends. Zhou Shanhu had a bright and open personality and didn’t have any shrewdness. Qian Yafang was the youngest of the group, and she was sweet and adorable. Liu Yingzi had a straightforward personality and acted like their older sister. She was very good at taking care of others. The only girl she didn’t know well was Zheng Xiaocui. All she knew was that she was Liu Yingzi’s neighbor and that the other girl had tagged along once she found out Liu Yingzi wanted to gather wild mushrooms. All of them were young little girls around the age of ten, who among them could have ulterior motives such that word even got into the young royal prince’s ears?

Yu Xiaocao sidled along closer to Zhu Junyang and beckoned to him with her hand to have him place his ear closer to her. She quietly whispered into Zhu Junyang’s ear, “Did you hear something from somewhere?”

“No!” Zhu Junyang felt like his ear was itchy and hurriedly straightened up. He shifted a bit to the side and pasted an icy expression on his face. If someone looked closely at his face, he or she would notice that the tips this handsome youth’s ears were slightly red now.

Yu Xiaocao leveled a glare at him and said, “If no one told you anything, then how do you know that one of them doesn’t have pure motives?”

Zhu Junyang naturally couldn’t tell her about his own strange ability as he was afraid that she would regard him as a freak in the future. He could only earnestly say, “Intuition!”

“Pfft——” Yu Xiaocao almost choked on her own saliva. She laughed as she said, “Young Royal Prince, when did your gender change?”

“Gender change? What do you mean?” Zhu Junyang had a feeling that this wasn’t a good term so he looked at her alertly.

“Female intuition, female intuition. Naturally, only women will believe their own intuitions. Young Royal Prince, when did you also become so irrational?” Yu Xiaocao didn’t quite know what to say at this point.

When Zhu Junyang saw that she didn’t take this to heart, he didn’t pursue this topic of womanly feelings. He cautiously warned her, “If you don’t take this to heart, I have to tell you that this prince’s intuition has always been very good. By relying on my innate intuition, I’ve been able to avoid a lot of plots against me! This prince is warning you out of the kindness of my own heart, it’s up to you whether you want to believe me or not!”

Zhu Junyang glanced at the group of little girls not far from them. He didn’t know what those girls were doing but he could tell that they were gesturing and talking about something! Just who was the culprit that wanted to scheme against Yu Xiaocao? He needed to keep a close eye on that unruly little brat! However, he would have never expected that the girl’s target wasn’t Yu Xiaocao but was him instead…

Yu Xiaocao didn’t think she had anything that was worth someone else plotting against her. When she noticed that the young royal prince’s mood seemed to be a bit down, she hurriedly interjected, “In a moment, I’ll go buy a rooster from Auntie Zhou’s house. For lunch, I’ll make you some chicken stewed with mushrooms along with some flat bread. Although these dishes are examples of country cooking, they taste quite good!”

“Okay! I also want to eat some ‘sour and spicy pig intestines with vermicelli’!” Zhu Junyang liked strongly flavored foods, so last time he ate a plate of sour and spicy pig intestines with vermicelli. The dish had numbing, spicy, savory, aromatic, sour and a fatty without being greasy taste. It hit all of his favorite points and since then, he could never forget that dish.

Earlier he had warned this little lass out of the kindness of his own heart, yet she laughed it off. Therefore, for lunch, he needed to make things difficult for her, so he ordered a Zhenxiu Restaurant speciality dish, ‘sour and spicy pig intestines with vermicelli’. When she wasn’t able to make it, then he would laugh at her.

However, he would have never expected that sour and spicy pig intestines with vermicelli was a dish that Zhenxiu Restaurant had spent five hundred taels to get ahold of the recipe. And it was from Yu Xiaocao herself!

At lunch, he devoured the authentic and incredibly delicious sour and spicy pig intestines with vermicelli. Only then did a thought pop up, ‘What sort of relationship does this lass have with Zhenxiu Restaurant? How come she knows how to make almost all of their special dishes, and make it even more tasty than them?’

Zhu Junyang, who had been unable to trouble Yu Xiaocao with his requests, started to be picky again, “This chicken stewed with mushrooms is such a commonplace dish. If you could switch it for a wild pheasant instead, I’m sure it will taste much better. Tomorrow, this prince will give you a hand and hunt some delicious game for you to make into food!”

When Yu Hai heard this, how could he possibly let the royal prince get into a possibly dangerous situation? What if Royal Prince Yang had an accident in the vicinity of Dongshan Village? Other than himself, even the entire Dongshan Village would be implicated by this ah!