Chapter 59 (1/2)

Chapter 59

Chapter: 059 out of 513 – Barbecue, wine, and winter (2)

Right now, she wasn’t an unmarried girl. She was already married to Marquis Moyu. Although she was only a concubine, it wouldn’t be appropriate for her to interact with a strange man, right?

Although she didn’t have a clear understanding of this era’s rules, her intuition told her that the sooner she left, the better.

“Sangyu, do you remember my older brother?” While biting on a meat skewer, Errong said, “You even met him once when you were both very young at a palace banquet. Afterwards, you even said that my older brother’s face resembled a piece of white jade more than Marquis Moyu's.”

That palace banquet had occurred ten years ago, but Nie Sangyu had still remembered it and mentioned it to Ning Errong later on when they became friends. However, Ji Man didn’t have the slightly impression of this meeting. Looking at Ning Mingjie’s blank expression, he probably didn’t remember that meeting either.

“We could be considered relatives. Let’s all eat meat skewers together.” Ning Errong magnanimously patted a stool next to herself and Ning Mingjie naturally sat down. It would have been unnecessarily tiring to keep standing.

Ji Man looked at her hands and said with a smile, “How about letting the servants grill the food for you? My hands are too dirty and I should go back to wash them.”

Ning Mingjie understood that she was doing this to avoid arousing suspicion. Just as he was about to nod his head in agreement,

Ning Errong casually said, “It’s such a long walk back. I’ll have Baizhi bring over water for you! Dearest older sister, grill two more skewers for me. The ones grilled by you are the tastiest.”

Ji Man didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. This girl simply didn’t have any understanding about avoiding actions that might arouse suspicion. She was treating them as a group of carefree people that hadn’t reached adulthood yet.

But seeing Errong acting cutely spoiled like this, she really couldn’t continue to insist on leaving. She could only have Muxu stand near them, so that they could be considered under the public's eyes. Then, she continued grilling meat for this little ancestor.

“They’ve all been saying that you had changed a lot. It’s true.” While Ning Errong ate, her little mouth didn’t stop talking, “In the past, you only cared about my cousin and wouldn’t have had the leisurely mood to make something like this.”

Ji Man silently smiled. As she finished grilling each batch of meat and vegetables, she would place them onto small plates and hand them over to the two siblings.

Ning Mingjie had already eaten dinner and wasn’t too hungry, but the gluttonous bug in his stomach had been lured out. He took the small plates and wasn’t polite. He even sent the servants to bring over fine wine.

The cold wind whistled by and the courtyard naturally wasn’t as warm as inside. But, Ning Errong was sticking her tongue out to cool down from eating the spicy food and

and wasn’t hiding her hands inside her sleeves anymore. Ning Mingjie actually felt very satisfied to feel the cold wind while he was drink wine and eating grilled meat. Nie Sangyu’s idea of cutting the meat into small pieces actually made the meat much tastier than when the entire slab of meat was grilled.

And so, after Ning Mingjie had eaten and drank enough to be satisfied, he felt that Nie Sangyu was actually a very good woman. At the very least, the meat that she had grilled was very tasty.

With this one incident, the plot quietly changed. Ning Mingjie didn’t go to the garden and coincidentally meet the female lead. Instead, the first thing that crashed into his eyes was a pair of slender white hands that efficiently turned over grilled meat.