GTB Chapter 203

Chapter 205: Was she this cute as a child?

“Miss is back! The Madam and Lord are in the Young Master’s courtyard, please go in quickly.”

At the entrance of the Jiang residence, the gatekeeper saw Jiang Jiuchu alighting from the sedan and hurriedly stepped forward to report, helping to hold the horse.

“Okay.” Jiang Jiuchu smiled and nodded, quickly stepping into the residence.

Inside Cheya Courtyard, Jiang Jiuchu had just stepped into the courtyard when she noticed everyone gathered in the main hall.

She smiled and called out, “Where’s my little niece!”

Madam Ye and Jiang Yuan turned their heads upon hearing the sound, looking at Jiang Jiuchu who was running in with joyful expressions. “Lower your voice, don’t wake your niece.”

“Oh.” Jiang Jiuchu had just responded when Jiang Yuan looked at his daughter with concern: “Why did you come back so quickly? Have you had breakfast?”

“Father, I’ve eaten.” Jiang Jiuchu answered her father, then craned her neck to look into the swaddling clothes.

The wrinkled little one was sleeping soundly.

She pursed her lips and whispered into Madam Ye’s ear, “Mother, why didn’t my little niece inherit the beauty of my brother and sister-in-law? She seems a bit ugly!”

Madam Ye glared at Jiang Jiuchu upon hearing this. “What are you saying! Where is she ugly?”

She gently rocked the swaddling clothes in her hand, softly coaxing the sleeping little one, “Our Youyou is not ugly! Aunt is ugly.”

“Mother.” Jiang Jiuchu pouted, feeling that she was no longer her mother’s precious fairy-like daughter.

Madam Ye glanced at her daughter’s pouting little mouth, and chuckled reproachfully: “You’re already the Crown Princess, and you’re still acting so spoiled. Come, go with Mother to see your sister-in-law.”

Inside the room, Jiang Jiuchu had just entered when she saw Jiang Jiuche feeding the slightly pale-faced Shí Qingya soup.

“Brother and sister-in-law, congratulations on becoming parents.”

Shí Qingya finished the last mouthful of soup, looked at Jiang Jiuchu, and patted the bed weakly. “Come, sit down.”

After she finished speaking, she reached out to Madam Ye, who quickly and carefully handed the little granddaughter to Shí Qingya.

Shí Qingya looked at the daughter in her arms, a look of love on her face, and smiled at Jiang Jiuchu:

“Look at your little niece, your parents all say she looks exactly like you when you were little!”

Jiang Jiuchu’s face froze upon hearing this, and her eyes widened as she looked at the sweetly sleeping infant in the swaddling clothes, the corners of her mouth twitching. Was she this cute as a child?

Shí Qingya and Jiang Jiuche exchanged a glance, both revealing smug smiles in their eyes.

Jiang Jiuche had internal strength, and he had long heard his sister say that his daughter was ugly. As her father, he had to win back some face for his daughter.

Madam Ye smiled as she looked at her daughter looking over at her. “Don’t look at Mother, she does look seven-tenths like you when you were little. In the future, ah! She will definitely be a great beauty.”

Jiang Jiuchu said without any modesty upon hearing this, “Since she looks like me, she must be beautiful.”

She took the package from Luoluo’s hands and placed a golden lock she had brought into the swaddling clothes.

“This is a peace lock, to protect my little niece and keep her safe.”

“And this……..”

She took out a set of small clothes that she had personally embroidered. “Sister-in-law, I embroidered these myself!”

Shí Qingya took it, touching the embroidery on it. “Thank you, Chu’er, the embroidery is really good.”

“It’s not hard work, it was hard work for sister-in-law to give birth to my little niece!”

As she said this, she suddenly asked Shí Qingya curiously, “Sister-in-law, is childbirth very painful?”

“Um……..” Shí Qingya’s face, which was still pale, looked at Jiang Jiuchu with such a desire to learn and immediately changed the subject.

“Um…it’s okay, just a little bit of pain, just bear it and it will pass, it doesn’t hurt at all now.”

Jiang Jiuche pursed his lips beside her without saying a word, thinking to himself, how could it not hurt, he had heard Ya’er’s heart-rending screams outside the door, it must have been extremely painful.

She looked at her sister, half-believing and half-doubting, guessing that her sister, who had been timid and afraid of pain since she was a child, would probably be crying and yelling for her parents when the time came.

The joyful atmosphere always passes quickly, and Jiang Jiuchu left the Jiang residence after lunch.

On her way back to the palace, she made a special trip to Jade Shop, but happened to meet Ji Shutíng, who had also come to buy pastries.

On the second floor, Jiang Jiuchu looked at Ji Shutíng with a smile, gossiping as she asked, “How was it? Did you try it last night?”

Ji Shutíng nodded, her face full of joy. “I tried it, you guys were right, it really works.”

As she spoke, she humbly asked: “Why don’t you… teach me a few more tricks.”

Jiang Jiuchu almost spat out a mouthful of tea. “Shutíng, didn’t you say that this matter is almost enough?”

“Now this is… getting a taste for it?”

Ji Shutíng’s face turned red, and rather than saying that she had a taste for it, it was better to say that she was fascinated by Gu Changxuan’s crazy side of her.

“I’m saving this for later use, you know, that cousin of his is still living in my house. Today is different from the past, I still need to have a sense of crisis.”

Jiang Jiuchu nodded, feeling that there was some truth to it. She looked at the few customers around and whispered, “Two words, seduce.”

After she finished speaking, she leaned back against the back of the chair: “Anyway, Xiao Li had already said it yesterday, all methods are inseparable from these two words, you can use any trick you want, as long as it’s related to these two words, it’s fine.”

“Oh.” Ji Shutíng nodded, looking like she understood.

Then she looked at the pastries that Luoluo was holding in her hands. “Did you specifically come out of the palace to buy pastries today?”

Jiang Jiuchu shook her head, “No, my sister-in-law gave birth, I came out of the palace to see my sister-in-law, just happened to buy some snacks to bring back.”

Ji Shutíng asked curiously upon hearing this, “Is it a boy or a girl?”

Jiang Jiuchu took a bite of the pastry, “A little niece.”

Ji Shutíng nodded, then looked at Jiang Jiuchu, “Is it very boring living in the palace?”

Jiang Jiuchu touched the chrysanthemums in the vase on the table. “It is a bit.”

“Is His Highness the Crown Prince good to you?” Ji Shutíng had not talked to Jiang Jiuchu about her feelings alone for a long time, mainly because she heard Gu Changxuan say last night that the Emperor intended to choose a concubine for Shí Yan.

“Yes, it’s pretty good. Although I’m very bored staying in the East Palace, as long as he’s in the East Palace, whether he’s busy or not, he’ll let me stay by his side, so I’m not so bored.”

Jiang Jiuchu said as she looked at Ji Shutíng, “Although we didn’t know each other before marriage, we’ve become the most important people in each other’s lives after half a year of getting along.”

Ji Shutíng said with relief upon hearing this, “That’s great, it’s only natural that you would fall in love with a man like the Crown Prince.”

As she spoke, she smiled and looked at Jiang Jiuchu, hooking Jiang Jiuchu’s chin with her finger. “And our peerless beauty who has to wear a veil when going out on the street, the Crown Prince is probably already fascinated by you!”

Jiang Jiuchu slapped Ji Shutíng’s hand away, her eyes containing happiness. “It’s okay, just a little bit.”

Ji Shutíng seemed to suddenly remember something and looked at Jiang Jiuchu and asked, “By the way, there will be a ‘Connecting Fate’ meeting at Ning Yin Temple in a few days, should we join in the fun?”

“Connecting Fate meeting? Listening to the name, it should be a gathering for single men and women to find marriage partners! But you and I are both married, what’s the point of joining in the fun?”

“Hey! To watch other people’s fun! Anyway, I’m just idle, aren’t you bored?”

“If you haven’t been there, you don’t know, it’s really interesting, I’ve only been there once, pairing up on the spot, it’s especially interesting.”

Jiang Jiuchu was about to agree when she suddenly remembered something and refused:

“Forget it, I’m not going, my prince said he’s taking me out to play in a few days, I’m afraid it’ll clash with the date, so let’s forget it!”

“Taking you out to play? Where are you going to play?” Ji Shutíng was a little surprised, listening to Jiang Jiuchu’s words, it seemed that she was going to leave Kyoto.