TL: Hua
Chapter 25 Drizzle – Pei Zi: His Highness has great assets!
As his body sank into the hot water, Pei Xiting breathed a sigh of relief. The sticky discomfort disappeared completely.
The people in the villa didn’t expect that the Crown Prince would bring a person with him and even go to the hot spring together. They didn’t have time to set up the screen in advance, and the Crown Prince didn’t give any instructions just now, so no one dared to come in. Now the two of them sat in a row in the water, with only one person length between them.
When Pei Xiting visited the hot spring with a few friends whom he often hung out with, he only felt that it was noisy. However, in the quiet and soothing atmosphere, he noticed something strange. He wondered if it was because he had some thoughts about the Crown Prince?
After soaking quietly for a while, Pei Xiting turned and approached the long table on the shore. After some thought, he finally picked up a bottle of herbal paste with the words “Trumpet vine flower” on it and asked, “Your Highness, do you want to wash your hair?”
The Crown Prince said with his eyes closed, “I’ll go to the corridor to wash it later.”
Pei Xiting said “good” and then applied the herbal paste on his own head. This thing does not foam, but it smells fresh, the ingredients are natural, and it can remove oil and dirt. It is said to have the effects of blackening hair and increasing hair growth as well, although this head of hair doesn’t have this demand.
Being alone together was a good opportunity to get closer. Pei Xiting looked at the Crown Prince while washing his hair. His eyes went up from his triceps and deltoids, across his slender neck and sexy Adam’s apple, and finally landed on his handsome face with a layer of light rouge smudged by the mist and his increasingly gorgeous mole. He pretended to admire him casually several times.
——This is probably the calamity that caused the fish to sink into the water and the geese to fall from the sky.
The Crown Prince’s sense was so sharp that he could understand all of Pei Xiting’s movements with his eyes closed. His gaze is like the wind; although light and soft, it is still difficult to ignore.
The Crown Prince was just about to ask the owner of that gaze to behave himself when he heard the other party curiously ask, “Your Highness, do you usually close your eyes like this when you take a hot spring bath? Will you fall asleep and fall into the water, and then flutter out of the water with your hands and feet?”
The Crown Prince said calmly, “I have never had such an experience.”
“That’s right, you look like a person who sleeps well, and you probably look like a dead pers–… a puppet when you fall asleep.” Pei Xiting scooped up a handful of water with his cupped hands, watching it flow through his fingers, and suddenly remembered something: “By the way, does the little tiger, called Little King, have brothers and sisters?”
“No,” said the Crown Prince, “Why?”
Pei Xiting said while massaging his scalp, “I think it’s cute and cuddly. I want to raise one.”
“It’s only three months old, so it’s naturally cute. It will be different when it grows up,” said the Crown Prince.
Pei Xiting said, “If I raised it myself, I’m definitely biased. No matter how big it grows, it will still be cute in my eyes.”
The Crown Prince usually has a quiet side when he takes a hot spring bath. Today, there is a chirping sparrow in the water. Although it talks a lot, it’s not noisy or unpleasant, perhaps thanks to its nice and relaxed voice.
He said, “Shaoyun often takes it out for a walk at night. If you like, you can go and be its second follower.”
Pei Xiting said, “I am not familiar with it yet. It won’t bite me, right?”
The Crown Prince remembered that Little King couldn’t let go of the longevity thread, so he said, “It won’t hurt anyone casually.”
Pei Xiting was relieved, stretched out his hand to paddle forward, and swam a distance with his head exposed.
The hair floated on the water like surging black waves. When the Crown Prince opened his eyes, he saw Pei Xiting playing in the water. His crane-like neck pulled his upper body out of the water with droplets lingering on his back, flowing from his straight shoulders to his shoulder blades like white butterfly wings, all the way across his thin and smooth back, and disappeared into the pool along the vertical spine.
The rain had raged enough and returned to its initial momentum, falling on the roof like small jade beads.
The body sank and rose again, having a lot of fun. The beautiful waist dimples were like a pair of white jade cups, and it was probably very pleasing to the eye to hold anything.
The Crown Prince remembered Yu Shaoyun’s previous unexpected discovery and said, “Pei Wenjuan.”
The sudden opening didn’t scare Pei Xiting, because the Crown Prince’s eyes disturbed him before his words. He shook off the water in his hands, turned his head slightly to meet the Crown Prince’s gaze, and said, “I’m here; do you need anything?”
The Crown Prince looked at him and said, “Turn around.”
The tone of this voice was flat, but it sounded like an order. Pei Xiting unexpectedly didn’t reject it and turned to face the Crown Prince without hesitation. The Crown Prince’s eyes immediately slid down and stopped at his waist, as seriously as if he were looking at a painting.
Pei Xiting used to be a model for a senior student majoring in clothing design at school. He could calmly walk the catwalk with several piles of cloth hanging on his body. But now he felt a little uncomfortable under that pair of eyes. The “shyness” that had died out eight hundred years ago suddenly broke out.
“This tattoo is exceptionally fine,” the Crown Prince’s gaze lifted and fell back to Pei Xiting’s face. “When did you get it?”
“Fifteen years old.” Then, Pei Xiting said seriously, “On the way out of the city for a spring outing, I met a man with a poem tattooed on his arm. It was very realistic, so I asked him to help me tattoo one. Judging from his clothing, he should be a wanderer. I haven’t seen him since we parted; otherwise, I would like to get another tattoo on my back.”
His back is indeed a wonderful canvas. The Crown Prince asked, “What do you want to tattoo?”
Pei Xiting thought for a moment and said, “A brave man with iron courage?”
The Crown Prince smiled a little when he heard this. Does he think he deserves to be called a brave man?
Pei Xiting was not convinced. “It’s already considered an achievement if ordinary people didn’t piss themselves in fear after seeing that scene. I was very brave to run with you for a while. Not everyone is like you, who fought their way out of a sea of blood and corpses.”
The Crown Prince didn’t refute this and said, “But don’t tattoo that; it won’t look good.”
Pei Xiting was just joking. Hearing this, he said, “En, I’ll listen to you.”
Soaking in hot spring water for too long isn’t good. After a while, the Crown Prince rose from the water and stepped up the steps on the shore.
The pure white pants were pressed against the long legs. Pei Xiting looked at them, thinking to himself that the Crown Prince not only has wide shoulders and long legs but also has a rather perky butt.
Seemingly sensing his gaze, the Crown Prince glanced sideways into the pool. Pei Xiting blinked, honestly skimming down, but inadvertently saw something more eye-catching.
“Splash!”
The man in the water turned his head violently, as if he had seen something terrible. The Crown Prince didn’t understand but didn’t say anything. He turned around and took a towel to wipe his body.
His Highness is really “convex in front and curvy in the back,” so powerful… Pei Xiting sank himself into the water, staring at the water in front of his chin and silently marveled. It’s already this obvious at ordinary times. If it gets up, it would be… Sh*t!
He suddenly raised his hand to cover his face, patted it twice, and quickly warned himself: Don’t get excited, don’t get excited. You can appreciate the human body, but you are not allowed to fantasize; you must respect the model!
The imaginary cops knocked on the door of his heart and shouted, “Don’t move, crack down on p*rnography!”
My brain, clear it quickly, clear it, clear it, clear it–
“Pei Wenjuan.” The Crown Prince called out, but the person in the water didn’t answer him. He was very focused on the game of slapping his cheeks. He paused and raised his voice slightly, “Pei Wenjuan.”
“Ah?” Pei Xiting finally turned his head; his face was flushed, and his whole person was in a daze. The Crown Prince fell silent upon seeing this side of him for the first time and then asked, “Are you stupid?”
Pei Xiting was awakened by the cold gaze. He saw from the corner of his eye that the Crown Prince had changed into a clean inner garment. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, “I’m fine; I’ll get up soon.”
The Crown Prince retracted his gaze, turned around, and said, “Come in.”
The two eunuchs who had been waiting outside the door pushed the door open immediately. One of them walked to the Crown Prince to serve him, and the other carried a tray and put it on the long table not far away. He was about to help Pei Xiting wipe his body, but Pei Xiting refused, “I’ll do it myself.”
The eunuch nodded and retreated behind the screen.
Pei Xiting wrapped his hair with a towel, took off his inner garment, wiped his body, and changed his clothes neatly. The material of the clothes was soft and the stitches were exquisite, but it was obviously not suitable for the status of His Royal Highness The Crown Prince. The eunuch didn’t dare to give the Crown Prince’s clothes to others without prior instructions. Maybe they were new clothes prepared for others.
Pei Xiting tied the belt a little wider and longer, leaving a small tail hanging behind him.
The Crown Prince took a look and suspected that the Pei family had withheld Pei Xiting’s food. His waist was so small, appearing as if it could snap under the slightest pressure.
When they came out, the rain had come to an end, and the drizzle was hazy like a veil.
Yu Shaoyun and Eunuch Lai were lying in the corridor drinking tea. After a simple wash, they also changed into clean clothes. They looked leisurely as if they hadn’t just come back from killing people. But when they saw Pei Xiting and their own prince coming out of the door together, they were obviously shocked.
“You two,” Pei Xiting walked over while rubbing his wet hair, “Excuse me, have you seen my servant?”
Eunuch Lai had more than 30 years of experience and digested the situation in front of him earlier. He said, “When we saw him, he was leaning against the carriage door and sleeping soundly. We asked him to come and pick up Third Young Master with us. He is now outside the villa.”
Seeing no signs of suspicion on their faces, Pei Xiting concluded that they hadn’t detected anything amiss. “That’s good… By the way, Your Highness,” he thought of a question and turned to look at the Crown Prince sitting on the recliner not far away, “Today’s assassin must have come for you, right? Why did the person who jumped down from the tree attack me first?”
Eunuch Lai sat behind the Crown Prince to help dry his hair. The Crown Prince closed his eyes and said, “Perhaps it was because I glanced at him at the moment he jumped down.”
You can ward off the enemy with your eyes? That’s cool.
Pei Xiting was speechless. “Oh, I thought the assassin group offered a buy one get one free service, so they targeted me in passing. The white-clad assassin… are they the same group as the one who assassinated the Empress in the early spring?”
The Crown Prince didn’t say anything, nor did he stop anyone from speaking, so Yu Shaoyun said “yes.”
“What a ceremonial organization, and they even distribute uniform clothing.” Pei Xiting rubbed his hair and said thoughtfully, “They attempted an assassination on the Empress and His Highness. Is this organization dissatisfied with the royal family? And they act openly, as if provoking the royal family… but their strength is not that good.”
“Why would they set up an organization if they are all novices?” Yu Shaoyun said with a smile, “Of course there are masters, but they just didn’t come today.”
Pei Xiting didn’t quite understand, “They often come and go, so they should know the strength of His Highness, right? But they still don’t send experts to take charge…”
Yu Shaoyun said: “Actually, there are quite a lot of people coming this time, about thirty or forty. Perhaps they got news that His Highness only brought two people with him. Besides, although there are experts, they are also rare. One was killed by Young Marquis Shangguan in the early spring, and then I killed two more. Shouldn’t they be used sparingly?”
When he mentioned Shangguan Jie, Pei Xiting’s mind turned, and he said, “Young Marquis is so powerful. No wonder His Highness rewarded him with Po Yinlin. But it’s a pity that it was stolen. Speaking of which, this thief has enough courage to steal anything. Although Po Yinlin is a treasure from the palace, it’s not cost-effective to become a wanted criminal for it.”
The Crown Prince opened his eyes and looked at Pei Xiting before Yu Shaoyun spoke, “Your words have double meanings. Do you want to find out if Po Yinlin has any other use?”
After their eyes met, Pei Xiting didn’t feel guilty at all about being exposed and said, “I actually want to ask directly.”
He smiled pleadingly and said, “If it involves secrets, I will never ask again. Your Highness, please don’t be angry with me.”
The Crown Prince said, “Why?”
“If you are angry with me, what will I do if you don’t want to see me in the future?” Pei Xiting said sincerely, “Your Highness and I are of different statuses. If you don’t want to see me, how can I see you?”
The Crown Prince was silent and asked, “Do you really want to see me?”
“Of course.” Pei Xiting asked back, “Why don’t I want to see you?”
The wording of this Pei-wenshu was really simple, plain, straightforward, and bold. If he weren’t a man and had no shyness, these words could even be heard to have some ambiguous meanings. Eunuch Lai secretly glanced at the Crown Prince, and his sharp old eyes saw something:
Your Highness seems to have a vague resistance to this, but he doesn’t stop it. Why is that?
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