As they chatted, Qing Da came hurrying over to announce that His Majesty's rewards had arrived.
These rewards were presumably all for Princess Ximing.
The husband and wife went to receive the decree and rewards. Liu Wan arranged for the Imperial Gifts to be put into the storehouse and took the two children along to choose jade pendants.
Outside the storehouse.
Yuanbao held Xia Wanwan's hand as they waited outside. After a moment's thought, he led the Little Princess farther away, then crouched down and rubbed her little head.
"Little one, what was going on at the palace gates earlier?"
Having dressed as a woman for so long, Yuanbao had become acutely sensitive to other men's possessive gazes.
The feeling made his hair stand on end.
Xia Wanwan tilted her head. "I was going to ask you, you stinky kitty. How did you get this face? Do you know..."
Her little head turned this way and that for quite a while before she leaned close to Yuanbao's ear. "You look exactly like the Ruler of Eastern Lin's unattainable love. When you were a kitty, you didn't eat Wushuang's corpse, did you?"
That was too horrifying!
Yuanbao's eyes widened. With a sharp crack, he flicked the little thing's forehead with a knuckle, nearly knocking Xia Wanwan over.
"Ow! You..." Xia Wanwan glared at him indignantly.
"What are you thinking?" Yuanbao said. "I used to eat vegetarian meals and chant Buddhist prayers with those monks at Golden Mountain Temple. How could I possibly eat people? If that Brother Little Third hadn't brought chicken, duck, fish, and meat whenever he went to Golden Mountain Temple to visit Lady Li, giving them something nonvegetarian to cook, I'd never have gotten any meat by hanging around them..."
*Eat corpses? He was a cat, not a