Ghostly Masked Prince Xiao: Pampering and Spoiling the Little Adorable Consort

(131) The Feeling of Longing was Shown in One's Speech

When Chu Qing-Yan's gaze landed on Xiao Hou's body, Xiao Hou, who wasn't far from her seemed to have sensed her gaze, and turned his head over to lightly smile at her. But very quickly, he covered his nose and mouth and started to cough lightly again. The eunuch at his side immediately bowed his body and started to pat his back, but he was lightly pushed away by Xiao Hou.

What a pale and sickly beautiful male.

Chu Qing-Yan softly exclaimed, sure enough, Heaven was fair, such a good family background, such good appearance, but will always deprive you of something.

As if he heard Chu Qing-Yan's sigh, Xiao Xu lightly patted her head. "Don't look about randomly, concentrate a bit on the present."

Only then did Chu Qing-Yan retrieve her gaze and seriously listen to Western Xuan emperor saying words of congratulations above.

Very quickly, the segment of presenting gifts arrived.

Xiao Xu as the First Prince was the one to start and lead everyone in this ritual.

One only saw Xiao Xu offer a very hard to find drawing of pine trees by the famous artist Hua Xian. Western Xuan emperor's favorite pastime was to amuse himself with famous paintings and this Hua Xian had died long ago. His paintings were even more difficult to find, it was said that this drawing of pine trees was the last one he drew before death. But traces of it had already been lost for a long time.

Never expected that on this Mid-autumn day festival, one could still glimpse the style of such a famous artist.

Western Xuan emperor took a glance at that drawing and said indifferently. "You had the heart.", then let people put it away.

This scene in all the minister's eyes gave them more thoughts to strategize. They originally thought this emperor loved painting as if it was his life and would greatly praise First Prince. They did not expect His Majesty would be so calm, was it because he wanted to stay neutral in the increasingly noisy matter of heir apparent to the throne in court? Was that why His Majesty would remain so calm?

What these ministers suspected was smashed when Fourth Prince Xiao Ran offered his gift.

Second Prince Xiao Yao offered the rare night pearl from Southern seas. He got Western Xuan emperor's praise.

Third Prince Xiao Hou offered a millennium old Lingzhi mushroom. Also obtained Western Xuan emperor's praise.

And when Fourth Princed offered priceless brush, paper, ink-stone set, the calm waveless expression on Western Xuan's face was broken. He stroked his beard and said three words of 'good' in a row. He even asked people to bring it up and played with it a bit before letting the palace people put it away.

Everyone was puzzled.

Although this brush, paper, ink-stone set was priceless, but in regards to thoughtfulness, it wasn't as good as First Prince's. In terms of preciousness, it wasn't as good as Second Prince's gift. In terms of value, it wasn't as good as Third Prince's gift. Why would it receive such special treatment from Western Xuan Emperor?

But after second thoughts, everyone had already gotten an answer. Maybe it wasn't the gift that caught Western Xuan emperor's eyes, rather it was who gave the gift!

Rumor had it that Western Xuan Emperor favored Fourth Prince, facts proved that it was really so!

Everyone's gaze swept by Fourth Prince, each had different thoughts.

Chu Qing-Yan saw everything with her own eyes, and suddenly felt heartache for that tall, lofty unconquerable person's figure.

When people returned to their seats, Xiao Xu felt a small fist squeeze into his hand. Afterwards, just like a small flower bud, it blossomed. One petal after another drilled out of the crack between his fingers and afterwards, closely intertwined with his fingers.