Chapter 536: Are You Pleasantly Surprised?
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Xiao Jin returned to his chair and sat down. The father and two children stared at each other and waited.
It wasn’t until the sky was almost dark that a familiar set of footsteps could be heard in the courtyard.
Ji was the first to react. “Mother is back.”
Xiao Jin looked in the direction of the door, his eyes suppressing a sense of
anticipation.
A moment later, they saw Su Ying walk in with a large porcelain basin in her
arms.
“Make way, make way. It’s very hot.”
After Su Ying entered the hall, she placed the porcelain basin on the table.
The trio of father and two children were stunned when they saw the porcelain basin that was half the size of a table.
At first glance, the porcelain basin was filled with poached eggs… One by one, the poached eggs were neatly stacked on the surface of the basin… People with trypophobia would feel their skin go numb.
The eggs in the basin were still steaming and smelled very fragrant.
“Xiao Jin, happy birthday!” Su Ying rubbed her hands and raised her head to look at Xiao Jin as she said this.
Xiao Jin’s feather-like eyelashes quivered momentarily. “What… is this?”
Su Ying picked up the chopsticks and flipped the poached eggs aside, revealing the noodles underneath. “I made longevity noodles for you. How is it? Are you pleasantly surprised?”
Xiao Jin’s eyebrows twitched violently. “Mm-hmm.
Su Ying raised her eyebrows and her expression was somewhat smug as she
said, “The surprise is yet to come. Eat it while it’s hot.”
Xiao Jin hesitated for a moment before taking the chopsticks from her hand.
“All of this… is for me?”
Su Ying nodded magnanimously. “It’s all for you.”
Xiao Jin wanted to say, “Look here. Thank you but…”
Ji looked at the basin that occupied half the table and tugged at Ling.
Ling received Ji’s hint and instantly understood something. She turned around and ran out.
Ji was about to call out to her but Ling was already outside the door.
After Xiao Jin ate two poached eggs and quite a fair bit of noodles, he felt that something was off about the taste.
He pushed the noodles aside with his chopsticks and saw a layer of meat lying quietly under the noodles… It was deep-fried sweet and sour pork…
Xiao Jin’s Adam’s apple bobbed as he felt a slight headache coming on.
“How is it? Did you see it? Aren’t you pleasantly surprised? Layer by layer, each layer infused with flavor. Every layer is filled with happiness that you’ve never expected!”
Xiao Jin raised his head with a conflicted expression. “Do I have to eat them
all?”
Su Ying hesitated for a moment before answering, “If you really don’t want to leave any for me…”
“Not at all!” Xiao Jin grabbed her hand and pulled her to his seat. He then shoved the chopsticks into her hands.
“On my birthday, I am happy as long as I have you.”
Su Ying was truly touched. After all, it was such a big bowl of noodles!
“Xiao Jin, you’re really good to me.”
“As long as you like it.”
Su Ying happily immersed herself in eating the noodles.
“Father, happy birthday!”
Xiao Jin, who felt that he had escaped just now, saw the two little ones walk in with a peach bun that was about the size of that porcelain basin.
“Father, Ling and I made this longevity peach bun for you. You have to finish it. It’s very, very delicious!” Ji poked his tiny face out from behind the peach bun with difficulty.
“Father, I also put in your favorite red bean paste and chestnut paste filling inside this peach bun. You must finish it all,” Ling chimed in.
The two little ones did not notice the changing emotions in their father’s expression at all. They hauled the longevity peach bun onto the table with difficulty. Ling even thoughtfully opened it for Xiao Jin, revealing a mixture of black and yellow chestnut paste and red bean paste inside. She tried her best to break off a large piece and brought it to Xiao Jin’s mouth. “Come, Father. Open your mouth. Ah…”
Xiao Jin was utterly speechless.
After some desperate inner struggle, he slowly opened his mouth and took a bite. The sweet and salty taste was really… No words could describe it.
His good children did not have to be so filial actually…
“Mother, Ling also wants to eat an egg.”
Su Ying very generously gave the last poached egg to Ling.
Ji looked at the large basin of colorful noodles and his tiny forehead furrowed even more tightly than Xiao Jin’s.
Forget it, forget it. Mother liked to eat so much. He would just let her finish it herself.
“Father, go on. Eat the longevity peach bun.”
Xiao Jin’s hand, which was about to silently put down the chunk of longevity peach bun, froze in midair.
“Father is not hungry…”
“Father, you find that it’s not delicious?” Ji looked very hurt.
True but…
“It’s quite delicious. Come and eat with Father.”
Ji looked at the pitch-black bean paste filling that was brought to his lips and quickly took a step back. When Ling was making the filling, two scoops fell to the ground. He had better not eat it!
Surrounded by the sound of Su Ying’s frenzied slurping of the noodles and bombarded by the amazing taste of the chestnut and red bean paste, Xiao Jin’s birthday was particularly unforgettable!
Xiao Jin felt that he had really eaten too much at night, so he soaked for a while longer during his bath so that his blood vitality could circulate and accelerate the digestion of the food in his stomach. He only came out of the bathroom when his stomach felt better.
As soon as Xiao Jin returned to the inner hall, he felt that the light was several degrees dimmer than before. Su Ying’s figure was nowhere to be seen in the hall. When he made his way past the screen, he could vaguely see a figure on the bed.
Just as he was feeling puzzled, the light-colored bed curtain was drawn aside and the gap was just enough for him to catch sight of Su Ying’s two seductive almond-shaped eyes.
Xiao Jin felt a ball of fiery passion in his chest gradually blazing up.
He steadied his steps, but he still couldn’t wait to stride forward.
He drew the bed curtains aside and saw Su Ying reclining on the bed, dressed in a skimpy outfit and gazing at him with her seductive eyes.
Xiao Jin felt that ball of fire in his chest instantly engulfing his entire body.
He reached out and grabbed her wrist. Su Ying’s body slithered up to him like a snake before she wrapped both her arms around his neck.
“Your Majesty, you ate quite a bit at night. Why don’t you do some exercise first before resting?”
The moment Su Ying opened her mouth, that seductive aura was still present, but that soft and delicate feeling had dissipated.
However, Xiao Jin found himself unable to stop. He raised his hand and extinguished the only light in the inner hall. He let down the bed curtain and the whole hall was rocked by an atmosphere of titillation.
When Su Ying opened her eyes again, the sun was already high up in the sky. She yawned and moved her body to get up, but she found that her two legs were sore and swollen. Her legs even trembled slightly when she exerted force. Su Ying could only lie flat on the bed like a piece of salted fish and began to circulate her energy. She injected her entire body with energy.
When she opened her eyes again, she had recovered a lot of strength.
She didn’t know what kind of stimulation Xiao Jin had undergone that night, but he tried quite a number of fancy tricks. If it weren’t on account of his birthday last night, she would definitely have thrown him out!
Only when Su Ying made some sounds did Bai Shuang and the others push the door open and enter. They then helped her wash up and get dressed.
Now that the Empress was the only one in the Imperial harem’s quarters, Su Ying didn’t need to pay her respects to anyone. And no one would come up to her and be an eyesore in front of her. If she herself didn’t have anything to do, her time was basically freed up.
Su Ying felt bored after eating her fill, but she also enjoyed the rare moment of relaxation.
There was a rocking chair in the courtyard of the Conjugal Phoenix Palace. She instructed someone to move the rocking chair to a spot under the sun. After eating and drinking to her heart’s content, she would lie down and bask in the sun like a lazy cat until all the pores on her body were expanded totally..