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Seeing that Jiang Wan was still skeptical, Xiao Rui picked up the box he brought with him and pulled her away from the desk. They walked around the room's screen and sat down in front of the large black table.

Jiang Wan cast a sidelong glance at him, thinking, this guy really doesn't treat me as an outsider.

"See what I brought you." Xiao Rui, who was in a good mood, looked at Jiang Wan with a smile on her face, and pushed the box in front of her.

The box was square, only two or three inches high. Judging from its appearance, it looked very ordinary.

"This is …" Jiang Wan slightly hesitated, but didn't dare to use her hand to receive it.

"These are some of the snacks I've ordered people to make." Xiao Rui didn't think that it was unfair. She smiled as she opened the box, and then pushed it towards Jiang Wan, "I don't know what taste you like, so I chose a few of them. Do you want to try some?"

He saw that the small gift box was filled with snacks, some red, some green, some yellow. Some were shaped into plum blossoms, some were shaped into ingots, some were carved into calligraphy, and some had been pinched into exquisite little animals.

Even Jiang Wan, who had been a grand concubine before, had to admit that even the imperial kitchens of the palace couldn't produce such exquisite pastries.

"Taste it!" Xiao Rui looked at Jiang Wan with a smile, then picked up the small box and gave her an encouraging look.

Jiang Wan casually picked up a fortune cookie, and discovered that it looked a lot smaller than anything she had eaten before. It was about the size of a hand, and one bite was enough to wrap the entire cookie into her mouth.

In order to not appear too ugly when eating, Jiang Wan still carefully took a light bite on the fortune cookie, and the smell of alcohol filled her entire nose without any warning.

Aromatic, but not tiresome.

Jiang Wan looked at Xiao Rui with a bit of surprise, but Xiao Rui's eyes were full of smiles. She said proudly: "Delicious!"

Jiang Wan nodded, lightly took another bite of the small plum blossom cake, and carefully chewed it. That soft, exquisite taste, it was so delicious that one couldn't help but want to eat it.

"This is the eight pieces of wine I've made the kitchen improve on. Some people like it, but some people can't stand the smell of it." Xiao Rui said with a smile. She took out a sushi from the food box and used her hands to break it in half, allowing Jiang Wan to smell the fragrant scent of roses.

"This is …" Jiang Wan stared at the birthday cake in Xiao Rui Xuan's hand and asked, "Isn't this pie a bit too alluring?" In her impression, the birthday cake was usually stuffed with bean paste.

This is a new taste that has just been developed in the kitchen." "As if seeing the doubt in Jiang Wan's eyes, Xiao Rui explained with a smile," "When they made the noodles, they added in rose nectar and then used rose candied fruits. They just randomly grabbed a birthday cake to use because the new flower pattern hadn't arrived yet.

As he spoke, he swallowed the half of the rosary in his hand, then handed the other half to Jiang Wan.

At this moment, Jiang Wan heard the faint sound of a rattle coming from the gong tower, and her mother's voice also sounded outside the house at the right time, "Fourth Miss, it's already the second rays of the sun, it's time to rest …"

"Mother Han …" Don't come in yet! " Jiang Wan held the half piece of bread and shouted anxiously.

At this time, Xiao Rui Xuan was still in her room. If Han Li's mother saw her, she would be in trouble.

But before she finished, Mother Han already walked in with a copper pot.

Jiang Wan turned around anxiously. Xiao Rui's figure was nowhere to be seen in the room. If the box on the black square table wasn't still there, she would have thought she was hallucinating again.

For two or three days in a row, Jiang Wan was still locked up in her room, writing and painting, pretending to work hard to copy the scriptures.

Suddenly, there was the sound of shattering porcelain downstairs, followed by Jiang Shu's frantic yells.

Jiang Wan stopped the pen in her hand, her brows slightly raised as she looked at Lilac who was grinding her own ink. Lilac very cleverly replied, "Fourth Miss, I will go and find out."

With that, Lilac lifted the curtain and left.

Jiang Shu, who had just lost her temper, was currently panting heavily as she sat in front of the empty Pear Blossom Wood Table. She had already swept away the four treasures on the floor earlier. The blue and white calligraphy brush that Mother Du specially sent over was also thrown into a mess, with broken pieces of porcelain scattered all over the floor.

Jiang Shu's new lotus root colored gold thread makeup and white dress were also stained with large amounts of ink. She looked extremely dirty and miserable.

"Damned Jiang Wan!" I'm not done with you! " Tears hung from Jiang Shu's face as she clenched both her hands into fists. With a face full of resentment, she rapped the book as she cursed, "It's all the fault of that bastard, he actually made me copy the scripture!"

At this moment, the servants in her room were all hiding in an inconspicuous corner, afraid that they would accidentally cause trouble for the Fifth Miss.

"My Fifth Miss, why must you suffer ~!" Hearing the activity in the room, a woman wearing a turmeric robe appeared. The woman in her forties hurriedly lifted the curtain and entered the room.

Seeing the mess on the ground, the woman first stopped her steps, then bent down to pick up the heart paper that was already stained with ink. Wiping it with a pained expression, she smiled bitterly, "If you have the time to be angry, why don't you quickly think of a way to explain yourself?"

This person was Jiang Shu's wet nurse, her mother. Because she had grown up, her position in this room was different from the other maids' wives.

Jiang Shu looked at her reproachfully, her mouth puckered, and continued to cry.

Think of a way! Think of a way! Didn't she know she had to think of something?

However, she only had so few people with her, so there were even fewer who could read, not to mention someone who was able to copy the scripture with a pen.

Seeing Fifth Miss' worried expression, his mother became worried. She looked at the pearl in the corner of the wall and said, "Don't you know how to draw pearls? Draw a page or two according to the words in the book."

"There's also the emerald," Mommy Qian looked towards the other side of the room. "You and Pearl will be together."

"I'll go to the outer court later to have a look, and get those errand boys to come help as well." Mommy Qian kindly consoled Jiang Shu, "Everyone picks firewood, and the flames are high. This matter will always be completed."

Then, with a face full of schadenfreude, she pointed to the stairs and smiled, "I've asked about it. The person upstairs woke up before dawn and wants to log in at night …"

"Really?" Jiang Shu pouted as tears gushed out of her eyes, forming two streams on her ink-stained face.

"How can this be fake?" Mommy Qian quickly took out her handkerchief and wiped Jiang Shu's feline face with it, "You have to know that she wants to copy more than half of it. Furthermore, the Lilac Jasmine in her room is someone who can't even be compared to Pearl Jadeite …"

The moment Jiang Zhuzhe heard this, he immediately felt much better.

Mommy Qian quickly gave the people standing in the corner a meaningful glance. Only then did someone muster up the courage to walk out and silently pick up the things on the ground.