Lan Lan stayed on the second day after Qiao Xiu left home.

Qiao Xiuli thought she would sleep until the sun was up.

Unexpectedly, the sky was still bright, and when he had just washed up and went to the main hall for breakfast, he found Lanlan was already sitting at the table waiting.

She held her face, a little sleepy, and nodded her head again and again like a chicken eating rice.

As if I could fall asleep anytime.

Qiao Xiuli was a little surprised, and his thin eyes were even more tinged with joy.

"Are you waiting for me?"

Hearing his voice, Lan Lan suddenly woke up.

She rubbed her eyes: "Lili, you're awake, come and taste the buns I steamed with the cook!"

Qiao Xiuli sat beside her, and Lanlan handed him a pair of chopsticks.

However, when he picked up the first bun, he put it in her bowl.

Then, Qiao Xiuli tasted the steamed stuffed bun.

His originally cold eyebrows now appeared gentle.

"Why do you suddenly want to help make breakfast?"

Lan Lan said: "I don't want to live in your house for nothing, and I also want to help you, so I will do some small things within my ability!"

"The buns should taste good, right? Because I'm just helping to steam the buns, and it's the cook who really kneads the dough and adjusts the stuffing."

She stuck out her tongue embarrassingly: "When I learn how to make buns, I will make them for you myself."

Qiao Xiuli did not deny it.

He smiled slightly with thin lips, and his eyes were gentle: "Okay, do it if you want, and don't force yourself if you don't want to."

After eating, Qiao Xiuli went to work.

Lan Lan sent him to the door.

Qiao Xiuli said, "I told the cashier and the housekeeper yesterday that if you want to go shopping, you should take two maidservants out."

"Let those shopkeepers keep the accounts, and when you come back, the maid will ask the accountant to settle the accounts."

"If you want to go out to play, you can bring two more servants. The Liuchun Garden in the southwest of the city belongs to my friend. I can take you for an outing on the day I rest and take a bath."

He said as he walked out.

Lanlan nodded obediently: "I know, Lili, I will definitely not cause trouble, so you can go out at ease!"

Qiao Xiuli paused when he walked to the door.

He turned around and chuckled: "It's okay to cause trouble, I will solve it for you."

Lanlan blinked her long eyelashes, then watched Qiao Xiuli get ready to get into the sedan chair.

However, he seemed to have a lot to say.

He was about to get on the sedan chair and enter the palace to go to court first, but he couldn't help turning his head to look at Lanlan standing at the door.

Qiao Xiuli pondered for a while, and said, "Go back and sleep again."

These words broke Lanlan's heart.

She got up before dawn, watched the cook knead the dough, and learned how to boil the fire for almost an hour.

Now she is really sleepy.

Lanlan yawned: "Then we'll see you tonight."

She turned and entered the house.

Only then did Qiao Xiuli let people get up from the sedan chair.

However, the old domestic servant who came from Zhen Guogong's mansion to deliver the food saw this scene around the corner and couldn't help wondering.

When did the young master of their family raise a girl in the outer mansion?

Over the years, Qiao Xiu was not close to women, and when someone suggested a matchmaking, he resolutely refused.

But it didn't make his parents, grandparents feel headache.

It is a great thing to take the initiative to bring the woman home now!

The old servant sent the vegetable basket in, turned around and went back to the Zhen Guogong's mansion: "I must hurry up and tell the good news to the master and the others!"

As for Qiao Xiuli, he seemed to be a little absent-minded all day long.

In the early morning, the new emperor Gu Zixiao called in a deep voice—

"Qiao Shilang, let's talk about the preparations for adjusting the civil tax in the near future."

All the ministers looked at Qiao Xiuli who was in the queue of civil servants, but the latter looked serious and indifferent, but said nothing.