Thirteenth Lady's Comback: Her Everyday Life as a Bystander-Chapter 167 - 8: Scent Reveals the Truth (Part 3)

The maids quickly brought up a large food box, inside which was an assortment box containing twelve kinds of sweet treats and fruits.

One was osmanthus cake with white sugar and arrowroot powder, one was bird’s nest ginseng powder eight-treasure Western cheesecake, one was almond bean powder Qi Qiao pastry, one was pigeon egg rock sugar thin roll, one was pigeon powder chicken oil fragrant leg fried roll, and one was iced taro water chestnut crystal cake, these were six kinds of tea snacks.

The sweets were Guangdong mint fragrance lotus seed candy, lemon sour fried banana candy, and Buddha’s hand slice. The fruits were fresh snow lotus root, apple pineapple fruit, and milk crystal grapes.

Underneath the food box lay a few bottles of Dutch water, some with ginger juice, some with lemon, some with mint, and some with salt water. Dutch water was the earliest type of soda water, and the result of Great Chu’s prosperous maritime trade, only recently introduced.

How to put it, one could only say that the founding Emperor of Great Chu still invented some livelihoods, at least he didn’t invent soda, so Dutch water is still considered a rare novelty in Great Chu.

Susu was truly warm, and without pretension with Yang Liu, first drank a glass of watermelon juice, and when thinking of pouring another, she retracted her hand under Yang Liu’s glare, "I see you’ve healed and forgotten the pain, in a few days it’s your special Days, how can you not know the taboos!"

Susu was both helpless and touched, raising her hand in surrender, "Alright, alright, I was wrong, I won’t do it again." Yang Liu, seeing her roguish manner, half-amused and half-exasperated, said, "Really need to let people see what a Fairy-like Miss Susu is like in private."

Susu couldn’t help but roll her eyes, "Would be nice if I were a Fairy, wouldn’t need to eat or drink, why would I be here listening to your lecture, I’d already have ’flown to the heavens’." Several of the maidservants and wives present knew that Miss Susu was indeed not at all like a Fairy in private, but she was pretty, and even rolling her eyes looked better than others, truly driving despair into this face-valuing world.

Susu had many secrets to share with Yang Liu, and Yang Liu too had a belly full of worries to share with Susu. After eating a little, mainly with Susu strongly pressing Yang Liu to eat some fruit, seeing she didn’t vomit, she became increasingly convinced Yang Liu’s issues were mental. Thus, very openly, she ordered a few dishes both she and Yang Liu loved and were suitable for pregnant women from the small kitchen, as it would soon be lunchtime.

Then the two entered the East Warm Pavilion hand in hand, ready to have a bed talk.

Yangzhi Hall’s main room was three rooms, one bright and two dark. The middle was the living room, the west was the bedroom, and the east was where Yang Liu usually spent her days, akin to a Warm Pavilion. If it were before, having a bed talk in the bedroom would be most appropriate, but now that Yang Liu was married, the bedroom was the most private space for the couple, and Susu, being proper, would not enter, so the East Warm Pavilion became the first choice.

In the East Warm Pavilion, a green gauze cabinet divided the space. A heated brick bed was by the window in the outer space, with a round rosewood table in the center of the floor, accompanied by four carved rosewood stools, where meals were usually set.

Inside the green gauze cabinet, against the wall, was a carved rosewood Amitabha couch featuring the "Twenty-Four Views of West Lake." Despite the hot weather, the floor was covered with a thick bearskin rug, so thick that stepping on it, one couldn’t see their foot top, indicating Huang Family’s brother-in-law’s thoughtfulness to prevent Yang Liu from falling when she rose.

Entering the green gauze cabinet, both Susu and Yang Liu, assisted by maids, removed their shoes and instructed the maids and servant women to remain in the outer living room. Yang Liu’s belly was still not visible, so she simply sat on the floor.

Susu and Yang Liu leaned half against the couch, and just as Yang Liu was about to speak, she noticed Susu’s expression suddenly becoming somewhat serious, "What’s the matter?" Yang Liu was startled, not knowing why Susu showed this expression, which was not the mood for a bed talk.

In fact, Susu had smelled a scent since they entered, faint at first, becoming distinct inside the green gauze cabinet. This scent was identical to the one she had smelled on "Aunt Han."

Susu asked curiously, "You’re pregnant and still using incense?" Among them, Yang Liu was the one who loved beauty the most. Yang Liu quickly shook her head, "Since knowing I’m pregnant, not to mention incense, I’ve barely used rouge and powder, only slightly applying the plant makeup set you made, since my complexion is quite poor."

"Did you not smell a scent? It’s faint, very pleasant!" Yang Liu sniffed hard, "Didn’t smell it, did you use perfume?" Susu couldn’t help but roll her eyes at her, "I don’t usually use those things, knowing you’re pregnant, how could I use any!"

Susu couldn’t help but stand up to carefully follow the source of the scent...