Chapter 135 - Doesn't your princess have any simpler demands? (3)

Bei Nuan reflexively touched her pocket. There was only that piece of dried sweet potato that she hadn't finished eating. She took out the dried sweet potato and unwrapped the napkin around it.

Dahua sniffed again and suddenly licked the dried potato with her little pink tongue.

Bei Nuan: ???

Wasn't this cat only willing to eat expensive delicacies?

Dahua rudely took the dried sweet potato away, pressed it under her claws, and bared her small, sharp teeth. She tilted her head and gnawed on the dried sweet potato, tossing her dignified image to the side.

But, she couldn't bite through it. The dried sweet potato was too hard. Even with a carnivore's teeth, her attempt didn't fare much better than Bei Nuan's. After working hard for a long time, she only bit off a small piece.

Bei Nuan watched Dahua and her dried sweet potato. It took her a long time to recover from her surprise. "Y-you're actually willing to eat the snack of commoners?"

The queenly Li Dahua looked up at Bei Nuan and seemed to suddenly realize what she was doing. She let go of the dried sweet potato and turned to leave. She left behind the image of a proud, lonely, and hungry cat.

Bei Nuan quickly picked up the dried sweet potato from the ground.

She couldn't let Xie Yuanqing know that she had fed his princess dried sweet potato. If he found out, he would probably never let her see Dahua again.

"Dahua, what else do you want to eat? Other than those expensive delicacies and umm… dried sweet potato?" Bei Nuan put away the dried sweet potato and followed after that cat.

Dahua slowly went deeper into the courtyard, ignoring her.

The courtyard was full of various flowers and other plants. The complicated topography was suitable for cats.

Dahua was very familiar with the area. When she passed by a bunch of dahlias, she suddenly stopped and bristled.

Bei Nuan didn't know why the princess was upset. Perhaps, she disliked the flowers for blocking her path.

Dahua ignored her and walked further into Xie Yuanqing's home. Bei Nuan felt it would be too rude to go any further and stopped.

Bei Nuan greeted Xie Yuanqing's door guard when leaving and left the top of the mountain.

When she returned to Xiao Ji's home, Du Ruo was teasing the chickens for fun.

Seeing Bei Nuan, he smiled and said, "I told Lu Xingchi you'd be fine on your own. See, didn't you come back perfectly fine?"

It was rare to have free time and be in a safe place, so Jiang Fei and Tang Tang had also gone out for a walk. Lu Xingchi had been waiting here for Bei Nuan. Seeing that she hadn't come back after so long, he went out to look for her.

Bei Nuan took out the dried sweet potato that the cat had gnawed on it and tossed it on the small wooden table in the courtyard that was used durings meals. She got a new piece of dried sweet potato, pulled over a small stool, and sat down to silently gnaw on her snack.

"What's wrong?" Du Ruo saw that she was sitting there in a daze and came over to ask.

With the dried sweet potato hanging from her mouth, she racked her brains. "What do you think a cat wants the most?"

"Do you mean the cat raised by that Xie guy? How about finding him a girlfriend?" Du Ruo smoothly suggested.

"It's a girl cat."

"Then find her a boyfriend."

"Find her a boyfriend? But she might not want one?" Bei Nuan was doubtful. "Isn't it more reliable to feed her yummy food?"

Du Ruo scoffed. "No way, falling in love is definitely more important than eating. Who only thinks about eating delicious food every day and doesn't have dreams of romance?"

Bei Nuan looked at Du Ruo: "..."

Bei Nuan imagined the scene of the princess with one of Yao Zhen's big tom cats and resolutely rejected that idea. "No way, I'll get beaten to death if I find a boyfriend for her."

However, Du Ruo's attention was diverted. "Huh? Thief!"

Bei Nuan followed his gaze.

Li Dahua was stretched out with her front claws clinging onto the small wooden table and holding that dried sweet potato in her mouth.

Suddenly noticing that Bei Nuan was looking at her, the cat froze.

It was the first time Bei Nuan saw a cat looking embarrassed.

Why did she follow her here? She hadn't wanted it when she tried to feed her, but now, she specially came here to steal it?

Li Dahua soon regained its graceful posture that seemed to say, "Mortals, what are you looking at? Haven't you seen this venerable princess take a sweet potato before?"

She had been turning around to run away, but now, she slowly dropped the dried sweet potato, pressed it onto the ground, and self-assuredly gnawed on it.

She didn't look scared at all. It was obvious she had been spoiled since kittenhood and had never been punished for stealing.

Du Ruo was perplexed. "Why is a cat eating dried sweet potato?"

Bei Nuan answered, "Because she's hungry?"

"How pitiful. How about feeding it small dried fish?" Du Ruo suggested.

"I tried. She was disgusted by it."

Du Ruo glanced at Dahua gnawing the dried sweet potato and remarked, "It's too hard. She can't eat it."

The kind-hearted Du Ruo went inside, poured a bowl of hot water, chose a dried sweet potato that wasn't as hard, and soaked it in the hot water.  After soaking it for a while, he took it out and offered it to Dahua.