Zining was startled after hearing that, how could he backtrack!
Shangguan Xuanyi looked at Xiao'er, waiting for her to speak.
"Brother Shangguan, why is there no chirping of cicadas and crickets anymore?"
In summer, she would hear these sounds every morning. Now that they were suddenly gone, she felt uneasy.
Zining: How did the conversation get onto insects?
"I was worried they would disturb your sleep, so I had them all captured."
This was a surprisingly touching gesture. Forget it, she decided not to deliberately upset him with the personal service of the maids anymore.
Thinking that some insects were delicious in modern times, she wonder how they would taste here. Ah well, she'd let the maid have this gustatory experience to sample dishes with them!
"Only twenty severe beatings, that's a light punishment. I fear thirty more may be fatal! So how about this, Brother Shangguan, do you know where those captured cicadas and crickets are now?"
