De Haoyu was telling the ghost story. ".....It was the princess' red eyes.....!!"
The four of the girls shuddered.
"Aaaaahhhh!!!!" The girls screamed their throats out....
"Image yourself... When you are looking through the keyhole...."
Suddenly De Haoyu was kicked. "Shut up!!" It was De Genji.
"Sister.... Let me tell...."
"No! I told you to shut up!!"
"When you are looking through the keyhole, the ghost s looking back at you....." He concluded and secretly smirked. "It makes me shudder just imagining about it!! A Ghost is looking back at me!!"
"I told you to shut up!!" De Genji ran and covered his mouth.
"Mhm.... Mhm..." De Haoyu struggled.
"Then can we go and sleep now?!" De Longjun stood up and asked.
The fighting twins stopped their fighting.
"Yes!! No more ghost stories!!" De Hua declared.
Chang Mingxia and Zan Guiying nodded.
They all stood up. Zan Guiying didn't let go of De Longjun. He chuckled.
"Hey can we sleep together? I am afraid to sleep alone after the story!!" Chang Mingxia whispered.
"Mm... We should!!" The other girls agreed.
"Yingying are you coming with us to sleep?" De Hua asked.
"No!! Yingying is sweepin with bwig bwothew Jun!!" She answered.
"Why can't you sleep with us?" Chang Mingxia asked. "You are growing!! You should try to sleep seperately!!"
"No!! Yingying don't want to gwo!! I wud onwy sweep with bwig bwothew Jun!!" She disagreed.
Then De Longjun looked at her coldly. Chang Mingxia shuddered. "That.... I was saying.... She should understand these things.... That's why..... I....!!"
"If yingying want to sleep with me, she can. And she is still a kid. Let her stay like a kid for some more time!! And also Chang Mingxia..... Don't interfere in my matters.... I don't like it!!" His voice turned colder.
'Clap!' De Hua clapped. "Then can we go and sleep? Let her sleep with brother!!" She tried to change the colder atmosphere.
"Yes!! Yeah!!" The twins also supported it.
"Hwaaa!!" De Haoyu yawned.
"I am feeling so sleepy!! Goodnight!!" De Haoyu walked to his tent.
Ugh!! Why is he like that or her?!! She is growing!! She has to understand these kinds of things!! Chang Mingxia thought angrily. She also walked with other girls to the tent.
"Brother is so scary!! Is it Chang Mingxia?!!" De Genji patted Chang Mingxia's shoulder.
She smiled.
"Don't be sad because of what he told to you!! He is like that! Even we are afraid of getting on his bad side!!" De Genji told her.
Chang Mingxia nodded.
***
In their tent, De Longjun was making their bed and Zan Guiying was looking at him.
"Come and lie down." He sat in the makeshift bed and patted near him.
She obediently lied down beside him.
"Do you want me to tell you a story?" He asked.
"No!! Bwothew Haoyu's ghost stowy made me afwaid!!" She denied.
"Mm...." De Longjun laid down beside her and covered them with blanket.
"Bwig bwothew Jun....?" She suddenly called him.
He looked at her.
"Awe tewe weally ghosts?"
He chuckled.
"What!! What if there are?" He asked in a serious tone.
"Bwothew Jun!!" She slapped his shoulder. "Don't make me afwaid!!"
"Mmm.... Okay!! Then sleep!!"
"But answe meee!! Pweas!!"
"No! You should figure it out!!" He gave a vague answer and chuckled inside.
"Then I won't be abwe to sweep awone!!" She pouted.
"It's okay to don't grow, Yingying! Try to be a child untill you grow up!!" He sweeped her hair. "Close your eyes and sleep."
"Good night kiss!!"
De Longjun kissed her temples. And she kissed his cheeks and hugged him tightly..,. Sleep invading her eyes....
***
The next day, the children returned to De mansion. Everybody had a good rest except Chang Mingxia. She was busy doing her homework.
***
Zan villa.
Bo Ehuang was so confused in the last night's incident. She was so sure that someone was behind the bush. So she decide to go and check in the garden on the next morning. But when she arrived there, she found gardeners are working on the early hours.
"What are you doing?!" She asked.
"Mr. Zan told us to cut some bushes and search throughly in the garden!!" They answered.
He is so considerate. She thought.
"Then do your work. If you find or doesn't find anything, inform me!" She instructed them and walked back towards the house.
But she found Chao Baozhai coming out of the villa. "Miss Chao! Why are you here?!" She asked.
"Good morning Madam Zan! I was looking for my bracelet! I think I have dropped them here!!" She answered.
"Oh! Okay! The gardeners are cleaning the garden. Ask to them if they found out anything!!" She instructed.
"Yes ma'am!!" Chao Baozhai bowed.
Bo Ehuang started walking again.
Thank god!! She hadn't found it!! Chao Baozhai relaxed. Yesterday, when she was hiding behind the bush or walking in the garden, she had lost her bracelet. If the bracelet fell near the bush, they will find out about me... And that night, without being noticed Chang Mingxia searched the garden. But she saw Zan Tengfei looking through the garden so she ran back to the room. So today she decided to come early. But she met Bo Ehuang.
She walked towards the gardeners. "Did you find a golden bracelet here?" She asked.
"No miss Chao!! We didn't find anything!!"
"Okay!! If you find it? Could you bring it to me?"
"But miss Chao!! Madam Zan asked us to inform if we find anything!!" They informed.
"It's okay then if you find anything inform Madam Zan!!" I should make up a solid lie if they find my bracelet!!
But even after sometime, the gardeners find anything. Chao Baozhai sighed in relief. Like that the morning turned to evening....
In the afternoon, Chao Baozhai was cleaning her room.
"Miss Chao! May I enter?" One of the servants knocked the door.
"What is it?" She opened the door.
"Mr. Zan has called for you!!" The servant informed.
Zan Tengfei!! Why!! Is he slowly leaning towards me?
"Yes! I would be right there!!"
She walked with the servant to Zan Tengfei's study.
She knocked and getting response, opened it.
"Good evening Mr. Zan! You called me!!" She bowed.
Zan Tengfei looked at her for sometime. Then he opened a cupboard and took something from it. "Is it yours?" He asked.
Chao Baozhai looked.... It was her bracelet....