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Chapter 303 The Little Princess Steals a Meal!
So although Li Shimin is already relinquishing power, it will still be some time before he truly retires.

“Little Nangjun~” The little princess looked at Xiao Ran with her big, watery eyes and pointed to the honey on the table.

At this point, the three little princesses had stopped eating the honey.

"Aren't you going to eat?" Xiao Ran asked.

The young princess opened her arms, indicating that she wanted Xiao Ran to hug her.

"No more~" Although honey is sweet and delicious, a little bit is enough for the little princess.

"Aren't Fanyin and Seventeen eating either?"

Princess Chengyang nodded, pulling Princess Gaoyang along.

"Little Pouch Duck~" The little princess wiggled her body and pointed to the TV not far away, "Honey~"

Xiao Ran carried her to sit on the sofa. "Yes, it's honey."

Princess Chengyang and Princess Gaoyang also sat down next to Xiao Ran. Seeing this, Xiao Ran put the princess down as well.

The little princess's body was pressed tightly against Xiao Ran's, and she was still holding the hand of the little princess of Chengyang.

The three little princesses held hands, watching intently as Bald Qiang and the two bears chopped down trees on TV, covering their mouths and laughing at the funny parts.

"Huh? What's this?" Li Lizhi, who was looking at her phone, suddenly spoke up.

Xiao Ran leaned over for a look and saw that someone was doing plant dyeing.

In essence, plant dyeing is simply using the natural colors of plants for coloring.

Initially, most fabrics were dyed using natural plant colors, but now there are many plant-based dyes that are applied to canvas bags and other fabrics, which look quite unique.

This is the kind of video that Li Lizhi saw.

"What's wrong? Do you find it novel?" Xiao Ran asked.

Li Lizhi shook her head. In fact, in their area, all the fabrics were dyed with natural dyes, so it was nothing new to her.

"This method of directly imprinting the shape of plants is quite ingenious," Li Shimin suddenly said.

Xiao Ran didn't know when Li Shimin had come over.

“Hey~ Little Nangjun~ Grandpa~ Sister~” The little princess’s attention was instantly drawn to the sight of these people gathered together.

Princess Chengyang and Princess Gaoyang also looked over.

"What is it?" Princess Chengyang tilted her head.

Li Lizhi patted her head. This kind of thing was actually difficult to explain to the little princesses, so Xiao Ran said, "It's painting."

Well, you could say it's a kind of drawing.

"Fafa?" The little princess clearly thought Xiao Ran was talking about flowers.

Xiao Ran smiled and said, "Alright, you're not wrong about flowers."

The little princess rammed her head into Xiao Ran's arms, "I want to get rich~"

Xiao Ran thought about it and realized that it wasn't entirely impossible.

Doing crafts with a few little princesses can actually come in handy later.

This is basically him designing clothes for the little princess; it suddenly feels like he's playing with a doll.

The little princess, who was being treated like a doll, was completely unaware.

"Little Duck~ Where can I get some hair?"

The weather isn't very warm yet, so Xiao Ran usually doesn't want to take them out. But you don't have to pick the flowers yourself, right?

Xiao Ran called the florist directly and ordered plants such as eucalyptus leaves and lilies.

I also bought a few sunflowers.

The little princess only heard Xiao Ran say that she wanted to do crafts. She didn't know what it meant, but she always maintained her curiosity about anything she had never encountered before.

"Hands~" The little princess tried to say the word "handmade", but in the end she just repeated "hands".

Xiao Ran showed the little princess a video about natural dyeing, "Shall we use this to make clothes?"

The little princess looked around and yawned.

She was at a very active and energetic age, so of course she had no interest in these things.

Seeing this, Xiao Ran thought for a moment and decided to wait until the flowers arrived before making a decision.

It was just a whim, and the little princess didn't like it, but Li Lizhi seemed very interested and even took out a piece of her unused fabric.

A short while later, the doorbell rang.

Xiao Ran opened the door, and sure enough, there was someone outside delivering flowers.

After accepting the flowers, Li Lizhi walked over.

“It feels like we’ll have to try many times,” Li Lizhi said, referring to the person in the video she saw who had failed many times.

Xiao Ran thought this thing was quite simple.

"Anyway, the flowers have already arrived, so let's give it a try and see," Xiao Ran said.

Making this kind of plant dye is indeed very simple. Li Lizhi sat in front of the table, slowly tapping with a small hammer.

Xiao Ran went to wash the flower petals; he planned to make some flower cakes.

The little princess, who was watching TV, suddenly found that her surroundings had become quiet.

She glanced at Princess Chengyang and Princess Gaoyang, who were still watching TV beside her, and then at Li Lizhi, who was sitting not far away.

"Big sister~" The little princess looked up and walked over.

"What's wrong, Sizi?"

The little princess pouted, "Little Nang-jun~"

Li Lizhi smiled indulgently, "You, you only have eyes for your little husband."

The little princess chuckled, revealing her tiny baby teeth.

At this point, the little princess had lost interest in the cartoons; she wanted to start an adventure!

So the little princess twisted her body and pointed her little finger at the ground.

"Sister~ get down~ get down~" Li Lizhi lifted the little princess off the sofa.

With the little princess making such a move, the Chengyang little princess and the Gaoyang little princess naturally couldn't sit still either.

"Sister~"

Li Lizhi gently lifted the little princesses down and said, "Be careful, okay?"

In any case, the three little princesses won't encounter any danger here. The biggest danger might be that they accidentally fall while playing.

The little princess nodded obediently, "How many?"

Watching the three little princesses walk towards Xiao Ran's direction, Li Lizhi returned to her seat.

While Xiao Ran was preparing the dough, he turned around and found three small mushrooms growing in the kitchen.

"What is Sizi Fanyin Seventeen doing?"

When the three little princesses looked up, Xiao Ran couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"Haha, what happened?" Xiao Ran walked over, picked up the little princess, and tried to wipe her face, which looked like a little kitten's, clean.

Li Lizhi had temporarily finished her tapping and went over when she heard the sound.

"what happened?"

The three little princesses looked up when they heard Li Lizhi's voice. "Pfft." Li Lizhi lightly covered her mouth and took out her handkerchief.

"What are you doing?"

The three little princesses had red and yellow stains around their mouths, some even on their faces, clearly from their little hands.

Xiao Ran, however, realized what was happening and asked, "Did you guys eat the filling I prepared?"

Li Lizhi followed Xiao Ran's gaze and looked over.

On the low table were three small basins, each containing crushed flower petals.

The florist delivered ordinary roses, but Xiao Ran specifically requested edible roses to make flower cakes.

Besides roses, there are also edible chrysanthemums, etc.

Normally, the filling of flower cakes should be sealed and marinated with honey, but at home, everything is kept simple, so Xiao Ran just put in honey and put the bowl on the table.

As it turned out, these three little gluttons discovered it.

"Hehe~ Sweetie~" The little princess laughed very happily and licked her fingers again.

Xiao Ran glanced at the filling. Although the three little princesses had eaten it all over their faces, the filling in the bowl was still clean. The only slightly dirty part was the filling that had accidentally fallen onto the table.

"Does Sizi like it?" Xiao Ran bent down.

The little princess nodded, "Porridge~"

The flower petals, with honey added, are sweet.

The little princess had only thought the things in the pot looked like flowers, so she went over to take a look. But she found that they were not only flowers, but also sweet flowers, so she took a bite.

Once you start taking a bite, you just keep taking one bite after another.

Princess Chengyang and Princess Gaoyang, who were both young children, also swallowed hard and "went along with the flow" when they saw the princess eating happily.

So in the end, these three little tabby kittens appeared.

Xiao Ran and Li Lizhi wiped each of the three little princesses' faces, but they couldn't get them clean at all, so they had to give up in the end.

Li Lizhi was a little worried, "What if things continue like this?"

Xiao Ran comforted them, "Don't worry, it won't happen. It will fall off in a few days. But for the next few days, the three of them will have to live with this face."

At this moment, the little princess, Princess Chengyang, and Princess Gaoyang stood together hand in hand again, watching Xiao Ran and Li Lizhi talk. The three little ones tilted their heads in perfect unison.

Xiao Ran touched his heart. Oh no, he was totally charmed. What should he do?
"What are you doing?" Li Shimin had no interest in the plant dyeing, so he simply went outside for a walk, and when he came back, he saw this scene.

"Grandpa~" The little princess smiled and looked up at Li Shimin.

Li Shimin burst into laughter instantly, "Hahaha, what's wrong with Sizi?"

Li Shimin gently wiped the little princess's lips, but found that he couldn't wipe it off.

"Second Aunt and Seventeen, what's going on?" Seeing the three little ones' bewildered expressions, Li Shimin could only ask Xiao Ran.

Xiao Ran was also somewhat helpless, "If I had known, I wouldn't have put these things on the low table."

The low table he mentioned is actually somewhat like a bedside table.

The reason for leaving the prepared filling there was so that Xiao Ran could easily bring a stool to sit on when making the flower cakes later; otherwise, he would have to stand if it were on the counter.

That is why the three little princesses were able to receive the flower petal filling.

At this moment, the little princess turned away from Li Shimin's hand and reached out to protect Xiao Ran's legs.

"Little Nangjun~ May you prosper~" The little princess already loved flowers, and now that these flowers were sweet, she loved them even more.

Princess Chengyang and Princess Gaoyang also gathered around.

"Huahua is delicious." Princess Chengyang licked her lips, and Princess Gaoyang nodded in agreement.

Xiao Ran smiled and said, "Then we'll eat later. I'll make you some flower cakes first."

The little princess tilted her head, "Freshly steamed buns~"

Xiao Ran nodded, "Yes, flower cakes."

The little princess looked at the filling and exclaimed happily, "I want seven!"

Li Shimin walked over and picked up the little princess in his arms.

"Let's go, Sizi, don't disturb your young master."

The little princess didn't seem very willing; she twisted her little body.

"Little Nang-jun~" she said, stretching out her little hand towards Xiao Ran.

At this moment, Li Shimin resembled the wicked Queen Mother who had separated the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

Li Lizhi found it amusing and said, "Grandpa, why don't you let Yushu and Xiangcao do it? Sizi doesn't really want to leave the young master."

Then, Li Lizhi looked at Xiao Ran and asked, "Is it difficult to make these flower cakes?"

Xiao Ran has already prepared the most difficult parts, such as the oil-based dough and the filling. Now, all he has to do is wrap the pastry and bake it in the oven.

The operation is very simple, just as Li Lizhi said, Yu Shu and Xiangcao can complete it independently.

Back in her young master's arms, the little princess wrapped her arms around Xiao Ran's neck, rubbed her face against his, hummed something under her breath, and swung her short legs back and forth.

Xiao Ran carried the little princess back to the living room and immediately saw Li Lizhi's unfinished work on the long table.

In reality, the finished products that can be made from this kind of plant dyeing are extremely limited. They may look somewhat rustic, but it's impossible to make them very refined.

Li Lizhi cut three pieces of cloth, intending to make a small bag for each of the three little princesses.

"Wow~ So beautiful~" the little princess exclaimed, pointing to the fabric on the table.

Li Lizhi smiled and said, "Since our Sizi likes it, how about we make a bag for Sizi with this piece of cloth?"

The little princess ignored the bag and just nodded, "Okay~"

Li Lizhi was amused, but she really did intend to make the bag.

The little princess snuggled in Xiao Ran's arms for a while before going to watch cartoons again, this time the story of Little Cube and Little Starfish.

Xiao Ran put the fabric that Li Lizhi had made into water containing alum in order to fix the color.

The two of them hung up the three pieces of cloth together, and then sat down on the chairs on the balcony.

Li Lizhi took a sip of water and suddenly said, "Young master, do you remember the grafting technique we talked about last time?"

"Of course I remember," Xiao Ran said.

At the time, they had people cordon off an area, which could be considered a test site. However, the area has not yet been fully renovated, so the plan has not been implemented.

The crops inside the greenhouse were growing extremely well, and the people in charge of agriculture wished they could live inside 24 hours a day.

Li Lizhi said, "I was too attached to appearances back then. Now that I think about it, we could have just studied at home. If fruit trees are inconvenient, we can use flowers instead."

This idea came to me today while I was doing plant dyeing.

That day they were only thinking about grafting fruit trees; now that they think about it, using flowers would have been the most convenient.

That's true; Xiao Ran didn't realize it at first either.

“You’re right, this way it’s easier to do.”

Li Shimin said in a deep voice, "Not only that, if we really discover some unique flowers, then we can release them."

Nowadays, many literati and artists enjoy appreciating flowers, and it is common for them to spend a fortune on a single potted plant.

If Xiao Ran and Li Lizhi really succeed in developing grafted flowers, they will definitely be very popular.

(End of this chapter)