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While speaking, Xiao Linshuang actually pushed around the greens that Lao Fan had specially picked out with her chopsticks, humming in distaste.

Eunuch Chang suddenly chimed in from the side, "The young lady is right, in my opinion, this cat is not only gluttonous and mischievous but also disloyal and a bad cat!"

Xiao Linshuang bared her teeth and sneakily glanced under the bed. Just now, her master had said that people become eunuchs to eat from the Imperial kitchen. Now look, they’ve started talking about him, ah, how the tables have turned! But she wondered if her master could swallow his pride.

Under the bed, Lao Fan was eating his pig hocks with grand nonchalance, casually pouting his lips, thinking, talk all you want, however you want, I am definitely not coming out to pay back those sixteen meals! Dead or alive, I’m not going out!

Perhaps Lao Fan was too smug; the sound of him eating the pig hocks was especially loud. Even Zhao Hongyan outside heard the smacking noises and couldn’t help asking, "Girl, your cat eats so loudly! It must be a big cat, right? May I see it?"

"No!"

Xiao Linshuang’s unusual response startled Zhao Hongyan, who blinked and pouted, feeling wronged, "If you don’t want to show it, that’s fine, don’t get angry."

Xiao Linshuang gave a hollow cough and a couple forced laughs, "It’s not that I don’t want you to see it, it’s just, this cat, you see, is old, gluttonous, ugly, and stinky.

It’s blind with old age and only cares about eating, can’t even catch a tiny mouse.

In short, it does everything a cat shouldn’t do, and nothing it should!

Alas, where would such an annoying old tabby be worthy to be seen by someone as noble as the Prince?

Wouldn’t that sully Your Highness’s eyes, right? "

Zhao Hongyan nodded repeatedly, agreeing that Xiao Linshuang’s cat seemed unworthy of attention. He casually added, "In that case, why don’t you just get rid of this old tabby? Since it’s old and gluttonous and can’t catch mice, why not replace it with a younger one?"

Without waiting for Xiao Linshuang to speak, Lao Fan from under the bed started to whine in protest, saying, what’s this about replacing, if old then replace? Why don’t you switch out your dad!

"Oh, this old tabby doesn’t seem to agree with that," Eunuch Chang said, covering his mouth and chuckling as he listened to Lao Fan’s protest, looking very amused.

Xiao Linshuang gave Eunuch Chang a deep look, finally sure that the old eunuch knew it wasn’t an old tabby under the bed, but her master Lao Fan.

Just as she was thinking, she heard Eunuch Chang remark in a mocking tone, "Is that really a cat? It doesn’t sound like one to me. It’s not even making a noise. Could it be so old it’s forgotten how to meow?"

Xiao Linshuang pursed her lips, deeply sympathizing with Lao Fan under the bed, "Come on, let’s hear a meow."

Lao Fan bit down hard on the pig hock in his hand, chewing fiercely as if the meat in his mouth was Eunuch Chang’s flesh.

"Why not meow? Have you really forgotten how?" After waiting quite a while without hearing a meow, Zhao Hongyan also asked curiously.

Xiao Linshuang shrugged her shoulders, her eyes full of sympathy as she looked under the bed, both pained and amused, "Old tabby, did you hear that? Quick, meow, come on, a good meow and I’ll bring you boiled fish."

Lao Fan rolled his eyes fiercely, resentfully and reluctantly opening his mouth, "Meow."

Eunuch Chang dug at his ear and frowned in dissatisfaction, "Why is the sound so faint? Hasn’t it eaten enough?"

Infuriated, Lao Fan scratched viciously in the air with both hands, as if he was clawing the beard-less face of Eunuch Chang, his meowing becoming stronger and more forceful with each sound, "Meow! Meow! Meow!"

Eunuch Chang laughed contentedly and turned his neck, smirking with satisfaction, "This cat, indeed, is obedient. Alright, although I haven’t found my debtor, hearing such a delightful cat-meow makes this trip worthwhile."

Xiao Linshuang propped her chin with her hands, thinking that tonight her master is likely to be so angry he won’t be able to sleep.