Chapter 32: None of You Men Are Good

Late at night on the street, the wontons sold at the stalls are especially delicious.

In a rough white porcelain bowl with blue and white patterns, round little wontons float in a soup made from pork bones with coriander and chopped green onions, steaming hot and fragrant.

Jiang Yueyao was starving.

She picked up the spoon and took a sip of the soup first.

Unexpectedly, the soup was so hot that it made the tip of her tongue numb.

She stuck out her tongue and breathed out, causing Lu Sui, who was sitting next to her, to look at her.

Seeing her like this, he poured her a cup of cold tea and handed it to her.

Jiang Yueyao quickly reached out to take it, took a sip, and relieved the burning sensation on her tongue.

"It's so hot." She stirred the wontons in the bowl with a spoon.

Then he scooped one up and put it to his mouth, blew it gently, and put it into his mouth when he felt it was almost done.

The wonton wrapper is very thin, but the filling inside is very firm.

What she wanted was the one with fresh fennel sprouts and meat. She liked fennel and loved its unique fragrance.

The fragrance of fennel seedlings mixed with the aroma of meat, and Jiang Yueyao narrowed her beautiful almond eyes in satisfaction.

Smells so good!

So satisfying.

Lu Sui also ordered a bowl of wontons.

But he didn't move.

I drank two extra cups of Xianglichun tonight and now my stomach feels a little uncomfortable.

He rested his elbows on the table, his slender fingers pressing against his forehead. Hearing a satisfied sigh from the other side, he couldn't help but open his eyelids and look at her.

The noble ladies in the capital like to put on airs, whether at home or outside.

Naturally, I would look down upon a roadside stall like this.

Not to mention the guy in front of me, who doesn't care about his image at all. When he burns his tongue, he breathes out like a puppy; when he thinks something tastes good, he squints his eyes with satisfaction, like a little fox who has stolen a chicken leg.

She ate so happily that she wanted to bury her face in the bowl.

The soup accidentally splashed onto her mouth, and she raised her hand to wipe it off.

Lu Sui couldn't help but threw the handkerchief over.

"How do you look like a girl?"

Jiang Yueyao picked up the handkerchief he threw to her and wiped her cheek which was accidentally stained with soup.

After wiping, he threw the handkerchief to Lu Sui.

Lu Sui took the handkerchief, not knowing whether to throw it away or keep it, with a look of forbearance and disgust on his face.

Jiang Yueyao finished her bowl but still felt hungry.

She looked at Lu Sui's bowl and asked, "Sir, don't you want to eat?"

"No appetite."

"That's great." Jiang Yueyao stood up and brought his wontons over.

Seeing that there was no coriander or chopped green onion in the bowl, I felt a little disgusted.

"If there's no cilantro or chopped green onion in wonton soup, it won't have half the flavor. My Lord, you really won't eat it."

As she spoke, she waved to the stall owner in a sweet voice.

"Uncle, add some coriander and chopped green onions."

"Okay."

The stall owner brought chopped green onions and coriander, and he added with a smile for Jiang Yueyao: "Miss, would you like to try my newly brewed chili oil?"

"OK."

The bright red chili oil drips into the wonton soup, and a spicy aroma hits your nose.

Jiang Yueyao ate a wonton and exclaimed, "Uncle, your chili oil is so fragrant."

"If you like it, I'll give you a can before you leave."

"Okay, thank you very much."

I ate two bowls of wontons and got a can of chili oil for free before leaving.

After eating and drinking her fill, Jiang Yueyao was very happy.

Sitting in the carriage, she saw Lu Sui pressing his abdomen with his hands, so she hurried over.

"My Lord, what's wrong with you?"

"I drank some wine and my stomach feels uncomfortable."

"Are you feeling down in your stomach?" She held out her hand to him. "Give me your hand."

Lu Sui raised his eyes to look at her: "What are you doing?"

"Oh, just give it to me." She said, pulling his left hand towards her.

She spread out his big hand and pinched a certain acupuncture point on the back of his hand with her fingers accurately.

She rubbed it gently, observing Lu Sui's expression while rubbing.

Seeing that his expression had lightened up a bit, she asked, "Are you feeling better now?"

Lu Sui nodded.

It really relieved a lot at once.

He leaned back slightly on the soft pillow, his eyes fixed on the girl who was concentrating on massaging his acupoints.

"How do you know all this?"

"It's my mother. She likes to drink. Every time she drinks, she gets a headache and stomach upset."

"One time, a very good doctor stayed at the inn. My mother happened to have a severe stomachache that day, so he taught her this trick, and it worked very well."

When Jiang Yueyao mentioned her mother, her mood suddenly became depressed.

She misses her mother.

She left Su City in a hurry and didn't even go to see her mother... Jiang Yueyao thought, she was really a piece of shit.

I don’t know when I will be able to return to Suzhou.

In a few days it would be her mother's memorial day. She thought that she should buy more paper money and gold ingots, and burn a big house for her mother. If her mother was happy, she might forgive her.

When Lu Sui heard her mention his mother, his mood suddenly became much lower.

Then he spoke slowly.

"I heard that your mother is not your biological mother?"

"Yes, I am an orphan like Pei Yu. My mother said that I was kidnapped to Su City when I was only three years old. Because I was a girl, it was difficult to get rid of me. Plus, I ate a lot, so the traffickers couldn't afford to keep me, so they abandoned me. It was my mother who found me and brought me back to the Jixiang Inn."

"She treated me like her own child and loved me like a treasure since I was a child. But good people don't live long. She died before she was thirty."

Her mother passed away when she was only thirteen.

In the three years that followed, Jiang Yueyao grew up rapidly, and almost overnight, she supported the Jixiang Inn with her frail shoulders.

At the age of thirteen, while other girls were still acting like spoiled brats in their mothers’ arms, she already dared to chase customers who wanted to default on their payments for half a block.

In this world, the arrogant are always afraid of the stupid, and the stupid are always afraid of the desperate.

Without her mother's protection, she risked her life to fight and came out unscathed.

But in the end, she died at the hands of her fiancé who protected her with all his heart.

Jiang Yueyao took a deep breath and her eyes turned red.

"My mother was trapped in love and died of depression; and I had a fiancé, but I almost died at his hands."

She raised her hand to wipe away her tears and looked at Lu Sui with an angry expression.

"None of you men are good."

Lord Lu, who is not a good person: "..."

He was so angry that he raised his hand and hit her on the forehead.

With a stern face.

"What does this have to do with me?"

"Because you are a man too."

"There are good men and bad men, but there are still more good men in the world. You can't generalize."

Jiang Yueyao snorted in dissatisfaction.

"Anyway, I swear to never have any romantic feelings in this life and never have anything to do with men." She clenched her fists, "Stay away from men and cherish life."

Seeing her serious look, Lu Sui was amused.

"You keep saying you want to stay away from men, but all you want in your mind is to be my mistress. Jiang Yueyao, you really are two-faced."

Jiang Yueyao suddenly approached him.

A pair of almond-shaped eyes stared at him and asked, "Are you willing to accept me?"

She came very close.

The fair and tender little face came right under his eyelids.

As beautiful as a crabapple blossom...

Lu Sui turned his gaze away.

The voice was cold.

"Don't even think about it!"

His tone was firm, just like the cold and aloof Buddhist disciples who were often accompanied by Buddhist lamps in thousand-year-old temples.

Do not have any false thoughts and do not be affected by lust.

High above, untainted by the mundane world.