Chapter 530: The Femme Fatale in the Double Life Story (29)

After waiting for a few seconds, Xie Qinglan pushed the door open.

Seeing him, Su Yu and Lan Ying fell silent. Su Yu's face turned extremely bad and she turned her head away without looking at him.

Xie Qinglan knew what happened and heard about it on the way back.

"It's my fault." Xie Qinglan apologized as soon as he came in.

He gave Lan Ying a look to let her go first. He walked to Su Yu, held her wrist with his cool hand, and explained, "This morning, I wanted to talk to Miss Lin about it, but she ran away before I could. If I knew what she was going to do, I would chase her to the Lin family and talk to her even if I didn't go to the villa."

Su Yu pulled her hand back and still didn't look at him.

Xie Qinglan clenched his hands, touched his nose and said, "I have just been to the Lin family and made everything clear. I will be at home for the next month. If she comes again, I will drive her away."

Hearing this, Su Yu turned and looked at him.

Xie Qinglan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and held Su Yu's hand again: "If you still feel upset, we will move out in a few days."

Su Yu looked down at Xie Qinglan's hand. He had fair skin and looked thin, but his palms were much larger than hers. When the cold wind blew, his knuckles turned slightly red and his palms were also cold.

"Where are you moving to?"

Xie Qinglan: "The capital is so big, it depends on where you like."

Su Yu raised her eyes and glanced at him: "You buy the house that I like?"

Seeing Xie Qinglan nod, Su Yu deliberately said: "I like the palace, can you buy it for me?"

Xie Qinglan was speechless.

Xie Qinglan didn't know how to respond to this. He couldn't guarantee anything that he didn't have the ability to do.

Su Yu saw what he was thinking at a glance and pulled her hand back again: "I'm just kidding, I'm not stupid. How can you buy a palace whenever you want? The New Year is coming soon. It will be troublesome to go through so much trouble. For the sake of my husband, it doesn't matter if I endure it for a few more months."

Xie Qinglan's mind automatically helped her complete the next sentence: Wait until you pass the exam and become the top scholar...

"When my husband passes the imperial examination and His Majesty awards him the No. 1 Scholar's Mansion, it won't be too late for us to move out."

"……good."

Since that day when she threw the person out of the Xie family’s gate, Su Yu hadn’t heard from Lin Xiuxiu for several days.

However, the good times did not last long.

That day, Su Yu and Lan Ying followed Mrs. Zhao to learn how to make dumplings. The dumplings they made looked all kinds of weird, and some even had cracked skins and were shapeless.

Mrs. Zhao gave a funny instruction: "Miss, since this is your first time making dumplings, you can put less stuffing in it."

Lan Ying smiled and joked: "Miss, is that a caterpillar?"

Su Yu raised her eyebrows: "Okay, Lan Ying, even you are laughing at me!"

Lan Ying begged for mercy: "Miss, I was wrong."

Xie Qinglan also rolled up his sleeves and joined in. Few scholars cooked by themselves, as they thought it was ungentlemanly, but Xie Qinglan didn't care.

He was a quick learner, and before long, he was able to wrap things quite well. Even Mrs. Zhao praised him, "Son-in-law, you learn really fast."

Su Yu was not convinced and started to take it seriously. After a while, she was praised: "Miss, you wrap it really well. You can't tell that you are a novice at all."

Xie Qinglan also said: "Madam is smart."

The corners of Su Yu's mouth curled up, she was very pleased.

Lan Ying and Mrs. Zhao smiled secretly, looked at each other, and said, "Let's go out and see if Mrs. Sun has finished chopping the firewood."

The two of them quietly left, leaving the kitchen to a young couple. The water in the pot boiled, making the place steamy. Looking at his wife who was looking down with a serious expression, Xie Qinglan's heart beat faster.

If I don't become an official, it's okay to continue like this.

Noticing the gaze, Su Yu looked up at him.

Seeing her face, Xie Qinglan couldn't help laughing. Under Su Yu's puzzled gaze, he raised his hand to help her wipe off the flour that accidentally got on her face.

"Yes."

Su Yu was stunned for a moment, then she reacted immediately. She felt embarrassed and rubbed it hard on her face, muttering, "Lan Ying, you're such a fool. You didn't even tell me."

Xie Qinglan: "Don't use too much force, be careful not to scratch your skin."

"It's not tofu, how can it be so tender?"

"look up."

The woman raised her face, the area that had been wiped was red. She stared blankly at Xie Qinglan holding her face. His fingertips were dry and warm, and he gently stroked the red area to clean off the flour that had been accidentally rubbed on.

Perhaps it was because the atmosphere was just right, Su Yu swallowed unconsciously.

The water in the pot gurgled. Normally, the sound of swallowing saliva would not be loud, but Su Yu felt that Xie Qinglan heard it.

because--

She also heard Xie Qinglan's voice. The man's Adam's apple rolled, his eyes slightly raised, his gaze met silently, and his breathing became heavier.

After a moment, Su Yu closed her eyes, her nose filled with the familiar scent of soapberries and the scent of incense that she had personally selected for Xie Qinglan, which was elegant and distant.

In a trance, I seemed to hear the system prompt: [Forty-nine percent! ]

Lan Ying, Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Sun hid outside and watched quietly. The latter two blushed and walked away, leaving Lan Ying alone, pretending to cover her eyes and peek through her fingers.

When the atmosphere was getting tense, there was a sudden noise outside the door.

Su Yu was startled and quickly pushed Xie Qinglan away, her eyelashes trembling slightly and her red lips full and glistening.

It was the first time they kissed anywhere other than in bed.

Xie Qinglan coughed lightly and said seriously: "What happened outside? Let's go out and take a look."

"Um."

After adjusting their expressions, the two walked out as usual. If one ignored Su Yu's slightly red cheeks and Xie Qinglan's lips which were much brighter than usual, they still looked very serious.

The one who opened the door was Mrs. Sun. When she saw Lin Xiuxiu, she secretly thought it was bad luck.

Su Yu and Xie Qinglan came over and saw her too.

Lin Xiuxiu was wearing a veil at the moment. It was not the kind of veil that would make things more obvious whether she wore it or not, but a very thick piece of cloth. It seemed that she was very afraid of people seeing her face underneath the veil.

Seeing Xie Qinglan, Lin Xiuxiu burst into tears: "Xie, Brother."

Xie Qinglan looked indifferent and ignored her. Instead, he looked at the Lin family members behind Lin Xiuxiu: "What's the matter, Aunt Lin?"

Aunt Lin hesitated and said, "Xiu Xiu insisted on coming to see your wife, to say... to say..."

"Madam Xie deliberately hurt me, Brother Xie, she deliberately hurt me." Lin Xiuxiu said crying.

Su Yu raised her eyebrows, walked forward and glanced at her contemptuously: "Oh? Why did I harm you?"

Lin Xiuxiu covered her face with her veil, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably. However, the tears stung the wound on her face, causing her face to twist in pain for a moment.

Lin Xiuxiu gritted her teeth and said, "She ruined my face."

There was an uproar when these words were spoken, and several people from nearby households who were watching the fun wanted to go back and move a stool and grab a handful of melon seeds to eat while listening.

Lan Ying defended her master: "Don't talk nonsense! My young lady hasn't even left the house these days, how could she have disfigured you? If you dare to slander me again, I'll arrest you and report you to the police!"

Lin Xiuxiu didn't want to expose her face in front of so many people.

She cried and complained: "I went to see a doctor in town. The doctor said that the rouge contained oleander powder, which is poisonous. My whole face is ruined. If it wasn't her, who did it?"

Su Yu walked forward with a smile, and said in a gentle voice: "Miss Lin, why don't I understand what you are saying? Rouge, oleander powder, what do these have to do with me?"