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"What was that sound just now?" Du Yaoyao walked into the room and asked in surprise.

Song Xingkai helped her take off her veil and thought, "Maybe the neighbor who just moved in fell down."

He listened to something called "Young Master". The rent of the courtyard here was cheap, but the quality was average. On rainy days, water accumulated in the courtyard and the road was muddy and slippery.

It was just a minor incident and Du Yaoyao didn't take it to heart. She relaxed her eyebrows and said with emotion, "The matter of Du Wenwu in the capital has been resolved. He has been fined and cannot take the imperial examination for three years. I really don't know how to thank Lin Shuyan."

If you accept someone's favor, you must repay it. Song Xingkai took out three hundred-liang silver notes from his sleeve and said, "Yaoyao, take these." There were the two hundred that Du Yaoyao had given to Du Lan before, and the other one hundred that Song Xingkai had saved recently.

"I have money." Du Yaoyao declined, "You have to take care of your aunt and Song Lin, so you need money a lot."

"Yaoyao." During the struggle, Song Xingkai grabbed her hand, held it tightly in his palm, and said word by word, "Don't be so polite to me."

"You..." Du Yaoyao struggled.

Song Xingkai held it tighter, his palms were wet, and he looked straight at her and said, "Yaoyao, I want to take care of you, can you give me a chance?" He swallowed nervously, "I know it's too late to say this..."

Du Yaoyao had fantasized about Song Xingkai's confession many times in modern times. Now when I hear it, I feel no wavering at all.

She even had a horrifying and ridiculous thought: Chen Jie's possessiveness was so strong, if he knew that the two of them were involved, he would go crazy and want to kill Song Xingkai's entire family, and she really couldn't control him.

"I'm a big trouble." Du Yaoyao chuckled, and with her other hand she pried open Song Xingkai's fingers, saying cheerfully, "Just live a good life with your aunt and Song Lin. If you meet a girl you like in the future, as your cousin, I will not give you less money as a gift."

"Yaoyao." Song Xingkai was reluctant to let her go and grabbed her arm instead, "I don't mind you being troublesome..."

Du Yaoyao brushed it away and said seriously: "I have been married, and you have been married, and we have been through a lot together. Some things are beautiful when they are left in the past, and we don't need to force ourselves to continue this beauty now."

This means a polite refusal.

Admitting that he was in my heart once, it was only once.

Song Xingkai was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly, "That's right." He reminded, "If you have any difficulties in the future, just tell me, and I will do my best to help you."

Du Yaoyao never said a word about her and Shen Jie, but Song Xingkai had a certainty that she had been emotionally hurt, perhaps seriously.

The less one mentions it and the more nonchalant it is, the more it proves that it is a scar in one's heart that cannot be opened.

"With what my cousin said, I feel relieved!" Du Yaoyao and Song Xingkai continued to talk about the ancient brother-sister relationship.

Song Xingkai forced a smile and asked, "What are your plans for the future?"

He originally wanted to ask about Du Yaoyao's relationship status.

Du Yaoyao didn't think too much and confessed her situation in Wuxing directly, "I opened a wine and snack shop in Wuxing, selling fruit wine and flower wine. Snacks are steamed, boiled, roasted and stewed, similar to our modern Cantonese morning tea. Wuxing people have light tastes."

She generously invited, "If you go to Jiangnan in the future, you are welcome to come to my restaurant to taste it."

"Okay." Song Xingkai felt emotional. She is always such an energetic and vibrant girl.

Du Yaoyao's dark eyes rolled and she calculated, "I've been in Qingzhou for quite a few days. It's time to go back to run my business and make money, otherwise I won't be able to pay the next rent." Du Yaoyao was not that poor, but she was about to leave and she didn't want the atmosphere to be so sad.

"Then why don't you take this money quickly." Song Xingkai stuffed the banknote into her hand again, hesitated for a while, and finally asked, "Yaoyao, will you marry Dashan in the future?"

Dashan was the groom who escorted Du Yaoyao to Qingzhou, and was also said to be the benefactor who saved her life.

Du Yaoyao only drew one and handed the remaining two hundred taels back to Song Xingkai, "Okay, I'll take one hundred taels from you as my board and lodging expenses when I return."

She pointed at her round belly and said with a smile, "Who can say for sure about marriage? Let's wait and see what fate brings."

Song Xingkai knew that Du Yaoyao deliberately pretended to be a pregnant woman in order to make it easier for her to go out. She was uncertain about her attitude, and he tried hard to persuade her, "Dashan is an ancient man after all, if it is possible... um..." He stopped there, "I hope Yaoyao has a smooth journey."

"Thank you." Du Yaoyao did not respond.

Her heart was as calm as water.

Recalling the blushing and heart-pounding moments with Shen Jie, she realized it belatedly.

Maybe she really loved that ancient stud?