Chapter 5: Are you reluctant to part with the Queen’s gorgeous clothes?
Yu Shengsheng leaned on the mat, curled up, eyes slightly closed, and pursed her lips continuously.
She was too tired and too hungry, and hadn't had a drop of water since yesterday.
In a trance, I heard the sound of footsteps and voices.
From far to near.
She was startled awake and almost instinctively knelt down, folded her hands and kowtowed.
Madam Su looked at her kneeling down, her eyes suddenly reddened: "Shengsheng, what are you doing..."
Nanny Wu supported Madam Su and sighed, "Miss Sheng, you know that Madam loves you, so isn't this going to make her feel worse?"
Seeing that she was about to fall, Su Yanshu reached out to support her, but his hand hit the shoulder bone and he was shocked. How could she have become so thin?
Obviously, he had gained some weight after living in the mansion for two years.
It’s only been a year…
Su Zhiyi said anxiously, "Second brother, let go quickly. My sister is thin and weak. She has finally recovered. Unlike me, I have been used to falling since I was a child. How can she withstand your grasping and pinching like this?"
Yes, when Shengsheng first came, she was as thin as a kitten, and he didn't even dare to use force when holding her wrist to write.
She is not like Ayi, who has been practicing martial arts and riding horses since she was a child. She is strong and brave. She is such a strong girl. She used to be heroic, but now she can only sit in a wheelchair.
Su Yanshu's previous softness disappeared without a trace. He let go of her hand and said in a deep and unhappy voice: "Su Shengsheng, I asked you to kneel down to your ancestors, but you didn't reflect on yourself at all. This night was wasted."
He glanced at the ground and suddenly froze.
Next to the futon, there was a small pool of liquid.
"What is that?"
Yu Shengsheng's face turned pale, with cold sweat oozing out of the corners of his forehead, but the stubbornness in his eyes remained undiminished.
“Second Young Master, in front of the ancestors of the Su family, you should still call me Yu Shengsheng. They haven’t recognized me yet.”
Su Yanshu looked at the stubbornness in her eyes. When this sister first came back, she was so well-behaved and obedient. She said it didn't matter if she didn't enter the ancestral hall or change her surname, as long as the family could be together;
It was obvious that when those eyes looked at him, they were full of admiration.
When I see him writing the simplest characters or reciting the easiest poems, I can't help but clap my hands: "Second brother knows so much, I want to be like him!"
How could it turn out like this just because of one thing in the paddock in just this short year!
"You are dissatisfied because you didn't get into the ancestral hall, right?" Su Yanshu grabbed her right wrist again, "Even if you grew up in the countryside and don't know etiquette and shame, didn't I teach you in those two years?"
"Who gave you the courage to smash the bowl and spill the soup in front of the ancestral tablet?"
Yu Shengsheng's shoulder pain had not yet subsided when Su Yanshu grabbed her wrist, almost breaking her bones.
She looked at her right hand which was tightly grasped by Su Yanshu - when he taught her to write, Su Yanshu also held her wrist, but at that time, it was very light, as if she was fragile porcelain that would break at the touch, and he was afraid of hurting her.
But now, her arm was broken and regrown, and it was really shattered bones, and Su Yanshu wished he could crush her again.
She was in so much pain that her vision went dark, and her pale lips were bleeding. "Smashing the bowl and spilling the soup, what did you get from that? I don't understand etiquette, but I was born with the knowledge of shame."
Su Yanshu laughed angrily: "What a natural sense of shame, then tell me, what is this?"
He grabbed Yu Shengsheng's wrist and dragged her forward to the stain.
"How do you explain it?"
Yu Shengsheng tilted her head to look at him as if he were a fool, with a scornful smile on her lips.
"What are you laughing at?" Su Yanshu raised his voice involuntarily. Facing Yu Shengsheng's laughter, he felt a little panicked for some reason.
He had seen this smile once before. Back then, in the paddock, he, like everyone else, assumed that the arrow was shot by Yu Shengsheng. Yu Shengsheng's look of help turned into shock, and finally, into such a contemptuous smile.
What are you laughing at? Are you laughing at his cowardice and hypocrisy?
No, he wasn't, he was just considering the overall situation! If he admitted it at that time... the situation would definitely get out of hand, and someone might take the opportunity to drag the prince into it.
He did it for the Su family, for the prince, and for the stability of the country!
He is not wrong!
He tightened his fingers again, proving that his idea was right.
Su Zhiyi advised softly, "Don't be angry, second brother. Just ask someone to clean it up later. I don't think my sister did it on purpose. Our ancestors won't blame us."
Madam Su went to hold Yu Shengsheng's hand and said, "Let mother take a look."
Yu Shengsheng couldn't hold on any longer at this point. Without saying anything, he closed his eyes and fell down softly.
Su Yanshu subconsciously took two quick steps forward, wanting to reach out to catch it, but when he glanced down, he saw that the tip of his snow-white boots had been stained red by the liquid that had stepped on it.
"Is this... blood?"
"Why is she bleeding?!"
In Mrs. Su's courtyard.
Yu Shengsheng was still frowning in her coma. When Mrs. Su wanted to wipe the cold sweat off her head, she suddenly woke up and pushed him away.
Madam Su held the handkerchief in her hand and was stunned for a moment: "Shengsheng, what's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
Yu Shengsheng lowered her eyes: "No, no need, ma'am."
Madam Su took a set of clothes from the side and said, "Your foot has been treated with medicine. This is what your mother prepared for you. I don't know if it will fit you. Try it on!"
Yu Shengsheng got out of bed and bowed her head: "Thank you, I'll go back to the yard to change."
An angry voice sounded from outside the door: "I think you are reluctant to part with the gorgeous clothes given by the Queen!"
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