"Where did this come from?" Su Bei looked at him with tears in his eyes.
Chu Younan narrowed his eyes, smiling, "When I was seven years old, I met two children in the garden. They bumped their legs but didn't go to the doctor. They just cried there..."
Su Bei stared at him, "What do you mean?"
"What I mean is..." Chu Younan chuckled, "This is what I left as collateral. You stained my clothes back then..."
"Isn't it just a set of clothes? Why do you care?" Su Bei turned and walked out, "I'll compensate you with ten sets!"
"And what about my hand?" Chu Younan followed.
"Isn't your hand fine? Besides, I didn't break it for you, go find whoever broke it!"
Su Bei walked out as she spoke, but the corridor was deep and dark, and she had only taken a few steps when Chu Younan hugged her and kissed her passionately.
"Abei...Abei..." he murmured.
The corridor was dark, he didn't need to wear a mask, and she could only see his burning gaze.
Suddenly, Su Bei pinched his cheek, "Chu Younan, I'll give this back to you too!"
“Puff!”
In the corridor, the two of them were laughing and joking together.
Su Bei is not like Bei Shijing, who thinks that gray hair is a big deal. There are many hair blackening creams and hair soaps sold out there. Although they are different from natural black hair, they make her look less different for the time being.
She asked someone to send a letter to Xue Jinrong, asking her to help her research a hair dyeing recipe. She also warned her that frequent miscarriages were bad for her health, and she had a solution...
This method was told to her by Wen Xia, who said it was made from the maw of a large fish and soaked in animal oil...
After delivering the letter, Su Bei asked the embroiderer to make two identical bat purses, and then left the house.
Although Bei Shijing poisoned her, it is undeniable that before the Su family was destroyed, Bei Shijing was quite good to the two siblings.
Her tomb is in the most remote corner of the imperial mausoleum, and there is not a single word on the tombstone.
Su Bei stood in front of the stone tablet silently for a long time.
During those three years, Bei Shijing had been a very good and gentle mother, Su Duo was also a very kind father, and Su Xiujie...
Those three years cured her of her wariness and distrust of people in the last days.
She was stunned for a long time before she opened the basket she brought, put fruits and cakes on it, lit incense and burned paper.
A white-haired old man was watching her not far away.
Before leaving, Su Bei saw his back and asked, "Old man, are you guarding the tomb here?"
The old man paused for a moment before responding.
"Could you please look after this tomb and help her clean it from time to time?" Su Bei said, taking out an ingot of silver and walking forward.
The old man covered his lips and coughed. After a long time, he turned around and lowered his head. "Of course!" His voice seemed very old.
If Su Bei had not been old, he would never have noticed that the hands he stretched out were white and clean, and did not look like those of an old man at all.
"You... raise your head and let me see!" Su Bei took two steps back vigilantly.
The old man seemed stunned for a moment before he slowly raised his head.
His face was full of wrinkles, and he looked like an octogenarian no matter how you looked at him, but his eyes were so clear and sharp that he looked like a young man no matter how you looked at him.
Looking at his white hair, which was slightly black at the roots, Su Bei said calmly, "Then I'll leave it to you!"
After saying this, she handed the silver ingot to the old man very sincerely, then turned and left.
The old man looked at her back, then looked at the silver ingot in his hand, and finally his eyes fell on Bei Shijing's tombstone.
Seeing that there was no one around, he walked towards the tombstone.
In the tree far away, Su Bei hugged the branch tightly and asked: "Yun Rou! Did you see it?"
"I saw it!" Yun Rou whispered, "He walked over and stood in front of the tombstone without moving!"
"How does he walk?" Su Bei also asked quietly.
As soon as she walked away, she asked Yunrou to put her on the tree. Who would have thought that Yunrou was afraid of any accidents and actually put her a few steps away. The branches blocked her view completely.
Yun Rou whispered: "Very steady! He's a martial artist!"
This is very suspicious...
Unexpectedly, just as Yun Rou finished speaking, Su Bei felt a gust of wind, and the leaves around her were blown around. Before she could react, she was dragged by the collar and laid on the ground.
Fortunately, the strange "old man" was standing, and fortunately he was just pointing a branch at her.
Su Bei turned around and saw Yun Xi had fainted on the side.
Yan Ming, who was pointing at her, had straightened his back. His eyes were sharp, not looking old at all, and his voice was very young. "Who are you?"
"I... I am the Princess of Huicheng!" Su Bei said after thinking for a while.
Yan Ming said coldly, "Do you think I can't kill you, or do you think I don't dare to kill you? Speak nicely!"
Why didn't she say it properly? She just didn't know whether this person was an enemy or a friend, so she didn't want to reveal her relationship.
She also said in a cold voice: "Who are you? What are you doing hiding in the imperial mausoleum?"
"You have a stubborn temper." Yan Ming only said this and said no more.
But he didn't move the branch he was pointing at Su Bei, and stood there motionless like a sculpture.
"Hey! What do you want to do?" Su Bei couldn't help but ask.
Yan Ming's branch slowly moved up from her neck to her hair. The branch moved, ruffling her hair, and his eyes moved slightly.
"I see……"
"Hey! What are you talking about?" Su Bei glared at him.
"I'm saying..." He suddenly stopped, turned his head and looked towards the edge of the forest, then continued, "If you want to know about Bei Shijing, come back in three days!"
In the blink of an eye, he had disappeared. When he looked back again, he saw Chu Younan striding towards him.
"What happened?!" Chu Younan asked as he helped Su Bei up.
Su Bei was confused, "I don't know either..." A strange man just ran out from there...
She deliberately didn't say it, but Chu Younan already knew it. However, she still thought that mind reading depended on eye contact, so she pretended to be indifferent.
She really wanted to know about Bei Shijing's affairs.
Chu Younan remained calm and did not ask any further questions after waking Yun Rou up.
The two of them didn't say much on the way back home. Because they didn't talk, Su Bei kept thinking about this matter in his heart, and Chu Younan read it clearly.
He tried several times to straighten Su Bei's face and make her look him in the eye, which made Su Bei keep avoiding him, thinking that he couldn't read her eyes without seeing them.
There is actually such a weird person guarding the imperial mausoleum? Chu Younan secretly had an idea in his mind.
In the past three days, Su Bei has been busy with the dim sum shop. The current emperor is Chu Youyang, and he turned the Nanbei Dim Sum Shop into the royal dim sum shop as soon as he came to power. Even people in the capital who didn't know about this shop now know about it.
The dim sum shops in the north and south were very busy. This wave of word-of-mouth spread not only in the capital, but also to shops all over the country. For a time, dim sum shops in the north and south were everywhere, and making dim sum became one of the skills that noble ladies everywhere had to learn.
After all, the new Queen's Palace is still vacant, and there are many girls who want to enter the palace to play palace fighting.
Three days were up, and this time Su Bei did not bring anyone with him and went to the cemetery by himself.