Chapter 30 The Treasure Bowl and the Useless Woman
"Ice Moon! Ice Moon!"
Du Ziheng finally caught up with You Bingyue.
You Bingyue flung his hand away: "Aren't you worried about that maid, your mother, and your lawfully wedded wife? Why are you still chasing after me?"
Du Ziheng was worried about her health and could only gently comfort her: "It's not that I feel sorry for them, but the Prime Minister's residence has its own rules. Not just the Prime Minister's residence, every residence has its rules, and even ordinary people's homes would not allow anyone to arbitrarily beat or scold their family members, right?"
“Even if a stranger moves the livestock kept at home, it is a provocation to the owner.”
“Bingyue, I don’t want you to be a concubine, and you don’t want to be a concubine either. To Mother and the others, you are an outsider. You have harmed the servants in the mansion, so Mother will naturally be angry.”
"Think about it, if someone beat up Xiaohu and the others behind your back, wouldn't you be angry?"
Xiao Hu is You Bingyue's younger brother from a farming family.
Yu Bingyue's anger subsided: "Fine, I admit I was a bit impulsive. At worst, I'll pay that maid some medical expenses. But, she seduced my man, and if it happens again, I'll beat her again!"
Du Ziheng loved her free and unrestrained demeanor. Hearing her domineering declaration, he felt a sweet warmth in his heart and smiled faintly: "Don't worry, there won't be a next time."
He wanted to say that neither his mother nor Yu Zhiyi would allow the same thing to happen, but he was worried that You Bingyue would be angry, so he could only hold back and say, "Come back with me."
You Bingyue shook off his hand again: "I'm not going! Your mother has already chased me away twice. I only let it go last time because of you, but this time, I will absolutely not compromise again, lest your mother think that I am really after the wealth and glory of your Prime Minister's mansion."
Du Ziheng tried to persuade her several times, but she wouldn't change her mind.
Left with no other choice, he could only send her back to the house he had previously bought for her.
You Bingyue pushed him onto the bed: "We haven't finished what we were doing this afternoon."
Amidst the churning red waves, a glint of light flashed in You Bingyue's eyes.
That pretentious gold digger never dreamed that Du Ziheng would stay out all night for her.
And this is just the beginning.
The woman will have many more days of living alone in her empty house in the future.
Once she transforms the bookstore into a giant treasure trove, that old woman Yao will surely see her abilities and value.
Given the choice between a money-making expert who can make money work for him and a naive, materialistic woman from the inner quarters, how should one choose? Anyone who isn't a fool wouldn't make the wrong choice.
She wanted Yao to beg her to go back!
She also wanted to make that gold-digging woman kneel down and beg her not to be kicked out of the Prime Minister's residence!
Achoo!
Yu Zhiyi sneezed after taking a shower, and Zi Yuan quickly heated the brazier a bit more: "It's chilly at night, have you caught a cold?"
"Someone must be talking about me."
Yu Zhiyi walked to the brazier and dried her hair in the heat of the charcoal fire.
Zi Yuan pouted: "It must be that Miss You who spoke ill of you to the young master."
Yu Zhiyi remained noncommittal.
A little over fifteen minutes later, her hair was almost dry, and Yu Zhiyi told Zi Yuan to go and rest, while she sat cross-legged to prepare for cultivation.
The merits she gained these times greatly increased her cultivation level. She was very confident that if she continued to cultivate in this way, she might really become an immortal.
The next day, Yu Zhiyi went to the dining hall after finishing her morning lessons.
Yao arrived a little earlier than her, and looked somewhat haggard, probably because she hadn't slept well the night before.
It's not hard to understand, after all, Du Ziheng didn't return home all night.
Yu Zhiyi was quite happy. With Du Ziheng gone, she didn't have to worry about Yao Shi trying to persuade her to consummate the marriage.
However, it certainly cannot be shown on the surface.
Just as they were about to persuade Madam Yao to think more positively, Aunt Wen suddenly came to report: "Madam, young mistress, the eldest young mistress of the Yao family has arrived."
The eldest daughter-in-law of the Yao family is Huang, the wife of Yao's eldest son. Yu Zhiyi had met her before at the chrysanthemum appreciation banquet.
Yao perked up and said, "Please come in."
Yu Zhiyi rubbed her slightly hungry stomach and resisted the urge to pick up her chopsticks.
Before long, Huang arrived at the dining room.
Aunt Wen had already prepared a set of bowls and chopsticks. Madam Yao greeted Madam Huang, "Hengniang, what brings you here? Have you had breakfast yet? Come and have some."
Huang looked even more haggard than Yao, her expression filled with anxiety, yet she ultimately did not refuse the Prime Minister's wife's invitation.
However, she had a slight loss of appetite.
Yu Zhiyi's gaze swept across Huang's face for a moment before she picked up her chopsticks and began to eat.
She was hungry.
And since her next meal wouldn't be until the afternoon, she needed to eat something substantial now.
Huang could only eat a few bites before she couldn't eat anymore, but seeing Yu Zhiyi eating so happily, she could only suppress her anxiety.
Only after Yu Zhiyi put down her chopsticks and rinsed her mouth did she explain her purpose: "Aunt, I have come here to ask you for a favor."
"What's up?"
Madam Yao knew perfectly well that what Madam Huang wanted was not a matter concerning her husband's family, but rather a matter concerning her own family; otherwise, it would have been Yao's eldest son who came instead of her.
However, she was only half right.
Huang said, "Aunt, I have come here to ask my sister-in-law to help me find someone."
He then looked at Yu Zhiyi and said, "Sister-in-law, I know this is a bit abrupt, but I have no other choice."
Yao was taken aback, but quickly realized what was happening.
She didn't make a decision for Yu Zhiyi on her own, but instead asked for her opinion: "What do you think, Yi'er?"
Yu Zhiyi said, "We Xuanmen people cannot arbitrarily interfere in other people's karma unless we transfer that karma to ourselves."
Huang looked bewildered, clearly not understanding: "This... how do I turn it?"
Thinking of the thousand taels of silver notes, the gold hairpin, and the jade thumb ring that she had given to Prime Minister Du, Madam Yao took off the gold hairpin from her hair and handed it to Yu Zhiyi: "Yi'er, if it's not too much trouble, please help Hengniang!"
Mr. Huang was taken aback, never expecting that the so-called transfer of causality meant paying money.
That gold hairpin must be worth at least a thousand taels of silver.
Yu Zhiyi explained, "It's not that I'm greedy, but that we Xuanmen people must strictly adhere to the cause-and-effect relationship, otherwise we will harm ourselves and others. Your cousin-in-law wants to find someone, which is the cause you planted. Whether or not she finds them, it is the effect."
"You came to me to help you find someone, which means you want to shift the blame onto me. You need a medium to do so so that you can answer to Heaven."
In her daze, Huang suddenly grasped the key point: "How did you know I wanted to ask you to find someone?"
Yu Zhiyi just smiled and remained silent.
Huang suddenly realized that she had asked a stupid question.
The grandmother-in-law had long regarded this Miss Yu's abilities as a topic of conversation, and would often sigh about them.
The younger generation in the family has been hearing this so many times lately that they're practically sick of it.
However, although they did not refute her and were very polite to Yu Zhiyi because of her grandmother-in-law relationship, they still had doubts about her so-called abilities.
Even though many of them witnessed her turn the richest man's only son into his abandoned son with just a few words, some still felt that she might have already known the cause and effect through other means, and was just using fortune-telling as an excuse to say it.
Huang's visit to the Prime Minister's residence was a desperate attempt to find a cure.
The government has been mobilized, and the Huang family has sent out all the people they can, but they still can't find their nephew's whereabouts.
She didn't have high hopes when she came, but... what if?
But when she heard Yu Zhiyi state her purpose directly, she felt reassured: "Sister-in-law, please help me find my nephew from my maternal family!"
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