Chapter 54 Jade Color
The doctor couldn't understand how a perfectly normal couple could develop a sexual addiction.
It's not like I stole someone else's wife; I can't refuse to satisfy her.
He was so frustrated that he felt a surge of anger, yet he was also filled with anxiety, fearing that someone else would take her away.
Rong Si sat to the side, clutching the medicine bottle, deep in thought.
About 15 minutes later, Yu Wanyin came in from outside.
The doctor stepped forward and greeted her, "Madam, what would you like to order?"
Yu Wanyin said gently, "I'm here to find someone."
When Rong Si saw her come in, he got up and walked over to her. After telling the doctor, he left the clinic.
The doctor watched as he led the person away, completely bewildered.
So, the wife he's been so anxious about is this woman?
The doctor took two steps after her, watching the lady's retreating figure.
I can understand it to some extent.
Rong Si took the package from Yu Wanyin's hands, noticing that she hadn't bought much. "Is this enough?"
That's enough.
Rong Si led her back, passing by the study they had visited before.
He paused for a moment, then pulled Yu Wanyin into the study.
Yu Wanyin was a little surprised, "I have enough books."
"Let's choose another spot; it'll be harder to get down the mountain when it gets cold."
Rong Si pulled her inside.
The old woman was still sitting at the door.
The old woman, holding a needle and thread for sewing shoes, only looked up when she heard the noise.
The old woman was a little surprised to see them. "Oh, it's you. You've come."
She put the needle and thread aside.
Yu Wanyin gestured for her to sit down, "No need, we can choose ourselves."
The old woman smiled and nodded as she sat down, watching them choose books while chatting idly.
"Did you know that some heroes went to Long'an recently and drove out the foreign invaders who were trying to invade?"
Yu Wanyin paused and looked at the man beside her.
Rong Si happened to be looking at her as well.
Their eyes met, then parted in an instant.
They each searched for books. "Is that so?"
"Yes," the old woman sighed with relief, "we can finally have some peace and quiet for a while."
"It would be best if we could have a proper New Year celebration."
"I just heard that those heroes didn't ask for any benefits, and of course they didn't stay either." The old woman sounded regretful. "If only they could have stayed, Yingzhou needs them."
"Heroes deserve a place to use their talents. I would rather give all the tax money I earn to them than to those deserters from before."
Yu Wanyin then selected several more military books.
The military market was full of all sorts of books, including engineering and military history, political and literary works.
If he could have picked them all up, he probably would have.
When they were placed on the table, Yu Wanyin took a closer look at the stack.
As the old woman did her calculations, she remarked with a hint of surprise, "But speaking of which, it's rare to see people buying books during wartime."
"It's just you guys."
She could tell at a glance who was reading, and chatted idly, "Last time, seeing how cultured Madam was, I thought her husband was also a refined gentleman."
"Later, seeing how brave and valiant the young man was, she realized he was a good match for her."
These words immediately sparked different thoughts in the two men.
The old woman looked at them curiously, "How did you two get married?"
How can they get married?
Her valiant husband abducted her from her scholarly husband and married her.
Yu Wanyin smiled and gave the old woman a vague answer before leaving the study.
When it comes to anything related to a certain person, Rong Si rarely speaks.
Back in the village, their original bookshelves were too small to hold everything.
Rong Si then built two more wooden shelves and rearranged the books.
Yu Wanyin took out the old books and replaced them with new ones on the lower shelf.
Since he was no longer saying anything, Yu Wanyin arranged the books and asked bluntly, "How is Chao Yue, whom you wouldn't let me see?"
Rong Si spoke bluntly, "I don't know, he might be dead."
Yu Wanyin knew immediately that he was just saying things out of anger.
Having spent so much time in the village, she had long since figured out this person's speaking style.
Rong Si is a stubborn person with a soft heart.
Judging from what he said, the man is probably alright.
After filling the lower shelves, Yu Wanyin tiptoed to place the books on the next shelf.
Rong Si took the book from her hands from behind and placed it on the upper shelf.
When the fingertips touch it, a slight tingling sensation arises.
Yu Wanyin withdrew her finger, stood still, and bent down to pick up another book.
Rong Si didn't leave; he stood right behind her and suddenly pressed down on her hand as she reached for the book.
His hand pressed down, and his body followed suit.
He tightened his grip, making it difficult for Yu Wanyin to move.
Rong Si didn't say anything, just silently hugged her from behind for a while.
He buried his head in her shoulder and took a few deep breaths.
Only after filling my mouth with the fragrance of lily of the valley did I let go.
Rong Si went out the door.
On the way, they went to see the prisoner that Yu Wanyin had been longing to see.
Chaoyue's villa is located on another mountain, separate from the village.
The bandits from the villa helped Chao Yue move around in the courtyard.
However, his eyes were covered, so he couldn't see his surroundings.
The bandits tricked him, saying that his eyes were injured and he should not easily remove the silk, otherwise he would go blind.
Chao Yue was quite obedient.
People tend to have unconditional trust in those who help them in times of crisis.
Rong Si watched from afar.
The bandit soldier who came to report looked in the direction he was looking and said, "It's a well-trained bodyguard."
"I wonder whose it is. If we could keep it here, it might be of great use."
Rong Si said in a deep voice, "He can't stay here."
He didn't want Yu Wanyin to see even the slightest trace of Chu Yu.
Those around Chu Yu are also unacceptable.
Rong Si couldn't understand what was so good about Chu Yu.
It's worth it for her to still be thinking about him for so long.
What does she like about him?
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Rong Si was gone for a long time.
Yu Wanyin was alone in the room, arranging the remaining books by category.
These books are certainly enough to keep you reading all winter.
However, she probably won't stay here for the entire winter.
Before she left, there were a few things she wanted to do.
Yu Wanyin took a book, picked up a pen and ink, and sat down at the desk.
She unfolded the letter that the Prefect of Long'an had just sent her.
She remembered that He Yi's family used to communicate with the government through the postal service.
The post station was in charge of official documents and reports.
The imperial court issued orders, which were delivered to local governments at all levels via postal relay.
Yu Wanyin lowered her eyes and looked at it for a while before taking out the history book of Dali.
Then, by comparing the style and usage of documents from Daizhou in historical records, he wrote an imperial edict.
Currently, the Prince of Dai has appointed Bi Shan to assist He Chen.
These two groups are among the most valiant warriors in Daizhou.
But in literature there is no first place, while in martial arts there is no second.
It's much easier to incite a hothead's competitive spirit.
Yu Wanyin stayed in the room for two days and sent out two or three letters.
As Rong Si walked in, he saw a woman who had just bathed and washed sitting at the table in the dim candlelight.
Her whole body was translucent jade-colored, damp with moisture, hazy and soft.
Yu Wanyin propped her forehead up with her hand, turning the pages of a book. Her curled eyelashes cast shadows, and a cool mist settled over her eyes.
Her sleeves fell down, revealing her jade-like forearms.
It looks so good that you can't help but want to take a bite.
Rong Si went in, but didn't disturb her reading. He stood by the bookshelf and took down one of the books.
I walked a short distance away from her, sat down, and started looking through her things.
Yu Wanyin lifted her eyelids and saw him sitting there.
She remained silent, turning her gaze away and calmly continuing to watch.
Rong Si sat there, his aura as heavy as a mountain.
He turned two pages, his movements carrying a bit of force.
Does Chu Yu love watching this every day?
Rong Si closed the book and looked at Yu Wanyin, only to find that she had not moved an inch and remained calm.
He opened the book again.
Rong Si took a deep breath.
The words in the book were dull and uninteresting to look at.
This is a book on governance strategies.
We emphasize checks and balances, and we emphasize reconciliation.
Rong Si slowly read through it for a while, turning the page one by one.
Yu Wanyin caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of her eye and found it intriguing. "Why are you back reading today?"
Rong Si pondered for a moment, "I'm a little curious and would like to learn."
He asked, seemingly casually, "What do you usually like to watch?"
The words he used were very fresh.
It is "you".
Yu Wanyin blinked. "I look at everything."
"Don't you dislike reading?"
Rong Si flipped through a few pages. "You can enjoy reading it too."
Yu Wanyin listened to his tone, "So reluctant."
"No pressure." Rong Si continued reading the book in his hands.
Yu Wanyin looked at him for a while, then turned off the lamp next to her desk. "Then you can watch, I'm going to sleep."
She got up and walked back to the bedside, sat down and saw that Rong Si was indeed still reading.
Yu Wanyin felt strange, but didn't take it seriously.
Rong Si remembered that Chu Yu was like this back when they were in the Prime Minister's residence.
While he was tending to his newlywed wife, the Prime Minister, he sat to the side reading his tattered books.
If she likes this kind of thing, Rong Si felt that he could also watch it.
Be more refined, that's fine.
Yu Wanyin felt that Rong Si had been acting strangely lately.
I don't know what triggered it, but it seems to have calmed down a bit.
She wanted to ask Rong Si, but Rong Si soon went out to discuss some business matters.
According to her understanding.
Recently, after the Yanzhou was conquered, the Northern Chi changed their route, and the Daizhou became restless, causing the surrounding prefectures and kingdoms to also begin to make plans.
They either want to submit to one of the forces, or they want to defend themselves.
News of the bandit stronghold's recent killing of a fierce general from Daizhou quickly spread.
More and more people began to correspond with Rong Si.
They want weapons or they want to cooperate.
He had no choice but to go out and negotiate.
Taking advantage of the time he was away, Yu Wanyin got up early in the morning and brought her little pony.
When no one was around, she secretly asked Ah Zheng, "Do you know where that prisoner who's been locked up is?"
A-Zheng thought she was asking something, and replied, "I know."
“I’m going to change his dressing today, I’ll take you with me.”
A-Zheng swiftly slung her medicine basket over her shoulder, mounted her horse, and led the way for Yu Wanyin.
Yu Wanyin still wanted to know how Chu Yu was doing.
If Chu Yu were alive and well, then when she and her aunt left, there would be no one she cared about or owed anything to here.
Yu Wanyin went there for no other reason.
I need an answer, just to put my mind at ease.
Yu Wanyin followed Azheng in the mountains without any restrictions or obstruction.
Their journey to the mountain villa was smooth.
Yu Wanyin taught Azheng some phrases along the way, and Azheng learned them very quickly.
Once they reached the courtyard, A-Zheng skillfully dismounted, tied the rope to a tree nearby, and called out, "Time to change the dressing."
The people resting inside woke up.
When they entered the room, Chao Yue had just gotten up from the bed.
His eyes were still covered with a white cloth. He must have gotten to know Ah Zheng recently, because he recognized her voice. "Thank you for your help, young lady."
A-Zheng gestured to him, "Just sit down."
Yu Wanyin approached and noticed that Chao Yue's complexion was completely different from that day.
It's clear that it has recovered very well.
Chao Yue keenly heard another set of footsteps inside the room, and he turned his head.
The direction was exactly where Yu Wanyin was. "Yes, is anyone else here?"
"Oh, we're all on the same side, don't be afraid." A-Zheng concealed Yu Wanyin's identity.
Chao Yue nodded and didn't ask any further questions.
Yu Wanyin didn't want to make a sound, so she sat to the side.
A-Zheng asked on Yu Wanyin's behalf, "If you get better, will you stay here?"
"I won't stay. I have important things to do, and I'll have to leave in three days at most."
"So urgent?" Ah Zheng casually mentioned, "What's wrong?"
"I cannot disclose that information."
"Oh." A-Zheng looked at Yu Wanyin. "So, are you doing this for someone else?"
Chao Yue hesitated for a moment, then said, "Yes."
Yu Wanyin's heart stirred slightly.
A-Zheng continued to think about the lines Yu Wanyin had taught her, "How long have you been working for your master's family? Is it easy to handle?"
"As the master grows up, the chores are all things that should be done."
Yu Wanyin looked at him, her heart pounding even harder as her thoughts churned.
She had clearly already figured it out.
Chu Yu did not die.
The heavy weight that had been pressing on her heart for so long vanished in an instant.
He didn't die.
Yu Wanyin felt a sense of relief, as if she had survived a disaster.
Chao Yue still looked in Yu Wanyin's direction, he had a feeling that someone was coming from that direction.
There's a strange sense of familiarity about it.
Ah Zheng was changing her dressing. If Chao Yue turned around, the medicine would be applied incorrectly. "Turn around, turn around," she said.
Chao Yue had no choice but to turn around.
During the movement, a bracelet on her waist fell off.
It shattered into pieces the moment it hit the ground, crashing down at Yu Wanyin's feet.
The crisp sound echoed in the room, somewhat sharp and piercing.
Yu Wanyin bent down to pick it up.
A-Zheng instinctively called out, "Your Majesty..."
After saying that, she immediately fell silent, observing Chao Yue's reaction.
Chao Yue hesitated for a moment between the shattering of the jade bracelet and the cry of "Queen".
Yu Wanyin had already picked up the jade bracelet.
She looked at the jade bracelet. It wasn't an unfamiliar object; it was the bracelet she wore on their wedding day.
Yu Wanyin stood there lost in thought for a long time.
Chao Yue brought this thing out on business—
Could it be that he was ordered to come and find her?
Yu Wanyin nervously wrapped the bracelet in a handkerchief and placed it beside him.
Ah Zheng tried to cover up the slip of the tongue she had just let slip, "We picked it up for you, but will it have any consequences if it breaks?"
“It’s broken…” Chao Yue touched it and found the broken bracelet beside him. “Master is probably going to be angry.”
Chao Yue sighed.
Ah Zheng looked at Chao Yue's injuries and said, "You're injured like this, he won't be angry with you."
Chao Yue smiled and shook his head. "You don't know him."
Other things aside, it was the lady's bracelet that was broken.
"The owner of this bracelet could make him willingly fall into a trap and perish together with the enemy."
After the master woke up from his serious injury and coma, the first thing he did was look for her.
Fearing that the Northern Chi had kidnapped them, they changed their original plan to lie low in Yunjing and headed north directly towards the Northern Chi.
Chao Yue reassured them, "I'll explain it to him when we get back."
Yu Wanyin looked at Chao Yue, her mind in turmoil.
The grass and trees are withered and fallen, and the north wind is bitterly cold.
The heavy cotton curtains hanging outside the house to block the wind still made a few muffled thuds when they were blown.
Inside the room, Yu Wanyin propped her forehead up with her hand, the candlelight flickering in front of her as the wind occasionally seeped in from outside.
It was gently swayed in front of her.
She hadn't turned the page of the book in her hand for half an hour; she was just staring blankly at the shadow on the page.
My thoughts drifted away and drew closer with the light and shadow.
Her past married life with Chu Yu sometimes felt as familiar as yesterday, and other times as strange as it had been for a long time.
Disturbed by the light and shadow, Yu Wanyin extinguished the candle.
She got up, closed the door tightly, and went to rest.
The weather had gotten a bit colder, and Yu Wanyin curled up in the brocade quilt, but even with her eyes closed, a bit of cold air still seeped in.
The slight coolness seeped into the quilt through the gaps and began to entwine around her ankles and between her legs.
Yu Wanyin opened her eyes again and turned over.
Get rid of that strange feeling.
Looking at the hazy light and shadow on the stone wall, she suddenly thought of that night.
The night she broke into his library.
The paintings hanging in the room flickered indistinctly before her eyes.
All she could see was his shadow. The cold wind from outside, along with him, seeped into her body, forcing her to stretch and open up completely.
Yu Wanyin drifted off to sleep in a daze.
He probably thinks about it all day long, and even dreams about that scene.
That's strange.
It was strange that she dreamed of scenes with Chu Yu after marrying Rong Si.
She felt that such a deviation was very wrong.
But the overwhelming dream could not be stopped.
She curled herself up very tightly.
At this moment, Rong Si, who had been away for many days to discuss matters, rushed back and found that Yu Wanyin was already fast asleep.
He quietly put his things down and then went to the bathroom to tidy up.
I was mindful that she was sleeping.
The commotion caused by the military operation was also kept to a minimum.
He finished tidying up and came out, habitually walking to the bedside to look at her sleeping face.
Rong Si's tall figure stood beside the small, shadowy bed.
The shadows cast down covered her, leaving only a section of her wrist exposed.
Rong Si reached out and tucked her wrist back under the blanket.
As he held her wrist, touching the soft, warm scent of her body beneath the covers, the man's eyes slowly darkened.
An unmistakable, almost imperceptible, possessiveness inevitably surfaced in her amber-colored eyes.
The man reached his large hand under the blanket and didn't take it out again.
He rubbed his fingertips against the back of her hand.
To avoid upsetting her, Rong Si tried to be as gentle and mild as she might like in his interactions with her.
In the dream, Chu Yu returned late at night after handling official business.
The door inside the house made a faint sound for a moment.
Then came very light footsteps approaching her.
Yu Wanyin gently tightened her fingers, the feeling of being slowly penetrated throughout her body becoming increasingly clear.
Her blanket was pulled off along with her, leaving her uncovered, and even her nightgown was loosened.
She covered herself up.
But the cold fingers slowly pulled away her covering.
The clothes, worn and tormented, completely fell off and fluttered to the ground.
Gently knock on the wooden door.
This style is too obvious.
Yu Wanyin struggled, unconsciously relying on her mannerisms to plead for mercy, "Prime Minister..."
Upon hearing this form of address, the person paused slightly.
They launched an attack without warning!
Yu Wanyin got goosebumps the moment the chisel struck again!
She was jolted awake from her sleep and went straight into those dark, beast-like eyes!
Rong Si smirked, "So distant, can't you tell which husband you are?"
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