Chapter 466 Female Classmate
The Taoist priest sat down at the stone table. "Have a couple more drinks and then go to sleep. I'll go meditate on the wall of the fortress later."
Song Chunxue nodded, "Mm."
She couldn't help but mutter, "Young people these days are so secretive, what's there to hide from me?"
The Taoist priest realized that she still didn't know what had bitten her.
"Didn't you get married and have five children?"
"What does this have to do with anything?"
The Taoist priest sipped his wine and looked away. "For you two, having a child was just a routine matter?"
"..." Although it doesn't sound right, it seems about the same.
"You've read so many storybooks, how come you don't know?"
“The storybooks didn’t say that couples who sleep together will develop purple spots,” Song Chunxue said with a sense of ignorant frustration. “Forget it, I don’t want to know. It’s probably nothing proper.”
The Taoist priest sighed helplessly, "Seriously, what's improper between husband and wife? It was your son who bit you."
"To be precise, it's sucking."
"..." She finally understood.
Song Chunxue's teeth ached. "Ugh~ This is absurd. I'm going to sleep now."
She stood up, clutching the wine. Although she wasn't blushing, it was still shocking that they were talking about this kind of thing alone late at night, especially since she had just foolishly blurted it out to everyone...
Good heavens, next time I encounter something like this, I should pretend to know what I don't and do my own research in private.
Now the situation has escalated to the point that her senior brother feels that since she was once married, she's no different from a lamb that has given birth. It's absolutely outrageous!
No, she wanted to take out the storybook that had been confiscated from the fourth son and examine it carefully.
Having lived two lives, to be laughed at like this by her children made her want to die.
That night, the light in Song Chunxue's room stayed on for two extra hours.
...
The next day at noon, Sanwa and Lao Er went to Zuiyuelou to keep their appointment.
Song Chunxue wanted to go and see, but her second brother stopped her. In addition, she hadn't slept well and was yawning all the time, so she ate a few bites of steamed buns and went back to her room to continue sleeping.
Lying in bed unable to sleep, she sat cross-legged in meditation. An hour later, she heard footsteps in the courtyard, but the dog remained silent, so she guessed it was her senior brother.
She went outside and saw the Taoist priest lighting the stove.
"Senior brother, when do you plan to set off for Jincheng?"
The Taoist priest blew on the tinderbox, used corn leaves and corn husks to start a fire, broke off a dry willow branch and threw it in, then threw in two corn cobs and an apricot branch.
"It's not up to you; it's up to you when you want to go."
Song Chunxue sat down on the steps. "I was thinking of having the second and fourth brothers do more work in a few days before going, but it wouldn't be good if it delayed the second brother's job. How about going the day after tomorrow?"
"Okay, sure."
She yawned, got up, and walked towards the backyard.
"Then I'll go to the potato cellar and get some travel money. My senior brother must have run out of money. I'll break up those pearls and sell them for cash. How much of the gold ingots do you think is appropriate?"
"Take less. That person said they'd have to pay for it. Save the rest for later."
"Well, I'll take some, in case I need to buy a courtyard in Jincheng, which will cost a lot of money." Most importantly, she now realized that this fortress was definitely worth more than thirty taels, and she wanted to take this opportunity to repay Lord Xie something.
When she arrived at the front yard with her arms full of the contents, intending to show it to her senior brother, Sanwa and Lao Er looked up at her.
Song Chunxue felt nervous and quickly loosened her grip on her chest.
"Clang~" A large pearl rolled out of her bosom.
Sanwa's eyes widened.
"Clang~" Another one fell out.
The second son cried out "Ouch!" and his eyes widened like a rooster's, staring intently at the white pearl rolling on the ground.
"My God, did you go rob a place?!"
Song Chunxue was in a real bind. While they were still in a daze, she turned around and went to her room, put the things she was carrying into a box, and locked it.
When she came out of the room again, she looked perfectly normal.
The second and third children each held a pearl, ready to bite it, but were stopped by the Taoist priest.
"Don't bite it, it's not silver." The Taoist priest looked at Song Chunxue, "Since they saw it, let each of the children have one, even a small one is fine."
Song Chunxue felt a pang of heartache; she didn't want to give it.
“Wealth should not be flaunted. If they go out and boast about it, wouldn’t that harm them? You should return it to me. I’ll give each of you five hundred coins.”
The Taoist priest couldn't help but chuckle; his junior brother was so stingy.
The third brother and the second brother reached out their hands and handed over the pearls.
Although they were unwilling, their mother was right. They had been plagued by matchmakers lately, and if word got out that they had pearls, the fortress might be secretly demolished.
Song Chunxue went back and locked the pearls up, giving each person a string of coins, saying, "Don't let it slip; keep it to yourself, it's better for everyone."
The two brothers went to their own room without realizing it and put the silver away.
Then, they walked blankly to the stone table in the courtyard and found two wooden stools to sit down.
“Tsk, such a big pearl, I’ve never seen one like it in books, it must be very valuable.” The second son couldn’t help but shake his head. “No wonder Mother is so rich, she can exchange one for a small courtyard.”
Sanwa didn't say anything, but he was equally shocked.
"How did things go between you two? Have you settled things?" Song Chunxue took a sip of tea, her expression unchanged.
“The Hu siblings probably came out without their family’s knowledge. They had only been sitting down for a short while, and before they could even finish a sentence, they were called away by the Hu family. It might not be over yet.” The second brother said seriously, “I’m worried that they will take advantage of their power and force the third brother to divorce his wife.”
The Taoist priest said calmly, "Don't worry, they won't dare to act recklessly. If that's the case, just have your mother go to their door, and I guarantee they'll submit."
Song Chunxue was indignant. What did this mean? Were they treating her like a vicious dog?
She thought of the medicine she had just bought, turned around and went to the kitchen to find the medicine pot, and drank two doses as soon as possible to see if it could calm her down.
The second son got up and went to the backyard, wanting to see where his mother's pearls came from.
She had so many things stuffed in her clothes just now, and she came out from the backyard; she probably dug them out of the ground.
After searching carefully, there were no signs of the soil being dug up.
Just as he was about to go check on the donkey pen, one of the dogs following him suddenly turned around and ran away.
The second son was startled and prepared to go to the front yard to check.
It turns out that the fourth brother has returned.
Upon closer inspection, it became clear that there were two other people following behind the fourth brother.
The second brother was stunned and stood there.
Isn't this his former classmate?
He was twelve years old that year. Wang Qing's father made a fortune, and his whole family moved to the city. The girl made him secretly sad for a long time.
At that time, there weren't many girls in the entire school who could study for four or five years, and she was one of them.
After many years apart, she had grown into a graceful young woman, looking at him with a shy, hesitant expression.
However, if I remember correctly, she was only two years younger than him.
"Jiang Yehui, it's been so many years. I didn't expect you to be in the army." Wang Qing greeted him generously. "I heard from Aunt Yao that your family lives here, but she wasn't sure what your name was. I happened to run into your brother, so I came over to see you."
Jiang Yehui smiled and nodded, "Miss Wang Qing, it's been many years. It's rare that you still remember. Please come in and have a seat."
Song Chunxue sized up the girl, noticing that her hair was styled in a bun and that although her clothes were luxurious, they were dark in color.
She sighed inwardly, thinking that this girl was probably like her, widowed at a young age.
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