Chapter 46
Chapter 46
Wen Shuse stared at the bulging purse in front of him, not knowing what was going on. He was stunned for a moment and said, "Where did you get the money, my dear?"
How could she not know where it came from? She secretly thought that this young lady was too good at pretending, but she still told her: "Salary."
The young lady's face lit up after hearing this. She took the purse and weighed it in her hand. Then the joy on her face gradually disappeared, and she frowned slightly, "Is that all?"
What was she saying? Could it be that she could have kept it for herself? She was a little annoyed. "The salary is a total of twenty taels. I gave it all to you. Please spend it sparingly."
What Wen Shuse was thinking was that the real estate in Dongdu earned a hundred strings of cash overnight, but her husband worked hard for a whole month and only earned twenty strings of cash.
So pitiful.
But it did not prevent her from putting the purse back into her waist.
After the money was given, Xie Shao asked, "Can I move to the east room?"
How long had it been since I last slept on the big soft bed in the east room? I really missed it so much, and I was finally going to take it back. Although the young lady would still occupy half of it, it didn't matter, the bed was wide enough to accommodate two people anyway.
I keep my word, "Please, my dear. Do you need my help to clean up?"
There was nothing to pack. The east room, which he had spent a lot of money to build, had everything he needed. He only needed to take his clothes and personal belongings.
Turning around, Min Zhang had already started without waiting for his instructions.
It looked like there wasn't much there, just some clothes and boots, but when they started to pack, one or two bags couldn't hold it all.
There were also several bows and arrows hanging on the wall, tiger skins, the books he wanted to read recently, and the mynah bird at the door... Min Zhang ran several times, and Nanny Fang also came to help before he moved the things to the east room.
All the big and small bags were finally moved, and it was already dark. Nanny Fang and Xiangyun had already lit the lamps.
Finally I returned to the room I had been away from for a long time. Everything was so nostalgic. The three-layer lotus lantern that was lit in the room was the one I snatched from Cui Nian.
The big soft bed opposite was made entirely of golden nanmu wood. Three sides of the bed were carved with auspicious patterns by famous craftsmen. Unlike the common Luohan beds, a bed frame was also made. The original aqua blue curtains were taken down and replaced with the apricot color that the young lady liked. The bed covers were also changed. The jade white cloud brocade silk quilt was neatly folded on the bed. Two large round pillows were embroidered with two peonies, one in bud and the other in full bloom.
After being dressed up by the young lady, she seemed softer than before.
I don’t know what it feels like to lie down on it, but don’t worry, you’ll know soon.
It was already late, it was time to rest. He was about to ask the young lady whether he should use the clean room first or she should, but when he turned around, he saw the young lady busying around and starting to pack up. She handed a few clothes to Xiangyun, "You take them first, and then run another trip." She turned her head and looked at the soft bed in front of him, "Ask Nanny Fang to make a new bed for you, we won't leave them behind, let's move them over together."
What's the meaning.
Xie Shao didn't understand what was going on at all. Seeing that the young lady was about to pull the soft bedding on the bed, he finally couldn't help but speak out in time, "You want to move?"
When the young lady heard him ask this, she turned around with an expression even more puzzled than him, "Since my husband has moved to the east room, I must move out." She asked in return, "Does my husband have any doubts?"
The doubts are huge.
What the young lady said just now was completely different from what he thought.
Thinking back to the young lady's words, they are still ringing in my ears. The meaning is clear and the words are explicit. I shouldn't have misunderstood them. But looking at her innocent face now, she is as pure as ice. I understand that this young lady has never experienced the evil of human hearts. She can only listen to the literal meaning of her words and cannot think deeply.
So, the so-called asking him to move back to the east room was just the two of them exchanging places.
It seems that he has dirty thoughts.
That's fine. She has lived here for such a long time, it's time to move. He raised his hand and said, "It's okay, let's move." As soon as he finished speaking, he watched the young lady walk to the bed and take away the bedding and two round pillows.
The bare bed suddenly didn't seem so soft anymore.
He walked over and sat aside, wanting to wait for her to move slowly. The young lady came up to him again and asked, "My dear, can you lend me Min Zhang? I have too many things. Can you help me move them?" She raised her hand and pointed to the boxes and cabinets in the room. "These are the dowries I brought from the Wen family. They all need to be moved to the west wing."
Xie Shao: ...
The noise of moving boxes and cabinets late at night was so noisy that it was ear-splitting. At this rate, she would have to tear the whole house apart. By the time she was done moving, it would probably be dawn.
Why is he still sleeping?
"That's enough." After holding it in for a while, he finally couldn't hold it in any longer, and stood up and said to the busy young lady, "No need to move." He had no more thoughts, and held his forehead to calm himself down, "I'll move back, and you can live in your east room well. I won't take it from you."
Compared to her pile of stuff, it was much easier to move his.
The young lady was stunned. "How can that be possible? I promised you, and I can't break my promise." She really wanted to keep him. "You finally moved here, how can you move back? If people knew, they would laugh at you."
Xie Shao: ...
She knows it too.
There was a moment of silence between the two.
Wen Shuse didn't expect that he would have so many things. He remembered that he only had a few wooden boxes when he came, and they were probably added later.
It is indeed difficult to move, what should I do?
After all, I have lived here for two or three months. It would be a lie to say that I don't have any regrets about it. Since neither of us can move, there seems to be only one solution.
Wen Shuse turned to look at Langjun and suggested, "How about Langjun and I both live in the east room."
Having been fooled once, Xie Shao was extra calm this time. He glanced at the young lady in front of him and asked, "Have you thought it through?"
What else is there to think about? It's already great that we can continue to live here without having to move things. The young lady put the quilt and round pillow back on the bed and made a decision for the two of them: "My dear, you sleep on the bed, and I'll put up another bed."
Despite the previous misunderstanding, this result makes people feel at ease.
The young lady is right. Wouldn't it be a joke to move in and then move out? Besides, it is easy to give out the twenty taels of silver, but it is difficult to get it back.
Xie Shao nodded in agreement, "Let's do as you say, young lady."
It was not possible to find another bed exactly the same, so Nanny Fang and Xiangyun moved the Luohan bed that Wen Shuse usually used as a couch to rest on to the inner room and covered it with a quilt.
After reaching a consensus, the two stopped struggling, put everything back in place, showered, and laid down on their own beds.
The bed he had not seen for a long time was just as he had imagined. The moment he got into the quilt, he felt like he had fallen into the sky. Especially the quilt covering him and the pillow under his head, which seemed to have been exposed to the sun by the young lady. The natural scent of sunlight was refreshing and comfortable, better than borneol tablets and much more comfortable than his previous bed.
Once he lay down, he didn't move again.
There was only a screen between the two beds.
The man on the big bed was comfortable, but the young lady outside the screen was not so happy. Although Nanny Fang had laid two layers of mattresses on the bed for her, she still felt uncomfortable when she lay on it. She tossed from side to side and could not fall asleep. She turned her head away and saw the screen with a landscape painting on it. It was made of pear wood and was not light-transmissive, so she could not see anything, but she could feel that the person inside was sleeping soundly.
I couldn't sleep and was bored, so I called out softly, "My dear."
The man on the bed was floating among the clouds, about to fall asleep, when he heard the young lady's call, he opened his eyes with great effort, "What's wrong?"
Then I heard the young lady ask, "Is the bed soft?"
"It's good." I wanted to tell her that it was not only soft, but also fragrant.
The young lady didn't ask any more questions. After a moment, she reached the edge of the dream again. Suddenly, she heard a noise in her ears, a "dong dong" sound.
The young lady made a really loud noise when she turned over.
I endured for a while and didn't make any sound. I finally calmed down, but then it started again.
After a few times, he disturbed her sleepiness further and further, and her head felt dizzy and swollen. She could no longer bear it, so she asked the young lady outside: "Are you not sleeping?"
Unexpectedly, when the young lady heard this, her voice was filled with surprise and astonishment: "My dear, you are not asleep either?"
What do you mean? How can he sleep if she tosses and turns like this?
"Do you always sleep like this?" It's a pity that there is no rule of testing each other before getting married, otherwise, with her problem, who would dare to marry her.
"My dear, you misunderstood me. I usually don't do this." The young lady retorted, "It's because this couch is too hard. I can't sleep."
"Didn't Mammy put two mattresses under you?" He saw it all and it wasn't so hard that he couldn't sleep.
"My dear, you don't know that I had a back injury when I was a child, so I can't sleep on a hard couch. My whole body aches when I do." Then he said, "My dear, do you think the bed is too soft? I put two palm mats underneath, and two layers of cotton mattresses, quilts and round pillows on top. I asked Xiangyun to take them out to dry in the sun today..." He stopped talking. The more he talked, the more upset he became. He turned over and said to the person inside, "My dear, go to sleep. I won't disturb you."
But her waist was still stiff and she couldn't move her limbs properly. She turned over again and again, and when she looked up she suddenly saw a figure standing in front of her, staring at her hungrily.
Wen Shuse was startled, and after she came to her senses, she blamed herself. She looked at the shadow in front of her and whispered, "Did I disturb my husband again? I promise I won't turn over again."
Her assurance is not credible at all.
"Go to bed." I couldn't make out the man's expression in the dark, but I could tell that his voice was gnashing.
The young lady hesitated: "I agreed to sleep with you, my dear, how can I do this?"
She had nothing to be embarrassed about. Her forehead was beating again, but she had already done it, so she had to speak nicely. "My dear, your waist is hurting. If anything happens to you, you will have to ask me to take care of you in the future."
That’s true.
The young lady agreed, and looked considerate of him: "My dear, you have worked hard enough. I must not add to your burden. I will go to bed now."
He hurriedly got up from the couch, walked behind the screen without any hesitation, and got into the quilt. The pain under his waist was finally gone. He stretched his limbs comfortably, turned over, and hugged the lost and found brocade quilt tightly, smelling the scent of sunshine on it. He closed his eyes contentedly and never turned over again.
Sadness and joy switched places.
The person who couldn't sleep became Xie Shao.
Especially after lying on a big soft bed and experiencing what comfort is, sleeping on this simple Luohan bed is like moving from a large yard into a thatched house, the difference is too big.
He didn't toss and turn as frequently as the young lady, but just kept his eyes open feeling incredible, not quite understanding how he had ended up like this today.
He spent all his twenty taels of salary, not a cent left, in exchange for a bed like this, which was not even as good as his west wing.
The next day, Min Zhang saw someone coming out of the inner room. He thought he would see a high-spirited master, but he turned out to be listless, with a dark spot under his eye.
Not sure if it was what he thought, Fang Zheng speculated, and then he heard the master order: "Move the bed from the west wing over later."
The bed was not only narrow but also short, and he couldn't stretch his legs at all all night.
Min Zhang didn't understand what was going on until he moved the bed in. He realized that his master had ended up losing more than he gained.
Gradually, I realized that it was not completely a waste of time. At least the master finally moved into the east room and could live with the third grandmother day and night.
From separate rooms to separate beds, it's a big step forward.
Xie Shao also had a deep understanding of this. Living under the same roof was indeed different from before. He no longer felt lonely when he came home every day. He could see the enthusiastic young lady at first sight.
Perhaps it was because the young lady had occupied the big bed alone and felt guilty, so she took very good care of him during this period of time, and prepared hot soup and hot dishes for him every time he got off work.
He was cleaning water in a copper basin, and she stood beside him, handed him a towel, and asked a few caring words, "Today's heavy rain came too quickly, I hope you didn't get wet."
He would also answer her seriously: "Mrs. Zhou has summoned her staff to discuss matters. I have been in the palace today and have not gone out."
The young lady nodded: "That's good."
During the meal, the young lady gave him almost all the meat on the plate, "My dear, eat more."
Feeling the young lady's care, the days seemed to be getting more and more like normal, and he even felt a bit like a married couple. Therefore, seeing that the moonlight was still good tonight, Xie Shao took the initiative to invite her, "Want to go out for a walk?"
The young lady readily agreed.
The two masters who had been separated for several months were finally going to take a step forward. As servants, they all had their eyes open and there was absolutely no reason for them to go forward and disturb them.
Xiangyun prepared the lantern and handed it to Wen Shuse. Fearing that it would be cold at night, he also handed over a piece of brocade. The young lady was already holding the lantern in one hand, and with the brocade, both hands would be full.
The man next to her took the initiative to take it. It was not the first time anyway. He took it and naturally put it on his arm, and went out to watch the moon with the young lady.
Although the second house went bankrupt, fortunately the garden was still there. After spring, the fragrance of flowers was no longer as strong as before, but the trees became lush.
The young lady walked on the right, holding a lantern and walking side by side with him. The silver moon shone down from overhead, lengthening the shadows of the two people and shining them on the bluestone slabs in front of them. At first glance, they seemed to be snuggling together.
When the breeze blows, my heart can't help but be a little moved.
Looking carefully, I found that their sleeves had indeed touched each other. My palms suddenly felt empty. I thought of the hand I held that day, and I still remembered how tender and soft it was.
We have finally come out, we can’t waste such a beautiful moonlight. Shouldn’t we hold hands under the flowers and the moon?
Once the thought came to mind, the more he suppressed it, the more it grew wildly. He glanced at the young lady from the corner of his eye. It was truly a godsend opportunity. The hand next to him was just hanging down, as if waiting for him to take the initiative.
He even thought of a way out. If the young lady dared to refuse, he would tell her that they were already husband and wife and holding hands was natural.
Without making a sound, Jinbo changed the position of the cloth on his right arm. He lowered his hand and reached towards the side. He was just a little bit away from it. His heartbeat suddenly quickened. It was even more exciting than the fight between him, Zhou Kuang and the other two on horseback. However, he didn't know that the number of servants in the yard had been reduced by most, and there was no one to trim the flowers and plants. In addition, there was a lake, so there were especially many mosquitoes at night.
Before I could even reach out, I suddenly heard a buzzing sound in my ears, so I had to raise my hands to get rid of it. As soon as I put my hands down, the sound entered my ears again, which was very annoying.
Looking at the girl next to me, one hand has already scratched her neck. It is summer now, and the girl is wearing a gauze top. Mosquitoes are chasing her and biting her. Sometimes her arms are itchy, sometimes her neck is itchy. The "buzzing" sound of mosquitoes is almost driving people crazy.
Suddenly, a slap hit her cheek. She turned around and asked, "My dear, please help me check if my face was bitten."
As she spoke, she raised the lantern, shone it on her face, and moved closer to the man beside her.
The halo of light from the lantern was dim and unclear. Xie Shao looked for a long time before he found a bean-sized white lump on the fair face.
It's swollen and looks like it must have been bitten for quite some time.
Looking at the miserable state of the young lady, the ripples in my heart were finally extinguished by the mosquitoes, and I could only give up and say, "Go back."
The young lady disagreed, scratching the lumps on her face, looking unwilling: "No, I have been bitten so many times, and I didn't kill any of them. I can't just let them suck my blood and be safe and sound."
Then he handed him the lantern and said, "Hold it for me, my dear. I will catch it."
That's exactly the girl's personality. She'll take revenge if she's wronged.
So he held up the lantern and watched the young lady fighting mosquitoes on the spot. Unfortunately, the young lady's hands were too small, and several times the mosquitoes were delivered to her hands, but still slipped through her fingers.
After a long time, he didn't catch any fish. Finally, he couldn't help it and returned the lantern to her. "You hold it, I'll do it."
The young man's big hands were indeed different. He got something right away. With a touch of his palm, the mosquito was half dead. However, the young lady did not let it go. She pulled out a thorn from the tip of the mosquito and threw it into the bushes to let it die. She turned around and looked at the young man with appreciation, "Come again."
The perfect opportunity to appreciate the moon turned into a fight between humans and mosquitoes, and both sides suffered losses in the end.
Half an hour later, Nanny Fang and Xiangyun were stunned to see the two masters walking in, scratching their faces and necks, both looking unhappy.
Before he could ask what was going on, he heard his master gritting his teeth and ordering, "Pull out all the weeds in the garden tomorrow, and buy some smoke, and fumigate the entire yard."
Wen Shuse couldn't count how many bites he had on his body. He hated mosquitoes to the core and nodded in agreement: "Yes, not even a single mosquito can be left."
After showering and changing clothes, they lay on the bed, counting the lumps on their bodies.
The first date was ruined by mosquitoes and declared a failure. It was simply horrible. To make up for it, Xie Shao suggested: "Let's go to another place to enjoy the moon tomorrow."
Wen Shuse:......
The two men's spirit of killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of their own, and refusing to admit defeat even if they die, is inexplicably similar.
If you lose interest because of a few mosquitoes and never admire the moon again, wouldn't that be a greater loss?
After applying the ointment, the pain was not so bad. Wen Shuse said, "My dear, you want to enjoy the moon. I know a place. I will take you there when you come back tomorrow."
When they went out again the next night, they were fully prepared and each carried several mosquito repellent sachets.
There were no mosquitoes along the way, and the moonlight was indeed bright, just as the young lady had said.
But when he looked up, he felt something was wrong. He glanced at the apricot tree in the corner, then looked back at the terrain, and finally he knew where the young lady got all the information from.
Suddenly I began to doubt the young lady's intentions. Was she here to admire the moon or to eavesdrop?
The young lady smiled at her, not disguising it at all, and whispered, "My dear, since we are here, let's just listen. What if they are plotting something big behind our backs?"
This kind of behavior is not what a gentleman does after all, and I cannot agree with the young lady. She'd better not listen to it. If she hears something she shouldn't hear, she will be the one who will be embarrassed.
He pulled her out, but the girl held on to his arm tightly and refused to move. As they were pulling, there was a sudden movement on the opposite wall, as if someone was walking out.
The two of them paused and held their breath.
"Please stay, sir." It was the voice of Uncle Xie.
"Deputy Envoy Xie, do you have any questions?"
"This news really makes me panic."
"The imperial edict is stamped with His Majesty's jade seal. Are you doubting its authenticity, Mr. Xie?" The man called the eunuch smiled. "The two princes in Hexi and Hebei are precedents. Can't Deputy Envoy Xie see that His Majesty is determined to reduce the power of the princes? Deputy Envoy Xie is just waiting for this great achievement to be rewarded with an official title."
I've been sitting in front of the computer since 8am, but my brain and hands are too slow, woo woo woo~
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