As the saying goes, a woman dresses up for the man who appreciates her.
There's a saying that goes, "Choose style over warmth."
For Zhou Ziqiong, Jing Zhe is her most beloved... younger brother. Although she has never expressed her true feelings to Jing Zhe, she is already fully aware of his feelings for her.
Although I didn't say it, I was still happy inside.
Today, the Da'an Newspaper Office and Wenxiangju opened for business. These are both Jing Zhe's businesses. Although the identities of the two people have not been made public, Zhou Ziqiong, as the mistress of Zhou Family Cloth Shop, was naturally invited to cut the ribbon for the Da'an Newspaper Office with Yu Li and others.
This wasn't the first time Zhou Ziqiong had met Jing Zhe, but she hadn't made any special effort to dress up for their previous meetings. However, today's occasion was special, so Zhou Ziqiong got up and dressed up before dawn.
First, with the help of painting and playing the zither, Zhou Ziqiong applied a light makeup that was both delicate and beautifully ethereal. Then she began to struggle with what clothes to wear.
Because it's still before the end of the first lunar month, although spring is gradually emerging, it's still very cold outside, especially in the mornings. So Zhou Ziqiong has been wearing cotton-padded clothes made by her family's fabric workshop for the past few days. They're not only heavy, but they also look much less stylish.
She gritted her teeth and took out a moon-white chiffon dress from the wardrobe—although it was very thin, Zhou Ziqiong felt she could manage since it would only be for half a day.
After she changed her clothes and turned around in front of the bronze mirror, she was very satisfied with herself and felt that even if she suffered a little, it was worth it.
However, every woman has a few days when she feels unwell each month, and according to the usual pattern, today happens to be the first day that Zhou Ziqiong feels unwell.
Sure enough, when she got up early in the morning to do her hair and makeup, she felt a faint, stabbing pain in her lower abdomen.
At times like this, what women should do most is keep warm. However, Zhou Ziqiong made a big mistake by wearing a thin and cool long dress in order to look pretty. After standing outside for half a day, the pain in her lower abdomen became stronger and stronger. But she persevered for the sake of Jing Zhe's opening ceremony.
Later, she followed Jing Zhe into the house and upstairs to talk, and only then did she feel the pain lessen somewhat. Especially after Hua Qin came to tell her that someone in the Zhou family's cloth shop was demanding payment, she couldn't care less about that anymore.
She spent another half day at the cloth shop. Fortunately, Jing Zhe appeared and helped her resolve the matter. She also completely forgot about her lower abdominal pain. As a result, she sat down on the cold stone bench with Jing Zhe and remained there for nearly fifteen minutes.
By the time she felt the pain in her lower abdomen again, it was too late, because this time it wasn't just lower abdominal pain; she could also feel her period starting…
Yes, it's here.
Although she didn't see it, based on her experience, she knew that the long dress she was wearing this time was so thin that it must have been see-through. Most importantly, she was wearing a moon-white long dress, so those little specks of scarlet blood must have been very conspicuous.
Zhou Ziqiong was starting to regret it. Why did she have to wear such a thin skirt, especially a moon-white one? If she had worn a dark, thick cotton coat like yesterday, even if it was see-through, no one would have been able to tell…
But what's done is done, and there's no use in regretting it. All Zhou Ziqiong wants to do now is go back to her room and change into a new dress. Of course, she can't let Jing Zhe know about this—that would be too embarrassing.
But Jing Zhe insisted on getting closer, even saying that he knew a lot about it—he had so many women, so he must know a lot about it, but even if he did know a lot about it, he must have never seen clothes so thoroughly stained like this before, right?
So no matter what, we can't let him know!
"Okay, I won't come over. Don't get excited, Sixth Sister!"
Hearing Zhou Ziqiong's tearful cry, Jing Zhe was startled and quickly waved his hand, saying...
"You... step back!"
Zhou Ziqiong was still not satisfied and pointed at him, saying...
"Okay, I'll back out..."
Jing Zhe had no choice but to obediently take a few steps back.
At this moment, Zhou Ziqiong spoke up again: "Turn around!"
"..."
Jing Zhe was getting more and more confused.
What's going on? Why am I being told to step back and turn around? If it were just my period, it shouldn't be like this, right?
Could it be...?
Suddenly, Jing Zhe thought of a certain possibility and agreed with it wholeheartedly.
Back in the day, when Jing Zhe was in junior high school, he had seen this kind of thing quite often. Some girls who developed early would suddenly get their first period, especially in the summer. Their pants would naturally get soaked, and a group of naughty boys would follow behind them whistling, making these girls blush with embarrassment, and some would even cry from shame.
Zhou Ziqiong is most likely facing this situation now.
Don't look back!
As soon as she finished speaking, Zhou Ziqiong's hurried, hurried footsteps could be heard, fading into the distance.
Jing Zhe quickly turned around and happened to see Zhou Ziqiong fleeing in panic, wearing that moon-white long dress with scarlet spots on her buttocks.
Looks like I guessed right!
...
Jing Zhe followed her, and about fifteen minutes after Zhou Ziqiong went inside, Jing Zhe knocked on her door.
"Sixth Sister, it's me!"
"Wait...wait a minute..."
Zhou Ziqiong's voice came through, and you could clearly hear an unease in her tone.
After a while, the door was opened.
At this moment, Zhou Ziqiong had naturally changed out of her thin, moon-white dress and put on a dark cotton coat.
Her face was still a little pale, but her cheeks were flushed, and there were beads of sweat on her forehead. She was probably sweating from the effort of tidying up her clothes after hearing him knock on the door.
"Miss…"
As soon as Jing Zhe sat down inside, Hua Qin appeared at the door, carrying a steaming kettle.
"Young master, here is the hot water, brown sugar, and ginger you requested!"
Huaqin put the things down, then said to Zhou Ziqiong, "Miss, I just heard that Manager Song from the West Workshop is here. I'll go take a look now!"
Zhou Ziqiong nodded in agreement, watched Hua Qin leave, then shifted her gaze to the table with the kettle on it, and then looked at Jing Zhe.
As a man who has had so many women, Jing Zhe may not be considered a woman expert now, but he is at least a good man.
In his own time, he knew that whether a man was good or bad, as long as he had a girlfriend, he knew that hot water was the cure-all – drink more hot water when you have a cold, drink more hot water when you have your period, drink more hot water when you're unhappy, and drink more hot water for all kinds of body aches.
To put it simply, hot water can perfectly solve even the slightest discomfort you experience...
As a good man, Jing Zhe naturally knew this well, especially for women with menstrual cramps. In addition to hot water, Jing Zhe also knew that adding brown sugar and ginger could not only dispel cold but also promote blood circulation, which was much better than simply drinking hot water!
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