Chapter 67 Wrong Posture
"Sister, did you sprain your waist?" Du Ruozhi looked at Du Huaizhi, who looked like she was in back pain and exhausted, and blinked her big, bright eyes, asking a soul-searching question.
Du Huaizhi's expression was a little unnatural, "Well, I didn't sleep in the right position last night."
"Oh..." Du Ruozhi nodded thoughtfully, as if she didn't think anything was wrong. "Then why did you come here so early, sister?"
When Du Ruozhi woke up today, she found Du Huaizhi sitting in her room, dressed neatly, flipping through her notebook in his hand. This scared her and she quickly got up to put the notebook away. She looked at the page number before she breathed a sigh of relief.
Du Huaizhi watched her hide the notebook while she was talking, then took out a new one and handed it to her, saying casually, "I miss you."
"Ah?" Du Ruozhi was stunned. It was a little unreal for such words to come out of her elder sister's mouth, but it had to be said that it was very useful to Du Ruozhi.
"If sister misses me, just send someone to call me over. Why bother coming here in person?" Du Ruozhi muttered softly, feeling sweet in her heart.
Du Huaizhi hummed softly, but his eyes still lingered on the spot where the notebook had been placed. He suddenly asked, "Is that book... interesting?"
Du Ruozhi's alarm bells immediately rang, and she stammered, "It's just an ordinary storybook, telling stories about talented men and beautiful women."
Du Huaizhi looked at her thoughtfully.
"Hehe." Du Ruozhi laughed dryly twice, and her fingertips unconsciously picked at the corner of the cover of the storybook in her hand, "Sister, look at this. I heard that it talks about interesting things in the water town of Jiangnan. I just asked the maid to buy it yesterday, and I was thinking of finding a chance to read it today." As she spoke, she deliberately opened two pages of the book and pointed to the illustrations on it to show her, trying to change the subject.
Du Huaizhi's eyes did not fall on the new notebook. He just raised his hand and gently rubbed his waist. His slightly frowned brows made Du Ruzhi forget to hide it in an instant, and she hurried over.
"Sister, is your waist still hurting? Can I ask the kitchen to make some Eucommia ulmoides soup? Last time, my mother had a sore waist, and she felt much better after drinking it twice."
"Don't bother." Du Huaizhi held her hand. "If you really care about me, why not... lend me that 'Talented Scholar and Beautiful Woman'?"
Du Ruozhi's face flushed red all the way to her ears, and she shrank back in panic: "T-that book is boring! It's full of nonsense, I'm sure you won't like it, sister!"
"Why are you so excited?" Du Huaizhi looked at her panic and said deliberately, "I want to see what book you are hiding so tightly."
As he spoke, he raised his eyebrows. "If it's really an ordinary story, why not let me take a look? Or is there something in it that I can't know?"
"No, no!" Du Ruozhi waved her hands anxiously, "It's just... it's just..." She bit her lip and hesitated for a long time, not knowing how to describe it. If her elder sister knew that she usually watched that kind of thing, she couldn't imagine it.
I secretly raised my eyes to glance at Du Huaizhi, only to see a very faint smile on the corner of his mouth. That smile was not as cold as usual, as if he already knew something.
When he woke up just now, he only saw her looking, but he couldn't be sure what she was looking at. Du Ruozhi felt her scalp tingling, and she didn't dare to hide it anymore. "It's just an ordinary 'talented scholar and beautiful woman', but that 'beautiful woman' is... a man..."
The sound behind him became smaller and smaller until he could no longer hear it.
Du Huaizhi looked at Du Ruozhi, who seemed to want to hide him in the cracks of the ground, and deliberately dragged out his tone: "So - this is the 'talented scholar and beautiful woman'."
Du Ruozhi's face was so red that blood could drip out. "Don't laugh at me, sister. I just read it when I was bored to relieve my boredom."
"I think it's quite interesting."
Du Huaizhi's words of agreement instantly perked up Du Ruzhi's originally depressed spirits. Her eyes lit up, "Really? Sister, do you also like to read this kind of storybook?"
"I never read storybooks."
The flame that Du Ruozhi had just ignited was instantly extinguished, "But Sister also said it was interesting..."
"I just took a look, it's really interesting." Du Huaizhi reached out and pinched Du Ruozhi's soft cheek. "It's normal to read some books when you have nothing to do. There's no need to be so nervous."
Du Ruozhi said sullenly, "My mother didn't let me read it." And what she was reading was not some normal leisure book.
Du Huaizhi thought of Lin's appearance and decided that he should watch secretly.
The two of them were silent. At this moment, Du Ruozhi's stomach made a noise -
“Gurgle…”
Du Ruozhi quickly covered her stomach, "Ahem, sister, are you hungry? I'll ask Xiuzhu to prepare breakfast."
Du Huaizhi nodded, and when she stood up, she felt a dull pain in her waist again. She held on to the edge of the table to relax, and Du Ruozhi immediately came over to help her.
"Sister, is your waist really okay?"
"It's okay." Du Huaizhi held her hand, cursing inwardly...
Du Ruozhi frowned and walked very lightly as she helped Du Huaizhi to sit at the table. "You must drink the Eucommia ulmoides soup I just mentioned. I'll go tell the kitchen to make a cup of black chicken soup to nourish you. You look tired."
Aren't you tired? Du Huaizhi gritted his teeth, but his face remained calm and composed, "Don't bother, I'm really fine."
As they tugged, the red mark on her neck, which had been hidden by her collar, became visible. Du Ruozhi blinked, then suddenly realized, "Did that person hit you?"
"......?" Du Huaizhi turned his head, "What?"
Du Ruozhi stared at the spot. "It's almost bruised. When have you ever been injured like this? It must be that bastard who bullied you. It would be fine if he just bullied you normally, but he actually hit you. That's too much."
"..." Du Huaizhi seemed to have overestimated the banned books Du Ruozhi usually read. He coughed lightly and pretended to be calm to change the subject, "Aren't you hungry? Bring me some food, I'm hungry too."
Du Ruozhi refused to give up, her little face puffed up with anger, but she was afraid that her elder sister would be hungry, so she had to give up for the time being, ordered the meal to be served, and then went to wash up.
When Du Ruozhi came back after washing up, breakfast was already prepared. She specially asked Xiuzhu to bring a cushion for Du Huaizhi to put behind his waist, and then she diligently served the dishes and soup.
"Eat more, sister." She pushed a plate of fish and shrimp cakes in front of Du Huaizhi, her face still showing lingering anger. "I'll ask the court doctor to come over and take a look later."
Du Huaizhi paused while picking up the food and said helplessly, "No need..."
"I have to!" Du Ruozhi put down her chopsticks, her expression serious for once. "What if he gets hurt? Besides..." She lowered her voice, "If that person really hits me, I have to have a doctor examine him and keep evidence!"
"Cough cough cough..." Du Huaizhi started coughing because of the soup. Du Ruzhi's shocking words almost sent her away.
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