Chapter 29 Chapter 29 "Okay."
"Senior Sister, were you pushing her too hard yesterday?" Petals fell, black specks landing on the lines with a click. Gu Zhi raised his eyes. "Miss Chu can't bear pain. She was just a boat girl on the river, not like us."
On the opposite side, Song Yaojie had a cold face and did not answer.
The eldest sister looked so unhappy that no matter how unhappy he was, he couldn't say anything more.
So he just lowered his eyes and made his move.
After a long while, Song Yaojie finally spoke, her eyes still downcast, "Are you being too protective of a stranger?"
Gu Zhi picked up the teacup and just sipped it gently.
There was no speech for a moment.
"Yesterday, I was kind enough to help her apply the medicine. You know how blisters heal faster if you pop them."
"That's true. But..." But was it too much to make her scream like that?
"But?" Song Yaojie raised her eyebrows aggressively.
He couldn't show any more partiality to her in front of his senior sister, so he stopped talking and said, "Nothing."
Song Yaojie looked at the chess board and said, "You're always too soft-hearted."
He chuckled to himself, "It doesn't make me feel good to hear people cry."
"Gu Huaijin." Song Yaojie leaned over, tapping a white piece on the chessboard. "She knows this about you, and that's how she controls you."
He said word by word, "Haven't you noticed yet?"
Gu Zhi remained silent and just kept placing pieces on the chessboard.
He glanced at Ah Song standing aside, seemingly waiting for a long time. When he saw Ah Song glance at him, he hurried forward and said, "Young Master."
Gu Zhi looked at the chessboard and took a sip of tea. "What's going on?"
"Miss Chu is injured."
Song Yaojie suddenly raised her eyes and stared at him.
Gu Zhi's expression did not change, he was still looking at the chess situation on the board, "Where is the injury? Is it serious?"
"I accidentally fell down the stone steps in front of the house and collapsed, injuring my knee."
Song Yaojie sneered.
"Has Mr. Qu Shu gone?" He said with an indifferent expression.
"I went."
"Then what else do you want to tell me?" He finally decided on the next move. He pinched a chess piece into the chaotic situation, and his long sleeves swept across the chessboard.
Qu Shu nodded and stopped talking.
Seeing his distant look, Song Yaojie smiled in agreement and continued, "If you're injured, go see a doctor. Why would you go to Huai Jin? He's not a doctor."
Gu Zhi just remained silent, as if it didn't matter to him.
"From now on, there's no need to report these trivial matters to the Young Master. Someone who falls down even when climbing the stairs should have been seen by a doctor long ago. Why should Huaijin worry about her?"
Asong carefully considered Gu Zhi's expression, and then glanced at Song Yaojie's cold face.
The young master seemed not to hear it. He neither agreed nor disagreed.
Asong: "Yes." He took the order and left.
That woman, today she was favored by the young master, tomorrow she touched the eldest senior sister's tiger butt, and the day after tomorrow she made the two proud sons of heaven in the mountain jealous of her.
They, the servants, were really not sure how to treat her.
Not long after Asong left, the game was over and the weather was still nice.
Song Yaojie was picking up the chess pieces and putting them into the chess box with her eyes downcast, about to play another game, when she suddenly looked up and saw Gu Zhi standing up with his robe lifted, brushing off the fallen petals that had just landed on his clothes.
Song Yaojie was stunned. "Are you going back? So early?"
"I suddenly remembered something." He said briefly.
"Going back to the hospital?"
Gu Zhi didn't answer, but politely smiled and nodded, "I had a great time with Senior Sister today. We'll talk again another day."
"Huai Jin." An inexplicable sense of crisis gripped her, and Song Yaojie almost hurriedly said, "Wait a moment."
Gu Zhi stood there, looking at her quietly.
Song Yaojie and Qi Zhu, who was serving beside her, exchanged a glance. Qi Zhu immediately understood, went back to the room, and brought out a moon-green object.
Song Yaojie took it, looked at it carefully in her hand, and when she handed it over again, her eyes were shy and she lowered her eyelashes in embarrassment.
"It's... the sachet I sewed myself."
Gu Zhi was a little surprised. Although he took it, he still didn't know what to do and stood there in a daze.
The sachet in her hand had crooked embroidery, seemingly embroidered with southern red beans, but it was also really... difficult to identify.
"I... am not good at needlework." She hesitated a bit. "I'm busy wielding swords all day and don't have time to practice these things. But, thinking about what I said a few days ago... a few days ago... I felt bad, so I made this for you."
Song Yaojie was usually very serious, and even more arrogant when she got angry. He had never seen Senior Sister Yamanai being so gentle and considerate, and for a moment he felt more uncomfortable than moved.
He said slightly embarrassedly, "Thank you, Senior Sister."
Then he asked, "What did you say a few days ago that was 'too much'?"
"…'Lust blinds one's mind'." He felt even more embarrassed when he talked about the past.
He had forgotten all about it and hadn't noticed it at all.
Gu Zhi was silent. The atmosphere was indeed a bit weird and he just wanted to leave quickly.
"Nothing, I've never argued about this with Senior Sister."
But Song Yaojie grabbed his sleeve again.
"I worked so hard to sew it, when did you tie it to your sword?"
For a moment, Gu Zhi was speechless.
Song Yaojie has an arrogant personality and is the most experienced senior sister in the mountain. Others are used to obeying her, not to mention how easy she is to talk to and how she knows how to deal with people.
Then he curved his eyes and said, "Since Senior Sister has worked so hard to sew it, tie it up now."
*
Nan Qiong Shuang lay on the couch, wrapped in her clothes and hugging her knees, staring at the shiny stone slabs on the ground in a daze.
The white-haired Qu Shu bowed slightly towards her and said, "Please rest well these days, young lady, and don't walk around casually. Please take the medicine I gave you on time."
She said absentmindedly, "I understand. Thank you, Mr. Qu Shu."
Ah Song stepped forward and said, "Young Master is playing chess with the eldest sister and is currently busy, so he can't come. Please follow the doctor's advice and rest well."
"I understand."
The door creaked shut, and she sat on the couch with her eyelashes drooping.
Her knee was still swollen and painful, but she didn't bother to care. She just thought it was boring.
At that time, he was still saying things like "the girl doesn't take care of herself", but now, he left her for Song Yaojie.
She sneered slightly, dipped her handkerchief in cold water, and applied it to her knees again.
Over the years, she has summed up five points to win a man's heart.
Outstanding looks, gentle and eloquent, pitiful, a little deliberate seduction, and a little deliberate... close yet distant.
Now, he didn't even give her a chance to speak, so it was impossible to expect her to have a heart-to-heart talk or say nice things.
I took a risk and tried another trick of self-torture, but even that didn't work. I got hurt twice in two days and cried twice, but he didn't even give me an extra glance.
Then, she crossed out self-harm from her memo book.
Just as I was thinking about it, the door suddenly opened.
Gu Zhi turned around and closed the door smoothly, then walked in with a normal expression. He took off his coat and put it on the back of the chair beside her table, saying, "Miss, are you hurt?"
She welled up two eyes of tears, bit her lips and said nothing.
Gu Zhi turned around and looked at her innocent expression without even raising his eyebrows. He glanced at her and turned away, ordering Ah Song, "Serve the tea."
She felt bored and covered her tears expressionlessly.
"Mr. Qu Shu has seen it, what does he say?"
"He said that I had no broken bones and asked me to have a good rest." She didn't even look at him.
He lowered his eyes and glanced at her wound silently.
A bruised knee. However, other than that, there seemed to be nothing majorly wrong. She looked so calm, not crying or screaming, so it seemed like she had no broken bones.
Below the bruised knees are a pair of calves as slender as jade chopsticks.
He once held that piece of calf in his hand and carefully placed it under the quilt.
His quilt.
His Adam's apple rolled violently for a moment, and he quickly glanced away.
"That's right." He poured the tea. "Young lady, you're being too careless. The stairs are so high, you should have watched carefully. You're so frail and so reckless. From now on, I'll have to stay by your side all the time."
The words seemed to be concerned, but the tone sounded like a reproach.
She looked at him cautiously, tears in her eyes, covering her lips with her long sleeves and lowering her eyes timidly.
Gu Zhi saw it but didn't react at all. He just stood up quickly and said, "Since Mr. Qu Shu has examined it, please follow the doctor's advice and recuperate with peace of mind."
Nan Qiong Shuang lowered her eyes.
She was hurt, and he didn't even take a closer look himself.
Even though Song Yaojie also injured her leg, he personally applied medicine for her.
So he called him, "Sir."
Gu Zhi turned around.
She fished out a mountain-blue heart knot from under her pillow, pinched it between her fingers, and said, "This is what I...sewn for you these days."
The heart knot rotated slightly at the fingertips, and the string with a silky luster slowly flowed with a small light blue light.
He only took a glance and then suppressed his expression.
He showed her the sword at his waist and said, "Unfortunately, this sword of mine already has an ornament. I'm afraid I can't keep this young lady's hard work."
Nan Qiongshuang took one look at the sachet on the sword and understood everything.
There is only one female disciple on the mountain, either her or Song Yaojie, not to mention her embroidery skills are so poor.
He sneered in his heart. He didn't take the gift she gave him, but took Song Yaojie's broken one.
So he immediately changed his mind, put on a nonchalant smile, and said, "I see, the one you're wearing is also beautiful."
"That's fine. These past few days, I've been so grateful for the care I received from the two gentlemen on the mountain. I wanted to sew two heart knots to express my gratitude, but I didn't want to hurt my hands. After all the hard work, I can only sew this one. I'm worried about it."
"In that case, I won't have to force it."
Gu Zhi paused after hearing this and turned around.
She put the light blue heart knot back under the pillow and smiled at him:
"A few days ago, I mentioned it, and Master Li immediately asked me for it. I thought, since Master Li has taken care of me more, I should give it to him first. But since you already have someone you like more..."
Gu Zhi just stared at her silently, and when their eyes met, he looked away.
"That's just right then."
Gu Zhi stood there, not saying a word, and remained silent for at least a moment.
After a while, he said dryly, "Okay."
He turned around, walked out the door, and his figure disappeared in the slowly narrowing gap of the door.
*
After recuperating for a few days, her knee had healed considerably. She stayed indoors all day, and she began to look forward to Li Xuanbai coming to see her.
For some reason, Li Xuanbai, who was always restless, hadn't come to see her for so long, and there wasn't even a letter from her.
On this day, Gu Zhi went out early to practice martial arts. After she got up, she was doing nothing in the yard. She was holding the light blue heart knot and looking at it in the light from the corridor.
Suddenly I heard an argument at the gate.
Ah Song's voice was as calm and steady as ever. "...I've already told Senior Brother that the Young Sect Leader has ordered that no outsiders are allowed to enter Muxue Courtyard again. Especially Senior Brother Xuanbai."
"Especially me?" The person outside the door snorted coldly, "I'm afraid it's just me. A few days ago, when the eldest sister came to your place, I didn't hear anyone say a word to stop her."
Asong remained silent.
Li Xuanbai said briefly, "Get out of the way."
Asong just confronted him in silence.
Li Xuanbai sneered, "Get out of the way. He's been spouting nonsense in front of my uncle these days, even bringing up the incident of me grilling fish over a fire at the foot of the mountain a few years ago. It's made me spend several days confined to the cliffs, reflecting on my mistakes. I'm so angry I don't know where to vent. If you dare disobey me again, will you?"
Asong just straightened his back and nodded politely.
With a "ding" sound, Li Xuanbai drew his sword from its sheath.
Nan Qiongshuang walked over and saw Li Xuanbai's arrogant and angry face from behind Asong. She asked gently:
"What's going on?"
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