Chapter 21 Little Jiaojiao
Li Ruanruan felt a little guilty. She grabbed the hem of her skirt and tossed it with her fingers before looking at Ye Yunchu. Her voice was as soft as a mosquito: "Yes... I don't recognize many."
Ye Yunchu gestured to her: "Come here, I will teach you how to read."
Li's soft hands rested on the table, scratching it gently, and then she slowly and tentatively moved to his side like a cat slave.
When he held her in his arms, her breathing stopped, and then she tried to relax, touching the ground with her feet, afraid that she would crush him.
Ye Yunchu held her hand and squeezed it, as if squeezing a little raccoon's paw: "Can you hold a pen?"
Li Ruanruan shook her head.
"Try it and I'll teach you how to write your own name."
The prince spoke so softly that Li Ruanruan blushed. She felt that it would be better if he scolded her harshly. Her heartbeat felt so strange.
Li Runrun reached out to take the pen. She could write, but she had already said she couldn't.
Afraid of being exposed, he held the pen like a fist.
Ye Yunchu couldn't bear to look at her holding his precious white jade pen in such an indecent manner.
He went to hold the pen, but she was still holding it tightly. Ye Yunchu patted the back of her hand and said, "Relax. Hold it like me, like this."
He demonstrated it to her.
Only when the pear was soft did he pick it up properly.
Ye Yunchu held her hand and wrote the three words "Li Ruanruan" on the rice paper.
Li Runrun looked at her own name and for the first time felt that her name could be written so beautifully and with such elegance.
But Ye Yunchu said: "This is the ugliest handwriting I have ever written."
Li Ruanruan: “........”
This is ugly, then her handwriting must be like dog crawling.
Ye Yunchu let go of her hand: "You write."
Li Runrun was still afraid of being exposed, so she wrote the words big and ugly. Compared with his words above, it was simply horrible.
The fine purple hair brush was split when she wrote on it, so she quickly dipped it in ink to restore the hairiness.
If you are not careful, you will fall into the trap.
Ye Yunchu saw the way she dipped the brush in ink and could tell that she was a good calligrapher.
It is a bit surprising that she, a lowly servant, could create amazing Suzhou embroidery and is now definitely literate.
But she hides her incompetence in front of him. If you say she is smart, she will reveal her true colors. If you say she is stupid, she will act as if it is the truth.
There is a small tuft of hair that cannot be restored and it will stick up no matter what, and it will definitely split when writing horizontally or vertically.
Just when Li Ruanruan was feeling guilty, Ye Yunchu suddenly raised his voice: "You broke my only purple hair brush!"
Li Ruanruan's hands trembled with fear. She quickly reached out to pinch the ink on the tip of the pen and pinched back the two tufts of hair: "No, no...it's not broken."
She showed it to Ye Yunchu: "Just pinch it and it will be fine."
Ye Yunchu didn't listen at all: "I'm used to using this one, and now it's broken, what should I do?"
Ye Yunchu took the brush and wrote Li Ruanruan's name on the paper. He wrote it in splits on purpose, so that one Li Ruanruan became two.
Li Ruanruan wiped the ink on her hands onto her clothes. She clutched the clothes tightly and said, "Then, what should I do?"
"You have to compensate me."
"How much..."
"Why hasn't your stuttering healed yet?"
Ye Yunchu pinched her soft little face and stared at her: "Hmm?"
"I......."
"Stuttering?"
Li Runrun was even more frightened, and she would stutter when she was afraid. She looked at him with red eyes, feeling bullied, and a faint mist in her eyes, as if she would cry in the next second.
Ye Yunchu pressed his thumb on the corner of her eye and rubbed it. Her skin was delicate and the corner of her eye became even redder.
He laughed: "Little Ruanruan, so delicate."
Li Ruanruan tried not to stutter, so she said one word: "Compensation."
Ye Yunchu nodded: "This is a purple hair brush, you know the market price, one hundred taels of silver."
Li Runrun widened her eyes. One, one hundred taels. Even if she was sold, she wouldn't get that much money.
Fortunately, Ye Yunchu was so reasonable: "If you can't afford to pay, you can pay off the debt."
Li Ruanruan was heartbroken by the huge debt and stopped stuttering. She asked hurriedly, "How can we pay it off?"
As long as she is not asked to pay back the silver, it is fine. She earns a little silver, and has to pay for her brother's medical treatment, her father's leg treatment, and food to improve her life. Winter is coming soon, and it will be difficult to survive without charcoal.
Winter was the most difficult and deadly season for poor people like them. Prices in the capital were high. The little money she earned was not enough to spend, let alone compensate him.
Ye Yunchu leaned back in his chair. He looked at the soft pear in his arms and said, "Just serve me."
Li Ruanruan's eyes lit up, and she immediately picked up the teacup beside her and handed it over: "Have some tea~"
The little thing is quite clever.
Ye Yunchu took the teacup, lowered his head and took a sip. It was already cold, but he didn't say anything.
Anyway, he didn't ask her to be a maid to serve tea and water.
After drinking, Li Runrun stood up attentively, took the teacup, and put it back in its place.
She knelt down again and gently massaged his legs, with her small fists on his legs. She just knelt on the ground and looked at him eagerly, her eyes full of expectation of paying off the debt.
This reminded Ye Yunchu of the little cat he once raised. When begging for food, it would sit on his legs like this, stand up straight and meow at him.
Ye Yunchu still held Li's soft elbow and lifted her up from the ground: "The ground is cold."
Li Ruanruan went around behind him and massaged his shoulders. After a while, she asked in a low voice, "How much can this help?"
Ye Yunchu thought for a moment before saying, "Half a copper coin."
Then he felt the pear on his shoulder squeezing his hand a little harder, and he was afraid that if she got a little bolder, she would try to squeeze him to death.
Ye Yunchu suppressed his laughter and said deliberately: "Hiss——"
Li Ruanruan immediately softened her stance and lowered her head: "Sorry, I'll be gentler."
Ye Yunchu fished for so long before putting out the bait: "Do you want to make more money?"
Li Ruanruan nodded, realizing that she was behind him and nodded so that he couldn't see her.
So she leaned close to him and whispered softly and sweetly, "I do."
I want it so much!
Ye Yunchu suppressed the smile on his lips, making himself look serious: "Then kiss me, a kiss can make up for more."
Li Ruanruan: “?”
Ye Yunchu grabbed her hand, placed it in his palm and patted it: "Try it?"
Li Ruanruan looked at Ye Yunchu's lips and blushed: "Is this, this, not good?"
"You don't want to pay off your debt?"
His voice was fierce: "Then pay your debt."
"I can't, I can't, I can't afford it..."
"Then let your family pay it back."
"No...I, I still..."
Li Runrun was afraid that he would be angry, and was also afraid that the stingy prince would go to her house to search for her remaining silver, so she hurried over and kissed him fiercely.
I used too much force and hit my teeth.
She was still a little nervous, thought about it, and sucked it again.
Ye Yunchu found it funny and pressed the back of her head.
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