Chapter 83 Strategy (Part 2)...
After an unknown amount of time, the door was opened.
Zhou Zhishan hurriedly stood up and looked at his wife. Seeing that although her complexion was bad, she had no symptoms such as vomiting blood, he felt relieved.
"Wu Niang, are you okay?"
Song Yuxi reached out and stroked Zhou Zhishan's cold face. He said calmly, "Ah Lang, let me ask you, have you ever killed any innocent people before?"
Zhou Zhishan took her into his arms and said firmly, "No."
Song Yuxi slowly closed his eyes, "Do you remember those young ladies I saved before? I want to meet them."
Zhou Zhishan's expression froze. He asked, "Why are you bringing this up so suddenly?"
Song Yuxi said, "It's just that I thought of them tonight through Madam Li. You've been arranging their livelihoods for quite some time now, and I wanted to see how they're doing."
Zhou Zhishan said, "Wu Niang, they are no longer in Weinan County. They have all gone to Chang'an to make a living. If you want to see them, I will send my servants to find them."
Song Yuxi: "No need, it's enough for them to live well. They are all poor people, why bother to go back and forth like this." She said so, but her heart grew colder and colder.
Zhou Zhishan's eyes relaxed as he finished speaking. "Wu Niang is kind-hearted. They should be grateful."
“…”
Zhou Zhishan asked cautiously, "Wu Niang, are you tired?"
Song Yuxi nodded tiredly and walked back into the house.
"Don't bother them anymore. Go and do your work. I want to get some sleep."
Zhou Zhishan thought about how Song Yuxi hadn't slept well last night after all the commotion, so he said, "Okay, I'll watch over you as you sleep."
"No." She closed the door.
Zhou Zhishan had no choice but to give up. He said, "Wu Niang, if you feel unwell, remember to call a doctor."
After a long time, he turned around and strode out of the garden regardless of his foot injury.
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Li Daoxuan had been working hard for several days and his old injuries were aching slightly, so he simply lay down on the couch with his sword in his arms and closed his eyes to rest.
Chen Qing was making a lot of noise in the house, fiddling with the windows, fiddling with the door latches, and emptying out all the things in the luggage. In short, there was no peace and quiet at all.
Li Daoxuan was given a headache by the noise and could no longer bear it. He said, "Chen Youan, be quiet!"
Suddenly someone stuck a talisman on his face. Li Daoxuan's face suddenly darkened, and he opened his sharp eyes and stared at the culprit.
She had let her hair down at some point, and was staring at him with a serious expression. Chen Qing was wearing only a pear-blossom white nightgown and pink embroidered shoes, her whole body exuding resistance.
"Li Daoxuan, it's so dirty here, I need to take a shower."
Li Daoxuan scoffed, "What does it have to do with me?"
"How is it none of your business? I came all alone to a foreign land and suffered with you because of you. If you hadn't insisted on staying in the Zhou Mansion, would I have nearly been burned to death?"
She pointed her slender white finger at the tub, "Besides, that tub has been used by so many people, it's filthy! I don't care, you have to get me a new one!"
The bathtub she pointed at was half a person's height. The body of the tub was covered with scratches of varying depths. The wooden surface was rough and dull. Some places on the edge of the tub had mold due to moisture, showing patches of black and green spots.
The condition inside the barrel was not optimistic either. The coating on the inner wall had peeled slightly, revealing the wood underneath, which looked mottled. The bottom, due to long-term contact with water and the ground, had shown signs of wear and rot, and the surface was uneven.
In short, Chen Qing would never use this old and worn-out bathtub to bathe.
Li Daoxuan said, "You just washed once last night."
Chen Qing frowned, "Last night is last night, and today is today. Besides, there was such a big fire, my body must be dirty. I must take a shower, otherwise I will feel uncomfortable!"
Li Daoxuan lay back down and peeled off the talisman paper on his face, "Where can I get you a bathtub, Shen Youan, if you continue to make trouble, be careful that this king will not be polite."
When Chen Qing heard this, she instantly became angry and jumped onto Li Daoxuan's couch.
The extremely narrow couch could not accommodate two people, so Chen Qing could only kneel on his long legs, but her hands were supporting his strong abdomen. Li Daoxuan was shocked by her bold behavior and subconsciously sat up.
At this moment, Chen Qing's hand, which was originally supporting his abdomen, slipped and her body lost its stability. She screamed and slid down the couch. Just as she was about to fall to the ground, her shoulder was suddenly grabbed by a hot big hand.
Li Daoxuan felt like he was holding a hot potato, unable to let go or hold it. He said, "Get out!"
Chen Qing was extremely arrogant at this moment. She bared her teeth and said fiercely, "No way, unless you find me a new bathtub! Otherwise, I will pester you!"
Li Daoxuan gritted his teeth and said, "Aren't you resisting my contact? What are you doing now?"
A hint of cunning flashed across Chen Qing's eyes, "I thought about it, we were going to get married anyway, so we have to do intimate things in the future. Now, this can be regarded as a review in advance." She smiled and said, "Don't worry, it was not my intention to resist last time. It's just that you suddenly got too close to me, and I was a little uncomfortable. In the future, I will definitely try to 'adapt', and you should get used to it too." She whispered in Li Daoxuan's ear.
The warm breath sprinkled on his cold earlobe, stirring up a burning sensation. Li Daoxuan tightened his grip on her shoulder, his heart skipped a beat, his throat tightened, and he couldn't utter a word for a moment.
Chen Qing subtly sensed the change in the strength of his shoulder, lowered her eyes to glance at his slender, porcelain-white finger bones, and raised her hand to touch him with a smile.
When his warm palm touched the cold back of his hand, Li Daoxuan's thick eyelashes trembled suddenly, and there was a lot of ripples in his eyes. He raised his eyes carefully, but saw that she tilted her head and stretched out her hand slowly towards his face.
Li Daoxuan seemed to be possessed by a ghost, staring at her bright smile motionlessly.
She lay on him calmly, as if she was implicitly provoking him.
The unique fragrance of her body filled my nose. It was not like the scent of the floral dew sold in ordinary perfume shops, but the unique and peculiar body odor of a girl.
Before and after the attack of the insect, he was particularly sensitive to the fragrance on her body, but at this moment, the insect was dormant and motionless, and the fragrance on her body still penetrated into his nose, extremely fragrant.
It was not until his face was touched by a restless person and a faint scent of ink came to his senses that he suddenly came back to his senses.
Chen Qing had already let go in time, and rubbed his neck and collar, then hurriedly turned over and ran down, fearing that he would hold her.
Li Daoxuan touched his face in surprise, and not surprisingly, he got a hand full of ink. His eyes darkened and he quickly turned over and got off the bed.
Chen Qing looked back and saw someone with a gloomy face striding towards her at an extremely fast speed. She screamed in fear and ran away.
However, her speed could never catch up with Li Daoxuan's long legs. Chen Qing felt her waist tighten, and then her whole body was suspended in the air, and she was dizzy from the feeling of weightlessness.
"ah--"
The items on the table were thrown to the ground, and Chen Qing was lifted up by the waist and placed on the table to sit. Her perspective was instantly level with Li Daoxuan.
Seeing his unfriendly look, Shen Qing shrank her head, but her neck was grabbed by someone.
"Don't play with me if you can't afford it!" Shen Qing took the initiative and said, feeling a chill on his back.
Li Daoxuan laughed, but he laughed out of anger.
"Chen Youan, I think you are really tired of living. It seems that you haven't learned your lesson from the warning that night."
Chen Qing jokingly said, "Warning? What warning? I don't remember anything. I just remember a scoundrel climbing through my window in the middle of the night with bad intentions, and he even molested me!"
Her eyes were filled with tears, and she said pitifully, "I just want a new bathtub, and it's so difficult. I wonder if you will beat me again after we get married, wuwuwu——"
"Li Daoxuan, you are not a man!"
Unexpectedly, he grinned and said, "I'm not even an adult yet, so I'm not considered a man."
The force on her neck tightened even more, and Chen Qing shouted, "You're dirty now anyway, I don't believe you can resist not washing it!" She said pitifully, "I promise to behave myself and not cause trouble in the future!"
Li Daoxuan exhaled a breath of foul air and said expressionlessly: "So?"
Chen Qing wiped away her tears, stretched out her palm to pinch the corner of his white sleeve, and said with shining eyes: "I want a new bathtub!"
Just when Li Daoxuan loosened his grip and thought that was it, he heard her push further and say:
"Oh, by the way, the bathtub needs to be made of cedar wood. I also need rose water for bathing. The skirt I brought has already been worn. Go to the Wanjin Pavilion and buy me some silk shirts. They must be the latest styles. The skirt must be pink, preferably embroidered with magnolia flowers. As for shoes, I want cloud-shaped brocade shoes."
"A comb for my hair is also essential. My comb must be a rhinoceros comb, and the floral oil for combing my hair must be the osmanthus oil that is a specialty of Baicui Pavilion. If they don't have that, their rose oil will also work."
"You don't need too much peach kernel facial cream, jade powder facial cream, or red and blue flower facial cream. Just one box of each will do."
"And the headdress..."
After hearing the last part, Li Daoxuan couldn't help but wonder how she had survived all these days. Just bathing was so troublesome, not to mention washing herself or putting her hair in a hairpin.
He thought to himself: She is so delicate and hard to raise.
As if afraid that Li Daoxuan couldn't remember clearly, Chen Qing jumped off the table, picked up a piece of paper and a brush from the ground, and was about to pick up the pen to write down the request when he was grabbed by the wrist.
"No, I remember it clearly."
Chen Qing was half-believing and half-doubting, "Really? You wouldn't just buy some to fool me, would you?"
Li Daoxuan: "Believe it or not."
"I believe it, I believe it!"
This was a considerable expense. Chen Qing took out a purse from his luggage and handed it to him. Li Daoxuan didn't take it. He said, "I can still afford to support just one person."
When she found him, he had nothing in his hands and only a sword on his body. Chen Qing was suspicious about where he got the money from, but because she needed help from someone, she didn't point it out.
She took back the purse, waved and said, "Goodbye?"
Li Daoxuan glanced at her, snorted coldly, turned around, grabbed her veil and put it on his head, then went out immediately.
As soon as the door closed, Chen Qing's face suddenly turned cold. She lifted her skirt and sat down, taking off the glass heart to play with it.
After a while, when Li Daoxuan walked away, she said, "001, check Li Daoxuan's favorability."
"Ding—target's favorability, 20."
Chen Qing paused playing with Liulixin, then slumped over the table and said in a feigned disappointment, "Only twenty. I thought there were at least fifty. Li Daoxuan is truly a cold-blooded animal."
001 thought weakly: The host has had such close contact with Li Daoxuan, but he still has a cold and indifferent look, but he is not very resistant. The favorability level is 20... This should be normal, right?
Fortunately, Shen Qing also thought it made sense. She tilted her head and said in a delicate voice, "But—I've only had close contact with him twice, and his favorability has increased by 20 points. If I keep up the good work and get close to him a few more times, won't my favorability level reach 80 or 90?" She was extremely excited. "Then I won't be far from home!"
001 thought about it seriously. Before this, the host and Li Daoxuan disliked each other, and even their occasional contact was reluctant, so Li Daoxuan's favorability seemed to remain unchanged.
Now that the host had taken the initiative for the first time, Li Daoxuan's attitude seemed to be getting more and more tolerant. He felt that what the host said made sense, so he agreed, "That's right! Host, try your best and keep up the good work!"
Shen Qing smiled crisply, like a little fox. She pointed at the turtle she had drawn on the table earlier and tilted her head and said, "Idiot."
001 couldn't tell that Chen Qing was making a veiled criticism, so he said consciously, "Then 001 will withdraw first."
Chen Qing said, “Retreat.”
What a fool he really is. He was exposed as soon as he tried to trick the turtle. He didn't even do his homework beforehand.
Chen Qing thought: Li Daoxuan has a very high temper and is unwilling to be controlled by others. He hates being threatened or provoked the most. How can ordinary people control this god?
Shen Qing could sense every subtle change in Li Daoxuan's treatment of her from beginning to end. Today, she just took the opportunity to explore and completely discovered his attitude, even his own thoughts that he had not yet realized.
Now all she has to do is wait.
As for the system.
She curled the corners of her lips slightly, and a hint of murderous intent flashed across her eyes.
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