Chapter 404 I Like You

Zong Zhao changed the subject whenever he felt embarrassed. Xu Wan saw through it but didn't say anything, but she still couldn't help laughing out loud: "Wash up first. You haven't showered in two days."

Zong Zhao also wanted to laugh: "Okay, then I'll go ask someone to prepare it, you just wash up and come eat."

"good."

The hot water had been prepared long ago, and it was boiled again when it got cold, waiting for Xu Wan to wake up. The maids went to the small bathroom to prepare, and Zong Zhao also went to the bathroom outside to wash up. The maids cleaned the room, changed the quilts and sheets, and even swept the floor again.

After taking a shower, the two of them came out to eat refreshed.

Zong Zhao said, "You haven't eaten anything all day. Drink some porridge first and then eat some vegetables."

"Okay." Xu Wan responded obediently, and suddenly seemed to remember something, and teased, "You haven't eaten for a day, have you? I saw that you didn't even bother to wash your face just now."

Zong Zhao hummed, and his neck turned a little red.

Xu Wan saw it again, and the corners of her mouth slightly raised.

The two were eating when Cuizhi came in with medicine and said, "Madam, this is the medicine prescribed by the court doctor to nourish the spirit. Would you like to drink some after dinner?"

"Ah?" Xu Wan said in surprise, holding the chopsticks, "I'll be fine after a good sleep, so I don't need to drink it?" As she said that, she looked at Zong Zhao.

Zong Zhao paused and said, "If you don't want to drink, then don't drink."

Xu Wan responded decisively: "Then I won't drink it."

Cuizhi: “…” So casual.

Although she regained her energy after sleeping for a whole day, she suffered from insomnia at night. Xu Wan had tried her best to delay going to bed until the middle of the night, but she still tossed and turned and could not fall asleep. Her mind was so alert that she could finish a set of test papers.

At this moment, a warm hand reached out and covered her eyes again, whispering, "See if you can fall asleep like this?"

That's what she did yesterday, she fell asleep very quickly.

Xu Wan's eyes moved under her eyelids, and she replied softly, "Your hands are so hot, like a hot compress."

In the dark night, I seemed to hear him chuckle.

The next day, when Xu Wan woke up, there was no one beside the bed. She thought about what happened before she went to bed last night, and thought that hot compress really made people fall asleep faster. She could even fall asleep now. She thought she would have insomnia until most of the night.

When Xu Wan was about to finish her breakfast, the maid came in from outside and whispered, "Madam, Mr. Su has resigned."

"Ah?" Xu Wan quickly put down her chopsticks and walked out.

Su Xi had packed his things, leaving only a small bag. He was squatting in the courtyard of the study, looking at the water spinach on the ground.

Xu Wan came over and said, "Sir, don't be in such a hurry to leave. Jin Cheng and the others want to say goodbye to you properly. Please wait for them for another eight days. Oh, and the water spinach in this yard will take a few days to be picked and eaten."

Su Xi blew his beard and said, "I have been planting water spinach for more than a month. If I had applied some fertilizer, it would have been ripe by now. What a pity. Your house is so beautiful, and I, an old man, don't want to ruin it and make it smelly."

Xu Wan said quickly, "This means you should stay a few more days. When the water spinach is ripe, you can take it away for your family to taste. These are grown by your five students."

Su Xi stood up and sighed, "Forget it. We're going to be separated sooner or later. It's better to leave now to avoid those guys crying in front of me. I can't stand them."

Xu Wan thought about it...

I can't imagine them crying.

"But sir..."

"Don't worry about that," Su Xi interrupted her and said, "We met because of fate, and we will have to say goodbye. The sweet potatoes at my house should be ripe, and I'm waiting to go back and dig my own sweet potatoes."

Xu Wan felt that she could no longer persuade him, so she just asked again, "Sir, after we say goodbye today, will we have a chance to meet again?"

Su Xi was stunned for a moment, and then he said, "The results of the palace examination will be announced in half a year. If they can make it to that point, I remember that there is a leave to return home to visit relatives in the meantime."

Xu Wan replied: "Yes, there is a month of family leave so that they can tell their relatives far away in their hometown the good news."

Su Xi smiled and said, "They have no relatives in the countryside. If they still remember me, bring them here. Luo Jingfeng knows their address."

Xu Wan replied, "Okay, sir, we will come to see you and your vast fields of sweet potatoes."

Su Xi laughed out loud: "Haha, by then it will be the end of spring, and what will be planted in the fields will not be sweet potatoes."

Xu Wan also smiled and said, "Then let them help you with farm work, whatever you want."

Su Xi smiled and nodded, waved to her, and got on the carriage leaving Beijing.

The carriage curtains were lowered and the carriage started moving.

Su Xi sat in the carriage, wiping away tears, muttering, "Wuwuwu... I can't stand separation. You little bastards, if you fail the autumn examination, let Luo Jingfeng, that bandit, dig out the eyes of those people in the Ministry of Rites. They are too blind."

The driver and guard sent by the Luo family: "..."

I don't want to hear what this old man is doing in there.

After Su Xi left, Xu Wan looked at the garden of juicy water spinach and sighed, "After all, Master didn't get to eat the vegetables they grew."

Zong Zhao came back from outside and heard about what was going on in the mansion. He came up to her and said, "Half a year later, let them go to Mr. Su's house and plant whatever he wants to eat."

Xu Wan turned around and saw that it was him, dressed in black and tall. The man's eyes were always so calm and focused, and when he looked at her, there was only room for one person in his eyes.

Xu Wan walked up and asked, "Where have you been? You haven't been seen since early in the morning."

He replied: "The Zhao family has completed the funeral."

"Ah?" Xu Wan didn't react for a moment.

Zong Zhao smiled and said, "It's the Ma family's turn now."

Xu Wan: “!”

She didn't expect that Zong Zhao had finished his work and returned while chatting and laughing. Completely different from the sadness he felt the first time, he now accepted it calmly and did it calmly. He didn't doubt himself and no longer used high moral standards to waste time.

Xu Wan asked: "With such frequent occurrences, won't my father-in-law and mother-in-law notice?"

Zong Zhao replied: "The third one might notice it, but the second one might not notice it yet, so I don't want to wait any longer. I feel sorry for Zong Yan if I let him live one more day."

Xu Wan thought for a moment and said, "Then let's not wait any longer. Let them get busy. The sooner the body is buried, the more peace of mind it will have."

Zong Zhao was amused by her. He strode forward and hugged her. He smelled her faint fragrance, rubbed his cheek against her neck, and whispered, "I like you."

Xu Wan paused, realizing that this was the first time he confessed his love to her in broad daylight. The last time he said he liked her was when he was half asleep at night, and it always sounded like he was talking in his sleep.

She stretched out her arm and hugged his waist, and said casually: "Did you learn this from Jincheng? He is the only one who would say he likes you every day."

Zong Zhao did not deny it, but hugged her tighter and said, "It's a good habit. I will learn more."

Xu Wan said with a smile: "Other people's sons learn from their fathers, but you are different, the father learns from his son."

Zong Zhao chuckled a few times and did not refute her.

The courtyard of the big study was quiet and deserted. The water spinach in the yard was swaying in the autumn breeze. The two cute ghosts hugged each other, adding a lot of warmth to the courtyard.