Chapter 1021: Uncle and Sister-in-law’s Murder of the Original Wife (13)
"Then I'll just eat a little bit!" Little Changle looked at Zhai Wanting pitifully, her little mouth pouting, which made people want to soften their hearts and compromise, but her uncle was hard-hearted.
"Have you forgotten that you cried when you had a toothache last time?" Zhai Wanting pinched her little chubby face.
Seeing that there was no way to make her uncle soften his heart, little Changle pursed her lips and hugged Yue Shichu's neck sadly.
Seeing that she had finally calmed down, Zhai Wanting began to explain his purpose to Yue Shichu. Yue Shichu chatted with him politely and found that although this young Shaoqing of the Dali Temple looked cold on the surface, he was actually not taciturn. What he said was meaningful. Knowing that Yue Shichu liked to travel, he told her about the beautiful places around the capital. His voice was deep and pleasant, which made Yue Shichu have a much better impression of him.
While Zhai Wanting was chatting with the Yue brothers, he was observing Yue Shichu carefully. As he watched, he suddenly discovered a small hole on Yue Shichu's delicate earlobe. It was clearly the ear hole for girls to wear earrings!
It turns out that the problem with the second young master Yue was not his status, but because she was not a young master at all, but a young lady? Zhai Wanting was surprised for a while, then recalled the family members of the Yue family, and soon remembered the uncle and sister-in-law suicide case that shocked the entire capital not long ago. Wasn’t the young master of the Zou family who committed suicide for love the son-in-law of the Yue family? It is said that because of this incident, the Yue family broke off all ties with the Zou family. The girl of the Yue family was very hot-tempered and could not stand this insult. She unilaterally divorced the husband who betrayed her and returned to her parents' home with her dowry.
It seems that the person in front of him should be that girl. Zhai Wanting thought that she would actually dress up as a man to go out and play, and thought that she was indeed different from ordinary women.
Yue Shichu never expected that Zhai Wanting would take off her disguise just because of an ear piercing. As she was in a hurry, she only perfunctorily filled the ear piercing with powder. She also thought that since she was at home, Zhai Wanting would not pay too much attention to her, so she did not try too hard to disguise herself. Unexpectedly, she was exposed.
Yue Chonglou and Zhai Wanting chatted more enthusiastically. As they talked, they put Yue Shichu aside and became very absorbed in their conversation.
Yue Shichu didn't care. She started playing with little Changle and took her to the small garden in the backyard to see the flowers. Changle had seen the lotus yesterday and now she couldn't stop thinking about the flowers.
Yue Shichu had planted some mimosas in the garden out of boredom. This thing was rare and interesting. Its leaves would fold up when touched, just like a shy girl. The servants in the mansion all liked it very much and couldn't help touching it when passing by. Even a manly man like Yue Chonglou begged Yue Shichu to plant a pot of it specially for him and put it in his room.
"Come here, little treasure, touch its leaves with your little fingers." Yue Shichu held little Changle in his arms and pointed at the mimosa on the ground and said to her.
Little Chang Leyu obediently stretched out his short little fingers and touched the leaves of the mimosa, and the mimosa instantly folded up its leaves, like a self-aware little animal.
"Brother, it moved!" Little Changle was so scared that he nestled into Yue Shichu's arms, looking at the mimosa with his big round eyes in surprise and suspicion.
"This kind of grass can move. When someone touches it, it will curl up. Isn't it fun?" Yue Shichu asked her with a smile.
Little Changle carefully stretched out his fingers and continued to touch the other mimosas. Each one instantly folded up. Changle laughed in surprise and said, "It really moves!"
She was having so much fun that she struggled to get down from the ground, squatted beside the grass, stretched out her little finger to touch it, then laughed happily and had a lot of fun.
By the time Zhai Wanting came to pick up his niece, she was already having fun in the garden. Her little face was covered in mud, and she was using a small shovel in her little hands to dig up an unknown plant.
"Changle, what are you doing?" Zhai Wanting asked when he saw his niece who looked like a cat.
"Uncle! I'm digging flowers. My brother gave them to me!" Changle's eyes lit up when she saw her uncle and she said happily, "Uncle, help me dig." As she said that, she handed the small shovel in her hand to Zhai Wanting.
Zhai Wanting was stunned for a moment, and said to Yue Shichu who was looking at him with his chin propped up, "Brother Yue, Changle is ignorant and I am sorry for damaging your flowers..."
Yue Shichu waved his hand before he could finish and said, "Master Zhai has misunderstood. Changle did not damage my flowers. I did agree to let her choose a flower she likes to take away. She chose this camellia and is digging it up. If you are willing, please help her so that she doesn't dig up the roots of the flower."
After Zhai Wanting was silent for a while, he really took the niece's small shovel and dug out the camellia in a few seconds. Changle clapped his hands in joy and said, "Uncle is so awesome."
Of course my uncle is very capable. As a grown man, is he going to be like a two or three year old kid who can’t dig a single flower even after digging for a long time?
Yue Shichu asked someone to find a flowerpot to put the dug camellia flowers in and let Zhai Wanting take it away.
Little Changle played with Yue Shichu for a long time. When she was leaving, she was reluctant to leave. She said reluctantly: "Brother, come and play with me next time."
"Okay, I'll play with you next time." Yue Shichu pinched her little face and said with a smile. The little girl is very cute and easy to take care of. She is much more sensible than ordinary children and very fun.
After seeing off the uncle and nephew, Yue Chonglou began to settle accounts with Yue Shichu. He said to Yue Shichu with a stern face: "Little sister, why don't you explain to me when you became Yue Chongyang?"
Yue Shichu's whole body froze suddenly. Oh no, she had forgotten that her elder brother didn't know about her dressing as a man in advance.
She quickly put on a flattering smile and said, "Brother, I pretended to be a younger brother so that I can go out more safely."
"Hmph! Don't tell me your twisted ideas. If you bring enough servants with you, what's the unsafe thing even if you are a girl? I think you are just playing around!" Yue Chonglou was not moved by her words at all and snorted.
"Oh, it's more convenient to pretend to be a man. There aren't as many taboos as for women. And, brother, I'm doing this to keep a low profile. After all, the love suicide incident of Zou Hongyi and his sister-in-law was such a big deal. Although I have severed all ties with their family, it wouldn't be good if someone recognized me. So it's best to use my brother's name..." Yue Shichu racked her brains to come up with reasons to convince her brother that she disguised herself as a man because of her broken love.
"Alright, alright, big brother knows you've been feeling depressed lately and need to go out to relax, but you have to be careful and not cause any trouble that would make others doubt your identity, okay? After all, people's words can be scary." Yue Chonglou felt sorry for his sister, so he just gave her a few words of lecture and then tacitly agreed that she could go in and out using Yue Chongyang's identity from now on.
(End of this chapter)
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