Chapter 683 After my husband passed the imperial examination, I became his second wife (11)
Yue Lingxuan said goodbye to Lin Shichu the next morning. Since the destination of his trip was not Lianjiang City, he had to part with Lin Shichu here.
Lin Shichu felt very sorry that she could not continue to travel with the handsome man, but their destinations were different and she could not force Yue Lingxuan, so she had to part with him reluctantly.
Although Yue Lingxuan felt that the way Lin Shichu looked at him was particularly strange, he was grateful to her for her meal after all, so he did not pay attention to what was wrong with Lin Shichu.
Lin Shichu's caravan took another day to reach Lianjiang City. She did not go to her own cloth shop immediately, but stayed in the best inn in the city.
In the following days, she did not go to the cloth shop to check on the business, but wandered around everywhere. Qingxue was very puzzled and finally could not help asking her: "Miss, didn't you come here to inspect the cloth shop? Why didn't you go to the cloth shop these days? Instead, you wandered around the street?"
Lin Shichu pretended to be wise and said: "I have my reasons for doing this, you don't need to ask too much."
"Oh." Qingxue was still confused, but she was a good and obedient maid. Even though she still had many questions in her mind, she didn't ask any more questions.
Lin Shichu had previously told her father and mother that she was very curious about sericulture, and she was not lying to them. Lin Shichu was indeed interested in this industry, so she made a special trip to visit the most famous silkworm farmer nearby.
After that, she wandered around a lot of places without any clue. Qingxue followed her everywhere, full of doubts and confusion.
About seven days later, Lin Shichu finally entered his own cloth shop for the first time.
This was the first time that Lin Shichu came here. Before, her father took her to inspect the business but did not inspect here, so the manager of this cloth shop did not know her at all.
When the waiter saw her coming in with her maid, he thought she was the eldest daughter of some family. So he came up to her very attentively, asked her what kind of cloth she wanted to buy, and introduced her to the cloth that young girls liked or the cloth that was popular in the capital. His speech was eloquent but not boring.
Lin Shichu felt that the clerks in this cloth shop were well trained.
She did not reveal her identity, and with the help of the waiter, she actually bought a lot of cloth, which made the waiter and the manager very happy.
After walking out of the cloth shop and away, Qingxue couldn't help asking Lin Shichu any longer, "Miss, why didn't you tell the housekeeper that you were the eldest daughter of the boss's family, and instead bought so much cloth?"
"I have to take a look at the quality and work ability of the employees first. If I were told directly that I am their boss's daughter, I would not be able to see how they really work. Now that I go in to buy things as an ordinary customer, can't I understand how they treat customers? Of course, this is only part of it. There are other aspects that need to be further investigated." Lin Shichu explained.
Qingxue suddenly realized after hearing this: "Miss, you are really smart."
Lin Shichu fooled the little maid and couldn't help laughing in his heart. Qingxue was really easily fooled.
After staying in Lianjiang City for more than half a month, Lin Shichu went to the nearby beach to play.
She likes to eat seafood, and no seafood is fresher than the one bought at the seaside. Every time the fishermen come back from fishing at sea, Lin Shichu will take a few guards on board to pick various sea fish, shrimps and crabs. After selecting them, she will slightly process them with the various seasonings she brought, and they will become very delicious.
Lin Shichu brought a group of people to eat their fill and stayed at the beach for more than half a month before returning to Lianjiang City.
She still lived in the largest inn in the city, but as soon as she returned to the room she had booked, she keenly discovered that someone was hiding inside.
Lin Shichu sent Qingxue out, then quietly took out a packet of sleeping pills from the companion space, intending to knock out the uninvited guest in the house and then interrogate him thoroughly.
But the uninvited guest didn't need her to knock him out; he just walked out on his own.
"Yue Lingxuan? Why is it you?" Lin Shichu took the drug back and asked in surprise, looking at the very familiar man in front of him.
Yue Lingxuan now looked extremely haggard, very thin, with a numb expression, red eyes, and a look of great shock. He was completely different from how he looked when he parted with Lin Shichu a month ago.
"You...what's wrong with you? What happened?" Lin Shichu asked sympathetically when he saw a handsome man suddenly become so decadent.
Yue Lingxuan opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, two clear tears flowed from his eyes.
Regardless of whether it was a man or a woman, it was heartbreaking to see a beautiful woman shedding tears. Lin Shichu could not help but walk forward, took out his handkerchief, and wiped his tears.
Yue Lingxuan grabbed her hand and said in a hoarse voice: "I, I have no home anymore..."
Lin Shichu was stunned for a moment, not understanding what he meant by this. No home? Did his family members die, or was he kicked out by his family?
"What happened in your family?" Lin Shichu asked him in a low voice.
Yue Lingxuan did not answer her, but suddenly hugged her in his arms, holding her tightly, with his head buried in her neck. After a while, Lin Shichu felt her neck wet with his tears. Lin Shichu paused, did not continue to ask him, but hugged him back with both hands, silently comforting him.
Yue Lingxuan shed tears silently for two quarters of an hour before finally letting go of Lin Shichu with red and swollen eyes.
After Yue Lingxuan finally calmed down, Lin Shichu learned that all his family members had died in a disaster, and he was the only one left alive. After he went back, he couldn't go back home because the sight of the things reminded him of their loved ones. He couldn't bear it, so he subconsciously came back here to find Lin Shichu.
Lin Shichu knew that Yue Lingxuan must have hidden a lot of things from her, including that his family members most likely did not die in a disaster but because of other things. However, Lin Shichu did not get to the bottom of it, after all, it was his privacy.
But he must have suffered a great blow, otherwise he would not have changed from a high-spirited young man into a skinny, gloomy and dejected man in just one month, and he would not have come back so suddenly to find her, someone he was not even very familiar with.
Although Lin Shichu didn't know what had happened in his family, he knew that since he could come to see him openly, there should be no safety issues. After all, he was not a stupid and naive person. He must be in trouble and would not come to see him like this.
However, Lin Shichu was soon slapped in the face, because Yue Lingxuan told her that although there was nothing wrong with his current identity, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, he should not appear in public with his current appearance.
So Yue Lingxuan changed his appearance in front of her to look only 30% similar to his previous appearance.
Seeing Lin Shichu's shocked expression, he comforted her: "Don't worry, I was avoiding people when I came to see you, no one knew I came to see you."
(End of this chapter)
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