"Miss Su, this is the account book for the five shops on East Street this month."
"We heard you were ill, so the shopkeepers sent the account books to your house for your review."
"If you feel better, please come and see me as soon as possible."
After a burst of violent coughing, Su Miaoer calmed down a bit before replying, "I understand. Go down."
After the steward left, Su Miaoer asked the maid to turn on all the lights in the corners.
The whole room was brightly lit. Su Miaoer sat in front of the desk, wearing her coat, and began to read carefully.
Liu Ya, her personal maid, pushed the medicine bowl toward her with a distressed look on her face. "Miss, you've been ill for the past few days, and only just got out of bed today. You're still running a fever, and your cough won't stop."
"Your health won't last any longer, and now you have to deal with the accounts."
"You should at least think about your own health. If you get sick this time... what will you do?"
"How about we just forget about it tonight?"
Su Miaoer shook her head, picked up the handkerchief and coughed a few times before saying, "It's nothing serious."
"I know. It's just a bad cold this time."
"The Empress had me taught how to read the account books because she wanted me to be able to make a living on my own."
"Later, with her recommendation, I joined Tianfeng Trading Company."
"Now that I've finally managed five shops, how can I just give them up? If I can't even do this little thing, how can I be worthy of the Empress?"
"Losing her face is more important than losing my life."
After saying that, Su Miaoer stopped and let Liu Ya go down to rest, and there was no need for her to stay by her side.
Liu Ya's eyes turned red.
After watching Su Miaoer drink the medicine, he reluctantly left the room with the empty bowl.
But after a while, Su Miaoer heard the sound of someone entering the door again.
She whispered, "Didn't I tell you to go and rest... cough, cough cough..."
"Don't worry about me..."
"After I finish reading, cough, cough cough... I'll know when to take a break."
"Cough, cough cough..."
The whole house was filled with her coughing and wheezing.
But she didn't even raise her head, her eyes were fixed on the account book, and she was reluctant to take them away.
The abacus under his hand was still clacking away.
It was not until her body felt lighter and she screamed that she realized someone had lifted her up from the chair and carried her horizontally.
Su Miaoer was frightened out of her wits.
She looked up and saw Zhui Yu's face, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Cousin, why are you back?"
Zhui Yu's face was filled with suppressed anger.
Without saying a word, he turned around, carried Su Miaoer to the bed, and put her on the bed.
Su Miaoer struggled to get up: "No, I still have to finish reading the account book. Cousin, you don't know, I have been delaying this matter for several days..."
"I can't let the Queen down, nor can I lose face for her... cough, cough cough..."
Zhui Yu pushed her shoulders and pressed her down on the bed.
"Are you going to die?!"
His suppressed roar scared Su Miaoer so much that she lay on the bed and dared not move.
My cousin... has never been so angry.
He is a man of cheerful disposition.
Always smiling.
Be humble to everyone.
He is always patient and considerate towards himself. Although he is not considerate and careful enough, he is a very gentle person overall.
But today he was furious.
Zhui Yu had a gloomy face, and the dark side of him made Su Miaoer seem to see his dark side under the flickering candlelight.
Zhui Yu covered Su Miaoer with a blanket.
"sleep."
"If Her Majesty knew the truth, she would only blame you for neglecting your body and be disappointed that you put these worldly concerns above your own life."
"You must have a healthy body before you can talk about the future."
"Don't worry about the account book."
"I'm here, go to sleep."
Maybe it was the medicine she took, or maybe it was Zhui Yu's words that really made Su Miaoer unable to hold on any longer, and her eyelids slowly closed.
In the middle of the night, she seemed to see him vaguely sitting in front of the desk, with his head down, calculating something.
The voice was very soft, but it urged Su Miaoer to fall into a deeper sleep.
The next day, Zhui Yu invited the imperial physician Du from the palace back to diagnose Su Miaoer personally.
Fortunately, she really just had a cold.
After taking a few doses of medicine, Su Miaoer felt much better.
Only then did she realize that Zhui Yu was called back by Liu Ya with a letter.
He rushed back in the evening after receiving the letter he had sent in the afternoon.
He was very busy on weekdays and almost always lived in the military camp outside the city.
Therefore, the general's mansion that His Majesty had awarded was usually occupied by only his cousin Su Miaoer.
Fortunately, the servants in the mansion were all honest and obedient, and those who were dishonest were kicked out by Eunuch Wu who was invited back by Zhuiyu.
Therefore, no one in the mansion dared to say a word about their cousin, and they all treated her as the real master.
As for the people in Jinling City?
There was the intimidation of the General's Mansion, and Zhui Yu himself seldom returned to the mansion to avoid suspicion, so naturally no one dared to gossip.
It's just that his return this time was too sudden.
Su Miaoer didn't notice anything wrong last night, but now that she thinks about it, he seemed to have stayed in her room the whole night?
Miao'er was a little nervous, hoping that no gossip would spread that was unfavorable to him.
I am an unclean person.
Although her cousin never minded and hid her past well, if her past were to be revealed one day... how embarrassed would her cousin be?
Come to the table.
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