Chapter 5 White Dust 2
◎Is this beautiful appearance mine? ◎
Yan Yue stood up, and when her left leg touched the ground, she suddenly felt a sharp pain that seemed to drill into her bone marrow.
Bai Chen saw her figure sway and then lean towards him again, and immediately took a step away.
Yan Yue fell heavily to the ground, his face distorted with pain.
A mocking voice came from above my head: "I don't fall for the tricks of prostitutes. Miss Yan, why don't you try something new?"
The tremendous pain made Yan Yue's brain go blank and she was unable to react. Bai Chen saw that her expression was distorted and had no aesthetic appeal, and beads of sweat were oozing from her smooth white forehead. He suddenly remembered that she had broken her leg last night.
He rubbed his nose and said awkwardly, "Uh, well, don't move if you don't feel well. I'll ask the waiter to bring you food later."
It was a long time after Bai Chen left that Yan Yue finally realized what he meant and couldn't help but re-evaluate this man in her heart.
Judging from his clothes and the way he talks, he should be the son of a powerful and wealthy family. He is also good-looking. He must have seen many women throwing themselves at him, so he thought she was also a person who wanted to curry favor with the powerful and wealthy. It would be unsafe to follow such a person, even as a servant.
So just deal with it for a few days, work diligently as a maid, and when there is a way out, leave as soon as you can!
After dinner, Yan Yue borrowed needle and thread from the waiter and mended the clothes she had washed during the day so that she could wear them the next day.
I slept well all night, but when I opened my eyes in the morning, I saw two crutches leaning against the head of the bed.
Yan Yue found it funny in her heart. It seemed that this noble young man was a man with a hard mouth but a soft heart.
Leaning on crutches, Bai Chen downstairs waved at her impatiently, "Come down quickly! You got up so late, are you going to serve me, or am I going to serve you?"
When Yan Yue slowly moved down the stairs, the table in front of Bai Chen was already filled with sumptuous food.
Yan Yue was a little dumbfounded. She knew he was rich, but wasn't it a bit... too extravagant to eat braised beef, braised pork elbow, and roast chicken early in the morning?
Bai Chen saw Yan Yue sitting there obediently and asked, "Why don't you eat?"
Yan Yue strictly abides by the rules of a servant: "I will eat after you finish eating."
Bai Chen stopped chewing, put down his chopsticks, and tore off a large chicken leg and handed it to her: "Eat! I don't have those rules here! This meal is delicious only if you rush to eat it!"
"oh!"
Yan Yue took the chicken leg, took a big bite, and then started to compete with Bai Chen for food.
When Yan Yue rushed to stuff the last piece of braised beef into his mouth, Bai Chen raised his eyes angrily: "You...!"
Yan Yue blinked her big eyes and looked at him confusedly, as if she didn't understand. Bai Chen then realized that she was practicing his words "It tastes better when you rush to eat it"!
He burst out laughing and called to the shopkeeper: "Bring another plate of braised beef!"
After finishing half of a braised pork elbow, most of a plate of braised beef in soy sauce, half a roast chicken, two meat buns and a bowl of porridge in the morning, Yan Yue really couldn't eat any more.
She looked at Bai Chen with an apologetic look on her face: "Master, I... I really can't snatch it anymore... hiccups..."
Seeing that she was about to blow bubbles, Bai Chen suddenly burst into laughter and laughed so hard that he fell backwards.
Yan Yue didn't dare to say a word and thought to herself: What a moody person! He was so ferocious just now, as if he wanted to eat someone, but now he is smiling like a silly dog.
Bai Chen laughed enough and stopped eating. He took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, stood up and said, "Let's go! Follow me to the street!"
Listen, is this human language? Can’t you see these two crutches?
Yan Yue only dared to curse in her heart but didn't dare to make any sound. She only sighed in her heart: Forget it, how can a thigh be so easy to hug?
Before leaving the table, she looked at the plate of barely touched braised beef on the table and asked, "You don't want this?"
Bai Chen asked, "Aren't you unable to eat anymore?"
"Please keep it for me and eat it when I come back." Yan Yue instructed the waiter seriously. God knows, she couldn’t eat a single bite of meat the whole year before! Don’t waste it!
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This town is not small, and the street in the middle is very busy.
Bai Chen was wandering around lazily, waving a fan. Yan Yue tried hard to stay close to him at first, but unexpectedly he started to shuttle left and right, back and forth! She simply slowed down and followed slowly, at least she could save some energy.
Fortunately, he looked like a dandy young man, so people probably avoided him for fear of getting into trouble. Yan Yue was on crutches, so no one touched her.
Arriving in front of a ready-made clothing shop, Bai Chen strode in, and Yan Yue was waiting at the door with crutches.
"What are you doing here?"
After a while, Bai Chen appeared again, grabbed the clothes on her shoulders without saying a word, and dragged her in.
The female shopkeeper of the clothing store was so happy that she smiled widely: "Oh! Look at this pretty face of the girl. It is really overshadowed by the clothes!"
Before Yan Yue could react, the shopkeeper and the clerk carried her into the inner room.
"Hey hey hey! What are you doing?"
"Don't be afraid, girl! Your master wants to choose some nice clothes for you! How can you know if they fit you if you don't try them on?"
"I am a servant, what clothes should I choose?"
"Your master said it himself, how could it be false?"
"Don't worry, young lady! The young master is so charming and dashing. Even if you are a servant, you can't be too shabby!"
"Stop it! I can do it myself!"
Bai Chen listened to Yan Yue's terrified voice, lowered his head and sneered, and even the hostility around him seemed to fade a little.
Yan Yue put on new clothes, and the shopkeeper combed her hair into a bun. He had a look of amazement in his eyes: "Oh my! Quick, bring a mirror for the girl to take a look! Your skin is whiter than snow, and as beautiful as the moon. You haven't even put on any jewelry yet, but you're so beautiful that I can't take my eyes off you!"
This was the first time Yan Yue saw his own appearance clearly after waking up from the coffin. She touched her cheek in disbelief, looking at the pure and icy face in the mirror, which looked like a fairy, and asked in shock: "Is this... me?"
"It's you!"
"Clothes make the man, and a beautiful girl like you shouldn't wear these shabby clothes!"
The shopkeeper and the clerk's compliments kept echoing in her ears, but Yan Yue felt suspicious.
Although she didn't have a bronze mirror to use for washing and dressing when she was at her adoptive parents' home. Every day I just comb my hair casually, braid it into a pigtail, and tie it with a cloth strip.
The foster mother had an old bronze mirror that could no longer reflect anything, but she had seen her own reflection in the water.
His facial features are indeed somewhat similar to before, but not as delicate as the person in the mirror.
Could it be that he has grown up in the past two years?
But, it’s not that white, right? Last year, she was burned by the scorching sun while carrying water to irrigate the crops, and her skin became several shades darker. But the face in the mirror, with its delicate and tender skin as white as porcelain, as if it had never been exposed to the sun in a lifetime, could it be her?
Yan Yue was carried out by the shopkeeper in a daze and did not notice Bai Chen's slightly raised eyebrows.
She kept changing into the fifth outfit, which was a dark satin dress with embroidered lace edges, which made her slightly delicate figure look simple and heavy. Yan Yue looked at herself in the mirror and suddenly felt that this dress was what she should wear.
The shopkeeper who had been complimenting her exaggeratedly was silent at this moment. He seemed a little uneasy and asked in a low voice: "Miss, how about changing your clothes?"
"Doesn't it look good?" Yan Yue asked back.
The shopkeeper had a conflicted expression: "No. It looks good, it does look good... it's just..." The aura was too oppressive and a little scary.
Yan Yue said, "Then let me take a look!"
The two shopkeepers respectfully helped Yan Yue out. Bai Chen's pupils shrank instantly and his expression became unpredictable.
"How about this one?" Yan Yue asked.
Bai Chen came back to his senses and asked, "Which of these do you like?"
Yan Yue looked down and said, "This one is very good."
Bai Chen looked at her deeply and told the shopkeeper, "Except for this one, I want all the ones I just saw."
The shopkeeper quickly agreed, with a big smile on his face. Yan Yue rolled his eyes and cursed in his heart: Why are you asking me which one I like? Just to make things difficult for me?
"Change into the yellow one you wore earlier!"
Bai Chen gave another instruction and turned to walk out of the shop.
When she appeared in black clothes just now, he was actually dazed for a moment, as if the mortal enemy with whom he had fought for a thousand years was standing in front of him again. If she had that green-faced, fang-toothed ghost mask on her face, he would almost lose control!
After a while, Yan Yue came out after changing her clothes, and Bai Chen had adjusted his mood.
The shopkeeper packed up the other three sets of clothes and came to Bai Chen with a smile: "Sir, take them. Come back if you need them!"
Bai Chen looked at the package, glanced at Yan Yue, then turned and left.
Yan Yue hurriedly reached out to take it, put the package on his back, nodded to thank the shopkeeper, and hurriedly chased Bai Chen on his crutches.
The shopkeeper gossiped with the clerk: "Is she really a maid? Otherwise, even in such a situation, why would this young master not even help her get a piece of clothing?"
"I don't think so!" the clerk said solemnly, "Whose maid can be so delicate and tender? Look at those scallion-white fingers. I don't think even the daughter of the Zhao family can compare to them!"
The shopkeeper recalled the scene when he helped her change clothes, and couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "But... don't you think her whiteness is a little strange? Except for her two red lips, there is no trace of blood."
The clerk said, "It's a little strange. But she's injured! Who knows what happened to her?"
"That's right!" The shopkeeper said happily, "When she recovers and her energy and blood are restored, she will be even more beautiful! Then she will come to me to buy clothes. She will be our living signboard!"
Seeing that Yan Yue was not in a good mood, Bai Chen was also worried and had no intention of shopping anymore.
After returning to the inn, Bai Chen did not leave the room.
Yan Yue ate a lot in the morning and was not hungry, so she just stayed in her room obediently. When she was changing into her last set of clothes in the clothing store, the owner saw that her cords were too rough and kindly gave her a bunch of colorful ropes.
Yan Yue made several different kinds of loops according to the different colors of the clothes. This way, no matter what clothes she wears, she can always find a suitable place for her little black stone.
She was fighting so hard that she didn't notice it was getting dark and she finally felt hungry.
Seeing that Bai Chen did not come out, Yan Yue asked the waiter to bring the leftover braised beef in soy sauce from the morning, and added some vegetables and a bowl of white rice, and ate it alone.
Bai Chen usually feels sleepy during the day and is more energetic at night.
I found a carpenter last night and made a pair of crutches according to his requirements overnight. After I came back from shopping, I felt a little sleepy and slept until dark.
Just as he was talking to the shopkeeper about the food he wanted to eat, he saw the waiter coming out of Yan Yue's room with a teapot, so he said, "Go and ask her to come down for dinner."
The waiter was stunned. "The girl asked for the leftover braised pork from the morning and added some vegetables. She just asked me to change the pot of tea. It seems she is going to rest!"
The shopkeeper looked at the dishes he ordered and said, "Sir, would you like to reduce the number of dishes by two?"
The white dust suddenly became dull.
"Forget it, I don't want any of them."
【Author’s words】
Bai Chen: I don’t even want to eat without her [rolling eyes]
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