Chapter 55 Passing by "Xue Zhiying, I miss you so much."...
Mu Yan probably had no experience in coaxing children, and Chun Tao had the mind of a child. After this incident, she cried all the way, leaving him at a loss and helpless.
Mu Yan explained the matter to Xue Zhiying quickly and in a rare panic.
When Xue Zhiying left, she thought that the matter had not been concluded yet and she was not going far away, so she did not take Chuntao with her. She also felt that it would be easier for her to stay in the villa than to travel with her.
However, at the moment, Xiao Yun ordered Mu Yan to send Chuntao to her, naturally not to drive Chuntao away.
She thought this should be Xiao Yunqi's answer to her.
Xue Zhiying was happy. After thanking Mu Yan, she took Chuntao into the embroidery workshop.
That night, Chuntao didn't have a room yet, so she slept on the same couch with Xue Zhiying.
The two seemed to have returned to the days in Jingshuiyuan, or like they were on the way to Ningzhou.
I don’t know why, but it’s always the day they are together.
After a dreamless night, Xue Zhiying and Chuntao got up quickly the next morning and started a new busy day.
In the following half month, Xue Zhiying gradually became familiar with the work in the embroidery workshop and became more and more adept at it.
She never saw Xiao Yunqi again, nor did she hear anything unusual from anyone else in the embroidery workshop.
Occasionally she heard some unusual noises at night. When she hurried to the window, she saw no one, only the movement of the wind and grass.
That night, Xue Zhiying finished her busy day and did not go back to her room directly.
The street outside the embroidery workshop was deserted and silent.
Two dim lanterns were hung on the eaves in front of the embroidery workshop, and she sat in the light and shadow under the eaves.
Xue Zhiying hugged her knees and tilted her head to look towards the end of the street corner. Her eyes were not focused and her mind was blank.
She was emptying her mind, her eyes open, but she seemed about to fall asleep in front of the door.
As for why she was sitting here, she didn't know the answer, nor did she think about the answer. When she came to her senses, she found that she had moved a small stool and sat in this place with ease.
How come it's so familiar?
Xue Zhiying only then remembered that there was a time before when it was raining heavily and she had sat in the same place as she was now.
Because I'm waiting for someone, I feel bored and confused.
There was nothing else to do, and she didn't know when the person she was waiting for would come.
But that is not the case right now.
She had no one to wait for and had other things to do.
Xue Zhiying sighed softly and heard light footsteps. She thought it must be someone walking around in the embroidery workshop.
She thought it was time for her to go back to the house, take a shower, and then go to bed early, as tomorrow would be another busy day.
Xue Zhiying sat up straight and was about to reach out to pick up the small stool.
Suddenly a dark shadow flashed before my eyes. It wasn't scary enough, but it was a bit disconcerting.
She blinked blankly and slowly looked up.
The man's tall figure blocked the moonlight behind him, casting a shadow in front of her.
He lowered his head and looked down at her condescendingly, as if with a suffocating sense of oppression.
When he spoke, his tone was gentle: "Why are you here?"
Xue Zhiying blinked again, making sure she wasn't seeing things, before she said, "I should be the one asking you this. Why are you here?"
"Just passing by." Xiao Yunqi said calmly.
"Passing by... the embroidery workshop? Where are you going?"
And it’s this hour.
Xue Zhiying turned her head to look in the direction of the embroidery workshop leading to the city gate and asked, "Are you leaving Beijing?"
"No, I passed by the main entrance of the embroidery workshop."
Xue Zhiying didn't understand, but her neck was sore from craning her neck to look at her like that.
She continued what she had done before, stood up and picked up the small stool.
However, the original plan to go back to the house was disrupted by the sudden appearance of the man.
Xue Zhiying held the small stool and looked at Xiao Yunqi in silence for a while.
Finally, she lost her patience and broke the silence by whispering, "Would you like to come in and sit down?"
The man quickly nodded with a calm expression, but his steps were unambiguous, and he was even walking in front of Xue Zhiying.
Xue Zhiying pursed her lips, put down the small stool on the corner of the table, and continued walking towards the backyard.
She suddenly felt a little regretful for being polite, because it was not too late at this time. What if she met someone on the road?
But nothing strange happened until she reached her door. She just felt embarrassed that Xiao Yunqi, who was passing by, was suddenly invited to her bedroom.
So, why did he pass by here?
Xue Zhiying was thinking about this question randomly when she opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, the man strode in.
This was not his first time here. This time he entered the room openly and felt even more relaxed. He walked straight to the table and sat down.
Xue Zhiying followed him into the room and closed the door. When she turned around, she found Xiao Yunqi staring at her. Feeling a little uncomfortable, she walked to the table, took out a cup and poured him tea.
"Cousin, how are you these days?"
“Not very good.”
Xue Zhiying choked. She didn't expect that he would not be polite to her at all.
He said it wasn't very good, and she didn't know whether she should continue asking.
Xue Zhiying poured herself a cup of tea and asked, "Where are you going later, cousin?"
"Go back home and rest."
Xue Zhiying: “……?”
Xiao Yunqi slowly drank the cup of tea she poured for him in several sips.
He put down his teacup and asked, "How about you, how are you doing lately?"
With what he said before, it would seem strange if she said everything was fine.
"It should be pretty good."
Xiao Yunqi answered for her before she could speak.
Xue Zhiying was stunned and blinked in confusion.
"You look good, your eyes are bright, and you are very beautiful."
What is he talking about.
Xue Zhiying even stopped breathing, trying not to let her face get hot.
She lowered her eyes to avoid his gaze, looked at the hem of her skirt, and said, "It's getting late. Since you want to go back home, you should go back and rest early."
"You're kicking me out right after I get here."
Xiao Yunqi said softly, "Xue Zhiying, we haven't seen each other for half a month."
The room fell into silence for a moment.
Xiao Yunqi's words did not have any accusatory tone, but they still revealed an accusation against her, trying to expose the nice words she had said.
Xue Zhiying felt insecure and wronged.
Because at the beginning, she did exaggerate in order to make her words more convincing, saying that she should work hard to live while trying to imagine the feeling of liking him.
At that time, all she wanted was to start her new life in the embroidery workshop without any constraints.
No one stopped her, no one forced her, she could do what she wanted to do. As for the part about him she mentioned, she just said it at that time and didn't think deeply about it.
But when she really started to live this kind of life, she found that she had not broken her promise.
My mood and thoughts unconsciously changed towards the nice words she said.
She doesn't need to do it deliberately or think about it deliberately.
The name Xiao Yunqi is engraved in her heart, but not in her life.
So tonight she...
"Why are you sitting at the door tonight?"
"What what?" Xue Zhiying was tongue-tied for a moment, as if her secrets had been exposed.
It was because she happened to think of this, but Xiao Yunqi was just asking a question.
Seeing her like this, Xiao Yunqi raised his lips and smiled.
Xue Zhiying felt like she was being laughed at. She frowned slightly and asked instead of answering, "What about you? You haven't told me why you stopped by the embroidery workshop."
Xiao Yunqi was not at all panicked and was quite calm.
He said naturally: "I said I didn't pass by the embroidery workshop, I just passed by the main entrance of the embroidery workshop."
"What's the difference? Where were you originally going?"
Xiao Yunqi tilted his head and looked towards the window beside him.
It was exactly where he had climbed through the window before.
Xue Zhiying's eyes widened: "You were planning to climb through my window again?"
She vaguely thought of the frequent illusions she had recently had, but she didn't think too deeply about it.
Xiao Yunqi said: "I didn't plan to climb through the window."
“Just outside the window.”
"You were outside my window before, when?"
Xiao Yunqi didn't answer, but just turned his gaze away from the window and looked at her again.
His calm eyes seemed to answer this question.
"you……"
Xue Zhiying was speechless for a moment, not knowing what to say. After a long while, she managed to utter, "Then why did you say we haven't seen each other for half a month?"
The sound was inaudible.
Xiao Yunqi didn't know whether he heard it or not, but he didn't respond anyway.
In his opinion, this certainly didn't count as a meeting, it was just him meeting her secretly on his own.
After she fell asleep, he watched her silently from outside her window for a long time before leaving.
Today I couldn't help myself.
He just lied. He had intended to enter through the window.
But he never expected that when he just arrived near the embroidery workshop and was about to go straight to her house from the side as usual, he saw her figure in front of the door.
Xiao Yunqi didn't come to pick her up in person that time, so he never knew what she looked like when she was hiding from the rain and waiting for him for a long time in front of the embroidery workshop.
The moment he saw her today, he thought, maybe she would look like this.
Very well-behaved and quiet, yet so lonely and desolate that it makes people feel distressed.
But why does she look depressed at this moment?
With mixed feelings, he showed up without thinking too much, and unexpectedly received good news.
"Were you waiting for me at the door just now?"
"No." Xue Zhiying denied without thinking, "Why would I wait for you? I didn't know you would come."
"Then you are thinking about me."
"I……"
Xiao Yunqi interrupted her words, which were about to admit or deny.
"Xue Zhiying, I miss you so much."
"……What?"
"I look at you from the window every day, but I still miss you every day."
Xue Zhiying felt her cheeks were about to burn. Her face turned red so quickly that her heartbeat suddenly became irregular.
Was Xiao Yunqi possessed by someone else?
How could she hear such... blunt and corny words from him?
In fact, she didn't want to deny it just now. She knew it in her heart and was caught red-handed. Although she was shy, she still dared to admit that she was thinking about him just now.
But he was so direct that she didn't know how to continue.
Before she could even try to form any words, Xiao Yunqi had already stood up.
He walked over a few steps and stopped one step away from her: "It's getting late, I'll go back first."
Xue Zhiying was slightly stunned, looked at him blankly and nodded.
A word came to my lips uncontrollably.
Xiao Yunqi stood in front of the door and asked in a low voice: "Can I still come to see you after this?"
Xue Zhiying didn't expect that the words on the tip of her tongue were interrupted by him.
She moved her lips, but frowned before speaking, because if she looked at him, she always felt that the expression on her face when she said this would make him laugh.
Xue Zhiying looked at the toes of the two men, who were one step apart, and replied, "Then don't sneak around anymore. If I know you've been here, I won't sit by the door and think about random things for no reason."
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