"Did I cut you? If you want to blame someone, you should blame the person who hurt you. Go sleep in the bed of the person who hurt you. What's the point of coming here?" Lin Xihe looked disgusted. If it weren't for the fact that the man's gemstone was indeed valuable, she would have kicked him out right now.
Ji Zhuo was speechless and fell silent.
He sat up in pain and put on his clothes.
"You gave me so many jewels, and this is all you did to buy me this dress?"
“Take it off if you don’t want to wear it. Your clothes that were drying outside are dry too, I’ll sew them for you later.” Lin Xihe poured rice into the rice bin without even looking up.
After thinking for a moment, he added, "Your gems aren't worth much; you only bought these things with three gems."
"The smallest of the gems I gave you is worth at least a hundred taels." Ji Zhuo's tone remained calm. He secretly thought that the woman in front of him was a country bumpkin who had never seen the world. She was very stupid. She had exchanged so many gems for a mere thirty taels of silver. She was really short-sighted. He didn't know how he had ended up in her hands and had to put up with this.
"What? One hundred taels?" Lin Xihe immediately felt cheated. That damned pawnshop was a real rip-off. Luckily, she only sold the smallest tael; she planned to hide the rest and sell them at a pawnshop in a big city later.
Lin Xihe looked around her house; there was no suitable place to hide the gemstones.
"I'm going to the outhouse. Put your clothes on properly yourself. You need to uphold male virtues, understand? Otherwise, you'll be in big danger."
Once in the courtyard, she dug a hole under the grape trellis on the side of the house, wrapped the gemstone in cloth, and hid it inside.
I heard Ji Zhuo speak as soon as I got back.
"I'm hungry. Go cook." Ji Zhuo ordered in his usual tone.
"Wait a minute, I'll cook for you once I'm all ready," Lin Xihe said unhurriedly. She had only had a bowl of congee this morning and was already quite hungry.
She carefully arranged all the items she had bought, neatly folded the new quilt on the bed, opened the window to let in some fresh air, and then went to the kitchen.
Ji Zhuo remained in bed, and Lin Xihe, having just noticed his still bleeding wound, did not urge him to get out of bed.
Lin Xihe washed her face, then washed her hands and started cooking.
Ji Zhuo was wide awake at the moment. Through the open window, he watched Lin Xihe busily starting a fire and cooking.
For a moment, he even had the illusion that this kind of peaceful rural life was quite nice. But why did this woman in front of him suddenly have a mouth? From yesterday to today, he had already heard her utter quite a few vulgar words.
Lin Xihe was in a great mood. She bought half a chicken today and asked the owner to chop it up. She deliberately left a big chicken leg and stir-fried it with soybeans. Soon, the aroma wafted out.
She's almost forgotten what meat tastes like.
Ji Zhuo suddenly became curious as well. What kind of dish could make someone so hungry?
A tiny bit of expectation stirred within him.
Soon, Lin Xihe prepared two dishes and a sweet soup, brought them into the house, and then went to serve rice.
Ji Zhuo was truly hungry at that moment. He endured the pain and got up, walking with difficulty to the table.
Lin Xihe then brought two bowls of rice into the house.
She quickly put down the rice, then picked up the only stool and placed it further away from Ji Zhuo.
Ji Zhuo spoke, his tone filled with undisguised shock: "What are you doing?"
"I should be asking you that. This is the only chair I have. You want to sit on it?"
Ji Zhuo's tone was displeased: "How can I eat if I don't sit on a stool?"
"You can either eat standing up, or sit on the haystack and eat there. I'll bring you your food." Lin Xihe pointed to the haystack on the ground.
"Eat on the ground again? Do you take me for a dog?" Ji Zhuo's face darkened, his voice rose, and his posture straightened. Even though his wounds were throbbing painfully, he forced his spine to remain upright. Ji Zhuo came from a prestigious family and had been pampered since childhood. He was highly respected in the martial arts world. When had he ever been so disrespected and insulted? At that moment, he felt a surge of anger burning in his chest, almost bursting out.
Lin Xihe seemed oblivious to the anger in his tone, thinking to herself, "What can a man who can barely stand do to me?" She deftly picked up a small amount of food from one of the bowls and handed it to Ji Zhuo.
"Hey, you're my servant, you can't eat at the same table as me. This is enough for you. This meal is enough for two meals, save the rest for tomorrow." After saying that, Lin Xihe sat down by herself, first shoveling a mouthful of rice into her mouth, looking satisfied.
"Wow! Finally, we can eat rice again. It smells so good!"
Then, she ignored the man standing in front of her, who was so angry he was practically fuming.
Ji Zhuo then realized what it meant for a tiger to fall into the plains and be bullied by dogs.
In the past, let alone speaking in such a tone, no one would dare to treat him like that even with just a glance.
He secretly added to himself: The above words do not include the current emperor, Prince Xie, his parents, his mentor, and more than a dozen other people.
But now, in this desolate little house, to be so humiliated by a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl is truly the most ridiculous thing in the world.
He refused to believe in superstitions, refusing to believe that his own gaze could intimidate this arrogant woman before him. He was certain that if she looked up at him, she would be subdued by the oppressive power in his eyes and obediently submit.
"cough!"
He deliberately cleared his throat, trying to get Lin Xihe's attention.
However, Lin Xihe seemed rooted to the dining table, not even raising her head, continuing to eat with great relish, ignoring the coughing sound, her chopsticks flying as she picked up food and ate with gusto.
"cough!!"
Seeing this, Ji Zhuo frowned even more, raised her voice, coughed again, and her eyes flashed with even more cold light, trying to intimidate the other person with her aura. However, the other person remained unmoved, as if she were immersed in the world of food and had nothing to do with the outside world.
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