Chapter 59
Yueming left Yunkai's yard and went straight to Yintai. She wanted to complain.
Yin Tai was drinking tea. After hearing Yue Ming's sobbing, he laughed in shock, "You heard right. He really went to the river to peek at people bathing."
Yueming shook her head firmly, her face puffed up with anger: "He said it himself, and he even dragged the young master of the Bao family along."
Yin Tai frowned and said, "He's already grown up, but he still behaves like this. He must be taught a lesson." After that, he asked Tonglin to call Yunkai, and asked the servants to get the family rules. He also specifically told them not to take the golden bamboo stick, but to go to the yamen to get the wooden stick for beating criminals.
Yin Tai's gesture of wanting to beat Yun Kai to death put Yue Ming in a dilemma. On the one hand, she felt distressed, but on the other, she didn't believe Yin Tai would actually beat Yun Kai. If Yin Tai had been willing to be ruthless to Han Yun Kai, he wouldn't have been like this. Han Tusi's words of wanting to beat her made her believe it.
Yin Tai had already made such a bold move, it seemed she had no choice but to offer some words of dissuasion. She twisted her fingers and looked at Yin Tai in embarrassment, saying, "Why did you hit him when you could have just lectured him? It's so hot out, if he's injured, it'll be hard to heal."
"Oh, you're protecting her already?" Yin Tai took advantage of the situation and took Yueming's hand, patting it and coaxing him, "Don't think too much about it. Every half-grown boy in Yunxiang City has done it. The second son probably just wanted to get Bao Guosheng to be naughty. He couldn't have any dirty intentions. I know my son well. He looks bad-tempered, but he's a very decent person. He doesn't even joke with the maids on weekdays."
She knew that this kind of thing was no big deal to her own mother, and she could just brush it off with a simple "naughty" comment. Yueming complained in her heart, but remained calm on the surface: "I believe in his character..." Believe in him? Han Yunkai didn't have that kind of character at all. "But how could he drag the young master of the Bao family with him? He's younger than me, still a child!"
Yin Tai agreed, "That's right. It's fine if he's just being naughty, but why is he dragging someone else's child into this? Don't worry, I'll teach him a lesson when he comes over later."
Yueming felt uncomfortable listening to the child-like tone. She changed the subject and chatted with Yin Tai for a few words before leaving.
As soon as Yueming left, Yintai's smile faded and he told the servant to go and see if the second young master had come.
When Yunkai heard Tonglin say Yueming was at Yintai, he knew exactly what she was going to do! Frustrated, he muttered, "Why is she so quick to speak?"
He stormed off to Yintai's yard, thinking he'd pinch her mouth. He hadn't said anything during their quarrel, so how could she possibly complain? He hated people who complained the most.
After entering the room, he scanned the room with his eyes like a searchlight and was disappointed to find that Yueming was not there.
When Yin Tai saw him, he snorted coldly: "You're asking for trouble by taking medicine when you don't have any disease."
He touched his nose and said awkwardly, "You know everything?"
Yin Tai took a puff of the water pipe in her hand and looked at him with a half-smile: "You chose the person yourself. Her father hasn't even given his approval yet and you've already started to have other thoughts. I think you are no better than that towards Yueming. Then I'll let you have some fresh air for a while. I'll go and find you some other girls from the Tusi Mansion."
Yun Kai got anxious when he heard that. "That's not the case. I took Bao Guosheng to see it. That guy has never seen a neat woman before, so he has a crush on Yueming. I wanted to take him to see her, to let him know a little bit, so that he wouldn't be tempted by just any neat-haired and well-proportioned woman."
Yin Tai stared at him sharply, "Doesn't this meat smell even better now that someone's snatching it? It smelled so good that you lost your mind and led a child to mess around. Not only did you mess around, but you actually covered it up tightly! And Yueming caught you red-handed." Yin Tai said angrily, "I couldn't believe my ears when she said you took Bao Guosheng to the river to spy on those women bathing. You're almost twenty years old, why do you act like those hairless young men?"
It would have been fine if he hadn't been caught, but getting caught was truly humiliating. Yun Kai's face flushed as he said angrily, "I won't do it again next time."
The child is grown up, and you can only speak to his skin and not his heart. Yin Tai waved his hand impatiently and told him to go away: "Go and comfort him! If you don't want to comfort him, then others will."
Looking at Yun Kai's hurried back, Yin Tai sighed deeply, "He's really looking for trouble. He's already panicking over a thirteen-year-old. When Yue Ming gets older, he'll be even more troublesome."
Tonglin refilled her hookah with tobacco and lit a match. After extinguishing the flame, he pinched the matchstick and smiled, "Young people always get confused sometimes. The young master is too concerned about Miss Yueming. He panicked when Young Master Bao showed him a hint."
Yin Tai shook his head: "He still hasn't had enough experience. Earlier, the master said that he wanted to let Lan Yingde go out and see the world, but I was reluctant. Now it seems that he has to go out."
Tonglin threw away the matchstick and said with a smile: "Has our young master seen so little of the world? He's already gone abroad on a big ship."
Yin Tai puffed on his water pipe, exhaled the smoke and said calmly, "There's a difference between seeing the world. Studying abroad is to broaden his horizons, and going out with Lan Yingde is to teach him how to do things. Lan Yingde is such a smart and well-behaved person. He looks gentle and refined, but he does things without thinking. If our second young master could learn even 70% of his skills, I would have to sacrifice three animals and six farm animals to pay tribute to the gods."
Tonglin didn't understand these big things, so she turned to Yueming, "Miss Yueming is making a big deal out of nothing this time. The Second Young Master was clearly joking, yet she kept complaining to you."
"You should take care of your own man." After saying this, Yin Tai frowned, "But Yueming has to change her fussy nature, otherwise she'll be the one who suffers. Men like us all have three wives and four concubines. It's a good thing that she and Yunkai have feelings for each other, but this doesn't necessarily mean that Yunkai will be completely devoted to her and spend the rest of his life as a single couple. If you can't let go of that, you'll have to endure the rest of your life."
Life is so long, how long will it take for it to end?
Yunkai didn't go directly to find Yueming after coming out of Yintai Yard. Instead, he asked Feng Xiaosai to order the stable to harness the carriage and go to the foreign goods shop he opened on Paifang Street.
Looking at the dazzling array of goods on the shelves, he began to worry. What should he give Lan Yueming to appease her? She'd definitely like cookies and candy, so he asked the clerk to grab her some. He glanced down and noticed a bottle of flesh-pink nail polish in the glass case. Remembering the sight of those tiny feet, painted with marigolds, rubbing against the floor that morning, he felt the flesh-pink color would complement her delicate, boneless feet even better.
"That damn, cowardly second-rate bastard."
Yueming was stomping her feet and cursing in the room, and she cursed at Yunkai word for word for the old maid in Kunming who cursed at the street corner.
"You big white louse, you can't believe a word you say. When you try to reason with me, your words are longer and more smelly than the foot bindings of the old lady selling ginger and tofu. You talk about morality and ethics, but your heart is full of thieves and whores."
Ai Ye and Ye Hu didn't know what had happened. Seeing Yue Ming so angry, they didn't dare to ask. They could only kneel on the ground and fan her.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and the angrier she became, the hotter she felt. She snatched the fan from Ai Ye's hand and fanned it vigorously.
The two sisters looked at each other in bewilderment. One moment, their young lady and the second young master were so close that they missed each other over a snack, and the next moment, they were like their ancestors' graves had been dug up, almost pulling each other's hair and fighting. I wonder what the song is about today?
Yunkai was standing at the door when he heard Yueming scolding him inside. He felt that it was unfair, so he took the opportunity to take a look, but he didn't look as carefully as Bao Guosheng. It's not a serious crime, why is she so persistent? He was angry and wanted to leave with the nail polish in his hand. Suddenly, he heard Yueming say to the two maids: "Comparing people will make you die, and comparing goods will make you throw them away. My senior brother would never do such a despicable thing as peeping at a woman taking a bath." The voice turned to resentment: "Maybe I shouldn't stay in Yunxiang. I haven't had a few comfortable days here. When my father comes back, I'll ask him to send me back to Kunming! Do you want to go back with me?"
Hearing that she was leaving, Yun Kai was startled and quickly lifted the curtain and went into the room.
Yueming heard the noise and looked at the door. Seeing Yunkai coming in, she turned her head away angrily and ignored him.
Yun Kai waved his hand, Ai Ye and Ye Hu bowed and tiptoed out.
Yueming heard the noise from the two maids and wanted to tell them to stay, but she felt that if a fight broke out, it would be embarrassing for both she and Yunkai if they were present, so she gave up.
Yun Kai put the things he brought on the table, walked slowly behind her, put his hands on her shoulders and asked softly, "Are you still angry? If you are still angry, just scold me a few more times to vent your anger."
Yueming didn't say anything. He continued, "I was wrong in this matter. I apologize to you. Please be magnanimous and forgive me. I swear I will never..." As he spoke, he felt Yueming's body trembling slightly. He hurried to her and found that Yueming was biting her lips and crying silently.
Yueming's constant crying annoyed him. He wiped her tears with his fingers and frowned, "Why are you crying again?"
Yueming pushed his hand away, took out a handkerchief and wiped her tears. Although she was still choking with sobs, she said to Yunkai with a firm expression, "Let's just forget it!"
Yun Kai's originally impatient eyes suddenly widened, and he asked in disbelief: "What did you say? Say it again?" There was a hint of coldness at the end of his words.
Yueming met his gaze without a second thought: "You must be thinking, why am I making such a fuss about such a small matter? It's such a small matter, why are you so persistent?" She smiled sadly: "You said you were wrong, but in your heart you felt you were not at fault at all. You admitted your mistake to me just to appease me."
Yun Kai was speechless for a moment as she hit the nail on the head.
"I thought about this little thing a little more deeply. When you go out drinking with your friends, do you usually go to a brothel? Do you also ask a prostitute to accompany you when you go to a cockfight? Do you repeat the same words you used to cheer me up to those girls?"
Yun Kai's grip on her chin suddenly tightened, his face filled with anger as he gritted his teeth and said, "Who do you take me for? In your eyes, am I just some playboy who only knows how to flirt with women?"
Yueming endured the pain and said calmly, "I thought you weren't, but now I find that you're no different from those young masters I met in Kunming. From Kunming to your Tusi Mansion, everyone has three wives and four concubines. I'm afraid you won't be able to escape this fate in the future."
Yun Kai let go of her hand and stood in front of her, questioning, "What are you doing? Are you convicting me based on some far-fetched assumptions?"
Yueming recalled the time he laughed at Bao Guosheng's smug expression. He probably had done this kind of thing of peeping at women taking a bath at least eight out of ten times, so he was so familiar with it. Judging from the small details, he was definitely not as innocent as Yin Tai said when it came to women. For a moment, he felt disheartened and said with a sullen face: "Why do you have to pretend to be so deeply in love with me? You are of noble status, and I am the one who is out of my league. I thought you really liked me, so I put aside everything and wanted to respond to you. But now I think about it, I still think too highly of myself. If you really liked me, how could you do such a ridiculous thing? If you still dare to say that you like me, then your love is nothing more than this."
Yun Kai was furious when she saw his deep affection for her being treated as nothing. He thought about how he always defended her, worried about her, and tried his best to please her, but she would seize on the smallest of things to completely deny him.
Yun Kai sneered softly, his hands behind his back, and looked at her calmly: "So you are determined to abandon me."
He suddenly became the same erratic Second Young Master as before, which frightened Yueming, but she still bravely hardened her heart and said, "What's the point of saying we'll abandon each other? I already agreed with my father that I would go to Liu Yang. Now I'm just following the original plan."
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