In a fit of anger, Cao Zixin left Yu Shu behind and walked west. But after a hundred steps, he felt that his anger was ridiculous.
What was the point of being angry at a child? Besides, the child didn't know the way. He was the one who brought her here, so he couldn't just leave her on the street.
So Shopkeeper Cao turned around and went back to look for Yu Shu. He didn't see her under the memorial arch, so he asked a pear vendor at a roadside stall. They made a lot of noise just now, so it was hard not to attract attention. The vendor pointed to the east side of the road and said that he saw the boy carrying the box go that way.
Cao Zixin hurriedly went to look for him. He looked all the way and just happened to miss Yu Shu, who had entered the "Kong's Exchange Shop".
Meanwhile, Yu Shu walked around the east part of Wanxiang Street and didn't see Cao Zixin, so she was ready to go home.
She wanted to slack off, so she asked for the price of a carriage on the street. When she heard that it cost twenty copper coins to go to Changmen Street and that she had to wait for a carriage full of people, she immediately gave up the idea and walked back step by step with the box in her arms. She didn't know that on Wanxiang Street, Shopkeeper Cao was fuming with anger because he couldn't find her.
The way back was shorter than when she came. Fortunately, Yu Shu didn't have a bad sense of direction and could remember the road she had walked once. When she returned to the servant's room in the Ji family's compound, the sky was still bright.
It was the first time she walked such a long way with her small body, so she inevitably felt weak in the legs. She poured a bowl of water at the table and drank it all in one gulp. Then she threw the box at the end of the bed and laid on the bed with her shoes on.
"Ah …"
She was exhausted after walking for an afternoon.
After lying on the bed for a while, Yu Shu recovered and called out "Xiaoxiu Xiaoxiu" twice. When there was no response, she got up, walked to the door and shouted,
"Aunt Liu, where is Xiaoxiu?"
Aunt Liu was not in the yard, so no one answered her. Yu Shu smoothed her hair and closed the door. She changed her dress and went out to wash her face with a basin of water. As soon as she opened the door, she bumped into Yu Xiaoxiu who was pushing the door open.
"Where is he?"
Yu Xiaoxiu looked unhappy. He waved a small paper bag in his hand and said, "To ask Uncle Saturday for rat poison."
There were several rows of houses in the compound. The Uncle Saturday that Yu Xiaoxiu mentioned was a gardener of the Ji family. He lived in the house at the back. Aunt Liu would cook for him when she was free. She took good care of the siblings and was one of the few servants in the Ji family who would treat Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu well.
"Why do you need rat poison? There are rats in the house?"
"Hmm." Yu Xiaoxiu walked into the room with a sullen face. He walked to his bed and tiptoed to pick up the oiled paper bag that was hanging on the bed beam. He returned to the table and sat down. He opened the paper bag, revealing the scattered pieces of dessert and winter melon inside. He took out some of them, crushed them, and mixed them with the rat poison.
Yu Shu clearly heard him grinding his teeth. She looked back at the wardrobe and found that the two packets of dessert that Yu Xiaoxiu put on the top of the wardrobe in the morning were gone. After thinking about the reason, she laughed and pulled a chair to sit opposite Yu Xiaoxiu. She rested her chin on her hands and joked,
"I don't know who said that the poor rats in our house are not willing to come. Look at you, they came."
Yu Xiaoxiu snorted at her and took the bag of rat poison. He walked around the house and scattered the rat poison, under the wardrobe, under the two beds, and in the four corners of the wall. He did not miss any place that the rats might pass by. It was obvious that he was very angry with the rats that stole his food.
Yu Shu looked at the pieces of sesame and winter melon in the oil paper bag and secretly sighed. She wrapped the paper bag and was about to throw it out. When she walked to the door, Yu Xiaoxiu, who had finished scattering the rat poison, pulled her elbow.
"Where are you going?"
Yu Shu saw him staring at the paper bag in her hand and said, "I can't eat it. I'm going to throw it away."
"Don't throw it away." Yu Xiaoxiu raised his voice and reached out to grab it.
Yu Shu raised her hand and dodged him. She smiled and said, "It has been bitten by rats. If I don't throw it away, should I keep it to eat?"
"I broke it off. It is clean. Why can't I eat it?" Yu Xiaoxiu anxiously stamped his feet and jumped up to grab the bag of snacks.
Yu Shu, who was well aware of the rat's weakness, would not give it to him. She kept dodging and being chased around the house. In the end, she ran out of strength. Panting, she reached out and pushed him away. Relying on her long arms and legs, she raised the bag of snacks so that he could not reach it.
"Okay, don't make trouble. I'm serious. Do you think that the place that has not been bitten by rats is clean? How do you know that it hasn't crawled or scratched here? They don't know how to wash their hands before eating. Whatever they get will be very dirty. What if you get a stomachache? You have to spend money to see a doctor and suffer. Just because you are greedy? "
Yu Xiaoxiu suddenly opened his mouth and wanted to argue, but he closed it the next moment. He turned his head angrily and said in a muffled voice,
"Throw it away. It's not like I haven't eaten it before."
Yu Shu reached out and rubbed his head. She took the bag of snacks out.
How could she not know that Yu Xiaoxiu didn't do it because he was greedy? Yesterday, she saw him eat the snacks carefully. She knew that this child had not eaten any snacks in his life. It was not easy for someone to buy snacks for him. He had only eaten a few mouthfuls when it was ruined by rats. He must be very distressed. How could he be willing to throw away the remaining half of the snacks?
Yu Shu took the remaining snacks to the garbage pile outside the courtyard and threw them away. She turned around and walked into the courtyard. She heard someone call her from behind,
"Miss Yu."
She turned her head and saw two servants with unkind expressions. She subconsciously took two steps back and looked at them warily. The fire in Third Master's backyard had only happened a few days ago. Would someone be caught climbing the wall again and blame it on Aunt Cui?
"The matriarch wants you and Young Master Yu to go to the east courtyard for questioning. Go in and call Young Master Yu out."
Why was the matriarch looking for them?
After a short moment of confusion, Yu Shu had an idea in her mind. Since it wasn't Aunt Cui who did something wrong, it must be that the matter of her beating up Ma Weibo in the small garden yesterday had been exposed.
This was bad. She was so happy to reconcile with Yu Xiaoxiu that she forgot about this matter. Last night, when Xiaoxiu called her older sister, she was dizzy and left without cleaning her butt. That Ma Weibo didn't go to the private school this morning.
This was bad. She was caught by the matriarch of the Ji Family.
That old lady could lock her in the ancestral hall to suffocate to death because her predecessor dropped a piece of jade. This time, she beat up her only grandson. She didn't know what she was going to eat.
"Why is the matriarch looking for us?" Yu Shu asked timidly.
"If she wants you to go, then go quickly. There's no need to talk so much." The common problem of the servants of the Ji Family was that their eyes grew all the way to the top of their heads. They used their nostrils to see the road.
"My younger brother went out to play. He's not in the room."
The two servants looked at each other. They probably didn't want to wait here, so they waved at Yu Shu.
"Then you come with us."
"Oh." Yu Shu obediently followed behind them. She silently thought about what to say when she met Old Lady Ji later.
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