"You're smart."
Xue Rui was indeed smart. When the two of them held hands, he heard Yu Shu's muttering, one sentence, one action, he knew what she was thinking. She accepted his feelings and no longer tried to dodge or reject him.
The heavens dropped a big meat pie and he was overjoyed. Only the heavens knew that after waiting for so many days, he finally received a response from her. Now that the clouds have dispersed and the moon has appeared, he felt that it was a bit surreal.
Yu Shu was stared at by him and felt that her face was not thick enough. She turned her head and gave a dry cough before letting go of her hand. She struggled for a bit but did not move at all. She could only say, "Let go of me first and I won't be angry. It's already so late, let's eat first."
Normally, how could Xue Rui openly hold her little hand. He held her two soft wrists and not only did he not want to let go, he also wanted to pull her into his embrace.
But he only thought about it and did not dare to be rash. He was afraid that if he was not careful, he would make her think that he was a rash person and make her regret it.
Thinking like this, he still did not let go of her. But he moved his eyes away from her face and looked at her hands.
Her wrists were held by him with her palms facing inward, gently cupping them. She was tall and her ten fingers were long and slender. They were not white and tender and there were even a few calluses on them. But her joints were clear and looked clean and strong. Her fingernails were round and had a light pink color that attracted people's eyes. Looking at them made his heart dry up. Unknowingly, his palms slid down from her wrists and grabbed those beautiful fingers. He gently pinched them, not daring to use any strength.
It only took a few blinks of an eye for Yu Shu to come back to her senses. When had anyone ever pinched her little hand like this before? She instantly felt a little embarrassed, and her face that had just cooled down heated up again. When she lowered her head, she saw Xue Rui staring at her hand with an infatuated expression. She felt extremely uncomfortable all over, so she exerted all her strength and pulled her hand out when he was unprepared. Then, she took two steps back to stand at a safe distance.
Xue Rui's momentary 'slip' returned to his senses, yet he wasn't in a hurry. He raised his head unhurriedly to look at her, and his eyes were bright as he said, "You've promised me tonight, so you can't go back on your word tomorrow."
Yu Shu wanted to roll her eyes and say that she had promised him something, but when she saw his serious expression, she didn't have the nerve to act shamelessly. She crossed her hands behind her back and thought for a moment. Thinking that she had to make things clear to him as soon as possible, her expression gradually became serious. She said to him, "Although I'm a woman who learns to be lazy, I can't tolerate even a grain of sand in my eyes. If I were to be with you, I wouldn't be half-hearted. Putting myself in your shoes, I don't want you to have any playful thoughts. In this world, men are superior to women and I have a strong personality. I have to go against that … "
At this point, the corners of her lips curled into a mocking smile. She continued, "If you can't tolerate me, then pretend I didn't say anything tonight. Don't provoke me in the future. Otherwise, you know what kind of temper I have."
As she finished speaking, she actually started threatening him in an overbearing manner. If it was an ordinary husband, he would probably be enraged, but in Xue Rui's eyes, he only felt that she was full of temperament, sour, spicy, and cute. So his figure flashed as he left the chair and stood up, and then he took a step forward before lowering his head to look at Yu Shu who had a ferocious gaze. His eyes narrowed as he smiled, and then he bent his finger to scrape the tip of her nose as he said in a low voice, "Could it be that you don't know that I like you exactly like this? Being teased by his words, Yu Shu was embarrassed for a moment. At the same time, she knew his answer. She relaxed and did not give him a cold look. Her expression softened and she said softly, "How would I know what you like about me."
Saying that, she did not wait for him to reply and walked to the side and sat down.
"After running for the whole afternoon, I'm hungry. Quickly call the servants to serve food."
When Xue Rui heard this, he remembered that she chased after the storyteller in order to help him investigate the case. How could he not feel heartache? He immediately clapped his hands and called the servants in the courtyard to prepare the meal.
Since that was the case, he could not help but remind her, "If you encounter something like this again, don't be rash. It's more important to come back and tell me."
One could not blame Xue Rui for being cautious. He had watched Yu Shu walk all the way to where she was today. If one were to say that she was unlucky, no one would dare to say that they were second. Those bewitching things were rare for others in their lifetime. But she was lucky. She caught all of them.
Yu Shu replied with an "En". But in her heart, she said that it depended on the situation. Waiting for a hare to come to her was not her style. If she was afraid, she would have died many times.
"That storyteller, Big Brother, why don't you investigate him?"
Both of them communicated. When Xue Rui heard that she was still used to calling him "Big Brother", he raised the corner of his mouth and did not correct her. There was a younger sister in the family, but she usually called him "Big Brother". Others did not care about it. Yu Shu was the only one who called him "Big Brother".
"Okay, I'll send someone later."
.....
After dinner, Xue Rui proposed to go to the courtyard for a drink. Yu Shu had a lot of ideas, so she declined politely.
What a joke! Before she agreed, this person took the opportunity to kiss her two or three times. Now that the window paper was broken, and with a little wine, he might do something to her.
Yu Shu had misunderstood Xue Rui. Even if he did, he would not act rashly when the two of them had just gotten together. As the saying goes, 'an impatient man cannot eat hot tofu'. Moreover, Yu Shu, who was a piece of tofu, had not even entered his bowl yet.
That night, both of them were lying on the bed. Sometimes they were laughing, sometimes they were thinking. They tossed and turned, unable to sleep early.
The next morning, after an "unusually" harmonious breakfast, Xue Rui went out of the door feeling refreshed. Yu Shu yawned and went back to her room. She slept for a while before she woke up.
She called, and a maid came in with tea. When Yu Shu was dressing, she lifted her clothes and looked at the bruise on her abdomen. There was a first-class medicine, and it had faded to a light yellow-green color. It would be fine after two or three days of applying medicine oil.
Yu Shu sat in front of the dressing mirror and looked at the diary she had written yesterday. Xiaoqing scattered her messy hair and carefully combed it. At this time, Xiaodie came in from outside and handed a letter to her, "Miss, it's from Xia Jiang's guesthouse."
Because Yu Shu was a fortune-teller, Xia Jiang's Helang acquiesced to Xia Jiangmin's contact with her. They no longer wrote secretly, and there was a letter almost every three to five days.
On the second day of the banquet in Xuanchun Garden, Yu Shu wrote a letter about Ji Xingxuan's imprisonment and asked someone to send it to Xia Jiangmin. She told her some inside information, but it was not detailed. She mainly wanted her to know that Ji Xingxuan could not escape this time.
Yu Shu looked at the reply in her hand. She opened it and glanced at it. There was only a row of words on it —
Good and evil will be rewarded. Crime deserves punishment. What a pity.
Yu Shu thought about the meaning of this sentence and found some unwillingness in it. Thinking about it, she understood. When Xia Jiangying was murdered that day, even she felt that it was related to Ji Xingxuan, not to mention Xia Jiangmin who dreamed of her elder sister's death.
A few months ago, Xia Jiangmin approached Ji Xingxuan to sound her out. Unexpectedly, she was caught by Yu Shu and turned it over. Then the Ji family collapsed, and Xia Jiangmin was grounded by Xia Jiang's Helang. Since then, she had no contact with Ji Xingxuan.
Xia Jiangmin was happy to see Ji Xingxuan suffer. What she regretted was that she could not personally avenge her fourth sister.
After combing her hair, Yu Shu went to the study and wrote a letter to Xia Jiangmin. However, she did not mention a word about Ji Xingxuan.
After writing the letter, Yu Shu gave a string of money to Xiaodie and asked her to hire a sedan chair to send the letter to Xia Jiang Guesthouse. Unexpectedly, she came back after a while.
"Miss, Assistant Minister Qiu is here."
The last time Qiu Jiming asked to repair her house, Yu Shu did not agree immediately. Later, she discussed it with Xue Rui and felt that it was feasible, so she waited for him to come again.
Hearing this, she was happy and waved her hand to let Xiaoqing go. Yu Shu washed the ink on her hands and went downstairs to meet the guest.
.....
After some discussion, Yu Shu and Qiu Jiming agreed to let him renovate the house on Baochang Street. Qiu Jiming would send someone to supervise the work when the craftsmen moved the ground. Whether the Fengshui layout of the house should be changed would be decided by Yu Shu.
As for the cost of the materials, under Yu Shu's insistence, Qiu Jiming asked her for a thousand taels of silver. In fact, this amount of money was not even enough to buy a whole set of furniture.
After sending Qiu Jiming off, Yu Shu went back to her bedroom and took out the money box hidden under the cabinet. She sat at the table and counted the money.
She had spent half of the two thousand taels of silver that she extorted from the Ji family. There were also some scattered banknotes. Not counting the pieces of silver, there were only about a hundred taels of silver.
Liu Tan rewarded her with a plate of silver ingots during the Double Suns Meeting. She estimated that there were about a thousand taels of silver.
Zhao Hui had told her that it was best not to use the box of gold that the emperor had bestowed upon her. She should keep it to make jewelry. After calculating it and deducting the money needed to repair the residence, she only had a little more than a thousand taels of gold left.
After paying high tuition fees for Yu Xiaoxiu and Bai Ran, providing for Aunt Cui to eat and drink, and supporting a few idlers, she actually did not have much money left!
Yu Shu's forehead was sweating. Previously, she was only concerned about the Double Suns Meeting. Now, she only remembered to encircle Ji Xingxuan. She had food and drinks in Wangji Tower. She did not think about earning money at all.
If this continued, she would soon be unable to make ends meet and be stretched to make ends meet.
A few hundred taels of silver was enough for an ordinary person to use for eight to ten years. But for a Master Yi, especially a Master Yi from Taishi Library, it was not enough.
A white tortoise board was at least fifty taels of silver. It would be destroyed after one burn. A box of ambergris cost a hundred taels of silver. It would be gone after a few days of smelling it. Not to mention those rare books and secret texts and Fengshui treasures. With her little money, she could not even afford the lowest quality item in the Xin family's Great Exchange Shop's Treasure Pavilion.
Yu Shu felt a little sad. She did not use these expensive items. It was not that she could not use them. She was just stingy and would save as much as she could.
In the past, she did not think it was a big deal. But after staying in Taishi Library for a few days, she realized that it was a big deal. The children of the aristocratic families all had backing. She was a girl who had only become a monk halfway through her life.
"Ai." She looked down at the thin banknotes in her hand. Her brain began to spin, thinking about where she could start to earn money.
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