Although the girl's strength was not great, when she used all her strength, the wooden stick cut through the air and made a sound of wind.
Li Yi picked up the osmanthus cake with one hand, and suddenly reached behind him with the other hand, grabbing the wooden stick with great precision in the dark.
Miss.Liu's previous devilish training was very effective, making his skills a lot better than in his previous life. He couldn't beat a martial arts master, but he could deal with a weak girl.
The girl didn't seem to expect the little thief's reaction to be so fast. Her attack missed, and she subconsciously opened her mouth to scream. However, when she opened her mouth, a piece of osmanthus cake was stuffed into her mouth before the sound came out.
"What are you screaming for in the middle of the night!" Li Yi said impatiently, and took a step toward the light outside. The sky was not completely dark yet, and standing outside, he could vaguely see the appearance.
He thought that after Xiao Zhu saw him, even if she didn't jump and jump excitedly, she wouldn't use the stick to greet him. But after a moment of shock, she shouted in a more shrill voice, "Ghost!"
In the dark, the expression on Li Yi's face froze, and a few black lines appeared on his forehead.
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"Brother Dong, Uncle Wang, it's really nothing. It's just that I accidentally sprained my ankle when I was walking just now. I'm sorry for causing you trouble." Xiao Zhu explained to the two people standing outside the door apologetically.
"It's no trouble …" The kind middle-aged man looked into the room and asked, "Where's Miss Ruoqing? Is there really nothing at home? "
Xiao Zhu said, "Sister Ruoqing is in the room, there's really nothing wrong."
Xiao Zhu explained for a long time, and then the middle-aged man dispelled the doubts in his heart, and said, "If there's anything, just shout, and we'll come immediately."
After sending the two people away with great difficulty, Xiao Zhu closed the door and quickly ran into the room. At the same time, Li Yi also finished the last piece of osmanthus cake.
"Is it really you?" She walked around Li Yi twice and asked suspiciously.
Today, she had heard from Zui Mo that he was living a good life in the capital, that he had been conferred a noble title, that he was a high-ranking official, and so on. Yet, she saw him stealing things from the kitchen at night. Xiao Zhu couldn't believe it no matter how hard she tried, which was why she had screamed earlier.
"Apart from me, does anyone else know that you were bitten by a dog when you were a child?"
When Li Yi was sunbathing in the courtyard behind the Ruyi Workshop, he often chatted with Xiao Zhu, who climbed up the wall, so it was very easy to prove his identity.
Hearing this, the suspicion on Xiao Zhu's face disappeared, but it quickly turned into anger, "You still know to come back!"
Hearing this, Li Yi was startled and couldn't react for a moment. What did he mean by — he knew to come back?
Looking at her expression again, there was disappointment mixed with anger, like a little wife who had caught her husband fooling around outside at night, and all the emotions of grievance were written all over her face.
Li Yi's heart was full of doubts, but her emotions didn't seem fake. For a moment, he even suspected, before he left Qing 'an Prefecture, that he had lost another particularly important memory?
"I …, what happened to me?" Thinking of this, even his words became strangely guilty.
Xiao Zhu sat down angrily across from him, and asked, "Do you know, how did Sister Ruoqing get through these days?"
"How, how did she get through?" Li Yi thought, why did it bring up Ruoqing again? Could it be, in the memory that he had lost, the main character was someone else?
Even if it was amnesia, it should be a memory from half a year ago, the plot couldn't be so complicated and bizarre, right?
Chen Yuzhu looked at Li Yi, and said angrily, "These two months, Sister Ruoqing hasn't slept well at all. Do you know, because of those things in the brothel, she didn't sleep at all last night, and today she slept for less than an hour … she, she has lost a lot of weight!"
"Didn't I remind you several times before I left to take good care of Miss Ruoqing, to let her pay attention to rest, and not overwork?" Li Yi looked at her and said, "Don't tell me you didn't get this allowance?"
He knew Wan Ruoqing worked very hard, and when he left, he specifically told Xiao Zhu that when necessary, the matter of the brothel could be put aside, and taking good care of her body was the most important. He had reminded her of this more than once, and even specially paid her a salary — now she was blaming him.
"I, I …"
Xiao Zhu was speechless for a moment, because what Li Yi said was the truth, but, how could she change what Sister Ruoqing had decided?
In short — it was still his fault!
"I don't care, the brothel is yours, you think of a way!" The young girl pouted, and didn't intend to reason with Li Yi, with a look of "I am cute, I am right".
Li Yi did not intend to reason with Xiao Zhu. Only now did he understand why the brothel business had developed so quickly in just a short two to three months. Wan Ruoqing had even forgotten to eat and sleep because of this, and he, as the shopkeeper, felt a little guilty.
"Where is Miss Ruoqing now?" Li Yi stood up and asked.
"Inside." Xiao Zhu pointed to the room with the light on, and said doubtfully, "Strange, we were talking so loudly outside, Sister Ruoqing should have heard us long ago, why hasn't she come out yet?"
Li Yi and Xiao Zhu opened the curtain and walked in, and saw a figure leaning over the table. Even in her sleep, Ruoqing was frowning slightly, as if she had encountered something troublesome. She looked far more haggard than the last time Li Yi saw her, and although her beauty hadn't decreased, there was a hint of poignant beauty in her. These days, it was as Xiao Zhu said, she really did forget to eat and sleep, otherwise she wouldn't be so thin.
"Shh! Sister Ruoqing is asleep, don't disturb her. "The young girl made a shushing gesture to him.
Li Yi nodded, and walked over slowly. There were some papers neatly stacked on the table, and the handwriting on them was very elegant, familiar Hairpin-style Small Regular Script. Li Yi picked up a few of them and looked at them, they were about the specific arrangements of each brothel. There were many of these papers, she couldn't have been handling all the trifling matters by herself all the time, could she?
Her hands were half in the air, and her head was leaning on the table, exhaustion written all over her face.
Seeing her eyelashes tremble a few times, as if she was about to open her eyes, Li Yi reached out and touched a spot on the back of her neck.
"What are you doing?" Xiao Zhu ran to the front, looking at him warily.
"She needs a good rest now, I just touched her sleep point." Li Yi walked to the chair, looked at her, and said impatiently: "What are you standing there for, hurry up and help her."
In fact, the young girl didn't have much strength, so she couldn't help much. Li Yi almost carried her to the bed by himself, and covered her with the quilt. That light touch just now, she wouldn't wake up until the next morning.
When Wan Ruoqing fainted in front of Ruyi Brothel, he had also carried her, and this time, he found that she was much lighter than before.
"She won't wake up until tomorrow morning, I'll take these things on the table, take good care of her." Li Yi picked up the stack of things, looked at Ruoqing again, and walked out of the room.
Watching Li Yi's figure disappear outside the door, the young girl curled her lips, and said in a low voice: "You know how to care for Sister Ruoqing, at least you have some conscience …"
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