Hearing this, Huiniang's expression softened a bit. She snorted and said, "Humph! I thought you wouldn't have any thoughts about that snot - nosed, pock - faced wild girl! Come on, what gift did you bring for me?"
Wu Luoluo thought to herself: Why do I keep humiliating myself and standing here to be hurt again and again...
Wu's Medicine Shop wasn't very big. Shangguan Yun had extremely good hearing and heard every word of the conversation in the main hall clearly. His face gradually darkened. It seemed that the girl had suffered a lot of bullying in this medicine shop in the past.
It turned out that the girl had thanked him twice for saving her on New Year's Eve because he had once broken her senior brother's scapula when she was being bullied. Shangguan Yun sneered in his heart. Those who dared to bully Wu Luoluo, he should have just beaten them to death!
At this moment, Wu Luoluo had been punished by her master's wife to kneel and was kneeling obediently in front of her master's memorial tablet to reflect. Wu Luoluo said with grief and gritted teeth, "Master, in front of your spirit tablet, I, Wu Luoluo, swear that I have never deliberately tried to seduce my senior brother! I hope my master's wife will see the truth!"
At this time, Huiniang was holding the gold hairpin carefully selected by Wang Jiu and couldn't put it down. She didn't listen to a single word of Wu Luoluo's oath.
"Master's wife!" Wu Luoluo was indignant and called out to her again.
Finally, Huiniang heard her. She waved her hand impatiently and said, "Alright, just kneel here and reflect well! I still have something to talk to your senior brother about in detail." With that, she wrapped her arm around Wang Jiu's waist without any scruples and went back to her room.
Wang Jiu put his hand on his master's wife's plump buttocks and didn't forget to look back at Wu Luoluo contemptuously, showing a look of pride on his face.
Seeing that her senior brother had presented a gold hairpin to please their master's wife, and the master's wife was blinded and couldn't tell right from wrong, making her kneel and reflect. Wu Luoluo's face turned a bit pale, but she dared not speak out in anger. She could only follow her master's wife's order and kneel in front of her master's memorial tablet with her eyes closed in thought.
After a long time, a series of lewd sounds came from the master's wife's room. Wu Luoluo looked at her master's memorial tablet. Her thin back was straight as a rod, and she clenched her fists tightly.
Shangguan Yun couldn't bear to watch anymore. Leaning against the kitchen door, he coughed softly and said, "Miss Wu, I'm a bit cold."
Wu Luoluo was startled and quickly looked back. She saw Shangguan Yun, wearing thin clothes, shivering against the kitchen door. The night wind made his clothes flutter. Shangguan Yun looked at her from afar with an extremely innocent look in his eyes. His beautiful face looked even more delicate and pitiful. Wu Luoluo waved her hand repeatedly, signaling Shangguan Yun to go back under the quilt quickly. She was afraid that the young master would hear something he shouldn't and soil his ears.
Shangguan Yun looked a bit aggrieved. He clenched his fists and coughed even more violently. He swayed as if he was about to fall.
Wu Luoluo panicked. She quickly bowed to her master's memorial tablet, got up, and rushed towards Shangguan Yun. Wu Luoluo grabbed Shangguan Yun's cold hands and complained in a low voice, "Why did you come out? Go back to bed quickly! What if you catch a cold?"
Shangguan Yun was dragged back by her. With an innocent and aggrieved look on his face, he said, "I can't get warm without you."
Wu Luoluo half - dragged and half - pushed him into the bed, pulled the quilt over him carefully, and said in a gentle tone to comfort him, "I still have to kneel for punishment. How about I light a charcoal brazier for you to keep warm first? I'll come and accompany you after I finish kneeling, okay?" Her master's wife had punished her to kneel for two hours. She estimated that she wouldn't be back until very late tonight.
Shangguan Yun sighed secretly in his heart. This girl was really stupid! Her master's wife had already gone off to fool around with her senior brother. Who would care if she was really kneeling for punishment? But she actually took it seriously! Shangguan Yun thought for a moment, then grabbed Wu Luoluo's slender wrist and frowned and murmured, "But I'm afraid of the dark... I don't feel well right now. I need you to stay with me..." After saying such a cheesy thing, he was disgusted by himself and lowered his head very guiltily.
Afraid of the dark? Wu Luoluo was speechless. He was such a grown - up man and actually afraid of the dark? Wu Luoluo didn't suspect anything. She simply sat down beside the bed and reached out to feel Shangguan Yun's pulse. She thought to herself that the young master was right. Maybe she should kneel for punishment during the day tomorrow! Anyway, her master's wife was really too busy to supervise her now.
Seeing that Wu Luoluo didn't answer, Shangguan Yun thought that she should have acquiesced to his proposal. He couldn't help but feel secretly happy.
Wu Luoluo felt his pulse for a long time and looked at Shangguan Yun in confusion. His condition was clearly getting better day by day. Where were there any symptoms of discomfort?
Shangguan Yun had to force himself to pretend to be weak. Holding his head, he said aggrievedly, "My head hurts so much, and my feet are so cold! You're not here, and I'm so afraid of the dark..." Alas, for this woman not to stupidly accept the punishment and to come to bed earlier to warm his feet, he had already lost all his bottom - line.
The peerless handsome man in front of her pretended to be in pain like Xizi. Wu Luoluo didn't suspect anything at all. Her heart was pounding, and she was immediately smitten. She nodded repeatedly like a pounding garlic, quickly washed up, and climbed into the bed in a hurry to warm his feet.
The foot of the bed was soft, warm like spring. Shangguan Yun was contentedly listening to Wu Luoluo's soft snoring. Waves of warmth silently seeped into his heart, dispelling the bone - chilling cold of the long night.
For a moment, Shangguan Yun suddenly thought, how wonderful it would be if it could always be like this!
Suddenly, another purple figure flashed through his mind. That figure was as graceful as a startled swan, and the smiling face was so beautiful that it could make people's hearts break.
Shangguan Yun only felt a pain in his heart and suddenly couldn't fall asleep at all.
Early the next morning, when Wu Luoluo was still sleeping soundly in bed, she heard her master's wife, Huiniang, knocking on the wooden door at the kitchen door and calling her name.
Wu Luoluo was startled and quickly got out of bed. If her master's wife found out that she was sharing a bed with another man, she was afraid that her master's wife would think that all the things that her senior brother Wang Jiu had wrongly accused her of last night were true!
She thought that her senior brother Wang Jiu knew there was another man in her bed! He should also secretly tell their master's wife about this. Did her master's wife come so early in the morning to ask for an explanation? Did she find out that she hadn't knelt for punishment properly last night?
Just when Wu Luoluo was so scared that her face turned pale and she was at a loss, even putting her shoes on the wrong feet, her master's wife shouted outside the door, "Luoluo! Hurry up and get up, pack your things, and make some more pancakes! We're going to the capital!"
Wu Luoluo finally let out a sigh of relief and replied guiltily.
It turned out that her master's wife didn't come to scold her. She just gave her some orders. But it was still not even over the first lunar month. Why did her master's wife suddenly decide to take everyone to the capital of Xiliang?
Wu Luoluo didn't have time to think too much. She quickly put on her clothes, tied up her long hair, and went to the kitchen to get busy.
Wu Luoluo carried a large basin of pancakes to the main hall. Huiniang and Wang Jiu had already packed a pile of big and small bags of luggage on the table.
Huiniang took a bite of the pancake that Wang Jiu handed her and waved at Wu Luoluo. "Hurry up and pack your clothes! We'll leave as soon as we finish eating."