Reborn girl from poor family

Chapter 237 A more revealing night walk

"Shen Huai."

"Um?"

"..."

"What's wrong?"

"...Don't be afraid, I will treat you well."

Shen Huai raised his eyebrows slightly, not expecting that she would say this suddenly, but his eyes filled with smile in an instant, and he replied: "Okay, I'm not afraid. Why did you say this suddenly?"

"It's nothing," Su Ya didn't want to tell him that she was speaking out of her feelings. If he continued to ask her how she would treat him, she would probably have no choice but to accuse him, so she quickly changed the subject and asked: " When I came back just now, I met Yu Qingfeng at the door. How about him? He is a practical person. Can I be of the same mind as you? "

Shen Huai raised his hand and flicked her forehead lightly, "If you don't want to answer, you just try to talk about something else. Who taught you to be so slick?"

However, he did not pursue the question in the end and only said: "Official circles are not a place for one-of-a-kind discussions. Rather, it is more reliable to focus on interests and benefits. Yu Qingfeng is an extraordinary person. There are many talents in Dali Temple. There is no need to leave someone who is still in office." Someone from the Beijing Office was transferred over and came to help me - someone with no ambition can't do this job. It shows that he is trusted by the emperor. However, the blame lies here: Yu Qingfeng is talented. There is trust, but his reputation is not known."

"Ah?" Listening to the words, although Su Ya didn't know much about these officialdoms that were deeper into the inner circle of the imperial court, she had been immersed in local auditing for two years. Hearing this, she felt worried and frowned: "You are recuperating this time. He has to be responsible for all the matters that will be heard at the Tribunal Tribunal. If he is troublesome, won't you still have to suffer?"

"There's no need to worry too much," Shen Huai shook his clasped hands and said, "It's related to water transportation. It's the emperor's rice warehouse and money bag. At this moment, he will definitely not send someone to cause trouble. Yu Qingfeng He ran straight over as soon as he entered the city, and his attitude was good. I just don't know if there is a faction involved behind him, it remains to be seen."

"Well," Su Ya felt touched and sighed, "You officials always say that you have learned literary and martial arts and sold them to the emperor's family. It is not a lie."

"What do you mean by this?"

"Since you are selling, you only see fame and fortune, so how can you choose a customer? Either sell to the emperor, or sell to a faction. In short, the kind of Qingtian who has the common people in his heart as mentioned in the play is rare."

After she finished speaking, she suddenly remembered that the official in front of her was an official who had been sold for a good price, and quickly added: "I'm not talking about you!"

Shen Huai smiled nonchalantly, "It's not wrong to say that I'm not wrong. Aren't I just hiding my capabilities and biding my time to protect myself?"

As he spoke, he seemed to have thought of something else, his eyes were a little heavy, but he finally curled up the corners of his mouth slightly, pulled the hand holding Su Ya's hand in front of him, and closed his eyes.

On the thin face, the brows were a little tight, and under the dense eyelashes, the dark green eye circles blended with the eyelashes, giving off a heavy look of exhaustion.

"Tired?" Su Ya asked softly.

"Well, I'm a little sleepy."

"Shall we go to bed after dinner?"

"..." He responded to her a few beats later, his voice a little vague, "Just sleep for a while..."

He looked really sleepy, and in just half a sentence, he actually fell asleep.

Forget it, let him sleep. Who is a patient who is as busy as he is? If you think about it carefully, you can't help but work so hard.

Su Ya carefully took her hand out of his palm, straightened the quilt, dimmed the lampstand, and finally exited the room quietly.

The house was full of joy, but that night, she woke up from a nightmare again.

It's still a familiar dream, still lost again and again, still completely clueless, the only difference is that there is another Shen Huai in the dream.

What was originally a loss has now evolved into a double fear.

She hugged the quilt and sat in the dark for a long time before finally lifting the quilt.

The moonlight is like a hook, a thin arc sticking lightly into the low-hanging night sky.

In the distant alley, there was the sound of banging at the second watch. Su Ya stood on the roof in a daze and looked around. People were all asleep, and there were only dots of lights falling on the white walls and black tiles.

It's been a long time since I've seen this high-up view with no one around.

Su Ya quietly stretched her muscles and jumped into the night. The cold wind poured into her clothes from the collar and cuffs, making her feel uncomfortable but awake. She had not been traveling at night for a long time. She walked through the city that she had long known by heart, leaving those who were anxious because of nightmares. The uneasy feeling gradually fell back into my stomach.

After going around in a circle, he finally landed in the small courtyard of the Su family.

The place I have lived in for more than two years has only been vacant for more than a month. Due to the lack of popularity, a thin layer of dust has accumulated everywhere.

Su Ya walked through the small house and finally stopped by the edge of the well.

On the stone grate beside the well, there was a garlic mortar made of bluestone. After being exposed to the wind, sun, and rain for so long, a small pile of dust accumulated in the mortar, and it was tilted into a mortar. Small slope.

Su Ya dug out the small slope, blew off the residue, wiped the mortar socket and garlic hammer clean with a handkerchief, and finally put the spotless garlic mortar back on the stone grate.

She squatted down and stared at the garlic mortar. Shen Huai loved to eat dumplings. Every time he came to eat dumplings in different ways, he would always use it to pound garlic here. At that time, she and Yan still felt that He thought he was being humbled, but he didn't expect that they would become a family so soon.

A smile softened the corners of her brows and eyes, Su Ya stood up, held the garlic mortar in her arms, and prepared to go back.

At this time, there was some movement in the Zhou family's old house next door.

"Madam, show your face more deeply, please come back?" A female voice that was not young gently advised.

"Can't sleep, let's walk for a while."

"It'll be fine tomorrow when it gets brighter."

"After daybreak, that old uncle and nephew of Zhoutou are like superfluous people, staring at people, and will they let me in?" Mrs. Zhao's voice was deliberately lowered and sharp, and her resentment could not be concealed, "You raise the lamp a little bit If it's higher, I'd like to see: What's so good about Zhou's old house that's hidden from others and only left to her eldest grandson!"

"...Madam, I still haven't figured it out: wouldn't it be great if the eldest young master only married a poor woman now? That woman is nothing but a poor talker. Even if she has some martial arts skills, what can she do? There is no wife in the family. If you don’t help me, the eldest son will always be a man of his own, so why do you insist on him marrying the Qiu family?"

Mrs. Zhao sneered, "For someone like him, how can you and I really influence his marriage? It's just..."

She seemed worried, swallowed the second half of the sentence, and said instead: "He may not marry Miss Qiu, but he must not force me to become enemies with the Qiu family."

"But, you are in the capital, and I have the Queen Mother and ancestors behind me. Even if the Qiu family has some power, what can they do to you?"

Mrs. Zhao was silent for a long time. She took the arm of her confidant maid, walked through the corridor, pushed open the door of Huaiyue Pavilion, took the lamp from the maid's hand, raised it slightly and looked in front of the room door, and then sighed softly:

"What do you know? If he has enmity with the Qiu family, where will my poor Yuan'er go to find a legitimate daughter from a good family as a wife? Yuan'er's life has been ruined by that man, and he will never be able to take the imperial examination again.

…”

She gritted her teeth and said bitterly: "I have endured all these years, but now I have to be implicated for the rest of my life. How can I swallow this breath..."

(End of chapter)