Chapter 147 Cats Hide Their Claws
Although Su Jiuyue was still a little embarrassed, she still gave a response, "Okay, I will go and take a look now."
After Su Jiuyue left the room, Wu Xiyuan woke up and took the homespun clothes from the bed and he hadn't worn those clothes for a long time.
Although these were only homespun clothes, he was happy that they were made by his wife's hands.
The layout of the room was almost the same as that in his childhood, but there were some slight differences in detail.
For example, there was plum in the vase on the cupboard beside.
There were also some flower pots beside the stove, with some green vegetables planted in them.
His bookshelf was neatly organized, without an extra piece of clutter but all his stuff.
He went to the desk and found several books on it.
The Three Character Classic on the top was obviously often read, while the Great Learning and the Doctrine of Mean at the bottom seemed to have been touched by nobody.
He picked up the book and saw the one placed at the bottom, with three big characters Jiuzhou Xing written on the cover.
He had seen this book in his former life. When he entered the cabinet for the third year, Liu Wenjun, the Assistant Ministry of Revenue, presented this book at the emperor's birthday banquet. The emperor was pleased with the book and rewarded Liu Wenjun with a thousand taels of silver, numerous paintings, and calligraphy, and also named his newborn son.
Liu Wenjun's fame reached the top at that moment, and anyone had to roll with his punches.
Wu Xiyuan had been a lover of books all his life. This book told about many places on the Jiuzhou continent. He did not have the opportunity to travel across the mountains and rivers, so he always wanted to borrow this book, but had not been realized.
However, now there was s handwritten copy of this unique copy in his home. If Huang Husheng knew that he had copied a handwritten one, the book's value would be greatly reduced, but he still did that, which showed his true love of books.
Su Jiuyue picked up the curtain and saw him standing beside the desk, holding the book Jiuzhou Xing in his hand.
"Xiyuan wants to read a book?" Su Jiuyue asked.
Wu Xiyuan nodded, "Mm! Want to read it!"
Su Jiuyue smiled and asked him, "But can you understand it?"
Wu Xiyuan pursed his lips and shook his head with a sad look, "Xiyuan doesn't know many words."
Su Jiuyue also didn't know, and this book couldn't be understood only by knowing the words.
She now sincerely treated Wu Xiyuan as a seven or eight-year-old child. He was a strong learner, and it was perfectly in time to relearn some things again.
Seeing that he seemed to be a little frustrated, she hastily picked up the Thousand Character Classic beside and gave it to Wu Xiyuan.
"Xiyuan has already finished memorizing the Three Character Classic and will learn the Thousand Character Classic next. Let's make progress gradually, and one day we can read it!"
Noticing that she was sincerely cheering for himself, Wu Xiyuan was secretly happy in his heart and decided not to tell her that he was no longer stupid now either. It seemed to be a good thing to just follow the steps and learn little by little according to the lessons she had arranged for him.
"Okay, don't look at this anymore. Mom cooked dumplings and asked me to take you to wash up!"
While saying this, she helped him to straighten his collar, "Little fool, you can't even wear your clothes neatly. Remember to straighten the collar after wearing your clothes~"
After saying that, Wu Xiyuan's collar had never been neat each morning...
He took the towel from his wife after washing his face, and just wiping his face clean, he heard the voice of his second sister-in-law.
"Guo'er! Come back! You don't comb your hair neatly and just run out! What a careless young girl! It's really ugly!"
Guo'er retracted her little leg that she just stepped over the threshold, and Wu Xiyuan smiled slightly, obviously in a good mood.
In the past, he had always thought that his second sister-in-law was a noisy person, and he really did not have a good impression of her.
But he didn't expect that in his tenth year as an official, the late emperor suddenly did, and he was inadvertently involved in a party dispute between the imperial sons and was imprisoned in the Dali Temple.
He was able to make his strategy and knew that he would be fine, but his family did not know, and they were all anxious.
What he didn't expect at the time was that his second sister-in-law, who was usually penny-pinching, actually sold her family's store and house on Zhuque Street to take care of it for him.
When he came out, there was just one package left in the second sister-in-law's family. They told him that they still had land to plant, and even if they didn't do business, they wouldn't starve to death. As long as he was okay, the whole Wu family would not be in trouble.
It was then that Wu Xiyuan completely changed his perception of his second sister-in-law, and when he heard her voice again after being reborn, he suddenly still felt some affection.
He spat out the water in his mouth and brought his face to Su Jiuyue, "My dear, help me!"
Su Jiuyue saw that the water around his mouth was almost going to drip onto his jacket, so she hurriedly used a handkerchief to wipe him clean before taking his hand and leading him towards the hall.
Wu Xiyuan was carried by her for two steps before he reacted and lowered his head to look at the two holding hands.
Wu Xiyuan: !!!
He couldn't believe that they were holding hands! It seemed that they held hands very often! The happiness came too suddenly.
In the past when he married her, he had regained his intelligence and foolishly learned from the saints that it was improper for men and women to touch each other's hands, and also just made out during the night.
Feeling the soft touch in his hand, Wu Xiyuan couldn't wait to go back again and wake up his former self.
You, silly guy! Look at what you've missed!
Once entering the hall, Su Jiuyue put Wu Xiyuan on his stool and carefully told him, "Just sit here and wait for me, okay? I'm going to help mom serve the meal! Today we also eat your favorite dumplings!"
Wu Xiyuan accepted her advice and nodded his head, looking like a good boy, "Don't worry! Xiyuan is the best!"
He glanced at his niece sitting next to him and raised his chin proudly, "Even better than Tao'er!"
Tao'er, who was inexplicably named, also looked confused. She flattened her mouth and argued to her little uncle, "Tao'er is also very well behaved..."
Su Jiuyue almost couldn't hold back his laughter. She touched the little pigtail on the top of Tao'er's head and said softly, "Well, Tao'er is a good girl!"
Wu Xiyuan also brought his head over and pointed to the bun that Su Jiuyue had combed for him, "Xiyuan also has a little pigtail! Please touch me!"
Su Jiuyue hurriedly touched his hair as well, not daring to favor one over the other, "Xiyuan is also a good boy."
After lunch, Liu Cuihua brought prepared new year gifts and the lucky money for children and locked the door.
Wu Xiyuan's eldest uncle lived in a village with them, and the two families had been related quite closely earlier. But later, after Wu Xiyuan's brain got injured, the second son of the first wife said bad things behind his back, so after Liu Cuihua, who loved his children the most, heard that she was not willing to relate with the eldest uncle's family more.