Chapter 160 You Like The Way I Used To Be
Su Jiuyue habitually said with a rising tone, which made Xiyuan feel itchy at the bottom of his heart like that a short tail of a small cat stroked past his ear.
Su Jiuyue looked up and met Xiyuan's eyes. This was the first time she saw such sight on Xiyuan. It seemed like he was going to swallow her.
Her heart suddenly started racing and she avoided him subconsciously, "What...are you looking at..."
Wu Xiyuan played with her fingers for a while and bit it slightly. But Su Jiuyue yelled in pained.
Wu Xiyuan smiled with his eyes brimming with love. However, he pretended to warn her furiously, "Don't poke me. Otherwise, I'll bite you again."
Su Jiuyue immediately pulled her naughty hands back and hid behind her back as if she's afraid he would bite her again.
"You're stingy. I just touched you." She moaned.
"Focus on measuring. Don't distract your attention." Wu Xiyuan said seriously.
Su Jiuyue pursed her mouth out of disapproval, "Why do you sound like an old scholar now? I think the former Xiyuan is cuter."
Wu Xiyuan smiled, "You like the way I used to be?"
Su Jiuyue didn't respond. Noticing his constant stare, she felt embarrassed and ran out of the room leaving the fabric at the spot.
Looking at her back, Wu Xiyuan murmured in his heart.
I should be closer with my honey. Otherwise she would always be so shy which was inconvinient.
While he was meditating, a small head poked out from the door curtain.
"Right! I like!"
After speaking, she ran away quickly as if she's afraid that she would be caught.
And she left the swinging curtain and a man who was overjoyed and excited behind.
Just a few days after Su Yi went back home, Cui Qingyun visited her again.
Su Yi didn't refused her visit because she took her to the Wu family last time.
Cui Qingyun had already held the notion that her plan partly succeeded at the time she stepped into the Qin Garden again.
She bowed to Su Yi and called, "Sister."
Su Yi was accustomed to wear comfortable clothes at home. Today, she wore an old bright yellow dress. At this time, she was standing under the eaves and was feeding a parrot.
The parrot was sent by the King of Yan a few days ago. It is said that it could only say one sentence--Wish you the best, miss. But Su Yi had been playing with it for two days, it was still reluctant to speak.
Su Yi was slightly stunned when she heard Cui Qingyun call her elder sister. She turned around and said, "Please don't. If we count it seriously, you are probably a year older than me! How can I be your elder sister?"
Cui Qingyun was a little awkward and corrected immediately, "Yi."
Su Yi responded, "Why do you suddenly visit me? What can I help you?"
According to the rules of rich and loyal families, people couldn't visit them unless they had sent the written request in advance and got the permission.
It's obvious the Cui family didn't have the rules. Cui Qingyun just came here abruptly and she couldn't refuse to meet her since she was in the doorway.
Cui Qingyun didn't know what to say after hearing Su Yi's direct question. She reflected on for a while in her mind and decided to use Su Jiuyue as a beginning of the topic.
"Nothing important. I met Su Jiuyue and her husband few days ago, who were searching for an appropriate house. It is said that her husband is going to study at the school. I guess he may be preparing
for the provincial examination."
Su Yi was excited to hear of Su Jiuyue, "That's great! If her husband obtain an official position, she won't suffer in future."
Cui Qingyun teased in her heart. It's not easy to get an official position. There were so many people who took part in the examination in the Ox Head Town every year, but none succeeded.
Even the teacher who taught Wu Xiyuan was just a Xiucai (one who passed the imperial examination at the county level). How could a student be better than his teacher? She didn't believe in that.
Back then her father said if Wu Xiyuan got the title of Tongsheng (a scholar without Xiucai degree), he would hold engagement ceremony for them. Of course, she was reluctant.
Tongsheng was just the beginning of the imperial examination. It's not sure if he could be a Xiucai. She would scarcely marry such a loser.
Just like the beauty who sold tofu at the western market, who was in her early forties now, she had sold tofu all her life and lost her beauty. Her husband, however, couldn't do anything except study, and in the end he didn't even get the title of Xiucai. He drank all day long and counted himself an unlucky man with abundant scholarship in vain.
Even though she had countless other thoughts in her mind, she echoed at this moment: "Yes! If he can change his destiny, Jiuyue will be able to enjoy the rest of her life with him together."
Su Yi was happy in her heart, "Well, I have to discuss with my father later. Since her husband has such ambition, I should help them. I will ask my father to help him find a teacher of great scholarship."
Cui Qingyun was always confused why Su Yi gave Su Jiuyue such a great treatment. Was that because both of their surnames were Su?
"Yi, How did you know each other?" She asked in a tentative way.
Su Yi was alert immediately. No matter what the reason was, a girl's reputation was ruined when she was kidnapped by a villain.
She was fine because her dad would support her in her back so that no one dared to spread random guess.
But Su Jiuyue was different. If someone knew it, it would stain her reputation.
"You don't need to know that. We just clicked the first time we met."
Su Yi finally lost her patience because the parrot still refused to speak. She threw the melon seeds in her hand into the box and clapped down the crumbs.
"Well, let's get into the room and have a talk. I don't take care of this ignorant little thing."
But when Cui Qingyun walked past the parrot, it spoke.
"Wish you the best, miss."
Su Yi turned around quickly. Cui Qingyun was also stunned. Su Yi chuckled, "It is said that animals have minds too. It seems the little thing adores you."
Cui Qingyun didn't dare to respond. She didn't know what's the matter with the bird. Why did it speak just at the second she went past?
Su Yi continued: "Since you and it clicked, I give it to you."
Hearing this, Xia He who stood aside frowned and hurried up to persuade her: "Miss, think twice. Bao was the present brought by the King of Yan!"
Su Yi glared, "So I should carefully take care of it just because he sent it to me? Since he sent it to me, it's mine. I can decide how to handle with it. No matter I send it to someone else or I braise it, that's its doom. A punishment to its ignorance!"
Although her volume was not big when she said the last sentence, Cui Qingyun felt deafening.
She didn't know whether she read it too much. She felt there was an implication in Miss Su's words.
"I...the King of Yan sent it to you. How could I rob it from you? Don't joke." She subconsciously thought it's better to refuse her.