Chapter 171 There is A Beauty
Su Zhuang immediately assured his dear daughter, "Don't worry, I will send Qingmu to protect them!"
Once she heard her father say Qingmu's name, Su Yi was relieved.
Qingmu was the number one expert in her father's league. Ordinary people were no match for him.
She stood up and bowed to her father, "Thank you, father."
Su Zhuang smiled and waved his hand, "Come on, Jiuyue saved your life. No matter what she has gotten herself into, we have to at least protect her."
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Su Zhuang had just promised his daughter and had already made the arrangements.
But Su Jiuyue still didn't know anything about it. When she cleaned the dishes and returned to the house, it was already dark.
When she saw Wu Xiyuan sitting by the window with a book and reading it in the faint light from the window, she was very much engaged.
She frowned, took down the oil lamp from the cabinet, and lit it. Holding it in both hands, she came to his side.
There was a sudden additional light source beside him, and Wu Xiyuan naturally found that. He looked up and met his wife with a disgruntled look on her face.
"What's wrong? Look at your mumbling mouth. You can hang an oil bottle on it." He laughed and joked.
"It's all your fault. You told me not to do needlework when it's dark because it's not good for my eyes. But what about you? How can you read the words in the book in such a dark light? I won't care if your eyes are damaged!"
Wu Xiyuan immediately put down the book in his hand. He took the oil lamp from Su Jiuyue and put it on the table.
"It's my fault. I won't read anymore, okay? I don't want my eyes to be damaged. I want to keep my eyes on my little wife."
He took her hand. With a slight force, Su Jiuyue stumbled and fell into his arms.
Hearing his words, she was so bashful that she put both hands on his chest, with her face flushed.
It was really strange that she used to think her husband was adorable when he spoke those words. Now he was clear-minded. But why was she so blushing and shameful when he talked like that?
"Such a canny mouth! I don't know who you learned it from!" She laughed and scolded.
Wu Xiyuan hugged her and didn't let her go at all. The kerosene lamp on the table emitted a faint light.
Only then did Wu Xiyuan understand why the sages all said to look at the beauty under the lamp. She was still young. Her face was fair and tender. The shadow of the light hit half of her face. She shyly tilted her head. And her long eyelashes left a light silhouette on her cheeks.
The light of the kerosene lamp wrapped around the two. All the darkness elsewhere was excluded from them.
"I learned from the book, of course." Wu Xiyuan said it with a righteous attitude.
Of course, Su Jiuyue did not believe him, "How is it possible? You can't bluff me. How can these things be taught in books."
Wu Xiyuan looked at her and raised a pleasant smile, "You do not believe? Then I'll recite it to you."
"I see a beauty who I can't forget.
A day apart from her makes me go nuts.
The male phoenix lifts up, reaching four seas to chase the female phoenix."
Su Jiuyue didn't know much about literature. Although she couldn't fully understand the meaning of his words, she got a general idea.
The phrase "beauty" and "apart from her", how could the phrase be considered serious literature?
She immediately put up a face, saying in a fierce way, "Mom and Dad give so much money for you to study. They don't want you to look at those idle books. Don't say such nonsense in the future."
Wu Xiyuan, "..."
He really just wanted to say a few nice words to his wife to make her happy. However, he didn't expect that his wife would think he was talking nonsense?
God's conscience! Growing up, he had never said that to anyone but his wife.
He felt the need to save his own precarious image, "I'm not saying nonsense. This was written by Sima Xiangru, a great literary scholar of the West Han Dynasty, to his wife."
Su Jiuyue didn't understand this. But once she heard that it was a great literary scholar, she thought the phrases should not be bad. However, if those phrases were applied to her, she would be embarrassed.
Wu Xiyuan looked at his wife and felt like she was playing face-changing. Her expression seemed to ease a little, and then she immediately got up.
"The phrases were written to his wife. Why are you talking to me? If I want to hear something like that, I want to hear from you."
Wu Xiyuan looked at her, who raised her chin and had a fierce look, very much like the little puppy he had at home when he was young, fierce but cute.
He laughed out loud. Crossing his arms behind her back, he gathered her small waist, "Do you really want to hear what I wrote?"
Perhaps his voice was too intimate, or perhaps his atmosphere was too ambiguous, Su Jiuyue, a girl, immediately couldn't take it.
"No way! I don't! It's dark. Don't waste the lamp oil. Go to sleep!"
Wu Xiyuan moved both hands downward, directly dragging her hips and picking her up. Su Jiuyue was so scared that she cried out in shock.
Wu Xiyuan went towards the bed by the light of the oil lamp, "Okay, okay! Sleep! I'll go sleep!"
"Put me down. You haven't washed up yet!"
Wu Xiyuan put her on the edge of the bed. Su Jiuyue was about to jump off the bed. However, he held her by the shoulders.
"Sit here. It's cold outside. I'll go get you some hot water."
Su Jiuyue had been the backbone of her mother's family since she was a child. And she had always done these trivial things herself. How could a man do this for her?
"I'd better go! You are tired after a day of learning. How can I let you serve me?"
Wu Xiyuan said with a smile, "How tired can I be from studying? On the contrary, you work hard at home to take care of the household chores. We all live together as a family. It's no matter who serves who. Why should we be so clear with each other?"
He finished and went straight out the door. He was tall and had to lower his head a little when he went out. But in Su Jiuyue's eyes, his actions were like waves of shock that made her unable to calm down for a long time.
There wasn't a rule that who should be able to do this and who shouldn't do this.
Men could read and write. So did women. Women could do laundry, and so could men.
It was just that everyone had their own field. Over time, it formed a subtle rule that bound everyone.
Her man was really not an ordinary man and knew how to understand his wife. She, as his woman, should naturally be more considerate of him as well.
Wu Xiyuan fetched a basin of hot water, picked up the curtain, and walked in. And then he found his wife still sitting on the edge of the bed, dazed.
He called out to her, "My dear wife."
Only then did Su Jiuyue come back to her senses. Wu Xiyuan smiled and teased her, "Jiuyue, do you want me to help you wash up?"
He paused for a moment, rubbing his chin, seemingly thinking carefully about this, "It's not impossible..."
Su Jiuyue was shaking her head like a rattle, "No! No! I'll wash by myself!"
She jumped off the bed, took the handkerchief from Wu Xiyuan, and went to the water basin.
Seeing her movements, Wu Xiyuan was vaguely regretful in his heart.
In his opinion, helping his wife to clean her face was also a very pleasant task!