"Husband, do you mind taking a bath with me?"
When Shen Zhixi spoke, he could still hear the sound of the jelly beans in his mouth touching his teeth.
Tang Zhou is blind and extremely sensitive to sounds.
His cheeks turned red, either from the heat in the tub or from Shen Zhixi's teasing words.
After all, he didn't resist.
He even stretched out his hand to pull her out, fearing that she might slip in the bucket again and choke on the water.
Shen Zhixi took his hand, threw herself into his arms and hugged his neck.
Then, she pressed her lips heavily against his.
The water in the bucket is not too deep, only a little above the belly, so the spring scenery is inevitably exposed.
Tang Zhou carefully held Shen Zhixi's back and held the back of her head with the other hand. He gradually became emotional with her. The moment he opened his mouth, the jelly beans in Shen Zhixi's mouth slipped from the corner of his mouth.
He was obviously taken aback and stiffened for a moment.
Shen Zhixi stepped away with a smile, hooked his neck and asked softly: "Is it sweet?"
He rolled his eyes and bit down the jelly beans in his mouth.
I haven't tasted sugar for a long time, and I'm a little uncomfortable with it.
After a long time, he finally grabbed Shen Zhixi's head and pulled her back with a half-smile, and said back, "Sweet."
What follows is a moment of intense and passionate emotion.
The longer time passed, the harder it became to suppress, and the screams could not be blocked even through the door.
The spring water in the bucket spilled all over the ground.
……
When I got out of the tub, the water was already completely cold.
Shen Zhixi was so weak that he was held in Tang Zhou's arms. He put some clothes on his body and walked out of the bathroom wrapped in it. He returned to the room and got into bed. The tired Shen Zhixi fell asleep in a short time.
"Lady."
Tang Zhou hugged Shen Zhixi from behind.
"I will take good medicine and recover from my injuries. I will get better soon and then take you home."
"Um……"
Shen Zhixi was in a daze. She didn't hear clearly and even felt that it was noisy. She was so sleepy that she didn't want to be disturbed. She was so tired that she couldn't even open her eyes.
"I want to take you back to Yuejing City and take you to meet my family. They are not harsh people. As long as I like you, they will accept you. Don't be afraid. I will protect you no matter what the situation is. , take care of you, just like you take care of me now.”
"okay."
Shen Zhixi agreed casually, still feeling in a dream.
Behind him, Tang Zhou hugged her tighter and closed his eyes to truly feel the happiness at this moment.
*
the next day.
After breakfast, Cui's mother quietly brought Fang Rou over.
Shen Zhixi avoided Tang Zhou and let Yuanyang go out into the woods under cover.
When he came back, he had a bouquet of flowers in his hand. If Tang Zhou asked, he planned to use this as an excuse, saying that he went to pick flowers to make a garland.
In the yard, Tang Zhou was squatting in a pile of firewood, picking at it.
"Husband, what are you looking for?"
Tang Zhou turned around and smiled at her, and replied mysteriously: "Just pick a piece of wood and think about doing some crafts."
"Husband, come here first."
Shen Zhixi didn't take his words seriously and pulled him to stand up.
"Tomorrow, I'm going to the city."
When Tang Zhou heard this, he immediately stopped smiling and said, "I'll go with you."
"No need." Even if she wasn't going to deal with Qin Mu's matter, Shen Zhixi didn't want Tang Zhou to go into the city with her to avoid an accident. "It's not easy to walk in the mountains. The carriage is very bumpy on the road. The doctor told you You have to rest well so that your injury can heal quickly."
"But you..."
"I know what's appropriate. The city is so big. I'm not setting up a stall. My aunt won't know if I go there quietly. So what if I'm discovered? I'm already married, and she can't do it without her innocence. You can’t do anything to me.”
Shen Zhixi worked hard, but Tang Zhou finally nodded.
Early the next morning, Shen Zhixi went out.
As expected, rumors about her were spreading everywhere in Yanzhou City. The gossips at the tea stalls on the street were extremely unpleasant, and the angry mandarin ducks wanted to rush out and argue with them.
Shen Zhixi did not return to the Shen Mansion, but went to an antique shop in the Shen family.
Most of the Shen family's business is rouge and gouache, but there are also other businesses such as jade. Fang Rou was originally arranged by her to work as a bookkeeper in the antique shop. This was Qin Mu's suggestion. He said that Fang Rou was out of town in the past. I worked in an antique shop for a while.
Outside the antique shop, people gathered in a circle, filled with scoldings.
Among them, there was Fang Rou's cry.
"I didn't steal, it wasn't me who stole it, it was you who slandered me!"
"Are we slandering you? Before you came, nothing was lost in our shop. Why, after you have been here for more than a month, we are now out of balance with our accounts. Be honest, or I will send you to see the official. "
The shopkeeper inside suspected that Fang Rou had stolen something from the shop.
"I don't!"
"I dare to say not. There is only one green jade hosta that came in a few days ago. There is only one in the entire Yanzhou City. Last night, you said you still had some unfinished accounts, so you were the last one to leave. What a coincidence. , I came over this morning to take a look, and the hairpin was gone?"
"It's not me. I didn't. Don't accuse me unjustly. Do you have any evidence?"
In the carriage, Yuanyang, with the curtain half lifted, saw the middle-aged man walking across the street from a distance. He excitedly turned around and said to Shen Zhixi, "Miss, the shopkeeper Wang from Fuyang Pawnshop is here."
"Okay, get out of the car."
After getting off the carriage, Yuanyang pushed aside the crowd and let Shen Zhixi go inside.
When the onlookers saw Shen Zhixi, they suddenly exploded, "Isn't this the slut Shen Zhixi of the Shen family?"
The word slut made Shen Zhixi hate Qin Mu even more.
She pretended not to hear, walked into the shop and started talking to Fang Rou who was pinned to the ground. She said loudly: "I, Shen Zhixi, think I treat you and Qin Mu well, but you guys join forces to kill me." Die. Don't you want evidence? This is the evidence."
She spoke loudly, took out a few pawn tickets from her arms and threw them in front of Fang Rou.
"This is evidence that in the past half month, you stole jade from the shop and went to the pawn shop to sell it."
After saying that, it was quiet outside as everyone waited to watch the show.
"You're talking nonsense!" Fang Rou glared at Shen Zhixi. Although they had discussed the play yesterday, she was also acting very hard, and she didn't dare not work hard. She was content with her son in Shen Zhixi's hands. obedient.
"How can you identify it as me just based on these pawn tickets? Maybe someone else stole it and sold it on pawn."
"Someone else?" A thick male voice sounded at the door, it was the owner of the pawn shop, "Miss Fang, although I am quite old, I am not yet presbyopic. It was you who brought those jade articles to my shop to pawn them for silver. But. If I knew that you stole all those things, I would never dare to accept them. Aren't you harming me?"
With that said, shopkeeper Wang opened the package hanging on his wrist, took out several jade bracelets, earrings and other items and handed them to Shen Zhixi.
"Boss Shen, please see if these are the things in your shop."
Shen Zhixi handed the thing to the shopkeeper of his shop. The shopkeeper recognized it at a glance and said yes.
At the same time, another group of government officials came outside the door, frightening the crowd into an even more commotion.
The leading yamen servant took out a jade hairpin from his arms and handed it to Shen Zhixi, "Boss Shen, after receiving your report this morning, we went to Qin's house, and sure enough we found something in his house. Look, Is this the stolen hairpin you mentioned?"
"That's right, this is the green jade hairpin that was lost in my shop. It's the only one in Yanzhou that's worth a thousand taels. Thank you to the yamen brothers for taking the trouble. Fortunately, I found it back."
The evidence was conclusive, Fang Rou looked dead.
She is Qin Mu's cousin, and now she lives in the Qin family. The lost hairpin was found in the Qin family, so of course it has something to do with her.
Since she had committed the crime of stealing, the government officials would definitely take her away.
She refused and started making trouble.
"I was forced. It was my cousin who forced me. It was Qin Mu who forced me. Last month, Miss Shen stayed behind closed doors and refused to see Qin Mu. Qin Mu guessed that Miss Shen might have known He planned to rob the Shen family's property under the guise of getting married to the Shen family. Knowing that his plan failed, he asked me to steal valuable jade from the shop, planning to sell it and run away..."
"He bit back and spread rumors everywhere that Miss Shen, you abandoned him only after you had another man in the morning. He also clung to Miss Zhang from the east of the city. He was the one who let me steal the hosta yesterday. He is going to give it to Miss Zhang to make Miss Zhang have a good impression of him, so that he can defraud Miss Zhang of some money."
"It's him, it's Qin Mu, it's my cousin who forced me. If I don't listen, he will beat me..."
Fang Rou shouted loudly and was still shouting after being dragged out.
The passers-by outside who were still accusing Shen Zhixi of being a slut now changed their tune and began to scold Qin Mu.
Shen Zhixi only found it funny, and even more nauseated when thinking about Qin Mu.
Perhaps it was because of her suppressed emotions that she even felt uncomfortable physically. She actually felt like vomiting. She covered her mouth, unable to hide her nausea.
"Little... miss, you don't have morning sickness, do you?"
Yuanyang approached her and asked softly.
Morning sickness?
Shen Zhixi couldn't help but laugh, thinking that Yuanyang was so innocent, how could he suffer from morning sickness in just a few days.
