Chapter Sixty-Three p1
Times were tough. The girl selling herself to bury her father knelt on the street for a long time, from day to nightfall, with the evening breeze blowing, but no one paid her any attention.
When Bo Chi walked up to her, she saw that the girl was hanging her head, with water droplets on the ground in front of her knees. Bo Chi squatted down, lifted the girl’s face by her chin, and looked at her.
The girl’s eyes were filled with tears, her face a mixture of confusion and helplessness, her mind seemingly muddled, instinctively repeating the pleas she had been uttering for a long time: “I am selling myself to bury my father, I don’t ask for money, I only ask that my father be buried properly, so that he doesn’t suffer the indignity of being left exposed in the wilderness. Kind sirs, please help me.“
Bo Chi tilted her head: “Does it have to be a sir? Can’t I buy you?“
The girl didn’t react for a moment, but after realizing what Bo Chi meant, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she sobbed: “Yes, yes, thank you, miss! Thank you, benefactor!“
Bo Chi took out some broken silver from her bosom, put the money in her hand, and said: “Go and bury your father. When you’re done, come to this inn and look for me.”
The girl subconsciously clutched the silver, and seeing Bo Chi stand up and want to leave, she suddenly raised her voice in astonishment: “Aren’t you coming with me? Aren’t you afraid that I’ll take your money and run away?“
Bo Chi said gently: “Although we’ve only met once, I can see that you are a good girl who values relationships.“
The girl stood there in a daze, and after a while, she stammered: “Benefactor, miss, m-my name is Fu Shuang, frost’s frost!“
Bo Chi had already taken two steps. Hearing the voice, she looked back and smiled, her eyes bright like the begonia flowers in the mountains: “My name is Bo Chi, wings’ wings.”
Bo Chi was very fast. After quickly completing the transaction, she lifted her skirt and returned to the inn, and told the waiter to bring new water.
When she returned to the room, she saw Yu Zhao, who was supposed to be studying the compass, standing by the open window, her back to her, silent.
Bo Chi’s heart suddenly skipped a beat.
If she remembered correctly, standing in Yu Zhao’s position, it seemed that she could clearly see Fu Shuang’s… stall?
Then, her hasty purchase of a person just now, couldn’t Yu Zhao have seen it from beginning to end?!
Bo Chi was panicked and scared, she swallowed nervously, and carefully pulled the opened door back little by little. Just as she was about to close it, Yu Zhao’s cold voice came: “Where else do you want to go? Personally help someone bury their father?“
“…”
As expected, she had been discovered.
Bo Chi gritted her teeth, suppressed the panic in her heart, pretended to be calm and stepped into the room, and teased as usual: “Speaking so sourly, Master, are you jealous?“
Yu Zhao turned around, and didn’t avoid the topic or scold her as before, but instead, with a gloomy face, admitted for the first time: “So what if I am?“
Bo Chi was immediately speechless.
How was she supposed to respond to this?
And this scene was also different from what she had imagined!
Shouldn’t ordinary people confess directly when they were jealous?
Yu Zhao said she was jealous so calmly… where did she look jealous at all!
Bo Chi was a little confused. Seeing Yu Zhao staring at her, seemingly waiting for her to give a reasonable explanation, she calmed down and deliberately said: “Oh? Then in what capacity are you jealous? Master Yu took my body, and the next day you turned your back on me, refusing to take responsibility. Now that I’ve seen through it, and want to be with someone else, how can Master Yu have the face to question me?“
Yu Zhao’s expression froze. It was indeed her fault. Her jealousy subsided a little, and she pursed her lips and explained: “I’m not unwilling to take responsibility. If I’m lucky enough to kill that ghost in the future, I will definitely marry you with a grand wedding.“
Bo Chi turned her face away, and said sadly: “I’m not afraid of ghosts, and I don’t want to think about the future, I just want to know your heart. If we have mutual feelings, then even if we’re only husband and wife for a day, I’m willing.“
Yu Zhao’s heart throbbed: “But I can’t bear to make you sad, to make you face danger…“
Bo Chi was silent for a while, and then said with a cold face: “Okay, then please don’t meddle in my business in the future, Master Yu. Even if I take in seven or eight women and spend every night with them, it has nothing to do with you!“
Yu Zhao’s face tightened, and she grabbed her hand faster than her thoughts, full of jealousy: “No! I won’t allow it!“
Bo Chi didn’t struggle, and just looked up at her quietly.
The air was silent for a while. After a long time, Yu Zhao sighed deeply, pulled Bo Chi’s arm, hugged her, and said resignedly: “I was wrong, I was too self-righteous, ignoring your thoughts, and imposing my own ideas on you. I know I’m despicable, wanting you to live a peaceful life on the one hand, but unable to let go and hindering your choices everywhere on the other hand.“
“I’m sorry, Chi Niang.” Yu Zhao apologized softly, and then said seriously: “I already know I was wrong, I just hope… you can give me another chance.“
Bo Chi blinked: “What chance?“
Yu Zhao looked at her intently, and said seriously: “The chance to be with me, to marry me.“
Bo Chi’s almond eyes lit up, and as if to confirm something, she asked persistently: “Are you with me because you love me, or just because you want to take responsibility?“
Yu Zhao answered without hesitation: “Naturally, it’s because I love you, Chi Niang, I like you.“
Bo Chi couldn’t help but curl her lips, her smile like a pool of spring wine, intoxicating: “I like you too, Ah Zhao.“
The two of them had mutual feelings, their eyes met, and they leaned closer and closer.
Just as their lips were about to touch, the waiter knocked on the door outside: “Guest officer, the new water is here!“
Yu Zhao froze, still wanting to ignore him and continue kissing Bo Chi, but Bo Chi pushed her away with a red face, gathered her hair, and said: “Come in.“
After the water was changed, Bo Chi also calmed down, smiled at Yu Zhao, and said: “You go take a bath quickly, don’t wait until the water gets cold, you’ll catch a cold.“
Yu Zhao, who had just confirmed their relationship, couldn’t help but touch her, playing with and kneading her soft fingers, and whispered: “After I finish washing, I want to see that you haven’t gone anywhere, and are waiting for me in the room.“
Bo Chi knew that she was afraid that she would go buy another girl, and said with a wry smile: “Okay.”
Yu Zhao stared at her, her deep gaze gradually becoming heated: “Not only in the room, but also on the bed.“
Bo Chi immediately understood what she meant, and nodded with a red face.
After Yu Zhao went behind the screen, Bo Chi thought for a while, and took out her thin red dress again.
That night, Yu Zhao was indeed very excited, and tore the already thin red dress to pieces. The bright red strips of cloth wrapped around Bo Chi’s snow-white body, making Yu Zhao’s fingers itch, and she kept tasting until dawn.
When the sky turned slightly white, Fu Shuang also buried her father overnight. She still had some of the silver Bo Chi gave her left. Clutching the small amount of broken silver, she came to the inn nervously and with some anticipation.
The waiter was about to take her to Bo Chi when he looked up and saw Jin Xi and the others coming downstairs for breakfast. He casually pointed: “There, the person you’re looking for is with them, you can just go over and ask.“
There weren’t many people in the inn in the morning. Jin Xi and the others heard the movement and turned their heads to look.
After learning that Fu Shuang was the girl Bo Chi bought, Jin Xi couldn’t help but have a subtle expression: “What is Chi Niang trying to do? Even if she wants to stimulate Master Yu, there’s no need to keep taking in girls…“
Liu Qinger comforted the uneasy Fu Shuang, and said with a light smile when she heard this: “Perhaps Chi Niang is just kind-hearted, and can’t bear to see the girls suffer, so she found an excuse to take us in.“
Jin Xi was stunned: “Is that so? Then I misunderstood Chi Niang.“
She blamed herself a little embarrassedly, and Fu Shuang listened quietly on the side, and felt inexplicably disappointed when she learned that Bo Chi had taken in more than just her.
The few of them sat down at the table and ordered a few small dishes. When the porridge was served, Yu Zhao and Bo Chi still hadn’t come down.
They felt strange, and since Hua Ci insisted on going to find Bo Chi, they had to go upstairs and take a look.
When they arrived at Yu Zhao’s door, Jin Xi was about to knock when the door was suddenly opened from inside. Bo Chi, wrapped in Yu Zhao’s clothes, bumped out and straight into Jin Xi’s arms.
Jin Xi: “Pfft— Cough, cough, cough.“
She was almost knocked out, and after coughing for a while, she keenly noticed something was wrong, and said with a trembling voice: “W-Why do I feel like my voice has become rougher again?“
Bo Chi, who had been having fun all night and almost forgot to maintain her physical body, looked innocent, secretly absorbed the yin energy she had just obtained, and pretended to be deaf and dumb: “Really? Hasn’t your voice always been this rough?“
Liu Qinger also nodded: “Yes, it doesn’t seem to be any different.“
Fu Shuang was shocked: “So your voice isn’t natural?“
Jin Xi was dumbfounded: “Of course not! And I clearly felt that it had been getting better recently!… Could it be that it was just an illusion?“
Bo Chi patted her head with a smile, then patted the shoulders of the other snacks one by one, and then asked: “Why did you all come to my door instead of eating breakfast? By the way, this is Miss Fu Shuang, and also your future sister. It seems that you’ve already talked to her.“
Jin Xi was still in a daze, so Liu Qinger could only nod: “Yes, we’ve already learned about Miss Fu Shuang’s identity. We were originally planning to wait for Chi Niang and the others to come down for breakfast, but we didn’t see you for a long time, and Hua Ci is very clingy to you, refusing to eat without seeing you, so we came up to see if something had delayed you.“
Bo Chi smiled and pinched Hua Ci’s thin face, and shook her head: “We’re fine, we were just about to go down. Don’t make a fuss, Xiao Hua Ci, go and eat with your sisters obediently.“
Hua Ci kept looking at her without saying a word. When Bo Chi was about to withdraw her hand, she hugged Bo Chi’s arm, pointed at Bo Chi’s neck, and said seriously: “You were bitten by a poisonous insect!“
The others were startled, and gathered around Bo Chi to look closely: “Being bitten by a poisonous insect is not a small matter, Chi Niang, do you want to see a doctor?“
“Has the bite mark spread? Why is it so red?“
“Oh! It’s not just your neck, there seems to be more below, don’t cover it, Chi Niang, this is not a trivial matter!“
Bo Chi didn’t know how to explain, and awkwardly covered her collar.
A voice came from behind her, still carrying a bit of laziness: “It wasn’t a poisonous insect, it was me.“
The anxious Jin Xi, Liu Qinger, and the others froze, looked at Bo Chi, who was chuckling, and then at Yu Zhao, who came out and hugged Bo Chi. Finally, they stared at the ambiguous mark for a while, and said with twitching mouths: “So, so that’s it, we misunderstood…“
The atmosphere was a little awkward, and Hua Ci was still confused.
Seeing that the little girl was about to ask, Jin Xi covered her mouth, picked her up, and coughed lightly: “Since it’s nothing, let’s go downstairs and eat.“
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