Noble First Daughter-in-law

"..."

Shang Ruyi's lips twitched slightly, after several hesitations, she still didn't say the words that had been lingering in her heart for several days.

After all, she is not only Yu Wenye's wife, but also Sheng Guogong's daughter-in-law.

She could have unbearable suspicions in her heart, and she could tell Yu Wenye everything she discovered, but she couldn't say those words clearly.After all, they are all from famous families, and they also know that they should keep three points in everything they say and do. Her words just now are already very dangerous. If they go any further - they will be suspected of provoking brothers.

Seeing her hesitating to speak and finally not speaking again, Yu Wenye's pupils also deepened a little.

He said solemnly: "You don't need to say it, I understand."

Shang Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and looked at him again, only to see Yu Wenye looked at the two sachets in her hand again, and without saying a word, she drank the bitter soup that had already cooled down in one gulp .

Face does not change color.

Obviously, for him, the suffering of life is not limited to this.

Shang Ruyi didn't say anything else, just silently took the empty bowl and put it aside, poured another cup of hot tea for him to rinse his mouth.Yu Wenye took a sip, looked at the slightly shaking tea, and asked again: "By the way, big brother has been here for a few days."

"A total of four or five days."

"Then what did he do during his stay?"

"……nothing."

Yu Wenye raised his eyebrows slightly, and moved his eyes from the waves of tea to Shang Ruyi's calm eyes: "He didn't do anything?"

Shang Ruyi nodded, and said with a wry smile: "I originally thought that my elder brother would definitely participate in the battle of Fufeng when he came here as a servant of the Ministry of War, so he has been—but he didn't do anything."

"..."

"Just yesterday, when he left, he reminded me."

"Remind you of what?"

"He reminded me that in the end we will have a life-and-death battle with Xue Xian, but he knows you will win, so he returned to Daxing City ahead of schedule, ready to claim credit for you."

"..."

Yu Wenye's eyes deepened.

For this matter, he is obviously more sensitive than Shang Ruyi. During his coma, Yu Wenzhen did not participate in any battles in Fufeng, and when he was about to recover and regain consciousness, Yu Wenzhen left Fufeng.

So this battle, regardless of merit or demerit, has nothing to do with him.

Then did he come here really just as the Minister of the Ministry of War to question Ma Xu, or—is there a deeper purpose that they haven't seen through?

Yu Wenye thought for a while, but naturally he couldn't think of a reason. After all, he had hardly seen through this elder brother since he was a child, so he could only let it go temporarily.

But when he looked up, he saw Shang Ruyi standing aside with a serious face, as if he was thinking about something.

Yu Wenye said: "What are you thinking?"

"..."

Shang Ruyi looked up at him, and said, "I just, suddenly remembered a story I heard when I was a child."

"Story? What story?"

"It is said that a night owl was hungry for several days, and finally caught a dead mouse to fill its stomach. Just as it was about to eat the mouse, a phoenix flew over its head."

"...Phoenix?"

"Ye Xiao was worried that the phoenix would come to snatch the mouse in his mouth, so he yelled at the phoenix, trying to scare it away."

"..."

"But the phoenix flew away without even looking at it."

This story was told to her by Shen Wuzheng when she was a child, and after she finished speaking, he smiled and said to her: "The phoenix does not peck at the corn, but Ye Xiao thinks that the phoenix wants to snatch the mouse from his mouth, how ridiculous it is."

Recalling these, Shang Ruyi's face became hot.

She thought of how cautious she was these days, for fear that Yu Wenye would really be transferred from Fufeng, and even more afraid of what Yu Wenzhen would do in the battle of Fufeng, taking the results of Yu Wenye and others' bloody battles as her own, so she thought Do everything you can to guard against him.

But in the end, Yu Wenzhen left by himself.

His actions seemed to tell her how ridiculous her persistence and caution were.

Shang Ruyi laughed wryly at herself and said, "Sometimes, I feel like that night owl."

After finishing speaking, she sighed and shook her head, took the half-drunk teacup from Yu Wenye's hand to add some water, then walked back, and when she was about to hand it to Yu Wenye, she lowered her head, only to see him staring up at him. I glanced at myself.

Shang Ruyi was taken aback: "What's wrong?"

Yu Wenye said: "Do you also think that night owl is ridiculous?"

"...?"

Shang Ruyi looked at him in surprise: "Isn't it?"

Yu Wenye sneered, and said, "Nothing ridiculous?"

"..."

"Everyone has something they want to cherish and protect. Others' disdain does not mean that it is worthless to cherish and protect."

"..."

"In my opinion, in the face of a powerful enemy, in the face of a situation where you must lose, and still stand up and resist, that night owl also has a lot of merit."

"...!"

Shang Ruyi looked at him with wide eyes.

She did not expect that Yu Wenye would view this story in this way.

Perhaps, the night owl is ridiculous, even sad, in the eyes of the world, but when you think about it carefully, without the blessing of God, without the shining colorful feathers, it still strives to survive seriously, and is not even afraid of the lofty phoenix. Is it also where it shines?

Shang Ruyi suddenly felt a burst of relief in his chest, and said with a smile, "That's right."

Only then did Yu Wenye take the cup of tea from her hand.

After taking a sip, he said coldly as if a little annoyed: "Besides, who is Phoenix? I am Phoenix!"

"...?"

Shang Ruyi was taken aback for another moment, and then came back to his senses.

Yes, he is Phoenix.

When she first arrived in Luoyang, when she and a group of his friends were listening to the gathering in the Crane Tower, everyone mentioned his nickname. At that time, he told himself that his nickname was Fenghuang.

Shang Ruyi smiled and said, "Okay, I remember."

While talking, she heard a light knock on the door again, Shang Ruyi went out to see, but it was Tusheer, holding a stack of neatly stacked clothes in her hand, and said softly: "Miss , The slaves have put away the clothes that were washed before. Now that my uncle is awake, do you want to take a bath soon? The servants will send the clothes here, so that they will not be lost when they need to be used. "

Shang Ruyi nodded: "Give it to me, I will take care of it myself."

"Ah... yes."

Normally, Tu She'er would never make her lady tired, but at this moment she also knew that Shang Ruyi didn't want people in the room to disturb Yu Wenye's rest, and she herself didn't want to disturb the rare time the two of them spent together, so she didn't say much What, gave the clothes to Shang Ruyi, then turned and left.

Shang Ruyi took the clothes and walked to a corner of the room, and opened the box to put it in.

Yu Wenye suddenly said: "What is that?"

"Ok?"

Shang Ruyi looked back at him, then looked down again, only to find that the top of the pile of clothes was the cotton gauze mask with two strings.

Shang Ruyi said, "This is what my elder brother gave me."

"..."

Yu Wenye frowned slightly: "Why did he give it to you?"

Shang Ruyi said: "When a doctor encounters a disease like the plague, when he treats the patient, he always wears cotton gauze soaked in the liquid medicine, so as not to catch it himself. During the few days when you were sick, Ly Xue and I, And that old doctor He Wenzhu, we all wear that kind of veil."

"What does that have to do with it?"

"After the eldest brother came, he gave me this, saying that it has the same function as those veils."

"..."

"I took it for a few days, and it's really like that."

"..."

Yu Wenye was silent for a while, and said, "Bring it to me to have a look."

Shang Ruyi didn't know why he suddenly became interested in this little cotton veil, but after putting down those clothes, he took the veil to him, and Yu Wenye took it over with a look of surprise—he didn't understand medical principles at all. , It is even more impossible to know where the benefits of this thing are. After looking over and over for a long time, it is not so much looking at that thing as being picky.

After a while, he said, "Only for you?"

Shang Ruyi shook his head: "He has one himself."

"..."

Yu Wenye was silent for a while, his face became more and more serious, and said: "This kind of thing, just throw it away after use, what else do you keep?"

Shang Ruyi was startled when he heard that, fearing that he would lose it, he hurriedly took it back and said, "You can't lose it. This thing is more convenient than the usual veil, and it won't come off easily."

"..."

"I want to keep it, and in the future—maybe it will be useful."

Having said that, she paused for a moment.

In fact, she didn't know why she thought this thing was useful, but after Yu Wenye's illness, a shadow seemed to cover her heart, making her uneasy, but she couldn't figure out where the shadow came from.

In short, this thing doesn't take up much space, and it doesn't get in the way when you leave it.

So, he went back to the box again, put the veil in, and saw Yu Wenye's clothes under it, thinking that he had been lying still these days, and they were the ones who wiped his body for him. Feeling a little uncomfortable, I planned to ask him if he wanted to take a bath.

But when I turned around, my heart skipped a beat.

I saw Yu Wenye sitting heavily on the edge of the bed, probably because he had exhausted his energy just now and his physical strength was exhausted, so he propped his hands on his knees; but even though his face was pale and he could feel his breathing was uneven, his whole body His posture, and the fortitude and deepness on his body, like a dormant black panther, made people feel shocked.

What's up with him?
Why did he suddenly show such an expression, as if he had developed deep hostility towards someone and something.

And looking at him again, it turned out to be staring at the veil placed on top of the box.

Just when Shang Ruyi was a little puzzled, Yu Wenye murmured thoughtfully: "Phoenix is ​​indeed not interested in that dead mouse... What he really saw, maybe, was the night owl! "

"……Um?"

Shang Ruyi didn't hear clearly, walked over to look at him, and said softly, "What did you say?"

Yu Wenye raised his head again and glared at her.

Then he turned his face to one side and said coldly, "It's nothing."