Xie Shizi's shameless daily life

Zhao Shu didn't take this little situation to heart. After all, there had been several cases where the carriage had stopped suddenly before. Anyway, it wouldn't take long for the carriage to move on again.

But this time the wait was a little too long. Zhao Shu's eyes flickered and she reached out hesitantly towards the car curtain.

When her fingertips touched the car curtain, she did not open it in a hurry, but asked quietly outside: "Why did it stop?"

After waiting for a while, no one answered her question. Zhao Shu pursed her lips tightly and lifted the curtain little by little.

The driver looked at her nervously. Zhao Shu calmly withdrew her gaze and called softly to the person standing next to the carriage, "Cousin Jin."

Xie Jin hid in the darkness, making it hard to see the expression on his face. After a long while, Xie Jin finally spoke: "I don't know what you want to do by following my carriage every day these days, but I hope this is only the last time!"

Zhao Shu felt ashamed of having her thoughts discovered. Her face flushed and she thought of thousands of excuses in her mind, but she couldn't say a single word to defend herself.

Xie Jin glanced at her indifferently, not wanting to get entangled with her anymore, and turned to leave.

Zhao Shu looked at his receding figure and said in panic, "Cousin Jin!"

Xie Jin paused, and Zhao Shu said incoherently, "Brother Jin, where are you going? No, no, no, how are you going to get back? That's not right! How about you take my carriage back?"

Xie Jin finally turned around, frowning with an unpleasant expression, and said impatiently: "What on earth do you want to say!"

Zhao Shu looked at him, her eyes reddened instantly, and she whispered, "Cousin Jin, can I still come to see you in the future?"

Xie Jin looked at her steadily: "No more."

There were clearly no tears on Zhao Shu's face, but she choked out, "Why, why?"

Xie Jin seemed to have thought of something, and a hint of tenderness flashed across her face: "I'm getting engaged, to Yu Jin."

Zhao Shu forced a smile on her face: "When you get married, can I go to your wedding?"

Xie Jin's voice was gentle but his words chilled people to the bone: "I will send an invitation to the Zhao family. That day is an auspicious day. Your absence will be the greatest blessing for Yu Jin and me."

Zhao Shu couldn't help it. She smiled, but tears kept falling down: "Brother Jin, I will bless you." She nodded vigorously as if she was hypnotizing herself: "Sincerely!"

Xie Jin's Adam's apple rolled slightly: "Yu Jin is a good girl, I want to treat her well, and in the future, when our Xie Mansion sends a message to the Zhao Mansion, you should try not to follow us."

"What happened the other day was all because of my young age and lack of discretion. After all, you and I are not siblings. If we continue to be as close as usual, I'm afraid it will hurt Yu Jin's heart and damage your reputation."

Zhao Shu bit her lips tightly and nodded desperately. Salty tears squeezed into her mouth, tasting bitter. She knew that she would never come to see him again. She would not make his wife sad and would protect her own reputation!

Xie Jin looked at her and said, "Next time you go out at night, bring a few more people with you. But as a girl, it's better not to go out at night." Zhao Shu couldn't hold back her sobs any longer and said, "I, I know."

Xie Jin's eyes flickered in the darkness. He said nothing else. After looking at Zhao Shu for a while, he turned and left.

Watching Xie Jin walk away and getting on the carriage, Zhao Shu's tears kept flowing from the corners of her eyes. She bit her forearm, but sobs still came out of her mouth.

Only after the carriage had gone very far did Zhao Shu put down her arm that was bitten and bleeding. She felt suffocated all over and she kept wiping the tears that kept flowing out with her sleeve.

The driver looked at Zhao Shu half embarrassed and half pitiful. What a thing this Master Xie was. He was so nice to the young lady some time ago, but how come he has changed his mind today and turned against her?
Since that night, Zhao Shu never saw Xie Jin again, and people around her also carefully discovered that the person Xie Jin kept with him changed from Zhao Shu to Wang Yujin.

If some people are confused and worried about this change, there are definitely some people who are happy about it.

Lin Xun was one of those happy people, he was so happy to see this situation. Zhao Shu should have stayed away from Xie Jin a long time ago. They were obviously cousins ​​separated by 98 million miles. There was no blood relationship between them, and the relationship couldn't be more distant. Yet they stayed together all day long. It was really outrageous!
Soon after, an imperial edict arrived at Xie Mansion, and they knew that Xie Jin would soon follow Marquis Xuanping to the battlefield.

Just two days after the imperial edict was issued, another piece of happy news came from the capital. Prince Xie, who was about to go to war in the Duke's Mansion, was engaged to Wang Yujin, the daughter of Wang Qizhan, the Junior Secretary of the Honglu Temple.

The sky was gray and dark clouds were sweeping across the sky little by little.

Ah Ling used a feather duster to sweep the tableware and decorations in the house. She turned her head to look outside and complained, "This weather is quite strange. It was blue and cloudy one second, and it was cloudy the next. It's not going to rain, is it? I just took out the bedding to dry in the sun!"

Zhao Shu sat at the desk, quietly copying the calligraphy.

"Miss, I heard that the engagement party at the Xie Mansion is very lively today." Ah Ling turned around excitedly and looked at her daughter, then said with some regret: "Miss, why don't you go to the engagement party of Master Xie? You and Master Xie are so good friends usually."

Zhao Shu didn't control the strength of her pen well, and a blob of ink spread out on the rice paper. She condensed the black mist, put the pen on the pen holder, tore off the wasted rice paper and threw it into the trash can, then spread out a new piece of rice paper and started writing.

Ah Ling felt that her daughter was acting strange. Ever since Master Xie got engaged, she saw her daughter coming back from outside the yard several nights when she got up at night. She didn’t know where the daughter had gone in the middle of the night. Anyway, she was acting strange!

(End of this chapter)