Priceless: A widow with a baby asks the prince to marry again

The group played with mud for a whole day. The bottle-making master had already made the customized bottle blanks and took them out to dry. He also took out the completed works of several people, some of which were horrible or meticulously crafted, and hung them out to dry, so that they would be fired together when the kiln was opened.

It was already dusk when he returned to Xingzhou City, and the backlog of tasks suddenly piled up in front of Chu Shiyu.

"Your Majesty, the villages and towns north of Xingzhou City are planned to be rebuilt, but the people there are almost bankrupt. We hope that the government will allocate funds to help them. Do you think we should help? And how will we help?"

"In addition, the emperor sent a verbal order praising you for turning the tide and minimizing the losses caused by the second dam breach. He also said that he will reward you for your merits after you return to Beijing after the disaster relief work is completed!"

"My lord..."

"Let's talk after I have my meal." Chu Shiyu shook his sleeves and walked towards the prepared seats with Liu Rusi and others.

Liu Rusi whispered to Sun Zhizhao, "If it's urgent, just say it. If it's not urgent, put it aside for now."

Sun Zhizhao smiled awkwardly and retreated first. He was not in a hurry, but he had a lot of trivial things to do, and some of them had to be reported to the prince.

The next morning after playing in the mud, Liu Rusi had to busy herself with her own business and prepare the supplies in the medical box.

However, in order to prevent Chu Shiyu from being idle again, she chose to assign Caiyun and Yang Xuefei to help her complete the things that needed to be done outside, such as finding the right gauze and cotton, etc.

As she expected, Chu Shiyu was very reliable and sent guards to go shopping with the two girls. He stayed in the government office and could handle any matters immediately.

Liu Rusi watched him arrange everything properly and sighed inwardly. He had good abilities and a good character, and he had the status to influence state affairs. He would definitely make Daxia more powerful. But now he was indulging in love and putting the affairs of the country in a secondary position.

The two girls quickly bought the things and Liu Rusi took them and went into the kitchen.

"Let the servants do it, don't do it. What if you get burned?" Chu Shiyu frowned and stopped her from making a fire to boil water. He followed Liu Rusi in and objected to her wanting to disinfect the gauze and cotton balls with high temperature by herself.

"The servant may not know what to do. I am good at making fire and boiling water. I won't get burned." Liu Rusi smiled and went to get the flint beside the stove.

Chu Shiyu took the flint first, took the seat in front of the stove and said, "Let me do it. You taught me how to make a fire before. Just teach me how to cook."

"No need. You go and take care of the disaster relief work outside. I can handle these things on my own." Liu Rusi tried to persuade Chu Shiyu to leave.

Chu Shiyu ignored her words, lit the fire, turned around and asked, "What should we do next?"

Liu Rusi was speechless for a while, then decided to have a serious talk with him, and adopted a more serious attitude: "Everyone has his own things to do. Little Qinhao is studying on his own now, and Xuefei is also teaching Caiyun to read. You should go and fulfill your responsibilities."

She was so serious that Chu Shiyu could only answer directly: "Everything that needs to be arranged has been arranged and handed over to the people below to execute. If there is an emergency, they will come to you immediately. You don't need to worry about these."

What he said seemed to make sense. She had not participated in it and did not know how to refute it. She could only say more bluntly: "You can't be around me all day and take away all my work. I don't want to be idle all day and be a useless person."

Chu Shiyu was silent for a while. He really wanted to help her do everything, but he couldn't say that: "It's just that I don't want you to do these rough jobs. You must finish them. I'll help you."

Liu Rusi was not moved by the words and could not help but feel a little annoyed. She said angrily, "Chu Shiyu, have you forgotten that I am a peasant woman who can make fire and chop wood and go up the mountain and down the field?"

Chu Shiyu was still upset about the sentence "You deserve better" yesterday, and the word "peasant woman" directly ignited him! Ruifeng looked at Liu Rusi with anger in his eyes for the first time!

"That was in the past! From the day I brought you out, I could no longer let you go up and down the mountain to make fire and chop wood! You are no longer a peasant woman!"

Liu Rusi did not back off either. She looked directly at his dissatisfaction and asked, "I was born in a peasant family and married to a peasant named Qin Lie. If I am not a peasant woman, who am I?!"

The conflict that the two had tacitly avoided for a long time was brought to the surface by Liu Rusi!

Chu Shiyu paused for a moment. He regretted not controlling his temper. This problem was far from being solved.

He softened his tone and tried to push the issue back: "No matter what, you don't have to do the hard work. I've heard Qin Hao and Caiyun say that... you haven't done these things before."

He avoided talking about the past between Qin Lie and her, but Liu Rusi never avoided it and did not intend to let it go: "Qin Lie is Qin Lie, and you are Chu Shiyu. Just because he doesn't allow me to do something doesn't mean you can do it too!"

The deep-seated resentment and jealousy were stimulated and almost made him explode, but Chu Shiyu knew that if he argued about this issue now, he would only bring shame upon himself and even bring the relationship that he had finally managed to get along with back to square one.

After taking a few breaths, he chuckled and said as if he was making a fuss, "If I don't let you into the kitchen, how are you going to light the fire and boil water? You won't be allowed to get the hoe or the axe."

Are you going to force me to do this again? Liu Rusi asked angrily, "Didn't you say before that you would respect my ideas?!"

"I also said that your safety issue cannot be changed." Chu Shiyu said in a gentle manner.

"How does this have anything to do with safety?" Liu Rusi found it unbelievable.

Chu Shiyu said seriously, "Let's talk about going up the mountain first. The mountain road is rugged and there are sometimes wild beasts. Then when we go down to the fields and chop wood, we may get hurt by the tools if we are not careful. It will be bad if we hurt our main blood vessels. Finally, when we light a fire, it is common to get burned or scalded."

Liu Rusi looked at him speechlessly. She could continue to refute his twisted logic, but even if she won the debate, it would not change the fact that he could unreasonably restrict her behavior...

She knew early on that he would only give her freedom within a certain range. But she didn't expect that as his desire for control grew, this range would shrink!

She didn't have to do those heavy jobs, but these currently represented her ability to survive independently. Chu Shiyu was depriving her of her independence and trying to transform her into a vine that depended on him!

Liu Rusi tried to argue one last time: "I could choke to death while eating, why don't you forbid me to eat?"

"But if you don't eat, you will starve to death. This is something you have to do. It's different." The more he spoke, the softer his tone became.

She was speechless, and suddenly walked around him, opened the lid of the pot that was already making a gurgling sound, picked up the prepared gauze and threw it into the pot.

Chu Shiyu reacted and immediately stepped forward to push her aside and said, "You tell me how to do it, and I'll do it."

Chu Shiyu directly occupied the position in front of the stove and didn't let her get close. He used practical actions to show that if Liu Rusi didn't tell him what to do, then the two of them couldn't do anything!

"Are you sick?" Liu Rusi cursed weakly.

Unexpectedly, Chu Shiyu answered seriously: "Maybe I hurt my brain when you rescued me, and you didn't cure me."

Liu Rusi was dumbfounded and speechless for a while. She asked seriously: "So you also know that it is abnormal for you to be like this now?"

After thinking for a while, Chu Shiyu confessed: "I know I'm not normal, but I feel good."

"What's good about it?" Liu Rusi couldn't understand.

He looked at her quietly for a long time, his pair of phoenix eyes reflecting her outline, and he said seriously: "If it were the old me, I would never believe my current state. But I clearly understand what I am doing, what I want, and what my emotions are based on, even though they come too quickly and too strongly."

He was soberly watching himself sink step by step. Beauty, meticulousness, perseverance, intelligence... Every time he discovered a trait in her, he sank a step further.

Although each step is huge, what's wrong with that? If you understand your feelings earlier, you can make up your mind earlier, so as not to hesitate and miss the possible opportunity.

“It feels good to do your best for what you love.”

Liu Rusi didn't know what to say. She had already looked away when his eyes showed deep affection. She couldn't bear it...

"You said yesterday that I deserved better..."

Chu Shiyu finally couldn't help but refute this: "There is no better, I'm sure."

Liu Rusi lowered her head and said nothing.

Silent for a long time.

She walked silently to the side, took out the prepared drawer, pointed to the colander next to it and said, "Use that to scoop the gauze into the drawer and spread it as flat as possible. We will put it on the stove to dry later."

Chu Shiyu narrowed his eyes and looked at her. Wasn't he going to give her any response at all?

But it’s okay, at least she didn’t give a bad response... While thinking, he followed her instructions.

The two of them stayed in the kitchen for most of the day, preparing all the gauze and cotton balls that could be used, packing them in portions, and then putting them into the medical box.

Looking at the perfect first layer, Liu Rusi felt relieved, and then said to Chu Shiyu: "Can you find some fresh sheep intestines tomorrow?"

"Sheep intestines?" Chu Shiyu's phoenix eyes widened slightly in surprise.

"Well, sheep's small intestines, the fresher the better. I'm going to make thread to sew the wound." Liu Rusi also instructed on some tools and materials.

"Oh..." Chu Shiyu silently wrote down what she wanted.

After leaving the kitchen, Liu Rusi hid back in the house. Seeing this, Chu Shiyu went back to the next room to deal with the accumulated matters.

Liu Rusi was lying on the small couch in a very ungraceful manner. She was the only one in the room. When the rooms were allocated, she chose one room for each person.

Now she has enough trust in Chu Shiyu to feel at ease letting Qin Hao live in a room of his own. If conditions permit, she still hopes to have her own private space.

When the mind is empty, thoughts come to mind.

Chu Shiyu is good in every way, the only bad thing is that he likes her inexplicably... The deeper his feelings are, the more suffocating they are.

He didn't force her to accept him, but he didn't allow her to refuse either.

He was always by her side, and he was always expressing his feelings through his actions, and she couldn't even ignore him.

There is a button with only "yes" in front of you every day. How long can you resist pressing it?

The only thing she can be thankful for now is that she is resting in the room and Chu Shiyu will give her private space...when she is really tired, she can escape for a while.

In fact, if she hadn't met Qin Lie, she might have accepted Chu Shiyu...

But there is no if, she met Qin Lie, and after seven years together, Qin Lie has left a deep impression in her heart.

She couldn't, and didn't want to replace him. Chu Shiyu was very good, but that simple and passionate boy was no worse than anyone else.

A wave of longing surged into her heart again, taking her into a dream.

...

On the busy street, she couldn't hide the joy on her face.

Walking to the side of the road, she picked up her phone to check where the online taxi she had booked was.

Suddenly, she felt someone's arms wrap around her and pick her up! And they were running wildly!

Before she could react, she heard a loud "bang" from behind!

The man holding her turned his head and looked around, then finally stopped, put her down, and gasped in shock.

When she looked back, her scalp went numb and her feet went cold!

A dump truck ran over where she had just been standing! It stopped after knocking down a street lamp!

After coming to her senses, she hurried to look at the person who saved her. He was a tall young man who looked about the same age as her.

She quickly thanked him, "Thank you so much! Without you, I would have been killed!"

"I think you should call the police first." The man said seriously.

She was still a little confused and nodded repeatedly, but when she felt around her body, she realized her phone was missing.

"Use mine. Your phone fell when I was running with you just now." The man handed over the phone and whispered, "I think the dump truck was heading straight for you just now. I felt it was going to hit you, so I suddenly ran over and took you away."

She suddenly realized that she had just won a multi-million dollar prize, but suddenly she almost encountered a disaster...

She called the police and found out the suspicious direction. The police easily found out the truth: it was one of her colleagues who hired the dump truck driver!

When the accident happened, the colleague was standing nearby, ready to approach immediately as soon as the accident happened, pretending to be someone she knew, and take away her winning lottery ticket...

She guessed it. After all, this colleague was the only one who knew that she had won the prize.

Things happened incredibly quickly. Her colleague was arrested on the same day on charges of endangering public safety and attempted murder.

While she was busy, the man always followed her.

Since he saved her life, she should be thanked. "By the way, I don't know your name yet. My name is Liu Rusi."

The man looked helpless when he heard this, and said with a sigh: "I know your name, my name is Chu Shiyu."

"You... know me?" Liu Rusi asked in surprise.

Chu Shiyu looked embarrassed and helpless, and sighed and said, "I have been writing love letters to you for three years."

...

Liu Rusi shuddered and woke up from her dream with a look of doubt on her face.

What the hell? !

Chu Shiyu wrote love letters to her for three years in modern times? !

What a messed up dream. How could someone have been writing love letters to her for three years and she still didn’t know who it was?

…It seems possible that the final recipient of love letters is a trash can.

But that's not right. After writing love letters for three years, she hasn't come to see him in person? If she looks for him a few more times, she will have an impression of him. After all, a bad impression is still an impression.

This dream is too outrageous!

It must be that she missed modern civilization too much and was reluctant to give up the 10 million. Because Chu Shiyu had been too prominent in front of her recently, she dreamed about him!