Soft and crispy waist

Xia Zheng lay in bed for five days. The court doctor used the best medicine available, so she didn't feel much pain. However, she couldn't take a bath in the hot summer and could only wipe herself with a wet towel, which was really uncomfortable. She also couldn't go to serve Gu Yizi, so she kept putting it off.

Tao Yurong was so anxious that she sent good medicine for the wound and supplements every other day. She also scolded Wei Qingqing and urged her to compensate Xia Zheng.

Wei Qingqing was already upset because she was under house arrest again, and didn't want to listen to those annoying words anymore, so she waved her hand and gave Xia Zheng five hundred taels.

Tao Yurong also decided to give her the monthly salary that was withheld from the old women who beat her.

In total, she earned five hundred and forty-six taels of silver for this beating, a number she had never seen in her previous life.

She gave fifty taels of silver to Cook Yang and asked her to collect information for her nephew, no matter how big or small, as long as it was from the mansion, and tell her everything she heard.

She couldn't communicate with the people in Soseki Residence with money, but she couldn't rely on the information she occasionally came across. It was too random and too passive, so she needed someone to be her eyes and ears.

Cook Yang and her nephew were already tied to her, whether they liked it or not, so they would not and could not hide it from her.

However, Chef Yang's nephew was of low status, and the information he could find out was mostly superficial.

For example, the concubine of the Xue family is ready for marriage, and the Duke's Mansion has been busy decorating with lights and lanterns these days. The bride will be moving into the mansion in five days.

But Gu Yizi seemed to be a person who stayed out of the matter. He moved to the office every day, went to court, was on duty, and returned home to handle official business. He did not have any joy or excitement about being a groom again.

"Is your hand okay?" Gu Yizi asked without even raising his eyes while looking at the document.

Xia Zheng, like a thief who had been caught, lowered her head and said in a muffled voice, "Okay."

I thought that Gu Yizi couldn't hear clearly, but he put down the documents in his hand, took a booklet from the antique shelf behind him, walked over to the small table where Xia Zheng practiced calligraphy and put it down.

"Ok, keep practicing. This calligraphy book is suitable for you."

Xia Zheng really couldn't lift the pen, but now she had to please Gu Yizi, so she had to walk to the small table, pick up the pen, and open the copybook.

When she saw the words on it, she paused.

Horizontal, vertical, left-falling and right-falling strokes... are all strokes.

This is for children's enlightenment.

Seeing her surprise and a hint of anger rising up, but not daring to show it, causing her lips to purse in grievance, Gu Yizi smiled and reached out to hold her hand from behind. His slender fingers corrected her pen-holding posture and said, "If you don't know how to use the pen correctly, practicing will inevitably be strenuous and you won't make any progress. Start from the beginning, practicing each stroke correctly, step by step, to lay the foundation, so that you can write easily."

As he spoke, Gu Yizi's hand guided Xia Zheng's hand to write.

Following his instructions, Xia Zheng wrote with force and lifted the pen. After writing a piece of paper, she felt that she had indeed gained some understanding of the technique. Writing was not so difficult to control, and she was not so frustrated.

"Focus," Gu Yizhi warned in a low voice, switching pages with his other hand. "Practice well, and you'll be able to survive even if you're not at Soseki Residence."

"This servant does not want to leave the young master."

Xia Zheng turned around anxiously, and Gu Yizi was standing behind him. Their eyes met, and they stopped moving for a moment.

When did he tell her to leave?

It was just to give her another way out, but she was so anxious.

Wasn't she just trying to survive? If she had other ways to survive, even without him...

Could it be that she already likes him?

Seeing her anxious and fearful look, her eyes moving under the fluttering eyelashes seemed to be begging, her cherry lips slightly opened, looking soft, I actually had the urge to lean over and get close to her.

"Young Master, the eldest lady of the Wei family is here. The young lady invites you to go to the main hall with her." Changfeng's voice came from outside the door.

The tension between the two of them immediately dissipated. Gu Yizhi let go of his hand and said in a normal tone, "Write it fifty times."

Listening to his tone and his unstoppable steps, Xia Zheng felt a little disappointed, but she also understood that it would not be easy to hook him, so she concentrated on practicing calligraphy to gain his obedience.

It was already Youshi when we sent the eldest lady of the Wei family away. The setting sun cast a dim yellow light on the ground.

This was the first time the couple met since Gu Yizi left Youth Courtyard.

Tao Yurong followed Gu Yizi half a step behind, walking side by side along the Luofeng River. Although they were less than half an arm's length apart, Tao Yurong felt that she could not get any closer, as if they were a natural barrier.

"What do you think of what Madam Xue said?" Gu Yizi asked without slowing down.

"Although it will be a bit rushed, the things have already been prepared. It won't matter if it's two or three days earlier. We can just send someone to the household registration office of the government office to inform them." Tao Yurong said it calmly, but they both knew what the Xue family's purpose was in bringing it up.

It was simply because he heard the news that Xia Zheng was favored, so he rushed to send her in to avoid any further complications.

It’s hard to refuse such a small favor when the wife of the main house comes to visit.

"Thank you for your hard work."

"This is what we should do." Tao Yurong said with a smile, taking a step closer to let Gu Yizi go to her courtyard tonight. Just as she opened her mouth, before she could say anything, Gu Yizi said, "Let's make Xia Zheng a concubine too. It's not proper for a girl from the Xue family to be a concubine after she enters the family."

Tao Yurong's steps froze immediately.

Watching Gu Yizi continue to move forward and further away, my heart sank.

Even though she also planned to make Xia Zheng a concubine after she became pregnant, this way the child's mother's status would not be too low to affect him and her.

But when it came out of Gu Yizi's mouth, she found it hard to accept.

Even if it was against the rules, he was thinking of Xia Zheng after all, otherwise why would he mention it specifically.

"What's wrong?" Gu Yizi stopped and turned sideways.

Tao Yurong shook her head, put on a virtuous smile and followed up, "It's time to carry it, but I just thought, let's wait until the Xue family's sister enters the house and the wedding is over before carrying it, so that the Xue family won't think we are teasing the Xue family's sister."

"You decide."

Tao Yurong nodded and continued to walk forward together. At the same time, Xue Wuyang was looking out anxiously from inside the Xue family's gate.

Seeing Madam Xue's carriage coming in, she immediately lifted the hem of her skirt to greet her, reached out to help Madam Xue out of the carriage, and called her "Mother" obediently.

"What are you waiting for here?" Madam Xue was impatient. She had to rush to the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion for Xue Wuyang. As a concubine's daughter, it would have been her turn to go if Gu Yizi's position as the legal wife had not been lost.

"Mother has worked hard, and your daughter made some food. I want to give it to you to taste."

Seeing her humble attitude and thinking that her cooking skills were indeed good, Madam Xue, who had not had dinner, softened her tone and led her inside. "The Duke's Mansion will probably agree to your early entry. You should prepare well these few days. The firecracker of the Wei family is under house arrest and can't stop you. As long as you win the heart of the young master and have a boy, you will be on the rise. Don't let the Wei family down in cultivating you. Do you understand?"

"Yes, daughter understands." Xue Wuyang blushed and lowered her head shyly, thinking of Gu Yizi's handsome appearance, she wished she could marry him tomorrow.