cold clothes

Qingtan wasn't lying to her. In the following days, none of the customers who served her were pedophiles and didn't touch her inappropriately. However, she did touch the customers inappropriately—that's right, she became a foot-washing maid.

If Lengyi had been asked to wash his feet at first, he might have been very resistant, but after touching Master Xu's penis, his stinky feet didn't seem so disgusting anymore. At the same time, Lengyi armed himself with the idea that labor is the most glorious thing, and couldn't help but sing praises. Ah, correct and great ideas are indeed the guiding light in the dark and gloomy groping.

After washing her feet two or three times, Lengyi learned to do something else proper—massage. Blind massage is the real deal! Lengyi straddled the customer's back—the posture might not be very elegant—her hands rhythmically pressed, rubbed, tapped, and pinched—actually, there wasn't much skill involved. Her older sister told Lengyi that kneading in a certain order was very comfortable, and the customer was indeed easy to fool, unconsciously making seductive sounds—sounding misleading but perfectly legitimate!

Overall, the life of Lengyi's third-class maid was getting brighter and brighter. This had two meanings: her eyes were gradually getting better, the frequency of pain had decreased, she could open half of her eyes after removing the bandages, and the light she could perceive was getting brighter and brighter.

Yin Jiu leaned closer to examine Leng Yi's half-open eyes. Her eyeballs were bloodshot, and her pupils were a deathly green. She whispered, "Really ugly."

Leng Yi was annoyed. "Hey, why are you so close? You have bad breath!"

Yin Jiu choked, then quickly retorted, "I didn't!"

"Hmph, just smell it yourself and you'll know," Leng Yi said, followed by the expected sound of her breathing. Leng Yi clutched her stomach and laughed uncontrollably.

"It clearly has no taste..." Yin Jiu said dejectedly. Seeing Leng Yi's expression, he knew she was playing a trick on him. He should have been angry, but he laughed along with Leng Yi.

Leng Yi lay down on the bed, "Ah... massage is so tiring, and Zhuoyu Pavilion is so far away, I don't want to walk back." Studying during the day and working at night, staying up late and getting up early, is like a high school senior who is about to take the college entrance exam and still has to do part-time work. She's going to die of exhaustion soon.

Yin Jiu lay down next to her, saying, "Stop it, let's go. I've been losing two hours of sleep lately because of you."

"Hey—you're asleep so early?" Leng Yi was filled with jealousy and rolled around on the bed in resentment: "I'm not leaving! I'm not leaving!"

The bed creaked and groaned from the cold clothes, and Yin Jiu rolled her eyes in exasperation amidst the upheaval. "You don't look tired at all. You were just slacking off during the massage, weren't you?"

"You question my work ability?" The office worker's pride was ignited. Leng Yi rolled forcefully towards Yin Jiu from the other side of the bed, unable to stop herself and falling on top of Yin Jiu. Yin Jiu immediately felt like her lungs were about to burst, but Leng Yi was completely unaware. After sitting up, she raised her stubborn chin and shouted, "Then let me show you my skills!"

"..." Yin Jiu, who was seriously injured, had a blank look in her eyes, like a dead fish.

After not hearing Yin Jiu's voice for a long time, Leng Yi gently patted Yin Jiu's stomach to make him speak—Leng Yi thought it was his stomach.

Yin Jiu didn't know what expression or tone to use. He looked at Leng Yi, who was above him, and asked, "Do you know you're riding on me right now?"

“I know,” Leng Yi replied immediately, then tilted her head innocently: “Then shall I come down and let you take off your clothes?”

Doctor Xie and Qing Tan, who were peeping from outside the door, blushed furiously. After a couple of seconds of stunned silence, Qing Tan wanted to rush in and separate the two, but Doctor Xie stopped her. Doctor Xie swiftly covered Qing Tan's mouth with one hand and restrained her hands with the other. He used one foot to stabilize his center of gravity and the other foot to wrap around Qing Tan's foot, instantly rendering Qing Tan unable to move.

Qingtan spoke with her eyes: Miss Ningbi and the little pageboy must not get involved!

Dr. Xie replied with his eyes: My nephew knows what he's doing, so don't cause trouble.

"Take off...take off your clothes?" Yin Jiu's face turned as red as a steamed egg. "What are you saying?!"

"I'll show you my true skills!" Leng Yi casually climbed off Yin Jiu's waist, then clenched his fist like a protagonist in a shonen manga. Although his eyes were covered and he couldn't show his determined gaze, the U-shaped corners of his mouth still had a lot of dramatic tension.

Yin Jiu frowned, squinted, and opened her mouth, displaying a rich array of expressions: disbelief mixed with idiocy. Her language was fragmented with shock: "Real skill? You made me take off my clothes, you..."

"Of course you have to take off your clothes for a massage. How can I give you a massage when you're wearing winter clothes?"

"I don't need you to give me a massage!"

"Enough talk! I'm going to prove myself!"

"..."

"I'll go tell Aunt Fang that I'll be sleeping at the herbal medicine shop tonight, and you can sleep in the snow."

"..." Just take it off, why talk about chastity with a blind fool.

Yin Jiu felt extremely ashamed, but his body honestly undressed. Leng Yi looked at him without looking to the side, giving him the illusion that Leng Yi could see him.

"You can't possibly see this, can you?"

"No."

"I always feel like there are eyes watching me..." Yin Jiu muttered, her eyes inadvertently glancing at the door, where there was a crack and four eyes through it.

Stripped down to only her undergarments, Yin Jiu wished she could disappear into the ground. "...Someone's here! Aunt Fang and Qing Tan are watching!"

"Oh, that's perfect, they're the witnesses!" Leng Yi said excitedly.

"Don't you have any shame?" Yin Jiu roared in embarrassment and anger.

Qingtan, who was outside the door, finally couldn't bear it any longer and rushed in to drag Leng Yi off the bed: "Miss Ningbi should go back!"

"Hey, hey, but I..." Qingtan's strength was terrifying, and she carried Princess Lengyi out.

A few minutes later--

Qingtan held an umbrella in one hand and Lengyi's hand in the other, walking slowly. Lengyi carried a large lantern, and the umbrella was tilted towards her.

Leng Yi sighed regretfully, "It's such a pity I didn't give Yin Jiu a massage."

"Aren't you ashamed?" Qingtan thought to herself, and said, "Miss Ningbi should keep her distance from the young medicine boy. There is a difference between men and women."

"Huh? We're only ten years old, what's the difference between boys and girls? To me, he's like one of the little sisters in the Jade Pavilion," Leng Yi said, pursing her lips.

"But outsiders saw it..."

"There are very few people in the herbal medicine hall. As long as Qingtan doesn't tell anyone, who would know?" Lengyi said in a low voice.

"And you shouldn't interfere with my having fun."

"Fun?"

“Yeah, teasing him like a cat or a dog is much more fun than smashing bottles and jars, isn’t it?” Leng Yi revealed a wicked smile. She felt a lot of pressure and needed to vent it. When customers came to Fengxiang Pavilion to seek pleasure, she could also find some fun to do.

Inside the herbal medicine hall, Yin Jiu dressed with her face alternating between red and black. Doctor Xie, who was standing to the side, couldn't help but tease her, saying, "She looks like a wronged woman who has been taken advantage of by a rogue."

"Isn't she just a female hooligan?" Yin Jiu's words were indeed full of resentment.

Dr. Xie smiled with relief, "Are you happy?"

Yin Jiu didn't answer immediately. He lowered his eyes, dressed himself, and tidied himself up. The thick, rough servant's winter clothes were made to look like a nobleman's gorgeous and elegant brocade robe. The fine snow fell softly and silently outside the window, and the young man's pure black eyes were as lonely as the snowy night.

The wind suddenly blew the snow around as if in jest, and a relaxed smile appeared on the lips of the boy with pure black eyes.

"Yes, it is indeed a pleasure to be a guest at Fengxianglou."