Chapter 32 (1/2)

Chapter 32: Official, Too Warmhearted

TL Chiyomira

ED Sonia

Song Liang Zhuo saw Xiao Qi off at the soup kitchen and exhorted Shan Zi and Lu Liu a bit. Cai Yun who was busying at the side wanted to go up to greet good morning but was interrupted by a person at the side. When she put down the things she was working on and wanted to head over again, Song Liang Zhuo had already gotten on the carriage and left.

Cai Yun for the most part knew that this is because the people of the Qian family didn’t want her to come in contact with Song Liang Zhuo. From the moment she entered Qian fu, she didn’t have the opportunity to exchange a single word with Song Liang Zhuo. During the day Song Liang Zhuo is not in Qian fu, at night when he got to Qian fu, if he was not in the main courtyard then he was at Xiao Qi’s courtyard. That way, she also didn’t have the opportunity to encounter him. With great difficulty she finally convinced Xiao Qi to also allow her to come along and give out porridge, yet every morning she was kept apart from them.

Cai Yun looked towards Xiao Qi who had picked up a ladle and was starting to portion out meals, her gaze containing quite a bit of resentment. Lu Liu who was giving out steamed buns based on height and age laughed and said: “Lady Cai Yun, our family’s guye has already said that he will only have our family’s Miss as his only wife. Lady Cai Yun, what do you think, isn’t our family’s guye and Miss a great match?”

Cai Yun silently portioned out the salted vegetables and nodded without a sound.

“Lady Cai Yun, our family’s guye also treats our family’s Miss extremely well. Lady Cai Yun probably doesn’t know, but every day early in the morning guye would buy breakfast for Miss and stand at the door waiting for her before heading here together.”

Lu Liu glanced at Cai Yun who had her head hung and smiled: “In my opinion, though our family’s Miss is a bit dumb in regards to emotions, but as long as there’s guye to dote on her, there also won’t be any instances of taking concubines.”

Lu Liu’s eyes looked towards Cai Yun with hardly concealed envy and said quietly: “Lady Cai Yun, with your looks you’ll definitely be able to find someone like guye, who will only guard lady Cai Yun his entire life.”

Cai Yun looked at Lu Liu and mumbled: “I don’t have any inappropriate intentions, da ren, he……”

“Oh.” Lu Liu suddenly said: “Guye said that in a while he’ll take my family’s Miss back to his home to see his parents. I don’t know whether they’ll come back after that.”

“R-really?”

Fake, but why should I tell you? Lu Liu silently thought.

“Really ah.” Lu Liu was all smiles as she looked at Cai Yun: “Does lady Cai Yun like Advisor Lu? He’s still single, his house doesn’t have parents that you need to attend to, and he even has rather big residence. Not to mention he’s an advisor and his appearance is pretty good looking. He’s such a good man. Lady Cai Yun is so beautiful, you definitely have the ability to eliminate all the over girls and in one stroke seize Advisor Lu’s fluttering heart!”

Cai Yun’s face immediately flushed red and she frowned as she said: “Lady Lu Liu, please don’t say these kinds of things again.”

“Ah, what is lady Cai Yun embarra.s.sed for!” Lu Liu looked at Lu Li Cheng who was not far away leading an old doctor towards this direction and lifted her hand to wave widely at him while loudly calling: “Advisor Lu, over here, over here ya.”

Lu Liu threw the steamed buns back into the case for Shan Zi to continue distributing and jogged a few steps to Lu Li Cheng to say: “Advisor Lu, lady Cai Yun was just thinking about you.”

Lu Liu returned and took the chopsticks from Cai Yun’s hands and nudged her: “Weren’t you like that just then? I’ll help distribute the pickled vegetables, lady should go and chat with the advisor for a while.”

Cai Yun’s embarra.s.sed eyes were almost about to cry. She lowered her head and bit her lips, standing next to Lu Li Cheng without moving an inch. Xiao Qi turned her head around and saw Lu Li Cheng, then saw Cai Yun whose face was red and ambiguously shot Lu Li Cheng a wink before concentrating on ladling the porridge again.

Lu Li Cheng failed to understand what was going on and looked to Cai Yun who had her head helplessly drooped and warmly asked: “Does lady Cai Yun need something?”

Cai Yun hurriedly shook her head.

“Oh, then Lu will……”

“Advisor Lu.” Cai Yun didn’t wait for him to finish and suddenly raised her head to ask: “Advisor Lu, is da ren bringing Madam back to his home? They won’t return anymore?”

Lu Liu who was eavesdropping the entire time shot a wink at Lu Li Cheng. Lu Li Cheng frowned and slightly paused for a moment before saying: “I heard da ren talk about it before, he probably does have such plans.”

Cai Yun’s gaze turned a bit gloomy. She nodded then walked back to continue helping.

Lu Li Cheng didn’t know what had just occurred but roughly knew that it had something to do with Song Liang Zhuo and just helplessly shook his head.

Xiao Qi swiftly finished distributing the porridge and with two three steps, skipped to Lu Li Cheng’s side. Smiling, she asked: “Big Brother Lu isn’t with Official Song?”

“There was a reply from the higher ups, da ren has returned to the government office.”

“They’re giving money now?” Xiao Qi’s eyes widened with pleasant surprise.

Lu Li Cheng smiled: “We didn’t expect there would be a reply so soon. Apparently they had already set aside money before the flood had occurred.”

“Once they give it then everything’ll be alright.” Xiao Qi blinked as she looked at the old doctor behind Lu Li Cheng and slightly tilted her head: “Someone’s sick?”

“There’s someone with a fever, afraid it might be malaria.”

Xiao Qi hurriedly got out of the way and said: “Then you should hurry over, do you want me to boil some medicinal tea for everyone to drink?”

Lu Li Cheng looked towards the old doctor. The doctor hurriedly replied: “Currently there’s no need. If Madam has time you could prepare some mugwort.”

“Mugwort? That’s pretty easy to find!”

The three turned around simultaneously, looking towards the person that spoke each of their expression were different. Xiao Qi opened her mouth first: “What is w.a.n.g gongzi doing here?”

Chen Zi Gong looked at Xiao Qi and was stunned for a moment, then smiling, he said: “Is this Qian Qi, little Qian gongzi?”

Xiao Qi looked at her female outfit, wrinkled her nose and nodded.

Lu Li Cheng carefully sized up Chen Zi Gong. Although he could see that Xiao Qi was quite familiar with him, but upon noticing that his gaze had been on Xiao Qi the entire time, Lu Li Cheng still faintly knitted his brows.

“Wonder where w.a.n.g gongzi is from? I don’t seem to have seen w.a.n.g gongzi before.”

“Oh,” Chen Zi Gong moved his gaze away from Xiao Qi and said: “I’m from Beijing and came to Tongxu to sightsee. Unfortunately, it was right in time for the flood.”

Lu Li Cheng nodded and said to Xiao Qi: “Da ren will still come back. Will Madam wait or directly head back to the fu?”