Chapter 36 - Request A Master to Teach Me in the Future (1) (1/2)

Ch.36 Request A Master to Teach Me in the Future (1)

Once the crowd dispersed, Zhou Xiaoxiao sat in her neat room and felt very satisfied.

Though the furniture was old, it was rustic and simple. Zhou Xiaoxiao rubbed the cracks and holes that had been formed from the nibbling bugs over the years on the wooden tables and chairs. Instead of finding them disgusting, she found them very interesting.

Facing the streets were windows on the upper floor. As she opened them, the noisy bustle from the crowd poured in.

Zhou Xiaoxiao didn’t find the noise bothersome at all. She sat on the chair by the window and poured herself a simple cup of tea, enjoying it to the sounds below.

Now this is the type of atmosphere, she thought, that could allow her a serious life, save from all the sadness and injury, this will also help make her up from her dreams.

At night, Aunt Wu and her husband were talking in their room.

“This Miss Zhou is quite a wonderful girl despite her young age. Despite being in the general’s prosperous mansion, she did not seem the least bit timid. She was able to get along perfectly well with the madam like they were sisters!” Aunt Wu was doing her needlework under the lamp, “I had a careful look at here now that she’s come to our run-down house, but she didn’t complain in the slightest. Instead, she looks even more content.”

Her husband was busy grinding ginseng with his stone roller and did not respond.

Aunt Wu seemed to already be used to this, and continued on by herself, “I figured that she was quite pitiful, being by herself without her parents, nor was she willing to become the Fifth Master’s concubine. It is difficult for her too in the general’s residence, and since she wanted to rent a house, we might as well let her stay in ours. We can also watch after her here.”

“Since she saved the Fifth Master, we can take this as a favor paid back to the old lord duke by taking care of her. So why should you charge her the rent?”

“Now, don’t be angry. Did you know? This Miss Zhou may look gentle, but she is quite proud in her bones. She would not have come if I did not accept rent. When I first saw her, she was so heavily injured, and yet I saw not a tear in her eye. She even smiled at me!” Aunt Wu stopped her needlework and suddenly recalled the past. “If our own daughter had not been taken away that year, she must be as big as she is now. I figured she would add on to the liveliness of the house if she moved in, the emptiness with just us and Old Chen, three old people, is actually quite sad.”

Wu Daoquan put away his medicine grinder and coughed. “She can stay if she wants, what are you bringing up the past for?”