Chapter 12 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation

Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Chu Yue wanted him to seize the monk’s weakness as well. But it was not time yet. Over the past month, she had gained an understanding of the monk. He was the type to be won over slowly. If she used any other method, it would only have an adverse effect.

“I will, I have been learning how to massage people lately. It can loosen a person’s muscles and tendons. The master always sits in his room to copy scriptures and recite mantras, so I will massage his shoulders,” Chu Yue said.

The monk could not bear to listen to them anymore beside the wall. He shook his head and returned to his room with a resigned look.

When Eunuch Feng came out of the room, his master had come out with him. ‘Do you truly not know that the master is just one wall behind us, or are you simply pretending that you don’t know?’

However, at the end of the day, the master had to hear her as she tried to curry favor with him.

Eunuch Feng said nothing. He just thought that if the widow entered the palace and became a palace maid, she might actually have a chance to raise her status.

If she could become a noble lady, her ancestors would feel happy too.

As for her status as a widow, who would know about it? Eunuch Feng believed that his master was thinking about this like that as well.

However, she was not worthy of his master being so attentive to her and even talking about her. After all, she was just a widow who cooked.

Chu Yue had indeed been learning how to massage lately. She had even washed the monk’s feet, so massaging him was nothing.

At the end of the day, she would be rewarded for all the effort she put in right now. No one would tell just who would be serving who in the end.

Time flew, and in the blink of an eye, it was the last month of the year.

It had been nearly two months since Chu Yue came to this place.

On this day, she made dried meat with Hupo. She also bought some intestines and spent some money to ask the stall owner to pack it properly, because she intended to make Chinese sausages with it.

The pigs in this era were not castrated, so their taste was rather foul, but Chu Yue had a way to handle them. Once she got rid of the foul smell, she would use dried meat to make the Chinese sausage.

Once she was done, she hung them under the eaves to let the wind dry them.

Hupo did not believe that meat made this way would taste good, but since her mistress said it would, she just needed to follow her instructions.

“Milady, you have been staying for longer periods of time over there. Why is that?” Hupo was bothered by this.

“They pay us a lot every month, and they also give us high-grade golden animal charcoal. It’s fine if I work a little more for them.”

Chu Yue could not just tell her that she had begun staying by the monk’s side. Hence, she could only give an indirect answer.

“Milady, can’t you let me go? I’m already perfectly fine,” Hupo said.

“The master is used to my food, and he doesn’t like food made by others. If you go, you will only annoy him. We might even end up losing this job,” Chu Yue said.

Hupo felt really regretful. She was so useless that she could not even take up the burden of providing for the family. In the end, her mistress’ thin shoulders had to carry this responsibility.

“Let’s go. We’ll see whether we can hunt any wild chickens or wild rabbits,” Chu Yue said.

Hupo was very interested in it. Hence, the master-servant duo grabbed some grain to lure in wildlife. Some sparrows dropped by, but nothing else. However, the master-servant duo was still in a rather good mood. Their laughter was as clear as bells.

When the young nuns from Shangqing Temple came back and saw the master-servant duo play in the snow, they snorted coldly. “Why do they have to come out to seduce men instead of staying in their house?”