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Chapter 712: 712: Unintentionally Planting Willows (2)
Chapter 712: 712: Unintentionally Planting Willows (2)
Chapter 712: Chapter 712: Unintentionally Planting Willows (2)
She never expected Di Xuan to make such a move, and she was dumbfounded for a while, completely at a loss.
It wasn’t until Di Xuan put the tree leaf into her hand and clenched her fingers that she felt the coolness coming from the palm of her hand.
“This is the leaf I used to blow just now, taken from the willow tree by the doorway. If you like it, you can pick your own when your eyes are better.”
As he spoke, he withdrew his hand and casually sat down on the stone steps, picking up another willow leaf and playing it again.
He sighed in his heart, unable to resist sinking into memories.
Elder Mr. Xu originally doted on him a lot, but his father barely escaped death initially, and in order not to involve others, he had to leave the village school. Now he wonders if he would still be sitting in the classroom, listening to the teacher’s lectures and happily going home after class if he hadn’t left.
A bitter taste curled up at the corners of his mouth, but alas, everything was over, and time always moves forward without turning back.
Thirteenth Luo was still lost for a while, listening to the faint music in her ears, her whole body seemed to still have the lingering warmth left by Di Xuan’s little hands. She was completely lost, her body temperature still rising, her muscles tense, making it almost impossible for her to move.
No, isn’t Di Xuan still a child?
He’s a child, so he doesn’t understand the propriety between men and women, but she’s two years older than him, how can she be confused by this unintentional touch?
With that, she calmed down and carefully felt her way to sit on the stone steps, listening attentively to the music played by the tree leaves.
The melody ended, and Di Xuan didn’t say anything for a long time. It was Thirteenth Luo who opened her mouth first.
“Your honorable teacher must have treated you very well, right? Otherwise, why would he teach you this piece?”
Thirteenth Luo whispered, unable to resist stretching out her hand to gently stroke the edge of the willow leaf, sinking into memories.
In fact, she once had such an honorable teacher…
As she recalled, Di Xuan asked her several questions in a row, but she didn’t answer.
“Hey! I said, Prefecture Princess Luo, didn’t you hear what I said?”
“Um, what did you say just now?”
Thirteenth Luo’s ears burned again, what’s wrong with her? Why is she always distracted?
Knowing that she couldn’t see, Di Xuan couldn’t help but roll his eyes: “I’m asking you, where are the maids by your side? You can’t see with your eyes, so how come you can walk so far away and they’re not beside you to take care of you?”
“They… have been taking care of me all day, so they’re tired. That’s why I let them go and rest.”
The corners of Thirteenth Luo’s mouth revealed a bitter smile, which flickered and disappeared in an instant.
However, it was just caught by Di Xuan, who recalled the various rumors about Prefecture Princess Luo, and the knots in Di Xuan’s heart somehow dissipated a lot.
He quickly reassured Thirteenth Luo, “They are just maids, if they don’t listen to the master, you have to punish them severely. In time, they will naturally listen to you.”
Thirteenth Luo was stunned for a moment, and then chuckled.
“It’s not as simple as you think… The Princess Consort isn’t my birth mother, and my father… He doesn’t care about the affairs of the inner courtyard. So, since I was very young, I have learned to take care of myself. There are many dirty things in the wealthy family, you are lucky to have met a good stepmother…”
Di Xuan was silent for quite a while before he asked softly, “They say… the reason your eyes went blind is because someone deliberately put poison in the smoke. Is it true?”
The smile on Thirteenth Luo’s face disappeared.
A few married women passing by the Di Family’s courtyard looked at her from a distance and whispered to each other.
“Do you think the Di family’s new bride is not right? Her gaze is so straight, and she looks so foolish. Could it be because a high fever turned her into an idiot?”
“Don’t you know, this new wife of Di Yelei isn’t like any ordinary person. I heard that she had something going on with Businessman Zhang from the city… Anyway, she failed to escape marriage and jumped into the river on her wedding night. She ended up like this because of the cold she caught while having a high fever.”
“If you ask me, what’s the use of keeping such a shameless daughter-in-law? Better just tie her up and sell her to the brothel to save on medical expenses.”
“Di Yelei is pretty good actually. If it weren’t for his two children, he wouldn’t have married this disaster of a woman back home…”
The chirping in her ears made Liu Sisi gently close her eyes.
She had heard similar gossip over the past few days, but she simply did not pay attention to them!
Others thought she had caught a cold from escaping marriage and falling into the water, staying sick for several days. However, only she knew that she had changed her core by now, and she was no longer the same person.
The original her was just an orphan whose parents had died, grew up with her grandpa in their rural hometown. When she got her first month’s salary after graduating from college, she bought a bottle of red wine to celebrate, but after getting drunk, she woke up as this Liu Sisi, who had attempted to escape her wedding and drowned in an accident.
The gossip from a few married women suddenly woke up her idle thoughts, and she realized that she had forgotten about the big problem waiting for her!
A hurried footsteps were heard, and soon, a big man appeared before her eyes.
Di Yelei had just come back from the old house, and with a belly full of idle anger, he felt suffocated and irritable when he thought about his sickly wife lying in bed.
His biological mother passed away as soon as he was born, and tragedy struck his betrothed wife before their marriage. Years later, he finally found a new wife. Just when their lives were starting to improve, she had a fall and died, leaving him with two children and a mountain of debt.
Initially, Aunt Zhang had persuaded him, thinking about his young children, and hearing the matchmaker talking up the bride’s beauty and abilities. He gritted his teeth and agreed to the marriage, but in the end, it turned out like this.
Di Xuan got anxious, it seemed that he heard a strange sound, and hurriedly reached out to help.
Thirteenth Luo let out a scream, tears falling from her eyes.
“Ah! It hurts! Don’t move, I beg you not to move me! My foot is twisted.”
“Your foot is twisted? Ah! How did you get hurt, can you still walk?”
Di Xuan was clearly frightened, his hands were all over the place, wanting to help her but was deterred by Thirteenth Luo’s scream again.
“Ouch! What are you doing, you scared me to death.”
Thirteenth Luo was really frightened by his roar, her ankle was twisted, and it was really raining when the roof leaked!
“How are you? Prefecture Princess Luo, are you alright?”
Di Xuan was also panicked, looking at Thirteenth Luo, whose facial features were all wrinkled in pain, and he simply didn’t know what to do.
“Nonsense! You try it out. Gah, don’t let go, my foot, my foot! It hurts so much.”
Thirteenth Luo wanted to be tough, but the severe pain in her foot made her unable to move. Especially with her eyes being unable to see, she was even more unable to move and could only cling to Di Xuan, fearing that he would abandon her.
Even if she didn’t say it, Di Xuan wouldn’t dare to let go!
He anxiously looked around, but not a single person in the courtyard. He wanted to yell, but suddenly remembered that Xue Lan, who was originally following him, was called to serve Ying’Er and calling anyone else seemed useless.
“Bear with it, I’ll carry you into the room first, then go find a doctor, okay?”
Thirteenth Luo was already sweating in pain, and she could hardly understand the meaning of the words, so she nodded instinctively.