The Abandoned Wife’s Rebirth - Chap 61
There’s a footnote for the meaning of the title.
Wu Ruo lifted up the blankets: “Hurry.”
Hei Xuanyi hesitated for a moment, then he sat up: “Take off your pants.”
“…” A black line slid down from Wu Ruo’s forehead: “There’s a thread on the needle, you can pull it out even without me taking off my pants.”
Hei Xuanyi walked over to Wu Ruo’s other side. Even in the darkness, it was still possible to see a thread hanging from his white underpantswith one glance.
Wu Ruo anxiously asked: “Do you see it?”
Hei Xuanyi’s gaze flickered slightly: “No.”
“No?” Wu Ruo was gloomy: “Then go light a candle, with the candlelight it should be easier to see.”
“No need.”
“If you don’t light a candle, how are you going to find it?”
Hei Xuanyi didn’t say anything, but his hand ended up on Wu Ruo’s ass.
“!!!!!” Wu Ruo’s eyes widened with shock: “What are you doing?”
Hei Xuanyi smirked: “Finding the needle.”
Wu Ruo was just about to object to this method of finding the needle when the person behind him touched the spot that had been stabbed: “There, there, it’s right there.”
“Here?” Hei Xuanyi deliberately shifted away from it.
“No, further up a little.”
Hei Xuanyi’s hand moved a fewcuntowards his waist.
“You’re moving to the left that way, not moving up. I’m lying on my side right now, moving upwards means you should be moving here towards my upper thigh.” Wu Ruo said, flustered and exasperated: “Hei Xuanyi, if you can’t see, then hurry and light a candle.”
The amusement in Hei Xuanyi’s gaze thickened. He seized the chance while Wu Ruo hadn’t gotten angry yet, and plucked the needle and thread out. After that, he saw that there were black shadows attached to the thread: “What’s this?”
Wu Ruo hurriedly turned around and snatched the money pouch back, stuffing it under his pillow: “Nothing.”
Actually, this was the gift that he wanted to give to Hei Xuanyi. To make it special, as well as to express his own sincerity, he had decided to make it by hand himself.
Hei Xuanyi saw that he was unwilling to talk about it, so he didn’t probe any further. He simply undid Wu Ruo’s underpants.
Wu Ruo was startled, fumbling to hold onto the hem of his own underpants, and he said angrily: “What did you take my pants off for?”
Hei Xuanyi said plainly: “Apply medicine.”
Wu Ruo hurriedly refused: “There’s no need, the injury isn’t big at all. There’s no need to apply medicine.”
Anyway, the injury was so tiny, how would he even find where it was?
“You’re sure?”
Wu Ruo gritted his teeth and said: “I’m very sure.”
Hei Xuanyi didn’t insist any further.
Wu Ruo breathed a sigh of relief, adjusting the blankets around his body properly, and closed his eyes to sleep. Yet, he didn’t see that the corner of the man’s lips had curved into a perfect arc.
The next day, atmaoshi, Hei Xuanyi woke up punctually and headed towards the main hall before Wu Ruo to wait for breakfast.
Not long after, Nu Mu also arrived at the main hall.
“Little Hei, New Year’s is almost here. I have to hurry back to the Shaman clan to spend the new year.”
Hei Xuanyi frowned: “When will you leave?”
“Today, I want to go and buy some medicinal ingredients; I’ll leave tomorrow morning.”
“Need me to get people to escort you back?”
“There’s no need for such a fuss.” Nu Mu took out a piece of paper, and placed it in front of Hei Xuanyi: “From today, every night before you go to sleep, force out theguparasites inXiao-Ruo’s body according to the steps that I’ve written here.”
Hei Xuanyi picked up the piece of paper, and read it meticulously.
“After theguparasite is out, you must burn it with fire, so that it doesn’t get the opportunity to make its way into someone else’s body.”
When Hei Xin, who had been standing quietly to one side, heard this, his gaze flickered, and he asked: “So you’re saying, when one is forcing theguparasite out, the clothes on the body must all be taken off, otherwise, there’s no way to know where it’ll come out from.”
As he said this, he kept staring at Nu Mu and blinking his eyes.
Nu Mu’s expression froze for a second, then he very quickly understood what Hei Xin was trying to do. He said, smiling: “That’s right, theguparasite might come out from a random part of the body. When the time comes, you must look carefully. If it finds its way back intoXiao-Ruo’s body, it would be a waste of our efforts, and a waste of Little Hei’s spiritual energy.”
Hei Xin beamed.
“Hn.” Hei Xuanyi, who was focused on reading the contents of the paper, hadn’t noticed the looks exchanged by the other two.
“What are all of you talking about?” Wu Ruo was helped into the main hall by Shi Yuan and Shi Yi.
Nu Mu was aware that Wu Ruo, who was well versed in the medical arts, would not be as easy to trick as Hei Xuanyi. So naturally, Nu Mu didn’t tell him about needing to get naked to force theguparasite out: “I was telling Little Hei that I’ll be going back to the Shaman clan tomorrow to spend New Year’s.”
“Ah?” Wu Ruo hurried forth to ask: “Master, you’re going back? Can’t you spend New Year’s here?”
“It’s not convenient for me to spend New Year’s here. Anyway, there are still some matters back home that I have to settle when I get back.” Nu Mu took out a medical text: “I’ve written my many years of medical expertise into this book, take a look at it when you have the time.”
Wu Ruo’s expression was full of reluctance: “Then when will you be coming back?”
“That…” Nu Mu shook his head: “I might not be coming back to Gaoling City. Anyway, there’s nothing more that I can teach you.”
After this period of time that they’d spent together, he knew that Wu Ruo’s medical arts were very good, his experience was also very rich. It didn’t seem like he’d just started learning medical arts, so, other than teaching him the Shaman clan’s medical arts, there really wasn’t much to teach him.
Wu Ruo was a little angry: “Must you teach me medical arts to be able to come to Gaoling City?”
“That’s not what I meant.” Nu Mu could tell that Wu Ruo really couldn’t bear to part with him, and he ruffled Wu Ruo’s hair: “Xiao-Ruo, we will still have opportunities to meet again. Oh, that’s right, don’t you have my jade pendant? If you miss me, you can come to the Shaman clan to look for me.”
Wu Ruo knew that Nu Mu still had family back at the Shaman clan; it wouldn’t be good for him to force Nu Mu to stay and spend New Year’s here.
After breakfast, Wu Ruo instructed Shi You to prepare new year’s gifts for Nu Mu to bring back home.
Hei Xin took the opportunity to ask: “Madam, how will our manor be preparing to spend New Year’s?”
Wu Ruo was stunned.
In his previous lifetime, every New Year’s, Hei Xuanyi would basically bring his people back to his clan to spend New Year’s every time. So, every New Year’s at the Hei Manor had been cold and cheerless, there had been no atmosphere of celebrating the New Year at all.
In this lifetime, he wanted it to be a little livelier.
“Get 2 sets of new clothes for every low-grade corpse servant. For the middle-grade corpse servants and guards, every person should have 4 sets of robes. For everyone else, they should have 6 sets. The materials must be of bright colours, I don’t want them to look lifeless. It’s best if other people can tell at one glance that they’re from our Hei Manor.”
Hei Xin mentally memorized all of his instructions: “Then will we be renovating the residence?”
“Before Hei Xuanyi and I got married, the manor has already been renovated once. There’s no need to waste silverto renovate it again. When it’s closer to New Year’s, just hang up some festive ornaments and goods in the manor. Er, and prepare the New Year items as well as gifts. For now, that’s all.”
“Alright, I will delegate some people later to get these things done.”
As he finished speaking, the ‘ka ka’ sounds of a child’s laughter traveled in from outside.
Hei Gan entered, carrying Dandan.
Hei Xin beamed: “Little Young Master has woken up.”
Dandan struggled free from Hei Gan, excitedly striding with his short little legs and unstable footsteps, running staggeringly towards Wu Ruo. Then, he hugged Wu Ruo’s calf, raising his head to giggle at Wu Ruo.
Wu Ruo raised a finger to touch his little face: “Dandan still doesn’t know how to speak?”
Hei Xin smiled as he said: “For now, he still doesn’t know how to speak, but this old one is already teaching him to say ‘daddy‘. I believe that Little Young Master will be able to address Madam soon.”
“Come on, say ‘daddy’.” Wu Ruo said as he played with Dandan.
It was as if Dandan couldn’t understand what Wu Ruo was saying. He blinked his beautiful, big eyes. His thick and long black eyelashes were like a fan made of feathers, fluttering.
“If you can call me ‘daddy’, then I won’t blame you for causing trouble yesterday, and I’ll even let Xin-botake you out to play.”
Dandan’s eyes brightened: “Daddy.”
Hei Gan: “…”
He felt that the Little Young Master was both mischievous and cunning.
Hei Xin happily said: “Little Young Master knows how to speak.”
“…” Wu Ruo was in a good mood and thought it was amusing; he used his index finger to poke Dandan’s little face: “Were you purposely pretending to not know how to speak? Hn?”
Dandan laughed with a ‘ka ka’, turning around to hug Hei Xin’s calf.
Hei Xin picked him up, smiling: “After Little Young Master Dandan has eaten breakfast, we’ll go out to play.”
Dandan happily nodded his head.
Wu Ruo warned him in advance: “If you’re as mischievous as you were yesterday after you go out, I won’t allow you to leave the house in the future.”
Dandan happily nodded his head once more.
Wu Ruo’s expression turned serious: “Since you know how to speak, then don’t nod your head.”
Dandan pursed his little mouth: “Okay.”
Wu Ruo’s lips raised into a smile.
After the child had finished eating, Wu Ruo returned to his room to continue doing what he had finished the night before. After that, it took him a whole morning and afternoon’s time before he finally finished sewing the money pouch. His only dissatisfaction was that his needlework was really too lousy. Luckily, the talismans and charms on the money pouch were still effective.
Wu Ruo stared at his own masterpiece for a long time, then decided to wait till New Year’s to gift the money pouch to Hei Xuanyi.
During dinner, Hei Xin instructed the servants in the kitchen to prepare a whole table full of dishes, so that Wu Ruo and Hei Xuanyi could give Nu Mu a farewell dinnerand present the New Year’s gifts to Nu Mu in advance.
The three of them ate untilxushibefore they wrapped up.
Hei Xuanyi went to the bathroom first to wash up.
After he came out, then it was Wu Ruo’s turn to go wash up.
Once Wu Ruo entered, he immediately felt that the bathroom tonight was a little different. Maybe it was because he no longer needed to soak in the medicated bath, but the entire room seemed to have a whiff of fragrance.
When he reached the bathtub, he saw that it was scattered full of petals.
Wu Ruo raised his eyebrows, asking: “How come there’s so many petals?”
Shi Yuan replied: “Head Steward Hei said that the medicated scent on Madam’s body is too heavy. The petals are meant to get rid of your body’s medicated scent.”
Wu Ruo didn’t suspect him of anything, and took off all the robes on his body, sitting in the bathtub.
Shi Yi, Shi You and Shi Jiu surrounded him. One person was in charge of massaging him, another person was washing his back, and the other two were in charge of washing his hands and legs. They were so extremely thorough, they almost washed a layer of skin off of his body.
Wu Ruo saw that they were working so hard, and was originally enjoying it quite a bit, but as they kept washing, he felt that something wasn’t quite right. Ever since they had started assisting him, he had never seen them being so meticulous before. They even wanted to help him clean up the crevices in his fingernails.
“Do all of you have something that you’re hiding from me?”
“No.” All four of them chorused together.
Wu Ruo felt that they were even more suspicious: “All of you must be hiding something from me.”
The four of them didn’t say anything anymore. After helping him to wash up thoroughly, they helped him out of the bathtub, then they applied scented oils for him.
“All of you are definitely hiding something from me, otherwise, why would there be a petal bath, and why would you apply scented oils on me? All of you better tell me the truth right now.” Wu Ruo sniffed his own hand, the fragrance on his body was about to suffocate someone to death.
The four corpse servants looked at each other. In the end, Shi Yuan cleared his throat, embarrassed, and quietly said: “Head Steward Hei said that Madam will be attendingtonight.”
Attending?
Wu Ruo was stunned for a moment. Abruptly, his eyes widened, and he said disbelievingly: “What? Attending?”
