Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 53

[Chapter 53 29]

Wei Shao was silent. He stood, she sat upright, he looked down at Little Joe, but Little Joe didn’t look at him. The two of them were separated by only a case table, but they both seemed to be caught in some kind of thought. There was only dead silence left in the room. Wei Shao even seemed to hear the sound of the blood in his body constantly washing through his chest and his heart beating with it.

A gust of night wind came in through a window in the corner, the candle flickered, and the figure that Wei Shao threw into the opposite wall also shook a few times. The room finally seemed to show a trace of vitality. Wei Shao’s shoulders finally moved with the shadow, and he was about to walk towards her with his feet raised, xiao Qiao had already stood up from the bed, raised his eyes and said softly, “It’s not too early.” Rest.

She stayed, walked past him under Wei Shao’s watchful eyes, came to the door, opened the door, and whispered to the servant woman to come in and serve Wei Shao into the bath.

……

Wei Shao’s march also bathed in cold water in the winter, not to mention that it was summer.

The water from the deep well in the back garden was already very cool. Wei Shao closed his eyes and lifted the entire bucket of water from his head, the water flowed down his head, face, and shoulders, washing down, and in the sound of splashing water, his skin felt a coolness, but the burning sensation that the blood flow under the skin brought to him as if it was constantly stabbing him did not subside at all. And he felt that his chest was very stuffy, as if he was blocked by a rag.

He felt bad, very bad.

He opened his eyes. Wet all over my body. Water kept dripping down his skin.

Wei Shao kind of wanted to ask her to come in and wipe herself. Lately every night when he was bathing, she would come in and serve him, wipe his hair, body, and sometimes make out with him in the bathhouse.

His mouth opened, and finally he did not scream, he pulled a bath towel that was quietly hanging on the shelf next to him, wiped it off, put on a piece of clothing and went out, seeing that she was not waiting for him on the bed, but standing aside like she had just come here, supposed to wait for him to go up first.

Wei Shao hesitated and walked over to her, “Sleep, it’s not early.”

Little Joe smiled slightly and nodded. I bolted the door and lowered the two curtains hanging in front of the bed.

The light in front of the bed dimmed.

Wei Shao lay on his back on the bed. She blew out the lights.

A slight clanging sound. Wei Shao turned her face and watched as she took off her clothes one by one with her back to herself in the darkness, leaving her middle coat behind, and finally climbed onto the bed.

She fell asleep, as if asleep, and did not turn over again, breathing evenly.

……

On this day, Wei Shao experienced many things. During the day, he rushed back to Yuyang from Zhuo County, met Wei Yu Qiao Ci outside the city in the evening, set up a banquet for Qiao Ci, and when she returned home, he made love to her, and then he was angry with her, and then went to the East House, and finally turned a big circle, and he finally came back to lie back on this bed with her.

Wei Shao felt restless, but it was not because of physical lack. He was young and energetic like a leopard in the late spring. He was able to walk without sleep for three days and three nights, and the next day he still appeared in good spirits in front of his subordinates.

What made him feel uneasy was the sense of uncertainty she had brought him.

She was just a woman, and he could lift her up with one arm, and her neck could not withstand his wrath, if she really completely angered him. When he came to the study and suddenly stumbled upon the box that had been touched and left a blinding scratch, he did think of her for the first time, and became uncontrollably angry. Because he had so clearly ordered her not to touch the box. And from the bottom of my heart, I really didn’t want her to touch it. He set the rules, but she didn’t follow them. He felt offended by her disregard.

If this was in the military and she was his subordinate, then she deserved to be beheaded on the spot. But what Wei Shao didn’t understand was that she was clearly at fault. Because she did ignore his commands and moved something he didn’t want her to touch. But after such a toss, why at this moment, he actually felt as if he had done something wrong.

In particular, it seemed that he shouldn’t have fired so much at her.

As soon as he closed his eyes at this moment, he would remember the way she had been called by himself to question her. The flower face that she had been smiling a moment ago immediately lost its blood color, and he did not fail to see the kind of panic, shame, and pleading remorse that flowed from his eyes.

Wei Shao was a little uncomfortable with his own tangled emotions, and from his heart, he also slowly developed a feeling similar to frustration.

He went out in anger, then calmed down and went to the East House, and from his mother’s reaction, it was not difficult for him to judge that her self-defense was true: she had indeed touched the box, but had not done anything that completely angered him in his attempt to open the box by picking the lock.

Frankly, he was actually a little relieved at the time. On the way back to the Westinghouse, he guessed that she should be very scared when he went out in anger. He also thought about it, and after entering, he certainly wouldn’t immediately reconcile with her. Because she did make a mistake and didn’t take his words seriously. He would let her take the initiative to reflect on her mistake again, and promise that after the next time, he would tell her that he had helped her find out the truth and wanted to return her innocence.

She will be grateful for her leniency and her initiative to clear her suspicions. And more importantly, with this necessary lesson, presumably she will be dead set on herself from now on, and she will not dare to do anything similar to this time. In hindsight, although he was also a little distressed by the look of trepidation she had shown when she was frightened, he did not want to cause her to misunderstand that he would tolerate any of her actions indefinitely.

This is similar to the fact that he disposes of a general in the military who has violated the military order, but still has to retain it. First might and then grace, grace and power at the same time, such a means of governance, has never been unfavorable.

When he came in, he saw her sitting on the bed, looking calm, and opened the lock in front of him three or two times, and without him, he washed herself off the suspicion of picking the lock.

……

In this era, with the exception of the upper classes, which make up a small number of people, the remaining classes have extremely limited education. Slightly more advanced counting is even more distant from most people. Wei Shao had been extremely interested in arithmetic since he was a child, and after his father Wei Jing knew about it, he specially gave him a set of two hundred and seventy-two jade chips and packed them in a bag, and the seven-year-old Wei Shao hung them on his body and carried them with him, which he could take out and fiddle with anytime and anywhere. The nine-house lock used in this wooden box was also carefully built in brass when he was ten years old, according to the “Cosmic Cube” contained in the Book of River Tuluo, which had aroused his great interest.

He never thought someone could unlock it. At least in this house, there would be no second person besides him.

He never expected that she would open the lock so easily in front of him.

A woman from a noble family, who was at home before she got married, had received some cultural education from an early age, including simple counting, and later went to su Yong, the housekeeper of her husband’s family, but it was impossible to learn the level of the River Tuluo Book, at least he had not heard of it.

At that time, Wei Shao said that it was not too much to be shocked, and then, it was a vague disappointment. He felt as if he had stepped through the door, but it was as if he had eaten a closed door soup from her.

……

Wei Shao couldn’t sleep. He had clearly felt it just now, although she had repeatedly compensated herself, she still smiled at herself and whispered softly. But she suddenly seemed to have changed back to the Joe girl she had when she first came to her house.

He is not an idiot, and he can naturally feel it. He felt a little stuffy in his chest.

He didn’t like the way she looked at himself.

He closed his eyes and listened to the sound coming from the pillowThe sound of her breathing. Finally unable to resist, he reached over to her and tentatively rested it on her waist.

It was as if she had fallen asleep, motionless and unresponsive.

Wei Shao’s arm reached over a little more until he slowly wrapped her waist completely around his arm, and then leaned towards her.

Little Joe suddenly turned over and slept with his back to him, as if he were just an unintentional turn in his sleep.

Wei Shao hesitated, and then continued to press against her back, and finally completely received her into his chest, pressed his lips to her ear, and whispered, “I believe you.” The lock is really not yours.

He paused, not seeing her reaction. He tightened his arms, and his palms began to move slowly along her waist, and finally he reached into the hem of her clothes, gently caressing her with gentle force, and his lips also fell to the back of her neck, kissing all the way down the back of her neck to her shoulders, and when his chin rubbed her, he took her shirt off his shoulders.

His breath gradually became hot, and his snorts poured into her naked skin. Then he tried to turn her over and face himself, when Little Joe suddenly raised his hand, grabbed his hand, which was gradually becoming hot, and took it out of his shirt.

“Husband, I’m really tired tonight, can I sleep?”

Little Joe opened his eyes and said in a daze. The head did not come back.

Her tone was still very soft, but her voice was indeed low and weak.

Wei Shao’s hand that she had taken away paused slightly. After a moment, he let go of her and rolled over.

……

The next morning, just five times, Wei Shao got up and left.

Little Joe really didn’t know when he got up and left. She woke up as usual, saw no one on the side, and knew he was gone. Not long after getting up, while still making up, I suddenly heard a faint crying sound coming from the courtyard outside, as if something had happened.

Little Joe didn’t go out to see it. After a while, Lin Mi ran in and told her that Madame had found out that the person who dared to sneak into the Junhou Study yesterday to break the lock and do something wrong was indeed Sun Mi, whom she had shook a glance at. The Jiang Mi beside Mrs. Fang Cai came with someone to kidnap the Sun Mi away. Sun Mi actually cried and shouted, and Jiang Mi asked someone to take mud to stuff her mouth on the spot, and finally dragged her feet backwards to forcibly drag them away.

When Lin Mi described, her eyes were wide open, and she looked very indignant: “The female monarch is generous, she does not think of repaying the Lord, and she cheats on the Lord, and she has done such a thing!” Heaven forbid! There was

a sound of footsteps at the door, and Xiao Qiao raised his eyes to see that Jiang Mi was coming. The attitude is unusually respectful. Standing outside the door, she bowed to Xiao Qiao and said, “When Lady Yu learned that Madame knew what had happened here, she was extremely angry, interrogated her all night, and in the morning she found out the evil mother-in-law surnamed Sun, and the mother-in-law confessed.” Fang Cai had already tied her up and brought her over to be severely punished. Madame was really angry last night, did not sleep well all night, and went to the north house in the morning to ask the old lady for guilt, and just lay down when she came back. Madame said that in the next few days, she would not need to go over to the lady.

Jiang Mi finished talking before leaving. Little Joe packed up and went to the North House as usual.

Zhu Shi came here early in the morning, and just left for a while. When Madame Xu saw Xiao Qiao coming, her spirit looked a little unlucky, beckoned her to sit next to her, looked at her face, and said: “Your mother-in-law came to me here, saying that there was a box in Erlang’s study that was privately broken by a subordinate, last night Erlang was angry, and wanted her to pursue responsibility, she disposed of the matter early in the morning, and people also found it?”

Xiao Qiao said, “I am also very grateful that my mother-in-law acted violently and caught the person who broke the lock so quickly.” Fortunately, this time there was nothing to do, just a false alarm. In the morning, I came over, in addition to seeing my grandmother, there was also something on the way, and I wanted to discuss it with my grandmother.

“You say.”

“There are many servants in Westinghouse. I remember that I had just married, that is, about ten people, and then I inherited my grandmother’s love and sent some people one after another, and my mother-in-law also sent them there. There are many people under the people, but only the husband and I serve. My husband is always absent during the day, and I don’t need so many people. When I saw my grandmother here, there were only a dozen people who even went up to the courtyard to sweep, and my husband and I were young and had small generations, let alone spend money on this. Something like this happened again. I wondered if I could subtract some unnecessary manpower. First, to put an end to people’s superficiality, and second, to avoid people from doing nothing to regenerate right and wrong.
Madame
Xu nodded, “Reasonable.” Although people like us do not count on the idleness of one or two inferior people, if they give birth to the right and wrong of yesterday because of idleness, it is a housewife who does not notice, and it is a big mistake. It’s rare that you don’t care about pomp and circumstance. You decide what’s going on in your house, you don’t have to ask me.

Xiao Qiao smiled, thanked Madame Xu, and sat with her for a moment before leaving.

[End of This Chapter]