Chapter 645 - 647: Clearly a Pretty Boy
"This..." Bai Ruozhu wanted to open it but hesitated, suddenly thinking it might be a plump poisonous insect, she had a real fear of bugs.
Elder Shougu laughed, his eyes, filled with the hardships of life, seemed to see through her, "Don’t be afraid, not all poisonous insects are terrifying, they can be your friends or your most loyal subordinates."
As he spoke, he opened the stopper of the jade bottle, "Add a drop of your blood to make it recognize you as its master, afterwards it can protect you. Although it can’t assure your safety in all situations, at crucial moments it might save your life."
Bai Ruozhu was a little afraid to look into the bottle, and it wasn’t easy to decline Elder Shougu’s goodwill, so she braced herself and dropped a drop of blood from her fingertip into the bottle.
When the blood entered the jade bottle, Bai Ruozhu had a very strange feeling, as if her body was connected to something. As a modern person who had never interacted with poisonous insects, she found it too incredible.
Elder Shougu chuckled a few times and said, "All right, take care of yourself, I’ll leave as soon as I fetch some hot spring water."
Thinking of Jiang Yichun’s return, Bai Ruozhu, although somewhat unhappy with him, still said to Elder Shougu, "Jiang Yichun is back, won’t you want to see him?"
Elder Shougu suddenly laughed heartily, "So that’s why you were looking so worried. But girl, you need to be more open-minded, isn’t he still in love with you, even though he has undone the forgetful bug?"
Bai Ruozhu was startled, "How... how do you know?" Even they didn’t know it before.
Elder Shougu laughed even more happily, "I didn’t know at first, but the day when the bug entered his body, the traces of the disintegration of his forget bug appeared. I discovered that there was a blood connection between you two, this kind of situation only occurs when children have been born together. I didn’t say anything at the time, thinking it would be better to let him realize it himself. Now, it seems that you’ve also understood."
Their child together... Bai Ruozhu felt her face flush, but when she thought about how her child with Jiang Yichun wasn’t really hers, she started to feel uncomfortable.
"Girl, I’m leaving, tell Xiaojiang for me, we’ll meet again if fate allows. If he really has an urgent matter, he knows how to find me." Elder Shougu finished speaking and left without waiting for Bai Ruozhu’s response.
Bai Ruozhu stood in place holding the jade bottle for a while, and when she regained her senses, she couldn’t resist opening the cork to sneak a peek.
To her relief, it wasn’t a shelled insect. She was most afraid of longhorn beetles in her lifetime. When she was a kid, her grandpa whimsically brought a piece of wood home and started sawing it. A longhorn beetle suddenly flew out and landed on her head, scaring her into crying for a long time. As a result, she was deadly afraid of shelled insects like cockroaches.
She couldn’t identify the species of the insect in the bottle. It was small, round, and more like a light pink little ball. It seemed to sense Bai Ruozhu looking at it, revealing a pair of round black eyes. It stared at Bai Ruozhu from the bottle mouth as if it was appraising its new master.
Bai Ruozhu’s previous tension was instantly relieved, this little creature didn’t seem so terrible after all, and wasn’t it supposed to protect her?
The little furball seemed to feel that she was no longer rejecting it. It moved and, with a whoosh, leapt out of the bottle and onto Bai Ruozhu, its speed was so fast that Bai Ruozhu only saw a blur.
Bai Ruozhu jumped, causing the little furball to fall to the ground. Looking up at Bai Ruozhu, it seemed to be very upset. Bai Ruozhu found it strange, could the little creature have expressions?
She carefully pocketed the jade bottle, leaving the cork off, wondering whether the little furball would return on its own. A flash later proved it really could!
Bai Ruozhu immediately took a liking to this little creature that seemed to share her thoughts. Instead of corking the bottle, she quietly told it not to be naughty, not to scare people, and certainly not to hurt anyone randomly.
Afterwards, she went to find Guizhi, and they checked the beauty salon together. They both felt it was very good, and there were no issues.
"Mister, you can’t come in. My lady has ordered that outsiders can’t enter. Even when it’s open for business, this place only serves female customers and doesn’t allow men to enter." At the main gate, a guard earnestly spoke to Jiang Yichun, who had hurried over on horseback.
Jiang Yichun’s face turned green. He felt it was necessary to make these subordinates remember who the male master of this place was.
"Who said I’m an outsider? Your lady is my wife, can’t I go in to find her?" He glared as he spoke.
The two guards were new hires and were not familiar with the situation in the Bai family. Before they were assigned to the Hot Spring Mansion, they had never met the "brother-in-law", hearing what Jiang Yichun said, they became uncertain.
"You should report to the lady, I don’t think he looks like a swindler, I guess he’s barely a match for our lady, by his looks." One guard whispered to his partner, thinking he was speaking low enough that Jiang Yichun wouldn’t hear.
Jiang Yichun almost choked on his breath, what did he mean by barely matching?
"Tch, what kind of taste do you have? Look at his eyes, they’re tinged with green, obviously a result of excessive depletion. His body is so thin and weak, clearly a pretty boy. The lady definitely won’t look twice at this kind of man, he must be interested in the lady’s money." The other guard disagreed.
Jiang Yichun was now furious. He squinted his eyes and flicked a few copper coins from his fingertips. The two guards cried out, and were already kneeling on the ground.
"I’m only considering your lady’s face, otherwise, I’ll break your legs!" After snapping this, Jiang Yichun stormed off.
Bai Ruozhu and Guizhi were just about to leave the mansion when they saw this scene. Guizhi hadn’t heard the guards’ conversation and muttered in surprise, "Why is brother-in-law using physical force? He’s so fierce."
Bai Ruozhu saw Jiang Yichun’s livid face and felt a deep satisfaction. She decided to give a bonus to those two guards, they did a good job.
She walked quickly over there and scolded sternly, "Why are you attacking my men? Are you trying to slap my face?"
Seeing her, the anger on Jiang Yichun’s face vanished immediately, replaced with a forced smile.
"No, they made disrespectful comments, and I just punished them a little."
Bai Ruozhu gave him a sideways glance, "I’ll handle my own people. I didn’t ask you to intervene. What are you doing here? Do you regret it, wanting to take back the mansion?"
Jiang Yichun felt her spoken words were now too sharp. He took a deep breath and said, "I gave it to you, of course it’s yours. How can I take it back? I came over because I’m worried about you. You should know the current situation."
The dark circles under his eyes stabbed at her gaze. Unbidden, she remembered the guard’s words. Even the guard felt that he had been excessively depleted, he probably hadn’t gotten a good night’s sleep these past few days.
Considering this, she couldn’t bear to be stern with him, she simply said, "I’m fine, you should go back now."