"No, I want to eat stir-fried bamboo shoots."
Wei Ping and Xi Ruifeng's eyes curved slightly as they glanced casually at their mother-in-law, their hands hidden under the table pressing on Yu Zhi's aching thighs.
Yu Zhixin's heart skipped a beat, and she hurriedly looked at the people present.
Then I saw that my mother was focused on eating, but her ears were listening carefully to their flirting. The maid beside her was serving her food at a leisurely pace, clearly not paying attention to anything else.
The jade and agate bowed their heads, oblivious to everything around them.
Wei Pingxi smiled slyly: "Shrimp balls."
Yu Zhi blushed as she picked up a perfectly round meatball and placed it in her bowl, trying to control the tremor in her throat: "I've given you some, what about mine?"
"Mother-in-law, Zhizhi is so stingy."
Yu's mother smiled broadly.
Bamboo shoots were piled on top of white rice, green and white. Wei Pingxi withdrew her restless hand, and Yu Zhi stood with her legs together, looking at her shyly, as if she wanted to say something.
"Eat up, why are you looking at me?"
What a waste of such a beautiful face.
Yu Zhi, feeling ashamed and indignant, picked up her bowl and buried her head in her food.
"Stimulate."
Suddenly, the sound of 'lewd words' reached her ears. Yu Zhi Liu Ye's eyes widened, and she almost dropped the bowl in her hand. Her ears felt as if they were on fire.
She glared at the fourth young lady, who had successfully and discreetly flirted with everyone, and then looked at her mother, who was completely unaware of what was going on. Instantly, a thin layer of tears welled up in her eyes.
When it comes to bullying others, Miss Wei is second to none; no one dares to claim to be number one.
Wei Pingxi, who had just been saying "exciting" a moment ago, suddenly took over the maid's job and seriously served food to his mother-in-law.
They were dedicated and extremely considerate.
If outsiders saw this, wouldn't they all marvel at how the Fourth Miss had changed her ways, treating her cheap mother-in-law with utmost filial piety?
Give a good beating and a sweet treat.
The stick was tapped near her ear, and the sweet dates were for her mother. Yu Zhi was angry but couldn't retaliate; she ate the meal with a bittersweet feeling, half ashamed and half annoyed.
"Mother-in-law, I recently acquired a new storybook. Shall I tell you about it?"
In the afternoon, Wei Pingxi helped Yu's mother sit down at the stone table in front of the swing set in the courtyard, and told a fascinating story of love, hate, fighting and killing in the martial arts world.
Even Yu's mother, with her quiet and refined nature, listened so intently that she forgot about herself and even her own daughter.
In about two hours, Yuzhi went from being the darling of the family who had just returned home to being neglected by her mother. However, when she saw her mother and the fourth young lady sitting around chatting and laughing in the sun, her heart warmed and her eyes inexplicably stung.
There was a time when the mother and daughter worried about making a living and were on guard against being bullied. When had they ever had such a peaceful and joyful time without any defenses?
All of this was brought to them by the Fourth Miss.
Yu Zhi quietly kept this gratitude to herself. Even with her eyes closed, she could still hear her mother pestering someone with all sorts of questions, her thirst for knowledge unlike that of a woman her age.
It really does prove the saying that those who are full of curiosity about the world have young souls.
Wei Pingxi told her this.
"And then? What happened to that heroine?"
"And then..." Miss Wei looked at the beautiful woman eavesdropping not far away and smiled, "Then, the heroine fell in love."
Mother Yu blushed, stroked her jade cane, and lowered her voice: "And then?"
On an autumn afternoon, an old man and a young man were immersed in the world of romance and wine. Yu Zhi sat on the blue stone steps, drowsy.
After seeing off Yu's mother, who needed to take a nap, Wei Pingxi turned back, walked around his favorite concubine's legs, and carried her back to her room.
The room was clean and sunny. Lifting the bed curtains revealed an ivory bed that Yu's mother had specially instructed the servants to arrange.
Ivory beds are beautiful and sturdy. The advantage is that they won't collapse no matter how much noise you make, and they are very stable and won't move at all, making them the most suitable for newlyweds.
A soft mattress on the bed makes you feel like you're floating on clouds, and a good night's sleep is guaranteed.
The quilt is a brocade quilt with auspicious patterns, embroidered with mandarin ducks playing in the water. The details reveal the mother's painstaking efforts.
Her cheap mother-in-law actually hoped that her daughter would be in a harmonious relationship with a woman.
Yu Zhi was half asleep when she was lifted up and kissed repeatedly, landing on her forehead, between her eyebrows, and on her cheeks.
She raised her hand and patted lightly on the fourth young lady's thin forearm.
"Still not awake?" Wei Pingxi removed his hairpin and let his hair down. He sat on the edge of the bed in his undergarments, his black hair flowing like a waterfall, his beauty unparalleled.
In a daze, Yu Zhi thought she had seen a fairy. Her eyes, which were full of amazement, suddenly narrowed like a cat's eyes. She quickly woke up and her mind was perfectly clear.
"Fourth Miss".
"Finally awake."
Wei Pingxi removed the jade hairpin from her hair, his expression nonchalant, a far cry from his approachable demeanor when he was in front of the blind woman. After pretending for half a day, she felt somewhat tired, a faint weariness rising from the bottom of her heart.
"Take it off, how unruly! Sleep with me."
Her voice was soft, and Yu Zhi's hand on her waist trembled slightly as she weakly said, "I understand."
He held the beautiful woman in his arms, and Wei Pingxi nestled lazily in her embrace, his nose lightly nudging her and pushing aside the crowded mounds.
She held Yuzhi comfortably, her sleepiness growing stronger: "Can you sing nursery rhymes from Lingnan Prefecture? Sing them for me."
Chapter 23 The Liu Family of Jinghe
The children's song was sung again and again, sending Miss Wei into a gentle and peaceful dream.
The sound of her breathing was steady and rhythmic. Yu Zhi slowly stopped and looked at the fourth young lady's flawless face.
Anyone who sees such a face will be amazed by her beauty, and it's hard to imagine that a woman as beautiful as a fairy could be so wicked and capricious.
They can be more affectionate than anyone else, yet they can also be ruthless, casually saying, "It's not like you're the only one who likes it."
Yu Zhi coaxed her to sleep, but then found herself unable to sleep.
The scenery outside the window was beautiful; the autumn sun was neither scorching nor cold. The courtyard was quiet, and the inner room was also quiet. Yu Zhi blushed as she covered the fourth young lady with a brocade quilt. She wanted to pull her bare legs back, but they were pressed down firmly.
Having experienced life at twenty-three, it's inevitable to feel shy. She knows shame, but the Fourth Miss has no idea how to write the word "shame."
He dared to make inappropriate advances towards his mother under the table, and he would pester her during his afternoon nap, making her uncomfortable.
"What, I can't touch it?"
The person who should have been fast asleep suddenly spoke, startling Yu Zhi so much that her face turned pale and her heart pounded.
Wei Ping chuckled at her timidity, snuggling closer to her for a softer, more comfortable position: "I told you, as long as your body likes me, that's all that matters. So, do you like it?"
Yu Zhi was too shy to answer.
By the time she had figured out how to answer, the person in her arms had fallen asleep again, seemingly unconcerned about her reply, domineeringly taking her as his own.
Her tense nerves gradually relaxed, and she dared not move again, so she slept for an hour.
As night deepened, the ivory bed was sturdy, and the hibiscus flowers were in bloom. Wei Pingxi carried the beauty off the bed, Yu Zhi's waist and legs were weak, and she had not yet recovered from the previous climax.
Yu's mother was worried that her daughter and son-in-law had eaten little for dinner and were concerned that they were hungry, so she came to the small courtyard where Yu Zhi lived.
With lanterns on either side to provide light, Madam Yu groped her way to the door and knocked: "Zhizhi, Xixi, are you asleep?"
As the waves surged and swayed, Yu Zhi suddenly awoke, and just as she was about to get up, a hand grabbed her waist.
"Mother-in-law, Zhizhi and I have gone to bed. Is there something you need?"
She was a martial artist, with a long and steady breath, though her voice was a little hoarse.
Yu's mother, lost in thought through the door, didn't want to disturb the two's good time. Her face flushed slightly, and she hurriedly urged the servants to help her away.
There was no further movement outside the door. Miss Wei, holding the limp beauty in her arms, poured a pot of sake from mid-air, which flowed along the beautiful spine and into the alluring waist.
"That's the proper way to invite me to taste the wine, remember?"
She gracefully bent down to drink the wine tainted with worldly beauty, and Yu Zhi, gripping the edge of the table, could no longer hold back and let out a soft moan.
Although the ivory bed was sturdy, the Fourth Miss didn't like its sturdiness; she preferred the creaking and groaning, like the restlessness of the human heart.
A long night, the table rattled, then the door creaked, and a slender waist broke.
Yu Zhi was crying in her dreams. At dawn, Wei Pingxi knelt beside her, holding a handkerchief to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes: "Still crying? Is it wrong for me to love you?"
Being a concubine is one's duty.
Anyone else would be grateful for the Fourth Miss's gift, and Yu Zhi knew this perfectly well, but she just had backaches and leg pains.
She even suspected that the noise from last night had drifted out of the room and courtyard and into her mother's ears!
Unable to speak, tears welled up again from the corners of her reddened eyes.
In an instant, the fourth young lady had used up another handkerchief.
Wei Pingxi chuckled, put his arm around her waist, and whispered in her ear, "Where did all this water come from? Haven't you cried enough?"
Her double entendre was truly beastly, and Yu Zhi could easily understand it.
Her eyelids closed slightly, and tears welled up in her misty eyes again. Her voice was hoarse as she asked, "Why do you always bully me?"
"That's an interesting thing to say. If I don't bully you, who else would I bully?" Wei Pingxi casually took out a small garment and helped her change. "Look at the two of us, you've become the master? Still not satisfied? Raise your arm."
Yu Zhi tried, then choked up, "It hurts, I can't lift it."
"I'm not even jealous, so why are you being so jealous? You're being pretentious, so get your act together!"
She turned on him in an instant, and before she even put her pants on, she started to deny everything. Yu Zhi wanted to bite her to death, but in the end, she was too timid and cowardly. Instead of biting Wei Pingxi, she bit her lower lip and tried to lift her aching arm.
She used her arm to support herself on the table and then the door last night, which took a lot of effort.
"You're hopeless. This is nothing."
Wei Pingxi couldn't stand it any longer and muttered to herself, "Don't move, I'll serve you today."
She used the formal "you" repeatedly, and Yu Zhi gritted her teeth, enduring the pain as she quickly raised her arm.
I'm quite indignant.
"You're quite something." Wei Pingxi kissed her earlobe and her aching arm. "With such skill, shall we continue tonight?"