While a life of luxury and fine clothes is certainly enviable, finding peace and happiness is much more difficult.
She secretly kissed the fourth young lady's eyebrows and eyes, wanting to wake her up and talk to her, but she was caught off guard when her 'vulnerability' was seized.
Wei Pingxi, still half-asleep, her sweet dream abruptly interrupted, suppressed her anger: "Why are you so dishonest?"
"Hmm..." Yu Zhi hummed softly in her ear, "Will you talk to me for a bit?"
"Isn't that enough?"
The fourth young lady yawned lazily and buried herself in the lush, sprawling ground without a word: "I'm giving you a good night's sleep, and you don't know how to cherish it."
"It was the fourth young lady who said to use it sparingly."
"You believe what I say?" Wei Pingxi was half-awake and had a terrible temper: "If it breaks, we can just replace it."
Yu Zhi also admitted that she was the one with the problem, staying up late to pick a fight with her. She sniffed, intending to push her away, but was met with a cold laugh: "Try pushing me again?"
She hadn't slept enough, and her temper was worse than a vicious dog on the street; she would bite anyone she could get her hands on.
Caught off guard, Yu Zhi was bitten, and tears streamed down her face as she weakly cried out in pain.
After calling her a few times, Wei Pingxi's anger subsided, and he hugged her tightly again: "Be good, go to sleep."
Yuzhi cried as she fell asleep.
Taking advantage of being sound asleep in his dream, he dared to kick the fourth young lady twice.
Kicked awake again, Wei Pingxi took a deep breath, resisted the urge to kick back, and closed his eyes.
"I won't stoop to your level."
She pressed down on Yu Zhi's restless legs and slept soundly until dawn.
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Chapter 25 A Feast for the Eyes
Early in the morning, Granny Wu was summoned to the Jingzhe Courtyard for questioning.
Yu Zhi was sleeping soundly, wrapped in a brocade quilt, while the Fourth Miss rubbed her sore legs with a strange expression, looking aggrieved.
She should have been dressed by a beautiful woman, but instead, she's awake while her concubine is still asleep—who is the master here?
She gritted her teeth, tightened her belt, and glanced back: the beauty was charming, especially after becoming her woman, she exuded a mature sweetness from her bones, her black hair was spread out on the side of the pillow, her jade shoulders were bare, the quilt barely covering her white breasts, the rise and fall of which aroused a desire in people.
Wei Pingxi sighed softly, stepped forward and tucked the blanket around her. If she got cold and couldn't take care of her, wouldn't that be her loss?
With her own best interests at heart, she read the whole thing from beginning to end, covering up everything that needed to be covered, except for the beautiful sleeping woman's fair and tender feet peeking out from under the covers, which were particularly eye-catching.
"They really are a handful."
She tucked the foot back in, casually touched the concubine's slender legs, lowered the bed curtains, straightened her clothes, and tiptoed out the door.
No sooner had she left than Yu Zhi turned over and faced the wall, muttering "Xi Xi" under her breath, and finally saying "bullying people." It was unclear what she was dreaming about, but in her dream, Miss Wei Si never got a good ending.
Having been kicked by her eight or ten times that night, Wei Pingxi didn't sleep well for most of the night. His eyes were covered with a light blue tint, and his expression was slightly gloomy.
Granny Wu was trembling with fear, not knowing why she had been summoned by the Fourth Miss.
She stared at Granny Wu from left to right for half an hour, until her head tingled with fear. Then she yawned. Anyone unaware of the situation might think that the Fourth Miss had been indulging in debauchery all night.
"You can go down first."
The jade and agate responded softly.
The courtyard of Jingzhe was filled with the sounds of birds and the fragrance of flowers. Wei Pingxi, dressed in a silver brocade robe with begonia patterns, her hair tied up with a wooden hairpin, was so beautiful that even without makeup, she was breathtaking.
It was precisely this ethereal beauty, with her quiet demeanor, that gave Granny Wu the illusion of facing the imposing presence of the masters in the palace.
She wasn't lying when she told Yu Zhi that day. Of all the people in the Wei family, the only two who made her feel so cautious were the kind-hearted and Buddhist-loving Madam Wei of Liulan Courtyard and this woman.
"Granny Wu."
"You are here!"
"Don't be nervous."
Wei Pingxi sat on the blue stone steps in front of the door, the autumn wind rustling through the air. She patted the seat next to her and said, "You sit down too."
"I wouldn't dare, I'll just stand here."
"Sit down when I tell you to."
She was feeling irritable, and her voice sounded hoarse from not having slept well all night. Granny Wu sat down, lifting the hem of her skirt, her nerves on edge.
"How is Zhizhi's learning going with you?"
"Reporting to Fourth Miss, Aunt Yu is doing very well in the small courtyard. She is intelligent and obedient, but she is shy. If she does not serve you well, please punish this old servant. It is this old servant's fault for not teaching her well!"
"What's the excitement about?" Wei Pingxi glanced at the door behind him. "Keep your voice down."
“Eh, yes…”
"You treat her so well, yet you don't even ask me why I asked you about this?"
Granny Wu's palms were sweating: "If Fourth Miss wants to speak, I will listen; if Fourth Miss doesn't want to speak, I won't ask. Master doesn't need a reason to punish servants."
"I don't like hearing that." Wei Pingxi looked at her, seeing that she was quite old and frail. "Fine, I won't make things difficult for you. I called you here to ask..."
She paused for a moment: "Did you notice how she slept while you were on watch?"
“Aunt Yu has a dignified demeanor and a very good sleeping posture; she has absolutely no bad habits.”
"No bad habits?" Wei Pingxi glanced at her. "Really?"
"More real than pearls!"
"Fine." He has no bad habits, so he just doesn't like her?
"May I ask, Fourth Miss, Aunt Yu, what happened to her?"
"She didn't do anything, but I got kicked horribly by her." She looked puzzled: "Is she some kind of donkey?"
"Hiss!" Granny Wu rose and knelt down: "Please forgive me, Fourth Miss!"
"I told you to keep your voice down!"
"Please, please forgive me, Miss Fourth?"
Granny Wu pleaded for mercy, her voice low and strained, creating a bizarrely comical scene.
Wei Pingxi waved his hand: "Get up."
"This servant dares not rise."
"Fine, kneel if you want."
She clapped her hands, stood up, turned around, and pushed open the door to go back to her room.
The inner room was quiet, with a faint fragrance wafting in the air. Wei Pingxi asked her about her concubine, who was still lying on the bed, fast asleep and unaware of the time.
She raised an eyebrow: "Wake up, at this rate you'll be ready to be slaughtered next year."
Yuzhi went to bed late at night and had a long dream, so it's no wonder she couldn't wake up.
In her dream, the battle was fierce, and she transformed into a martial arts master and fought the number one villain, the Fourth Miss, to a standstill.
The clash between masters is often extremely dangerous. At the critical moment, just as she was riding on Wei Pingxi's head and demanding that she be her slave, a dizzying sensation struck.
Beautiful dreams turn to ashes.
Yuzhi opened his eyes.
Upon seeing that angelic face, he threw a punch.
She threw a tantrum as soon as she woke up. Wei Pingxi frowned slightly and casually took her punch.
Her fist could no longer advance an inch. Yu Zhi's drowsiness vanished, and she truly woke up, exclaiming in surprise, "Fourth Miss?"
"Impressive, you still know I'm the Fourth Miss."
Wei Pingxi, with a flirtatious and mischievous air, traced her slender wrist upwards, slowly climbing onto the beauty's rounded shoulder, and leaned down: "What? Who gave you the guts to kick me all night and then try to hit me when you wake up?"
Yu Zhi couldn't understand what she was saying, her expression was blank, and her ears were adorably red.
"I didn't kick you, and I didn't mean to hit you. I was... dreaming."
"dream?"
The fourth young lady, being a clever woman, smiled faintly and asked, "What did you dream about?"
"I dreamt of..." Yu Zhi was too embarrassed to speak, but she knew that the Fourth Miss wouldn't let her go unless she said so. Her face turned as red as a sunset: "I dreamt of becoming a martial arts master and fighting with you."
"A fight?" Wei Pingxi chuckled. "Who won?"
"He woke up before the outcome was decided."
"So you're pretty good?"
Yu Zhi also felt that she was amazing in her dream, but no matter how amazing she was, she couldn't tell the Fourth Miss. She said humbly, "Not as amazing as Xi Xi."
The fourth young lady flung off the covers: "Sweet talk won't work, get up! What concubine is as lazy as you?"
Springtime light is just beginning to shine.
Yu Zhi didn't know where to cover her face, and covered it in embarrassment, saying, "Get out!"
The morning light streaming in revealed a beauty even more stunning than it had been the night before.
Kneeling outside the door, listening to the laughter and commotion inside, Granny Wu breathed a sigh of relief, secretly marveling that even such a ruthless person as the Fourth Miss had moments of softness.
Leaving aside ordinary families, just consider the concubines of the two young masters of the Wei family. No matter how much they toss and turn at night, how could they possibly wake up after their masters?
Aunt Yu's luck has arrived.
I wonder how long this good fortune will last?
Wei Pingxi lay on the beauty, his eyes sparkling: "Hold me up, let me have a couple of bites."
Yu Zhi curled her toes in embarrassment, turning her face to the other side: "I didn't..."
To entrust or not to entrust?
She is a woman of her word, and now no one in the mansion dares to provoke her. How can a concubine who relies on her to survive in the mansion say no?