The two of them returned home together.
Under Lin Siyao's insistence, Su Shuiche entered the bedroom to take an afternoon nap.
She originally thought that she wouldn't fall asleep, but when she woke up, the sun was already setting in the west.
Leaning against the headboard, she patted her forehead and couldn't help but mutter, "I'm really getting better at sleeping."
"You're awake?" Lin Siyao, who had just sat down and drank a cup of tea in the living room, heard the movement in the room and asked with a smile.
"Un.
Ah Yao, are you busy? "
Su Shuiche saw that he had already taken off his outer robe and rolled up his sleeves, as if he was doing some work.
"Un." Lin Siyao nodded, the corners of his lips slightly raised, but he wasn't willing to reveal to her what he was busy with.
Su Shuiche didn't rush to ask.
After being together with him for several months and being married for several days, she had gradually become familiar with his temperament.
No matter what the reason was, as long as he didn't want to say more, she would answer with a "un".
She got up and put on her outer robe. Suddenly, she thought of the winter outer robe that she was about to embroider, so she asked him, "Ah Yao, do you have any preferences for the embroidery on the clothes?"
She didn't know what kind of patterns he liked. The new clothes before were all sewn according to the patterns that her older brother liked.
Now that the two of them were husband and wife, they had to slowly understand each other's preferences in their hearts.
"They're all good." Lin Siyao pulled her to sit in front of the dressing table and arranged her messy hair.
"They're all good?
Don't you have anything you like in particular? "Su Shuiche looked at him through the blurry bronze mirror.
"No." It should be said that he never cared about the patterns on the clothes.
The most suitable clothing for an assassin was a completely black warrior's attire.
Even if it was the clothes specially made by Fengyao Pavilion, it only had an additional Fengyao Pavilion's exclusive emblem on the right arm — a golden eagle embroidered with gold.
"Ah Yao …" Su Shuiche hurriedly turned around and pulled Lin Siyao's hand to hold it tightly.
The chilling aura that he had emitted earlier had made her flustered.
"I'm fine." Lin Siyao hugged her and let her lean on his body.
Gently stroking her slender back, he comforted her mind that had suddenly become flustered because of his memories.
That was all in the past.
The current him was Lin Siyao, the Ah Yao that she spoke of, and no longer the God of Slaughter Si Ling that everyone in Jianghu feared.
Of course, he would not forget the Fengyao Pavilion.
After all, that was the only place he could call home for the past few decades.
He would always remember the old Pavilion Master's kindness in saving his life.
He would also remember the grudge of the new Pavilion Master's pursuit and the destruction of his life.
Today, the Fengyao Pavilion and him were considered to be even.
He wouldn't go back. Of course, if Feng Qingya was unable to grasp reality and refused to let him off, then he would absolutely not let Feng Qingya off.
It was enough to repay a life once.
Besides, his life now belonged to her.
… …
"Ah Yao, this is …" Su Shuiche was pleasantly surprised to see a new round stone table under the cherry tree in the North Courtyard. The table was carved from a large piece of limestone, and there was a Chinese chess diagram carved on it.
Surrounding the stone table, there were four round stone stools made of the same material.
"Is this why you were busy all afternoon?" She glanced at him and secretly curled her lips.
He actually refused to tell her!
"I just wanted to give you a surprise."
Lin Siyao raised his eyebrows. Why was she not surprised, and instead was very unhappy with him?
"That's right. Look at yourself. There are so many blisters on your hand." She had noticed it when she held his large hand in the room.
She had just been flustered by his sudden change in mood and forgot about it.
Now that she saw the stone table and stools in front of her, she finally remembered.
"It's fine."
Lin Siyao withdrew his hand and held her shoulder, letting her sit on the stone stool with a straw cushion, "Here, we can admire the moon and drink together tonight."
"Is it because of this that you rushed to make it today?" Su Shuiche pulled his hand with a pained expression.
"Of course not.
I had already thought about it the day I moved in.
It was just that I couldn't find a suitable stone slab. "Lin Siyao looked at her with a smile, feeling the pity that she inadvertently showed.
"Did you make it here?" She sighed with annoyance.
Did she sleep herself to death?
He was making the stone table and stools in the courtyard, but she didn't hear a single sound.
"No."
Lin Siyao shook his head. He knew what she was thinking just by looking at her expression. He explained, "I found it yesterday morning in the valley of Xiufeng Mountain.
Naturally, I made it there.
I just moved it back here to install it. "
Two mornings and an ample afternoon were enough for him to complete the sturdy limestone table and stools.
"You're not allowed to do this again.
It doesn't matter if you have these or not, but you ….. In short, you're not allowed to do this again ….. "She choked with sobs as she stroked the blisters on his hand. She was so distressed that she almost cried.
Lin Siyao sighed as he pulled her into his embrace.
This silly woman, she actually shed tears over a few insignificant blisters on his hand.
It seems like after he finished his work, he would have to check his entire body to prevent her from dropping beans.
He couldn't help but lean over and kiss the tears from the corners of her eyes. He comforted her in a low voice, "It's really nothing, Shuiche.
These things are nothing to me. "He had already suffered a fatal injury, so these things really were nothing.
"That won't do." She was a bit annoyed at his indifference, "The past is the past, but it's different now." Now, he was her husband, the one she had to rely on for a lifetime.
She wouldn't allow him to be so careless with his body.
"How is it different?" He chuckled, wanting to hear her say it herself.
"Of course it's different …" She was just about to muster up the courage to tell him what she wanted to say before, but when she saw his smiling eyes, the words that she hadn't said turned into a fist, and she punched his thick chest with all her might.
"Shuiche ….." Lin Siyao couldn't help but laugh as he pulled her hand. He stole a kiss from the corner of her lips and gently suggested, "Be good, we should prepare the things for tonight."
Hearing him say this, Su Shuiche was shocked to realize that the sun had already set behind the Western Mountains and it was already dusk.
In the eastern sky, a faint round moon could be seen. Under the interweaving of the pure white clouds and scarlet light, it was sometimes bright and sometimes dark, sometimes hidden and sometimes visible.
…..
On the new stone table, there were candles, incense cauldrons, mooncakes, and fruits that were prepared to be offered.
The long incense and candles were lit. In the quiet night, it seemed even more silent.
Lin Siyao took out a pair of bamboo candlesticks that Su Shuiche had prepared in the study room. He gently covered the candlesticks that were suddenly blown by the wind and dripping with tears.
It suddenly felt a lot warmer.
"Ah Yao, the glutinous rice balls are ready. Where do you want to eat them?" Su Shuiche was wearing a dark purple corset dress. She stood at the kitchen door with her hands hanging down and called out to him.
The jujube glutinous rice balls that represented Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan were something that Su Shuiche wanted to make for him when she came back from the city a few days ago.
She originally wanted to make sesame filling, but unfortunately, she couldn't buy sesame at the last minute. She could only crush the ripe jujubes behind the house into a paste, mix it with the red bean paste sent by Aunt Lao, and sprinkle it with yellow frost sugar. The sweet and fragrant jujube paste filling was ready. As for diluting the glutinous rice with cold water, then mixing it into a large glutinous dough, and then picking it into small balls to wrap the glutinous rice balls, she didn't know how to do it, but she had seen the maids do it.
Lin Siyao quickly grasped the key points based on her verbal explanation and practical guidance from wrapping a few glutinous rice dumplings. In less than an hour, he had wrapped a large ball of glutinous rice noodles into a large plate of 58 perfect glutinous rice dumplings that were of the same size and shape. The dumplings were not exposed and were not crooked.
What did this mean?
Talent?
Su Shuiche put away her surprise and slight anger. She calmly shared half of it with Aunt Lao to thank her for the red bean paste.
Then, in a corner that Lin Siyao couldn't see, she grinned silently. It seemed that the assassin's kitchen work was not inferior at all.
...
"Since you're not good at drinking, you should drink less." Lin Siyao helplessly supported Su Shuiche, who was a little drunk, and gestured for her to sit on the wooden bench.
After the two finished eating the glutinous rice balls, they sat at the stone table and drank together with the bright moon.
Sure enough, after drinking three cups of osmanthus wine, she was in a daze and became drunk.
"Ah Yao, do you believe that there are souls in this world?" Su Shuiche looked up at the round moon hanging in the sky and whispered.
"Souls?
Maybe. "Lin Siyao also stretched his body and leaned back on the chair, reaching out to put her on his shoulder.
"Hehe … So you believe it too … That's great …" Su Shui Yue snorted and smelled the wine in her mouth. She couldn't help but mutter, "The osmanthus wine here is so disgusting …"
"You've drunk it before?" Lin Siyao looked down at her in surprise.
Looking at her, she didn't look like someone who could drink.
"En … Big brother likes to taste wine … Big brother, he … Every time he goes to a place, he will bring back the local specialty wine … When the atmosphere is good … he will invite us to drink a few cups together …" Su Shuiche narrowed her eyes. She couldn't help but think of the time when she used to taste wine with her big brother. She was drunk, but not completely drunk.
It was just that, with the help of drunkenness, she couldn't help but spit out the words that were buried deep in her heart.
"Shuiche … Your previous family …" Lin Siyao put his chin on her head and asked softly with his eyes closed.
He didn't want to pry into her family background. He was just afraid, afraid that she would suddenly return to her noble family one day. That was a place that he used to disdain and couldn't afford to reach.
"Previous?
It was just a bird in a cage, a frog in a well … If it wasn't for mother and big brother … I think … I'm afraid that I wouldn't even have any memories … "Su Shuiche swallowed the bitterness that emerged from the bottom of her throat.
She never knew that her existence had caused such deep hatred between Second Mother and Shui Yan. They hated her to the point that they wanted to steal her embroidery, and didn't even care about her life.
"Shui Yan … I have a younger sister called Shui Yan … We have the same father but different mothers … I always thought that she would at most throw a tantrum and throw a little tantrum … I didn't think that …" She choked up and couldn't continue.
She thought about the fear and helplessness after waking up in Dashi Mountain. She thought about how if Big Wolf and White Tiger hadn't both died. She thought about how if Xiaochun and Xiao Xue hadn't died. She thought about how if she hadn't saved Lin Siyao … Then, did that mean that she could have died no less than a hundred times?
(To be continued.
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