Chapter 27 Under the Moon

Chen Hui is not afraid to discuss sexual knowledge with people. She thinks that it is a common sense that humans should master. There is nothing to be shy about. In the past, she was also very excited when discussing with friends. But now the situation is really different. Her relationship with Li Youde is more awkward, and more importantly... she once broke one! If she confessed, of course she had to say what had been broken one.

"Hui Niang... Hui Niang can read some idle books on weekdays," Chen Hui said slowly, "and then he knew something."

"Oh? Yishu, what a free book." Li Youde looked very excited. He was laughing, but it made Chen Hui feel goosebumps all over his body. "I don't know what free book the female in the boudoir reads talks about those things."

Chen Hui thought, there are many things you don’t know, the vastness of the Internet is beyond your imagination!

"Just... that's the kind..." Chen Hui lowered her head, stirring her fingers with shame, and she wanted to get into the ground.

"Haha." Li Youde smiled gloomy twice, as if mocking her, but then changed his mind, "What else did you turn around in my room?"

Chen Huineng learned that Wang Youcai had sent something, the most likely explanation was that she sneaked into the chrysanthemum yard and climbed over his stuff that night. Both of them knew this.

Chen Hui looked up at Li Youde and said sincerely: "Dadfather-in-law, Hui Niang didn't flip around. That time, because I wanted to find a place to hide, I found something in the box at the end of the bed..."

Looking at Li Youde's face, Chen Hui whispered again: "Brother-in-law, there is another thing Hui Niang just remembered..."

"What's up?"

"...I accidentally broke one."

Li Youde had a little surprised expression: "What were you doing at that time?"

Chen Hui was embarrassed: "Dadfather, don't look at me like this. I did nothing! I was shocked when someone suddenly came. My hand slipped down and it fell and broke..."

Li Youde showed suspicion and seemed to believe her explanation.

Chen Huizhen felt that she was about to cry. She was a serious woman, but she was misunderstood by someone. This was the dead eunuch... In fact, the misunderstanding was small. If he misunderstood and thought, "Ah, since she is such a woman, you can play happily" what should he do!

"...Father-in-law, are we going to see those two shops?" Chen Hui had nothing to explain, so she had to change the topic.

Li Youde pulled the corner of his mouth clearly: "Go, why don't you go?" He looked back and asked Chen Hui again, "What did you like before?"

Chen Hui was stunned. She remembered that she was picking jewelry before, and nodded quickly and said, "I like a set of faces!"

Li Youde raised his chin: "Let the guy wrap it up, let's go."

"Thank you, father-in-law!" Chen Hui smiled sweetly at him. She felt that Li Youde looked so handsome at this time. As expected, having money can reduce the aesthetic vision of others a lot.

After the guy packed the set of hair that Chen Hui wanted and the hairpin she picked for Xiao Jia, the two walked out. The next stop was a bookstore, not far from Zhenbaozhai, so just walk over.

Chen Hui followed Li Youde a long distance, looking at everything around him strangely as she walked. This is the fresh air of ancient times, this is the taste of freedom!

Li Youde suddenly said, "Hui Niang, have you never left the house before?"

Chen Hui suddenly paused when she looked around and said obediently: "I've been out of here, but I don't go out often." She didn't know what happened to Chen Huiniang in the past, but she should be right to say this.

Li Youde snorted, so Chen Hui didn't dare to look around anymore. His question was obviously just reminding her not to act like a rustic bun.

Soon the two of them arrived at the door of a bookstore. Chen Hui looked up and saw four big words "Wangyuan Shushou" were engraved on the plaque and hung above her head.

Thinking that this will be her own thing in the future, Chen Hui looked excited. She actually owned a bookstore!

There were only two waiters and a few young men in the store, and some people saw Li Youde coming in, and his expression changed slightly, and he turned his head and seemed to be disgusting something. Some people focused on the books on the bookshelf and did not notice this.

When Chen Hui saw the reactions of those people, she looked at Li Youde and didn't know if he had noticed them. She only saw that his face was cold and unattainable.

She guessed that the scholars might not recognize who Li Youde was, but his identity has a unique temperament. They don’t know who he is, but they know his identity, so they act like this. She remembered the Wang Youcai I saw before. Not only did the two have similar temperaments, but they also had the same white makeup on their faces. Perhaps it was a popular dress in the palace today?

Although Chen Hui always calls Li Youde Li in her heart, she is basically when he does bad things like not keeping promises. These scholars clearly don’t recognize Li Youde, but they just despise him because of his identity... She looked at Li Youde’s calm appearance and felt a little uncomfortable. Perhaps because of her short hand, she saw that he was not as annoying as before.

Ada asked the shopkeeper to call out. When the shopkeeper heard that the boss was coming, he ran and showed up and apologized repeatedly.

Li Youde said: "From today on, Miss Chen will be your new boss. Today I will bring her to the place of recognition. You should be careful in the future and don't think she can fool you."

"Brother-in-law, what you said is that villains will never dare to fool Miss Chen!" The shopkeeper named Hu said hurriedly. How could he dare? He said that he would change the boss? This bookstore is still in the hands of Eunuch Li. He would have selfishness if he wants to die.

"That's good." Li Youde nodded arrogantly. At this time, A Er suddenly came over and said a few words in his ear. His expression changed, and his originally friendly expression instantly became cold. He suddenly turned around and walked out. Just after taking two steps, he remembered that Chen Hui was still there and turned to look at her.

Chen Hui hurriedly said, "Brother-in-law, please go ahead first if you have something to do. Hui Niang will go back by herself later."

Li Youde said: "Ada, stay, accompany Miss Chen to see the cloth shop before going back."

A Dabing nodded, probably.

After saying that, Li Youde left in a hurry.

Seeing Li Youde's back disappear, Chen Hui breathed a sigh of relief. When she was outside, shopping, Li Youde was not here yet! Is there anything more pleasant than this?

Chen Hui's bento is not big, so she asked the shopkeeper to go busy and read books with great enthusiasm. There are many books about classics, history, and collections here. She is not very interested and is specializing in reading books such as travel notes. However, these stories are still too routine for her, and the subject types are also something she doesn't like, so she just flips them casually like a naughty child, and has no intention of reading them.

This bookstore covers a large area, with four rooms, bright windows and clean windows, which is a very comfortable environment. Chen Hui looked around and got tired of it. Suddenly, she remembered Li Youde's reaction when she chose this bookstore before, and she couldn't help but feel curious.

The shopkeeper was in the back hall. Chen Hui asked the shopkeeper to take her over. When the shopkeeper saw her coming, he quickly got up. Chen Hui politely asked him to sit down. The shopkeeper made tea. Chen Hui glanced at Ada who was standing beside her. He knew that it was unlikely that he would let him avoid it for a while, so he didn't mention it. He just asked the shopkeeper, "Shopkeeper Hu, did Eunuch Li often come here before?"

Li Youde brought over a dozen shops at that time, and there was only one bookstore, and the rest were Zhenbaozhai, cloth shops, restaurants, etc., and his expression at that time also had something to be interesting. Since she came, she naturally had to figure it out, otherwise what if the information was not equal and caused trouble?

Manager Hu looked at Ada and smiled apologized: "Eunuch Li doesn't come often on weekdays, but he just comes to ask for some books sometimes."

Chen Hui asked with interest: "What books are they?"

"Well, this...most of them are collections of poems," said Manager Hu. "At the beginning, my father-in-law came to get some enlightenment books and works by everyone... and the others are nothing else."

Manager Hu was also cautious when answering questions, looking at A Da from time to time, for fear that he would accidentally say something wrong.

Chen Hui knew that Ada would probably return everything she asked to Li Youde. She didn't ask for anything but asked, and asked again: "Shopkeeper Hu, what did Eunuch Li do for those books?"

Manager Hu smiled and said, "This villain doesn't know anymore. Why would Miss Chen ask her father-in-law by herself?"

Chen Hui smiled and said, "That's it, that's fine."

According to her previous understanding of the eunuch group, although the situations in each era are different, the cultural level cannot be high. In some eras, emperors also prohibited eunuchs from literacy. Li Youde must have read, otherwise he would not be able to be the eunuch in charge of the seal, but she felt that his cultural level was unlikely to be very high. So he went back to take a collection of poems to cultivate his sentiment? She was a person who had been to his house and had not seen books in the house, so they were probably in the study room?

Chen Hui suddenly felt as if she had seen through a little secret of Li Youde. She became very happy and no longer felt embarrassed to look at Manager Hu who was restless as if she wanted to escape at all times. She asked Ada to take him to the cloth shop to see.

The cloth shop is not far away, so its name is "Li's Clothing Village". The shopkeeper Wu of the cloth shop naturally knew Ada. After hearing that the cloth shop now belongs to Chen Hui, he did not react much. But when Chen Hui went to visit, he quietly pulled Ada and asked him in a vague way who Chen Hui was from Eunuch Li.

Ada felt that this question was actually a bit difficult to define, so he thought about it and replied to him: "The person in the courtyard."

Manager Wu's eyes suddenly became a little subtle when he looked at Chen Hui. After a few more glances, he felt that the girl in front of him seemed a little different. He had seen another Miss Jiang in Eunuch Li's courtyard more than a year ago. The Miss Jiang looked like a lady from a wealthy family. When Eunuch Li brought her here, he looked full of resistance. He could understand which girl was willing to be a man without roots? But this Miss Chen was different. She looked very excited and did not seem to feel that it was hopeless to be with a eunuch. Instead, she was very happy, and even a bright light appeared in her eyes. I don't know which family was, who gave her a beautiful daughter to Eunuch Li in such a sin.

Chen Hui looked at the entire cloth shop, excitedly returned to Manager Wu, and asked him: "Manager Wu, do you recognize the tailor who makes clothes?"

Before Manager Wu could speak, Ada said, "Girl, if you want to make clothes, there is a special tailor in the mansion, so you don't have to look for it."

Chen Hui shook her head and said, "I don't make clothes."

She was just looking at the cloths in the cloth shop. She studied fashion design in college, and now she finally owns a cloth shop, so of course she has to try these cloths. She doesn't want to sell the clothes she designed. This is a cloth shop and not a ready-to-wear shop. She just wants to design something herself and then display it in the cloth shop, just to consider it a solo exhibition to satisfy her vanity. As for whether it will affect the cloth shop business... she doesn't care. This is her shop, she has the final say! Just hang two more clothes, which is not a problem.

Chen Hui thought about it, but she still didn't say what she planned. She just said perfunctory and said it wouldn't be too late when she wanted to do it.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, Chen Hui was reluctant to go back to the Li Mansion under the persuasion of Ada. The carriage Li Youde was riding in when he left before. After the carriage took him there, he came back. He took Chen Hui back to the Li Mansion and left again.

Chen Hui went back to the chrysanthemum yard and just finished dinner with Xiaoxiao. Li Youde did not come back. Chen Hui was so happy that she didn't have to see him. She walked around and ate in the yard with Xiaoxiao, and had nothing to do, so she fell asleep. She lived in a wing room, and the room was not small. In addition to a bed and a couch, Xiaoxiao slept on the couch.

After sleeping until midnight, Chen Hui was awakened by a rustling sound. She thought of a possibility in a daze and was so scared that she opened her eyes quickly. In the end, there was no figure she thought was in front of her, only a small shadow.

The relaxed breath suddenly became stuck and turned into a scream in an instant. Chen Hui turned over flexibly and rushed out of the door screaming.

Chen Hui had a childhood shadow for rats. When she was seven years old, she was bitten by a rat. At that time, she was sleeping in a daze and felt a pain in her mouth. When she opened her eyes, she found a huge mouse in front of her. Its small eyes seemed to have a dark and strange light flashed. She was frightened and woke her parents up. Then she took her to the hospital for bandage and disinfection overnight, and even received a rabies vaccine. The injections aggravated her childhood shadow. Since then, she has had a heartfelt fear of rats. Seeing the snake, she could control the fear in her heart and walked away slowly, but seeing the mouse is not enough. That kind of fear is no longer within her personal tolerance. When she was in the plum courtyard, perhaps because she had no food for people, she had never seen a mouse. Unexpectedly, she had seen a mouse on the first night of the chrysanthemum courtyard.

Chen Hui's screams were too shrill. When she ran out of the room and stood in the open space in the yard, people from other rooms rushed out.

When Li Youde ran out of the room, he thought there was an assassin. Seeing Chen Hui standing in the middle of the yard with her clothes alone, holding her and trembling, he immediately walked over and said, "What's the matter?"

Chen Hui was startled by his voice and shook her whole body. When she heard him clearly, she immediately twisted her body and hid behind him, pointing to the room she had been in front of her, her lips trembling, but she couldn't say a word.

Li Youde immediately looked fierce and turned his head to signal Ada and the others to go over and take a look, but he was not far ahead.

The servants slowly approached the wing room, and suddenly a white figure flashed inside. Everyone was startled and stopped. However, they saw Xiao Hu walking out with horror. Seeing the formation outside, she was so scared that her legs could hardly stand.

Chen Hui tried hard to take a deep breath to calm herself down, and her right hand unconsciously grabbed Li Youde's sleeve.

Li Youde turned his head and stared behind Xiao Xia with a more nervous expression. Then, he felt Chen Hui pull his sleeves, and then turned to look at her again, frowned and said, "Who is it?"

Chen Hui shook her head, took two more deep breaths, and finally made a low and dark sound: "It's... a mouse."

Li Youde's expression seemed a little puzzled: "Rat? Not an assassin?"

"That's so--the big mouse!" Chen Hui let go of him and drew a big circle on his chest.

In fact, she had visited a psychologist for this matter, but the progress was slow. Later, she thought that it was not easy to see mice in modern times, so she gave up. Even if she saw pictures of mice on weekdays, it was okay, but she couldn't face the mice. The most terrifying thing was the situation just now, the room was dim, and for a moment she seemed to have returned to the nightmare night when she was seven years old.

"Just for a mouse?" Li Youde was disbelief, his voice also raised a little bit, and he stared at Chen Hui fiercely, "Hui Niang, are you unwilling to stay in the chrysanthemum yard, are you deliberately looking for trouble?"

Chen Hui looked up slightly at him. The candlelight held by the servants around him illuminated his face. He had taken off his makeup at this moment. His ordinary face was the anger after being woken up and the coldness of thinking that Chen Hui was "deliberately making trouble".

Chen Hui shrank and felt wronged.

"I'm not...I'm really afraid..."

Chen Hui wanted to explain to herself, but heard Li Youde sneer and interrupt her: "Hui Niang, you are very brave in the past, and are you afraid of a little mouse?"

Today, he was studied in front of the emperor. Although he was not punished, he was also scolded. He had just returned and hadn't slept for a long time, but was quarreled by Chen Huiniang, so he naturally had no good attitude.

"But I'm just afraid." Chen Hui said in a low voice.

"What did you say?" Li Youde didn't hear her clearly or was dissatisfied, but he seemed to be eating her.

Chen Hui didn't say anything more. She acted so exaggeratedly in front of the mouse. In the past, only her parents and good friends who knew the inside story would understand her. Others would only think that she was intentional, saying that she was pretentious and doing something, there was no need for her to explain.

"Go back to sleep!" Li Youde said impatiently.
To be continued...