Lady of Fortune, Jiao Niang

On the third day after getting married, a bride would return to her maiden family; this is a human custom. Ye Jiao thought that she was a clever little ginseng. So since she decided to be a human, she had to learn to be an appropriate human being.

But in the evening before she returned to her maiden house, Qi Yun said he would accompany her to go home.

As Ye Jiao listened to his words, she felt as if she had taken a reassurance pill. She nodded obediently, but still did not go to her bed.

“What’s the matter?” The two still sleep on separate beds. Qi Yun had already laid down on the soft couch and covered himself with a quilt. But when he saw Ye Jiao still standing next to him, he wanted to sit back up.

Ye Jiao was sitting sideways on the edge of the couch. She reached out to grab his cuff and shook it gently.

The woman’s face is upright and beautiful, and her eyes are especially bright and beautiful. Even without any powder, she is still beautiful.

In the past, the original Ye Jiao was always hungry, and her chin had become small and pointed. But the essence of the ginseng spirit had nourished this body, made her pale face blushing red. So now, even though she is still thin, she looks great.

Probably because she especially liked the sweet-scented osmanthus cake during dinner, at this moment, Qi Yun seemed to smell the faint fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus.

The posture of the two people at this time made Qi Yun’s ears turn red.

He was frail and sick since he was a child, which was a problem since he was inside his mother’s womb. Even after Liu-shi had sought medical advice for so many years, it had not improved. Now, Liu-shi has become superstitious in God and Buddha, but Qi Yun’s body is still the same.

His weakness made Qi Yun hate to meet people since he was a child. He usually only lowered his head and read books. Liu-shi loves him, so she bought him a lot of books.

Among them, Qi Yun had also read a textbook about men and women.

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Between husband and wife, there is a specific thing that needs to be completed.

But… he has to take a deep breath every two steps, he can’t do anything to the person next to him.

Qi Yun couldn’t help but look at Ye Jiao, he moved his mouth and whispered, “Jiao Niang, why didn’t you go to sleep?”

Ye Jiao hesitated for a while. She raised her eyes and looked at Qi Yun. Then, she seemed to make a big decision, “My husband, I have something to ask you, so don’t go to sleep yet, is it okay?”

Qi Yun’s heart sank, thinking that it was indeed the case that she wanted to talk about those things.

He felt awkward, and his face subconsciously reflected his mind.

Under the flickering candlelight, his originally handsome face had become gloomy. His pale face looked a little scary at night.

Ye Jiao is not afraid of his appearance. When she was a ginseng, she saw a lot of strangely shaped things. When the little fox just learned to transform, she had a fox’s head and fox’s paws but a human body. Ye Jiao was not scared then.

What’s more, Ye Jiao thought the appearance of her mate looked very good. It didn’t matter if his face became paler. She only liked him more, and did not fear him.

But after getting along for a few days, Ye Jiao could tell when Qi Yun was happy and when he was uncomfortable.

When she saw him like this, Ye Jiao hurriedly grabbed Qi Yun’s hand and patted him on his chest with the other hand. She spoke faster than usual, “Don’t worry. If you don’t like it, I won’t eat anymore. It’s okay. I can sleep when I’m hungry.”

‘……what?’

Qi Yun raised his eyes and stared at her. It took a while before he realized that his beautiful lady was hungry.

Thinking of this, Qi Yun was a little bit dumbfounded.

Why didn’t he understand it clearly? Ye Jiao usually only wanted to eat or sleep, and didn’t care much about other things. Maybe Ye Jiao didn’t even know what he was thinking about.

Suddenly, he felt disgusted with the “bad thoughts” he had. Qi Yun immediately shook Ye Jiao’s hand and said to her, “Do you want to eat snacks or have a meal? If you want to have a meal, go call the chef to make it.”

Ye Jiao also knew that after nightfall, everyone in the family was asleep. She didn’t want to bother anyone, so she just said, “I will have snacks.”

Qi Yun stretched his finger to point at a small redwood cabinet not far away. “There is a box in it. If you are hungry, take some snacks from the box.”

Ye Jiao immediately let go of Qi Yun’s hand, ran over to open the cabinet door, and took out the only food box inside. She sat at the table, looked at the snacks inside, and smiled. She picked one up and stuffed it into her mouth.

Today’s snack had red bean paste inside, which was better than the snacks on her wedding night.

Ye Jiao squinted happily, but her gaze always drifted to Qi Yun from time to time.

She wanted to eat now, not because she was hungry, but to prepare herself for something she wanted to do tonight.

Qi Yun’s poor body was not because of a disease, but a congenital deficiency and physical weakness.

Physical weakness would not kill him. But because of his weak physique, even if it was just a cold wind that would be nothing for ordinary people, it can kill Qi Yun because of his body!

He can live to the present; it was also good luck in bad luck.

Ye Jiao knew that she was a ginseng spirit, and all she could do is nourishment. She is not a magical medicine for all diseases.

Before she could understand medicine in this world, Ye Jiao would use her own method to help Qi Yun.

The effect of holding hands in the past two days had been good, but today Ye Jiao will try something else while Qi Yun is sleeping.

‘Treatment is also physical work, so naturally I have to eat enough.’

Qi Yun looked at her sideways.

He never thought that he would be able to watch people eat food so comfortably. It was said that looking at beauties under the moon was the most heart moving, but he felt that this cheeky lady who ate under the candlelight looked the best in his eyes.

After watching for a while, Qi Yun closed his eyes and fell asleep.

While he was half-dreaming and half-awake, he felt that someone was holding his hand.

It was as smooth as silk.

Then, a soft body squeezed between his arms, with a fragrant osmanthus smell.

He could vaguely hear a soft voice: “Xianggong, you have to be healthy and live a long life.”

Qi Yun thought: ‘This is probably a dream, after all, even mother does not expect me to live long.’

But he was still happy, because the voice was from Ye Jiao.

Even if he knew that the words in the dream were not true, Qi Yun still felt warm.

Qi Yun had a good dream all night.

It seemed that after Ye Jiao came, he rarely had nightmares.

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When he woke up in the morning, the man didn’t call Ye Jiao, who was still sleeping soundly. He put on his coat and lightly went to take the account book sent two days ago.

The Qi family had some spare money, but their previous generations depended on the land for their livelihoods. Even though they were the largest landlords around here, and there were also many villagers working for them, the whole family still didn’t know anything about business.

In their generation, the imperial court completely opened up the restrictions on the business people. Whether it was a rich official or a trafficker, or even a monk in the temple, everyone was willing to make a living.

The Qi family also wanted to get a piece of the pie, but the first son, Qi Zhao, was not sensitive to numbers. The third son, Qi Ming, had to study and take the imperial test. So the job of checking the accounts finally fell to Qi Yun.

For Qi Yun, this matter was not troublesome. He even thought it was extremely simple.

He was smart since he was a child and never forgot anything. God probably compensated for his bad body by giving him a clever head. Qi Yun could manage the liquor store and drugstore of his family properly without any effort. The income was not too much, but it was also not too little.

However, he really couldn’t care about any aggressive business practice. It would be too difficult for him. Who would expect a person who is waiting to die every day to be in the mood to make the liquor store and drugstore prosperous?

But now it’s different. Qi Yun knows that this matter is important, not only to himself, but also for the gluttonous and sleepy little lady who is relying on him. Now he had to care about things that he didn’t care about before.

It is like a person who has been walking in the dark suddenly sees the light. Even if it is very weak, it can give him some desire to live.

Qi Yun took out the ledger he had read roughly before and took a closer look.

But when he was flipping through it, he found an old account.

The Qi family’s tavern had a bad debt. About half a year ago, someone did business with their tavern, lost the capital, and owed a sum of money to them.

And this person is Ye Erlang.

Qi Yun had heard of it. The Ye family originally had some family background. Still, after Ye Dalang left, Ye Erlang would always go out and make trouble, but he couldn’t make anything. The money he owed to other people might be not less than what he owed to the Qi family. Otherwise, he won’t be able to exchange his own sister for money.

It is reasonable to say that this account should not be pursued. Probably Ye Erlang owed a lot of money everywhere, so if he didn’t remember, it would probably be normal. Besides, the two families are now married. This amount of money did not seem to be a big deal to Qi Yun even if it’s lost.

But he did not erase the account, nor had he torn up the IOU.

He lifted his eyes to look at Ye Jiao, and then Qi Yun bowed his head for some unknown reason. He put his pen back, put the IOU back in the notebook, and clamped it back inside. He tightened his coat and was about to stand up.

But he suddenly felt a little dizzy.

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He grasped the table for a while, but finally couldn’t hold it anymore. His eyes went dark, and he fell back on the chair!

The pen holder on the table fell, and Ye Jiao opened her eyes immediately. She opened the curtain on the bed in surprise.

In order to nourish his body last night, she slept with Qi Yun all night. Only when the rooster cried, she quietly left the couch and went to the bed.

As a result, as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Qi Yun sitting there with a pale face. Ye Jiao didn’t care about putting on shoes. She got out of the bed and ran barefoot to him and hugged the man.

Qi Yun closed his eyes and frowned, letting the woman take him into her arms. He felt as if he was in a trance, but he couldn’t even open his eyes.

“Xianggong?” Ye Jiao was a little anxious. She tried to touch him, but as soon as her hand touched the man’s face, she felt heat on her fingertips.

Qi Yun has a fever.