Chapter 73 The reenactment of the scene (1)
Seeing Chen Hui with her head down and almost curled into a ball, Li Youde suppressed the discomfort in his heart and scolded coldly, “It is already painful to such a state, what nonsense are you still talking about?!”
He disregarded Chen Hui’s powerless and weak struggle. He grabbed her and let her sat on his lap with his back facing the seat. His arms encircled around her and both his hands intersected at her abdomen.
Li Youde’s hands were larger and warmer than Chen Hui’s but for the sharp pain in her abdomen at the moment, it was nothing but a drop in the bucket. Perhaps, it was because the feeling of being cared for by someone felt good, Chen Hui felt that the pain in her abdomen seemed to ease a little. Her back that had become stiff from the pain seemed to relax. She slowly leaned back in Li Youde’s arms.
Li Youde tilted his head slightly, avoiding the fragrance of the same talcum powder as him on her, and was speechless for a while.
Chen Hui closed her eyes slightly and didn’t think too much. People were fragile when they were in pain. And Chen Hui was unwilling to think too much at this moment.
It was unknown how much time has passed when Chen Hui suddenly said, “Lord, this Lady Chen has a question.”
Li Youde had already gotten PTSD from this pattern of Chen Hui. Taking into consideration that she suffering from pain and that it wasn’t good for him to be unyielding now, he hesitated for a moment before asking, “…What?”
“If this Lady Chen accidentally soiled lord’s clothes, will lord blame this Lady Chen?” Chen Hui asked in a low voice.
Li Youde didn’t quite understand, “What?”
Chen Hui said, “…Might’ve leaked.”
Li Youde was dumbstruck for a moment before he understood what Chen Hui meant. He glanced at her slightly red ears. His mood suddenly turned for the better. He humphed smilingly and said, “If it leaked, let it leak. If the clothes are soiled, just throw them away!”
Chen Hui sighed in her heart. People who grew up in a pile of palace women were indeed different. They are really not shy when talking about these womanly problems.
“Thank you, lord.”
Chen Hui thanked him in a low voice. She didn’t say anything more afterwards.
Amidst the gentle bumps of the carriage, Li Youde leaned against the wall of the carriage. He gently hugged Chen Hui with a rare peace of mind.
After another while, Chen Hui felt a bit better. So, she moved her already stiff body and said, “Lord, this Lady Chen feels much better now.”
Li Youde didn’t respond.
“Lord?”
Chen Hui turned her head. She saw that Li Youde was asleep against the wall of the carriage. Before embarking on the journey today, he had powdered his face white as usual. He looked quite like a puppet now that he was sitting with his eyes closed. It was not the kind in horror stories, but the warm kind that accompanied children in fairy tales.
Chen Hui didn’t wake him up. After watching him for a while, she turned her head back and gently leaned into his arms.
Really, why be so stubborn? He obviously couldn’t bear to see her in pain and wanted to help relieve her pain. It was already like this, but he happened to refuse to speak the truth.
She closed her eyes and humphed once in her heart. It was his loss. She is not the one in a hurry.
When it was time to take a break at noon, Chen Hui went to change her menstrual belt with Li Youde again. Although Li Youde was not embarrassed, he still stood far away.
Chen Hui was too embarrassed to find an open space. She slipped down a slope and took out a new menstrual belt to replace the old one. Under the circumstances that she couldn’t wash it, she could only throw it at a corner and cover it with leaves. She had prepared a lot before she set off for the journey. She prepared them for one-time use. Hence, it was enough for her until the end of this time.
While Chen Hui was getting rid of the evidence, she suddenly heard the sound of someone approaching. Just as she was wondering whether it was Li Youde who felt that she had been here for too long, she heard two voices having a conversation.
“Lord Li’s carriage is really big. It would be so great if I also can ride in it,” A slightly young voice said.
Another person laughed ambiguously and said, “You also want to be a (gay) eunuch?”
She heard a rustling sound and then the sound of water.
“You mean…the eunuch who stayed in the carriage with Lord Li every day?”
“Who else could I mean except for him? His appearance is so delicate. If I am Lord Li, I would also want him to be my personal servant! Have a guess, between Lord Li and that little eunuch, who do you think is on the top and bottom?”
“This…is there a difference?”
The other person laughed, “No! But from my point of view, maybe it’s…”
He hasn’t finished speaking when he heard a heavy cough.
The two were dumbstruck and quickly shouted, “Who?! Come out!” The two of them yelled and tied their trousers in a hurry.
Chen Hui took two steps out, allowing the two to see her. In fact, she wanted to give them a reminder when they were talking about Lord Li, but before she could remind them, they started to pee. She was so scared that she hid away in a hurry. When she coughed to catch the attention of the two, they had already said everything that shouldn’t be said…
“I am Lord Li’s personal servant,” Chen Hui said.
The two were dressed like soldiers. When they heard that, they were dumbstruck before quickly saying, “This little one, this little one didn’t deliberately offend…Sir, please spare us!”
Was there anything more terrifying than being caught by the one you were talking about behind his back? There is…if that person is cruel and vicious!
Just as Chen Hui was about to speak, she heard a gloomy voice say casually, “Each and every one only knows to gossip. What use is there to keep you? Wouldn’t it be better to cut it and save some food for the army?”
Chen Hui’s location was low. She could see the two standing on the top of the slope but she couldn’t see Li Youde who was a bit farther away. When she climbed up, the two soldiers had already knelt tremblingly. If they hadn’t just peed, they would’ve peed their pants now from fright.
While the two kept kowtowing and asking lord to spare their life, Chen Hui walked over under Li Youde’s gaze.
Seeing that she was fine, Li Youde looked coldly at the two people again and sneered, “I have been more tolerant recently, do you, dogs, think that I, Lord Li, is easy to bully now?”
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