Wan Qiu looked at Lian Zhou, and Lian Zhou looked at him.

——A flash of surprise appeared in both of their eyes at the same time.

“Didn’t your previous outfit look pretty good? Why did you change it?” Lian Zhou took a few steps toward Wan Qiu, forcing the shivering person to lean against the corner.

“You, what are you doing?” Early morning, Wan Qiu was caught by Lian Zhou and given a lesson. He was truly afraid of him, he looked out the door anxiously: “Husband… Husband will be back soon, you… Don’t bully me.”

“What are you doing? Do you want to use him to suppress me? Do you think I’m afraid of him?”

Lian Zhou liked to see Wan Qiu react to him like a mouse seeing a cat. He pinched Wan Qiu’s smooth chin to make him look up at him, his eyes moving from the dark eyebrows that looked like distant mountains down to his torn, red, and swollen lips, and then settled on his clothes.

A sky-blue shirt and long skirt, the skirt layered like water patterns. The embroidery work didn’t look very complicated, but the material was luxurious and better than what he was wearing.

Lian Zhou sneered, thinking that Shan Yu was better off than himself in the end.

“You are so poor, you must never wear such good clothes, aren’t you? Are you feeling very proud?”

Lian Zhou asked Wan Qiu sarcastically: “What is there to be proud of? Why cover with your hair? Isn’t that ugly birthmark still there? If the wind blows a little, it will be seen. And these eyebrows, no matter how beautiful they are, it’s still fake drawing? When he leaves, will you still have these eyebrows and these clothes?”

As the saying said, a good word could warm people for three winters, but a bad word could hurt someone in the heat of summer.

Lian Zhou had a venomous mouth and was used to rubbing salt into other people’s wounds and poking them hard at their sore spots.

This was also the reason why Wan Qiu was afraid of Lian Zhou. He couldn’t fight back or resist the quarrel.

He could only suffer internal injuries.

“I didn’t hit you, and I didn’t scold you. Why are you crying?” Lian Zhou let go of Wan Qiu and took a few steps away. He crossed his arms and smiled at Wan Qiu’s trembling lips and red eyes, “Why do you cry so much? Are you a woman?”

Wan Qiu pursed his lips and looked at Shan Yu who appeared at the door. He wiped his eyes with his sleeves in grievance: “Husband, husband…”

Lian Zhou was stunned for a moment, and turned around to see Shan Yu standing at the door. He was facing the light and couldn’t see his face clearly.

“You dare to play tricks on me?” Lian Zhou felt that Wan Qiu was deliberately appearing weak in front of Shan Yu. He thought Wan Qiu was trying to sow discord between himself and Shan Yu. In anger, he raised his hand and slapped Wan Qiu, pointing at him and cursing: “Bitch!”

Shan Yu had just returned to the kitchen. He didn’t hear anything outrageous said by Lian Zhou and Wan Qiu. Of course, there was no such thing as Wan Qiu’s playing trick.

It was Lian Zhou who proved with his actions that his arrogant temper could no longer be tolerated.

Shan Yu stood at the door, watching helplessly as Lian Zhou slapped Wan Qiu, his fingers slightly clenched into a fist.

He didn’t scold Lian Zhou, nor did he step forward to help Wan Qiu. He just stood there, motionless.

“Did you see that?” Lian Zhou smiled proudly at Wan Qiu: “Shanzi is still on my side.”

Wan Qiu choked with sobs. He looked at the indifferent Shan Yu at the door. He didn’t know which was more tormenting, the pain on his face or the pain in his heart. For a moment, he just thought that all the sweetness before was a joke. He pushed Lian Zhou away and ran out…

But he was dragged back.

“Let go, let go…” The moment Wan Qiu was held by Shan Yu’s wrist, all the grievances turned into tears, which fell on the back of Shan Yu’s hand: “I’m leaving now, and I’ll leave with the child. I won’t be an eyesore to you anymore… Wu…”

Shan Yu did not comfort Wan Qiu, but only held his face and looked at him, and said to Lian Zhou who was standing aside watching the excitement: “I remember telling you that Wan Qiu is my person. Don’t bully him and make things difficult for me.”

He did say this, but Lian Zhou had long forgotten it.

“What about it? I already beat him just now.” Lian Zhou looked at Shan Yu very provocatively. Seeing his calm voice and normal expression, he became more and more convinced that Shan Yu would not do anything to him for the sake of an outsider like Wan Qiu. So, he said arrogantly, “If you have the ability, …”

There was a crisp sound, and a loud slap split the air and landed on Lian Zhou’s face.

Shan Yu used the back of his hand with seventy percent strength.

“Does it hurt?” Shan Yu asked Lian Zhou in a light voice after delivering the slap.

Looking at Shan Yu’s expression, his face remained as usual, without any sign of anger. Listening to his voice, his tone was smooth and calm, not showing any trace of anger. However, Wan Qiu, who was held in Shan Yu’s arms, saw… a handsome face. The eyes of those black lake were already ignited with a soul-stirring fire.

Wan Qiu and Lian Zhou were both stunned by Shan Yu’s slap. One stayed in Shan Yu’s arms and did not dare to move, while the other covered his face, dumbfounded.

Lian Zhou waited for a long time and didn’t realize what had happened. It wasn’t until the tearing pain came from the corner of his mouth that he later realized that Shan Yu… actually hit him for Wan Qiu? And with such force?

“You! You hit me because of this ugly monster… because of him?” Lian Zhou seemed to be in disbelief. He kept laughing when he spoke, and even cried while laughing. He rushed toward Shan Yu with a roar: “Shan Yu, I’ll fight you!”

Wan Qiu was startled and subconsciously buried his head in Shan Yu’s arms when he heard a cry of pain.

There were three small steps, more than half a meter high.

The moment Lian Zhou rushed forward, Shan Yu swung his sleeve mercilessly and knocked him down the steps. Lian Zhou lost his footing and fell into the snow.

He lowered his head and looked at the blood that flowed from his palms scratched by the ice, and raised his eyes blankly…

In the winter, the clouds opened and the sun was warm, and the cold wind was blowing. Shan Yu stood under the eaves with his sleeves and robe flying.

“Lian Zhou, this is the second time.”

The person who spoke still looked like a gentle and graceful gentleman, with a calm manner, and his tone was as always, neither light nor serious.

“There will be no next time.”

.

Shan Yu eradicated Lian Zhou’s habit of bullying Wan Qiu all at once, and of course, Lian Zhou also completely broken up with him.

Wan Qiu finally gained some confidence. When Shan Yu sat in the medicinal hall later after the new year, Wan Qiu no longer locked the courtyard door. Occasionally, when the weather was nice, he would go out for a walk with his child in his arms.

The small courtyard with three entrances and three exits had a good environment. There was no shortage of pavilions, waterside pavilions, and gardens. Around the small garden was the library.

He heard that the former owner of this courtyard was a scholar and had left a lot of poems and calligraphy notebooks. Even though Wan Qiu was illiterate, books were more precious to him than tea leaves.

He kissed the little bun in his arms and teased: “When you get a few years older, mother will send you to school and you can read the storybook to mother when you come back, okay?”

The little bun didn’t understand and was scratching at Wan Qiu’s clothes and groaning for milk.

Wan Qiu’s chest had just been ravaged by Shan Yu last night. Now, as the little guy scratched at him, he grimaced in pain. He hurriedly found a place to sit in the corridor, grabbed the little bun’s white and tender hands, and before he could speak, he heard a faint sound of reading coming from the half-open corner door.

The sound sounded like Lian Zhou’s voice.

Wan Qiu felt like a frightened bird. Just as he was about to leave with the little bun in his arms, he heard Lian Zhou reading from his favorite “Dream of Red Mansions.”

Note

Although Lian Zhou is a bit annoying but Wan Qiu and him will get friendly soon. He is not a kind person but with Wan Qiu’s weak personality having Lian Zhou as a friend is good too.