After Xu finished sticking the needles, she asked Xiao Si to send her back.
Most of the morning passed quickly, and just before noon, Dr. Yao couldn’t wait to stop teaching and said with a smile, “Disciple, let’s have hotpot at noon?”
“Let’s eat whatever Master says!”
Dr. Yao’s heart was so happy. If he had known this, he should have insisted on accepting Song Wan Yue as his apprentice when she first learned acupuncture from him.
“Go and tell the young master to prepare some more mutton and eat it in our courtyard.”
Song Wangyue got up and went to find Gu Yi.
Gu Yi had expected that Doctor Yao would be eating hot pot, and had long ago asked the people in the kitchen to prepare the ingredients, instructing Xiao Si, “Call Master Chu over as well.”
Xiao Si went to call for someone.
Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue went over first.
It had been many days since he last ate hotpot, he was dying of cravings, and today he could finally eat again.
When the woman came to the table with her sword in her arms, Dr Yao subconsciously had to get up.
“Ahem ……”
Gu Yi covered his mouth and coughed twice, and Dr. Yao sat still.
The woman sat down beside him, her icy eyes swept over him carelessly, and Doctor Yao’s heart tightened as he sat up straight.
“This is a hot pot that the little girl has worked out, Miss Chu is just in time to try it.”
The woman nodded slightly, “Many thanks to Young Master Gu.”
“No thanks, we’re all family now, Miss Chu take more care of little girl.”
“Learning martial arts is all about hard work, if you want me to take more care, you might as well not learn, so as not to delay everyone’s work.”
Gu Yi froze as he choked.
Doctor Yao immediately rounded up, “That’s not what the young master meant, he meant ……”
“Say what ……”
The woman asked in a cold voice.
“Say, say, say ……”
Gu Yi took the words over, “It’s my fault, since I invited Miss Chu over, I shouldn’t have interfered, please don’t be angry yet.”
“In that case, I’ll also say the ugly words up front, in the future, but in all matters of martial arts, no one is allowed to point their fingers. Since Miss Song has already paid her respects, she can’t back out halfway, and I won’t allow it.”
Song Wan Yue was busy saying, “Don’t worry, Master, I will insist.”
“It’s best if you do, I’m not close to people, and don’t hold out any luck that you’re the future young lady of the Gu family and let me relax my demands.”
“Yue’er will remember Master’s teachings.”
As the water in the pot began to boil, Doctor Yao was busy digressing, “Master Chu, let me tell you, the wonderful thing about this hot pot is that it makes you feel very good to eat, you nah, feel it properly in a moment.”
Only then did the woman’s eyes fall on the hot pot, watching Xiao Si pour a pot of mutton into each of the three pots and stir it with chopsticks, her brow furrowed for a moment, then instantly relaxed.
The meat changed colour and Gu Yi took chopsticks and put them in Song Wangyue’s bowl, the chopsticks that Yao Dafu also extended, the woman then put her sword down, hesitantly extended her chopsticks, picked up the most marginal piece of meat and put it in the bowl of seasoning, looking sideways at how Song Wangyue dipped it, she followed suit, picked it up and put it in her mouth, chewed a mouthful and then paused before continuing to eat again.
The food was not like the old days when she ate in a hurry.
The meal was as quiet as it had ever been, and the woman finished eating and left with her sword in her arms.
He picked up a plate of meat and poured it into the pot, stirred it with his own chopsticks, then picked up a large chopstick and put it into his bowl, took a big bite and exhaled comfortably.
Song Wan Yue,……
Gu Yi got up rather disgustedly and pulled Song Wan Yue to the courtyard prepared for her.
“Young master, Miss Song.”
Daya saluted towards the two.
Song Wangyue was surprised.
“From now on she will serve you in your courtyard.”
Song Wan Yue instantly understood Gu Yi’s arrangement, she was only here during the day, she had to go to study medicine in the morning and martial arts in the afternoon, she didn’t have much time to spend in the courtyard, when Daya came over, there was actually not much to do.
“Then I’ll trouble Sister Daya.”
“Slave servant doesn’t dare to bear the name Miss Song, you should still call me Daya.”
Having been in the Gu family for so long, Daya had been trained to be very disciplined and did not dare to overstep the mark at all.
“That’s fine, I will trouble Daya from now on.”
“It’s all what the servant should do.”
The house was not large, but it was fully furnished with everything inside, and the charcoal was lit inside, so it was warm when you entered.
Gu Yi walked straight to a wardrobe and opened it, it was full of clothes, all kinds of colours and styles.
“Little girl, these are all the ones I had people prepare for you, do you like them?”
Song Wangyue walked over, looked at them carefully and nodded her head, “Very much.”
Gu Yi narrowed her eyes with a smile and opened another box on the table, which was full of beaded flowers, “These are also the ones I specially picked out for you, each pair matches a different colour of dress.”
“Thank you.”
Gu Yi’s eyebrows arched, ever since the day he said he would hire a master for Song Wan Yue, he had been asking people to choose fabrics for her, asking the embroiderers in the house to make her clothes, and he himself went around buying beaded flowers, and after he bought them, he specially helped to match them.
“Then you can make me more delicious snacks when you have time.”
“Sure.”
Gu Yi was satisfied and went to sit down at the table, Song Wan Yue also followed and sat down, Daya brought in tea and placed it in front of the two of them respectively, and then retreated, standing at the door with Xiao Si left and right.
Xiao Si glanced at her, but saw that she was watching her eyes and nose and withdrew her gaze.
After resting for a little over half an hour, Gu Yi took Song Wan Yue to Master Chu’s courtyard.
Master Chu lived a little further away from here, at the western end of the house, and there was no servant at the entrance of the courtyard.
As they approached the courtyard door, they could faintly hear the sound of a woman practising her sword.
The two of them walked in side by side.
“Chu ……”
Master Chu pointed his foot and the sword in his hand came straight towards Song Wangyue.
Song Wangyue narrowed her eyes slightly, seeing that Master Chu showed no sign of stopping, she leaned her body back, Master Chu’s sword slashed past the tip of her nose and landed on the ground, the tip of the sword nudged the ground in a smooth manner and attacked again.
Song Wangyue retreated several steps while pulling off her cloak and wrapping it around the tip of her sword, and then kicked Master Chu’s feet. As Master Chu was forced to retreat, the cloak on the tip of his sword fell to the ground, but Song Wangyue grabbed it and quickly got up and put it on again.
“Master Chu, bear with me.”
Xiao Si couldn’t believe his eyes, Miss Song actually, actually knew martial arts? He instantly looked at Gu Yi and was even more surprised to see that he was not surprised at all, could it be that Young Master had known that Miss Song knew martial arts?
“Indeed, she is a moldable talent, but her body is too thin, she needs to strengthen her training. ”
The woman said, pointing to the large mountain in the distance, “In two quarters of an hour, run a round trip.”
Xiao Si drew in a breath, this courtyard was at least five miles from the big mountain, a ten mile round trip, how could he run back in two quarters of an hour?
