Without saying a word, Song Wangyue re-untied her cloak and gave it to Gu Yi and began to move her ankles.
“I’ll go with you.”
Gu Yi gestured for Xiao Si to come in, gave him the cloak, and also followed Song Wan Yue’s example of moving her ankles.
“Young Master Gu stays behind, I have something to say to you.”
“Chu ……”
The woman had already lifted her feet and headed inside.
Song Wangyue patted Gu Yi’s shoulder, signaling him to put his mind at ease.
In her last life, when she was training, running twenty kilometres was a common thing, such a short distance was a piece of cake.
Gu Yi took the cloak back from Xiao Si’s hand again, “You follow.”
Song Wangyue had already run out, and Xiao Si hurried to follow.
Gu Yi chased her to the door and watched the two run away before she turned around and went inside.
“He’s still young, you don’t have to be so harsh.”
The woman looked at him, her eyes in a trance for a moment, as if she was looking at someone through him, her voice indistinct, as if it was coming from afar, “Back then, the king just felt sorry for the royal concubine and didn’t want her to suffer, so he didn’t let her train in martial arts, so much so that she died like that later. If you don’t want Miss Song to end up like that, you can’t be soft-hearted.”
“Goo ……”
The woman snapped back to her senses, her eyes stern as she looked over, and Gu Yi instantly swallowed back the word that followed.
The woman’s cold voice rang out in the room, “Young Master Gu remember, I am the master your family has hired, my surname is Chu.”
……
Song Wangyue had overestimated this body of hers and was already exhausted before she could run two miles away.
Xiao Si looked back and forth and whispered, “Miss Song, why don’t we take a break?”
Song Wan Yue gritted her teeth and shook her head, exhaled a few deep breaths, adjusted her breathing, and continued to run forward.
“Actually, you don’t need to be so desperate, even if you can’t run back in two quarters, I don’t think Miss Chu will punish you, let’s take a break and run again.”
The young master had sent him here to accompany Miss Song, if Song Wangyue got tired, the young master could pick his skin back.
“Shut up!”
Xiao Si obediently stopped talking and deliberately panted heavily as if he was exhausted.
Song Wangyue resisted the urge to kick him, gritting her teeth and insisting on running to the foot of the hill, without stopping, she turned around and ran back again, and by the time she ran back to Master Chu’s courtyard, it was already half an hour old.
“It took two more quarters of an hour, tomorrow we’ll run twice as long, that’s all for today.”
After saying this, the woman turned and walked into the house.
Gu Yi heartily walked over and tied the cloak for her, and took a handkerchief to help her wipe the sweat off her face, squatting down in front of her, “Come up, I’ll carry you back.”
“Young Master Gu is carrying her back today, is he running for her tomorrow?”
The woman’s cold voice came from inside the house, “If that’s really the case, I don’t think she needs to come tomorrow, I can’t teach such a petulant disciple.”
Gu Yi stood up in a panic and glared discontentedly towards the house, Song Wan Yue happened to see it and almost lost her smile.
“Let’s go, I’m fine.”
Gu Yi helped her to walk outside, and Xiao Si silently followed behind.
“What are you doing following? Don’t let anyone boil hot water yet!”
Gu Yi was so angry that Xiao Si didn’t even dare to answer, and ran towards Song Wan Yue’s courtyard without pulling his legs. When Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue walked back to the courtyard, Daya had already finished boiling the hot water, carried it to the bath room and poured it into the bath tub.
“Young master, I’ll do it.”
Daya went forward to help, but Gu Yi let go of his hand and went back to his room to get a set of clothes that matched the colour of his cloak and put them outside the bath room, telling Daya through the door. Daya came out and took them in, put them on the special rack for clothes, scooped up water and helped Song Wangyue rinse her body.
“I’ll do it myself.”
Song Wan Yue held out her hand for the ladle of water, the blended bucket of hot water was right next to the bath, and she was able to reach for it as soon as she reached out.
Daya dodged, “Slave servant will do it.”
Song Wangyue’s hand withdrew, allowing her to slowly pour a few more scoops of water over her body.
“Sister Daya, you haven’t seen Auntie and Erma for a long time, have you?”
Daya gave a “hmm”.
“I’ll bring Erma over to play with you tomorrow.”
“No!”
Da Ya finished, noticing that she sounded eager, and quickly said, “Miss Song, forgive me, slave servant means that slave servant has to serve you and has no time to play with Er Ya.”
“That’s fine for the morning, I’ll go to Doctor Yao’s to learn the art of healing, and you have nothing to do in the courtyard, so you can just play with Erma.”
“I ……”
“It’s a deal, I’ll bring her over tomorrow.”
It was a long time before Daya made another sound, “Slave servant thanks Miss Song.”
After bathing and changing her clothes, Song Wan Yue went to the main room and moved a stool to sit by the charcoal pot to roast her hair. Gu Yi also moved a stool over and brought the table over, setting up a chess board, “Little girl, let’s play two games.”
“Sure.”
Song Wangyue glanced at him and put the paddle in her hand on the table, gesturing for him to play first. Gu Yi was not polite, and dropped a piece, followed by Song Wan Yue. Neither of them hid their strength, and they went back and forth, killing each other with every step.
Xiao Si and Daya stood outside the door, one on the left and one on the back. Xiao Si didn’t feel anything, after all, he had already seen it on the way to the capital, but Daya couldn’t help but glance inside the house several times.
“Don’t be curious about what you shouldn’t be curious about.”
Daya gave a jolt and instantly collected her thoughts.
Xiao Si knocked her, “We as subordinates, apart from serving our master well, must always admonish ourselves that we are not allowed to be curious about anything about our master.”
The eldest maid’s head hung lower, “I, I know.”
Inside the house, Gu Yi and Song Wan Yue were at each other’s throats, and a game of chess was played for over an hour, with Song Wan Yue eventually winning by one piece.
Gu Yi threw the chess piece in his hand back into the chess box and looked at him with burning eyes. Since he was five years old, no one had been his opponent, and Song Wan Yue was the first and only person who had beaten him in the past few years.
“One more game!”
He said, picking up and raking all the black pieces inside.
Song Wangyue pointed out.
He looked over with it, then realised it was getting late, and reluctantly put the chess box on the table, “Then we’ll continue tomorrow.”
Tomorrow she had to run twenty miles, Song Wan Yue didn’t know what she would be like running down, she didn’t answer him, “Let’s talk tomorrow, you don’t need to send me, just let Xiao Si send me back.”
As soon as the words left her mouth, a little boy entered the courtyard.
Xiao Si looked over, the boy quickly walked up to him and whispered a few words, Xiao Si nodded, waved his hand for him to retreat and raised his voice, “Young Master, Master Song has come to pick up the girl.”
Song Wan Yue got up, tied her hair casually behind her head with a hairband and put on her cloak again, “You don’t need to ask Xiao Si to pick it up in the morning either, my father will send me and my mother over.”
Gu Yi sent her over.
Seeing that Song Wan Yue had not only changed her clothes, but even her hair was tied casually, Song Lin’s face darkened and he didn’t even answer Gu Yi’s greeting, waiting for Song Wan Yue to get on the carriage and rushing off straight away.
