"This small hut is not for loan. You guys can go." Liu Yidao turned his back to Rong Yi and Fu Chengfeng, a 'you can leave slowly without me sending you off' gesture.
Rong Yi let out a long sigh and said to Fu Chengfeng, "Let's just go and stay at the broken temple."
Fu Chengfeng raised his eyebrows and looked at her for a long time. Seeing a mischievous look in her eyes, he instantly understood and remembered to cooperate as he said, "I don't live in a broken temple. If you want to live there, you can go alone."
"Where else can you stay if not in a broken temple? All the inns in the city have refused to let us stay at the behest of Yun Hendong." Rong Yi said.
Fu Chengfeng: "I'll stay in a brothel, and you are free to do as you wish."
With a hurt expression, Rong Yi said, "Adopted Brother, you are too much."
"Could it be that you want to stay in the brothel with me?" Fu Chengfeng asked.
Rong Yi pursed her lips and responded, "If my parents knew I was living in a place like a brothel, they would beat me to death."
Beaten you to death? Didn't your parents once live too happily in a brothel? Fu Chengfeng's heart spat out all sorts of things, but his expression remained unchanged, and he still put up an act, "Then you can just stay in the broken temple. Otherwise……"
Rong Yi: "Otherwise, what?"
Fu Chengfeng: "Otherwise, you can sleep in the street."
"How can you bear to let me, a girl, sleep on the street! Adopted Brother, you're really too much!" Rong Yi countered with extreme exaggeration.
Fu Chengfeng gave an expression of innocence. "I also want to find a suitable place for you to live, but what can I do if someone isn't willing to lend me a place?"
Rong Yi pouted and looked pitifully at Liu Yidao.
Liu Yidao was silent for a short while before coldly saying, "I still have a house in the city."
Liu Yidao knew full well that the two were purposely echoing each other for him to listen, but he could not help but jump into the trap simply because he knew that Rong Yi was the most innocent in this whole thing. Since he had kidnapped her once, he should have helped her once as compensation.
*
The house Liu Yidao was talking about was the same private house that had once used to indulge Rong Yi. Rong Yi's heart was very complicated as she revisited the old place. "Where are the two burly doorkeepers?" Rong Yi asked, looking at the empty house.
Liu Yidao: "We can't let the others know you live here." The implication was that everyone else had been sent away by him.
Rong Yi nodded in understanding. "Thank you."
"No need." Liu Yidao gave Fu Chengfeng a stern look and said, "Staying in the city will do you no good. You should leave as soon as possible."
Fu Chengfeng curled his lips into a smile. "Thanks for the reminder. I will consider your suggestion."
After Liu Yidao left, Fu Chengfeng smilingly sat down towards the main seat and said, "I have observed that there is only one room in the attic of this private house. When viewed from the room's appearance, it should have been occupied by a gongzi1. It seems that the family who built this house does not have a daughter."
Rong Yi wondered as she walked over and sat down on the secondary seat, pouring water while asking, "Does this have anything to do with what we're looking for?"
"It has nothing to do with that matter, but it does have something to do with us. Since the upstairs is the room where a gongzi1 once lived, then, of course, I should be the one to stay upstairs." Fu Chengfeng stated.
"What about me?" Rong Yi raised her eyebrows. This private house was very simple. Apart from a loft upstairs, there was only a master bedroom downstairs. She had lived upstairs when she was placed here, and the two bulky men guarding her took turns sleeping in the bedroom downstairs.
Rong Yi knew with the back of her head that Liu Yidao would never be attentive enough to change the bedding in the master bedroom.
The thought of sleeping in the same room the two bulky men had slept in gave Rong Yi a chill, and she immediately said, "I'll stay upstairs."
"Are you sure?" Fu Chengfeng asked, narrowing his eyes.
Rong Yi nodded heavily. "Yes."
"Alright. It's getting late. Let's go and rest." After saying that, Fu Chengfeng stood up and stretched his back to go upstairs.
"Hey, we've just agreed that I'll stay upstairs, and you'll stay downstairs. What are you doing by going upstairs?" Rong Yi asked.
Fu Chengfeng turned around, stared at her and thought for a moment. "Did I agree with you? Why don't I remember?"
"You clearly agreed to let me stay upstairs." Is this guy trying to play dumb? Rong Yi's expression was insistent.
Fu Chengfeng: "Yes, I did, and I'm not going to backtrack now. You can go upstairs whenever you want." At the end of his sentence, he added, "As long as it's not too small, it's not a problem for two people to squeeze in. If we can't, you can sleep on me. I don't mind being your board."
Rong Yi was dumbfounded. He thought she wanted to sleep with him⸺on, the, same, bed? And even wanted to be her board?
He, he, he...... he didn't even know that unmarried men and women shouldn't have physical contact?🦊
Seeing that Fu Chengfeng had already gone upstairs, Rong Yi also dawdled behind him, pointed at him lying flat on the bed, with his hands as a pillow, and accused, "Tell me the truth. Are you trying to lose your virginity to me on purpose so that you can blackmail me for my silver?"
Fu Chengfeng was so stunned by Rong Yi's words that he almost lost his breath. Losing his virginity to her was fine; after all, he did have that kind of 'bad intentions'. But what did she mean by blackmailing her for her silver? Did he look like a shabby man who had fallen into the eyes of money3?
"Yi-er, that's truly insulting." Fu Chengfeng said as he sat up with a hurtful look.
"Ugh." Rong Yi also realised that her words seemed a little too direct, and after thinking for a moment, she changed her words, "Do you want to lure me into losing my virginity in your hands so that you can take over my family's property?"
He, he...... he was too sad to live. Fu Chengfeng looked at Rong Yi with a bloodless face, with all sorts of offensive remarks he wanted to spit out colliding in his head, so much so that he became speechless.
Seeing that Fu Chengfeng did not say anything, Rong Yi alertly gathered her lapels and asked, "Was I right?"
Fu Chengfeng forced down a mouthful of black blood in his mouth and gazed at her for a few seconds before saying, "I suddenly have a feeling that you have molested me. Tell me honestly, are you molesting me, Yi-er?"
Rong Yi's eyebrows furrowed at that, and she questioned, "How could you have that illusion? That is so shameless."
"......" How did this have anything to do with shamelessness? Although he was shameless at times, at this moment, it was unquestionably her who was playing the hooligan, okay? Or maybe this scene was only happening in his head, and she honestly said, 'it's a nice day'......
"Whatever you imagine in your head, I'll just tell you straight away that it's never going to happen. I'm a very principled person, and I advise you to let your thoughts die sooner." Rong Yi said coolly.
Imagine...... he hadn't thought of anything like that before. He was just thinking of sleeping, seriously sleeping. Now that Rong Yi had brought it up, he began thinking of that instead.
Following her example, Fu Chengfeng also gathered his lapels close to his body and fearfully said, "Fortunately, you are a person of principle."
Rong Yi's eyes widened. What kind of statement was he making? Did he think she would molest him?
Fu Chengfeng added, "Don't misunderstand. I mean, fortunately, there is one of us who has principles. Otherwise when the time comes for us to share a quilt and pillow4, we will become dry woods near a raging fire5. We are bound to accidentally shoot while polishing a gun6, and then my family properties will be in danger of being seized by you."
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"I'm seizing your family properties?" Rong Yi pointed at herself, with her voice changed in pitch from disbelief, bordering on a shriek.
Fu Chengfeng gave her a sidelong glance. "Do you think you're the only one who has family properties? I also have them, okay? These words of yours are too insulting."
"...... Don't worry, I'm not even half interested in your family properties." Rong Yi put on a disdainful face.
Fu Chengfeng: "Look at that. You're insulting people again."
"How…… How did I insult you?"
"You look down on my family properties."
Rong Yi was speechless and looked up at the heavens. She took a long breath before responding, "The fact that I am not interested in your family properties shows that I am upright. It was in no way to insult you."
"You're insulting people again."
"......" Rong Yi put her hands on her hips. "Fu Chengfeng, behave yourself! Which of my words have insulted you?"
"You said you were upright. But you were insinuating that I was not upright."
"You are already not upright in the first place."
"You're insulting me again."
"......" Rong Yi held her forehead and was about to fume when she suddenly realised something was wrong and immediately raised her eyebrows, asking, "Fu Chengfeng, are you molesting me?"
"How can you have that illusion? What a shameless thing to do." Fu Chengfeng criticised bitterly.
"......"
Rong Yi rolled her eyes, pulled him off the bed, grabbed his seat, and said, "You go sleep downstairs."
"Not going."
"You...... Don't you know that unmarried men and women shouldn't have physical contact?"
"You're the one who requested me to sleep at the same place with you. I don't dislike you, but you unexpectedly dislike me?"
"I ......" That was a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!
"Even if you drive me down now, I'll still climb up in the middle of the night. Don't you think it's scary to have a man suddenly appear by your side in the middle of the night?" Fu Chengfeng asked.
Rong Yi: "That's not scary. That's very scary."
"Then don't drive me down there, so I don't need to climb up here at midnight."
"......" No matter how one listened to this logic, it sounded with a hint of shamelessness in it.
In the end, Rong Yi chose to let Fu Chengfeng stay.
If anyone asked her why?
It was because she was shameless, too!
Having a handsome young man with a powerful martial arts background close by, Rong Yi would feel a sense of security and fill her vanity to a bursting point. Even if she accidentally shot while polishing a gun6, she could still abduct him as her powerful husband and bring him home. It would not be a bad deal by any stretch of the imagination.
She had resisted, and since it didn't work, she might as well enjoy it.
Rong Yi lay facing the wall and secretly sniggered.
At this moment, Fu Chengfeng suddenly asked, "Yi-er, do you know what losing virginity means?"
Rong Yi's nerves immediately tensed up as she replied incoherently, "Of, of course, I do."
"You're still a little girl. How would you know?"
"You...... you should know that I am a brilliant person of wide learning." Rong Yi said sheepishly.
Fu Chengfeng flipped over and propped his head on his hand to gaze at the side of her face. After a long time, he finally asked, "If you lost your virginity to me, would you...... blame me?"
This question was too blunt. It was so blunt that it made Rong Yi's nerves tighten to the point where her mind went blank, leaving only the sound of her heartbeat.
Only after a long time did Rong Yi blush and responded, "I...... don't know."
When Fu Chengfeng heard her answer, he tenderly stroked her hair bun and said, "Don't worry, no matter what I'll become, I won't hurt you."
Rong Yi jolted. A sense of foreboding suddenly rose in her mind as if, as if something terrible would happen to him.
Rong Yi turned over and spoke, "You......"
"Go to sleep." Fu Chengfeng interrupted her softly. He leaned down to kiss her forehead but finally landed the kiss on her hair.
Fu Chengfeng's gentleness made the uneasiness in Rong Yi's heart even more robust. Something terrible must be going on, or he wouldn't have suddenly said something like that.
No matter what I will become......
What would he become?
Rong Yi tried to remember everything that had happened during the day but could not think of a single clue.
Footnotes Full List
- a son of nobility
- Erm…you worried about that now after he hugged and carried you all this time? 😮💨
(fig.) used to describe a person who is too greedy for money.
Image Credit | 英语学习札记 (英文作文：别掉到钱眼里面去, Oct 8th, 2021) - Chinese idiom: sleep together
- Chinese idiom: people filled with a burning passion for each other
- Chinese idiom: to result in an unintended pregnancy; to have unintentional sex
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