"I'm going to see my young lady. Sir, you can stay in my room and don't leave." Su Qingyu considered that in the first round, the second young lady would take her to the scholar's room.
The ear room is closer to the west wing.
Leaving Xu Yizi in the ear room would allow this part to be concluded more quickly.
"You want me to stay overnight?" Xu Yizhi raised his eyebrows. "I'm in a hurry. I can only wait for you until the hour of Yin."
After he said this, Su Qingyu guessed that it was a restriction of the rules and did not say anything more.
She left the room and went to the west wing.
Xu Yizi did not stay in the ear room, but secretly followed Su Qingyu.
The night is dark.
The second young lady's black hair hung in front of her face as she cried while holding a copper basin.
The copper basin was almost two-thirds full of blood.
What she said was almost the same as the first time. She cried and said something about missing the eldest lady. Su Qingyu sat beside her to comfort her, but her words of comfort were empty and had no practical content.
Xu Yizi bent over and eavesdropped at the door.
The rules state [Don't let the Second Miss see you when passing by the West Wing].
The rules also say [You can enter the Second Miss's room, but do not sit on her bed when the toes of her red embroidered shoes are facing outwards.]
The two rules are not contradictory.
He can enter the west wing, provided that the second lady is not in the west wing.
The second young lady cried for an hour in total.
After listening to the general idea, Xu Yizi returned to the ear room.
His footsteps were so light that no one could notice them.
"Shuangxi, I'm done." The second lady handed the copper basin filled with blood to Su Qingyu.
Su Qingyu put the copper basin on the shelf: "Miss, do you want to make tea?"
"Same as before." The Second Miss said calmly.
Su Qingyu opened the cabinet, took out the bone powder, then walked to the round table, picked up the teapot, poured bright red blood into the cup to make the bone powder.
"Did those humans ask you any questions today?" asked the second young lady.
Su Qingyu replied: "The scholar asked me some questions."
"You told him?"
Su Qingyu nodded.
The second young lady raised her hand with her palm facing up.
"What's the price you charge?"
Su Qingyu took out the little finger nail and handed it to the second young lady.
"That's all." The second young lady put her nail into her mouth. "I'm so hungry. Next time you can chop off one of his hands. Although there's not much meat on the hand, the bones are quite delicious when chewed."
"I want to leave the scholar to the young lady." Su Qingyu thought, it would be best if there was no third round and no next time.
"You are so considerate. Let's go find that scholar." The second young lady stood up. As long as she was still sitting on the bed, her red embroidered shoes were facing outwards. "Daddy likes to eat alone the most. That scholar is tall and strong. We must not let Daddy take him away."
"The scholar is in the ear room." Su Qingyu stepped forward to support her, and the second lady put her hand in Su Qingyu's palm.
Back in the ear room, Xu Yizi was still waiting there.
Seeing the second young lady coming, he did not panic.
It was a moonless night and darkness enveloped the entire room, with only the faint yellow candlelight flickering.
Su Qingyu gently pushed open the door. Xu Yizi was sitting at the table with books scattered on the table. He gently stroked the flame of the candle with his palm. The fire passed over the surface of his skin, and Su Qingyu could smell a faint aroma of meat.