Contentment with modest wealth

Chapter 390 I'm waiting for her!
Yan Liang turned her head to look at her face: "Did you apply medicine?"

She shook her head. "I'm not in the mood."

Yan Liang took out a jar of ointment, scooped out some ointment, and gently applied it to her face.

Where would you like to stay?

“Qiyu Pavilion,” she looked over, “I want to be closer to you.”

He was still wearing yesterday's clothes, his eyes were bloodshot, and stubble had appeared on his chin. After the incident at home, he was already busy day and night, and this made him look even more exhausted.

"Let's go somewhere else." He paused for a moment.

Qiyu Pavilion is just three steps behind the eldest son's house.

“I just want to stay there.” She clung to his arm. “I’m scared.”

Yan Liang withdrew his gaze from her face and lowered his head to pick the herbs.

"Don't be too presumptuous. People will gossip."

“I’m not afraid,” Lu Ying said. “The gossip has already reached Madam’s ears, which shows that it’s been circulating behind her back for a long time. What’s the use of being afraid now?”

She glanced at me sideways and said, "You're not afraid either. If you were afraid, you wouldn't have come here, right?"

Yan Liang paused for a moment while applying the medicine, then withdrew his hand.

"You can't be the third child, and that doesn't exist."

"But he no longer considers me to exist!"

Lu Ying tugged at his sleeve, bringing her cheek closer and closer to his waist and abdomen: "You saw it last night too, he was ready to attack me at any moment."

"I'm just afraid of bloodshed, it's not like I'll make you do anything. If you really can't, then I'll just have to go back to the third branch of the family!"

He looked up at the window and after a long while said, "Qiyu Pavilion is so small, are you used to living there? How about I send you back to the Lu family to stay for a while?"

Lu Ying pressed her face against his sash and remained silent for a moment before slowly releasing him.

His gaze was as deep as an abyss.

"It seems you still don't believe me," she said.

Yan Liang looked down at her face. Her thick eyelashes covered her eyes, and her skin, which was so white after washing and grooming, was almost transparent, making her face look cold and sad.

He turned her body slightly to the side and applied medicine to the bruises on the back of her neck.

"No."

"You still say no!"

Lu Ying suddenly tightened her collar, preventing him from moving.

"There is a serious mourning period at home, yet you send me back to my parents' home. What will outsiders think of me? You clearly don't trust me!"
"But if you don't trust me, why are you doing this now? Do you think I want your little bit of medicine?"

She said angrily, "If I don't have your trust, you should kill me immediately. Why are you being so hesitant? Just because I've exposed my wounds and shown you all my flaws, does that give you the right to treat me so cruelly?"

"Shut up!"

Yan Liang slammed the medicine bottle down on the table, his face turning frosty.

A moment later, he turned back and looked at me again: "You always hold such a grudge against me. What do you want from me?"

Lu Ying hugged her knees: "What can I do? What do I dare to do?"

Yan Liang fell silent.

After frowning for a while, he tried to pry her body apart. At first, he couldn't pry her apart, but in the end, she couldn't resist him.

The cool ointment was applied to the wound again, and Lu Ying trembled slightly.

Yan Liang slowed down his movements and warmed the ointment on his fingertips before applying it.

"Besides moving the yard, what else do you want?"

Lu Ying paused for a moment: "You can't afford to give me what I want."

Yan Liang glanced at her: "Children are out of the question."

"Then why are you even asking?"

Yan Liang remained silent for a moment, then said softly, "Once the current turmoil has passed, I will go to the clan and choose a clever child for you to bring back. Or, you can have a boy and a girl if you wish."

"Whatever my descendants possess in the future, I will make them have it too."

“Then you’d better bring a man back with you,” Lu Ying said. “I don’t want to live the life of a widow.”

Yan Liang suddenly exerted force.

Lu Ying hissed in pain.

Yan Liang placed the medicine bottle on the table. "Apply it yourself."

Lu Ying said, "I can't reach it."

There are still many things to do outside.

"Then wait."

Yan Liang turned around.

Lu Ying took a sachet from under her pillow and tossed it over: "There's some new calming incense inside."

Yan Liang continued.

"I know you've been working hard, take a break and get some sleep."

After saying that, she lay down facing inwards again.

Yan Liang, holding the sachet, walked back and sat down. He silently looked at her profile for a moment, then reached out and shook her. When she didn't come over, he gently smoothed the strands of hair that were scattered on the pillow before getting up and leaving.

……

The news that Qiyu Pavilion had been cleaned up was received an hour later. Just as they moved there, Granny Li and Yingzi returned unharmed.

The two men grabbed Lu Ying's hands and trembled with tears in their eyes as soon as they saw her.

Lu Ying only asked, "What did Yan Liang ask you?"

"They asked us about the events surrounding Madam's arrival last night, but we didn't say anything. We insisted that Grandma was in the room. We even showed them the preparations Grandma had made in the inner room before leaving."

"Yingzi is a very clever girl. When she heard that it concerned Madam's life, she didn't make a single mistake! She was also the first to take out the evidence that Grandma had left in the inner room to change the dressing!"

Lu Ying looked at Ying Zi: "Did you get hit?"

Yingzi quickly shook her head.

Lu Ying squeezed her hand. "I was harsh on you in the past."

She had never really liked this maid, always finding her too old-fashioned and too honest. So, her willingness to go to such lengths this time was quite unexpected.

Yingzi's eyes suddenly reddened, and she shook her head even more violently: "No! Grandma has always been very good to me! She has never hit me! Back in the Lu family, all the maids who served Madam were beaten! I am already very lucky to be able to follow Grandma!"

How could she not sense that her master didn't like her? It all comes down to what a person wants. She was just a bought maid, but after following Lu Ying, she had food to eat, clothes to wear, and a monthly allowance. No one dared to bully her, and her master wasn't the kind of person to be violent. What more could she ask for?

Lu Ying sighed, "The most tense time has passed. But the current situation is still very dangerous, because Yan Liang could see through our scheme at any time."

"Just because we got through last night doesn't mean everything will be fine!"

"No matter what, we must lie low and wait for good news from the Lu family!"

Granny Li glanced at the door and said, "But if we stay here, it's like we're right under the young master's nose. It won't be easy for us to see the young lady again."

"We wouldn't have been able to meet anyway. The reason I chose this place was to put his mind at ease. Even if I hadn't done this, he still wouldn't have let me go."

"As long as I am Lu Jie's daughter, he will never let me out of his sight!"

Granny Li bit her lip tightly, then lowered her voice and asked, "What did you say to the young lady last night?"

"She asked me to hold back the Yan family. I hadn't figured out how to do it yet, but I managed to do it unexpectedly. Now, I'm just waiting for her."

"What about the young lady...?"

"I think so," Lu Ying said. "When Young Master Shen came last night, he was the one who helped me clean up the mess. I'm really grateful to him."

"He originally wanted to take me away, but I felt that was not a good idea."

“Since they were willing to rescue me in this crisis, I believe my sister will not go back on her word.”