nycdaug Chapter 187 Punishment
Chapter 187 Punishment
Si Yao would get up early every day and go to the back mountain to practice archery, so she naturally heard the noise of gongs and drums. She just thought it was a wedding procession passing by, so she didn't pay much attention to it.
"Brother, you're back at this hour. I guess you've been traveling all night?" When Si Yao finished practicing archery and saw his brother who had just returned from buying medicinal herbs in the corridor, he was surprised and delighted.
"It has been raining a lot recently, so I thought we should rush back early to prevent the medicine village from being damaged." Xiu Ming nodded and smiled gently.
"Has it been a smooth journey?"
"It's just a minor setback, nothing serious." Xiu Ming said, and then he took out an exquisite and bright coral hairpin from his sleeve and handed it to Si Yao, and continued with a smile: "Coral headdresses are hot in the mall recently, I will bring you one too."
"I'm sorry to have made you spend money again, senior brother." Si Yao looked at the coral hairpin in her hand helplessly and smiled.
Whenever her senior brother went out, he would buy her some jewelry. She refused to accept it once, but it made her senior brother mad for several days. From then on, she had to accept whatever he gave her.
"We are brother and sister, why should we be so formal?" A light breeze blew by, Xiu Ming raised his hand to brush away the hair on Si Yao's face, pretending to be angry. It is natural for a brother to love his sister.
"Brother, you've been traveling all night. Go back to your room and rest." Seeing the fatigue in his eyes, Si Yao said with concern.
Si Yao has been in Sanxiu Pharmacy for almost a year, and she has truly experienced the warmth of home here. Under the care of her master and senior brothers, she feels even more distressed for Jiang Si Yao, who has been neglected by her family since she was a child.
"Yes, I am indeed tired. When Master wakes up later, tell him for me." After being reminded by his junior sister, Xiuming also felt sleepy. He blinked his dazed eyes and was about to leave when he remembered something and continued, "By the way, matchmaker Wang came to propose marriage to you just now, and my senior brother sent her away for you."
"Thank you, Senior Brother." Si Yao was surprised. Coming to propose marriage so early in the morning? But she just nodded indifferently.
"Don't you even ask which family sent someone to propose marriage?" Seeing his junior sister's indifferent look, Xiu Ming was a little surprised, but then he thought, maybe this was not the first time that the young master of the Zhou family had sent someone to come to the house, or maybe he had already come to pester her in person, so his junior sister was used to it.
"Since I've been sent away by my senior brother, is there any need to ask?" Si Yao looked up at Xiang Xiuming with some confusion. She really didn't know which family had sent someone to propose marriage, and she had no interest in finding out. Even if her master and senior brothers didn't stop her, she would still resolutely refuse.
"That's true." Xiuming was suddenly stunned by his junior sister's question, and then he laughed helplessly. He knew that his junior sister was always indifferent, but he didn't expect that she was so indifferent to his marriage.
Back in the room, Si Yao put the hairpin given by her senior brother back into a wooden box. There were already many colorful jewelry in it, all of which were brought back by her senior brother. She always liked simple and elegant things, but her senior brother wanted to try more, so she had to keep these colorful ones for the time being.
Putting the box back in its place, Si Yao glanced at the purple sandalwood box beside her, and her eyes couldn't help but dim.
The prince entrusted her with such a valuable item. She guessed his intention only later. She also understood why he, a prince, would take the initiative to lower himself and take the trouble to apologize to her on the night of the Lantern Festival. It turned out that there were clues in the past...
But Si Yao no longer wants to magnify these memories in her heart and let herself be deeply trapped in them. To her, none of this is important. Not to mention the disparity in their identities, just the fact that he is married means that she should not have any emotional involvement with him. This is the cognition and awareness that Si Yao should have as a modern person.
Sanxiu, who loves to sleep late, woke up at noon and learned that his apprentice Xiuming had gone out to buy medicinal materials and had returned. His worried heart finally settled down. Later, he heard about the commotion of matchmaker Wang outside the medicine shop this morning and became angry. The Zhou family was really taking advantage of him. Zhou Laoba didn't even look at how cowardly his son was, and he had the nerve to come to Sanxiu Medicine Shop to propose marriage? Not to mention his own beloved apprentice, even if it was the medicine boy in the shop, Sanxiu would never agree to let them marry an unreliable waste.
Ever since matchmaker Wang brought back the news about Xiu Ming, Mr. Zhou burst into tears again, while Mr. Zhou seemed to have accomplished a task and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
For the sake of his son who didn't live up to his expectations, and to give an explanation to his deceased wife, Mr. Zhou had to risk his reputation and ask Wang the matchmaker to go to Sanxiu Medicine Store to propose marriage. But he didn't hold out any hope, so it was expected that he would be humiliated this time. Although the Zhou family was one of the richest merchants in Mucheng, Sanxiu Medicine Store was a medical family that even the county magistrate had to respect, and was deeply trusted by the people of Mucheng. He, Zhou Laoba, couldn't afford to offend them, so he had to persuade his son to give up this idea.
When the son of the Zhou family saw that even his father began to persuade him to give up marrying Miss Si Yao, he felt even more sad and ran out angrily. Mr. Zhou was afraid that his son would be upset for a while, so he hurriedly asked the servants to follow him, but when the servants chased him out of the Zhou Mansion, where was the son?
In a shabby house outside Mucheng, Master Zhou was tied up and blindfolded, lying unconscious on the ground. Not long after, Xiaolu, dressed as a bearded man, came in with a wooden stick. Seeing that the man on the ground was still asleep, he hit him on the thigh with the stick:
"Hey, wake up!" He deliberately made his voice rude.
"Ahhhh...Who? Who are you? Don't...don't hurt me...I...my family is rich..."
Xiaolu thought he didn't use much force, but the other party still screamed. He rolled his eyes in disdain and said impatiently: "I didn't catch you for money!"
"It's not for the money..." Blindfolded and curled up on the ground, Master Zhou's face suddenly turned pale and red. He didn't expect that he was so unlucky to meet a robber who was interested in men.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you. I'm just giving you a piece of advice." Xiaolu obviously didn't realize that the other party had misunderstood him. He still looked down at the person under his feet with contempt and sneered.
"Advice...advice?" Xiaolu's words made Mr. Zhou breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was just advice.
"Miss Si Yao is not someone you can covet. Give up this idea as soon as possible. If I find out that you go to Sanxiu Pharmacy to cause trouble again next time..." As he said that, the wooden stick pressed straight between Master Zhou's legs. The strength in Xiaolu's hand was also slowly increasing. The other party screamed in pain again, but dared not move his body.
"Today's is just a small punishment. If there is a next time, I will make sure you can never be a man again in your life!" Seeing the man on the ground was so scared that his face turned pale and his whole body was twitching, Xiaolu withdrew his hand with satisfaction and continued to add to what he had not finished just now.
He had already shown mercy. If His Highness knew about this, the punishment would probably not be so simple.