She initially thought that mentioning the matter of the marriage proposal to Du Yunhan would lead him to prepare a matchmaker earlier. Moreover, it would have seemed more sincere if her father and brother were to go with the matchmaker to make the marriage proposal. Who knew that he wouldn’t even find a matchmaker? Instead, he had gone straight to proposing the marriage himself and even gotten the wedding date more or less settled.
Du Xiaoli laughed, but inwardly, she still gave her father a big thumbs-up for finalizing the marriage so quickly. Since he had already lain down the foundation for the main event, how could the matters that came after be hard to resolve?!
After that, Du Xiaoli brought up the matter of finding a teacher for Du Xueqi to Du Yunhan. Du Yunhan said he would return first and ask what they wanted Du Xueqi to learn.
Later in the afternoon, the news of Prime Minister Du and Senior Cabinet Minster Fu arranging a marriage spread around the entire capital. One was a young man who had ranked amongst the top in the Academy Compet.i.tion, while the other was a young woman who had won first in the compet.i.tion for musical instruments. The young man was the son of the prime minister’s first wife, while the young woman was the precious daughter of a senior cabinet minister. They were a perfect match no matter how you looked at them!
When those clients whose matchmakers had been unsuccessful this morning heard their matchmakers say that Du Yunhan had gone to Senior Cabinet Minister Fu’s Manor, each one of them beat their chest and stamped their feet. They regretted not going together with their matchmaker to propose the marriage. Perhaps they might have managed to settle their marriage before Du Yunhan arrived!
It was a pity! Such a pity!
After arranging for someone to go out and spread the news, Du Xiaoli went to the medicine room to make preparations for the pill. She found some herbs that were safe for animals to consume and made the pill. Then she went to the Wolf Park and fed the pill to Silver. She accompanied him for a while before finally going to the guest room.
The moment she arrived outside the guest room, she sensed that something was amiss. She quick-stepped to the door, pushed it open, and entered the guest room. A blast of cold air hit her right in the face, causing her to unconsciously take a step back.
“What a low temperature!” Du Xiaoli used her internal force to counteract the cold temperature outside her body and entered the room once more. That was when she saw the chunk-of-ice person on the bed.
“Oh, no!” Du Xiaoli thought of the man’s mask and quickly went over to the bed. Using the corner of her sleeve, she pulled off the mask from the man’s face.
“Hiss…”
The bone-piercing cold unconsciously made her throw away the mask in her hand. It fell and landed on the floor with a clatter.
Du Xiaoli looked at the man’s face. When she saw that his face was still the same bewitching one from before, she finally let out a long sigh of relief. She discovered previously that the man’s mask was likely to be made of iron. If it were to get frozen on his face, it would take on such a cold temperature that it was pretty much the same as freezing off two layers of his skin!
Fortunately, his face was already covered by the ice. It separated his face from the mask, leaving his face protected.
“What a strange cold energy.” Du Xiaoli once again examined the man’s condition and found that the layer of ice covering him was still thickening. She sensed that his breathing was getting increasingly weaker. There were even moments when it would pause intermittently.
Du Xiaoli endured the cold and took a reading of the man’s pulse. She felt that his pulse seemed to be weakening slowly, and her expression became grave. Right at this moment, she noticed the corner of a white jade pendant peeking out slightly from the chest area of the man’s clothes.
Upon seeing the jade pendant, Du Xiaoli’s body trembled. She reached out a hand and picked up the jade pendant. It was as if she had once again seen that person who gave her the silver banknotes
back then.
At that time, she and Du Xiuheng were organizing the collection of donations in the town of Zhou County. A figure had walked pa.s.sed and stood at the front of the county, watching her make a banner. Soon after, he walked over. He casually tossed out a bundle of banknotes, turned around, and left.
“May I ask what is your name?” Du Xiaoli asked after running out and blocking off his exit path. “We record the name of every donator to make it easier for us to repay you in the future. Please leave your name with us.”
That person was wearing a conical bamboo hat. The muslin hanging at the front of the hat concealed his face, but Du Xiaoli could tell at one glance that this was no ordinary person.
“You want to repay me?” A pleasant voice emerged from under the bamboo hat. However, from the sound of his voice, he seemed to be smiling insincerely.
“Yes,” Du Xiaoli replied with a nod.
“Other people have always only wanted to kill me. Yet there’s actually someone who wants to repay me,” that person said and let out a bitter laugh. “What’s your name?”
“Du Xiaoli.”
“Du Xiaoli…” the man murmured her name once. Then he said, “Du Xiaoli. I’ve got your name remembered now. If I want you to repay me in the future, I’ll find you.”
Once he was done talking, he left without turning back. Du Xiaoli just barely had the time to get a good look of that white jade pendant hanging by his waist, as well as the white crane on the pendant.
That time, the silver taels Luo Qi promised had yet to arrive, and Du Xiaoli’s side was already about to use up all the money they had at their location. If it was not for the very thick bundle of silver banknotes, who knew how many more people would have died?
Du Xiaoli stroked the jade pendant in her hand. The white crane on the pendant was exactly the same as the one in her memory. In that case, it was no wonder that he had suddenly called out her name. It turned out that it was true that he knew her.
“All right. Considering your kindness from back then, I’ll save your life!” Du Xiaoli said. She pulled up the man’s hand, placed his palm against hers, and then sent her internal force into his body.
Liu Mochen felt that he had once again fallen into the state of an icehouse. Aside from feeling ice-cold, his entire body felt nothing else, just more of the same freezing sensation. It was as if his whole life force was frozen, preventing him from seeing a way out—from seeing hope.
Could his life only be lived like this—in an ice-cold state? If his life was only filled with despair time and time again, what was the point of living?
Why not just give up here? That way, he would not need to worry his master anymore, and he would not need to worry about when he might be engulfed by this ice. He should just let this ice-cold feeling take him away…
Right at that instant when he decided to give up, a warm current suddenly poured into the ice-cold world, allowing a warm feeling to exist for the first time in his ice-cold world.
It was such a comfortable feeling. It was really warm, and he really wanted to get close to it.
If he were to give up now, would he never be able to experience a warmth like this ever again?
References
1. — Back then, banknotes had the value of silver. Above that would be gold, so this is a lot of money. MoonWhisperer, TWIP"s Thoughts
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