Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

Chapter 288: The Sickly Cousin in a Female-Dominant Novel (1)

"So what's there to be afraid of?"

"Before I was weak, I was always afraid of getting sick. Later, when I was hired, I was afraid of being rejected. But these people I feared did not pity me more because of my fear. Instead, they tortured me day and night, making me worry and unable to sleep, tossing and turning."

"So after leaving the Third Princess' Palace, I understood that a person's life is nothing more than 'what's the point of dying? Just let your body rest in the mountains'. Instead of being upset about things that haven't happened yet, it's better to live a good life in the present..."

The sound of rain outside the house gradually subsided, and the private conversations between the master and servant in the attic also gradually became quieter with the sound of rain.

After using several basins of hot water, Huaiyun finally cleaned Lin Xi's blood and walked out holding the blood-stained quilt.

"I have taken care of my master's injury, but he has a fever now. I would like to trouble the eldest son and this brother to take care of him tonight. Huaiyun will be very grateful." She tucked the quilt in her hand under her armpit and bowed solemnly to the two of them.

Zhang Sunyan listened to the meaning of her words, frowned slightly and asked: "Are you leaving? Then she..."

Huaiyun's face showed a cold expression, and he nodded solemnly and said, "My lord has been assassinated and is unconscious, but the Criminal Justice Department still has many matters to be arranged, and it is also necessary to report this matter to His Majesty in the palace, so Huaiyun needs to go back to the Lin Mansion."

After saying that, she looked back at the direction of the inner room, pulled up the quilt, turned around and continued, "But the master is seriously injured now and it is difficult to move, so I am afraid that we will have to bother you for one night. When you wake up tomorrow, we will leave quietly and will not let anyone notice and cause inconvenience to you."

After listening to her, Chang Sun Yan shook his head gently, "I'm not afraid of these, I'm just afraid that after she wakes up, she will feel uneasy when she sees that there is no one close to her."

"So that's why." Huaiyun originally thought that Changsun Yan was afraid that someone would find out that Lin Xi was in his room. Although the two of them were engaged now, they had not yet officially become husband and wife. It would have a bad influence on him if the news got out. But after listening to Changsun Yan's explanation, he realized that he was concerned about his master, and a smile immediately broke out on his face.

"Although the eldest son and my master have not yet been engaged, my master has long regarded the young man as a close person. Although I acted on my own initiative to rashly come to your house tonight, it was because of the two words that the master unconsciously muttered before he fell into a coma that made me do this."

The reason why Huaiyun could become Lin Xi's right-hand man, besides his outstanding abilities, was his clever mouth, which allowed him to say different things to different people. After he realized that he had guessed his master's thoughts, he naturally took on the role of assisting.

"Two words?"

"Which two words?"

Sure enough, after hearing what she said, Changsun Yan and his servant were immediately attracted and asked in unison.

"Ahem..." Huaiyun cleared his throat and lowered his voice to say seriously, "These two words are 'Runshi'."

"Cough cough cough cough!" Now the person who was coughing became Changsun Yan.

"My dear!" Guan Cen glared at Huaiyun, then reached out to pat Changsun Yan's back to help him calm down.

Realizing his own loss of composure, Changsun Yan shook his head, avoided Guan Cen's actions, and covered his lips with his sleeves, trying to hide his hot cheeks.

Runshi was his nickname, which was given to him by his mother when he came of age. Only close people knew it. Lin Xi was engaged to him and their horoscopes were matched, so it was not surprising that she knew his nickname. But she was still thinking about him even when she was seriously injured and unconscious. It can be seen that she really regarded him as a very close person as Huaiyun said.

"I didn't know the meaning of these two words at first, but then I suddenly remembered that after returning home on the day of the engagement with you, my lord, you held the red paper and read it for a long time, muttering these two words. I think these two words 'Runshi' must have a great relationship with you, my lord, but I don't know what these two words mean?"

Huaiyun was talking nonsense in a serious manner. Of course she knew that "Runshi" was the nickname of Changsun Yan, but she didn't know it by accident from hearing Lin Xi talking about it as she said. Instead, she saw it when Lin Xi was drafting the marriage certificate for her and Changsun Yan in the study room out of curiosity about the future husband of the Lin family.

"This... is the name of a raccoon cat I once raised." Changsun Yan suppressed the emotion in his heart, whether it was shame or annoyance, calmed his breathing, and began to explain.

"Oh, I guess that cat slave must have something extraordinary to make my master love him so much and keep thinking about him all the time." Huaiyun seemed not to notice that there was anything unusual about his master being obsessed with a cat slave when his life was in danger. He nodded as if he suddenly realized something.

"It's almost dawn. Don't you still have a lot of things to deal with? Why don't you leave?" Seeing her husband's blushing face, Guan Cen said impatiently to the smooth-talking Huai Yun.

"Don't worry, we will take good care of your parents." Changsun Yan patted Guan Cen's hand gently, signaling him not to be rude, and turned to Huaiyun to comfort him.

"Thank you very much, young master." Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Huaiyun said no more. He tightened the quilt in his hand, slipped out of the house, climbed up the high courtyard wall on tiptoe, and disappeared into the deep night in a few breaths.

After returning to the Lin Mansion, she burned the bloodstained quilt and Lin Xi's clothes, but when she saw the cloth engulfed by the flames, she suddenly remembered a serious question.

She was so busy taking off her master's wet clothes and treating his wounds that she seemed to have forgotten to ask Changsun Yan and the others to find a set of clean clothes for Lin Xi to change into. So her master now seemed to be, perhaps, naked?

But then she remembered that when she left, she had covered Lin Xi with a clean quilt and tucked in the corners and gaps tightly. As long as her parents didn't move around, they should be able to hold out until she could bring clean clothes over at dawn, right?

A thought flashed through Huaiyun's mind, but was quickly interrupted by his subordinates who came to ask for instructions one after another. But in just a moment, he forgot about the matter.

Inside Cuiwei Residence, after confirming that Huaiyun's figure had completely disappeared, Changsun Yan and his servant breathed a sigh of relief and closed the door.

"My dear, it's almost dawn. You should go to bed. I'll take care of Lord Lin." Guan Cen glanced at the clepsydra in the corner of the room and helped Changsun Yan sit down on the couch.

The heat on Changsun Yan's face slowly faded as Huaiyun left. After hearing Guan Cen's words, he shook his head and said, "You must be very tired tonight because you carried water and looked for things. Go to sleep. I'll watch over her."

"That won't work." Although Guan Cen's arms did ache and his eyelids were twitching, he still shook his head and disagreed after hearing what Changsun Yan said.