My Little Girl (93) (1)

Shu Nuan helped pick up her things silently and then supported her in getting up . Wen Zhigu waited for her to get up and raise her head . She saw that it was Shu Nuan and was stumped for words . Clearly uncomfortable, she muttered, “Thank you . ”

“What’s wrong with your hand?” 

Shu Nuan had noticed the blood-stained gauze wrapped around Wen Zhigu’s wrist, and she always had negative ideas about things .

But she only got a simple response .

 “I was careless and scratched myself . ” 

With that, the girl turned to leave, but before she could take even half a step, she felt dizzy and tottered . Shu Nuan grasped her right hand . She realised the girl didn’t want to say how her wrist had been hurt, and so she didn’t ask her again . Taking her to a nearby stone chair, Shu Nuan sat her down . She frowned and asked, “Would you like to have a rest first?”

“I need to go buy some medicine . ”

“What medicine? Let me buy it for you,” Shu Nuan offered .

Wen Zhigu looked at her and whispered, “Musk . ”

[T/N: Musk – rubbing musk into navel can prevent pregnancy]

Shu Nuan wasn’t able to respond for a while .  

“What do you buy that for?”

Wen Zhigu stared at Shu Nuan with an odd expression . In a voice tinged with mockery, she asked, “Has the Fourth Prince deflowered your body yet?”

Shu Nuan was stunned and her face flushed .

To her, Wen Zhigu was a pure and cold young girl, and not someone who could say such a thing . Shu Nuan hadn’t expected her to speak in a blatant manner .

“I… with him… we haven’t…” 

Shu Nuan wasn’t sure what to say . But Wen Zhigu stared at her for a while, and then she blinked her eyes in understanding and withdrew her eyes . With a cold smile, she said, “He’s very good to you then . ”

Shu Nuan realized the meaning of her words . But stunned, her eyes came to rest on Wen Zhigu’s still flat abdomen . She really didn’t know what to say, and uttered, “Is it Ji Xubai?”

Wen Zhigu hung her eyes, meaning the guess was right .

Shu Nuan had never thought that Ji Xubai could be such a beast . She frowned and said, “Why don’t you mention this to Teacher Li and Head Master Chen? Such a man as Ji Xubai is not fit to be a teacher of the academy . ”

Wen Zhigu listened to the naive remarks and felt they were humorous . She smiled and opened her mouth to softly answer, “I looked for Master Chen once . He fined Ji Xubai a month’s salary, and later my brother was sold to Hancheng as a slave . ”

Shu Nuan was quiet . She understood what Wen Zhigu had meant . She lowered her eyes and said nothing more .

Here in Beiguo Kingdom, where status was authority, the humble were the ones who suffered .

Shu Nuan faced Wen Zhigu and asked, “If there was a good person who had the power, would you expose Ji Xubai?”

Wen Zhigu ask flatly, “Do you mean the Fourth Prince?”

Shu Nuan didn’t deny .

But Wen Zhigu thought she was too naive and couldn’t help but make fun of her .  

“Shu Nuan, if I recall correctly, you are a slave from the Qing Kingdom, right? These powerful people like you only because you are naive . If you stay low, you can at least have a safe life . And you dare to have the Fourth Prince do something for you?”

Shu Nuan bowed her head and remembered the scene she’d seen outside the barracks not long ago . She didn’t say a word .

To be continue… .