Chapter 24 - Dancing at the Crowing of the Cock

Yunchu was looking at her dowry list, planning to sell all the unnecessary things for silver.

While she was busy, Listening Wind walked in and said, "Madam, Aunt Tao found seven hundred and eighty taels of silver at He's place and asked what to do with it."

 Yun Chu casually said, "Let Aunt Tao keep it herself."

In order to make Aunt Tao willingly become this knife, naturally, she had to give some favors, and this knife would only get faster and faster.

Listening to the wind, she continued, "Aunt Tao ordered someone to beat He to the point of vomiting blood, do we need to call a doctor?"

 "It's just spitting out a few mouthfuls of blood, you can't die." Yun Chou's expression was rather cold.

He had three biological children, and she wanted to see who would be the most sullen to send medicine to He.

She paused and said, "Aunt Tao suffered a shock at He's place, you take some wormwood from the storehouse and send it to Aunt Tao to replenish her body."

Receiving the tonic sent by Yunchu, Aunt Tao's hanging heart falls back into her stomach.

She knew that the lady also loathed this He's heart, but the lady is like the sky on the sky, He's such a lowly thing is not worthy of the lady's hands.

 With Her Ladyship's permission, what did she have to worry about?

 Aunt Tao beckoned and said a few words to her maid.

In the evening, the granny who delivered the food threw a bowl of moldy rice at the door of He's compartment.

"Stop!" He called out to the woman, "Is this human food, how dare you do this to me?"

The granny pooh-poohed, "Yo, still think you are the adult side of the stewardship of the mother, are down to the grounded in the broken temple, even the lowest level of rough servant girl is not as good as, can give you a bowl of food is not bad, but also want to what?"

He couldn't believe it, that bitch Tao, who took all her body money, beat her until she vomited blood, and even deducted her food.

 It's really a tiger being bullied by a dog!

"What do you mean by that look?" That granny raised her foot and kicked the bowl of moldy rice over, "Give me a face, since you dislike it, don't eat it, it almost killed the little master, but you still presume to have a full stomach, you'll still have to suffer in the future!"

 The granny cursed and left.

 He was so angry and bloodied that he almost fainted.

 At the hour of the next day, Elder General Yun sent a woman with an athletic figure.

The woman's name was Qiutong, and she was about twenty years old, wearing a black short-breasted garment with a sword hanging from her waist.

 "Greetings, ma'am!"

 Qiutong clasped her fists and saluted, all valiant.

Yun Chu was also considered a daughter of a martial arts family, and as soon as she saw Qiutong, she knew that the woman's kung fu was good.

She spoke, "You will be my martial arts master from now on, you put yourself in the position of a master, and we will practice how we should."

Qiutong answered, went up to Yun Chou to detect the pulse, a little touch her tendons, kept shaking her head:" Lady is actually some bottom, just too long no activity tendons, tendons are stiff, now the most important thing is to let the body to recover to the former flexibility ..."

 Yunchu was pulled into the courtyard right then and there.

Don't look at Qiu Tong is a woman, that hand strength is not lost to her grandfather, give her dredge points meridians when, did not give her pain to death.

 After an hour, Yun Chou didn't even have the strength to stand.

Qiutong's face was expressionless as she said, "Tomorrow morning when the rooster crows, I will wait for madam in the courtyard."

 Yunchu did a double take.

 The rooster crows at almost the hour of the ugly, which is just after midnight.

She felt like she had just fallen asleep when she was woken up by Hearing Frost shouting, "Madam, it's time to get up, Sister Qiutong is already waiting outside."

 Yunchu hurriedly got up from the bed.

This path was chosen of her own accord, so she had to go forward with it.

Grandfather said that the skills you learn, that's what really belongs to you.

The courtyard was lit up and Qiutong stood solemnly as she demonstrated the standard horse stance, allowing Yunchu to squat for a quarter of an hour before slowly increasing the time.

Yunchu also squatted horse stance when she was a child, and every time she waited for her grandfather not to pay attention, she started to be lazy.

 The laziness you stole as a child is the pain you must suffer as an adult.

"The few of you can also come over to accompany madam." Qiutong looked to the maids standing at the side, "If you really encounter any danger, you guys can also help madam."

So saying, Hearing Frost, Hearing Snow, and Hearing Wind immediately came over and stood in a row to start squatting in a horse stance.

At the end of a quarter of an hour, the three girls who had never been exposed to martial arts were dripping with exhaustion, and Qiutong told them to rest for a while.

 Yunchu had some bottom, and the horse stance squatted for more than half an hour before he was a little unable to stand.

After practicing for close to an hour, go back to lie down on the bed and immediately fall asleep, sleep almost more than an hour daybreak.

 One by one, the invitations arrived.

"Mother, the old lady's birthday is coming up soon." Xie Ping took a few sheets and said, "I would like to make the old lady's birthday banquet a little more grand, and invite all the noblewomen of status in the capital to come and have a good time, what does mother think?"

Yunchu looked at the list she handed over, "The proposed invitation is the wife of the Minister of the Household, the wife of the Imperial Master ... These can be first class noblewomen, with the Xie family's rank, it can't be invited."

Xie Ping opened her mouth and said, "Grandmother and these several ladies are good friends, but also watched the mother grow up, if the mother to invite, I think those ladies will certainly give mother a face ..."

Aunt Tao snorted and laughed: "Eldest Miss is still too young to understand these human affairs."

 Being laughed at by an aunt made Xie Ping a little embarrassed.

Listening to Rain spoke up, "If it's your wife's birthday, you can try inviting these ladies to come, but there's still something wrong with the old lady's words."

"Sister Ping'er, rewrite a proposed guest invitation." Yunchu looked at her and said, "Also, your proposed seating plan is exactly the same as last year's, it still needs to be changed, there should always be something new, shouldn't there?"

 Xie Ping was a bit struck.

 Before that, no matter what she did, her mother would praise her a little.

But her mother's attitude towards her seemed to have changed since she had been sending things to He in private.

 She bowed her head, "Yes mother, I'll go back and deliberate."

Yunchu did not care about the birthday banquet again, all handed over to Xie Ping, she only daily to ask for peace that will mention some insignificant small opinions.

 She followed Akito wholeheartedly to learn martial arts.

What she didn't expect was that for three or four days in a row, the three children born to He, Xie Ping, Xie Shian, Xie Shiyuan, hadn't even sent medicine to the small temple.

 Yunchu smiled.

These three white-eyed wolves were not only heartless towards her as their adoptive mother, but they clearly didn't have much deep affection for He as their real mother either.

 He's having a tough time.

She had spit up a few mouthfuls of blood, her body was having a hard time every day, and with the lack of a normal meal, she was rapidly wasting away.

She knew that this was not going to work, she had to think of a way to save herself, or else she would starve to death in the small temple one day and no one would even know.

After waiting for the only young nun in the temple to fall asleep, she took advantage of the night to slip out of the temple, avoiding the maids and boys along the way, and arrived outside Xie Jingyu's study.

 Xie Jingyu came back late every day.

 She had just reached the door to the study when she saw a long figure approaching from the distance.