Prodigy

There was air conditioning in the room, and they both took off their jackets when they came in.

The girl's back was straight and her neck was long.

Her sleeves were rolled up to the middle of her forearm, revealing her wrist bones. Contrasted with the emerald green herbs, her fingers looked even more slender and fair.

"I can read." Ying Zijin leaned back and looked up aloofly as she said, "Everything is in the book."

Fu Yunshen realized that when Ying Zijin looked at him with her misty eyes, he couldn't say anything.

Who could stop her?

After staring at each other for a few seconds, the man bent his finger and tapped the girl's forehead lightly. "You're not allowed to read such books in the future."

"No." Ying Zijin lowered her head and fiddled with the electric pressure cooker as she said, "I would be bored."

She planned to buy some novels from this era to relieve her boredom.

"How about I treat you to a meal?"

"I don't want that either."

How heartless.

"..."

At this moment, the girl spoke again. "At most—"

Fu Yunshen lowered his eyes and looked at her.

She said very seriously, "I'll show you."

Fu Yunshen's expression froze. Then, his lips curled up into a smile as he said, "Show me?"

That worked?

Feeling sleepy again, Ying Zijin yawned. Then, she narrowed her eyes and said, "Yes, let me learn online shopping first."

When Fu Yunshen saw that the girl's tired look wasn't fake, he realized that she meant what she said at surface value.

As expected, she was still a child.

At this moment, her phone suddenly rang.

Fu Yunshen glanced at Ying Zijin. After confirming that she wouldn't leave, he got up and went outside to answer the call.

"Seventh Young Master, come quickly." It was Nie Chao. "You're the only one left."

Fu Yunshen said aloofly, "If there's nothing else, I'm hanging up."

"Didn't we agree to hold a banquet for you? Isn't that a big deal?" Nie Chao said, "Come quickly, come quickly. We're at King Clubhouse. Everyone is here. Oh right, your playmates are also here. We're all waiting for you, Young Master."

Fu Yunshen raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why didn't I know about this?"

"Hey, isn't it just a nickname? Anyway, aren't they all from Hucheng's upper society?" Nie Chao urged. "It's so late in the afternoon. What are you doing? Come and drink with your buddies. Why don't you ever come when I call you?"

"I'm accompanying the little kid, so I won't go." Fu Yunshen leaned against the door as he said, "You guys can play."

On the other end, Nie Chao, who had been hung up on, was shocked and felt as if he had been struck by lightning. A word appeared in his mind—

Beast!

How could he make a move on such a young girl?!

The other young masters in the private room didn't hear the contents of the call, but they were surprised by Nie Chao's expression. "What did the seventh young master say?"

"Oh… he said he's not coming." Nie Chao took a long time to come back to his senses. "You guys can have fun first. I'll make another call."

He had to get first-hand gossip.

**

Three hours later, the electric pressure cooker beeped.

Ying Zijin opened her eyes and lifted her hand to open the lid.

A faint fragrance wafted over, giving her a refreshing sensation.

There were exactly fifty dark green pills in the pot.

She put the pills into the medicine bottle she had bought in advance, tidied up the mess on the ground, and pushed open the door.

The man leaned against the wall as his slender fingers tapped on the phone. When he heard her come out, he looked up and asked, "You're done?"

Ying Zijin didn't expect him to still be waiting outside. Startled, she asked, "Why didn't you go in?"

"I was afraid of disturbing you." Fu Yunshen couldn't be bothered to elaborate.

He looked down at the pill bottle the girl handed him and raised his eyebrows as he asked, "This is for nourishing my kidneys?"

"No." Ying Zijin slung her school bag over one shoulder as she said, "It's for longevity."

However, it also had the effect of nourishing the kidneys, as well as the liver and stomach.

Fu Yunshen asked with interest, "Huh? I need to extend my lifespan at my age?" Although he said that, he still packed the medicine bottle and asked, "How about we go eat?"

"I'm going out of town for a while." Ying Zijin glanced at her phone and said, "I'll treat you to a meal in a few days."

"Out of town?"

"Yes, back to Clear Water County."

The medical conditions in Clear Water County were far inferior to those in Hucheng.

Wen Fengmian had been frugal all his life, so he definitely wouldn't bear to spend the 100,000 yuan that the Ying family had given him. It had been a year. She didn't know how they were doing now.

"Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month…" Fu Yunshen seemed to have thought of something. His gaze turned cold, and the smile on his lips disappeared.

However, when he tilted his head, his eyes were filled with mirth again as he called out, "Little kid."

Ying Zijin turned around and asked, "Yes?"

"I have nowhere to go today." He dragged out the last word, and his hazel eyes glowed as he said, "Can you take me in?"

"..."

**

At 7:30 p.m., the sky was already completely dark. From time to time, fireworks would explode in the night sky.

Wen Fengmian took out the flour from the old refrigerator. As soon as he walked to the chopping board, he started coughing violently and it took him a while to stop.

Just as he was about to boil water, there was a knock on the door.

Wen Fengmian wiped his hands clean and coughed a few times before walking out. "Who is it?"

It was already so late, so no one should come to visit.

When he opened the door, he was stunned.

As a girl stood under the roof, the moonlight shone on her black hair, making her look hazy and surreal.

Although they hadn't seen each other for a year, her appearance was still the same.

Wen Fengmian's throat bobbed. He didn't dare to acknowledge her.

His voice was extremely shaky, and it took him a long time before he managed to utter, "…Yaoyao?"

"It's me." Ying Zijin held his arm and helped him up as she said, "Be careful, don't fall."

She tested his pulse discreetly. Then, she had a rough idea.

Wen Fengmian's health was worse than she had initially thought.

Years of heavy labor had already ruined his body.

After receiving an affirmative answer, Wen Fengmian was still in a daze.

He was stunned for a long while before grabbing her hand as he asked in an anxious and stern tone, "Yaoyao, why did you come back from the Ying family's home? Where are they? Aren't they with you?"

He sized the girl up again and his expression became even more serious. "Tell Daddy, did the people over there bully you?"

It was a very ordinary question, but it touched her for some reason.

"There's no such thing. I only got the free time to come back to see you today." Ying Zijin pressed down on Wen Fengmian's shoulder and said with a smile, "It's my fault for not coming to see you for an entire year."

If she had woken up earlier, what had happened a year ago wouldn't have happened.

Only then did Wen Fengmian relax. He turned his head and wiped his eyes as he tried his best to calm his breathing, but his emotions were still fluctuating violently, and his voice was still quivering. "I'm already very happy that you're back."

After all, he had thought that they would never meet again after what the Ying family had said.

After Ying Zijin helped him into the house, she asked, "Are you the only one in the house?"

"Yueyue still has class today." Wen Fengmian coughed again. After he stopped coughing, he smiled as he said, "But I should be back soon."

Just as he finished speaking, a voice came from outside the courtyard—

"Dad, I'm back. I bought some meat today. Tonight, we can…"

When he saw the girl, he stopped talking.