CH 136

After such an incident, Zhao Zhi’s enthusiasm was pretty much ruined, he patiently accompanied her and waited as she shopped at two rouge stores and bought a few boxes of rouge.

Ming Zhu could feel that Zhao Zhi’s mind was elsewhere, his face was cold, and his expression looked particularly harsh and icy. She thought to herself that his temper was really bad, even now he was still sulking over the words of that false priest.

But that false priest really did not know how to do business. Generally, these kinds of false priests that scammed people under the name of doing fortune-telling, shouldn’t they all say only good things? For example, things like: “This boy is a purple star descending from heaven, his future is unlimited”, or “This girl was born with a phoenix fate, she is destined to marry the most important person.” and so on and so forth.

Starting by immediately cursing her to have a short life, it would be strange if he could cheat people’s money. It was no wonder this false priest was still dressed so shabbily at this age.

“Your Highness, I’m done shopping.”

The center of Zhao Zhi’s eyebrows faintly ached, since a moment before, he was feeling uncomfortable in his heart, he said, “Let’s go back then.”

Seeing that he really no longer had any patience left, Ming Zhu agreed and nodded her head, “Alright.”

Back at the residence, Ming Zhu found that she still had Zhao Zhi’s purse with her, there was a lot of silver left in the purse, so she poured out all the remaining silver and counted it carefully. There were four hundred taels.

Although it was not a lot, but it was not a small sum either.

Ming Zhu hid the silver secretly in her own small treasury chest, before calling Biying and handing her the purse, “Help me return the purse to His Highness.”

She had left a few taels of silver in the purse.

“If His Highness asks about the money, just say that I spent almost all of it buying rouge and hairpins.”

“Alright.”

Biying put the purse in her pocket and went to the study.

Zhao Zhi let her put it on the desk, when he had time, he took a glance at the almost empty purse, the corners of his mouth pursed into a straight line, but he surprisingly did not ask anything.

This way, Ming Zhu was more relieved, it seemed that Zhao Zhi did not care about this small amount of silver and thought that she really had spent it all.

There was a concern weighting on Zhao Zhi’s heart, the center of his eyebrows was wrinkled in a knot, his heart was heavy, unable to calm down.

He copied Buddhist scriptures several times in the study, and the state of his mind finally settled down a little.

The weather in summer could change in a moment, during the daytime the sun could be blazing in the sky, and then at night it would rain heavily and continuously. The sound of thunder in the sky startled the birds on the branches.

Listening to the sound of the rain, Zhao Zhi found a trace of tranquility.

He opened the door, held an oil-paper umbrella, and stepped in the rain with his boots. Drops of water, in splashes, wet the corners of his coat.

On the rainy night, the temperature also dropped. However, inside the room it was so stuffy it was uncomfortable, for it was extremely humid.

Ming Zhu ordered the servants to open the door and windows and smelled the fresh bamboo scent, she then was able to breathe properly.

She thought Zhao Zhi would not come tonight, the rain was so strong that it looked like a big hole had been poked in the sky.

When Zhao Zhi came over, Ming Zhu was already ready to sleep. Seeing the man’s soaked clothes, she asked the servants to bring in hot water, “You should change your clothes first.”

The man was wearing a blue-green long gown. His figure seemed to have slimmed down a bit again.

Ming Zhu did not bother caring about it, if he himself did not feel that he was unwell, she even less needed to worry about him.

The bright and swaying candlelight fell on her body, while Zhao Zhi’s eyes, without moving, were staring at her. His gaze was so ardent that it was impossible not to notice it.

It seemed like he would only be satisfied once he’d finish looking thoroughly at her entire being. His gaze kept looking over and over, checking every part.

Her thin willow-like waist, her slender body. Although her face was only the size of his palm, but her cheeks still looked plump, this flesh was the result of his hard efforts to nourish her. Her complexion was rosy, she did not look sickly at all.

No matter how he looked at her, she did not look like someone who would have a bad fortune and a short life.

Remembering the words that bast**d Taoist priest had said, a somber chill rose from the center of his eyebrows.

His Zhu Zhu would definitely live a long life.

She would stay by his side, for a lifetime.

Zhao Zhi’s fingertips cupped her small face with just the right amount of strength, neither hurting her nor giving her a chance to escape from him.

He asked in a hoarse voice, “Where is the peace talisman?”

Ming Zhu froze.

One look at her expression and Zhao Zhi guessed that the peace talisman he had asked for her before had probably long been lost somewhere by her carelessness.

Ming Zhu had long forgotten that there was such a thing. She panicked and lied, “I put it away, I’ll find it tomorrow.”

She made round eyes as she asked, “What do you want it for?”

She was not sure if she could still find it.

Zhao Zhi did not expose the lie she was telling, he pretended not to know anything as his fingertips gently rubbed over her lips, “No need to look for it anymore.”

Since it was lost, there was no use to look for it again.

Zhao Zhi said indifferently, “Tomorrow we’ll go to the temple and ask for another one.”