Chapter 225: Chapter 225: Superior and Subordinate
The man’s face turned deathly pale, clutching his injured hand, retreating wildly, speaking in accented Mandarin, "...You’re an outsider bullying me, a local. Fine! You’ve got guts!"
"I won’t be repairing the dam anymore. I’m taking my brothers and leaving!"
Song Song was full of questions. Repair the dam? What dam?
Wen Ziyue furrowed his brows, just about to chase after the man, when Di Wujiang called out to him, "What are you doing? Get back here!"
"...Yes!"
Song Song watched all of this, completely baffled! She wondered if she was in the wrong place?
Or maybe this man named Di Wujiang had picked up the wrong person?
Just as Song Song was puzzled, Di Wujiang walked over to her, looked at the half-cooked dishes in the pot, and the washed vegetables ready to be cooked, and said, "Just stir-fry these; save the rest for later."
Song Song replied blankly, "Okay."
The evening meal was eaten in the afterglow of the sunset after the rain had stopped, with stone benches and a stone table, only missing stone bowls...
Song Song was new here and hadn’t yet adapted to the place, feeling like her backside hurt from the hard seating during the entire dinner.
But seeing the beautiful person across from her eating so calmly and composedly, how could she be delicate?
So the only thing to do was to "endure."
Honestly speaking, when Song Song had previously cooked for strangers, their first bite would always be amazingly surprising, but these two were calm.
Neither saying the food was delicious nor bad.
After dinner, Wen Ziyue diligently cleaned the dishes, then took them inside to wash.
Song Song didn’t wish to stay outside, staring at Di Wujiang, so she followed Wen Ziyue inside, becoming his little shadow.
"Pretty sister, let me..."
"Just call me Ziyue, I think...we’re roughly the same age."
Wen Ziyue naturally interrupted.
Song Song chuckled an "Oh," and then said, "Ziyue, does Di Wujiang like you?"
If not, when that person wanted to disrespect her earlier, he actually charged in so fiercely.
Wen Ziyue slightly furrowed her brows, "No, Mr. Di and I have a superior-to-subordinate relationship, he did so out of consideration for a subordinate, nothing else."
"Oh, I see! Sorry, I was gossiping too much earlier."
Wen Ziyue washing the dishes, "It’s okay."
"...Let me help you!"
"You cooked dinner earlier, and you’ve gotten soaked by the rain today, go back to rest; I’ll handle this—"
Wen Ziyue was quite insistent, eventually Song Song had no choice but to give up, and leisurely walked out of the room.
She saw Di Wujiang still sitting outside, seemingly deep in thought, curious, Song Song walked over, "Hey! Did I pass the test?"
"Mm."
He replied perfunctorily.
Song Song received the answer and didn’t linger, pouted slightly before leaving.
As she felt truly tired, two days and nights of travel had almost worn out her small body.
Once inside, she collapsed onto the bed and drifted to sleep, half-asleep she heard someone enter the room, opened her bleary eyes and saw Wen Ziyue sitting at the vanity, brushing her hair...
She barely managed to lift herself from the bed, murmuring, "...Ziyue, it’s so late, why aren’t you asleep?"
"You sleep first, I’m going out for a bit."
"Going out?" Song Song raised her hand to rub her eyes, trying to clear her head, "You look so beautiful, it’s not safe to go out at night alone."
"Is Di Wujiang going with you?"
Wen Ziyue turned sideways and gestured "shh," "Quiet down, I can’t let him know."
Song Song: "..."