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Chapter 154 Heavy Rain

When Xie Zhichan walked into the shop, he saw Lu Xiuzhu standing in front of two models, a man and a woman, looking at them silently. It was unclear whether he was looking at the new summer clothes on the wooden models or something else.

Zhang Zhitao was entertaining a female customer behind the counter of the shop. The sleeves of the dress that the customer chose were a little long, so Zhang Zhitao took the needle and thread, gestured with the female customer on the spot, agreed on the size, cut off the sleeves a little with scissors, and then used the needle and thread to re-finish the sleeve edges.

Seeing Xie Zhichan coming into the shop, he greeted her with a smile, "The Crown Prince's Consort is here."

She turned her head and looked at her cousin again, intending to remind Xie Zhichan that her cousin was here, and also to remind her cousin that the Crown Prince's Consort was here, and he should stop staring at those two wooden people, as they didn't know what was so good about them.

When Lu Xiuzhu heard Zhang Zhitao's voice, he turned around and stared at Xie Zhichan for a while before calling her, "Ayuan."

Xie Zhichan's intuition told him that Lu Xiuzhu was in a very low mood, so she greeted him, "Sir Lu, are you here to buy clothes too? My cousin is very familiar with the clothes in the store. When my cousin is done, you can ask her to recommend a few to you."

Lu Xiuzhu pointed at the two male and female models behind him and said, "Are these two you and him?"

Xie Zhichan was stunned for a moment, and looked in the direction where Lu Xiuzhu's hand was pointing. He saw that the people he was pointing at were the two models he had just seen. Although their body sizes were good, their faces were not. So he casually asked, "Master Lu, do you think I look like the model?"

Lu Xiuzhu seemed to not care about Xie Zhichan's answer at all. Instead, he nodded, smiled sadly and said, "Golden boy and jade girl, they are really a perfect match."

Xie Zhichan frowned slightly. These words sounded sour and pitiful. Why did she feel that this guy seemed to be trapped in the taboo effect where the more he couldn't get something, the more he wanted it?

She really wanted to use this to annoy Princess Anle, but when she really saw Lu Xiuzhu's broken face, she suddenly felt relieved. It would be more worry-free if these people didn't have anything to do with her.

There is no way to hide from this rain.

She said, "If you like the clothes in the store, please pick two more. I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

Lu Xiuzhu took a step forward and grabbed Xie Zhichan's wrist. The eyes of the few sparsely populated customers in the store immediately fell on their wrists.

Xie Zhichan said coldly: "Master Lu, please respect yourself!"

Lu Xiuzhu let go of Xie Zhichan's wrist awkwardly and said in a pleading tone, "It's raining too hard. It's not safe for you to be alone. Where are you going? I'll take you there."

Just when Xie Zhichan wanted to say, "I am safe with Yueyan," Pei Yi's voice appeared: "It seems that it is not Lord Lu's turn to send my Crown Prince's Consort off."

Lu Xiuzhu watched Pei Yi walking towards him in the rain holding an umbrella, his hands unconsciously clenched into fists. He tilted his head to glance at Xie Zhichan, hoping to see the same calmness on her face as when she met him, but he was disappointed in the end. He clearly saw that the moment Xie Zhichan saw Pei Yi, her tense face instantly relaxed and her eyes became bright.

He knew that was the expression one gets when seeing someone one likes, just like the expression he had when he saw her.

He said to Pei Yi, "Why are you so nervous, my Lord? I am just passing by."

Pei Yi stood at the door, his umbrella still open, and pulled Xie Zhichan out of the door. He put his arm around her shoulders and sneered at Lu Xiuzhu inside, "Lord Lu should have taken Xinghua Street in the West Market to return to the Lu Mansion after leaving the government office. Why did he end up taking Changxing Street in the East Market?"

Xie Zhichan thought that there were still customers in the shop. If Pei Yi continued talking to Lu Xiuzhu, rumors would inevitably spread about the three of them, and she would undoubtedly be the one who suffered the most.

In this era, women have to bear more than men.

She is not afraid of wind and rain, but there is no need to create wind and rain for no reason.

So she pulled Pei Yi and said, "Let's go back home early."

Pei Yi immediately suppressed the hostility emanating from his body and smiled gently at Xie Zhichan, "Whatever A Yuan says, that's what it is."

He put his arm around the person, turned around and walked into the heavy rain.

Lu Xiuzhu watched the team's figure quickly disappear in the rain and fog, then turned back to look at the pairs of male and female models in the store. He felt that these models were eye-catching and clenched his fists even tighter.

Zhao Qin happened to walk in and saw Lu Xiuzhu standing in front of the two wooden figures like a wooden man. He casually greeted him and said, "Master Lu, are you here to buy clothes too?"

Feeling that Lu Xiuzhu was tense, he looked at his hand and saw blood dripping from his palm. He couldn't help but remind him, "Master Lu, your hand is bleeding."

Lu Xiuzhu glanced down and hid his hands behind his back, as if he didn't want anyone to see his emotions. He walked straight into the rain and fog without even saying hello.

Zhang Zhitao stopped the needle this time and paid the customer's bill. Seeing Lu Xiuzhu left without an umbrella, she hurried to the door and shouted to the figure in the rain and fog, "Cousin, you forgot to take your umbrella!"

Lu Xiuzhu pretended not to hear and kept walking forward.

Zhao Qin looked at the back and wondered if she was overthinking. Why did she feel that Lu Xiuzhu was a little pitiful?

Would the newly crowned number one scholar and the son-in-law of the princess's mansion be pitiful?

But when you think about the personalities of her cousin and her daughter, and the life of her second uncle, how can they not be pitiful?

After all, she was a victim of the Zhao family. For some reason, she said to Zhang Zhitao, "Give it to me. I'll send it to him."

Zhang Zhitao didn't know Zhao Qin, but she had to look after the store and couldn't leave for the moment, so she gave the umbrella to Zhao Qin.

Only after watching Zhao Qin catch up with her cousin holding an umbrella and then walk away with her cousin holding the umbrella did she feel at ease and return to the store.

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For the next three days, Kyoto experienced three consecutive days of heavy rain.

As soon as Liu Yousi came back from Jiangnan, Pei Yi and Xie Zhichan invited him to the back hall of the clothing shop. They first asked him to find a set of dry clothes of suitable size in the shop to change into, and then the three of them sat in the back room to talk.

Pei Yi couldn't wait to ask: "You came back a few days late this time, but something happened in Jiangnan?"

Liu Yousi drank a sip of hot tea, waved his hand and said, "Don't mention it. I didn't know until I arrived in Jiangnan that it had been raining for many days. I thought it would be sunny when I arrived, but it rained heavily. When I loaded the goods and returned to Qichen, the river was flooded. Many ports stopped operating for safety reasons. They were not allowed to open until the wind and rain subsided. That's why I was a few days late.

When I arrived in Kyoto, I saw many refugees on the roads outside the city heading to Kyoto. Fortunately, I took the water route. If I had taken the land route, my goods might have been robbed on the way.

After I left, something must have happened in Jiangnan."

Pei Yi and Xie Zhichan looked at each other. The refugees had all arrived in the suburbs of the capital, but the court had not yet received any reports from the emperor. It was obvious that the local government had deliberately concealed the disaster.

Pei Yi said: "Yousi, do you still remember the flood in Jiangnan ten years ago?"

Liu Yousi immediately became serious: "Are you saying that Jiangnan is the same this year as it was ten years ago?"

Pei Yi nodded and said, "I'm afraid I'll have to trouble your father to take care of this matter. Report the officials of Jiangnan Prefecture for concealing the disaster. If more refugees gather in Kyoto, the capital will be in chaos."

Liu Yousi nodded: "I will go back now to deliver the letter to my old man."

Pei Yi said worriedly, "I hope the emperor gets the news and can quickly arrange disaster relief. Once the food and silver are distributed, the victims will not flock to Kyoto."