There were several scars crisscrossing her face, and if it weren’t for the fact that her eyes were still as cold as ever, no one would have recognised her.
“Master ……”
As Song Wangyue uttered one word, Master Chu re-dressed his curtain hat and turned towards the mountain.
Song Wangyue followed.
The guards also wanted to follow, but she stopped them, “You guys keep practising, it’s fine.”
The crowd looked at each other, the martial arts skills of the person coming were too high, all of them together were not a match for her. But she hadn’t killed Miss Song, which meant they knew each other, so was this person ……?
“I need a room.”
Master Chu said as he walked.
Song Wangyue led her to the house inside the workshop.
Master Chu sat down and took the drapery hat back off and placed it on the table.
Song Wangyue had seen clearly just now that the scars on Master Chu’s face were real, not a mask.
“Master ……”
Master Chu raised his hand to stop her later words and asked, “Are you planning to train those people on the mountain?”
Song Wan Yue looked at her face and nodded, “Yes.”
“Leave it to me.”
“Your face?”
Song Wangyue still couldn’t resist asking out.
Master Chu didn’t care in the slightest, “It’s ruined.”
“I can ……”
“No, that’s fine. I’m hungry, go and make me some rice.”
After saying that, Master Chu closed his eyes.
Song Wangyue swallowed the words that filled her mouth and quickly went to the kitchen.
This was for cooking for the workers who couldn’t return home at noon, complete with firewood, rice, oil and salt.
There were two women boiling water, ready to be boiled and sent to the workshops.
When they saw Song Wangyue enter, the two women got up, “Miss Song.”
Song Wan Yue only nodded and looked around at the only ingredients available, “Heat up two steamed buns for me.”
The women took the two steamed buns and placed them on the cage drawer, snapping the drawer onto the pot.
Song Wangyue stir-fried a meat and a vegetable dish, beat an egg soup, took the warmed steamed buns out and put them together in the food box and carried them back.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, Master Chu opened his eyes.
Song Wangyue entered the room and set the food on the table, Master Chu picked up his chopsticks and ate unhurriedly, “Don’t tell your family it’s me.”
Song Wangyue nodded her head.
“Your workshop is so big, these people are definitely not enough, you need to buy some more people.”
Song Wangyue still nodded her head.
“I just saw two people next to me who seem to have good martial arts skills, they are ……”
“The guards of the Ding Guofu Xiao family, when Uncle Xiao sent me back, I left the men behind.”
Master Chu didn’t stop moving, “No wonder, how many were there?”
“Six, I let them take turns training those men.”
“There I am, tomorrow you will send them out and buy twenty more men back.”
“Good.”
It was not until all the food was finished that Master Chu put down his chopsticks, Song Wangyue packed up and took them outside, and went to her house to bring in and lay out all the bedding.
Master Chu was not polite and went straight over to lie down, “I am indeed tired and would like to have a good sleep, you don’t need to worry about me, go and get busy.”
Song Wan Yue left the house, picked up the food box and sent it back to the kitchen.
When the sound of her footsteps disappeared, Master Chu also closed his eyes.
“Little sister.”
Song Shen had just gone to see Zhang Zhuan off and happened to see Song Wangyue coming out with a futon in her arms, and was puzzled.
Song Wangyue’s face was unchanged, “I hired a master who has just arrived, the futon is for her.”
A master who has just arrived?
Song Shen was surprised, the entrance to the workshop was guarded, how come he hadn’t been informed of the arrival of a living person?
“I gave her the place to practice martial arts, she went up from the back of the hill.”
Song Shen’s eyes lit up, “So her martial arts skills are even higher than those guards?”
Song Wan Yue nodded her head.
Song Shen was excited, these days he had been rushing the carriage over every day at dawn to follow the martial arts training in the mountains, and felt lighter than before. Now that he had a more powerful master, he might be able to learn to walk up and down the mountain as fast as those two guards, and he could take down many people at once.
“That would be really great, I ……”
The words were halfway through, when it suddenly occurred to me that Song Wan Yue had just been hugging her own bedding, and I stopped for a moment, “A female master?”
“Mm.”
Song Shen paused, the figure of Master Chu came to mind, before the Gu family’s accident, Master Chu had something to do and left, could it be that she had returned, and then thought, if it was really Master Chu, Yue would have said so straight away.
“It was me who begged Uncle Xiao to introduce him.”
Song Wan Yue lied, thinking of the scars on Master’s face, her lips pursed, “Her face was ruined.”
Hearing her say that Xiao Zheng had introduced her, Song Shen believed it to be true. Hearing her say that her face was ruined, it dawned on her that it was no wonder she had to go up from the back of the mountain, so she was afraid of scaring people.
He didn’t take it personally and said, “I’ll be staying at the workshop from today onwards, and I’ll go up to the mountain to practice martial arts in the morning.”
Song Wangyue did not object.
When it was getting dark and the workers in the workshop dispersed, two guards brought Song and the others down from the mountain and she called a few guards to her and told them to go and buy people.
“Pick the ones with good qualifications and buy twenty people.”
The guards took the silver tickets and answered.
Song Wangyue went to Master Chu’s courtyard.
As soon as she stepped inside, Master Chu woke up and quickly opened his eyes, but closed them again when he heard the sound of her footsteps.
“Master.”
Song Wangyue shouted softly.
Master Chu answered, opening his eyes again and sitting up.
Song Wangyue entered the room and first poured a cup of plain water and handed it to Master Chu, who took it and drank it dry, his throat still mute from his recent sleep, “What time is it?”
“It’s the eleventh hour.”
Master Chu glanced out of the window, it was already dark, “Why haven’t you gone back yet?”
Song Wan Yue pursed her lips, took the cup in her hand and put it on the table, staring at her face, her voice mute, “Your face ……”
“Met an enemy.”
Master Chu downplayed.
Song Wangyue looked at her steadily, obviously disbelieving, if she had met an enemy, she wouldn’t have only hurt her face.
Master Chu, however, frowned slightly and touched up his own face, “Did it scare you?”
Song Wangyue shook her head gently, astringency welling up in her throat, but she did not ask again, whispering, “What does Master Chu want to eat, I’ll go and make it for you.”
“The same as noon.”
Song Wangyue got up and left.
Hearing her footsteps disappear, Master Chu lifted the covers and got out of bed, pouring herself another cup of cold white water into her mouth, the coolness that entered her chest washed away the heat in her heart that hadn’t been there for years, and then she pursed her lips and smiled.
The first time she objected to Xiao’er’s interest in this girl, she was now in favor of it, so much so that when she heard that she had built a workshop on the ruins and reopened the restaurant, she came to guard her, and she wanted to guard her well during Xiao’er’s absence, so that no one would hurt her or the Song family.
There were still two dishes, the egg soup was replaced with millet porridge, Song Wangyue brought it over and put it on the table, “I’ve given them the word to cook for you alone daily while I’m away.”
“No need to be so troublesome, I can just eat with them, except for those who practice martial arts, I try not to come into contact with others, so as not to scare them.”