This Life, I'm Raising the Right Man

Su Yaoguang saw ’Young Master Zizhan’ sitting in the corner, far away, as if she had thorns on her body, shaking her head with a smile.

This person turns out to be a scholarly old fellow, even so restrained to share a carriage with a lady. Forget it, stop scaring him, just send him over and leave!

”Don’t be afraid, I’m not a bad person.” Su Yaoguang said, ”I heard your music before, you’re great at playing. How long have you been learning the instrument?”

’Young Master Zizhan’—Zhou Wangshu glanced at her through the veil and spoke lightly, ”Since I was young, ten years now.”

”Aren’t you quite young then?” Su Yaoguang curiously took a glance at him.

She could vaguely see a pair of beautiful eyes, their shape seemed somewhat familiar, but before she could clearly see them, he turned his head away, avoiding her gaze.

Su Yaoguang murmured, ”Really easy to get shy.”

Even more like a big girl than her.

Suddenly, the horse lifted its hooves, the carriage shook violently, and a flower pot fell off, about to hit Su Yaoguang’s spot, and Zhou Wangshu lunged over, shielding her.

Bang! The flower pot hit Zhou Wangshu’s back.

Su Yaoguang looked in shock at the ’Young Master Zizhan’ before her.

”Are you okay?”

”The carriage...” Zhou Wangshu hoarsely reminded.

The horse was spooked, now running wildly, making a piercing scream.

Su Yaoguang quickly pushed Zhou Wangshu aside, standing up to grab the reins.

Yet with the horse’s gallop, the reins were flailing, just not landing in her hands.

She lunged onto the horse’s back, hugging its neck, caressing it, soothing it.

Once the horse’s mood improved slightly, she gripped the reins tightly, holding them firm.

”Whoa!” Su Yaoguang gained control of the carriage.

She looked back at ’Young Master Zizhan’, saw him touching his back, stopped the carriage properly, leaned over to look, and touched a hand full of blood.

”You’re bleeding, I’ll take you home now. There’s a good medic girl at my house, she can surely bandage your wounds.” Su Yaoguang said, driving the carriage home.

However, when she wasn’t paying attention, the injured ’Young Master Zizhan’ stealthily jumped off the carriage.

His movements were swift, unnoticed until Su Yaoguang drove the carriage far away and realized he had already left.

”We’re here...” Su Yaoguang parked the carriage, turned to look at the cabin, only to find it empty.

She raised the curtain, and indeed there was no one inside.

She drove the carriage back to search, seeing the rooftops on both sides of the street with refugees of various ages and genders sitting, leaning, or lying. Among them, ’Young Master Zizhan’ was nowhere to be seen.

”If he fell off on his own, he’d surely cry out, but no sound was heard. That only means one thing, he left on his own.” Su Yaoguang mused to herself, ”Why is he so afraid to see me? Could it be that he’s very ugly? Even if he’s very ugly, he doesn’t need to care so much about my opinion, right? Or is he particularly afraid of strangers?”

That’s the only explanation.

Su Yaoguang returned to Taoyao Square.

Then, from Fenghua Pavilion across the street, came the sound of shouting, followed by Zhong Lanhua wielding a kitchen knife chasing a tall skinny man. Zhong Lanhua wielded the knife while the man was so scared he scrambled away.

”Pah, shameless thing, dare to reach into my place. I wondered why the rice and flour have been consumed so quickly recently, turns out it was taken by a damned thief. If you dare to steal again, I’ll chop off your hand. You stole my goods, even if you report to the government, I’m not guilty.”

Su Yaoguang drove the carriage into Taoyao Square.

That skinny tall man had been a familiar face as a nearby resident. Seeing him again, he seemed even thinner than before. It’s likely that everyone’s days aren’t going well, even worse for ordinary families.

”Back already.” Zhang Pandi waved her hand in front of her, seeing her in a daze. ”What are you thinking?”

”I just saw someone sneaking into Fenghua Pavilion opposite us to steal rice and flour, he’s one of the neighborhood folks. Mom, should we hire someone to watch over our place?”

”I’ve just told Chief Qian to arrange some government officers to watch over the house and yard, since I have so many medicinal herbs here, all for saving the people’s lives.”

”Mom, you’re amazing, getting the government officials to watch over for you, saving the money for hired help. Just like they say, ginger gets spicier with age, my mom is smart.”

”That’s...,” Zhang Zhaodi proudly said, ”by the way, aren’t you supposed to go back to the academy to take care of Wang Shu? Chunni made some delicious food, take it to him to replenish his body.”

”No need to make dinner tonight, saves a lot of trouble.” Su Yaoguang said, ”Staying in the academy all day is really boring, but yesterday the teacher actually asked me to help take care of other sick students. I’d rather be bored than get myself into so much trouble.”

”My daughter isn’t a servant, why should she help with care? Not to mention no pay, even if they pay, such work shouldn’t be done. If the academy wants to pay, they can hire as many caretakers as they want. Basically, they just want free labor.” Zhang Zhaodi said, ”Why not bring Wang Shu back to take care of him?”

”I wish I could, the academy disagrees, saying they’re afraid of spreading illness to others.” Su Yaoguang complained a bit, said farewell to Zhang Zhaodi, and took the delicious food and pastries made by Chunni back to the academy.

As she entered, she saw chaos in the academy, several refugees were beating up sick students, among them a familiar unfortunate soul—Xiao Yanci.

If it was just Xiao Yanci, she’d be snacking on seeds nearby, but besides Xiao Yanci, there were also several students she had a good impression of.

She stepped forward to stop them, chasing away those refugees.

Only to see the refugees holding bags of belongings, while the beaten students shouted at them, ”Put down my rations, put them down, that’s my half month’s food...”

Weakly Xiao Yanci spoke, ”They took my inkstone. That set inkstone was bought for ten taels of silver.”

”What’s going on here?” The Mountain Master and teachers hurried over, shocked by the messy scene and asked.

”Mountain Master, teachers, I don’t know either, I just returned from outside and saw some refugees taking their things.” Su Yaoguang said, ”You arrived just in time, please deal with it now!”

Xiao Yanci grabbed Su Yaoguang’s sleeve, looking at her pitifully, ”You’re just leaving like this?”

”I’ve already explained to the Mountain Master that this has nothing to do with me, of course I’m leaving.” Su Yaoguang shook off Xiao Yanci’s grip.

Xiao Yanci angrily glared in Su Yaoguang’s direction.

Su Yaoguang saw Zhou Wangshu coming out, asked, ”Where were you just now?”

”I was resting in the room.” Zhou Wangshu said, ”What happened here?”