Peasant Woman's Decreed Life as a Wife

Chapter 1096: Chapter 1093: Apology

Her fingers were entangled by his, each one firmly clasped, their strength combining, fingers intertwined.

“I won’t bother you anymore,” Ye Muyu quickly showed weakness, blinking her innocent eyes. “Look, it’s getting late. Shouldn’t you be going to the yamen?”

Chu Heng’s response to her was a kiss, gentle yet assertive.

Her fingers instinctively tightened around his larger hand, her toes curled, and she could only feel like a thoroughly-cooked large shrimp pressed beneath the man’s intensely masculine and hot chest. Her delicate body was completely enveloped, her heartbeat accelerated and her hot breath sprayed onto the man’s face.

“Hehe.” Chu Heng let out a pleased chuckle, pecked her lips again, and only after seeing her extremely shy expression did he roll over and sit up.

Ye Muyu curled up under the quilt, softly catching her breath twice.

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“Ah Yu, I’ll be coming back later these few days, so you should go to bed early. Once I’m done with my work, I’ll come back and explain everything to you,” Chu Heng instructed.

Ye Muyu nodded. “Go ahead with your work. Do you need me to have the servants from the residence deliver meals to you?”

“No need. I’ll take my meals in the county government.” Returning to his previous life of iron-blooded interrogations reminded him of the blood-soaked prison cells, which hardly left him with an appetite. If his servants delivered meals, Ah Yu would know he wasn’t eating much, and he didn’t want to worry her needlessly.

Ye Muyu nodded, stretched her hand to pat her cheeks, waiting for the heat to dissipate before sitting up to get dressed.

After the family had breakfast, Ye Muyu asked the Housekeeper to request a half-month leave for Lil’ Jin from school, and Chu Heng also left for the yamen.

Ye Muyu, accompanied by her maidservants, walked towards the main kitchen.

The kitchen Maid who was tending the fire unintentionally glanced outside and, seeing Ye Muyu, quickly stood up.

“Greetings, Lady,” the young maidservant hurriedly bowed.

Inside the room, the old woman who had been picking vegetables and chatting stopped her work along with the Kitchen Maid, hastily standing up, and in her flurry, she didn’t forget to tidy herself up.

“Greetings, Lady.”

When Ye Muyu entered, there were four people in the kitchen: a fire-tending maidservant, two old women, and a male chef.

One was a Kitchen Maid, the other, a rough-working old woman.

“What are you preparing?” Ye Muyu saw the pot bubbling with hot steam and asked. @@novelbin@@

“Lady, we are heating the water. We keep it warm on low heat. The young master needs it for bathing after his martial arts training in the morning.”

“Do you always keep the hot water warming?” Ye Muyu inquired.

The chef quickly shook his head. “Lady, I make a note of the times the masters usually need hot water, so I can have it ready fifteen minutes early. It won’t be late when it’s needed. It’s only when you command us to prepare ahead of time that we heat it right away.”

“Is this pot specifically used for heating water?”

“Yes.”

Ye Muyu nodded, noting how neatly the vegetables were placed on the cutting board. Since there was charcoal fire indoors, the greens were kept outside.

After inspecting everything, she was quite satisfied. “Help me soak some Tremella fuciformis.”

“And bring me a block of tofu,” Ye Muyu said as she tied up her sleeves, careful not to hinder her cooking.

The chef was somewhat surprised. “Lady, are you planning to cook yourself?”

There had been rumors in the residence that the lady’s cooking was delicious, but the people in the great kitchen had never seen it. To be accurate, only the maidservants close to Ye Muyu had seen it. Now, seeing Ye Muyu ready to cook, the chef felt both shocked and expectant.

“Don’t just stand there, go get prepared,” Su Mei commanded.

The chef and Kitchen Maid hastily nodded, not daring to delay.

Ye Muyu was planning to make Tremella soup, braised tofu, roasted eggplant, minced meat with sweet potato starch, and for dessert, a tender milk-based small square cake. She made a milk skin and simmered some red beans too.