The Spirited Daughter-in-law and the Mountain Man

Chapter 882: 882 third brother doesn’t touch her3

A wave of emotion swept through her heart, and she snatched the clothes and slammed the door shut with a smack.

“Wife, hurry and put on your clothes, don’t catch a cold,” his concerned voice reached into the bathing room.

She quickly dressed and then reopened the bathroom door.

He walked into the bathing area and dumped out the bathwater from the bathtub all at once.

The floor of the bathing room had a slight incline to facilitate the water’s flow toward the lower side of the wall, where a horizontal groove at the base allowed the water to enter and then drain through holes to a trench outside the wall.

Xiao Yuchuan found the bathing room designed by his wife quite convenient; after a bath, there was no need to carry a basin to dump out the water.

“Third brother, when were you outside and I didn’t even realize it?” Su Qingyue asked from behind him.

“I saw in one of the medical books at the bookstore a method for containing one’s breath, claiming it could focus and calm the spirit,” he scratched his head embarrassedly, “I thought it might even allow me to be quiet and unnoticed. So, I just tried it and didn’t expect that my wife wouldn’t detect me.”

Su Qingyue stared at him oddly, “Third brother, are you even human?”

“How am I not?”

“Just by reading, you can apply it directly?”

“I find it quite simple,” he said.

She looked at his handsome face, “Third brother, do you want to study medicine?”

He answered honestly, “I’m more interested in making poison.”

“The two of us are really birds of a feather, I’ll teach you!” She patted his shoulder like a good buddy.

“Although it’s embarrassing to have my wife teach an outsider,” he said cheerfully, “but I’ve lost face in front of my wife not just once. Moreover… It’s my great fortune that you’re willing to teach.”

“You flatter me, third brother. Let’s go, I’ll teach you right now, to the pharmacy we go…” She and he headed to the front courtyard together.

Su Qingyue cast a glance at the second brother’s room, quiet and still, it looked like the second brother and Li Rong’er had ‘finished their battle.’

“Wife, what are you looking at?” Xiao Yuchuan’s eyes gleamed with mischief as he moved closer.

She pushed his head away, “Nothing. Second brother really, despite being injured, still doing that… not afraid that the wound will burst open.”

“Wife, don’t worry, the wound medicine I formulated works very well, the second brother’s wound won’t crack open.”

The two entered the pharmacy, and Su Qingyue began teaching him the principles of making poison. To create poison, one must first understand the medicinal effects, and she directly taught him about the effects of various medicines and how to mix them into poison. No matter what she said, there was not a hint of doubt in his mind; he understood everything she taught.

Su Qingyue’s teachings were already quite profound, while the fourth brother was still learning some of the more superficial medical skills.

It wasn’t that she was unwilling to teach the fourth brother, but his capacity to learn was just so, even struggling to keep up with the pace of her teaching, needing repeated study to understand.

Su Qingyue felt more and more that the third brother’s intelligence was incomparable to the second and fourth brothers.

Born from the same father and mother, how could there be such a difference?

In the deep silence of the night, as they left the pharmacy, Su Qingyue prepared to return to her room for sleep.

From one of the side rooms came the suppressed moans of a man and a woman.

It was from the second brother’s room; those tones indicated that the second brother and Li Rong’er were ‘getting down to business’ again.

These two really kept themselves busy without distinction between daytime and night.

Having spent the day gathering herbs in the mountains and then teaching the third brother all evening, Su Qingyue was genuinely tired, with no interest in eavesdropping. So she went back to her own room and fell asleep.