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"No...no need." Seeing Shen Ye coming in, Ji Ruxue's face turned slightly red, her voice was as soft as a mosquito, and then she stood up with the help of the table.
What a stubborn girl... Shen Ye thought helplessly.
Shaking his head slightly, Shen Ye left the room again after saying "take care of yourself".
Coming down from the second floor, Shen Ye walked to the inn counter and asked the innkeeper to boil some hot water and prepare a wooden basin. Then he sat at a square table not far from the door, waiting for the person to deliver the clothes.
After waiting for a while, a runner brought the clothes. Although Shen Ye had already paid for the clothes, he still took out a few taels of silver and threw them to the runner as a reward for his hard work.
"Thank you for the reward, sir."
Amid the loud compliments from the errand boy, Shen Ye returned to the door of Ji Ruxue's room on the second floor.
This time, Shen Ye did not rush in, but knocked on the door first, for fear of seeing something or something he shouldn't see.
"Miss Ji, can I come in?" Shen Ye asked softly.
"Okay." Ji Ruxue's unclear voice came from the room immediately, and it sounded like she was eating something.
Shen Ye then pushed the door open and saw Ji Ruxue already dressed and sitting at a square table eating buns.
After placing the clothes he bought for Ji Ruxue on the chair beside her, Shen Ye glanced at the food on the tray and found that except for the bun in Ji Ruxue's hand, all the others had been eaten.
"You have a good appetite." Shen Ye nodded, thinking that people who practiced martial arts have good physical fitness. Although it was due to the medicine he exchanged, any ordinary woman would not be able to get out of bed without resting for three to five days, let alone having such a good appetite.
But Ji Ruxue didn't know what she was thinking. She actually misunderstood the meaning and thought that Shen Ye thought she ate too much, so she quickly put the bun she had taken a bite of back in her hand.
"Miss Ji, what are you doing?" Shen Ye was a little confused by Ji Ruxue's actions.
Ji Ruxue whispered: "I...I'm full."
"Really?" Shen Ye looked at the bun in confusion, one third of which Ji Ruxue had bitten off in one bite. She didn't look like she was full at all!
But soon, he realized that this girl thought he thought she ate too much!
Shaking his head in amusement, Shen Ye picked up the bun and handed it to Ji Ruxue, saying, "You'd better finish it. Don't waste it."
So Ji Ruxue said "oh" and obediently took the bun and started eating.
Shen Ye watched Ji Ruxue finish her meal quietly, then poured her a glass of water. Just as he was about to say something, there was a knock on the door.
"Who?" Shen Ye asked.
"Sir, I am the waiter of the inn. I am here to bring you hot water as you requested." The waiter's voice came.
"Then come in."
Then the waiter came in with a wooden basin filled with hot water.
"Put it on the table, and then take these away." Shen Ye pointed to the tray on the square table to the waiter.
"Okay."
The waiter nodded and hurriedly did as Shen Ye asked. During this time, he secretly glanced at Ji Ruxue, but after seeing the blood on her clothes, he quickly lowered his head, thinking to himself that he really shouldn't have looked around.
Although the waiter was very careful with his things, Shen Ye still noticed him. Seeing that he was about to leave with the tray, Shen Ye called him to stop.
"Waiter, don't leave in a hurry, come here for a moment."
"Sir, do you have anything else to say?" The waiter turned around and asked hurriedly. He was smart and had vaguely guessed that Shen Ye had seen his actions just now. A layer of sweat suddenly appeared on his forehead and his back was instantly wet.
"You didn't see anything just now, you know?" Shen Ye took out a small piece of gold and held it in front of the waiter.
Although his tone was gentle, the waiter was still so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe. After all, he heard late in the evening that a fight had taken place in the east of the city, and more than a hundred people had died.
"That's it, that's it, I didn't see anything."
Wiping the sweat from his forehead vigorously, the waiter took the gold with trembling hands, nodded and bowed, then quickly left the room and closed the door.
After sending the waiter away, Shen Ye said to Ji Ruxue, "Miss Ji, don't go out for the next two days. Stay in your room and recover from your injuries. There are people from the Xuanming Sect outside now. Although they are just minions, they are still troublesome. I am too lazy to deal with these people from the underworld."
The high-ranking members of Xuanming Sect all call themselves the Emperor of the Underworld, Lord Yan, Judge Meng Po, and Black and White Impermanence, which is like the underworld, so Shen Ye said that they are people from the underworld.
"Yeah!" Ji Ruxue nodded slightly.
Seeing this, Shen Ye smiled, glanced at the wooden basin on the table that was steaming, and stood up and said, "Well, Miss Ji, I'll go back to my room first. If you have anything to say, just shout. I can hear you."
After saying that, he turned and walked towards the door.
But just as he reached the door, he heard Ji Ruxue shouting, "Wait... please wait a moment, Shen... Brother Shen..."
The call of "Brother Shen" made Shen Ye stunned for a moment. He stopped and turned to look at Ji Ruxue.
"What... did you call me just now?" He looked at Ji Ruxue with some confusion.
This was the first time someone called him like that in all these years, and he thought he had heard it wrong.
"Brother Shen...I can call you that, right..." Ji Ruxue's tone was very soft, and she seemed like a completely different person from the cold and aloof girl yesterday.
"Of course." After making sure that he had heard correctly, Shen Ye nodded with a smile: "So is there anything else? Miss Ji, if you have anything else, just tell me, and I will do my best to do it."
Ji Ruxue's heart skipped a beat after hearing these words. After a long while, she bit her red lips gently and whispered, "Nothing, it's just... you don't have to call me Miss Ji all the time. You can... you can call me Xue'er. Others call me that."
However, the "other" that Ji Ruxue mentioned here refers to the empress, the person she feels closest to at the moment.
"Okay then, I will call you Miss Xue'er from now on." Shen Ye also felt that calling her Miss Ji was not very nice.
But Ji Ruxue immediately corrected her: "Just call me Xue'er, don't add 'Miss'."
Shen Ye was startled, then smiled: "Well, I understand, Xue'er."
Then he waved his hand and continued, "I'm leaving first. Remember to call me if you need anything. I'm next door."
"Yeah." Ji Ruxue nodded vigorously.
As Shen Ye closed the door, Ji Ruxue sat at the square table for a while, then she struggled to stand up, moved to the door of the room, closed the bolt, then returned to the table, slowly took off her clothes, and began to wash her body.
While cleaning, she looked at the bandages wrapped around her body, her face inexplicably reddened, and then she whispered, "Thank you, Brother Shen."
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