"Where did you come from? Why don't you want to go back to your hometown?" Shen Yuyu walked up to the little girl and looked at her. She was thin and frail with patches all over her body, but she was pretty and cute.
"I came from Lingwei Town~~I, I don't have a home." The little girl faltered, with tears in her eyes. Her pitiful look was heartbreaking.
"No home? Why?" Ji Xun couldn't help but ask.
There was a hint of fear and timidity in the girl's eyes, and she closed her mouth tightly and never spoke again.
Since the government has issued such a policy, it is not easy to drive them away, but how to arrange for an eleven or twelve-year-old girl?
"Let's take it home first." Shen Yuyu said. She sniffed the little girl's scent cautiously when she said this.
"Why do you have a scent on your body?" Shen Yuyu looked at the little girl carefully. The whereabouts of the white butterfly were unknown, so she still had to be careful.
But she didn't smell the old man smell on the girl, but instead smelled a faint fragrance.
"I've had this smell since I was born, and I can't even wash it off." The little girl hurriedly explained, "It's not unlucky. There used to be a concubine named Xiang Fei who also had it."
"Don't be afraid, no one says you are unlucky." Shen Yue smiled gently at the little girl, "What's your name?"
"I, I don't have a name, everyone calls me puppy~~"
Shen Yu'an's head was filled with dark streaks, and she thought to herself that this child either had a patriarchal family and was abused and refused to go back, or he was a witch boy~~
Regarding the theory of witch boys, Shen Yuhui had heard of it many times.
When a baby is just born, if something bad happens to the family, he will be considered a witch boy who brings bad luck and will be abandoned by his relatives.
Those abandoned witch boys who are more lucky may be picked up and raised by some kind beggars, or some may even be raised by wolves, dogs, etc. There are many such examples.
After all, this girl is probably a witch boy, otherwise it would be impossible for her to refuse to reveal her identity.
"Then let's take her home for now." Ji Xun said, "We will find a good place for her then."
On the carriage back home, Shen Yuxi looked at the girl timidly huddled in the corner with gentle eyes.
"From today on, you will be called Xiaoluo.'
"Yes, thank you madam for the name." Xiaoluo knelt down in the car and kowtowed twice. She didn't know the identities of Shen Yuehu and Ji Xun. After all, Shen Yuehu and Ji Xun were dressed in ordinary clothes. The noble prince and princess looked completely out of place.
Shen Yuyu smiled and said nicely, "Xiaoluo, since we are willing to accept you into the house, we will naturally not dislike you. Please tell us your origin clearly.'
Xiaoluo lowered his head in fear, and it took him a while to summon the courage to raise his head.
"Madam, I, I may be an unlucky person, but I am willing to do anything~~"
"You don't have to be afraid." Shen Yuyu softened his tone, "Even if you are a witch boy, we will not dislike you."
"Really?" Xiaoluo tensed up nervously, with tears in her eyes, "I, I am indeed an unlucky witch boy."
"My mother died of hemorrhage when she gave birth to me, and then there was a locust plague. I was thrown into the garbage dump on the third day after I was born. It was the beggar grandpa who raised me."
"Get up and forget about your identity as a witch boy." Shen Yue looked at Ji Xun who was sitting in the driver's seat, "Axun, do you believe this statement about the witch boy?"
"I don't believe it." Ji Xun answered with certainty, "But even the royal family of the Great Zhou Kingdom firmly believed in this statement. This cannot be restricted and eliminated by laws alone.
"Indeed." Shen Yuxi nodded. Feudal superstition was so deep-rooted that it could not be eradicated even in modern times, let alone in ancient times when the earth was not even known to be round. Thinking of this, Shen Yuxi gave up asking Ji Xun to introduce the law. Example thoughts.
After returning to the house, Shen Yue called Aunt Bai.
"Auntie, this girl's name is Xiaoluo. Please make some arrangements for her and see what she can do."
"Okay." Aunt Bai responded, and then looked at Xiaoluo carefully. Seeing that Xiaoluo looked well-behaved, she said to Shen Yuyu, "Girl Shen, I think this girl is not bad. Why don't she stay with you?"
"No need." Ji Xun refused before Shen Yuyu could answer, "Besides my wife, I'm not used to having other women around me." This is also the reason why Shen Yuyu doesn't have a maid beside him.
"Okay, then I'll take her down." Aunt Bai said and led Xiaoluo to the backyard.
When sleeping at night, Ji Xun pressed Shen Yuyu under him, with a charming smile on his god-like handsome face.
"How many more days will it take for the poison in my body to be cured?" He was counting on his fingers every day. How could he not know? He deliberately asked Shen Yuyu like this to create an ambiguous atmosphere.
"My husband has enough room, it's coming soon, there are still six days left." Shen Yuxi blinked her almond-shaped eyes.
"Then we should prepare for the wedding in the next few days." Ji Xun gently rubbed his wife's lips, "I feel wronged by you, you don't even have a palace."
"How about pushing it back? Wait until the palace is repaired?" Shen Yuyu rolled his eyes, "It's okay to wait until I'm twenty before we get married."
"Huh? I still want to push it back." Ji Xun held her under his body, "True to his word, we will get married in six days. I have already asked Ji Yi to make arrangements."
"It's up to you, it's up to you." Shen Yuyu nodded at Ji Xun's nose, "How about we avoid the wedding, how much trouble would it be?"
"This~~This is too unfair to you." Ji Xun looked guilty.
Shen Yuyu chuckled and said, "What a shame~~ We have been sleeping in the same bed for more than two years. I feel like I will be laughed at if we hold another wedding with great fanfare. I might as well keep everything simple. After all, we have no wedding. Except Brother Meng Fan, who knows?"
After saying that, he added cheerfully, "Aunt Bai has been making innuendoes every day, asking me to have a baby earlier. Look at these few days. She has been sending supplements to our room every day~~ What kind of wedding do you think we should have~~ Isn't it superfluous?
"Are you sure you don't want to have a wedding?" Ji Xun hesitated. Firstly, he was busy, and now he was discussing conscription. Secondly, it was true that he had been sleeping together for a long time. Wouldn't having this banquet be equivalent to telling others that they were in name only? Indeed. It's not something easy to explain.
"No way." Shen Yuyu affirmed, "That's it." The two were talking when someone knocked on the door outside.
"His Royal Highness the Night King and the Princess, the aunt asked me to bring you midnight snacks." It was Xiaoluo's voice. She timidly explained, "The aunt sprained her foot and asked me to bring it over."
"Yu Yu, you lie down, husband, go get it." Ji Xun kissed Shen Yu Yu on the forehead, got up and got out of bed, put on his shoes and came to the door.
As soon as the door opened, Xiaoluo stood outside the door holding a food plate and his head cocked.
Ji Xun took the food plate and said habitually, "Thank you for your hard work."
"It's not hard work, a slave should do it." Xiaoluo said, raising her head, and Ji Xun's eyes couldn't help but fall on her face.
