Chapter 2347: Chapter 2160: Stop Looking for Me

"I am a silent passenger leaning against the window, missing you."

"As route 107 passes again, time is the tram that carries away youth."

"I stand atop Drum Tower, all the prosperity around me feels unrelated."

"This is a crowded place, yet I feel very lonely."

"I am at Drum Tower, I am at Drum Tower, I am at Drum Tower, I am at Drum Tower."

...

The next day, Chu Xianling finished her errands and returned to Minghe with Lu Yaobing.

"Bingbing, coming here has really been tough on you. Your master and fellow masters are all lazy to the core, insisting you come help them run errands. You should just follow me back to the Su Family Courtyard and have your master cook something delicious for you." Chu Xianling said to Lu Yaobing.

"No need, Sister Xianling. The final exams are coming up soon, and I need to go back and memorize my notes!" Lu Yaobing replied to Chu Xianling.

"That won’t do. You helped your master with errands, and he didn’t give you a penny. Yet you can’t even get a free meal from him, making him quite unqualified as a master!" Chu Xianling commented to Lu Yaobing.

"There’s no need, anything I do for my master is only right!" Lu Yaobing said with silly affection.

"Hehehehe, you silly girl! Listen to me; I’ll take you to your school so you can grab your books or whatever you need to memorize. Come home for dinner, and I’ll have my sister make you something special. You can start thinking now—just tell me what you’d like to eat." Chu Xianling suggested to Lu Yaobing.

Chu Xianling insisted on bringing Lu Yaobing back to the Su Family Courtyard.

"Hey, Xianling and Bingbing are back!" Li Sijie spotted them entering from afar.

"Yes, it’s been three days in the blink of an eye!" Miao Qingqing noted.

"Xiaodong, quickly go out and help them; look, they’re both carrying such big bags!" Song Xiaoru told Song Xiaodong.

"Got it!" Song Xiaodong cheerfully ran downstairs.

"Come over here and take them!" Chu Xianling called out a bit grumpily to Song Xiaodong.

"Alright, alright." Song Xiaodong quickened his pace, as Lu Yaobing was holding two large bags.

"Master!" Lu Yaobing excitedly jumped over and hugged Song Xiaodong.

"Ah, alright, alright, good job, good job!" Song Xiaodong happily patted Lu Yaobing’s back, then put her down.

"Your apprentice really worked hard, running back and forth for you. You don’t know how difficult it is to find the medicinal materials you wanted!" Chu Xianling said to Song Xiaodong.

"I know, I know, Xiaoliu also almost came back empty-handed—that wholesale distribution center ordeal he told me about. But you see, fortunately, I have you!" Song Xiaodong replied to Chu Xianling.

"Stop charming me; in these three days of my absence, did you go to Deputy Director Qiao again?" Chu Xianling asked Song Xiaodong.

"No, no, dear wife, for these three days without you, I’ve been so distressed I couldn’t even eat or sleep; my mind was filled with thoughts of you; how could I have had any mood to think about Deputy Director Qiao?" Song Xiaodong answered with a smile.

"Hmm, that’s more like it!"

"Alright, alright, let’s get inside quickly; it’s freezing out here." Song Xiaodong said to Lu Yaobing and Chu Xianling.

"Just take Bingbing’s things too! Can’t you see what’s needed here!" Chu Xianling chided Song Xiaodong.

"Yes, yes, your critiques are absolutely correct, my dear wife!"

Song Xiaodong carried four bags alone and headed upstairs.

"Xianling!"

Aside from Miao Qingqing and Miao Xuanxuan, who stayed seated on the sofa, Xiao Yingying, Lin Su’er, Sun Ziyun, Sun Yiyi, and Song Xiaoru surrounded Chu Xianling and Lu Yaobing excitedly.

"Bingbing, sit here and have a chat!" Li Sijie invited Lu Yaobing to sit on the sofa.

"Honestly, Xiaodong is quite irresponsible, making Bingbing, a young girl, go all that way to handle things for him!" Song Xiaoru criticized Song Xiaodong.

"Sis, it’s fine! I really learned a lot from this trip, got a chance to experience many precious medicinal materials I usually wouldn’t even get close to. It’s been incredibly eye-opening for me!" Lu Yaobing said to Song Xiaoru while seated on the sofa.

"Alright, looks like you’ve been fooled by your master; he makes you run errands, and you’re still gladly doing it!" Song Xiaoru remarked to Lu Yaobing.

"Hehehe, my master treats me well, it’s only right for me to do these things for him!" Lu Yaobing responded modestly to Song Xiaoru.

"Xianling, you went to Beijing—you didn’t think to bring us back some souvenirs?" Sun Yiyi teasingly asked Chu Xianling.

"What fun did I have? All I did was serve, taking care of someone’s childbirth event, getting dragged into the kitchen to do chores during the official duties—when did I have time to enjoy? Just ask Bingbing, I barely spent time at home; I was mostly stuck in the Chu Family Courtyard these days." Chu Xianling grumbled.

"Master, I brought some things for you and the sisters!" Lu Yaobing pointed at the two bags placed on the floor by Song Xiaodong.

"Oh dear, you’re still a student, and everything in Beijing is super expensive. With so many people in the family, why would you buy us gifts and waste money like that!" Song Xiaoru somewhat reproached Lu Yaobing.

"It’s okay Sis, I just bought some small souvenirs—nothing worth much!" Lu Yaobing opened the bags she brought back and took out the gifts she prepared for Song Xiaodong and the sisters.

They were not very expensive things, just some exquisite paper cuttings and a couple of clay figurines.

"Wow, these paper cuttings are so beautiful!" Miao Qingqing, Miao Xuanxuan, Sun Yiyi, Lin Su’er couldn’t help but exclaimed.

"Bingbing, you’re still young, why spend money freely; what’s the point of giving us all these paper cuttings—they’re not practical!" Song Xiaoru again spoke to Lu Yaobing.

"Sis, just don’t say that about Bingbing; she’s thinking of us!" Miao Qingqing told Song Xiaoru.

"Master, this is the gift I’ve thoughtfully chosen for you!" Lu Yaobing cheerfully raised an orderly folded set of a yellow robe and a vest and presented it to Song Xiaodong.

"What’s this? A burial robe?" Miao Qingqing asked.

"Don’t say that nonsense; this is yellow robe and vest from Ruifuxiang. Bingbing, what you bought for your master is quite costly!" Chu Xianling said to Miao Qingqing and Lu Yaobing.

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