Chapter 61 – She’s a Woman Living in a Female-Dominant Society, She Must Care that He was Touched…

After this trip out, experiencing the cruelty of the outside world, he should be able to completely give up, right?

Wen Zhaoyin sometimes really didn’t quite understand why Meng Huan’s longing for the outside was so strong. Men need a sense of security and need women’s protection, but he stubbornly wanted to support his own world.

Although he didn’t succeed, this kind of thinking was still very novel. Among the men she had seen, he was absolutely unique.

Letting him leave this time was not sincere about letting him go, but wanting him to see the reality clearly and return to her side.

As for the exclusion Meng Huan encountered while living in the village, the setbacks at the escort agency, or being abducted by human traffickers in the end, she was not involved in any of it and only sent people to follow along and let things develop naturally.

For a man, traveling alone was too difficult. There was no need for her to manipulate anything. Thousands of difficulties would come one after another.

It’s just that she didn’t expect that sending two people to protect him was not enough, and Meng Huan was actually abducted by human traffickers and nearly…

Thinking of this, she inexplicably felt a bit irritated. She wanted to go see him originally, but Wen Zhaoyin suddenly changed her mind and temporarily didn’t want to meet.

She turned towards Qingzhu Garden.

Meng Huan had just walked into the room when he saw a steaming bathtub already set up inside, with two dedicated attendants standing by and waiting.

He had only been out for half a month, but coming back again, he felt a little dazed.

He looked up at the famous calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, the gauze screen beside it, and the rosewood couch and boxwood low table under the window…

The houses in the village were narrow and cramped, with dim lighting inside and the endless noise of barking dogs and crowing roosters outside.

Now, Qingzhu Garden was very different, with carved beams and painted rafters, tinkling jade pendants, groups of attendants, and the sound of birds and the fragrance of flowers. The two could be distinguished as superior and inferior without comparison.

“Wen Xi, we’re back again.”

He untied his sash and stepped into the wooden tub with the help of a small ladder. Seeing the attendants sprinkling unknown spices and dried flowers, his tense mood over the past half month also relaxed.

Damn it! This is the place for people to stay!

For the sake of Wen You, Wen Zhaoyin couldn’t kill him after all. Moreover, he had the face of her proper husband, so she definitely wouldn’t bear to let him get hurt either.

Since that’s the case, being imprisoned, he’d been imprisoned before; being slept with, he’d been slept with before too. There was really nothing to be afraid of. Whatever punishment she had, just let her bring it on.

Actually, during this half month, he occasionally thought of what Xie Yunjin said that morning before he left. What did it matter whether they looked alike or not? Their personalities were always different. She definitely couldn’t really tell them apart.

Thinking about it this way, it seemed that being a body double wasn’t as unacceptable anymore.

After the bath, he didn’t rush to rest. The spiritually numb man committing suicide was still vivid in his mind, flashing through his thoughts from time to time. He definitely wouldn’t be able to sleep peacefully for a while.

However, Wen Zhaoyin didn’t come to find him at this time either. He couldn’t figure out her thoughts and was still a little apprehensive in his heart. Taking advantage of this time, he planned to go to the west wing to take a look at Wen You.

Who would have thought that when he went, he didn’t see Wen You, but only the wet nurse was there.

After asking, he learned that not long after he left, Zu Jun ordered people to take Wen You to the small courtyard every day to play with Xie Yunjin, who stayed in the mansion. Only when the child was really fussy and didn’t want to stay would he be sent back.

The wet nurse looked a little haggard and said bitterly, “Young master, this servant doesn’t know if it should be said or not, but Zu Jun also found a wet nurse. However, he is too young and inexperienced and often doesn’t know how to take care of the young master…”

“Moreover, a few days ago, he only stayed for a short while before being sent back. These past few days, he’s been staying for longer and longer. I don’t know if it’s good or bad…”

Meng Huan immediately slammed the table angrily, “Of course it’s extremely bad! Wen You is my child. What are they taking him for? Go, come with me to the small courtyard to bring him back!”

Although he usually didn’t take care of the child much, for better or worse, it was his own child. What did it have to do with those people?

Especially Xie Yunjin, what was he playing with his child for?

He tugged the wet nurse and walked out angrily, but unexpectedly, he was stopped by the guards, saying that he was under house arrest and couldn’t leave this courtyard.

Meng Huan became even angrier. They didn’t stop him before, but now they suddenly blocked him. Were they trying to anger him to death?

“You go. You and Wen Xi go together and bring Wen You back to me right now!”

Fortunately, the guards only stopped him and didn’t stop others. Wen Xi and the wet nurse successfully went out the door and trotted towards the small courtyard.

He didn’t go back to the room and just stood at the door waiting dryly. He didn’t know how long he waited before he saw the two of them returning with the child in their arms.

Meng Huan wiped his face and opened his hands to take Wen You from the wet nurse’s arms. Just as he wanted to take a closer look at him, the child started wailing loudly in his arms.

“What’s going on…” He was a bit stunned. This child had never cried when he held him before.

The wet nurse answered beside him, “Maybe it’s because he hasn’t seen you for half a month, so the child is a bit shy with strangers. If you hold him for a while, maybe he’ll get better.”

“Is that so?”

Meng Huan held him awkwardly and swayed for a while, but it still had no effect.

Having no choice, he could only walk into the room, lift his clothes, and try feeding him a little.

This child didn’t remember the person but remembered the taste of his food source. He finally quieted down and was willing to let him hold him.

“You little ingrate, only recognizing food and not people!”

He revealed a bit of a smile unconsciously, then raised his head and instructed the wet nurse, “If Zu Jun’s side still comes to take him tomorrow, don’t give him. If you can’t stop them, come find me immediately.”

When he wasn’t home, there was no way. Now that he was home, these people still wanted to take Wen You away? Impossible!

“Yes.”

Wen Xi was assisting on the side and said with feeling, “Young master, you’ve become haggard from this trip out.”

The wet nurse beside him blinked slightly, thinking that how could going up the mountain to worship Buddha make one haggard? But then he thought that the young master was delicately taken care of at home and didn’t seem to be cut out for fasting and chanting scriptures, so becoming haggard was also to be expected.

Meng Huan’s love for Wen You only lasted for a little while. He liked seeing the child sleeping soundly in his arms, but he didn’t like it when the child cried and fussed about needing to go to the toilet. As soon as he detected signs of that, he immediately tossed the child to the wet nurse and washed his hands of the matter.

After being busy for a whole day, he didn’t let himself rest at all. It seemed that only after exhausting all his energy like this could he fall asleep without thinking about anything.

Just like that, he waited for one day, two days, three days, and Wen Zhaoyin never came.

He finished everything he had to do but still had the energy to overthink. He thought about how she would punish him for his escape and how her ignoring him might be a form of punishment.

If it was true, he really wanted to beg her to change her methods. This childish method of locking him up had long stopped working. He wasn’t afraid at all.

He definitely wouldn’t think about how Xie Yunjin took advantage of his absence to secretly ingratiate himself or how Zu Jun acted as a matchmaker. He was very calm. He wouldn’t be anxious at all.

Sometimes, he would even think of that man who committed suicide to preserve his honor, and those two ringleaders and lackeys who tugged at his clothes.

Thinking of their hands touching him, pinching his arms, thinking of the rules and etiquette in a female-dominant world, thinking of how much the guards who rescued him saw, would they report everything they saw and heard to Wen Zhaoyin?

Could it be that she was unwilling to see him because he was abducted?

In a female-dominant society, wasn’t a man’s chastity what women cared about the most? She was also from the upper-middle class of a feudal society. It wouldn’t be strange for her to care about these things.

Perhaps in Wen Zhaoyin’s eyes, even if he wasn’t violated by those two human traffickers, being touched meant he was dirty?