Forced to be a concubine, I went to my husband's place to become a wealthy merchant

Chapter 208

Ye Xi felt as if the anger was directed at her when she heard the question, but she didn't understand.

She reviewed her recent actions in her mind, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

"My lord, are you... angry with me?" Ye Xi asked directly.

"...Do you think you are not wrong?" After a pause, Wei Jue observed Ye Xi's expression.

He became even angrier when the other party didn't seem to realize his mistake.

"Sir, please speak frankly. Xi Niang can't guess." Ye Xi felt that it was unreasonable for men to be angry.

"Humph, you've been so close to that pretty boy in the past half month. You're anxious to make me a cuckold before I die."

A strong sense of resentment came over me.

Ye Xi's face was full of questions? Then she understood.

It turned out that people thought she was having an affair with Ashan. She should have been very angry, but she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

This made Wei Jue, who was about to go to the battlefield to investigate, very confused. He wondered in his heart, could it be that he had made a mistake?

If they really were having an affair, Ye Xi shouldn't have reacted like this.

He had heard from Dongju a long time ago that Ye Xi had met an old friend.

I originally thought it was just an ordinary encounter, but I didn't expect that they would interact more and more frequently.

Not only that, when Ye Xi learned that the other party was going on a long voyage, he actually spent a lot of money to transport various supplies to the other party.

Forget about the "wild fruits" that were obtained with so much trouble, but the thoughtfulness that went into those medicinal herbs is evident.

In the past half month, he was so busy with government affairs that he didn't even go back to the Duke's Mansion, and stayed in the military camp outside the capital all day.

After finally finishing his work and returning to the Duke's Mansion, Xue Jiu hadn't even sat down when he presented the secret letter that Dong Ju had sent him some time ago.

As soon as he finished reading the letter, he rode his horse straight to Yuexi Cottage.

As soon as she entered the room and heard that Ye Xi was not there, she couldn't help but sweep all the tea sets on the table to the ground as she had gone to see that pretty boy off on a long voyage today. Then she yelled at the servants, asking them to go look for him quickly.

Ye Xi came back just when the servants were preparing to go out to look for someone.

"Your Excellency has wronged Xi Niang. In fact, Xi Niang did this because she wanted something from him.

Besides, he has already sailed away, and his future life and death are unknown, so why should you be jealous of him?"

It was the first time she saw Wei Jue like this, so she opened her mouth to explain.

"Who's jealous?" Wei Jue retorted subconsciously.

But I regretted it as soon as I said it. Wouldn't it be exactly what the other person wanted to explain if I explained it in such a hurry?

He changed the subject again: "You said you wanted to ask him for something, what did you ask him for? He is a lowly person, what can you ask him for? You'd better ask me for something instead of him."

Ye Xi didn't want to explain too much to him, but if she didn't explain at all, the other party would definitely think that her guess was correct.

It was not nice to cause trouble for no reason, so she picked out some irrelevant words to explain.

"I was thinking that there must be things outside the Great Zhou Dynasty that we haven't seen. I asked him to bring back some of those rare things, that's all."

"Is it that simple and worthy of your attention?" Wei Jue didn't believe it.

"Simple? There are many dangers at sea, and he may not be able to come back alive.

The chance of survival that he gained by risking his life may not necessarily help me bring back those unimportant things.

If an adult were to go, would they think Xi Niang did too much?"

It was Ye Xi who didn't understand Wei Jue's thoughts.

Wei Jue was silent, and just as Ye Xi had expected, he put himself in Ye Xi's shoes and thought about it.

Indeed, if he were risking his life to gain wealth, he would never listen to Ye Xi's request just because of her small favor. He would definitely put his own affairs first.

But there are exceptions. If that pretty boy falls in love with Ye Xi, it is not impossible.

Thinking of this possibility, there was something wrong with the way he looked at Ye Xi.