Inlaid With Jade - Chapter 70

Chapter 70
Bite you to death 
 
The inn’s accommodation was not spacious; the Yuetian Pavilion, where Li Heming lived, should have been the best room, but it was more cramped than Lin Yu had imagined—however, the environment was quiet. Once the door was closed, the room suddenly became silent; one could even hear the slight rubbing of clothes during movement. On the left side of the entrance, a round window was half open, and the bright spring light flowed through the wooden tables and chairs and quietly shone on the edge of Lin Yu’s skirt. She was about to examine where Li Heming had lived these days, but she didn’t expect that a heavy weight suddenly pressed down on her back after a few glances. 
  
Li Heming stretched his hand from under her arm, wrapped his arms around her waist, and silently hugged her from behind. He hugged her tightly, and his hot body temperature ironed against her skin through the fabric. His head was buried in her neck as if a lost wolfhound had finally found its owner. He closed his eyes and carefully sniffed her scent. 
  
He liked to sniff her like this. Although Lin Yu didn’t quite understand what he was sniffing, she let him do it every time. When he wanted to kiss her, she let him take off her clothes. 
  
The hot breath sprayed on her shoulders. Lin Yu slightly loosened his arm, turned around, and looked up at him: “Don’t you have to be busy today?” 
  
Li Heming naturally had errands to do, but in this situation, unless the Emperor came in person, he wouldn’t get away from Lin Yu’s gentleness. 
  
“It’s fine.” He said before lowering his head to kiss her. 
  
However, Lin Yu dodged back and covered his mouth to prevent him from touching: “What are you doing? Things haven’t been made clear yet.” 
  
She sounded like she was going to settle the accounts. Li Heming lowered his eyes to look at the hand covering his mouth, stretched out his tongue, and licked her palm. Lin Yu’s hand trembled, and she shrank to hide, but he lowered his head and took the tip of her index finger in his mouth. He held it loosely, but when Lin Yu pulled her hand out, he immediately bit back with his sharp teeth. 
  
He was born with the nature of a wolf or a tiger, and he liked to bite people. Lin Yu feared Li Heming would bite her, so she stretched out her hand and dared not move, frowning slightly: “You are annoying me again.” 
  
Lin Yu traveled hundreds of miles to Ji County, and now Li Heming was unbelievably docile. He wrapped her slender fingers with his soft and hot tongue, licked them, and then spit out her w*t fingers. He kissed her fingertips and whispered, “Are you here to see me or scold me?” 
  
Lin Yu brushed her finger across his lips and asked instead, “Did you do anything to deserve a scolding?” 
  
Li Heming paused, thinking of the few pieces of silver left in his bosom, and said, “…I don’t know.” 
  
“You don’t know?” Lin Yu took out her purse and pulled out a neatly folded letter. It was the last letter Li Heming sent her. 
  
She unfolded the letter and read the words he had written on it: “Qiqi, I had no money left.” She imitated his usual tone of voice. 
  
Li Heming hoped Lin Yu had not received the letter when she left the capital, but now that hope was shattered. Thought of the 1,800 taels he gave, he avoided her sight and kept silent, but his hand was still unwilling to loosen from her waist. He was always dignified outside and rarely dared to speak when he was at a disadvantage.

Lin Yu turned his face toward her and asked: “What did you do? You spent all the money in such a short time.” 
  
Li Heming rarely felt compassion and acted like a bodhisattva, but he didn’t care about the accounts and squandered nearly two thousand taels of silver at once. He couldn’t help feeling guilty. After all, his annual salary was only a hundred taels of silver. Other officials indulged in or relied on corruption and bribery, but Li Heming acted under the Emperor’s nose, so he couldn’t be greedy and couldn’t learn that. The rewards for doing a good job and the Li family’s shops supported the occasional extravagance. 
  
He didn’t know how to answer and was silent momentarily, then said to Lin Yu: “Didn’t you agree to let me spend it?” 
  
This sentence lit the fire, and Lin Yu bit her lips in anger: “Are you a three-year-old child? You spend as much as I give you and don’t know how to be frugal. I gave you two thousand taels because I worried you would need money, but I didn’t ask you to spend it like this.” 
  
Li Heming accepted this obediently and couldn’t help wanting to kiss her, but before he touched her, Lin Yu pushed him away: “No kiss.” 
  
Indeed, he acted steadily, but he was reckless when it came to money. Although there were not many times when he needed money, once he used money, he usually spent it like water without blinking an eye. Just like when he was young, he used the wine money to buy chestnut cakes for Lin Yu. After getting married, he originally planned to buy two bags of cakes for Lin Yu, but he was so excited that he emptied half of the store. 
  
Lin Yu knew his problem, so she interrogated him like a criminal: “Where did you spend the money?” 
  
Li Heming knew she was angry, so he explained: “My father had a subordinate named Luo Shan, who now lives in Ji County with his wife and daughter. He injured his legs, his family was poor, and he adopted a b*by from the disaster victims, so I gave him the money.” 
  
After hearing this, Lin Yu nodded in agreement: “That’s right.” 
  
However, five hundred taels for Luo Shan’s family’s medical treatment and future life was enough, so she asked: “What about the rest?” 
  
“…” 
  
Lin Yu didn’t understand why he fell silent again. She hugged her waist and shook him, urging, “En? Speak.” 
  
Li Heming, dressed in an Imperial Guard uniform, was forced by Lin Yu, who was a head shorter than him, causing him not to dare to speak. It was hilarious and sour. He felt he had never been so worried about money but could not resist Lin Yu’s coquettish questioning, so he had to tell the truth honestly: “… I gave Luo Shan’s family 1,800 taels.” 
  
Lin Yu suddenly opened her eyes wide, suspecting she had misheard. She remembered the girl who talked to Li Heming on the street and murmured to him: “Is the girl on the street before Luo Shan’s daughter?” 
  
Li Heming glanced at her expression and said, “Hmm.” 
  
Lin Yu asked, “I laboriously took care of the house, and you use the money to support another girl?” 
  
Li Heming frowned, obviously disagreeing: “I rely on you to support me. How can I support others.” 
  
Lin Yu couldn’t listen to it at the moment, and she was so angry that she hugged his neck and pounced over: “…I’ll bite you to death.”