Chapter 68: Power Outage

When he woke up, Yingzi was not in the room.

She scooped a bowl of rice porridge from the rice cooker, tore open a bag of pickled mustard greens to place on a small plate, and then carried it upstairs.

Pushing open the bedroom door and seeing that Sheng Hanyu had woken up, Yingzi was very happy: "You're awake? Thank goodness you're finally awake. Last night, your head was so hot it could have roasted a sweet potato."

"What happened to me?" He spoke only to find his throat hoarse; he wanted to sit up but felt lightheaded, so he eventually gave up.

"Don't move."

She placed the tray on the table, then went over to help him sit up against the headboard, and brought the tray over to the bedside: "Can you eat by yourself? Do you need me to feed you?"

"I'll do it myself."

The porridge looked much better than yesterday's; she was truly clever, learning everything as soon as she was taught.

As he ate the porridge, she sat by the bed and told him about last night: "You had a fever, a high fever of thirty-nine point five degrees. There isn't even any cold medicine here, so I used cold water to physically cool you down, and I wiped you down for almost the whole night..."

Sheng Hanyu suddenly interrupted: "Wasn't there medicine in that cup of water you brought me yesterday morning?"

"Yesterday morning?"

Shi Youxuan froze, then burst into loud laughter, laughing until tears came out: "I was, I was teasing you."

"Yesterday morning I wanted to drive you away, so I put a Vitamin C effervescent tablet in the water glass, hahahahaha... and you actually believed it."

After laughing for a while, Shi Youxuan saw Sheng Hanyu staring at her the whole time, so she stopped laughing.

Yesterday, besides putting an effervescent tablet in the quilt to fool him, she had done a series of other things.

Wearing high heels to stomp back and forth on the wooden stairs, and shouting slogans!

Deliberately pouring water on the quilt, only to be seen through by Sheng Hanyu who told her to take it out to dry.

If the quilt hadn't been wet, she wouldn't have had to go out to dry it, and if she hadn't gone out to dry it, she naturally wouldn't have had to go out to bring it in during the heavy rain!

If she hadn't gone out to bring in the quilt, Sheng Hanyu wouldn't have been afraid of her being in danger and gone out to find her, and of course, he wouldn't have been hit by hail, wouldn't have been soaked by the heavy rain, and wouldn't have caught a fever and a cold!

In the final analysis, if one were to talk about this matter, it was still her fault.

So it was only right that she take care of Sheng Hanyu. Originally, she had wanted to claim credit first and then set conditions, but as a result, the other party just casually interrupted, and it changed everything.

"Eat slowly, just leave the bowl to the side when you're done, I'll collect it later." Shi Youxuan went out to face the wall and reflect on her mistakes.

Her mobile phone was out of power, and her laptop was also out of power.

The electricity in the Villa was still out, the air conditioner wouldn't turn on, and everything that could contact the outside world was unusable; she walked back and forth in the living room out of boredom.

Sheng Hanyu came out of the room, as if seeing through her thoughts, and said: "Someone will come to fix the circuit in a while, don't be anxious."

"Really? That's great." Shi Youxuan immediately became happy.

He hadn't lied; very soon, a raft glided over from the opposite side, and the butler and a person who looked like an electrician got off the raft.

The electrician went to the tool room to inspect the circuit, and the butler took the things off the raft one by one.

There were food boxes, ingredients, quilts, and changes of clothes for men and women, as well as medicine and some daily necessities!

Shi Youxuan was quite happy at first, but after seeing what followed, she realized what was going on.

"Are you planning to stay here for a long time?"

"Yes." Sheng Hanyu answered very readily.

She became anxious: "No, this place has already become a deserted island. Why are you wasting time here with me instead of going back to the other side or your big family mansion to live a comfortable life?"

Shi Youxuan was puzzled; why did Sheng Hanyu follow her wherever she went? She couldn't avoid him and couldn't shake him off!

Sheng Hanyu glanced at her, his reason sounding high-sounding: "You are here by yourself, I am not at ease."

Shi Youxuan said: "What are you not at ease about? Do I have anything to do with you? Whoever you are not at ease about is the one who is unlucky. Jian Yixin's life or death is unknown, and Shi Youxuan's fate is unknown; you had better stop thinking about me, I still want to live well."

Her words were truly unpleasant to hear; the butler couldn't listen anymore and was just about to argue with her, but was stopped by the Eldest Young Master.

"I will leave in a while, the butler will stay."

The butler will stay?

No way.

She felt that she had developed a different kind of feeling for Sheng Hanyu, and she wanted him to leave even more because she was afraid of her secret being exposed.

If the butler stayed, she was afraid her secret would be exposed even faster.

She put her hands on her hips and said righteously: "What are you doing? This isn't your house, what right do you have to say who stays and who goes?"

"I am a person who likes quiet and doesn't like liveliness, and I especially don't like having people in my house monitoring me like a prisoner. You all leave, just fix the circuit for me, I don't need anyone to keep me company."

This woman's expression of 'kicking the ladder after climbing up' and her arrogance of not knowing what was good for her made the butler lose all patience.

"Eldest Young Master, let's go. Who does she think is dying to be here? Someone who doesn't know what's good for them; a woman living here alone, she could be carried off by a wolf and no one would even know."

"There are wolves here?"

Shi Youxuan's voice trembled; she was afraid of even dogs, let alone wolves!

The butler said triumphantly: "In the past, you could vaguely hear them howling in the middle of the night, but we have many people on our side, so we aren't afraid even if there are wolves."

"But it's hard to say for you. If wolves can't find food on the mountain, they might just come down the mountain to find something to eat."

To vent his anger, he even deliberately went to the window and touched the glass, saying: "See this pane of glass?"

"It broke for no reason last year, and later everyone suspected it was bitten by a wolf..." He said it very solemnly, as if it were true.

The glass had indeed broken last year, but it was because a few bodyguards were kicking a ball nearby and accidentally broke it...

Later, playing football was forbidden in this area.

Shi Youxuan didn't know if it was true or false, and she was already shivering with fear from the butler.

"Snap!"

The house was brightly lit; the circuit was fixed.

The electrician prepared to leave, and Shi Youxuan changed her mind. She tugged on Sheng Hanyu's sleeve and whispered: "Don't go."

She had just spoken so harshly, and now she wanted to keep someone with just a light sentence?

The butler was the first to disagree.

She stepped out again: "What are you doing? Do you have even half a cent's worth of relation to our Eldest Young Master? Why should he listen to you? Just because you say he should stay, he stays?"

"Our Villa has nice rooms and plenty of servants; why would the Eldest Young Master choose to live a life of lacking this and that here instead of living comfortably... Don't let our Eldest Young Master bring bad luck to you. Since you like peace and quiet, then just be peaceful and quiet by yourself."

"When you don't like peace and quiet anymore, there are still little animals from the mountain that will come down to keep you company!"

The housekeeper and Sheng Hanyu were master and servant in name, but their bond was like mother and son; for many years, she had always protected him as if he were her own son, unable to bear seeing him suffer the slightest grievance.

The housekeeper's barrage of retorts used all the exact words Shi Youxuan had just used!

Shi Youxuan was eloquent compared to Sheng Hanyu, but against a housekeeper who managed servants and specialized in dealing with tricky and slippery people, she was clearly outmatched.

For a moment, she was at a loss for words, not knowing what to say.

"You all go back, we can contact each other by phone if there's anything." Sheng Hanyu issued an order to leave, telling the housekeeper and the electrician to return.

"Eldest Young Master, you should come back with us too. You are too wronged here. Until the water level goes down, those people cannot come to the Villa. You should go back, I will stay."

"You leave, he stays."

Shi Youxuan did not dislike the housekeeper, but she did not want her to stay; she did not want to be scared to death before she was angered to death.

"Hmph!"

The housekeeper let out a "hmph" from her nose, and feeling that she had regained face for the Eldest Young Master, she left.

There were quilts, there was medicine, there was food, but most importantly, the power was back on.

The two of them each held a laptop, guarding their own sofa, and handled company matters separately; it was quite peaceful!

A vibration came from the window.

Jian Yining, who had disappeared for several days, came online, and as soon as he was online, he sent her a big "news" item: "Hey, Yingzi, do you know? The fact that Sheng Hanyu was faking blindness has been discovered!"