Free Web NovelChapter 1342: Chapter 1220: Crossing the Line Between Men and Women
A few days ago, Song Yansheng wanted to invite Ye Mingmei over, but Gu Zheng disagreed. Now that he’s already made up with the little girl, Gu Zheng has come uninvited!
Ye Mingmei stayed upstairs to keep Shi Nuan company, while Song Yansheng went downstairs to meet Gu Zheng.
Shi Nuan was very pleased with Ye Mingmei’s arrival, and Ye Mingmei was quite happy too. She said she had always wanted to come to the Song Mansion, but Gu Zheng wouldn’t allow it and had been keeping her grounded, which was really annoying.
Shi Nuan asked, "Why?"
Ye Mingmei puckered her lips, "Why else? Boss Gu must be going through early menopause. Oh, by the way, little sister-in-law, Brother Yu is the same age as Boss Gu. Has he been acting strange lately?"
Shi Nuan gave an awkward chuckle and shook her head.
Seeing that, Ye Mingmei was even more convinced, "It seems Boss Gu really is in early menopause. It’s an illness that needs to be treated. But when I told him, he totally ignored me and even got mad at me. It’s just so unreasonable of him!"
Shi Nuan lightly coughed and said, "Then you... haven’t done anything recently to upset your Boss Gu, have you? Otherwise, even if... even if he’s in early menopause, he wouldn’t just ground you!"
Ye Mingmei blinked innocently, "I haven’t done anything. Oh, except for once, before Boss Gu took a bath, I secretly hid in the bathroom, but before I could see anything, he discovered me and kicked me out. After that, he grounded me for a week. I speculate Boss Gu probably doesn’t like me looking at his body, but that’s okay, I can look at others’ too. It turns out that didn’t work either. After Boss Gu found out, he grounded me for another week, and the worst part? He didn’t let me eat meat! You wouldn’t believe it, little sister-in-law, he’s almost tortured me to death!"
"..." Shi Nuan was at a loss for words.
Hiding in the bathroom to watch Gu Zheng shower?
Couldn’t do it, so she went to see other men?
Ahem, Ye Mingmei truly is...
No wonder Gu Zheng wanted to ground her; he probably even thought of killing her!
Shi Nuan thought, Gu Zheng must have brought Ye Mingmei to the Song Mansion this time in hopes that she could teach Ye Mingmei a thing or two.
After all, A qing isn’t around right now, and Jiang Ziyuan has a playful personality, which Gu Zheng can’t trust, so he sought her out.
A long way to go, since the conversation had progressed this far, Shi Nuan decided to go with the flow.
She said, "Mingmei, you were wrong this time. You should apologize to Boss Gu at home and promise him that you absolutely won’t do anything similar in the future!"
Ye Mingmei pouted in puzzlement and asked, "Why? I’m just looking, it’s not like he would lose a piece of flesh. Plus, when we were kids, he bathed me once, though just once, but he saw my body. So why can’t I look at his body now..."
When Gu Zheng was nineteen, he adopted seven-year-old Ye Mingmei. At nineteen, a young man is not particularly knowledgeable about gender matters.
But at that time, he was already cautious, so he mostly asked Uncle Yang’s wife, Aunt Yang from the troop, to bathe Ye Mingmei.
Later, when Ye Mingmei was a bit older, he let her bathe herself.
However, Gu Zheng did bathe Ye Mingmei once. It was during physical training, when Ye Mingmei accidentally fell into a mud puddle and got herself all muddy.
Aunt Yang was unavailable then, and Ye Mingmei couldn’t clean herself well, so Gu Zheng used a black cloth to cover his eyes and bathed Ye Mingmei.
During the bath, Ye Mingmei mischievously yanked the black cloth off.
The one time Ye Mingmei mentioned was actually that time.
After listening to Ye Mingmei’s words, Shi Nuan nodded, "There you have it, Mingmei. You need to understand that no matter how close you are with your Boss Gu, you are not lovers, and if you are not lovers, you cannot look at each other’s bodies!"
Ye Mingmei furrowed her brow, thought for a moment, and said, "Then, are you and Brother Yu lovers?"
Shi Nuan nodded, "Yes, we... we are, sort of!"
"Can you and Brother Yu look at each other’s bodies?"
"..." Shi Nuan knew Ye Mingmei was naive and confused, especially about matters of romance.
So she’s always been straightforward with her questions.
She coughed in embarrassment and said, "In short, Mingmei, there are many things between men and women that cannot be crossed, understand?"
...
Shi Nuan’s guess was correct, Gu Zheng indeed came to the Song Mansion hoping Shi Nuan could help teach Ye Mingmei.
Song Yansheng listened to Gu Zheng’s reason and laughed, "A Zheng, Mingmei is almost eighteen now and still doesn’t understand much about relationships between men and women. But I don’t think her lack of understanding is because she’s used to being around men in the troop or because you’re protecting her too well. I always felt it’s because you deliberately kept her from understanding these things..."
