He Danggui asked again, "Third Childe, how could you be sure that Meng Xuan was that kid's father? Why did Meng Xuan avoid talking about Miss Xiao and his son in front of you? He isn't an irresponsible man. He won't conceal the existence of his child even if the mother is just an ignoble prostitute, let alone a brilliant woman like Miss Xiao that you think." Of course, she was using ventriloquism.
Meng Ying revolved around He Danggui again and again as if he was visiting an exotic animal and exclaimed several times. Then, he replied, "It's easy to explain it. Meng Xuan can accept having children with a prostitute or a maid who has no relationship with him but he can't calmly face the fact that as his friend and sister who is more than six years older than him, Su Niang has become his son's mother. Therefore, as an understanding woman, Su Niang would rather defame herself than make Meng Xuan feel guilty. She just said she got pregnant because of a bandit. And Meng Xuan h
"Hey, uh, Miss He..." Meng Ying asked He Danggui cautiously, "In fact, I mean, well, although Meng Xuan and Su Niang have a son and he has never told anyone about it because of embarrassment, the woman he loves the most is still...""Third Childe, aren't you feeling thirsty after talking for so long? I'm too tired to listen to you." He Danggui interrupted him by ventriloquism and looked up at Meng Ying with mockery in her eyes. She continued while shaking her head in disagreement, "Meng Xuan is the seventh child in Meng's Family and one year younger than you, but he is busy with military affairs and practicing martial arts all the time. And you, as the eldest legitimate son of Meng's Family, can't compare with my man, Meng Xuan, in all areas. After all, men are different. Not all people can be talented generals and fight against enemies at just ten years old."Meng Ying was stunned. He goggled at He Danggui with an unbelievable expression... Her man?
He Danggui slightly loosened the cloth around her chin tightened by Meng Ying and took a breath. Then, she began to mock Meng Ying with her mouth, "You're biological brothers but there's a huge difference between you two. Meng Xuan is a man of integrity. I admire him very much as I think about his prestige and his tough life in the army when the coldness could even pierce through the soldiers' armor and he still had to prepare for fighting against enemies even. As a woman, I can sacrifice everything for a husband like him. About you, Third Childe, although you have quite good qualifications and moral standing, you are really a hateful man. You can't fight for the country or ease your father's burden but you keep bullying an innocent girl like me. You make me speechless."She felt uncomfortable because of Meng Ying's words and knew what he thought about well. He just hated seeing Meng Xuan being infatuated with a woman whom he thought was vicious. Since she
Meng Ying was too shocked to say anything after hearing He Danggui’s cold words and seeing her callousness.He Danggui looked down and thought silently. She had mentioned to Chang Nuo one month ago that something might happen to the waters around Yinma Town and there would be undercurrents this winter. She had also taken this as an example and asked to sell intelligence about the waters to Yangzhou Caobang Organization, the biggest sect running waterborne trade. Judging from Chang Nuo’s expression at that time, obviously, he hadn’t taken her and her words seriously at all. However, her firm attitude should have caught some of his attention, right? Zhu Quan and the people to protect him had used many ships but when they sailed across the narrow area near Yinma Town, only Lord Ning died. That was really unreasonable.Meng Ying thought for a while and said with a sneer, “Lord Ning was always smart but he ended up miserably this time. If he had been kill
With the warmness from Meng Xuan's back, He Danggui slept well without a dream. She had worried that she might have a nightmare after seeing the dismembered body and hearing Meng Ying babbling for a long time last night. However, she felt relieved after getting up. She had the best and most relaxing sleep last night in the last two months.She looked at the back of Meng Xuan's head and found his bun was still untied. He must've felt tired after sleeping like this for a night. He Danggui blamed herself for not having taken good care of him. Even a common servant could remember to help loosen his master's hair but she forgot to do it for Meng Xuan. Thus, she made amends by untying his bun now. Rubbing the acupoints on his head that could relieve his tiredness, she patted him lightly on his shoulders and said, "Meng Xuan! Meng Xuan... Shenshi, it's time to get up. The day breaks."She knew Meng Xuan couldn't hear her but she should leap at the ch
He Danggui lied after thinking for a while, "In fact, I received Qing'er's message yesterday and it said she would come to Yinma Town to pick me up tomorrow. If we leave today, we will miss her. Will it be okay for you if she runs into anything bad here, Third Childe? What about we leave tomorrow or the day after tomorrow? It won't delay anything."Meng Ying thought her words were only 30% true so he asked, "Where's the letter? Can you prove your words?"He Danggui replied calmly, "It's an oral message that has been passed to me by the owner of the dismembered body we met last night. I tried to observe her just because her clothes were familiar to me. The string of red musk beads around her wrist was used to cover the five small scars caused by her legitimate mother with burning incense. Thus, I could still recognize her even though her head was missing. It was she who brought me the message. She told me Qing'er would pick me up in the Baisha
Meng Ying quit fooling He Danggui after seeing her holding Meng Xuan on the bed. He said, "I paid lots of effort to find a girl similar to you and sent her to Meng Xuan to 'soothe his pain' but he didn't accept it. He just said she wasn't you. At that time, he couldn't see or hear anything and all his fingernails were gone so he was too painful to feel anything. He concluded she wasn't you before he had touched that girl. Third Miss, it's what we call 'Lovers can read each other's mind', right? You should focus on being Meng Xuan's concubine in the future to reciprocate his love."Staring at Meng Xuan's calm face, He Danggui thought nothing could be more important. She got out of bed and put down the curtain and said to Meng Ying, "Find a soft sedan for him. Since Master said his eyes couldn't be exposed to the sun, we should cover his head with a cotton bag. There are needles and threads here. I can make one with Liu Sui now. Third Childe, you go find a soft sed
He Danggui asked, "How did you know I... How did you know his name was Meng Xuan? What are you going to do?" Since Lu Jiangbei had known Meng Xuan was one of the "traitors" appearing three years ago and one of the "attackers" in the Villa not long ago, why didn't he catch Meng Xuan up immediately? Why did he even want to make a match between Meng Xuan and her? Lu Jiangbei became more and more terrifying to her. Why did he know everything?Lu Jiangbei still said in a calm tone, "We caught Su Xiaoxiao by accident that time. That wasn't the Emperor's command so I covered it. As for the details and the object hidden in the arms of Su Xiaoxiao when she was sent away from the Prime Minister's Mansion back then, I've negotiated it with Mr. Meng so you don't need to be worried. No one will mention it again as well. About what happened in Yangzhou City, there was nothing special. It was just chaos resulting from the intended occupation of a mountain. It was legal a
"Take off the clothes and start the treatment."Glancing at Gao Jue who couldn't walk steadily, He Danggui refused with a hum, "Don't bother. You should care more about yourself, Master Gao. Seeing you shambling with a stick, I'm so worried. I'll leave the Villa with Liu Sui, then. Don't forget to remind Master Lu that the poison of He He Qi Ri Qing still remains in my body." She thought, "It's Gao Jue to blame! If it weren't for him, I wouldn't become like this. Even all my internal energy is gone. Is it because of the poison of He He Qi Ri Qing or because someone has stolen my internal energy when I was in a coma just as Meng Xuan did before? I had ninety years of internal energy! How could anyone be so cruel and shameless and rob a girl like me of my internal energy?"Thinking about this, she heard Gao Jue's cold voice. He said, "Take them off yourself or I'll do it for you. Hurry up. Don't think I'm willing to take care of you. I don't wan