“Oh, my god, you are back! I have been waiting here all day. Where have you been, master? Why didn’t you take me with you?”
The manservant Xiong Huang came out from the stone lion in the East Yard of Luo’s Mansion, raised his head to lift up the window of the carriage, and said in a low voice, “Come inside the mansion quickly, Master! Something big happened in our family. First Younger Mistress is going crazy looking for you! I’ve tried everywhere as well. But there was no trace of you in the Academy, the medicine shop, the other homes, or Master Ding’s Mansion. Everywhere! First Younger Mistress was so worried and determined that she would go to the government tomorrow morning to report your missing!”
Luo Baiqian seemed to have drunk a lot of wine before. When he lifted the curtain, there was a strong smell of wine surrounding the carriage. He refused to let the coachman help him. Instead, he pushed the coachman’s arm impatiently, and jumped out of the car
“Miss, didn’t Mammy Tang ask you to wait for her to pick you up in the mountain?” Zhen Jing, whose name was Chan Yi now, ran after He Danggui, and panted heavily as she shouted, “It’s about 5:00, only the second morning now. Even if Mammy Tang can fly, she cannot come back overnight! My legs are breaking. Let’s have a rest!”“I agree, Miss. Let’s have a rest at the edge of the mountain road, and my hands hurt!” Huai Wen, whose name was Huai Hua now, stopped, and putted the baggage on the road, shaking her hand, “I can’t make it! I really can’t walk any further!”He Danggui walked in the front, stopped and complained, “You need to rest again?” Excuse me, are you maids? As your Miss, I’m not tired of carrying such a heavy load about 100 jin, and you’re still panting with almost empty hands. How come you claim yourselves as people who often walked on mountain roads?” In spite of complaining, she put the carrying pole down, sitting on the luggage to have a rest
Two years later, Luo Chuanxiong brought Third Miss He Danggui back to Luo’s Mansion again. At that time, her mother First Madam Luo had passed away. Being disheartened by her two failed marriages, Luo Chuanxiong avoided meeting acquaintances whose expressions made her feel like being pricked by tiny needles on her heart. So, after she made her daughter He Danggui settled, she ran to Sanqing Temple overnight to start her meditation.He Danggui just came to Luo’s Family a few days but had already occupied four bolts of silk patterned by “Rosy Clouds of Dawn Raising from Mountains” that the Third Lord gave to three Misses and a Younger Mistress of the first and second branches. The silk wasn’t precious, but Luo Baiqiong who was always regarded as a core thought that someone was more important than her this time. She locked herself in the room to think about that again and again with a feeling of resentment. If she didn’t vent her anger, the pretty face and the eyes full of
Lu Jiangbei frowned. He wasn’t offended by this question but was so confused, “I’m half a year younger than Gao Jue. Why did you say that ‘we two don’t match’? Everyone loves the beauty. Miss He is a rare beauty. I admire her, but I don’t offend her. Isn’t that okay?”Liao Zhiyuan did not answer the question but asked, “Do you want this dagger?”Lu Jiangbei put the dagger in his palm and observed it for a while. Then he put the dagger into the scabbard, gave it to Liao Zhiyuan and said with a smile, “You just said you would sell it to Childe Duan. How can I take it? Next time you make another one, maybe I’ll buy it for 50 liang silver.”Liao Zhiyuan shook his fingers and said shrewdly, “Ask the white finch for white feathers and ask the colorful finch for colorful feathers. I ask Childe Duan for 100 liang silver because he has a lot of money. But you have a lot of Zhenqi... I have an idea. I make another one and sell it to Childe Duan. I will g
Mammy Tang was stunned and shook her head quickly after a moment. “I don’t mean that, and I haven’t thought about that!” Seeing the suspicious look on Madam Luo’s face, she burst into laughter and said, “My lady, are you still groggy due to the sleep? Do you forget that we heard an interesting story that day? The Fortune-teller Li’s family had a mishap. He was shocked to know that the son of his concubine was not his biological son. Then he locked up this concubine and tortured her for inquiring who was the adulterer. But the concubine ran away with the property of 200 liang in the midnight. Since he can’t predict his own life, how can he divine for others? Qi Xuanyu, the real master of fortunetelling, has divined the life of Third Miss, saying that she is a blessed girl!”Madam Luo relaxed and said with a sigh of relief, “Well, I have a hard time in concentrating because of Zhu’s illness.” After a pause, she helplessly looked at Mammy Tang whom she trusted the most and
“That guy? How could he hurt you? He even can’t beat me. He is just a kid of 15 or 16 years old.” Liao Zhiyuan shook his head and refuted.Lu Jiangbei said in a deep voice, “Whether who hurt me yesterday, I’m pretty sure that Zhu Quan has a gift for learning kung fu, and he always keeps his strength under wraps. You said he can’t beat you, but I want to tell you that maybe he could beat you two or three years ago.”Liao Zhiyuan still didn’t believe it. Just as the saying went, seeing was believing. He could beat Zhu Quan every time when they practiced kung fu at Northwest Drill Ground. After the competition, Zhu Quan admired his skillful kung fu and bought him a drink!Refraining from spitting blood, Lu Jiangbei said, “Now I only know that the Gezhu of Wuying Tower who fought with me is a boy under the age of 18 with bizarre kung fu skills that are different from the schools in the Central Plain. To protect his identity, he used a salix-leaf sh
According to the records of the History of Han Dynasty, Li Yannian, the courtier of Emperor Wu of Han, once sang a song in the banquet of the Emperor. The melody was very touching. The lyrics were “There’s a beauty in the north, who is incomparable and unworldly. With first glance, she overthrows the cities. With another glance, she overthrows the countries. Even so, no one wants to lose the chance to get the beauty!”After hearing this, Emperor Wu of Han sighed, “Good song! Good lyrics! But is there such a beauty in the world?” Then Princess Pingyang, the elder sister of Emperor Wu of Han, smiled and said, “My Majesty, you don’t have to be sad. The beauty is right here. As far as I know, Li Yannian’s younger sister is such a beauty!”So, Emperor Wu of Han summoned Li Yannian’s younger sister immediately. After a few moments, a young woman who had been carefully dressed up by Princess Pingyang and Li Yannian came from the end of the hall. She wore white sat
At the beginning, He Danggui never planned to use Yingying Powder to maintain her beauty. After all, there was no need for a ten-year-old girl with a pink and soft skin to maintain youth. But she met Gao Jue’s sister-in-law at Tu’er Town last time, a totally strange girl who looked at her face with sharpness like a knife and firmly believed she was a coquette to seduce her brother-in-law. It was really an undeserved catastrophe!Back then, Gao Jue, Chan Yi and her were walking on the street separately with a distance of more than 2 zhang, and never showed any intimacy. However, Gao Jue’s sister-in-law immediately regarded her as the enemy and treated Chan Yi as the transparent air. What did this stand for?When she was having a meal at Qunxianlou Restaurant, it occurred to her that in the previous life, there were many unnecessary hostilities that she could have avoided. The reason why they hated her so much was that they were jealous of her because she had
“Chief, what did you and Childe Duan help Zhu Quan conceal? How did he get his mother’s corpse?” Liao Zhiyuan asked curiously.Lu Jiangbei recalled, “Now I think Zhu Quan is so scheming that he cheated Childe Duan and me at the same time. If he didn’t cut off the heads of those guards who were disrespectful to the corpse of Consort Yang, we would continue to be kept in the dark. It’s hard to imagine that such a plan came from a 13-year-old teenager at that time, so I doubt that there was a consultant behind him.”Liao Zhiyuan became more and more curious. Then he pushed and urged Lu Jiangbei, “Tell me! Just tell me immediately!”Lu Jiangbei looked pale, with the abnormal sweat on his forehead, and then he coughed violently again. Liao Zhiyuan hurriedly helped him smooth his breath, crying and confessing, “It’s all my fault, Chief! You have been seriously injured, but you blocked Gao Jue’s hand for me. Your injury must become worse at that time!
Dong's where to stand others like this out of words to teach, coupled with her to He Danggui has always been cynical and hateful, over the years everywhere to see the wrong, and now these emotions all of a sudden flared up.She laughed coldly, "Humph! Third girl, you don't have to be like this with me, I can't compare to you in this life, but our old Luo family still has a promising offspring, a Chai Yutu, into the Prince's residence as a beauty; Qiong Sister and Peony Sister, into the palace to serve the Emperor! The day they gain favor, we'll immediately become the royal relatives with hardened waists! Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river, you don't want to tear down the bridge too soon!"He Danggui commanded the grannies to bring down both Luo Baiqian and Yan Sister, and she had no intention of staying any longer, biting each other with mad dogs, so what had she become herself.Dong was not willing to let people go, crossed her arms and
Dong raised her hand and waved it heavily on Luo Baiying's face, arrogantly sneering, "Big girl, don't say all these salty words, the feelings of us poor women who married bastard men, girls like you who have never seen anything will never understand in their lives. I only hate myself for being blind back then, choosing by the thousands and finally choosing a useless Luo Baiqian, and now I'm being dragged down by you!"Luo Baihe glanced at the unconscious old lady, hidden anger to teach Dong, "Sister-in-law said what even the words, as the saying goes, flowers do not have a hundred days of red, no one's family has not been rich for a hundred years of good things, out of bad things, we think about it. You don't like anyone, and beating up one person after another won't help."The government office wanted to check the accounts of the Luodong Mansion, to see if they had drawn down money during the war to subsidize the rebels, so all the daughters-in-law in charge, along wit
Park Yang Bai expected a little good, when he pretended Li Xianxi around the screen, appeared in the crowd's field of vision, the outside of an exclamation of surprise intertwined, almost toppled the roof. When the screen was removed, no one had noticed that the ugly girl who had previously walked into the screen to play for the "Wonderful Medical Fairy" had disappeared.Li Xianxi has been dead for ten days, hard as a rock, suddenly recovered soft and charming, really shocked everyone present. Princess House's four housekeepers immediately left two, looks like it is to report to go."Pop!"Mao Daoxing glares and shoots the shocking wood, shouting and asking, "Qingning County Lord, how did you save Xianqiao County Lord, how was the truth on that day, still don't tell from the speed! Just now you also said that the only person who died was Niu Wenlan, and there were two other maids from the royal family, but what is the reason for this?"A dead royal maid? How
Early in the morning four days later, He Danggui and Meng Xuan returned to the capital and went directly to Yingtian Mansion to watch the results of the Yan Wangfu murder case. I heard that the trial of the Luo Mansion's treason case also started today, with one trial after another.On that night in Yan Wang Fu, Zhu Duran and Pao Yangbai pretended to be fake He Danggui, and both of them were imprisoned in the Da Lisi. Meng Xuan makes arrangements through his connections to ensure that Bo Yang Bai has the benefits of eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling in prison, but due to his disguise, he is sadly unsuccessful in the end.As soon as Meng Xuan showed up in the capital, the subordinate who had been secretly protecting the safety of Park Yangbai came to report that in the past few days, he had driven away a total of five waves of assassins who wanted to assassinate Park Yangbai.Just this morning, through the heavy inspection of the meal to the cell, obviously ha
Her mind was feverish, and she remembered in a trance that at some point, Meng Xuan had said to her in the bamboo forest of Cheng Xu, "I'm not Duan Xiaolou, and I'm not going to do the stupid things he did, girl, there's only one Duan Xiaolou in the world, and since there's no room for redemption between you and him anymore, you should always look away in the future."It turned out that what Meng Xuan said was true, and what Gao Jie said was also true, neither of them had lied to her. In this world, there really was only one fool like Duan Xiaolou.This fool had somehow fallen in love with a little demoness like her and hadn't changed his mind until now. Instead, she had married Meng Xuan as her wife.Is there anyone who can tell her how to return a love that is so heavy that she can't breathe, how to clear the past years and let everything return to zero? Her smart brain is no longer smart enough to face Duan Xiaolou directly."Now, you know everything." The
He Danggui woke up with a start, close at hand was Duan Xiaolou's handsome face, a pair of dark eyes, as if he had been staring at her for more than ten hours. She was dizzy, as if she had also slept for more than ten hours.She sat up with a jolt, checking to find that her clothing was intact, only a layer of outer clothing had been removed, and other than that there was nothing wrong.Her nervous expression pierced Duan Xiaolou's eyes, and he laughed silently as he gently asked, "What did you think I would do? Could it be that in your mind, I don't even have this much credibility anymore?" The voice was filled with bitterness.Ignoring Duan Xiaolou, she jumped out of bed and walked around the room, noticing that the bedroom had a single furnishing with a dark tone, much like someone's style. Looking back at the wall, there were five colorful faces hanging, and the one in the very middle had a yellow face, eh? That one is not ...He Danggui exclaimed out in
The testimony of her own sister! Exposing her lies!Everyone gazed at Zhu Duran, her pretty face reddened for a while, white for a while, making it even more suspicious. At this time, the conversation between the two Peng Shih Peng Jian brothers drew the attention of many people."Brother, didn't you also go to the east wing after you finished talking with third sister in the garden?" Peng Jian spoke without thinking and actually drew fire on his own brother.Peng Shi frowned for a moment before replying, "I received a post that said 'important matters to discuss, please be sure to make a trip over here, chee chee chee', and it was addressed to Niu Wenlan. I considered it over and over again, so I went on this trip." After he finished his words, the fake He Danggui, the real Park Yangbai's face was immediately a little agitated, because he also received a similar post before he went to Niu Wenlan's room.Peng Jian said with a start, "Could the murderer be you
"Who?" He Angelica asked a little nervously through the door."You haven't gone over yet?" It was Gao Jie's voice, "I have a question for you.""Go ahead." He Danggui held his breath."That mask, do you still have it?" Gao Jie asked without a clue through a door.He Danggui revealed a confused expression, and Meng Xuan asked for her, "What mask.""Rabbit Town, your gift to me."Gao Jie's style was always simple and concise, but all of a sudden, Meng Xuan was greatly offended. Meng Xuan grabbed He Danggui's pink cheeks with her hand and complained, ''You sent him a gift? Why don't you send me? I want the mask too."He Danggui pushed away this questionable child, Meng Xuan, and pondered for a while before she had an impression of Gao Jie's words. At that time in Rabbit Town, she might seem to have probably given Gao Jie four face masks, the extremely simple kind of hand-painted ceramic paper face masks.In fact, it is not really a gift,
The crowd turned their heads in unison and saw behind a clump of longleaf orchids a man with half his face left in the shadows."Meng Xuan?" He Danggui was taken aback and rushed forward, pulling him aside as he quietly asked, "Why did you run here? Does your father know about your return to the capital?"The visitor was dressed in plain robes, very conspicuous in the dark night, yet no one realized that he was also in the garden until the moment he appeared. He had sword brows and starry eyes, handsome and incomparable, and was none other than Meng Xuan, who should have been huffing and puffing inside the secret room.When He Danggui thought that the scene of Duan Xiaolou hugging her just now had also fallen into Meng Xuan's eyes, she couldn't help but feel a sense of emptiness, and also remembered that Meng Xuan had returned to the capital specifically to see her, and that if the iron-faced Marquis of Bao Ding found out that he'd gone AWOL, she didn't know how he