“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!