by La Mi Tu
“Old master, if something happens to Qing er, this concubine will also not live anymore!”
Seeing Liu Yan Zhi ‘being the thief, crying thief’, Zheng Min didn’t spare a minute and grabbed Murong Xin Lian to let Murong Tai see the face which had been ruined by a sword.
Compared with Liu Yan Zhi’s grace, Zheng Min’s body gave out a more delicate and charming state. In particular, that pair of watery eyes. Just inducing a little, it would make people’s hearts be in so much pain.
“Old master, Xin er is the number one beauty of the capital, ah! How many young masters from the official families have a crush on our Xin er? How many rich legitimate sons want to marry her? But now her looks have been destroyed, how should my pitiful Xin er continue to live, ah?! Old master, you should get justice for us, ah!”
Two women plus two unmarried young maidens; four people crying in a circle, really noisy. Murong Qi Qi couldn’t help but frown. If she had known that this would’ve lead to the noises of these women, she would not have let the two begin to fight.
Murong Qi Qi’s impatience, falling into Li Yun Qing’s eyes had another meaning. It seems that this little cousin sister really had changed……
Two beloved concubines were crying really hard and wanting him to give them justice, making Murong Tai got a headache. The palm of the hands and the backs of the hands were all meat. Two daughters, one had outstanding ability and one had outstanding looks. Usually, they didn’t have such a state of hostility towards each other. What had happened today that they turned out like this?!
No matter how much Murong Tai thought, he couldn’t understand the hidden reason plus the women’s cries were really noisy. And Li Yun Qing was still standing with his hands crossed over each other and with an appearance of wanting to watch a good play, making the anger in Murong Tai’s heart immediately rise.
“Stop, don’t make any noise! There’s a guest here. Go back to your own yuans2!”
Liu Yan Zhi and Zheng Min were surprised by Murong Tai’s shout. They saw that Murong Tai was really angry. These two women, who’d followed Murong Tai for so many years, recovered their tempers and wiped their tears. Each one pulled their daughter away and left Cui Zhu yuan.
When Zheng Min left, she glanced once with resentment at Murong Tai. In contrast, Liu Yan Zhi, with an appearance of calling innocence for her daughter, casted an affectionate glance at Murong Tai.
“Old master, today this concubine personally boiled chicken soup for master. Tonight, old master must come, ah!”
If it wasn’t because there were still people next to her, Murong Qi Qi would’ve certainly held the spittoon and vomited. No wonder Liu Yan Zhi’s status at the prime minister’s concubine was greater than the first wife. Such a woman was really a ‘rarity’.
After the people had left, Murong Tai looked coldly at Murong Qi Qi.
“You stay here well. Just came back and provoked so many happenings! Punishing you with house arrest for one month and thinking about your mistakes! Don’t be a disgrace! Humph……”
With a wave of the sleeves, Murong Tai didn’t care that Li Yun Qing was still here, strode away and left Cui Zhu yuan. The direction he went to was Ou Xiang yuan, the place where Zheng Min lived. At this moment, Murong Tai was most worried about Murong Xin Lian’s looks getting ruined. This daughter was the number one beauty of the capital. Murong Tai was even planning to marry her into the royal family. By that time, he would have two daughter consorts, who will bring him unlimited glory!
Murong Tai’s hurried appearance made Murong Qi Qi’s heart completely turn cold for this family. It seemed that this Murong Tai really had no feeling for this third daughter! If it wasn’t because she’d promised godfather that she would protect that person, she would have gone traveling through the jianghu3 and wouldn’t be staying here to play the role of the useless third miss!
“Su Mei, Su Yue, troubling you to clean up here. The ones that have no use, throw them away and there’s also no need to purchase them again lest they get destroyed again next time and need to be thrown away once again.”
Being disturbed by four women, Murong Qi Qi was somewhat tired. She turned and looked at Li Yun Qing. Murong Qi Qi was even too tired to pretend anymore.
“Big cousin brother, help yourself. I’m going to make up for my lost sleep!”
“Not pretending anymore?”
Li Yun Qing was surprised my Murong Qi Qi’s magnanimous. The eyes of this girl showed timidity just now. At this moment, she was lazy as a cat. Only occasionally flashing some light, revealing her true nature. This was the real her!
“Big cousin brother is a smart man. Pretending in front of a smart man, isn’t that really ridiculous?”
In this world, there were some people who are lucky. From the moment they were born, they were superior to others and their wisdom was also unparalleled in the world. No matter how people acted in front of them, they knew what kind of face was hidden under the mask.
Li Yun Qing was such a person. Since he saw through her, she could better openly show herself, lest treated as a clown while she was still feeling triumphant.
“If aunt saw the changes of little cousin sister, she would be very happy.”
Li Yun Qing smiled. He really didn’t see wrong. This girl had a pair of lively eyes and an appearance of a lazy cat. Not right, she was as rebellious as a leopard. It seemed that the future would not be so boring!
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Er: term of endearment
Yuan: parts of a residence
Jianghu:world of martial arts
Chapter 8: A Pair of Snake Mother and Daughter
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At Ou Xiang yuan1, Murong Tai softly comforted Zheng Min who’s full of tears.
“All is well, my darling. The moment you cry, old master’s, my heart really hurts!”
“Old master is prejudiced! See how Xin er’s 2face is hurt! The double seven festival is just around the corner. What do you wat Xin er to do?! Not long ago, Anyang wangfei 3 praised our Xin er, saying that she is intelligent. Now she looked like this, how will Xin er go see people at the double seven festival? Old master, if this time you do not punish Qing er, this concubine will be unhappy!”
Double seven festival is the Chinese valentine which fell on the 7th of July of the lunar calendar
Zheng Min saw that Murong Tai came to her first, naturally she was happy.
Although Murong Qing Lian was a talent at martial arts, but women, after all, had to marry. Men wouldn’t like such a strong woman. Since ancient times it was always the hero who saves the beauty. Never had it been the beauty who saves the hero. What kind of joke was that?!
Zheng Min had full confidence in her daughter. Since Murong Xue Lian became Imperial Noble Consort, her daughter Murong Xin Lian’s looks were also not bad. Not to mention that the main wife Li Qiu Shui was now staying at a temple to pray and didn’t ask for the details about the outside world. Naturally, there was no one to stop her daughter’s road to the wealth.
“Alright, don’t cry anymore. First, cure Xin er’s face, then we will talk!”
Murong Tai took out a small box of creams.
“This is Lian gongzi’s 4Jade Lotus cream. I took it back from Xue Lian. First, let Xin Lian use it! Don’t leave scars, otherwise there’ll be trouble!”
The moment she heard strange doctor Lian gongzi’s Jade Lotus cream, Zheng Min quickly took it. She opened the box and a pleasant aroma came out.
“This is really a good thing!”
“It is, Xue Lian only got a total of two boxes. Now this box is Xin Lian’s. Let her make her face look good again!”
Murong Tai patiently coaxed Zheng Min for a while. Before he went away, he touched her face and then hastily rushed to Lan Xiang yuan, where Liu Yan Zhi lived.
Seeing Murong Tai’s plump body disappear, Zheng Min humphed coldly. She took the Jade Lotus cream and applied it evenly on Murong Xin Lian’s face.
“Mother, father still cares more about fourth
little sister.”
Murong Xin Lian lowered her head. The long eyelashes blocked the emotions in her eyes.
“Xin er, remember, no matter how much grievances you suffer, be sure to endure. You are smarter than Qing Lian and also more beautiful than her. In the future, you will marry better than her!”
Without a son, Zheng Min could only rely on Murong Xin Lian. So, seeing Murong Xin Lian suffer grievances, her heart was also in pain.
“Mother, I want to be Jing wangfei! I want to marry Longze Jing Tian!”
Hearing Zheng Min mention marriage, Murong Xin Lian suddenly raised her head. Her watery eyes sparkled with a strange light.
“Why is it that that rubbish Murong Qi Qi who’s good at nothing can directly marry Jing wang 5 and become wangfei?! I’m not reconciled, mother, I’m really not reconciled. Her status is just nobler than mine, but what capabilities does she have?!”
Murong Xin Lian’s hands clenched into fists.
“Mother, today Qing Lian sarcastically told me that I’m from a concubine and in the future, I can only be a concubine. Mother, don’t you know that at that moment I really wanted to kill her! I really hate ah…….
Listening to Murong Xin Lian, Zheng Min’s eyes filled with tears. Without a son, in this household her spine was a lot softer than Liu Yan Zhi. Normally, Liu Yan Zhi mocked and ridiculed her and spoke words with thorns. All of that she could forget. Now even Murong Qing Lian was humiliating her darling daughter, making Zheng Min grit her teeth from hate.
“Xin er, mother won’t let you suffer grievances anymore. Don’t you want to marry Longze Jing Tian and want to be Jing wangfei? I have a way!”
Zhen Min’s words made Murong Xin Lian’s mood turn good immediately. She grabbed Zheng Min’s hand and began to shake it.
“Mother, is what you said true? But their marriage has been bestowed by the emperor. What good way do you have to let Jing wang marry me? Daughter absolutely cannot be the small one. Being bullied by that rubbish Murong Qi Qi, I might as well die. Mother, if I can marry Longze Jing Tian and become wangfei, even in my dreams I will wake up laughing!”
Seeing Murong Xin Lian like this, Zheng Min knew her daughter had really put Longze Jing Tian in her heart.
That wangye was good at martial arts, handsome and besides he might become the crown prince. In the future, he might even become the emperor. Then won’t Murong Xin Lian be the mother of the world, the empress…….
Thinking about Murong Xin Lian’s beautiful future, Zheng Min gritted her teeth and her heart gave birth to a deadly trap. Murong Qi Qi, since you are blocking my daughter’s road to wealth, then don’t blame me for being ruthless!
Zheng Min whispered a few words in Murong Xin Lian’s ear. Hearing her mother’s words, Murong Xin Lian muzzled a cry.
“Mother, is this alright? Will destroying Murong Qi Qi’s reputation let Jing wang break off the engagement? But where would we find a man?”
“Man, isn’t there one here?!”
Zheng Min’s gentle face flashed a hint of viciousness.
Wasn’t it because Liu Yan Zhi had given birth to the only son of Murong household that she had been so loved by Murong Tai?! She’d also relied on the fact that she had a son to fall back on and acted as if she was superior. Normally, she gave Zheng Min much anger!
If Liu Yan Zhi’s darling son Murong Jun appeared on third miss Murong Qi Qi’s bed, this brother and sister affair, then not only would Murong Qi Qi be ruined but also Murong Jun would be ruined! She’d like to see if by that time Liu Yan Zhi could still laugh!
“Mother, this plan is really good. One stone killing two birds! That Murong Jun is always looking in secret at daughter, really disgusting. If we can get rid of both of them, then it couldn’t be better!”
Murong Xin Lian knew what Zheng Min was thinking, she immediately said good.
Murong Qi Qi, you can go to hell! You actually dare to steal my man. I’ll let you know my power! That year, the fact that you didn’t die was because you were lucky. This time, I want you to feel that living was more painful than death! Take your noble status and go to hell!
That pair of eyes of Murong Xin Lian which looked similar to that of Zheng Min, at this moment, along with her mother, were flashing vicious lights. The two of them were like two poisonous snakes. Their mouths revealed cruel smiles…
At Lan Xiang yuan, Murong Tai didn’t take long before he appeased this pair of mother and daughter.
Murong Qing Lian’s martial arts was higher than Murong Xin Lian’s, which was why she wasn’t as wounded as Murong Xin Lian. She’d just received superficial wounds. Murong Tai promised to give her a treasure sword. So, he recovered his youngest daughter’s heart.
As for Liu Yan Zhi, the best way to appease her was in bed. Murong Tai always believed in fighting at the front of the bed, making up at the end of the bed. So he didn’t say anything more and directly pulled Liu Yan Zhi for a few rounds. When the beauty was lying breathless in his arms, Murong Tai knew that today’s matter had passed like this.
The next few days, the prime minister’s mansion was very quiet. Murong Qi Qi was ‘honestly’ staying in Cui Zhu yuan to ‘reflect’. Murong Xin Lian and Murong Qing Lian also didn’t go out. They quietly hid in their yuans to recuperate.
Ten days later, Murong Xin Lian’s Fei Cui appeared at Cui Zhu yuan. She invited Murong Qi Qi to go admire the full moon at Hu Xin pavilion tonight.
“Admire the moon? Don’t want to go! I’m still shutting myself up to reflect over my mistakes!”
With just moving a toe, you’d know that, that woman had bad intentions. Recently, Murong Qi Qi was really busy. She had no time to accompany that little miss at playing schemes, so she directly rejected Fei Cui.
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Yuan: part of a residence
Er: term of endearment
Wangfei: main wife of the prince of first rank
Gongzi: young master
Wang/wangye: the prince of first rank
Chapter 9: Punish the Unruly Maid
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“Third miss, our second miss personally wrote the invitation for you, you actually dare to put up an ugly arrogance and don’t want to go? If it wasn’t because second miss remembered you, this third miss, do you think that I’d want to make this trip on this hot day?”
Fei Cui talked so much but had been directly rejected by Murong Qi Qi, making her lose face. At this time, Fei Cui was so angry that her cheeks had turned red. Her lips poured out a lot of nasty words.
“Why don’t you go look at who you are? You really think you are someone important? To put it frankly, you are just rubbish. You actually dared to show colors.”
Originally, Fei Cui was Murong Qi Qi’s head maid. Because she looked down on third miss’s incompetence, she went to rely on Murong Xin Lian. Now, she was her confidante. If it wasn’t because she knew that today Murong Qi Qi needed to come, Fei Cui would’ve been too lazy to talk so much with this rubbish.
Murong Qi Qi narrowed her eyes and looked at Fei Cui’s mouth. She didn’t even calculate yet with Fei Cui for the things of the past. She didn’t expect that Fei Cui’s attitude had turned for the worst. One after another ‘rubbish’ coming out of her mouth really made Murong Qi Qi’s heart grow hairs.
“Are you done?”
Murong Qi Qi’s voice became very cold. Su Mei and Su Yue, who were familiar with her, understood that this was the foreshadow of miss’s anger.
“Yo, I can’t even talk? Who in the capital doesn’t know that Murong third miss can’t practice martial arts? Could it be that you are afraid that people will talk about it, ah?! You’re so dull, that even the people around you have the same stupid look as you!”
Fei Cui seemed to have not noticed that the surroundings had turned cold. In the end, she also criticized Su Mei and Su Yue who were standing behind Murong Qi Qi.
With extreme annoyance, Murong Qi Qi coldly said one sentence: “Slap her mouth!”
Not waiting for Fei Cui t
o hear clearly, Su Mei had already appeared in front of her. ‘Pa pa’ two slaps on her face.
These past few days had bored Su Mei to death. Seeing Fei Cui ‘bullying’ miss like this, her hands had long itched. So, just as the command left Murong Qi Qi’s mouth, Su Mei rushed forward. The speed was fast. Fei Cui had no time to dodge.
Su Mei was someone who practiced martial arts. The strength of her hand was great. With just two slaps, Fei Cui became confused and disoriented. Her eyes were seeing stars and two rows of red blood flew out of her nose.
After Fei Cui came to, she saw the smiling Su Mei and she touched her nose. Her hands were full of warm blood. Fei Cui immediately screamed: “You! You dare to hit me?!”
“What about it? The one I hit is you, this darn thing!”
Su Mei raised her eyes and rolled her wrists.
“Thing that doesn’t have eyes. Actually dare to bully our miss. Beating you is already light!”
“Ah, ah, ah, ah! I’ll kill you!”
When had Fei Cui suffered like this? Seeing the maid around Murong Qi Qi being so ‘arrogant’, fire pounced in her head. With her head bowed, she rushed directly at Su Mei’s chest.
Not waiting for Fei Cui to touch Su Mei, Su Yue at one side stuck out her foot, hit Fei Cui’s chest and directly sent Fei Cui flying out.
‘Peng……’
Don’t know if it was Su Yue who did it intentionally or if it was Fei Cui who was unlucky, but when she fell, her head hid the back of the rockery. She immediately felt dizzy. She touched again. Her hand was full of blood. Fei Cui cried and screamed: “Incredible, killing people, ah! Come quickly. Ah! Third miss wants to kill someone, ah!”
Because of Fei Cui’s loud voice, not a moment had passed before it attracted a group of people watching. When Murong Xin Lian heard the news, she also hurried over.
