Go to Beijing

Southern Duke's Mansion

If the snow in Yunzhou is fine and with the gentleness of Jiangnan, then the snow in Shangjing is the coldness of the north, dripping water turns into ice, and the eaves are frozen with fine icicles.

A group of maids wearing thick yellow cotton jackets were holding charcoal pots in their hands and heading to the courtyards in various mansions, three of whom went to the front yard.

But no figure came to the small courtyard in the southwest corner. The tall man standing on the yard wall looked at the maids and left, then turned back to the yard.

An old woman and a little girl in the yard were lowering her head and slowly holding a broom to sweep the falling snow that seemed to never be cleaned. In the courtyard of the masters in the Duke's mansion, there were five or six third-class girls who swept the snow regularly, for fear that the master would slip by accidentally.

The old woman saw the man coming, looked at him, without saying a word, and continued to sweep the snow. However, the little girl couldn't help but blush when she saw the man's handsome face, and said in a low voice: "Guard Leng, the lady Shi has called you three times in it."

Leng Yang glanced at the little girl and nodded lightly: "Yes."

As soon as he lifted the curtain, he heard a slightly sharp voice coming from inside.

"Leng Yang, is the charcoal basin coming?"

Leng Yang listened to the harsh sound, his eyes were slightly cool, and his hands paused, but he lifted the curtain and looked at the woman sitting on the couch with a thick quilt and hair disheveled - the once glorious Mingyue Girl Shi.

"Sorry, sir, the person from the Duke's Mansion..." Before Leng Yang finished speaking, he heard a harsh sound of porcelain breaking-

"Bang!"

In anger, Nan Qinyue smashed the cup in her hand hard on the ground: "Didn't they give us the charcoal basin in Mingyue Courtyard? This kid is shameless to bow to the bitch who stepped on the low side. When I was in a glorious place, I was so proud that everything was sent to my yard!"

Leng Yang looked at the woman in front of him.

Her already thin face now looks a little gloomy in the dark room. In addition, she has become increasingly thinner recently, with her cheekbones high and raised, making her look ten years older than her original energetic appearance. She looks like a sharp middle-aged woman at this moment.

However, how many people can maintain their original appearance without changing after they break their legs and lose their original power and glory?

Being calm about favors and disgraces has always been the most difficult thing in the world.

"What are you looking at? But I think I'm ugly. If you dislike me, get out and serve others!" Nan Qinyue noticed Leng Yang's gaze sensitively in her anger. Her sharp eyes stared at Leng Yang.

Seeing this, Leng Yang sighed helplessly and turned around.

As soon as he moved, he heard Nan Qinyue's increasingly sharp and hoarse voice ringing behind him: "If you leave, don't come back, but don't forget that everything you have now is given to you by me. What do you think you are? You are just a male pet who holds my thighs to be able to be today!"

Leng Yang paused, but continued to walk aside and took a cup of hot tea from the only burning charcoal stove in the huge room. Under Nan Qinyue's stunned and scarlet gaze, she walked to her side and sat down, and handed the hot tea to her: "Sir, the weather is too cold, drinking some hot tea is good for your health. You were still hot last night."

Nan Qinyue was stunned for a moment, looking at the teacup he held between his slender fingers, but suddenly her eyes turned red, and she grabbed the teacup with trembling and took a big mouthful. Then she threw herself into Leng Yang's arms, tears streaming down: "I'm sorry, Leng Yang... I'm just... I'm just too scared. I have nothing... I have only you, only you... Don't leave me, don't leave me."

The woman curled up in a man's arms, with her hair disheveled like a madman, but she also seemed like a child full of fear to catch everything she had left in the end.

Leng Yang lowered his eyes, raised his hand and stroked her head: "Sir, of course I won't leave you, and you..."

He paused: "We have not lost everything, we still have a chance to turn things around. The palace queen still feels guilty towards you. Didn't she always think that if you didn't go to Yunzhou, there would be nothing wrong? As long as this guilt has not disappeared, you will not have nothing, right? You know this better than me."

Nan Qinyue trembled and leaned in his arms. Her originally chaotic eyes slowly became clear, and she muttered to herself: "Yes... I haven't lost anything yet, I haven't avenged my legs yet... My legs... I'm not willing to... I'm not willing to."

"You should have received the news before - Mr. Qin and his party have returned safely from the sea, right? They are going to Beijing. If they know that the person who designed to take Chu Yu to Duliu Island was you, I'm afraid Mr. Qin will not let you go." Leng Yang sighed.

Nan Qinyue leaned halfway into Leng Yang's arms, and a cold gaze flashed in her eyes: "The man Gong Shaochen is really a useless thing. He said that Hei Mi must not stay, but he left Hei Mi to restrain that little bitch Chu Yu. Now he is tired of others and himself. I don't know what Chu Yu's little bitch can attract those two men to death for her."

She felt an almost instinctive disgust towards Chu Yu in her heart—

Why, just a pariah, just taking advantage of the momentum to reach today, and it is actually overwhelming the nobles!

She paused, then a cold smile appeared on the corner of her lips: "Hmph, but the more that man pampered her, the more she became the man's weakness. Master Qin San is an untouchable existence, and that was only based on his lack of weakness. But now we all know what his weakness is. If his cute "weakness" is unlucky, I'm afraid he won't have time to find my trouble."

A strange light flashed in Leng Yang's eyes: "I think I have already planned it. Could it be that the trip the Duke of the Kingdom came before, you have made a suggestion. I see that the Lord of the Kingdom looked better that day."

In other words, after the Duke of the day left, the supply of charcoal and food in Mingyue Courtyard improved a lot after half a month.

"Hmph, that old man only has his stupid daughter in his eyes. That arrogant and brainless idiot died at Qin Sheng's hands. He can't do anything new and old hatreds." Nan Qinyue leaned against Leng Yang's shoulder and tugged the corners of his lips coldly.

They are both daughters, and they are also his blood, but one is the treasure in his heart. No matter how big the matter is, they will do their best to deal with it, and even ruin his reputation as a loyal minister for a lifetime.

If another daughter has no use value, she will be abandoned as if she were abandoned.

Nan Qinyue narrowed her scarlet eyes. She still remembered that she had climbed to the position of the top female official in the palace. She was even more handsome than Nan Zhijing in front of the empress dowager and was extremely powerful. She even had the reputation of Shangguan Zhaorong of the Yuan Dynasty. She made Nan Zhijing so angry that she finally got the direct eyes of the Duke of Nan.

However, since her legs were destroyed, she had not completed the task assigned by the Duke of Southern Kingdom secretly, and could no longer enter the palace to serve. Although the Empress Dowager gave many rewards and even gave her a separate residence for her to raise, it seemed to have the meaning of retiring and returning home. The Duke of Southern Kingdom looked at her much colder.

But this time Chu Yu and Qin Sheng came back alive. She still had some understanding of Qin Sheng's methods and did not dare to live alone in her mansion outside. She was afraid that her head would suddenly fall off at some point, and she would not dare to go back to her husband's house, whom she wished she could die, and could only wait with her father.

But since she had less use to her family, the Duke of Southern has rarely come to pay attention to her. After returning to the yard of the Duke of Southern Mansion, her share was less and less day by day.

"Everyone looks down on me... Haha... When this happens, I always teach them to know what kind of person I am!" A ruthless light flashed in Nan Qinyue's eyes.

"What is your plan before?" Leng Yang looked at Nan Qinyue's expression and asked with interest.

Nan Qinyue paused, looked at him with a gloomy expression and smiled: "Leng Yang, it's not that I won't tell you... It's just that, that old man will explain it thousands of times and never let outsiders know about it."

Leng Yang looked at Nan Qinyue, a trace of gloom flashed across his handsome face, and he said lightly: "It turns out that my subordinates are just outsiders in the eyes of adults."

As he said that, he stood up and headed out of the door.

Seeing this, Nan Qinyue felt panicked and grabbed Leng Yang's hand: "Leng Yang, you know that I don't mean this..."

Leng Yang was pulled over his sleeve, but he did not turn around.

Nan Qinyue became more and more anxious: "Wait...I...I..."

If it were in the past, she would not have paid attention to Leng Yang's appearance. There was more than one man around her, but after she became like this, the attitude of waiting by her was still the same man, and her dependence on him was far greater than before.

Just as she was about to speak, suddenly the curtain was lifted and a cold voice suddenly sounded: "Grandma, a distinguished guest is coming to the mansion. The Duke of the State asked you to go there."

Nan Qinyue was stunned and turned to look at the expressionless middle-aged woman. She recognized her as the chief manager in the front yard of Duke Nan Guo. She felt nervous: "Mom Lu, who is the person coming?"

The mother Lu looked at her and said coldly: "The Censor Mudan heard that his aunt was in poor health, so he came to visit her."

When Nan Qinyue heard this, she trembled all over, and a cold light flashed in her eyes. She raised her hand and smashed the cup in her hand towards Lu's mother: "Let her get out, can I still not know that the old bitch is uneasy to see me. She and I are political enemies and have not been in contact for many years. Now she is in a pride, so she comes to see my joke, ask her to get out, let her get out!"

Her almost hysterical hideous appearance scared Lu's mother, and the broken cup fragments scratched her hand.

A look of shock and pain flashed in Mother Lu's eyes. Looking at Nan Qinyue in front of her, she covered the back of her hands and trembled with anger: "Okay, okay, you can!"

As she said that, she turned around and left.

Only Nan Qinyue sat on the bed expressionlessly. She didn't pay attention to Leng Yang. She just bit her lip and looked out the window gradually sinking into the dark sky, sneering and muttering to herself: "Let's wait... wait!"

…*…*………………

Dingxian

Red lanterns illuminate the dim streets. The crowds who came to set up stalls and buyers formed a lively night market. Specialties from all over the streets on both sides were filled with the streets on both sides.

Chu Yu led Huo Erniang with great enthusiasm, and Huo Sanniang wandered around the crowd, and behind him were several martial guards led by Jin Yao.

Huo Erniang saw a boss dressed in Western Regions and was rushing on the stove on the side, and immediately reached out and pulled Chu Yu over: "Aren't you looking for something delicious all the time? Let's take a look."

"Oh, this is great. The boss packs each of these milky snacks." Chu Yu held a large bag of small bags in his hand, and followed Huo Erniang to the boss and saw that they were all milky snacks, with a strong milky aroma. She immediately smiled and asked the man to pack all the exquisite snacks for her.

The advantage of becoming a rich person is that you don’t need to ask the price when buying these gadgets. The sense of pride that you wrap them all is really addictive.

The boss rarely met such a generous customer tonight, and packed all the snacks with a smile: "The girl has a good vision. My skills were brought from the Western Regions. This is the only one on this street, and it is made and sold on the spot."

Jin Yao watched Chu Yu squeeze out from the crowd with a bunch of dessert packages, and then raised his eyebrows slightly. Disdain flashed in Taohua's eyes: "I don't know if these things are clean or not. The desserts used by the owner were made by Hongxiu, the chef in Jiangnan."

Chu Yu didn't care about Jin Yao and her at all, so he sneered: "Hmph, Hongxiu is here, is the chef of Jiangnan also coming with the carriage? You 'noble people' just don't know how to live, so how can you know the fun of eating snacks in a small stall?"

As she said that, she turned her eyes and deliberately stuffed everything into Jin Yao's arms. Seeing Jin Yao taking over hastily, she was almost piled up with paper bags so that she could not see anyone. She looked like a rare funny look. She couldn't help laughing.

Chu Yu came down empty-handedly, so he opened a pack of milk snacks, pinched a few and tried it by himself. He thought it tasted good, so he pinched a few more and stuffed them into Huo Erniang and Huo Sanniang's mouths, and said with satisfaction: "It tastes good."

The Huo sisters were originally from the desert grasslands, so they naturally liked these things. They reached out to the package Jin Yao held and grabbed a pack and opened it to eat.

"What are you doing!" Jin Yao finally stabilized his body and couldn't help but stare at Chu Yu in a embarrassed manner.

Chu Yu pinched another one and stuffed it into his mouth, and said with a smile: "After eating, can't you block your mouth if you have something delicious?"

After saying that, she turned around and wandered around with the Huo sisters again.

He was stunned when he looked at her back and pursed his lips involuntarily. The sweet fragrance of the milky fruit spread between his lips, and the lips seemed to have the touch of her slender and soft fingers, and the thin white fingers even seemed to touch the tip of his tongue.

The group strolled for a while and arrived at the end of the night market. Huo Erniang looked at the sky and said, "Should we go back?"

Although Chu Yu was still a little impressed, he nodded: "Okay, I should go back, otherwise the third master should be anxious."

She turned around and was about to lead everyone back, but she didn't expect that after walking for a while, she heard a quarrel not far away.

"No, these things are exchanged for the grain storage in our village. The young master, please give us a good deal."

"You have some of the food you have to save. Do you have no money to pay it back? In this cold weather, who can live an easy life? If you don't have money, just use the things to pay for it!"

"no……!"

"Let go!"

The noisy sound came, and Chu Yu frowned slightly, but he didn't care. There were several sermons along the way.

She turned sideways to Jin Yao and said lightly: "Let's go around."

Jin Yao nodded slightly. When he went out, it was better to have less than anything more. He agreed with Chu Yu's current affairs.

Only the group of people planned to bypass the noisy crowd, but somehow the quarrel suddenly became fierce. The two groups of people pushed and implicated many people in a row, and even overturned the stall, which actually blocked the way of Chu Yu, Jin Yao and others.

A large crowd came over.

"Be careful." Jin Yao hugged Chu Yu and used his body to block the person who fell over for her.

With a gentle body leaning in his arms, Jin Yao's eyes moved slightly.

Chu Yu stood firm in a little embarrassedly and couldn't help but say angrily: "What's going on with these people!"

If Chu Yu and his group had not had martial arts skills and could barely stabilize themselves, they would probably have fallen all over the floor.

Suddenly, many people who fell down started to curse, and the scene was extremely chaotic for a moment.

Chu Yu looked at the messy crowd around him coldly, and could not find a way out for a short time, but saw an old couple on the other side protecting the skin that fell to the ground with a few-year-old baby.

Another middle-aged man in gorgeous clothes led his servants to curse the old couple. The servants were pounced on them and pulled the silk, trying to take the silk away.
Chapter completed!