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"What stirrings of love huh, Xia Yuan? Watch out, I’ll tear up your mouth if you keep talking nonsense!” Yingge stomped bashfully.
"Mistress, look at this little girl. She won’t let us talk about it anymore. If Ying Ge really wants to tear up my mouth, you have to be the judge for me, Mistress!" Xia Yuan covered her mouth and giggled after finis.h.i.+ng her sentence.
"Don"t worry. If she wants to tear up your mouth, just run to Leng Er," Du Xiaoli said.
"You… All of you... I’m not bothering with you anymore!" Yingge finished speaking and ran out.
The people left behind in the room were rolling on the floor laughing.
After a while, everyone stopped, and Du Xiaoli sighed suddenly.
“Mistress, why are you sighing all of a sudden?” Xia Yuan asked.
"Oh, I just had the thought that you girls have been wasting your youth because of me. So I feel a little bit sentimental," Du Xiaoli said.
"What are you talking about, Mistress. It is a blessing of several lifetimes for us to be able to follow you. How could it be called a waste of our youth?!"
"If it weren"t for me being sent to this place by Luo Qi-gege, I am afraid you would have already gotten married. Now, you both are eighteen but not yet married. Am I not the cause for this delay in your marriages?”
"Pff." Xia Yuan burst out in laughter and said, "Mistress, there are many unmarried 18- and 19-year-olds in the Jiang Hu world. Unlike the women in the Imperial Court, women in the Jiang Hu world marry later. Many wait until they are more than 20 years old before they get married!"
"That late?" Du Xiaoli was a little surprised to hear this for the first time. She thought women in ancient times married earlier!
“Women live very precariously in the Jiang Hu world. They often have to move around in order to survive and don’t have much time to think about these sorts of things. The more powerful young ladies are the ones who marry earlier," Xia Yuan explained bitterly while thinking of her friends.
"So it’s like that," Du Xiaoli said with a nod. "Nonetheless, since you are following me, I will have to arrange a good marriage for you. You are not young anymore, so I do need to find someone for you when the time comes. Come on, come on, come on. Tell me your search criteria."
“Search criteria?”
"Yes, what do you want your spouse to look like—for example, how tall is he? Is he rich or powerful? Is he from the Imperial Court or the Jiang Hu world? Is he wild or gentle? Let"s talk about it," Du Xiaoli urged them a little excitedly.
When Xia Yuan saw the light in Du Xiaoli"s eyes, a drop of cold sweat ran down her face.
"Mistress, Xia Yuan and I decided early on that we will always follow you. Unless you don’t want us, we won"t leave you otherwise! As for marrying someone, we have never considered it," Xia Yuan stated hurriedly.
"Even if you don’t think about it, that doesn’t mean I can’t think about it. I think... Leng Er isn’t bad. At least he is someone we know fairly well. If he is interested in Ying Ge, I will get Xiao Yi-gege to act as the matchmaker." Du Xiaoli smiled.
Xia Yuan looked at Du Xiaoli’s grin. Why did it seem so evil?!!
"Xia Yuan, think hard about your standards, and let me know later. Qiaozhu, tell me, what about your type?"
Qiaozhu had just returned to the table. Hearing Du Xiaoli"s words, she was startled. "Mistress, I only just turned thirteen years old. Isn’t it too early to be talking about this?!"
"It"s not early. The earlier you tell me your standards, the earlier we can start looking for a match. All of you, quickly tell me about them," Du Xiaoli said.
"Mistress, it"s late at night now. Let"s help you prepare for bed."
At Prince Ding’s Manor...
“Master.”
When Leng Er returned to the study room, Han Mingyi was still dealing with some matters while Leng Yi waited upon him at the side.
"It"s done?" Han Mingyi asked without looking up.
"It"s done," Leng Er answered with a nod.
"Good. Find more things for him to do. Prevent him from dirtying Li"er’s
eyes all day long." Han Mingyi knew that Han Minghong had been looking for Du Xiaoli in the afternoon, so he, like Du Xiaoli, had thought of annoying Prince Ren.
"Master, I met Ying Ge in Prince Ren’s Manor."
The pen in Han Mingyi"s hand stopped as he looked up and asked, "Ying Ge? What was she doing in Prince Ren’s Manor?"
"Master, you and our future princess and truly seem to be soulmates. She also went to give Prince Ren some trouble. However, our method was gentle, whereas the princess gave him a strong dose of medicine directly!" Leng Er said with a smile.
"Oh? Tell me about it." Han Mingyi smiled softly when he heard his subordinate talk so eagerly.
"Ying Ge said that she was ordered by the princess to poison Prince Ren. You have no idea what kind of poison the princess studied. Hehe..." Leng Er couldn"t help but smile when he said this.
"Talk, quickly. Stop beating around the bush," Leng Yi urged.
"They gave Prince Ren an anaphrodisiac. I saw with my own eyes that after Yingge released the soul fragrance, he didn"t respond with his usual urges. He even got angry and killed that woman. Then he called another concubine over. She probably didn"t have much of a chance to escape the fate of death either," Leng Er said.
"Oh?" Han Mingyi thought for a while and commented, "Perhaps, we can still find him some things to do."
Leng Er understood what Han Mingyi meant and said, "I’m going to do it now!"
As Leng Er retreated to the door, he almost tripped over the doorsill because of what he heard next over his shoulder.
Han Mingyi asked, "How did it feel to be with Ying Ge when you watched others flirt?"
Leng Er thought of that moment when he covered Ying Ge’s mouth and felt the softness of her lips against the palm of his hand. Suddenly, he felt his heart skip a beat. He said with a serious expression, "It’s not bad. Master, I need to go get things done."
Han Mingyi and Leng Yi both laughed when they saw Leng Er trying to flee.
Early in the next morning, Du Xiaoli received news that Han Minghong had killed two concubines last night. They both suffered inhuman torture before their deaths.
The news spread, and the whole of Phoenix City broke into an uproar. Everyone saw Prince Ren as a cultured, gentle, and kind-hearted man. Yet he had actually done such a cruel thing?! Who would dare let their daughter marry him in the future?
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