Chapter 393: Testing the Waters 8
“How can one little lady look so cute? Such a nice nose, nice lips, nice eyebrows…”
“I just realized that when you close your eyes, your eyelashes are really long. Like two small hand fans~”
“Your height is not bad and when you sit, your posture isn’t bad either.”
“You don’t look like someone who has given birth to children at all…”
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Qi Qingyao, who still had a black cloth over her face, was continuously getting b.u.t.tered up. When she finally could not take it anymore, she complained through the darkness. “That’s enough. I let you experiment, but you keep babbling and s.e.xually hara.s.sing me!”
The hand touching her withdrew immediately.
The black cloth on Qi Qingyao’s face was undone.
She stared impa.s.sively at Lu Yan, who was one meter away.
After looking at each other awkwardly for a while, Lu Yan asked, “What is s.e.xual hara.s.sment?”
“It’s those weird things you just said,” Qi Qingyao said heavily.
She looked at Lu Yan, who was standing in front of her, with unblinking eyes.
Lu Yan scratched his head, feeling a little embarra.s.sed. “Was it weird?”
“Is it not weird?” Qi Qingyao could not believe what she was hearing.
“…”
Lu Yan remained unaware of certain issues. He just stared at Qi Qingyao seriously. After a long while, Lu Yan’s gaze suddenly froze and a red cloud blossomed over his cheeks. He quickly retracted his gaze and did not dare to look into Qi Qingyao’s eyes again.
Qi Qingyao was puzzled. “Why are you suddenly blus.h.i.+ng?”
“…”
Lu Yan blushed even harder.
He got up and ran away.
The door was once again opened and closed in one swift motion, and Lu Yan ran out of the courtyard in the blink of an eye.
Only Qi Qingyao, who was still tied to the chair, was left alone and dumbfounded.
“Hey you, don’t run away! Help me untie the rope!”
Steward Zhang had been outside of Lu Yan’s courtyard all this time. He suddenly heard movements and when he turned his head, he saw Lu Yan run out of the courtyard like the wind. Looking at this scene made Steward Zhang stunned. Just as he was scratching his head thinking about what was going on, someone in the house shouted.
“Steward Zhang! Steward Zhang!”
When a maid heard this, she initially wanted to come in but was stopped by Steward Zhang.
After Steward Zhang entered the room, the first thing he saw was Qi Qingyao tied to the chair.
“Missus?” Steward Zhang was shocked.
Qi Qingyao said irritably, “Help me untie the rope!”
“…”
Steward Zhang was filled with confusion, but he still hurriedly untied Qi Qingyao before anything else. However, as he was untying the rope, he saw the black cloth in the ground and his confusion increased even more. After the rope was untied, he could not help but ask with a laugh, “Missus, why would Master tie you here?”
“Steward Zhang, you ask too much!” Qi Qingyao answered idly.
Steward Zhang, “…”
Qi Qingyao instructed him, “Don’t say a word about this!”
Steward Zhang replied, “Yes,”
After Qi Qingyao got up and moved her wrists a little, she composedly left the courtyard.
Steward Zhang stayed in Lu Yan’s room for a long time before putting the rope and black cloth on the table carefully. After Steward Zhang left the courtyard, he ran into Dong Jing, who had just returned to the mansion.
Steward Zhang waved at Dong Jing excitedly and nervously.
“Little Dong.”
After Dong Jing walked over, Steward Zhang dragged Dong Jing to one of the opposite houses that he resided in.
Dong Jing felt that Steward Zhang was being a bit too mysterious today, so he asked quietly, “Steward Zhang?”
Steward Zhang gulped nervously. “I discovered something today, but you can’t tell anyone else.”
“What is it?” Dong Jing did not look all that interested.
Steward Zhang said, “Master tied Lady Qi to the chair in his room. I don’t know what they did, but then Master ran away blus.h.i.+ng a little. I went in to help Lady untie the rope, and I found a black cloth on the ground, which was obviously used for blindfolding. Later I asked Missus why Master would tie her here, and can you guess what Missus said?”
“Tell me.” Dong Jing’s curiosity was fully aroused now.
Steward Zhang’s eyes were radiant at the moment. “Missus said that I asked too much, and told me not to say anything about it!”
Dong Jing was dumbstruck. “Missus forbade you from telling anyone but you still did. Are you looking to die?”
Steward Zhang whispered, “I didn’t tell any outsiders. You’re a person close to the Master, how can you be considered as an outsider?”
Dong Jing, “…”
Steward Zhang then asked nosily, “Say, what did Master…do to Missus? What’s the relations.h.i.+p between the two of them now?”
“…” How would he know!!
“Missus let Master tie her up, but wouldn’t let me ask more about it. It looks like she also likes Master and doesn’t mind being tied up. And when I was untying the rope just now, I noticed that Missus’ hair was a bit messy, and so were her clothes… Ahem, do you think the Master has a thing for Missus? He also doesn’t seem to mind that Missus has children. Did the two of them do some adult things in the room just now?” When Steward Zhang said these words, he coughed very embarra.s.sedly, and his gaze drifted away.
Dong Jing pictured some unknowable things in his mind, and his face turned red in an instant. When thinking of his handsome and elegant Master and Lady Qi’s relations.h.i.+p, his face turned even redder. He also let out a cough, and said while looking down awkwardly, “Steward Zhang, don’t carelessly say these things.”
Steward Zhang could hear Dong Jing’s embarra.s.sment, so he became more embarra.s.sed as well. With his back turned to Dong Jing, he spoke with an excited but cautious voice.
“I…well, it’s just that I’ve always been looking forward to the Master finding a girl he likes. Lady Qi is not bad. She’s very excellent and is also my mistress now. There’s also a young Grand Master by her side. These conditions are more than good enough for our Master.”
“You—you—you had better forget about all this once you’re done telling me. Don’t let the Master find out.” Dong Jing listened and responded with excitement, but he still had to make his tone sound like he was reprimanding instead of gossiping.
Steward Zhang said quickly, “I know, I know that Master is thin-skinned. I won’t say anything.”
“…”
After Dong Jing left the opposite house.
He walked toward Lu Yan’s courtyard with light steps. After entering the yard and looking around, he was surprised that he could not find him. So he asked a servant who told him that Lu Yan had gone to the pond in the backyard.
Dong Jing headed there next.
As soon as he walked past the Chuihua Gate, he saw Lu Yan from a distance, standing by the pond, looking at the water in worry and frustration…