Novel Bin Chapter 306 - Tao Yao Yard, her home
Chapter 306 Tao Yao Yard, her home
Run Xiang died with her baby, and Zhang Xian committed suicide for love. He Danggui sighed, “How could the loving couple end like this...”
The silence remained for a long while before Bai Yangbai placed his hand on He Danggui’s shoulder. However, she suddenly widened her eyes and screamed, frightening Bai Yangbai to take off his hand.
“That’s not right.” He Danggui frowned, “Since Zhang Xian determined to commit suicide, why did he pretend to be the paramour of Sun Meiniang? What’s more, Luo Baishao’s yard caught fire. Did Zhang Xian burn himself there? Why?”
Bai Yangbai scratched his cheek in curiosity, “I don’t understand it as well. He was a good man, and he could find prostitutes in the brothel. Why did he choose to follow Run Xiang? I can’t imagine his behavior. I will never be as sad as him because of someone’s death.”
“…” He Danggui stared at him, wondering about his plot with Zhang Xian.
Under her compelling stare, Bai Yangbai reluctantly explained, “Well, I disguise himself as Wu Jiu. Then I let him sing a folk song while going to Xi Hua Ge to see his ‘biological daughter’ Luo Baishao with a fruit basket. I told him to yell, ‘My dear daughter, your dad is here.’ That’s all.”
He Danggui was speechless. Zhang Xian used this method to take revenge on Sun Meiniang’s daughter?
Bai Yangbai added, “Since the portrait is not exact and I don’t know the appearance of Wu Jiu, I specifically instructed Zhang Xian not to show his front to others. As long as about five people saw him, he could shout out the words I taught him and retreat. However, the divination told me that Zhang Xian had burned himself alive. Think of the expression he had when he took the Huo Zhe Zi from me, I realized that he had already made up his mind to die for love.”
He Danggui had mixed feelings, because she didn’t expect that things got out of hand. Even Luo Baishao came a cropper. “My dear daughter, your dad is here.” These words must have been delivered to Madam Luo and Luo Chuangu. How would they react? Sun Meiniang killed the child in Run Xiang’s belly, and Zhang Xian retaliated against Sun Meiniang’s daughter. It was even. However, it was still a little unbelievable that a salt smuggler and a maid had a love beyond death. Love dwelled in everyone yet no distinction shall prevail among classes. In this case, the poor had the purest love.
Bai Yangbai again patted the back of the melancholic girl and comforted, “Now, all those who have bullied you have been punished. You can live happily in the future. A few days ago, I saw Xiaoyou being followed by Ling Miaoyi, so I also followed them to the suburb. I was attracted to Xiaoyou’s matrix, wondering when it would be activated. Later, strange things happened. Girl, I didn’t expect that you are familiar with the Eight-diagrams tactics, and your matrix skill is not under mine. We are meant to be together.”
He Danggui rolled her eyes at him, “As your teacher, I do have some skills. It turns out that you want to marry a woman who is able to set a matrix, right?” No wonder he was single in the previous life…
However, she didn’t know much about the Eight-diagrams tactics, and she learned a few simple matrixes from Bai Yangbai in the previous life. Of course, he liked this work because he invented it. As for those astronomical phenomena, she also learned them from Bai Yangbai in her previous life. He once said that the astronomical phenomena portended that a new emperor would come to the throne.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang really died, and Zhu Yunwen acceded to the throne. From then on, Zhu Di and Zhu Quan started to reveal their ambition to be the emperor. She had already experienced the troubled times once, so she didn’t feel any panic at all. Anyway, the fights would all be among the royal family members, and it would have little to do with ordinary people like them, especially after she got rid of Zhu Quan.
“Not at all.” Bai Yangbai rubbed his hands, “I hear it from Feng Yang…that you broke up with Zhu Quan, and he had no intention of accepting you as a concubine. Feng Yang also said that you are pregnant with his kid. Therefore, I am here to clean up this mess for him. You know how to use the Yunqi Acupuncture, and I’m good at the skills of agerasia. It’s perfect for us to be a couple. You also yearn for longevity, right?”
“Chang… Feng Yang was talking nonsense!” He Danggui angrily stretched out her hand to let Bai Yangbai get her pulse and test whether she was pregnant. Chubby Zhu’s words were really harmful. Pregnancy was never a good joke.
After Bai Yangbai tried the pulse, he was still insisting, “I think we are really a good match. I am not a bad man. If you think I am poor, then I will quit gambling in the future and save all the money for you. That five thousand liang silver will be used as the bride-price, okay? I will follow our previous agreement and pretend to be Bai Yang, the businessman, to propose to you. Our kids can follow your family name. After you get tired of living here, we will go back to Daguomen Sect. What do you say?” Was it his illusion? Her breasts grew after several days…
“When Zhen Quan came here, you ran away immediately. It’s not a righteous man’s behavior. When Zhu Quan left, you showed up and said these.” He Danggui patted Bai Yangbai’s forehead, “My enemy is no longer going to marry me. What is your value to me? Take your dirty money, go out and turn right to the gambling house. I don’t have the luck to enjoy your money.”
Then, she left Bai Yangbai alone and returned to Tao Yao Yard. The breath of the family surrounded her. It was warmer and more at ease than usual. Sun Meiniang would never appear in front of her again. She could live in peace for the coming years.
He Danggui didn’t know what Madam Luo would do with Ding Rong’s wife. Though Ding Rong’s wife had a son who was an official, Luo Chuangu would not spare her. After all, she was an accomplice who helped Sun Meiniang fornicate with other men. Back then, Ding Rong’s wife wronged Run Xiang for having an affair with Wu Jiu. Now, Wu Jiu had become Sun Meiniang’s adulterer. This was Karma!
“Oh! Miss!” Chan Yi gave a skip and smiled, “Guess what strange thing happened because of the earthquake?”
He Danggui thought for a moment and said, “We have a new hot spring.”
“Ah?! How do you know it?” Chan Yi widened her eyes because her miss did an incredible thing once again.
He Danggui was also surprised, “I didn’t expect it to be right. Is there really a new hot spring? Where?”
Chan Yi pulled her into the bedroom and smiled, “Actually, it is not the new hot spring. The mouth of our old hot spring became bigger, and the water flows more smoothly than before. Bo He, Zhu, and I are taking a bath in it. That’s so comfortable!” Chan Yi said so while undressing He Danggui, “I guess you are tired now. Why not soak in the hot spring to relieve your fatigue? Why do you take a veil? Let me help you take it off.” However, He Danggui evaded her hand.
“Three of you?” He Danggui was shocked. “You three took a bath together?” After Chan Yi nodded, He Danggui stared at her, “But Zhu is a boy!”
“He is also a kid. I’ve bathed him since he was very young.” Chan Yi said carelessly. She stripped He Danggui quickly and pushed her into the shower room, saying, “Zhu is addicted to hot spring, wanting to take a bath in it every day. Be quick, he is waiting for you to rub his back!”
He Danggui stood suddenly and drew a piece of white cloth outside the shower room to wrap her body. She exclaimed, “What the hell! How can I shower with a boy!” Chan Yi acted like a silly girl. She scratched her head and thought, “Isn’t it okay? Does the miss dislike Zhu because he is so fat and takes up too much space?”
Looking at Chan Yi’s bewildered expression, He Danggui walked into the shower room angrily to observe the situation. Was it possible that a person’s intelligence will go backward? Back then at Shui Shang Temple, Chan Yi knew to keep her distance from men and prevented her from undressing in front of unconscious Meng Xuan. How could Chan Yi now be so stupid to bathe with Zhu and even let her do the same thing? Were the people in Tao Yao Yard crazy in one night?
“Ha-ha, aunt!” Zhu was so chubby like a pink pig in the hot spring. He was splashing water in the pool and smiling, “Aunt! Aunt! Come and rub my back! Hug me!”
He Danggui looked at Zhu. As long as he had a pig snout, he was no different from a little pig. No wonder Chan Yi’s attitude towards him was so different from that towards Meng Xuan, because the two people couldn’t be compared at all. Even though Meng Xuan was seriously injured and unconscious, he gave people a dangerous and mysterious feeling. But Zhu was a little fat pig… Who fed him and made him be so fat!
He Danggui wrapped the white cloth on her body tighter and sternly told Chan Yi, “I am a teenager now, and he is not a kid anymore. From now on, you can’t put him into my room, nor can you let him sleep and bathe with me. If you and Bo He don’t want to be his concubines, do not take a bath with him as well.” Then, she picked up Zhu from the water, covered him with a cloth, and gave him to Chan Yi. She ordered, “Tomorrow, I will get some craftsmen to build a bathroom for man. Let him go there in the future. He can’t go here anymore.”
Then, ignoring Zhu’s half-truth crying, she pushed Chan Yi and Zhu who was staring at her chest out of the room. She said coldly, “Remember to lock all the doors and windows for me! I want to rest!”
Unreasonable! A 7-year-old boy had started to be interested in women’s bodies. He was indeed Luo Baiqian’s son! As he grew bigger and fatter, it was time to give him back to First Branch. However, Zhu’s father was a weird existence now. Even she would feel creepy when she approached Luo Baiqian… Zhu’s mother cared about her son more than the authority of the family. Since now Sun Meiniang was doomed, Mrs. Dong would fight for power crazily. With such considerations, He Danggui couldn’t bear to throw Zhu back. She had a foreboding that Zhu would become so thin like Wei…
With such thoughts in mind, He Danggui finished the bath. She wrung the water out of her hair and put on cotton pajamas embroidered with large green lotus. She wanted to have a good sleep before going to Lu’s Mansion to see Sister Zhenzhu and Qing’er. However, she bumped into a man’s chest at the door. Covered in his tea fragrance, she was tightly held by a pair of arms.
“Meng Xuan?” She had known his identity through the smell. She got out a little bit from his arms and asked in surprise, “Why are you here? Your brother told me that you needed to leave here for some days.”
Meng Xuan looked at her eyes straightly with a melancholy light. Then he put his jaw on her forehead and whispered, “I had a bad dream last night. Once I think of you, both of my eyelids will jump at the same time. I can’t do anything. Therefore, I come here to check whether you are fine.”
“I’m fine! Better than ever!” She rubbed his collar with her nose. Then, she suddenly found something and chuckled, “Meng Xuan, our clothes are the same color. I remember when I saw you for the first time, you wore a white robe embroidered with a green lotus.” However, when she looked at the left, she was shocked and shouted, “Blood! You are injured!”