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Chapter 89 - Conditions
Nangong Xin's black eyes quickly misted with a layer of water, stubbornness also came up, a hug the big black dog insisted: "No, I just want big black! My sister has raised Xiao Bai, I want to raise Da Hei!" The Xiao Bai he was talking about was the little white kitten that Xiao Yi had given to Nangong Yue.
"Xin Ge Er ......"
Lin Shi wanted to persuade again, but was interrupted by Nangong Yue: "Mother, let brother keep this dog. This dog looks unimpressive. I think this dog doesn't look like an ordinary dog, it looks like a watchdog, a watchdog is a very good hunting dog. This dog has a high intelligence, if we raise it well, it may be able to protect our brother!"
Lin Shi was stunned and looked at the big black dog with a sense of wonder, and then sighed and said, "Okay. I'll do as you say and keep it."
When Nangong Xin heard that he could keep his Da Hei, he jumped onto the carriage happily and tried to bring his Da Hei dog along with him, but Lin Shi's voice stopped him: "Da Hei is not allowed to get on the carriage! You're not allowed to carry him either, he's so dirty, wait until he's washed and cleaned ......"
In the end, Nangong Xin had to compromise, and with the carriage driver's hoarse "Heave--" the carriage clattered on.
The rest of the journey was uneventful, Lin Shi and Nangong Yue were both a little tired from the rhythmic swaying, but only Nangong Xin was still in high spirits, always poking his head out of the carriage window to talk to his Da Hei......
The carriage didn't know how long it had been driving, but a strong fragrance suddenly came from outside the window, which made people's appetite grow, and Nangong Xin's stomach rumbled directly.
"It smells so good!" Nangong Xin shrunk his nose in an intoxicated manner, his head sniffing the fragrance, "It's the scent of roast meat!" He said, his eyes glowing as he looked at Lin Shi, "Mother, I'm hungry! I want to eat meat!" He said and swallowed twice.
Lin Shi also smelled the rich smell of barbecued meat, looking at Nangong Xin's gluttonous face, she couldn't help but feel amused, and was about to ask Ruyi to check it out, when she heard the voice of the guard from outside: "Second Madam, Second Young Master, Third Miss, there is a small inn ahead, I think it's not bad, do you want to rest for a while and have some lunch before we go on our way?"
"Mother, let's take a rest before heading on our way!" Nangong Yue said softly, while Nangong Xin had already been impatiently stretching out his neck, with a mouth-watering face, looking at the inn.
Lin Shi rarely refused her children's requests, and since they were tired after sitting in the carriage for so long, she nodded, "Fine!"
When Nangong Xin heard this, he let out a cheer like a bird out of a cage and excitedly rushed down. Lin Shi and Nangong Yue followed him, and were supported by their maids as they also got off the carriage.
When he arrived at the inn, he was immediately greeted by a moustached young man dressed in linen and wearing a long scarf.
" Gustes are you here for lunch? Please come with this little one!" Seeing that the three of them were well-dressed, the waiter welcomed them and the maids accompanying them to In the private dining room on the first floor. This was just what Lin Shi and Nangong Yue wanted. As for Nangong Xin, it didn't matter where he sat as long as there was good food.
When they arrived at the table, the waiter asked with a smile on his face, "What would you like to eat, Madam, Gongzi and Miss?"
Naturally, the waiter was not qualified to let Lin Shi and Nangong Yue talk to him directly, so Ruyi stepped forward and asked with a smile, "What do you have to eat here?"
" In reply to guest 's question, we have a lot of good food here, but the most famous is our roast meat! We have a wide selection of roast meat, so if you're interested, you can go to the ground floor and choose the ingredients yourself! Whatever your taste, we can make it here! Even if you want to grill it yourself, you can do that too. ......" said the waiter.
The more Nangong Xin heard, the more interesting he found it, and couldn't wait to say, "I want to eat barbecued meat! I'm going to choose it myself!" With that, he had already got up and left his seat, and went downstairs with the waiter.
"Xin Ge Er, take your time!" Lin Shi rushed after him, the maids also followed him, and in a short while, Nangong Yue and Yi Mei were left in the private dining room.
"Miss Third, have some hot tea." Yi Mei took out Nangong Yue's own tea set, poured half a cup of hot tea into the cups, and then served it.
No sooner had Nangong Yue held her cup than she heard a knock on the door from outside the private dining room.
"Who is it ......?" Before Yimei's words were out of her mouth, she saw the door of the private dining room being gently pushed open, and in walked a waxen-faced blue-clad youth in his twenties, followed by a grey-clad teenage boy.
The youth was thin, his appearance was extremely ordinary and unfamiliar, Nangong Yue could be sure she was seeing this face for the first time, only ...... her eyebrows twitched slightly, before she could say anything, Yi Mei had already exclaimed: "You ...... You ...... are you!" She was not referring to the youth, but to the young man behind him.
"Third girl, he ...... he ......" panicked, Yi Mei looked a little stuttered.
Nangong Yue nodded and said, "I know. Yimei, you go outside and keep watch."
Yimei hesitated, but bowed her head in response and retreated to the outside of the private dining room.
"If I'm correct, you're Bai Gongzi, right?" Nangong Yue said calmly. Although he had changed his appearance with a disguise technique, his eyes were like torches that were about to be extinguished, even though they looked bright now, they had already run out of oil, so Nangong Yue recognized his eyes right away. Moreover, his breathing was different from normal people, sometimes rapid, sometimes slow, quite irregular, as if he was suffering from a serious heart disease ......
And this boy was certainly the master who had taken the prisoner that day! The night she returned from Jiang's residence, Yi Mei had seen this boy, Xiao Si, once before, and that was why she had just behaved like that.
"Miss Nangong is really smart ......," the Youth, also known as Guan Yubai, said indifferently, his weak and feeble voice showing that he was still extremely weak at the moment, "The letter I sent to you, you have not replied, Therefore, I can only use this method to disturb you."
A few days ago, on Nangong Yue's way back from the En Guo Gong Mansion, Guan Yubai had his boy slip a note to Yimei to pass on to her. In the note, Guan Yubai offered to make a deal with her......
Nangong Yue's face was slightly sunken. With Guan Yubai's intelligence, he should have understood that her not answering the letter was an unspoken rejection, but unexpectedly he had approached her personally in this way. Today, all this seems too coincidental, and it must have been carefully arranged by him. In other words, he had taken control of the inn as soon as he knew they were going to the manor on the outskirts of the city, and had deliberately investigated his brother, deliberately using the tempting scent of food to prompt them to stop the carriage naturally….. This kind of person has a deep scheming heart and is the kind of person she finds most tiresome! To deal with such a person, one had to take every step and effort, so after receiving the note from him, she thought about the pros and cons and decided to stay away from him!
"Now the Jingyiwei are searching for you everywhere, you actually dare to show yourself ......," Nangong Yue whispered.
Guan Yubai smiled faintly, a dazzling glow oozing out of his ordinary features ...... also did not know what method he used to change his appearance, his smile looked incomparably natural, not a bit stiff.
"Who can recognize me in my present appearance?" He laughed bitterly and then, with a straight face, coughed lightly, "I know the concerns you have in mind, and this face is indeed the real...... My surname is now Rong and I have a name, Xuan, can you feel at ease?"
Nangong Yue still did not answer positively, how could she be at ease? No matter how powerful this Guan Yubai would be in a decade or so, but now he was a wanted criminal, once people found out she was involved with him, not only herself, but also her family would be ......
Nangong Yue pondered for a moment and said slowly, "When I was young, my grandfather once told me a story about a frog and a scorpion: the scorpion wanted to cross the river, and it asked the kind frog for help. The frog says, "You have poison, what if you sting me? The scorpion said, "If I sting you, I will also sink to the bottom of the river. The kind frog thought it made sense, so he carried the scorpion across the river. While swimming to the middle of the river, the scorpion stung the frog anyway. At the moment of sinking to the bottom of the river, the frog asked the scorpion, "Why did you sting me when you knew you would sink to the bottom? The scorpion said slowly, "Because it is my nature."
Although she did not explicitly say so, it was clear that the frog she was referring to was herself, and the scorpion was obviously referring to Guan Yubai, or rather, the man who now called himself Rong Xuan.
Guan Yubai had not yet spoken, but the boy Xiao Si could not hold back, and a cold air was released from his eyes, "How dare you say that the Gongzi......" Guan Yubai raised his hand, signalling Xiao Si to keep quiet.
The expression on Guan Yubai's face remained unchanged, and his breath was not even affected. He smiled and said lightly, " Young lady is really smart, this little story is really thought-provoking. In that case, Rong Mou had also heard a little story about a scorpion, a traveller saw a scorpion fall into the water, he immediately went to get it, but when his hand just touched the scorpion, it stung him. But the man still tried to fish it out, and once again he reached out to try to pull the scorpion out of the water, but it stung him again. A man next to him said to him, 'Why are you saving it when it keeps stinging you like that?' The traveller said, 'It is the scorpion's nature to sting, but I need the scorpion's poison to save my life, so how can I give up my life just because it stings?'"
Nangong Yue looked at him steadily, Guan Yubai was indeed smart, with that one meeting, with the little information he could investigate about her, he saw through her, knew that she was not an ordinary boudoir young lady of the house, knew that she had plans, knew that she was trapped in the inner house and desperately needed external help ...... so he offered a condition that she could hardly refuse: She helps him cure the poison and he serves her for five years!
She remembered what Han Lingfu had said in her previous life, that if you wanted to make great profits, you had to take great risks. Although she hated him with a passion, she had to admit that he was right.
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