Chapter 136: A New Day (2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Dye Workshop Street was being rebuilt. After dawn, there were many craftsmen working while the weather was cool. There were sounds of knocking everywhere.
Ye Jingtang walked out of Double Osmanthus Alley and was about to walk to the Black Office when he saw a carriage parked at the entrance of the street corner. His big black horse, which had fattened up a few times, was standing by the roadside. When it saw him, it shook its head and looked elsewhere. It seemed that it ate and drank well in the Pei residence and didn’t want to go back to its owner, who roughed it all year round.
The curtain of the carriage was closed, but Xiuhe was standing at the street corner, chatting with a few foremen.
When Ye Jingtang saw this, he recalled the crazy scene yesterday. One in each arm, a twofer with one cannon, and so on… He felt a little embarrassed.
“Young Master Ye~”
“Hi. Use an umbrella. Be careful of getting tanned.”
“Thank you for your concern, Young Master-”
Ye Jingtang walked to the carriage. After greeting Xiuhe, he jumped into the carriage.
The carriage was rather spacious. Third Lady was wearing a light yellow summer dress with rose-red lipstick on her lips and her hair coiled up in a beautiful and moving style. She was holding a landscape fan in her hand and sitting beside the carriage window, looking at the work situation on the street in a daze.
On the table in front of her, other than the tea set, there were two red packets with the word ‘happiness’ on them. There should be banknotes inside.
When Ye Jingtang entered the carriage and saw Third Lady’s slightly complicated expression, he knew that she was still thinking about what had happened last night. He sat down on the opposite side of the carriage. “Third Lady?”
Pei Xiangjun turned her eyes, sat up a little straighter, and raised her hand to pour tea for Ye Jingtang. Her red lips moved slightly, but she didn’t say anything.
“I really took the wrong medicine yesterday. Third Lady, you were the one who fed it to me. My words and actions were inappropriate…”
“It’s fine.” Pei Xiangjun pushed the teacup in front of Ye Jingtang and sighed softly. “You didn’t do it on purpose. I don’t blame you.”
Ye Jingtang smiled and said, “Yesterday was a misunderstanding. Ning’er’s box of medicine was prescribed by Madam Wang. She didn’t want to drug me…”
Ye Jingtang told her about his over-exuberant yang qi and the need to regulate it.
After listening to the explanation quietly, Pei Xiangjun blinked, and her expression clearly improved. “I knew it. How could she be so unreasonable as to steal my family’s young master and even dare to come to my door to cause trouble for me… In the end, did she help you take care of your health?”
Ye Jingtang blinked. He found it difficult to answer her directly.
Pei Xiangjun harrumphed faintly. There was a strange look in her eyes as she pushed the red packets on the table to him. “You are newlyweds, but Miss Ning’er didn’t come to serve tea. I can’t forget the rules just because I’m angry. Take it and help me give it to Miss Ning’er. Tell her that I won’t bicker with her.”
Ye Jingtang was a little helpless, but he still accepted the red packets. He took out two jewelry boxes from his sleeve and handed one to Third Lady. “This is the hairpin I bought yesterday. I didn’t have the chance to give it to you. See if you like it.”
Pei Xiangjun took the hairpin box and looked at it, slightly surprised. “You bought it for me?”
“Of course. I bought jewelry for the bird. How could I forget you? I also bought one for Xiuhe. Please give it to her later. She will probably be happy for several days.”
Pei Xiangjun put down her round fan and opened the box to take a look. It was a hairpin with bird and apricot flower decorations. It had excellent craftsmanship, was extremely beautiful, and matched her temperament. It was obvious that he had chosen it carefully…
Pei Xiangjun closed the hairpin box and thought for a moment before saying, “You really know how to get along with everyone… I’m not related to you. You can’t give me a hairpin randomly.”
Ye Jingtang said seriously, “Third Lady, you are my martial aunt and honorary master. So what if I’m filial to my master? I’ll cut whoever dares to gossip.”
Pei Xiangjun blinked and hesitated for a moment before saying jokingly, “Who’s your master? I can’t teach a disciple like you. If I had really acknowledged you, I’d still be heartbroken when you were kidnapped that day.”
Then she still put away the hairpin box. “Alright, go do your work. I’m going back too. Remember to come over to learn the fist technique tonight. Also, after you’re done with the matters in the capital, you have to consider the matter of the Baoyuan School. Otherwise, Huang Zhu will come over and trouble you again. When the time comes, I’ll see if I’m free to accompany you.”
“I’ll keep this in mind. I’ll go there when I have time.”
“Hmph-!”
Ye Jingtang chuckled and got up to leave the carriage. After watching the carriage leave, he rode his horse to the Black Office…
Meanwhile, in a private manor hidden halfway up a mountain somewhere in the outskirts of the city…
There were countless guards patrolling outside the manor, but there were only a few people inside.
Cao Aning stood at the window of a tall building that could look at Yun’an City from afar. He looked at the majestic Imperial City where he had grown up as a child with a heavy expression.
The room behind him was full of the smell of medicine. Xu Bailin was sitting on the floor. The sword wound on his leg had been stitched up and bandaged, and there was a brand new bar mace beside his hand.
However, losing the Blue Steel Mace that had accompanied him for many years was no less than Ye Jingtang losing the Hornless Dragon Saber. No matter how good the new weapon was, it couldn’t suppress the haze and hatred of ‘seizing his wife’ in Xu Bailin’s eyes.
After a long silence, Xu Bailin spoke first. “The higher-ups have been planning for many years, but we’ve already made such a huge mistake as soon as we got started. How are we going to explain ourselves?”
Cao Aning turned around, sat down opposite him, and wiped the straight saber in his hands. “Fan Yu doesn’t know the inside story. The Black Office won’t be able to get anything out of him. You were goaded yesterday. You should have left.”
Xu Bailin knew that it was his impulse to retaliate yesterday that had caused his companion to rescue him forcefully and fall into the hands of the government. After a moment of silence, he grabbed the bar mace. “I’m going to save him.”
Cao Aning raised his hand to stop him. “The Imperial Court is not Jianghu. You can’t do things out of loyalty. If he dies, so be it. When we accomplish our goals, his contributions won’t be forgotten. It’s the same for you and me.”
Xu Bailin gripped the bar mace. “What should we do next?”
“Ye Jingtang and 1 are at odds, but we can’t see through his shrewdness at all. If we don’t resolve it, we won’t dare to act rashly.”
“Kill Ye Jingtang first?”
“We have to prioritize important matters. Killing Ye Jingtang will waste too much manpower and effort, and it’s easy to be exposed… We can use someone else to kill him.”
Xu Bailin thought for a moment. “Who can we use?”
Cao Aning recalled carefully. “According to Eunuch Cao, thirty years ago, the successor of the Eight-Steps Frenzied Blade formed a life-and-death blood feud with Jun Mountain Terrace. If Jun Mountain Terrace knows that Ye Jingtang knows the Eight-Steps Frenzied Blade, they will definitely not be able to sit still.”
Xu Bailin frowned and said, “Xuanyuan Chao is the Marquis of Jun Mountain. He doesn’t dare to attack the Prince of Jing’s person.”
“If they don’t strike first, they will be the ones to die in the future. All we have to do is send the news. Jun Mountain Terrace will think of a way to resolve the future trouble. We don’t need to worry about how to resolve it. Even if the Xuanyuan family can’t deal with Ye Jingtang, they can at least cause him trouble. Making him divert his attention is better than letting him bite us and not let go.”
Xu Bailin thought about it for a moment and felt that this method was feasible, so he didn’t say anything else…
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