"Besides, judging from your shabby clothes, you probably sneaked in. Even if this matter goes to the Queen, you won't be in the right. If you don't want to end up like this... hmph, you'd better behave yourselves."
As he spoke, he reached out to touch Chu Rui's face. Chi Huo watched as Chu Rui didn't move. This idiot, he was so fierce during the assessment, why is he acting like an idiot now?
He used a flower branch he had grabbed to slap the fat woman's hand away, saying, "Get lost! You can't touch my friend!"
"I didn't expect there to be a chili pepper here. I like it, I like it. Pearl, these two young men are much more interesting than the flowers and plants you sent."
A refined noblewoman sitting in a pavilion not far away raised her red lips slightly and nodded in satisfaction.
"Today's scene was pretty good. I'll play the hero who saves the damsel in distress. Take these two to my room."
She didn't need to know if this was a play; she only knew that she had guessed correctly, and that there was no one in this empire she couldn't touch.
The other ladies watching this scene didn't say much about fairness. They had long heard that Madam Bai had many affairs outside the home, and it turned out that she really was that audacious.
"It is a blessing for these two young men to receive a word of praise from Madam Bai. Pearl, quickly, take them away."
One of the ladies was incredibly obsequious. Madam Bai glanced at her but didn't say much, only giving a cold laugh.
"Yes, I'll take them down right away."
He was about to grab Chu Rui and Chi Huo again when he said that.
"Stop! What do you want to do?"
Lu Yulan arrived quickly and only saw Chu Rui, not noticing Madam Bai, who was partially hidden by flowers not far away.
She glared at the fat pearl and demanded, "Who are you? What do you want to do to my people!"
"Your people? My esteemed family has taken a liking to them, and besides, they broke my treasure. Judging from your appearance, you can't afford to compensate for it. Why not use them both to settle the debt?"
Lu Yulan followed the other person's finger and looked at the ground, which was covered in shattered pieces of dirt and porcelain. A flowering tree about seventy centimeters tall with tricolored petals was broken into several pieces on the ground.
Judging from its appearance, it was a tricolor camellia, and an extremely rare purple hybrid, which is seldom seen even in the 21st century. It's a real pity that it died like this.
However, do you really think she's stupid?
"Is your brain so full of water that you could raise fish? Do you think I'm blind? These plants are broken like this either because you forced them to grow too fast or they didn't survive their mutation period and died on their own. What does it have to do with my Chu Rui? If a flower can be shattered into pieces just from a bump, then you have too much water in your brain."
After Lu Yulan finished speaking, Chi Huo laughed immediately. "Yes, Sister Lan, they just want to set a honey trap."
Fat Pearl's face paled. It was indeed her fault for not taking good care of the flowers, but now, Madam Bai had taken a liking to these two handsome young men, so perhaps she could make up for her mistakes.
"Even if it's because of the flowers, Xinglinhai has booked the whole place today. How did you lowly people get in? Who knows if you were trying to steal something? Speaking of which, my pearl bracelet is missing. It must have been you who did it."
The more Pearl spoke, the more genuine she felt. She looked at Lu Yulan with a sinister gaze and said in a low voice, "If you know what's good for you, just listen to me. The Bai family is not someone you can afford to offend."
Lu Yulan had never encountered anything like this before. It was like going out on a sunny day and happily running into her husband. What bad luck!
She actually knew the Bai family.
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