Chapter 10: No Business
Jing Cang lived in the temporary and magnificent villa of the prefectural governor's mansion.
At night, after the guard Huo Dao reported his master's situation, he stood below with a hesitant look on his face.
Although Jing Cang had lost his memory, he instinctively felt that he had something private to tell him.
"If you have something to say, just speak up."
He put down the teacup from which he had taken a sip.
"Your Highness," Huo Dao said respectfully, "The Yu family said that Miss Yu was your savior, but I heard rumors that it was Miss Yu who snatched you from Miss Yu's carriage at the gate of the Yu Mansion, and many people saw it. I also sent people to verify it, and the rumor is true."
"Well." Jing Cang knocked on the table, "Continue."
"I suspect that Miss Yu has usurped your position and pretended to be your savior." The benefactor of the current crown prince must be extremely wealthy and powerful. Even if she wants to marry a powerful person, the emperor and empress will agree. Even if she wants to repay the favor in exchange for living in the East Palace, the crown prince might compromise.
"Besides, Miss Yu has a bad reputation outside..."
Huo Dao hesitated for a moment, and Jing Cang interrupted: "For example?" He was like a frog in a well in Yu Mansion. Everything he saw and heard was what Yu Fei wanted him to see and hear.
He was curious. Besides the fact that she liked him and didn't want him to recognize his identity, was there any other "surprise" that he didn't expect?
Huo Dao whispered: "For example, spending a fortune in a prostitute's house, flirting with decent men in the street..." People have made up rhymes about it.
"Okay, I got it!" Jing Cang gritted his teeth and interrupted Huo Dao. No wonder she was so good at teasing him. It turned out that she had done it thousands of times on other people.
He was impatient to listen to her extravagant and extravagant stories, and he only felt disgusted. This hypocritical woman, pretending to be as innocent as a virgin, never thought that such a person could be slept with.
Thinking of her hugging and kissing him, Jing Cang felt a nausea in his chest.
He drank a sip of tea to suppress his discomfort and said, "Invite Miss Yu Er over tomorrow. I want to meet her."
"yes."
If Yu Fei was just as the rumors said, even if she saved him, she just wanted to play with him. But considering her character, it was hard to believe that she could have picked him up from under the cliff.
After she knew that he was a noble person, she still shamelessly asked to marry him. Being coveted by her was like a toad crawling on the surface of a shoe, which she couldn't bite but was annoying.
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After Yu Fei left Jing Cang, she wondered what news he would know about her.
The original owner's bad reputation was easy to fool, as three people can make a tiger and public mouths can melt gold. As long as she herself doesn't admit it, who can convince her that she is a domineering and dissolute woman?
Regarding the incident of Jing Cang being robbed in public, Yu Fei thought that she had to go and say "hello" to her concubine sister in person, so as to avoid the government or Jing Cang summoning her later and her saying something she shouldn't say in order to get ahead.
The concubine sister Yu Shuang was as her name suggested, with white clothes and black hair, and a crystal-clear face. She looked like a delicate little white flower blooming in the autumn frost.
As soon as she saw her, the girl frowned and her eyes filled with tears. She asked in a delicate voice, "Sister, what have you done to Ah Cang?"
Yu Fei pondered. Given Yu Shuang's situation, what he knew about Jing Cang should have been limited to the fact that the original owner broke his legs. However, the female supporting role in the romance novel had deliberately tried to make the male protagonist a homosexual, so she was naturally not an easy person to deal with.
She knew long ago that Yu Shuang's personal maid had repeatedly asked people about Jing Cang's news. After all, her concubine sister would have to show up later, so she did not hide it from her. Yu Shuang must know at this moment that Jing Cang had lost his memory and was a high-ranking official who had been taken away by the government.
Yu Fei didn't want to compete with her in acting, so he said bluntly: "Stop acting, the noble lady is not here."
Yu Shuang was startled and said awkwardly: "I don't understand what my sister means..."
They are all thousand-year-old foxes, what's the point of playing Liao Zhai? Yu Fei was too lazy to expose her, so he asked concisely: "If someone asks you about your elder sister robbing a noble man, how will you answer?"
Yu Shuang lowered her head, hesitated for a while, bit her lip, and whispered: "This is a well-known fact, how can I, how can I answer it?"
Hearing this, he actually had to tell the truth. Yu Fei thought of the original owner's usual behavior, and swung the tiger tail golden whip in his hand hard to the ground. With a "crackling" sound, the floor seemed to tremble.
Yu Shuang shrank back in fear. Yu Fei approached slowly, playing with the handle of the whip, and said slowly: "As everyone knows, your aunt is recuperating on the manor. If you, an unfilial daughter, did something to disobey your elder sister, then this whip should be used to beat her until her skin was torn and she died, right?"
"What do you mean? If a girl is not educated, it is the mother's fault..."
"Sister, sister, I know I was wrong."
The whip seemed to hit Yu Shuang's head instead of the ground. She immediately got enlightened. She knelt down and said timidly, "Sister, I have never robbed you. It was you who found him under the cliff and sent me to rescue him. Sister... is his savior."
Yu Fei nodded, thinking that her scheming concubine sister was very sensible.
Then he asked, "What about his legs?"
"When we found him, both his legs were broken."
Yu Fei smiled, put her hands behind her back and put the golden whip behind her, "Since my concubine sister is so filial, I think you will be able to enjoy your old age in the manor."
"Miss, the eldest lady has gone too far. Not only has she robbed and persecuted you, but she also wants to take on the identity of your savior." The maid was filled with anger when she saw Yu Fei leaving.
"She's lucky this time, that nobleman just happened to have lost his memory." Yu Shuang brushed off the barely visible dust on her dress and said with a smile, "If he remembers everything one day, Yu Fei will be like a grasshopper in autumn, unable to jump for a few days."
"Young lady is right. I don't think she will be so arrogant for long." The maid agreed.
Sure enough, Yu Shuang was invited to the prefectural government's mansion the next day.
Later, Yu Fei sent someone to ask, and Yu Shuang said that her answers to the nobleman were exactly in line with her elder sister's wishes.
The original text shows that the aunt is indeed Yu Shuang's weak spot, so Yu Fei does not pursue the matter any further.
But Jing Cang might not be unable to guess the countermeasures she could think of, as the original owner had a reputation for bullying her younger sister.
What she is doing now is to cover up the situation while he has not recovered his memory, so that she can sleep with him and make the pot work.
Three days passed, like an hourglass on the table, finally running out of time. Yu Fei's heart, which had been hanging in her throat, finally settled down in her stomach.
The male snake had already taken root in Jing Cang's body. Even though he knew he was possessed by a snake, there was nothing he could do.
But if she didn't tell him, it would be hard for him to know.
Yu Fei was a little curious about the attraction of female snakes from the same root to male snakes.
That night, she went to the prefect's mansion to ask to see Jing Cang.