Chapter 95 Chapter 95: Drunkenness 1+2
Just when the two were about to take off their clothes, a pair of large hands covered Zhao Mingjing's eyes from behind.
The moment she was blindfolded, countless terrifying scenarios flashed through Zhao Mingjing's mind. Would she be murdered to silence her? The thought of this froze her body in fear.
Before she could think about it any further, a familiar voice came to her ears.
"It's better for you to watch less of these, little girl."
There was a hint of sarcasm in the man's low tone, and he seemed to have no ill intentions.
Feeling that the other party had no ill intentions, Zhao Mingjing relaxed slightly.
She remembered this voice!
She had just heard it not long ago. If she remembered correctly, the man who blindfolded her should be Dalang, the Earl of Yong'an.
"Li He?" Zhao Mingjing asked speculatingly.
He didn't expect the girl in front of him to call out his name so accurately. Li He was stunned for a moment, the corners of his lips curled slightly, and he responded softly.
"Yes, it's me."
The male voice was still gentle, but with a hint of joy that the man himself was not even aware of.
To cover the girl's eyes, his palm inevitably came into contact with the skin around her eyes. As if unused to the darkness, her eyes blinked a few times, her long feathery eyelashes like a small brush, lightly scratching his palm.
Maybe she was frightened, the originally bright and lively little pepper is now as obedient as a little lamb.
Because the girl was a little nervous, her eyes blinked more frequently in the dark. Li He felt the itch brought by the feathers scratching his palms. For some reason, his heart began to beat uncontrollably.
He didn't understand why his heart started to itch even though it was his palm that was being tickled. The skin beneath his palm felt like hot silver charcoal, burning his palm.
Although his view was blocked, he could not stop the obscene words from coming into his ears. Li He now only hated why he did not grow an extra pair of hands to cover the girl's ears.
Seen from behind, the girl's fair and slender neck was gradually stained with a little crimson, and the roots of her ears were also stained. The light pink earlobes looked a little too cute.
Invisibly, there seemed to be an alluring aura that attracted him all the time.
Li He didn't dare to read any further.
In order to divert his attention, Li He had to focus his gaze on the couple in the rockery.
Looking at the scattered clothes on the ground, Li He frowned in disgust. What's the difference between a man who gets horny anytime and anywhere and a beast who can't control his lower body?
At the same time, he felt a little relieved that he arrived in time and the girl in front of him had not seen such an unbearable scene.
Li He didn't look at the two entangled figures, but stared at the pile of clothes under them. He knew that the owner of the pile of purple clothes was Prince Jin, but when he saw another pile of clothes that looked like maids' clothes, Li He's brows deepened.
As far as he could remember, there had never been such a style of maid clothing in the Earl's Mansion.
So he could conclude that this woman was not a maid in the Earl's mansion.
Li He had just seen that the woman seemed to resist at first. He was about to step forward to stop her when he saw that she had given up resistance and even started to comply. Seeing this, Li He retracted his steps. If this was a matter of mutual consent, why would he risk interfering?
I just don't know what the woman's purpose is.
Before he could investigate further, the two men behind the rockery moved the battlefield and apparently headed towards the side hall.
Li He breathed a sigh of relief and removed his hand from the girl's eyes.
Zhao Mingjing, whose vision suddenly cleared up, subconsciously looked towards the rockery. She wanted to confirm again why she felt that the maid was familiar.
But when she opened her eyes, the rockery was already deserted and there was nothing there. Zhao Mingjing turned back in disappointment.
The man behind her, wearing a navy blue and gold brocade shirt, was looking at her with a strange expression.
"Want to see more?"
Zhao Mingjing opened her eyes hazily, and by the time she realized what Li He was saying, her ears were completely red.
"No, I..."
She waved her hands hurriedly, wanting to explain, but didn't know how.
Li He was a few years older than them. When Zhao Mingjing was still a little kid, he had already started studying in academy, so they had never played together. Today was the first time Zhao Mingjing saw what he looked like.
Dressed in a green shirt, he stood in the garden like a tall pine or bamboo, with a gentle smile on his calm and reserved face, giving people the feeling that he was the big brother next door.
Under the gaze of those inky eyes, Zhao Mingjing's heartbeat suddenly accelerated and her face turned red.
The girl's panic looked extremely cute to Li He, just like a little deer that couldn't find its way home in the mountains, simple and confused.
The girl's cheeks were getting redder and redder.
Li He chuckled and decided not to tease her anymore.
"The side hall for women is on the right. Did you accidentally take a fork?" The man, whose face and tone were as gentle as jade, said very gentlemanly, "Go back along this road. The side opposite the first fork is the correct way."
Although he was caught peeking, Li He took the initiative to give her a way out, probably because he didn't want her to be too embarrassed.
Zhao Mingjing's originally nervous mood relaxed a little.
Maybe this is a good guy?
Looking at the handsome face in front of her, Zhao Mingjing breathed a sigh of relief and followed the steps he pointed out. "So it's on the right. Thank you for your guidance, Master Li. Please keep today's matter a secret for me."
Seeing him nod, Zhao Mingjing finally showed a bright smile on her face. At this time, she faintly heard Zhong Cui calling her. She probably went to the side hall and found that she was not there, so she came out to look for her.
"My maid is calling me, so I'll go over first..."
Zhao Mingjing waved goodbye to Li He, but found that the man suddenly took a step forward. She seemed to be patted on the head, and she suddenly froze in place.
"There's a leaf in my hair."
Li He spread out his palm calmly, with a green leaf resting on the palm of his hand.
Li He took the leaf from her hair and showed it to her.
Zhao Mingjing came back to her senses and gave him a grateful smile. She didn't know when she got it on her, maybe it was when she was hiding beside the tall bushes just now.
"Thank you. I'll be leaving first!" Zhao Mingjing smiled and waved at him, then lifted her skirt and trotted towards Zhong Cui.
Only when the girl's figure disappeared from his sight did Li He retract his gaze and throw away the leaf in his hand.
In fact, there were no leaves stuck on her hair. He just suddenly couldn't help but want to rub the girl's hair. The moment he stretched out his hand, he regretted being a bit abrupt. In order not to scare her, Li He had to pretend to help her take the leaves.
Li He warned himself in his heart that he could only indulge himself this once. A good girl from another family was worthy of any good family, and he couldn't let her get dragged into the deep waters of the Earl's Mansion just because of his private affair.
The poor leaf he picked up spun in the air and landed lightly at his feet, thus completing its mission.
Li He stared at the leaves at his feet and pondered for a long time, and finally chose to leave.
Over there, Zhong Cui was still calling out "Sanniang" and searching anxiously.
Fortunately, apart from Zhao Mingjing, no one around heard her cry.
"Zhong Cui, I'm here."
Before anyone else could come, Zhao Mingjing hurried over and called out to Zhong Cui, pretending to be lost. "The scenery along the road here is exactly the same. I accidentally took the wrong path."
Seeing Zhao Mingjing return safely, Zhong Cui finally let go of the heart that had been in her throat. Just now, she took the belt and returned to the side hall, but found that there was no one inside, which scared her.
Fortunately, she just got lost accidentally. If something happened to Miss San, her life would not be enough to pay for it!
Zhong Cui was relieved but also a little scared. She quickly admitted her fault and said, "It's all my fault. I shouldn't have left you alone. I will accept the punishment when I get back."
Zhong Cui thought back to when she first started serving Sanniang, and how she was fined three months' wages for some minor offense. This time, she had committed such a serious offense, and she didn't know what punishment she would receive. She only hoped that Sanniang would show some mercy, considering she had accepted the punishment voluntarily...
"Why should I be punished? I got lost by accident. It has nothing to do with you."
Zhong Cui looked up in surprise. The girl in front of her pursed her lips slightly, her eyes and eyebrows looking particularly serious.
"Because you were Sheng's maid before, I wasn't sure if you really wanted to stay with me, so I was a little strict with you, even deliberately making things difficult for you." Zhao Mingjing pinched her fingers a little embarrassedly, "After what happened today, I found that you are indeed loyal. What I did before was wrong."
"Can you forgive me?" The girl tilted her head and smiled brightly at her.
Zhong Cui was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to react. The girl in front of her seemed a little different from the Sanniang she had imagined.
Just...become a lot cuter?
Zhong Cui nodded blankly.
Zhao Mingjing was in a good mood and lifted the hem of her skirt and said happily, "Alright, alright, let's go change clothes. I'm so uncomfortable wearing these wet clothes."
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The room was filled with the smell of love, mixed with the smell rising from the incense burner, which was both fragrant and strange, making people frown.
The intoxicated man had no understanding of the concept of gentleness. Zhao Mingzhu, without even waiting for the rain or dew to nourish her, drifted under the pressure brought on by him like duckweed in the rain. Although she had experienced this once before in her past life, she couldn't help but clutch the quilt beneath her. She groaned, trying hard not to let out a cry of pain. The pain that followed was several times greater than in her previous life, and she had no choice but to endure it and cater to it.
Although Zhao Mingzhu was enduring physical pain, her mind was extremely clear and she firmly believed that the pain she was experiencing was only temporary. Compared with being able to rule the country in the future, this pain was nothing.
An unknown amount of time passed, but after the man finished, he fell into a deep sleep. Zhao Mingzhu endured the pain under her body, wrapped herself in a quilt, and sat up from the couch. When she moved, she found that her back was also burning with pain. She knew without looking that it must have been rubbed when she leaned against the rockery just now.
She didn't expect that Prince Jin would be so rude about such things. Compared with her previous life, her first experience in this life could be said to be extremely bad.
Zhao Mingzhu endured the pain and looked around. This was probably the side hall provided by the Li family for guests to change clothes and rest, with people coming in all the time. Besides her brocade quilt, she only had the maid's uniform she had worn when she arrived. Now, that uniform was tattered and tattered, covered in dust, making her feel sick.
Although she felt disgusted, Zhao Mingzhu had no other clothes to cover her body. She had no choice but to endure the discomfort and put on the clothes on the ground.
Just as she put on her clothes, the man on the bed seemed to have slept uncomfortably, turned over and woke up. When he met her gaze, he was slightly stunned.
Before Zhao Mingzhu could say anything, she heard the man impatiently ask, "Why haven't you left yet?"
She was stunned on the spot.
Qi Shang was still drunk and thought he had slept with a prostitute in a brothel. Seeing the unfamiliar interior, he realized something was amiss. By this time, he was a little sober, and he began to recall what had happened.
He remembered that he was not in a brothel, and the woman he had just made love with was certainly not a prostitute. Judging from her clothes, she was probably a maid in this mansion.
Thinking of this, Qi Shang walked down from the bed without caring, picked up his clothes, pulled off the jade pendant hanging on his clothes, and threw it to the maid.
"This jade pendant is for you. It's probably worth a few hundred taels of silver. Take it and go."
The cold tone made Zhao Mingzhu almost unable to breathe.
"Prince, it's me, don't you remember me?!"
She had originally thought that Qi Shang had recognized her and that was why he did all these things with her, but now it seemed that he had simply treated her as a little maid? Upon thinking of this possibility, Zhao Mingzhu took a small step back in disbelief.
No, that's impossible. Prince Qi might have just been playing a little joke on her.
Unwilling to accept the truth, she asked again, "We met at the last Spring Banquet. Look at my face again. Do you really not remember me?"
As expected, Prince Jin looked at her with indifference: "How could I remember a maid?"
Zhao Mingzhu fell to the ground.
The other party didn't seem to be joking at all, which made her realize that Prince Qi was serious and didn't remember her at all.
Zhao Mingzhu didn't understand. They had just met at the last Spring Banquet. At that time, he even praised the ruby headpiece on her head. How could he have forgotten what she looked like in the blink of an eye?
Zhao Mingzhu had originally thought that Prince Qi was attracted to her, and that she couldn't control her emotions and did something like this, but in the end, he didn't even recognize her! So why did she abandon her self-respect and integrity to do such a shameless thing?
Zhao Mingzhu was confused.
Qi Shang over there had already put on his clothes and was ready to leave.
"Wait a moment."
"not enough?"
Qi Shang took off another jade ring from his thumb and threw it over.
Zhao Mingzhu looked at the jade ring that had fallen in front of her, feeling as if it had been provoked to its most vulnerable point. She shrieked, "I'm not a maid in the Earl's mansion. I'm the Sixth Lady of the Pingyuan Marquis's family!"
Qi Shang stopped and was about to go out, his expression suddenly changed.
"You are the Sixth Lady of the Pingyuan Marquis Family"
He looked at the woman who had fallen to the ground and didn't seem to be lying, and he began to panic. He began to think about whether he had seen this woman before, and after some effort, he really remembered.
He had indeed seen this woman.
At the last spring banquet, all the young ladies were dressed in plain clothes and gold and silver, but this woman was wearing a ruby head ornament that was quite special. Qi Shang was in a good mood and talked to her for a few more words.
Thinking of this, Qi Shang's face turned even darker.
Sleeping with a maid from someone else's house was not a big deal for him, but if it was a young lady from a noble family, it would be a big problem. Even if he had a noble status, it would be difficult for him to suppress this matter.
Qi Shang looked disgusted: "Are you plotting against me?"
"I'm not, I didn't!"
Zhao Mingzhu felt extremely aggrieved for a moment. She had done nothing but go with the flow. Why did this man turn against her as soon as he pulled up his pants and even accused her of scheming against him!
Qi Shang didn't believe it.
He felt that Zhao Mingzhu had most likely designed this incident to blackmail him into marrying her.
He knew more or less what his father, Prince Jin, was planning in secret. He wanted to marry someone in the future who could help him achieve great things. He absolutely could not marry the daughter of a marquis who had only the title but no power. Besides, her father would not inherit the title, so she was not even the daughter of a marquis.
If his father knew that he had done such a stupid thing, he would definitely break his legs, and who knows how those illegitimate sons in the family would laugh at him!
Thinking of this, Qi Shang's eyes were filled with murderous intent. As long as he killed this woman and buried her somewhere, no one would know about this!
Qi Shang thought so and did so.
Zhao Mingzhu looked at the man who was approaching her step by step. A sense of crisis made her shudder, and she stumbled towards the door.
"save......"
Just as she was about to call for help, she was violently pulled back by a pair of large hands. The next second, they were pinching her slender neck. A strong feeling of suffocation spread from her neck to her brain. Tears welled up in the corners of her eyes. This time, she really regretted it.
No, I was finally reborn, I can’t die like this!
Zhao Mingzhu struggled to speak out of her strong desire to survive:
"I...I know...the emperor's...the emperor's secret!"
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