Ma Bin hadn't expected this situation, and immediately roared angrily at Ma Yuling's personal maid.
"Where's the maid?!"
"What's wrong with you? Is this how you take care of a young lady?"
"My lord, please forgive me, this servant... this servant doesn't know what happened either."
The maid who had just applied the ointment to Ma Yuling knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to Ma Bin.
"Butler Ma, sell her to the brothel, Grand View Garden."
"Yes, sir."
"Master, I know I was wrong, please forgive me, I know I was wrong..."
As soon as Ma Bin finished speaking, the maid kneeling on the ground was dragged out by Steward Ma's men.
Ma Bin walked to Ma Yuling's side, squatted down, and stroked Ma Yuling's head. His anger had subsided, and he spoke softly...
"Yuling, don't be afraid, Father will have someone change your room right away."
"Father...tongue...so many tongues..."
"Father... I'm scared, I'm scared."
Ma Yuling's mind flashed back to the floor where she had just seen the tongue; her face turned pale. She looked up at Ma Bin and stammered that she was scared.
"well"
Seeing Ma Yuling so frightened, Ma Bin immediately picked her up and carried her.
"Lead the way to the young lady's new room."
"Yes, sir."
Butler Ma and Ma Bin led the way, walking ahead of Ma Bin.
"Father, a bunch of tongues..."
"Yuling, this is just a nightmare, go to sleep."
"Everything will be alright after you wake up."
Ma Bin rarely showed concern, and he patiently coaxed Ma Yuling.
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"What are you doing up so late at night?"
"Are you trying to be a flower thief?"
Baili Yao looked at Zou Heng and questioned him.
"Miss Baili, what are you doing up so late at night?"
Instead of answering, Zou Heng asked Baili Yao a question. Zou Heng tried to leave using his light-footed skills, but unexpectedly, Baili Yao grabbed his arm.
In this way, Zou Heng couldn't even leave if he wanted to.
"Miss Baili, what kind of behavior is this? Let go!"
"I won't let go, what can you do about it?"
Zou Heng's arm was held in Baili Yao's arms, and soon Zou Heng's face turned red.
"Miss Baili, it would be best to let go. Men and women should not touch each other."
"It's alright, I wouldn't even look at you."
"However... if you want me to let go, then take me to the palace!!!"
When Zou Heng saw Baili Yao raise her head and ask him to bring her into the palace, he immediately refused.
"no"
Why did you refuse without even thinking about it?
Because there's no need to think.
"Zou Heng...you...!!!"
Zou Heng tried several times to pull his arm away, but failed each time because Baili Yao was holding him too tightly.
"Huh—"
"What's wrong with the Nantong Earl's Mansion? It's still brightly lit up late at night."
Baili Yao, clinging to Zou Heng's arm, noticed the lights in Ma Yuling's courtyard and began talking to herself.
Upon hearing Baili Yao's words, Zou Heng also turned to look at the Nantong Earl's Mansion, which was separated from Baili Duwei's Mansion by a separate residence.
Seeing that Zou Heng had also turned to look at her, Baili Yao grabbed Zou Heng's arm with both hands and used her lightness skill to jump down from the roof.
Zou Heng was brought down by Baili Yao. After Zou Heng got down, his eyes were fixed on Baili Yao.
Why are you looking at me like that?
"If you look at me again, I'll gouge your eyes out!!"
Upon hearing Baili Yao's words, Zou Heng turned his head to the side and tried to pull his arm out, but to no avail.
"Miss Baili, if you want to preserve your reputation, you'd better let go quickly."
"I want to go to the palace!!!"
Baili Yao didn't answer Zou Heng's question at all, but instead expressed her own thoughts.
"I can't possibly take you into the palace."
"Why??"
"For no reason"
Zou Heng felt very uncomfortable under Baili Yao's gaze, so he moved a little to the side.
Before Zou Heng could move much, he felt a weight on his body and turned his head in disbelief to look at Baili Yao hanging on him.
"If you don't take me to the palace, I'll just hang on to you like this."
Zou Heng tried to shake her, but Baili Yao still wouldn't get down. Instead, she clung tightly to Zou Heng's neck with both hands and wrapped her legs around his waist.
Zou Heng used his light-footed skill to jump up and down a few more times, but Baili Yao still hadn't gotten off his back, so Zou Heng gave up.
Just standing in the courtyard
Baili Yao lay on Zou Heng's back, seeing that he had stopped moving again and wasn't in a hurry to return to the palace.
Thinking of what Bailizhou had said in Bailizhou's room, he turned his head to look at Zou Heng.
"If you won't take me to the palace now, then tell me how the little princess is doing."
"It's nothing serious."
"Then what?"
Zou Heng said he was alright and then stopped talking. Baili Yao waited for a long time but he didn't come back.
"Hey, that's it? That's all? Why are you so boring?"
After Baili Yao finished speaking, Zou Heng still didn't say anything, so Baili Yao rested her head on Zou Heng's shoulder.
"I'm telling you, you must take me to the palace. I need to see the little princess."
Baili Yao's breath sprayed onto Zou Heng's neck, making him feel ticklish. He wanted to reach out and turn Baili Yao's head away.
But the thought of touching Baili Yao's face made him give up.
After an unknown amount of time, Zou Heng felt the person on his back slowly sliding down, so he immediately reached behind him and hugged Baili Yao's legs.
Right now, Zou Heng is carrying Baili Yao on his back, and Baili Yao is lying on Zou Heng's back.
"Miss Baili?"
Baili Yao did not answer Zou Heng. Instead, she gradually opened her arms around him, so that they were now hanging on his shoulders.
Zou Heng thought Baili Yao might be asleep, so he tried calling her name twice more.
"Miss Baili? Baili Yao?"
Zou Heng is now certain that Baili Yao is asleep, but what's making things even more complicated for him is...
Because Zou Heng didn't know where Baili Yao's room was.
And so, Zou Heng found an empty room and put Baili Yao inside.
Zou Heng carefully placed Baili Yao on the bed, and just as he was about to leave, he remembered that he hadn't covered Baili Yao with a blanket.
He turned around and pulled the blanket at the foot of the bed to cover Baili Yao.
As Zou Heng covered Baili Yao's neck with the blanket, his hand accidentally touched her face. He immediately withdrew it and used his light-footed skill to return to the palace.
After returning to the palace, Zou Heng immediately went to his courtyard, entered his room, and lay down on the bed.
Lying in bed, Zou Heng thought about how Baili Yao had been sleeping on top of him earlier.
Then I remembered how, when I was covering Baili Yao with the blanket, my hand accidentally touched her face, and I was completely wide awake.
So Zou Heng got up again and started practicing martial arts in the courtyard.
When Qin Jingyu and the other two arrived, they saw Zou Heng practicing his punches against a wooden stake in the courtyard.
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After Qin Jue woke up in the morning, he had Feng Feng summoned to the inner hall of Yangxin Hall to take Xiao Xi'er's pulse again.
Feng Feng forced back the urge to yawn, placed a silk handkerchief over Xiao Xi'er's wrist, and began to take her pulse.
"Your Majesty, the princess's pulse is perfectly normal."
"The princess's head injury needs to be carefully tended to."
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