"Lu Siman! Liu Buhui! If you two dare to skip class again, just wait and see! I'll break your legs."
Two children, a boy and a girl, about seven or eight years old, were whispering to each other behind a willow tree in the backyard of the brothel.
"Won't Sister Long'er find out if we hide here?" Liu Buhui said to Siman.
Even at such a young age, one could already see the potential for a stunningly beautiful woman, Lu Siman smiled and said...
“We’re bound to get a beating today. Our parents might not be able to bring themselves to do it, but Sister Long’er definitely will.”
"What should we do then?" the little boy asked, having inherited his father's straightforwardness.
Looking for Grandma?
"Then let's go."
Before the two could take a step, they were lifted up by the collar. Turning around, they saw a girl with her hair tied up in a bun like a female knight, and her hair cascading down her red dress.
The waistband is cinched to the ankle, making it easy to walk without tripping, while the wristbands extend to the upper arm, and a pearl hangs from the waist.
The girl's eyes and brows were beautiful and sharp, possessing the beauty of He Yi, the gaze taught by Cen Ang, and the tender emotions of a hawk.
Her red lips were slightly full, and at this moment, Si Man was almost cheek to cheek with Huo Xiaolong. The little girl said to her sister with a playful smile.
"Sister, your nose is the same height as mine."
The little dumpling from back then looks a bit like a female knight-errant today, but not quite the same.
It was an aura of control and subservience that emanated from the very core of her being. The girl raised an eyebrow, her expression exactly the same as when Cen Ang was angry back then, and she spoke.
"Skipping class? You two young masters and ladies? Huh?"
He said this through gritted teeth, his face practically screaming "I'm so disappointed in you!"
"What about the Qian family's three children?"
Scarface's surname is Qian, and now his triplets are studying at the county school, just like the two kids in the building.
Xiao Siman sensed that the atmosphere was a bit off, so she lowered her head and remained silent, patting her younger brother twice to urge him to continue.
"The three of them helped us skip class, and they should be getting punished now."
"Liu Buhui, how can you be so smug?! You're the one who skipped class! Why are you acting so proud of yourself?"
A sweet female voice came from the wall next to the courtyard.
"Wasn't this what we did a few years ago?"
Huo Xiaolong turned his head and saw Hou Xiangxiang sitting on the wall, dressed in pure white. Miss Hou, who once thought she was a fairy, was finally wearing a fairy-like dress. Fortunately, she was much fairer now and finally had some of that fairy-like temperament.
"Shh!"
Huo Xiaolong told the girl to shut up, saying, "Can't you see I'm scolding the child?"
"You two, copy fifty large characters! Finish them within seven days and hand them in! Then go apologize to Mr. Feng tomorrow, got it?!"
Siman's eyes welled up with tears, trying to soften Huo Xiaolong's heart with this approach. The girl let them both into the building and turned away without looking at them.
This trick doesn't work anymore. I've used it too many times. As long as I can't see it, I'm not bothered.
"Why are you all dressed up so nicely today?" Huo Xiaolong asked Hou Xiangxiang.
"Normally, I just tie my hair up with a hairpin, but today I styled it into a bun and even added a few hair ornaments."
Having said that, the girl went up and pulled out one, playing with it in her hand. Hou Xiangxiang looked up at the sky and said...
"It's all because of my mother. She insisted on taking me and Sister Qiushui to some kind of banquet, saying it was to appreciate the flowers, but it was actually a disguised way of finding a match."
"Oh my, little sister, Aunt Hou still has hope that you'll get married?" Huo Xiaolong asked incredulously.
She didn't mean that Hou Xiangxiang couldn't get married, but rather that Xiaohai'er had been influenced by the women from brothels since childhood, and that she herself had been brainwashing her every day.
She has almost no desire to get married and leave home now.
Who would want to leave a happy and harmonious family? Just because you get married, you have to leave the family that raised you, and then you can't go home except for holidays. What's the point?
Hou Xiangxiang removed all the hair ornaments from her head and placed them in Huo Xiaolong's hand, saying...
"My mother really doesn't want me to get married."
"So she'll take you? Won't that embarrass Xu Qiushui?"
“This year, those successful candidates in the imperial examinations and the provincial examinations have all returned to their hometowns. My mother wants to choose one of them who is well-behaved and obedient, but whose family is not well-off, to be my son-in-law.”
Huo Xiaolong pursed his lips and said
"Is this any different from your father's?"
I don't think so.
The girl in white took out a medical bell from her handbag. A pearl was tied to the top of the bell. She shook it with her jade-like hand, and the bell jingled. This was to inform everyone in the red-light district.
The doctor has gone home. If you have any health problems, you can come and see him.
"When are you going to the mountains?" Hou Xiangxiang asked.
"In a little while, wait for my second sister to come and find us."
"Then I'll go with you."
"You don't have any patients today?"
"It's alright if you have one. Just have my servant register it. If you have an emergency, just go to my master."
Huo Xiaolong nodded. As the two were talking, a girl with a darker complexion and wearing a headband entered through the door. Wang Dani'er no longer knocks on the door, and everyone at Fengyue Tower is used to it.
Since they're all our own kids, let them come. Don't be so formal.
Look at Hou Xiangxiang, when she has nothing to do, she'll turn over in the middle of the night and sit in the back kitchen begging for food.
"Let's go."
The girl's voice was deep, and the large pearl on the rosary was dazzling.
"Hey chuunibyou, isn't that thing on your head a little too eye-catching?"
Wang Dani'er is still dressed in grassland attire, but the pearl on her head is incredibly valuable, so valuable that people would want to snatch it. It contains not only coral and turquoise, but also a large pearl unique to them, which is worth at least two hundred taels of silver.
This chapter is not finished, please click the next page to continue reading!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
