bayedsolid Chapter 142: Marquis of Anyang
Chapter 142: Marquis of Anyang
"Ha! You weaklings, you still want to attack me!"
Lin Xi sneered, crossed his arms, and looked at the slender maids with disdain.
When the maids heard her laughter, their faces darkened, they quickened their pace and rushed towards her!
Lin Xi didn't even bother to attack them. He just dodged and those maids missed and fell to the ground!
"Useless things! Are you guys just watching the show? Why don't you take action!"
The girl first glared at the maids on the ground, then twisted her face and yelled in dissatisfaction at the guards behind her.
"Miss, the master has ordered his subordinates not to cause trouble to this girl. We are about to set off, so you should go back quickly!"
Hearing the guard's words, the girl stomped her feet in anger, rushed to Lin Xi with gritted teeth, and raised her hand to hit her in the face!
"Siluo! What are you doing? Stop it!"
A middle-aged man in fancy clothes hurried to the girl named Siruo and grabbed her raised hand.
Then he scolded several maids, "Why don't you take the young lady back to the carriage? Leave for Beijing immediately!"
Then he bowed his hands and apologized to Lin Xi: "Miss, I'm sorry, my daughter has been spoiled by me, and I frightened her. Please don't be angry with her!"
Lin Xi looked at the middle-aged man with an apologetic look on his face and raised his eyebrows in surprise.
At this time, several maids hurriedly got up and nervously pulled the young lady away.
Si Ruo broke free from the maid's hand and cried to the middle-aged man in grievance: "Daddy, am I still your daughter? It would be fine if you didn't help me, but why do you favor an outsider!"
"Shut up! Get back in the carriage!"
The middle-aged man scolded her, then bowed to Lin Xi and said, "I am not a good parent and I made a fool of myself. Goodbye!"
After saying this, he personally dragged the young lady named Siruo away, and several maids and guards quickly followed.
Lin Xi looked at a group of people quickly disappearing in front of him and shook his head speechlessly. It was really incomprehensible!
"Master, this is the man who secretly looked at Master's mother that day!"
Xiaobai looked at the middle-aged man's back and said to Lin Xi.
Lin Xi looked at the direction they left and narrowed his eyes. Could he be an old acquaintance of his mother?
Mother had never told them, her siblings, about her identity and her past. It seemed that they had to find some time to have a good talk with her.
She would not allow anyone to destroy their happy and comfortable life.
"Dad, I don't understand why you are so polite to that bitch. She even dared to slap me in the face with her shoe in the jewelry store. When has I ever been treated like this before? Why don't you allow me to take revenge?"
In the carriage, Siruo was so angry that smoke was coming out of her head. She cried hysterically at the middle-aged man.
"Shut up, look at what you look like now, do you have any manners?"
The middle-aged man reprimanded with a sullen face. Seeing that his daughter still looked unconvinced, he continued, "I have asked the guards to investigate. It was you who first tried to snatch the hairpin that the mother and daughter bought, and then you spoke foul language, so the girl taught you a lesson. Look at the broken ribs of the guards. The girl only hit you once, which was already a mercy for you. How dare you go looking for trouble with her?"
Why is this daughter so confused?
The middle-aged man shook his head in disappointment and said, "Think carefully about where you went wrong in the carriage, and reflect on your mistakes behind closed doors for a month after returning to Beijing!"
Then he lifted the curtain and jumped out of the carriage.
After he returned to his carriage, he took out a wooden figurine from his arms, stroked it gently with his hands, and fell into reminiscence.
He and Cao Zhu grew up together and had a very good relationship. Cao Zhu's mother passed away after giving birth to a younger sister for him.
Cao Zhu loves his sister very much as she lost her mother since birth. He always likes to hold his sister in his arms and show off to her: Look how cute and well-behaved my sister is!
He had no younger sister, so he was very envious of Cao Zhu. He would always touch Fang Ruo's rosy little face secretly when he wasn't paying attention. The little girl loved to laugh, and at this time, she would always open her little mouth, showing him her little white teeth, and her big eyes would bend into little crescents when she laughed!
He would give Fangruo any fun things he had. When he saw her smiling happily, his heart felt as sweet as honey and he was very satisfied.
In this way, they grew up slowly, and she unknowingly took root in his heart.
As a foreign man, he could no longer meet her as frequently as they did when they were children. Every time he would ask about her recent situation from his good friend Cao Zhu.
When he heard his friend praising his sister for being so amazing, having a photographic memory and being better than him in military exercises, he imagined her smiling with joy after she won the match against his friend.
As he grew older, his father and mother began to arrange marriages for him, but he found all kinds of excuses to ruin them all. Finally, when she grew up and reached marriageable age, he would go on to marry her.
He pestered Cao Zhu, listing in detail the benefits of his sister marrying him, and finally convinced Cao Zhu to agree to facilitate his marriage with Fang Ruo.
He happily ran back home like a bird and told his father and mother that he wanted to marry the eldest daughter of the Cao family. Seeing that he finally agreed to marry, his father and mother were so happy that they immediately prepared generous gifts and went to the Cao Mansion to propose marriage.
Soon, the marriage was settled, and he was so happy that day!
On the second day, his good friend Cao Zhu received an imperial edict ordering him to go into battle and kill the enemy.
Fang Ruo hopes to wait until her brother comes back before holding an engagement party with him, and he will naturally let her do whatever she wants.
But no one expected that someone from Cao's residence would later come with the news that Fang Ruo had accidentally fallen off a cliff and died!
How could she die like this? He went crazy, searching Sunset Mountain day and night, losing weight at a visible speed, and became mentally confused. His father had no choice but to bring people to knock him out and bring him back home.
In the next few days, he was like a walking corpse until he learned that his good friend Cao Zhu had returned from the military camp. He was anxious to see him, but got the news that the emperor had issued an order to force him to return to the military camp.
Thinking that she loved her brother as much as her life, and now that she is gone, he will take care of her brother for her.
So, over the years, he worked hard and successfully inherited the position after his father passed away. He helped his friends in the court and did business secretly. He secretly used all the money he earned to subsidize Cao Zhu's army.
The emperor is incompetent. Not only has he not delivered food and fodder to the soldiers for a long time, but some time ago, he also scolded his good friends and several generals who had made great contributions to Daxia. This time he came to Qingyun County in person to deliver food to Cao Zhu and to visit and comfort him.