Chapter 7: Master Was Being Interrogated (2/2)

He said, with a weird expression upon his face, ”Have you gone to the Triplet Pleasure-boat?”

I couldn't help but applaud for him. He fully knew where I had been to and what I had done by the a simple sniff. The only mistake was that he could not find out where my smell had come from, but I didn't know if it was because he wanted to save my face.

But soon I found that all childes' faces clouded over when hearing the words ”Triplet Pleasure-boat”. The indoor temperature also dropped sharply.

I coughed, ”I went there with Tao the Second Childe.”

They were startled a moment.

”Look!” I took out the fan of Tao the Second Childe from the undersleeves. The habit of picking up things on the sly could not be cast off overnight. ”Lian'er and I got separated in the crowd, and then I run into Tao the Second Childe. And we decided to watch the fun in the Triplet Pleasure-boat as I was hungry.”

They would feel better if I was with Tao the Second Childe. And I was lying. It was only after I entered the Triplet Pleasure-boat that I run into Tao the Second Childe.

But Tang the Third Childe asked, ”Did Tao allow you to eat these greasy meat and fish?”

Violating the basic principles were not allowed, but it didn't matter for minor parts. I confessed honestly, ”I ate it secretly.” I winked at him, and tried to squeeze out a tear or two, ”I'm hungry…”

Tang the Third Childe really had a soft spot for me. He turned soft and couldn't bear to look at me.

”We will know when Tao the Second Childe comes back,” the Fifth Childe said. ”Let her take a bath first to wash away the intolerable smell.”

The Fifth Childe had a very sensitive nose, and he was also a neat freak. So he was the first one who couldn't stand the smell. Other people all agreed. I quickly went back to the room to take a bath as if I was granted a temporary amnesty.

Lina'er rubbed my shoulder with one hand and refilled the bathtub with the other. Our Lian'er was very competent.

Lian'er added water to the bathtub as she ma.s.saged on my shoulder. She was such a considerate girl.

Hardly had I stopped praising her in heart did she begin to exhort, ”Master, you should settle down as you are not so young. Please don't let all childes worry about you anymore. Are you not ashamed? It's difficult to convince the First Childe to let you go out. Do you want to hang out again or not? Do you think you are omnipotent as before? You have to look out for all childes even if you don't think for yourself…”

I listened her nagging and was profoundly scared. What she said really made me sad. ”Lian'er, I'm sorry.”

”Master, you say it all the time, but when can you really get rid of the habit?”

I always had the courage to make an apology, but I shall never make it right. I had many faults.

However, holing up in the small Li Mansion, I was not allowed to eat this nor that. It was so intolerable that even every bone inside me didn't feel well. I complained, ”Do you treat a gyrfalcon as a canary?”

”Hey, don't flatter yourself, Master! A gyrfalcon?” Lian'er slapped me on the shoulder, and I groaned loudly out of pain.

”Please face it, master. What else are you dissatisfied with as there are so many childes feeding you?”

The First Childe was the prime minister. The Second Child was the chief of martial arts circles. The Third Childe was the lord of Tang Sect. The Fourth Childe was the master of Hidden Sect, and the Fifth Childe was a miracle-working doctor. Basically, there should be an ”ex-” before these t.i.tles. They had settled down and retired after marrying me. But when I thought that these great persons called a quit for me, I could not tell if I was captured by them or vice versa?

Well, whatever, I made up my mind to be a good master from tomorrow so as to stop letting my childes worry about me! (Basically, this was the 188th time I had said that.)

I stepped out of the bathtub. When Lian'er unfolded the towel that was as large as the bed sheet, and was about to wrap it around my body, the door was pushed open.

d.a.m.n it. That again?!

What the h.e.l.l was the door for?

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