Chapter 392 - Feng Yuxuans Imaginary Enemy (2/2)
“Thank you for your favor. But my father is too stubborn. If I fail to bring credit to my family and get any official rank this time, perhaps he will lock me in the home forever. But it is good anyway. I will try my best to go out at your disposal. If I can get any official rank through the imperial examination, I can a.s.sist you in a right and proper way.” Qin Yufeng’s words showed his consideration for Feng Yuxuan.
Although the Number One Scholar was not at a high rank and even could not be a great official compared to those really influential officials, the Scholar was admired by all the scholars in the world and served as an example for them. What he said carried a lot of weight among scholars. In the past, Feng Yulei enjoyed the virtuous reputation because he used the scholar. In this regard, if Qin Yufeng could become the Number One Scholar and spoke for Feng Yuxuan before the scholars, it would yield twice the result with half the effort.
“However, will Qin Yufeng lie to me?” Feng Yuxuan thought.
“Your Highness, there is no other way out actually. I was also framed up! If it had not been for that… So, we have to meet trick with trick now. If I am not around you, others may relax their vigilance.” Qin Yufeng sighed, as if depression piled up in his heart. He frowned, took a gulp from the teacup and put it down. “It was my fault that I was too careless and fell into the trap at that time!”
He was talking about the uproar that the woman came to Qin Manor and made last time. Although the thing was appeased, Qin Yufeng who was an upright gentleman was described as having some affairs with the woman. However, it could not be explained clearly, just like a dyed white cloth. No matter how hard one wiped, the cloth could not be as pure as before.
But if one really needed to get the bottom of the thing, Qin Yufeng encountered the undeserved misfortune for Feng Yuxuan.
Feng Yuxuan softened the stern look in his eyes and put down the teacup on the table steadily. He said in a gentle and apologetic voice, “It was because of King Yan’s dirty tricks that Yufeng was set up. I really did not expect that King Yan could have so powerful men. And I also got serious injured at that time.”
As Feng Yuxuan said, his face got darkened and his eyes flashed with cruelty.
This was Feng Yuxuan’s biggest secret right now. Even if he had a good relations.h.i.+p with Qin Yufeng, he always mentioned it appropriately. Judging from the appearance, Feng Yuxuan was still the King with graceful bearing and his arms were the same as ordinary people. But only a few people knew that his arms were badly injured. Even until now, he was just able to pick up some light things like chopsticks, and even for a book, he could not take it for a long time.
In a word, Feng Yuxuan’s hands were actually disabled and could not be recovered, because the tendons under the arms were broken. If the Emperor knew it, Feng Yuxuan was utterly deprived of the chance to fight for the throne. Based on the rules for being the Emperor in the Qin Kingdom, the candidate for the Emperor was at least a sound and healthy prince.
Thinking of this, Feng Yuxuan gritted his teeth with hatred. Until now, he had not found out who hurt him, but he mainly suspected Feng Yulei and Feng Yuzhen. Well, just to be sure, he did not exclude the possibility of Feng Yuran, though it was not so possible. The a.s.sa.s.sin was so vicious that he could find out Feng Yuxuan’s deepest tendon in a blink and made the arms unable to get effective treatment instantly.
After coming out of the King Chu’s Manor, Qin Yufeng went to a bookshop, just beside the one where he met with Mo Xuetong last time. He came into the bookshop and scanned some books for the imperial examination, and found some light readings about anecdotes and strange things before he came out.
A carriage pa.s.sed in front of him. The wind heaved up the corner of the curtain, and a delicate and pink face was seen inside. Her skin was smooth and fair with a lovely face enough to cause the downfall of a country. She seemed to see him, raised her eyes and gave him a faint smile like spring water. She was really an unusual and quite individual beauty. The wind blew away and the curtain fell to cover her gorgeous appearance.
There seemed to be a sigh spreading in his heart. He felt too painful to breathe. If those dreams were true, his life could continue on her life, and he owed her in his last life, so this life, he would give her back.
Mo Xuetong also saw Qin Yufeng, but because she had something urgent, she just pa.s.sed by with a smile. In the last life, she had lived in the shadow of Qin Yufeng. In this life, she had no intersection with Qin Yufeng. If she had not seen clearly that he always stood behind Mo Xuetong, she would have almost regarded him as an ordinary person in this life!
“My Lady, will you really go to the subsidiary manor? But His Highness asks you to have a good rest and not to run here and there.” Mo Lan took out a few snacks from the cupboard in the carriage, served them on the table and asked worriedly.
Although King Xuan had added more secret guards around the Lady, Mo Lan still felt worried.
“If I don’t go out today, the rumor that I have been captured will become truth. So whether I am busy today, I should come out.” Mo Xuetong answered with a soft smile. Although yesterday Feng Yue said the one who had been taken away was the Lady’s maidservant, someone with evil intention implied that it was Mo Xuetong who had been taken away in fact.
So if Mo Xuetong did not show up today, no one knew what the rumor would become tomorrow!
“My Lady, you just need to hang out on the street. Why do you bother to go…” Mo Lan asked with puzzlement. The two so-called cousins were really annoying and came to the Manor almost routinely. After being scolded by the King, they would like to invite the Lady to go to the subsidiary yard.
Mo Lan was afraid that the two would cause trouble again, so she could not set her mind at rest.
“It’s okay, don’t worry about them. They still need our help, so do not dare to do harm to us.” Mo Xuetong answered slowly, as she smiled with an easy look on her beautiful little face.
“What do they want to get from you, My Lady? Do they have the pipe dream to enter the manor?” Mo Lan did not understand. Since the King’s disgust to them was so obvious and merciless, would they still bear the thought to attach themselves to the great? As for Feng Yuran, Mo Xuetong’s maidservants became more and more satisfied.
Since the Lady married into the manor, all the people could see how well the King treated her. Although it was said that there were a number of women in the back garden, fortunately, the King did not allow those women to disturb the Lady, even to serve the tea. His action showed that those women could not even be concubines. To deal with those women who were not concubines, the Lady, as the legitimate wife, had the right to beat or sell them, equal to common servants.
A bare word from the Lady could decide their being beat or sold!
Seeing the King’s so deep love for Mo Xuetong, Mo Xuetong’s several maidservants could not help thanking the Buddha and thought their miss could finally reap the rewards and lead a happy life. Therefore, when they discovered the two sisters of the He family had some special ideas for Feng Yuran, the maidservants had a low opinion of them two and always blocked their ways of getting close to Feng Yuran.
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