Chapter 3.2 So That’s What It Was (1/2)

Before Yin Hanjiang could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a woman, who was wearing a thin white dress, with a lute in her arms, walking up to the second floor while singing and playing the lute.

Wen Renhe: “…”

Yin Hanjiang: “…”

This woman was actually Shu Yanyan. They were used to her wearing revealing clothing and just couldn’t get used to this new woeful look, as if she was a little white lotus trembling in the wind.

There were quite a number of guests sitting on the second floor. Shu Yanyan was a singer at the tea house and began selling flowers once she finished a song.

She had taken the path of being self-reliant and independent. She did not charge for singing, but she would start selling flowers after her performance. The income from selling flowers would still be split between her and the owner of the teahouse, whereby seventy percent would go to the owner of the teahouse and the remaining thirty would go to her. It was indeed very pitiful.

Ren Wenhe held twelve silver taels between his fingers and casually them into the flower basket that was right in front of Shu Yanyan. With her basket in hand, she walked slowly to Wen Renhe and whispered, “This guest, this little lady doesn’t sing for a living, but does sell flowers. A basket of flowers only costs ten copper coins. You don’t need to spend so much money.”

There were ten baskets of flowers at her feet. After selling all of them and passing the boss his share, she would only be left with 30 copper coins for herself. She would only be able to have some meat to eat after saving up for half a month, whereas for the rest of the days, she would have to spend them eating only steamed buns.

Wen Renhe did not turn to look at Shu Yanyan, but he squinted his eyes at Yin Hanjiang and whispered, “Call me big brother.”

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Yin Hanjiang looked dazed like he was still dreaming. Following the script given to him by Wen Renhe, he recited the lines emotionlessly, “My L…. My big brother told you to accept it, so you’ll accept it. Don’t be so unappreciative of others!”

The moment the words “big brother” came out of Yin Hanjing’s mouth, his ears became all red.

“Thank you both for your kindness, but I shouldn’t take your money. This little lady won’t accept it.” Shu Yanyan extended her long, cold fingers to take out the silver from her flower basket, placed it on the table and then politely bid them goodbye.

Technically, Wen Renhe could have thrown the silver back into Shu Yanyan’s lapel saying, “If you dare to take the taels out in front of everyone, I will take it back,” and make her cry helplessly at the tea house. However, this was not his forte and Yin Hanjiang was not interested in doing so. Hence, they could only drink tea in silence, ignoring Shu Yanyan.

When Shu Yanyan saw that they did not react, she became a little anxious. If they were not going to bully her, then how was she supposed to continue acting? She had already made arrangements for her subordinates to act out this play. Who would have thought that her Lord had come to watch the show, so she ordered her subordinates to wait for her orders and passed the highlight of the show to her Lord to perform.

She thought that men were scoundrels by nature. To act in such a show, wasn’t it pleasurable for them? Who would have thought that her Lord was not like that at all and had no interest in bullying the weak.

Weren’t they practising the devil path? Wasn’t it good to do something that the devil path should do?

Shu Yanyan noticed that both He Wenchao and Baili Qingmiao had arrived at the teahouse. Even the audience had arrived, yet the stage had not been set up. This would not do. She was so anxious that she blinked crazily at her Lord, to the extent that her wonderful eyes became glassy.

“You go for it,” Wen Renhe secretly transmitted a message to Yin Hanjiang.

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He decided to give more orders to Yin Hanjiang in the future, so as to prevent him from feeling that “the Lord doesn’t need me anymore, so I can just die”.

Yin Hanjiang recalled the script given by Shu Yanyan and upon hearing his Lord’s command, he looked blankly at the beautiful Shu Yanyan. He…. had to pull apart Shu Yanyan’s clothes and shove the silver taels to her chest? And do it in front of his Lord?

He was in a very difficult position, but this was his Lord’s command!

“You can decide for yourself. You don’t have to care about Shu Yanyan’s plan,” Wen Renhe transmitted his instructions when he noticed Yin Hanjiang’s distress.

With Wen Renhe’s permission, Yin Hanjiang’s expression relaxed immediately and he said coldly, “Since you don’t know how to be grateful, then don’t blame me for being rude.”

With that, he picked up Shu Yanyan with one hand and threw her from the second floor, right in front of He Wenchao and Baili Qingmiao.

Shu Yanyan: “…”

He Wenchao noticed a figure falling from the sky and wanted to help, but Baili Qingmiao was right by his side. He had just quarrelled with Baili Qingmiao about the incident with junior martial sister Liu from Shangqing Sect, so he didn’t want to make her angry again. Hence, even if he noticed that the figure was a woman whose face he couldn’t see, he still didn’t make a move.

Instead, it was Baili Qingmiao who flew forward to save the person, when she saw someone falling from the second floor. Shu Yanyan’s plan went to pieces, but no matter what, she could not let Baili Qingmiao rescue her. If a rescuing was to take place, it should be He Wenchao embracing other women right in front of Baili Qingmiao!

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As a result, Shu Yanyan made up her mind and used her Qi to speed up. She had to forcefully make herself fall before Baili Qingmiao could even touch the edge of her clothes. She had also deliberately used her Qi to hurt herself, pretending to have been seriously injured from her fall.

Baili Qingmiao could only catch a piece of white cloth before she noticed that the weak woman had already fallen heavily on the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

She landed down, half knelt in front of the woman to help her up, and said worriedly, “Lady, are you alright?”

When she turned her face around, it unexpectedly turned out to be an acquaintance. Baili QingMiao gasped, “Lady Shu?”

He Wenchao arrived late and saw that poor lady who had been saved just several days ago. He still had a soft spot for her and regretted in his heart that he hadn’t been able to save her in time.

Using the alias name of Shu Lian, Shu Yanyan was pulled into a half hug by Baili Qingmiao. She shed a tear in her heart. It shouldn’t be like this!

According to her script, she should be bullied by the guests, so that He Wenchao would not be able to stand by and watch. Then, he would come forward to help her and remove his robe to place it on the weak Shu Yanyan, whose clothes were disheveled. When Baili Qingmiao saw that she was wearing her sweetheart’s clothes, she would be blinded by jealousy and start an argument with He Wenchao. This would push He Wenchao to her side and he would then send her home. When he saw her shedding tears, he would hug her in order to comfort her. One thing would then lead to another and wouldn’t it be as easy as that? Men, ah!

Why did it turn out like this?