56 Bad Intention (2/2)

Yao Ling looked at both of the women's expression. One looked so bashful while gripping and twisting her handkerchief tightly. The other one was trying to have Yao Ying to take responsibilities with a smug expression. She looked at her husband face. His heavenly face looked so handsome with his lazy appearance. Indeed, he's very attractive. No wonder other women still tried to gain his attention and snatch him away from her.

She furrowed her eyebrows. When and where did this young lady see Yao Ying? This kind of admiration and plan wouldn't be done in such a short of time. How annoying!

The old woman answered Yao Ying with a loud voice, ”You just touch my young lady's body.”

Yao Ling understood that with her loud voice, this old woman wanted to find as many spectacles as possible to gain sympathy. She turned to Xiao Yu and whispered, ”Go downstairs and prevent anyone to go upstairs. If the woman's voice is too loud and gains some attention, you should go and distract them!”

Xiao Yu nodded in understanding and quickly went downstairs. Fortunately, the previous talking wasn't done in a loud voice. At downstairs, Xiao Yu could see some people seemed to hear the last part and it piqued their curiosity. She cleverly gave a signal to other shopkeepers. They quickly served each one of the curious customers and led them away from the stairs, then Xiao Yu decided to guard the stairs.

Back to Yao Ying's office, the old woman still waited for Yao Ying's reply. However, the only expression she got from the young man was only indifference. She felt panicked. This wasn't supposed to happen! Her young lady was known to be quite a beauty and this young man was supposed to be entranced by her!

She actually didn't like the idea of throwing her young miss to a man's arm. However, her young miss said that she had already set her heart to this young man. It was love at first sight and it became the wishful dream of her young miss' heart. If her young miss didn't beg and cry to her all the time, she wouldn't think of this plan! She felt a headache because of it. This young man used to be only a peasant, why did her young miss regard him that highly?

Yao Ying and Yao Ling could see the conflicted expression on the old woman's face. Yao Ying snickered and said, ”How can you say that your young lady was touched by me? She was the one who threw herself at me just now.” Yao Ying knew that Xiao Yu already guarded the stairs, so he didn't want to give them any face. He just wanted to put them on their place.

The young girl's face paled. She didn't think that this beautiful man -who kept haunting her dream- wasn't charmed by her. She always proud of her look, but this time, she felt humiliated. She bit her lower lips in distress, ”How can you say that, Yao Ying gong zi?” Then she turned to Yao Ling, ”Mei mei, just now… didn't you also see how I was on top of him?”

”Mei mei? Young Lady, I don't even know your name. We are not that familiar. How could you call me mei mei?” Yao Ling put a boundary between them. They weren't close to each other and yet… she tried to gain her pity. Was she crazy? Who would want to get closer with a fox who wanted to take her husband away? Tsk! She wasn't that nice.

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[1]. Half shichen is approximately one hour in modern time.