Chapter 7 Second Houses Ruse (2/2)
”I understand.” Su Qingyuan diligently nodded her head at Ning Siyao.
”Yuan'er, you must know that you're someone that will marry the Crown Prince in the future, you're someone who will become the empress.” Ning Siyao looked at Su Qingyuan still smiling.
Listening to Ning Siyao's words, Su Qingyuan blushed, ”your daughter understands.”
”You can leave now.” Ning Siyao said this as she looked to Su Qingyuan, ”Nianxia, escort the first miss out.”
After receiving the orders, Nianxia lead Qingyuan out of the courtyard.
Watching her walking away, Ning Siyao sat down drinking her tea as if she was thinking of something.
”Wei mama, do you have any good ideas?” Ning Siyao looked to the elderly woman standing to the side.
”Madam, they all say the most important thing for a girl is her reputation, if we were to destroy fourth miss's reputation, then when she reaches marriageable age, she will most definitely not be able to marry.” A light flashed through granny Wei's eyes.
Ning Siyao glanced at granny Wei and understood what she meant. She replied, ”Let's hear it.”
”This old servant has a son that works in a brothel, if we can sell the fourth miss into that brothel, I reckon she'd be tortured to death within a month's time.” Granny Wei looked to Ning Siyao with a sly look.
”Good, then I leave this matter to you! After it's done, find someone to dispose of granny Ruo.” Ning Siyao replied ruthlessly.
”Understood”
When Qingyan returned to her own courtyard, all the servant girls were all gathered around looking at something entranced. Seeing them like that, she said with a smile, ”What are you all looking at that's so interesting that no one noticed I've returned.”
”Miss, look, we don't know where it came from but there's a small fox.” Zizhu pointed to the little fox curled up into a ball on top of the stone table with a smile.
”We saw this little guy after we'd finished cleaning this morning.” Baizhi chimed in also with a smile, ”Miss, can we keep this little guy here as a pet?”
Qingyan walked up to the stone table and looked at the small fox laying there, whose entire body was as white as snow. She never thought that in this five year gap that she would meet this little fox again.
She stretched her hand put to stroke it's soft fur and whispered in a low voice, ”Yaoyao”
As if hearing Qingyan's whisper, the little fox opened it's eyes before jumping into Qingyan's arms, rubbing itself on her cheeks.
”Miss, I'd never thought that this little fox would recognize a human master, it could tell with one look that miss is the strongest here.” Lue said this as she smiled at the little fox in Qingyan's arms, ”Though, miss, is this little fox called Yaoyao.”
Qingyan looked to the four of them with the fox in her arms, ”From now on it'll be called Yaoyao.”
She still remembered the day when that person gave her this fox and said with a gentle look:
Blooming peach tree; lustrous flowers; to wed a groom, a harmonious family*.
(*TN: The name of this poem is Taoyao; this is a classical poem from Shijing, the Book of Songs, an early collections of Chinese poems and one of the Five Classics of Confucianism)