Chapter 222 - Feng Yi Xuan Abusing Power for Private Interest (1/2)

Lan You Nian wanted to return to the capital with Feng Yi Xuan earlier because Feng Xia Qi them already sent a letter saying he and Yue Bai Lian’s wedding was in the next few days. Lan You Nian thought if they hurried on the road and go back early, they’d be able to attend their wedding. It’s a pity that Lan You Nian’s monthly poison relapsed came upon them.

Feng Yi Xuan was unwilling to bear Lan You Nian hurrying on the road while she’s weak and being tormented by poison. Thus, he wrote a letter to Feng Xia Qi to tell him the reason. Feng Xia Qi and Yue Bai Lian expressed they understood. After all, the health of Lan You Nian’s body was most important. Feng Xia Qi and Yue Bai Lian didn’t want to see Lan You Nian during their wedding ceremony, because it will only make them feel sorrow, because the girl they loved wasn’t theirs.

After Lan You Nian protested several times and was kissed breathless by Feng Yi Xuan, she could only obediently stay and rest in Jiangnan’s courtyard. Lan You Nian didn’t feel any pain from this poison relapse but her entire body was extremely frail. Her internal energy has nearly almost dispersed. She felt weak doing anything. But in comparison to before, she was much happier.

These days she’s suffering from poison, she relished in Feng Yi Xuan’s constant concern. If she was to go anywhere, she was carried there. If she wanted to eat, she was fed. If she wanted something, she only had to reach out her hand. Lan You Nian didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Feng Yi Xuan completely regarded her as a newly born babe as he took care of her. More importantly, Feng Yi Xuan enjoyed such a life, eager to take care of Lan You Nian everyday, not feeling annoyed at all.

After a day of poison relapse and two day’s rest, Lan You Nian finally ran out of the courtyard while Feng Yi Xuan was handling his duties.

“Hu, finally escaped!” Lan You Nian wore a veil as she stood on the streets of Jiangnan, sighing out loud. The last few days she was forced to shack up in the courtyard by Feng Yi Xuan. Though she wasn’t bothered, Lan You Nian didn’t like this weak feeling. Now she was feeling much better, Lan You Nian naturally wanted to walk around in Jiangnan.

Lan Qu and Lan Wu followed behind Lan You Nian giggling, “Young miss don’t be like this. If Ming wang was to know, how much would his heart ache?”

“Yeah, even we can’t compare to Ming wang’s care for young miss these last few days. He practically holds you in the palm of his hand!” Lan Wu said. Even though they were young miss’s maidservant, their care for young miss wasn’t so meticulous.

Lan You Nian stopped her footsteps and looked at the two of them, “What? Do you want to tattletale on me to Xuan? Want to betray me?”

Lan Wu and Lan Qu shared a look and snickered. Lan Qu said, “We don’t dare. We are happy for young miss. Seeing Ming wang treating young miss so well, we are happy as well. In the past, Lan Wu and I were quite worried concerning Ming wang.”

Lan You Nian smiled wordlessly. She knew Feng Yi Xuan’s customary cold face and brutal reputation was quite alarming. Lan You Nian wasn’t dissatisfied with Feng Yi Xuan’s reputation, for such a reputation made many women shrink back at the sight of him. Lan You Nian didn’t want there to be a lot of women wanting to enter Ming wang manor. Though Feng Yi Xuan wouldn’t do so, no one wants to bring vexation to themselves, right?

“In a few days, we’ll be returning to the capital. If there’s something you like, buy it!” Lan You Nian said scanning the merchant shops on the sides of the streets. Many little knickknacks made in Jiangnan were very beautiful. Lan You Nian was going to buy some to give out as gifts to friends in the capital.

Hearing this, Lan Qu and Lan Wu were overjoyed. The saying that women all liked going shopping was not said incorrectly. Though Lan Wu and Lan Qu were maidservants, they weren’t any different from young ladies of prominent families. Hence, they followed their young miss in shopping. When they saw something they liked, they would buy it.

“Lan Qu, why are you buying these for?” Lan You Nian asked curiously when she saw Lan Qu buy satin cloths and such things. Lan You Nian has never seen Lan Qu taking these things.

Lan Qu put the things in the carriage that followed them, slightly embarrassed as she muttered, “Lan Ren’s shoes are a little worn. I’m going to make him a new pair!” Though she and Lan Ren couldn’t have children, their feelings were sincere towards each other. As such, Lan Qu felt very happy.

“Can’t they be bought? It would be so bothersome making it yourself!” Lan Wu picked up those satin fabrics, saying. She and Lan Qu only ever made things for young miss, since many things young miss needed were in a class by itself and can’t be bought.

Lan Qu smiled, continuing to buy some other things, “Though the ones that are sold are pretty good, I am now Lan Ren’s wife. Of course I should make some clothes and shoes and such things for him. This is a wife’s responsibility. When you’re married, you’ll understand!”

Lan Wu wanted to refute, but remembering she hasn’t married, she wasn’t in the position to say anything.

“So it’s like this? Then do you think I should make some clothes and shoes for Xuan?” Lan You Nian considered it. Feng Yi Xuan did so much for her, even making the monthly pads that the men in the world avoided like the plague. Shouldn’t she do something for Feng Yi Xuan?

“Don’t!” Lan Wu and Lan Qu hastily stopped her, “Ming wang cherishes you so much. If you do these things, Ming wang will be distressed. Besides, these needlework hurts the eyes. If young miss wants to make clothes or such for Ming wang, young miss can draw it and we’ll make it!”

It wasn’t that Lan Qu and Lan Wu were to excited but that, though young miss was skilled in both martial and scholarly pursuits, as a woman, her needlework was really unbearable to look at. Lan Qu and Lan Wu both have seen it once and didn’t wish to see it a second time, fearing it will be a blow to young miss’s self-confidence.

How could Lan You Nian not know of Lan Wu and Lan Qu’s thoughts? On a whim, she wanted to embroider a handkerchief, but in the end, besides being able to embroider spider lilies that were lifelike, other things she embroidered looked as if they’ve been gnawed on by dogs. When Lan Wu and Lan Qu saw the things she embroidered, they laughed out madly.

“Alright, I was only saying it!” Lan You Nian helplessly spread her hands. Inside, she still wished to embroider something for Feng Yi Xuan. As a man, Feng Yi Xuan was able to personally carve a hairpin for her; she should make a personal item for Feng Yi Xuan as any ordinary woman would.

The three of them entered a jade shop. Lan You Nian strolled around and took a fancy to a transparent green bracelet, feeling it wouldn’t be bad to give it to Hua Mu Qing. Just as she was about to have the shop owner package it up, a voice snapped, “Shop owner, wrap that bracelet up for this young miss!”

Lan You Nian lifted her head and looked over. She saw Qian Jing Han standing at the doors of the shop, pointing at the bracelet in her hands as she spoke, her attitude overbearing and didn’t allow for refusal. Lan You Nian glanced at the bracelet in her hand that wasn’t particularly good. She only thought to buy it on a whim, so she nonchalantly put it down, not wanting to fight over it, for in a few days they were going to return to the capital.