11 The arrival of Yu Xiang (2/2)

Looking at his daughter's demeanor and saw nothing's amiss, Liu Sheng Xiao released a breath of relief before saying, ”Bai Chen already told me what happened outside and since everything's alright, you should get back to the fu first.”

”You're not coming with us?” Jiao Yu said.

”No, it's just that there's some matters I need to finish before going back.”

Jiao Yu just stared at him, not speaking. Seeing that his daughter seemed to want to know more Liu Sheng Xiao said, ”It's nothing to worry about.” Turning towards Jing Chu, he said, ”Jing Chu make sure your young miss gets to the fu safe and warm, and also do not let anyone inside without permission.”

”Yes, master.” Jing Chu monotonously said.

Before turning to leave Liu Sheng Xiao told Jiao Yu to be safe and she nodded to him in return.

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The celebration for the qinwang's birthday have finished grandiosely and with little complications. Figures after figures of people walked out of its huge front gate and headed back to their own fu and some officials went directly to the court.

The servant and maids inside the qinwang's fu busied themselves; cleaning, throwing away the trashes, and bidding farewell to the remaining guests. However, in the Eastern courtyard of the Qinwang's fu, the servants and maid stationed there were tensed but most of them were excited to see the Young Prime Minister pay a visit.

Later, two figures passed the crescent entrance of the Eastern courtyard. One of them was the Chief servant of the qinwang's fu, Yi Mou. The other one was a tall young man wearing dark blue with white thread linings. Two oblique flying handsome long brows, tall nose, thin lips lightly hooking up and the smile looked slightly evil. His handsomeness was somewhat overbearing and was clearly callous, but he unexpectedly had a pair of bright peach shaped eyes. When looking at others, they were passionate and resembled uprightness, having the delusion of a touch of gentleness.

The female servants and maids felt their chest squeeze and hard to breath as they held each other from falling against the stone cold ground. Some of the male servants gasped aloud and couldn't take their eyes off the tall young man. It was spread around the whole Jing capital that the young Prime Minister was the epitome of a beautiful man, causing many men to feel contempt and mocked him for that. They also doubted that the young Prime Minister was able to achieve all his accomplishment without the favor of others by using his face and probably he was able to captivate the emperor with the same weapon.

But who would've known that after seeing the person in person, one would also feel astonished and bewitched at his beauty. Some of the male servant immediately thought that, so what if there's tons of female servants in front of them, compared to the man in front, they don't care if they were considered as 'cut sleeves'.

(Cut Sleeves- meaning 'gay' and was derived from a story of an emperor who cut his sleeves to not wake his sleeping male lover to go to the morning court.) - ;) Gosh so sweet of him!~

Yu Jie Xing stood outside of a red cinnabar door and only went iin after Yi Mou announced his arrival to the person inside.

Upon entering inside, Yu Jie Xing instantly detected a whiff of minty scent from around the room. Then with haste, he sat down to the chair unoccupied in front of the Qinwang, who was sitting erectly on his chair.

”I apologize to wang ye for paying a visit so suddenly.” Yu Jie Xing solemnly said.

”No need to be sorry, this old one should be the one who's sorry for taking Yu Xiang's time.” Zhao Gao politely said and spoke again, ”Since Yu Xiang came here so suddenly, this old one won't lie to you and say that I expect that there's some good news you've gathered, right?”

”There's none at this moment, but I was able to find an inkling to the whereabouts of wang ye's grandson.” After pausing, Yu Jie Xing continued, ”But the location is still uncertain and needed to be checked.”

”Check and check, do what you want for as long as Yu Xiang can get my grandson back.” Zhao Gao drunk the remaining tea in his cup before saying promptly, ”Naturally, after this old one's grandson is secured and got back to our fu, I will give tens of thousands of golds for remuneration.”

Yu Jie Xing's brow was raised and the corner of his lips hooked up, ”No need for tens of thousands of golds for I don't need it and was never lacking of it either.”

Clearing his throat, Zhao Gao awkwardly looked towards the young man in front of him. He secretly praised the youth's arrogance and thanked that his unmarried daughters and granddaughters were not here to budge him to get them married over.

”Then, what does Yu Xiang wants for payment?”

”Just an information on something.” Yu Jie Xing plainly said.

Zhao Gao was stunned and carefully said, ”I will try to look for what information Yu Xiang wants but this old one might not have what you wanted, so I'll apologize first.”

”Since it's like that then, I'll just let wang ye know that the information I want to have concerns an incident happened in a small village called Xiangli three years ago.”