by La Mi Tu
“Don’t, ah! My Cui Zhu yuan, ah! Don’t fight anymore!”
Murong Qi Qi’s wailing continuously transmitted into Murong Xin Lian and Murong Qing Lian’s ears. It was ear-piercing and also let them pay more devotion and wrecked more things.
At the other side, Murong Qi Qi separated Fei Cui and Zhen Zhu with difficulty.
“You two, go persuade them quickly. Let them not fight anymore!”
Murong Qi Qi’s expression looked really pitiful. Her demeanor was also out of place. While looking at Murong Qi Qi, Fei Cui and Zhen Zhu couldn’t help but humph coldly. In their hearts, they thought that third miss was really a good-for-nothing.
“Third miss, the matter of the masters, we, slaves, cannot interfere.”
Fei Cui fiercely glared once at Zhen Zhu and then straightened her clothes and hair.
“You better watch at the side! Swords have no eyes. Be careful not to hurt yourself!”
“But, But if they continue like this, I’m afraid that if daddy knew, he would be angry……”
Murong Qi Qi lowered her head. Her hands were tugging at the handkerchief.
“If he investigates the reason, then you two would also be punished.”
Murong Qi Qi gentle words went into Fei Cui’s and Zhen Zhu’s ears and made them immediately understand.
That’s right, today second miss and fourth miss caused such trouble, Murong Tai would not only rebuke one of the misses, he would only put the blame on them (FC and ZZ). At that time, the ones who would be suffering would be them.
Thinking till there, Fei Cui and Zhen Zhu left Cui Zhu yuan one after another. They hurriedly went to search for savers. The two left in a hurry and didn’t notice the strange smile on Murong Qi Qi’s mouth.
“Su Mei, Su Yue, guard.”
Murong Qi Qi’s sentences were short. Su Mei and Su Yue understood that she was going to give some people a hard time. They immediately looked at the door. Fortunately, Cui Zhu yuan was originally a remote place and there were only them two who were serving. After Fei Cui and Zhen Zhu left, there were only five people here.
Murong Xin Lian and Murong Qing Lian had their hands full of fighting each other, when will they still have the time to bother with Murong Qi Qi? They were even more unaware of the strange atmosphere around them.
“Shh…….”
A slim and sharp sound came out of Murong Qi Qi’s lips. The sound reached Murong Xin Lian and Murong Qing Lian’s ears. The two acted as though they had heard the same command. Their eyes gradually turned red. All the resentment and jealousy they had towards the other seemed like firewood that had encountered a fire. The more it burned, the more intense it became.
“Go……”
Murong Qi Qi smiled. She looked again and the two people’s eyes had resumed clear, but the attacks became more vicious. Every attack was to take the other’s life.
Envy, jealousy and hate, the sources of all evil!
Murong Qi Qi sat in the rocking chair and leisurely watched the fighting Murong Xin Lian and Murong Qing Lian. If you had no resentment in your heart, this opportunity wouldn’t had been given to me. The debt you owe this body, today pay fully for it back!
When Murong Tai rushed over, he hadn’t stepped into Cui Zhu yuan yet when he heard Murong Qi Qi’s pitiful voice: “Second big sister, fourth little sister, don’t fight anymore! We are all sisters, what can we not talk about?! Second big sister, don’t, ah……”
Murong Tai rushed inside. He saw Murong Qi Qi clutching her chest and gasping on the ground and Murong Xin Lian glaring fiercely at Murong Qi Qi.
“Rubbish, don’t need you to intervene! Today, I’m going to kill this bitch! If you keep meddling, I’ll kill you first!”
“Rebel! Everyone is rebelling!”
Seeing his two dishevelled and full of bloodstains daughters, Murong Tai almost couldn’t breath.
He was originally in a meeting with the Li family’s eldest young master, Li Yun Qing. He didn’t expect Fei Cui and Zhen Zhu to rush in at the same time while yelling for help for their misses, making Murong Tai so angry that he almost passed out. Now that he had come to Cui Zhu yuan, saw the wrecked look of the yuan and then, after seeing his two daughters’ sorry figures, Murong Tai became really furious.
“Stop!”
Murong Tai’s left hand grabbed Murong Xin Lian’s whip. His right hand grabbed Murong Qin Lian’s sword. He roared and finally the two stopped fighting.
“Dad!”
When Murong Qing Lian saw Murong Tai, her eyes immediately turned warm and tears fell down.
“Dad, look at my face! I’ve been disfigured by her! You must get justice for daughter, ah!”
Seeing Murong Qing Lian complain, Murong Xin Lian almost vomited blood. She was about to defend herself when she saw Li Yun Qing standing at one side. There was an outsider. Murong Xin Lian immediately put on her normally gentle and virtuous appearance. Delicately and pitifully, she stood to the side. She didn’t defend herself. She just let her big tears fall down.
A genius, ah! Seeing Murong Xin Lian’s ‘virtuous’ appearance, Murong Qi Qi couldn’t help but praise this woman’s acting. If she was in the 21st century, she could even get the Oscar.
If it wasn’t because she needed to act like the miserable third miss who had been kicked at the chest, Murong Qi Qi would’ve grabbed Murong Xin Lian’s hand and awarded her the ‘Best Performance Award’.
“What happened?”
Seeing his two daughters’ sorry figures which were also stained with blood, Murong Tai frowned. His voice was also extremely severe.
He knew that these two daughters didn’t get along with each other. He just saw it as girls’ ‘competition’. It was no big deal. But today, he clearly felt strong murderous intent from the two. This shouldn’t have happened.
“Dad, it’s second big sister who began! She is jealous of me because I reached level four!”
Murong Qing Lian seemed like she didn’t feel Murong Tai’s unhappy heart. Instead, she continued to pull at his hand and acted like a spoiled child.
“Dad, second big sister wounded me. You have to punish her and make her kneel at the shrine!”
Murong Xin Lian clearly felt that Murong Tai was really angry, but she couldn’t be like Murong Qing Lian and throw a tantrum. Murong Qing Lian was a talent at learning martial arts. She was only 14 but had already reached level four. In this country which favored martial arts, she had something to be proud of. Besides, Murong Qing Lian’s mother Liu Yan Zhi gave birth to Murong household’s only male Murong Jun. She had a brother to protect her. That’s why she could speak like this with Murong Tai.
Thinking till there, Murong Xin Lian knelt in front of Murong Tai.
“Dad, it’s daughter’s fault! Daughter originally wanted to play a joke with fourth little sister, but in the end the joke got bigger and bigger and has even alarmed daddy. It’s daughter who is wrong!”
Murong family’s two daughters; one was spoiled, one was gentle. This was the effect that Murong Xin Lian wanted. The more domineering Murong Qing Lian was, the more it showed that she (MXL) was a well-behaved and pleasant person. Even the crowd could see it clearly.
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Yuan: a part of a residence
Chapter 6: Big Cousin Brother And Little Cousin Sister Are Family
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Seeing Murong Xin Lian’s acting, Murong’s Qi Qi’s mouth twitched. This person really was a master at acting. If Murong Qing Lian continued on like this, sooner or later, she would suffer defeat at Murong Xin Lian’s hands.
Murong Qi Qi was watching a play as she clutched her chest. Suddenly, she felt a gaze on her. She raised her head and saw Li Yun Qing.
This man was really beautiful!
Very black hair was hanging lazily behind the ears. A simple bamboo hairpin was in his hair. Dressed in emerald colored clothes that showed this man’s tall stature even more. Looking at those eyes, they were as gentle as the spring breeze in May. Just with one glance, it
could warm a person’s heart.
It was just that gentleness was also a knife. From the gentle eyes of that man, Murong Qi Qi saw the coldness at the bottom of those eyes. Such a man may seem gentle and passionate, but was actually the most ruthless. She must definitely not provoke him.
With just one glance, Murong Qi Qi set Li Yun Qing on the side of never contacting again. Towards such a man who was soft on the surface but cold in the heart, Murong Qi Qi would unconsciously exclude him.
Feeling that Li Yun Qing was looking at her with probing eyes, Murong Qi Qi lowered her eyes, clutched her chest and coughed softly as if that kick really did her some harm.
Murong Qi Qi’s cough broke the play that was just playing. Only now did Murong Tai saw the pale-faced Murong Qi Qi.
Towards this daughter Murong Qi Qi, Murong Tai didn’t have any deep feelings. To Murong Tai, in this life he didn’t have any special regret. When he was young, his career rose meteorically. Later, he married one of the four great families, Li family’s eldest daughter. His worth became double of what it was. Now, he was above ten thousand of people and under one person. His eldest daughter was an Imperial Nobel Consort. So, he was very satisfied.
If Murong Tai had sand in his eyes, the only sand in his eyes was his third daughter Murong Qi Qi. Xi Qi favored martial arts. Be it men or women, young or old, the nobility or the civilians, every one practiced martial arts. Respect came with martial arts. The first emperor, Emperor Gaozu got the world with martial arts. Martial arts was the national soul of Xi Qi. In Xi Qi, no matter if you were rich or poor, if you knew martial arts, you would be respected and you would succeed more easily.
Although Murong Tai was a literary person, he also knew some kungfu. The concubines he married also had some skills; every child born had some good talent in learning martial arts.
Originally, life could continue to be perfect like this, but this abnormal Murong Qi Qi appeared. More directly said, Murong Qi Qi was a rubbish. Since the test she received when she was one year old from a monk who’d concluded that she couldn’t practice martial arts, Murong Tai lost all hope in this daughter. Although she is a woman, she still couldn’t practice martial arts. She was nothing but something to warm the bed. She was just an useless rubbish.
That was why, ever since then, Murong Tai discarded Murong Qi Qi in a remote house and was indifferent towards her. Even knowing that she wouldn’t steal and certainly knowing that there was an ulterior motive, even if she was a legitimate daughter, but what did it matter?
In Murong Tai’s eyes, even raising a dog, the dog would’ve the role of watching the house. And for the one who didn’t have any value to the prime minister, Murong Qi Qi was even inferior to a dog…
Now, Murong Qi Qi who had been sent to Jing Xin An for five years by Murong Tai, had been back for three days. From the moment she came back till now, Murong Tai had not seen this third daughter. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Murong Tai couldn’t help but carefully observe Murong Qi Qi.
Pale skin. Slender eyebrows. The eyes were not big. The bridge of the nose was not high. The lips were not thin nor thick and the color of the lips was somewhat light. She could only be considered a delicate and normal woman.
Murong Tai was a handsome man himself and his wife Li Qiu Shui was one of the beauties. His first daughter, the now Imperial Noble Consort Murong Xue Lian, before she had entered the palace, she’d already been given the name of ‘number one beauty of the capital’. Now his second daughter Murong Xin Lian was being called the number one beauty of the capital. His youngest daughter Murong Qing Lian, although she was young, she was already quite pretty. Even his only son was also handsome. Only Murong Qi Qi seemed to not have inherited their strong points. In this family full of beauties, she could only be considered an ordinary and mediocre grass.
Originally, Murong Tai thought that Murong Qi Qi would change after these five years. After seeing Murong Qi Qi’s looks, the displeasure in his heart welled up again.
To him, this rubbish daughter was like a mole of a beauty on the tip of her nose, spoiling the landscape. She was also like a fish bone in the throat; couldn’t go down but also couldn’t be spit out, really annoying.
“Why are you here?!”
Murong Tai didn’t have any place to vent his anger. Just at the right moment, he saw Murong Qi Qi to vent his anger.
“You just came back, the rumors are already flying outside. Really a good thing that you did!”
Murong Tai didn’t ask for the right or wrong of the matter and just scolded, making Murong Qi Qi feel a lot of ‘grievances’. With Su Yue’s help, Murong Qi Qi cautiously stood at one side. Her head was lowered till her chest and she didn’t say a word. She looked like an innocent little lamb.
“Uncle, this is the place where little cousin lives. Of course, she should be here.”
Just as Murong Qi Qi wanted to continue to pretend to be mute, from one side she heard a voice speaking up for her. Listening to it, it was actually Li Yun Qing.
This person would actually speak up for her? This made Murong Qi Qi very surprised. Although she needed to call Li Yun Qing big cousin brother, but their relationship was just normal. They didn’t get together a lot.
Seeing Li Yun Qing open his mouth, Murong Tai could only smile: “Oh, yes, here is third little girl’s Cui Zhu yuan.”1
Although Li Yun Qing was Li Qiu Shui’s big brother’s son and was a younger generation, Li Yun Qing was the eldest son of Li Kiu, current patriarch of the Li family. In the younger generation, he was considered a talent and also Li family’s future patriarch. Since he had opened his mouth, Murong Tai had to give him face.
“Hadn’t come here for a long time. I actually didn’t know that little cousin sister lived at such a place.”
Li Yun Qing looked once around Cui Zhu yuan. This shabby old place, just with one look, you would know that Murong Qi was not treated well at the prime minister’s.
Usually, Li Yun Qing wouldn’t have spoke to help, but just now he was surprised to see a hint of ‘watching a play’ from Murong Qi Qi’s eyes. This little cousin sister seemed to have changed. So he naturally wouldn’t mind to help.
“As far as I know, little cousin sisterjust came back! Just coming back and outside, there’s already so many rumors. I think someone is jealous that little cousin sister is about to become Jing wangfei2, that’s why they made up those rumors. Uncle, these rumors should have been let out by people of the mansion. I think you should investigate well to see who dared to bully my, Li Yun Qing’s little cousin sister!”
Li Yun Qing’s words had three layers of meanings:
First: Murong Qi Qi had just come back. She didn’t even have a chance to go out. Those rumors were naturally prepared by other people.
Second: the people who had spread these rumors must be jealous that Murong Qi Qi’s fiancé was Jing wang3. This was obviously a slander.
Third: no matter how bad Murong Qi Qi was, her mother is the first wife and Li family’s eldest daughter. Behind her, there was still Li family.
Murong Tai naturally understood the meaning of Li Yun Qing’s words. He didn’t think that Murong Qi Qi would enter Li Yun Qing’s eyes and to also let him protect her like this.
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Yuan: a wing/ part of a residence
Wangfei: main wife/ consort of the prince of first rank
Wang/wangye: the prince of first rank
Chapter 7: Four Women One Drama
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It’s just that here, after all was Murong residence. How he taught his daughter a lesson, Li Yun Qing had no right to intervene.
Thinking till here, Murong Tai’s eyes swept twice over Murong Qi Qi. He didn’t expect that after not seeing her for five years, she had learned to complain. Li Yun Qing saying this, could it be that she had said something in front of Li family?
Seeing Murong Qi Qi maintaining her timid appearance, anger swelled up in Murong Tai’s heart. If it wasn’t because of Li Yun Qing’s presenc
e, he would have kicked this rubbish. Wanted beauty, had no beauty. Wanted ability, had no ability. How did he, Murong Tai, gave birth to such a thing?! It really was a disgrace!
After Murong Xin Lian listened to Li Yun Qing, she was somewhat afraid and thought that the things she’d let Fei Cui do had been discovered. But she waited for a long time – Li Yun Qing didn’t speak and Murong Tai also didn’t pursue the matter. Murong Xin Lian let out a sigh of relief.
It seemed that father really didn’t care about Murong Qi Qi! In the end, rubbish was still rubbish and was no use to the family. No wonder father had turned his back on her!
Before Murong Tai could say which side he stood after Li Yun Qing’s words, they heard a cry that could shook the heaven and earth. Two women dressed in flirtatious clothing cried ‘my child’ one after another and directly charged into Cui Zhu yuan.
“Qing er1, how come your face is like this?”
Liu Yan Zhi shook her head which was full of gold and silver jewelries. She put Murong Qing Lian’s face in front of her.
“Who has such a black heart and used such a hard method, wanting to ruin my child’s face?”
Liu Yan Zhi’s tearful voice just fell, Zheng Min also began to wail: “Xin er, my Xin er, how come you’re hurt like this? The most important thing of a girl is her looks. Who is it that hates your beauty and wanted to destroy you so viciously?! My pitiful Xin er, ah!”
Because these two people came, Cui Zhu yuan became lively. Liu Yan Zhi embraced Murong Qing Lian and came in front of Murong Tai to let him see the traces of whip on Murong Qing Lian’s face.
“Old master, look at our Qing er, ah. She’s someone who needs to attend the tournament of the four countries, ah. Now that she is hurt like this, how could she go see people?!”
Liu Yan Zhi was quite a charming woman. Although she had given birth to two children and was already thirty-six, but her skin was still soft and tender. Her facial features had a completely seductive appearance. While she was wiping her tears away with a handkerchief, she also looked furiously at Murong Xin Lian.