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Du Xiao Li looked to the already much better Meng Bo Wen and said, "This isn't a problem, however Xiao Li has a small request."
"The medical fees naturally won't be lacking." Madam Meng thought that Du Xiao Li wanted to say this and spoke first.
Du Xiao Li shook her head and said, "My request isn't this, but rather wanted to ask grandpa Meng and you all to help me keep this a secret and don't let my medical skills be known to others."
"Just this?" Madam Meng asked.
Du Xiao Li nodded, looked to Meng Bo Wen and sweetly smiled, "Grandpa Meng will help Xiao Li keep this secret, right?"
Seeing Du Xiao Li's appearance, Meng Bo Wen stroked his beard and loudly laughed out, "Fine, I'll help you keep this secret."
"Thank you grandpa Meng." Du Xiao Li said with a smile.
"Then if there's something, where will we go to find you?" Madam Meng asked.
"I also don't know where is where." Du Xiao Li had never came to the capital before, so she didn't know where Du Yun Han's old lair was either. She turned around and shouted towards her own ranks, "Chang Feng."
Chang Feng walked over and said, "Miss."
"Where's my father's old lair?" Du Xiao Li asked.
-----eh, old lair!
Chang Feng felt a cold sweat dripping from the back of his head, replying: "Directly say Right Prime Minister Du Manor, the entire capital all knows."
"Oh, I actually forgot!" Du Xiao Li was still thinking of how like in her past life they needed to know which street and which road to find someone, and forgot that her father now was also a famous person. His residence, everyone probably all knows.
"Aunty Meng, if there's anything, you all can send someone to the Prime Minister Du Manor to find me." Du Xiao Li turned and said to Madam Meng.
"So it's Prime Minister Du's children. As expected, not bad. Then we'll be going first. Later, when you're free, come visit this old man, understand? Xiu Heng you also come." Meng Bo Wen had always quite admired Du Xiao Li and Du Xiu Heng. Hearing they were Du Yun Han's children, he wasn't too shocked either and bid them farewell with a smile.
"Hehe, when we have time, we'll go visit you all. Grandpa Meng, Grandma Meng, Aunty Meng, goodbye!" Du Xiao Li and Du Xiu Heng said, afterwards retreated out of the way to let their horse carriage pass through.
After they all left, Du Xiao Li finally asked, "Big brother, do you know where they live?"
Du Xiu Heng shook his head and said, "Don't know, you don't know?"
"I also don't know." Du Xiao Li said.
"Yesterday, after dinner, didn't you chat with them very happily? You had them all amused into laughter in their room, and even returned to your room that late, don't tell me you didn't ask?" Du Xiu Heng said.
"Cough cough, I forgot." Du Xiao Li said.
"Then never mind. If in the future, we encounter them again, we can ask. If we don't, then just never mind." Du Xiu Heng said. He also felt Meng Bo Wen and them were quite nice, but they also have only been acquainted for a day. There weren't that deep of feelings.
"Young master, miss, that should be the Imperial Tutor Meng and his family." Chang Feng said from the side.
"Imperial Tutor!?" Du Xiao Li never thought that Meng Bo Wen was actually the imperial tutor. That was the emperor's teacher, ranked one of the three Ducal Ministers, proper first rank official!
T/N: New golden thigh++; if this was an rpg her luck stat must be off the charts, tho she is a cheat character lol. Actually depending on dynasty, her father would actually be considered equal in rank to him.
Ch. 059.2 – First Time Coming to the Capital (2)
First Time Coming to the Capital (2)
T/N: ML has a short cameo in this chap and next chap ;v; but it'll still be a few more chaps before he officially meets up with MC.
"This one should be Meng Bo Wen, Imperial Tutor Meng. He's the previous emperor's sworn brother, and the current emperor's teacher. His son Meng Wei Ren is currently the crown prince and the other princes' teacher. In the capital, members of the Meng family that were capable of having this kind of imposing manner can only just be the imperial tutor's family." Chang Feng explained.
"Oh, is that so. Anyways, never mind for now. Let's go back first." Du Xiao Li said as she returned back onto her horse carriage. After Du Xiu Heng got on his horse carriage, and Cheng Feng returned to his horse, he lead the horse carriage towards the Prime Minister's residence.
"Never thought that the person we encountered was actually the old imperial tutor." After the horse carriage began advancing, Xia Yuan said with a sigh.
"You know him?" Du Xiao Li asked.
"We although walked the pugilist world in the past, we still know of the important figures of each country. It's said that this old teacher Meng is infamous for his eccentric personality, but is also very impressive. Even if his Majesty makes a mistake, he would still punish accordingly. But for the previous emperor to have been able to succeed the throne that year, old teacher Meng's contributions cannot go unnoticed. Moreover, he only served as the imperial tutor, such a empty position, and very much received the previous emperor's trust, knowing that he punished the princes, yet never said anything."
"So he can also be considered a legendary person then." Du Xiao Li said, afterwards turned and pulled open the window curtains, gazing out to the street view outside. Because after entering the city, Du Xiu Heng didn't allow Du Xiao Li to pull open the carriage windows, she could only secretly open a little to look at the people coming and going outside. After looking for a while, she felt bored and put down the curtains again.
"This capital city really is much livelier than other cities." Ying Ge said.
Xia Yuan nodded. She could tell from hearing too. Ying Ge and Xia Yuan although didn't look, they both possessed martial arts, so they could hear the sounds outside.
"It's Feng Ming's capital city after all. The development naturally needs to be good." Du Xiao Li said. Thinking about the corruptions behind the flourishment, she couldn't help but sigh.
"Miss is worrying about the matters after returning home?" Xia Yuan asked.
Du Xiao Li nodded, "Although I'm not scared of the schemes and whatnot, I don't like it either. If possible, I still want to go live in the village."
"Where is there any villages near here? The land near the capital have all been bought up by those officials." Xia Yuan said.
"I was just thinking only. Heard that many with power and money all have estates in the outskirts. If there's land, let's also go build one. In the future, when I don't want to live at home, I can still go to the outskirts to relax. Ying Ge, leave this to you to handle." Du Xiao Li said.
"Miss, this I've long prepared." Ying Ge replied.
"When did you take care of it?" Du Xiao Li looked to Ying Ge in surprise.
"It was prepared last year. At that time, when miss just had the matters handed over to us, I'd mentioned it to miss. At the time, miss, you said that you needed to come to the capital, so I began letting someone prepare it." Ying Ge said. These things were all being handled by Ying Ge. Although her temper wasn't as steady as Xia Yuan's, her ability to take care of these things was still very strong. "Moreover, I've even let them plant miss's favorite grapes in the estate. The northern region's weather warms a little later, so should be able to mature soon."
"Really?" As soon as she heard Ying Ge even let someone plant grapes, Du Xiao Li excitedly hugged Ying Ge at once. She recalled that Ying Ge seemed to have mentioned this matter to her before, but she never thought that she actually had this matter taken care of already. "Then when we have time, let's go check out the estate."
"Yes, miss." Xia Yuan and Ying Ge simultaneously replied.
The horse carriage travelled past several bustling streets and entered a quiet and secluded street. Lightly lifting the window curtains, Du Xiao Li discovered that this street they were currently traveling down was a little wider than the previous streets, but there weren't any people around, appearing very quiet. Moreover, on
the two sides of the street, from time to time, there would be a very imposing house erect, and written on there, something something manor. Looks like, it was all large wealthy households.
Suddenly, she saw a residence that was obviously slightly inferior. On there were the words 'Niu Manor'. She thus had Chang Feng called over and asked, "Is that Niu Jing's residence?"
"Yes miss, that is Imperial Physician Niu's residence." Chang Feng took a glance and replied.
Looks like Niu Jing is doing quite well in the Imperial Physician's Court, because a normal imperial physician didn't have their own official residence and were all arranged to live in the Imperial Physician's Court's living quarters.
"Good eldest senior brother, just wait until I catch you, see how you explain yourself to me!" Du Xiao Li somewhat angrily said. If not for Niu Jing, she wouldn't need to come to the capital now, and further wouldn't need to use this identity to enter the capital! She said to the Chang Feng outside, "If I want to go pay someone a visit, what should I do?"
"Just need to pass along a visiting card in advance. If the other party receives the visiting card, miss can just go according to the time written on the visiting card." Chang Feng said.
Send an invitation card? Probably as soon as Niu Jing sees the visiting card, he'll just escape. Looks like this method won't do. She needed to think of another way. Presently, she still didn't know that Niu Jing currently wasn't in the capital.
Niu Jing at the moment was currently at a place thousands of miles away, watching the army pitch camp, somewhat wishing to cry, but there were no tears. He'd just arrived not long ago, and they were already about to withdraw the troops and return to the capital! Thinking that Du Xiao Li was already in the capital waiting for him by now, he just wanted to escape, escape, and escape!
"Sigh!"
On the little mountain slope, Niu Jing stuffily drank a sip of wine, then recalled that it was precisely all this wine's fault and angrily had the wine gourd thrown on the ground. Watching the wine flowing out, he felt a burst of heartache, and picked it back up again.
Wine Gourd
"Yo, what's wrong with our great imperial physician Niu? To actually take your anger out on wine!"
From behind, came a teasing voice. Niu Jing picked up the wine gourd and turned around, seeing Han Ming Yi and Ji Liu Feng in full-body armor. He performed a bow and said, "Ding Wang, young general."
Presently, Ji Liu Feng was already a 21 year old young man. The once still somewhat tender youth has already grown into a handsome man that made thousands of young maidens faint. Wearing a silver white armor, he looked formidable and valiant, yet it didn't diminish his elegant inherent nature.
And Han Ming Yi was also already 18, his chiseled face even more stern than before, emitting an ice cold air all over, letting one not dare to easily approach. The black armor on his slender and tall body didn't look cumbersome, but instead was like a decoration, letting his entire person appear even more attractive.
Ji Liu Feng sat down on the mountain slope and said, "Imperial Physician Niu, what's wrong, to be this sulky? If you have any unhappy matters, say it out and let us be entertained."
Niu Jing gave Ji Liu Feng a glare and crawled back onto the little mountain slope, "Young general, I'm already quite vexed here, yet you all still want to laugh at me!"
"I'm just seeing that you're down and wanted to let you say it out loud, so as to avoid wasting this good wine!" Ji Liu Feng said with a smile.
"Sigh, wine really is a bad thing!" Niu Jing both lovingly and resentfully looked to the wine gourd in hand.
Actually, he very rarely let himself get drunk. After all, he was a doctor. But that day when he was drinking with Du Yun Han, it'd just happened to be his wife's death anniversary. In a moment of grief, he got drunk.
Ji Liu Feng glanced to Han Ming Yi and then asked Niu Jing, "Looks like you've gotten into trouble because of wine! No wonder you would run here. Aiyaa, don't tell me you got drunk and wrecked some family's young lady?!"
"Go go go, at this age, what young lady would I wreck. If have to wreck, it's still a young lady wrecking me!" Niu Jing said. Thinking what kind of ending he will have if he meets Du Xiao Li, why did he feel his legs just want to run?
"If not for defiling some miss, then what are you worried about, even running to this border town to hide." Ji Liu Feng was even more curious inside now.
"It's that girl Du Xiao Li, she......" Niu Jing spoke halfway and suddenly stopped.
"Du Xiao Li? Isn't she at the little mountain village in the south? How did she scare you into coming here?" Ji Liu Feng recalled that little village girl, who once said he smiled very alluringly. Although he'd only lived in Du village for a short few months, but even until now, they would still recall from time to time that simple and beautiful period of time.
Hearing Du Xiao Li's name, Han Ming Yi's eyes flashed as he silently sat next to Ji Liu Feng.
T/N: Lol this chapter I just thought, now that Niu Jing ran away we're replacing him with a better old man.
Ch. 059.3 – First Time Coming to the Capital (3)
First Time Coming to the Capital (3)
T/N: Chapter (2/4) sponsored by Madam Daim! Thank you for sponsoring!
"Sigh, you'll know when you go back anyways, so I'll just tell you." Niu Jing sighed and had the entire matter explained from beginning to end.
"What did you say?! That girl is Du Yun Han's daughter!?" Ji Liu Feng widened his eyes and looked to Niu Jing in disbelief.
"Her mother is Su Su Xin?" Han Ming Yi immediately guessed Du Xiao Li's identity. Because of the living's taboo towards the deceased, when they were in Du village, they never heard anyone mention Su Su Xin's name before. Who would've thought that it was actually that year's number one beauty Su Su Xin. And who would've guessed that Du Xiao Li was actually Du Yun Han's daughter.
(T/N: Ah the classic mother is number one beauty troupe....)
Ji Liu Feng sympathetically looked to Niu Jing and said, "Old man, you're screwed! That girl has a rather vengeful personality. You messed up her good matters, tsk tsk, even if you don't lose a layer of skin, you'll probably at least lose a piece of meat." He said as he patted Niu Jing's shoulder.
"No wonder you would run to the border town." As Han Ming Yi imagined Niu Jing's appearance as he's about to get killed by Du Xiao Li, the expression on his face eased quite a bit.
(T/N: Did I mention there's a black-belly tag on this novel, I'm just not sure if it's referring to MC or ML.)
"I figure if I stay at the border town for a year or two, then when I go back, that girl's anger will have dissolved. But unexpectedly, this battle ended this quick." Niu Jing let out a sigh. Right now, he best think about how to face Du Xiao Li's wrath when he gets back. Going head-on was definitely not possible; then he could only just go soft and pretend to be pitiful.
"That girl entered the capital?" Ji Liu Feng asked.
"With my understanding of Du Yun Han, he definitely will have Du Xiao Li and her brother brought to the capital. At present, they should've already arrived at the capital for a while now." Niu Jing said.
"Then in the future, the capital's going to be entertaining." Ji Liu Feng and Han Ming Yi's mood were both quite good. Only Niu Jing alone had a miserable look.
Niu Jing's guess towards Du Yun Han was correct, but what he didn't guess correctly was that Du Xiao Li and them had only just arrived in the capital today.
Chang Feng lead the horse carriage to a grand residence and stopped in front. Getting down from his horse, he said towards the horse carriage in the back, "Young master, miss, we've arrived."
Du Xiu Heng and Du Xiao Li got down from the horse carriage and looked to the very imposing residence, "Never thought that this old lair actually looked like this."
(T/N: Idk why it cracks me up every time she calls the place his old lair.)
Looking at the cold and desolate large gate, Du Xiao Li coldly laughed inside. Already want to intimidate them?
However,
that's right. Right now, the entire Du Manor probably all don't want to see them return. No one coming out to welcome them is also something within reason.
Chang Feng also didn't expect that aside from the two guards guarding the gate, there wasn't a single person inside and outside the gate. Originally, their task was just to have Du Xiao Li and them sent back, and all other arrangements were supposed to be arranged by madam. But there was no one right now, so he could only just put on a bold face and say: "Young master, miss, let's go in."
"Let's go, big brother." Du Xiao Li went up and pushed Du Xiu Heng forward.
Du Xiu Heng fury, upon seeing Du Xiao Li's smiling eyes, eased quite a bit. In the beginning, when they decided to come back, another reason was to get to the bottom of that incident that year, and restore their mother's innocence. That's this home, they needed to enter even if they didn't want to.
After walking past the courtyard in front, Chang Feng no longer knew where he should lead Du Xiao Li and Du Xiu Heng to. Just when he was in a pinch, a servant girl walked over and said, "You all must be young master and miss. Madam said, you must be tired from your trip, so to first take you all to your residence to rest. Guard Chang Feng no need to come along."
Chang Feng knew this was Zhong Mei Qing's personal servant girl Xiao Cui. Seeing someone come take over Du Xiao Li and them, he thus said a word of 'trouble you' and afterwards, bowed towards Du Xiao Li and them, before turning to leave.
"Young master, miss, let's go." An arrogant attitude, and a disdainful look, very much looking down on the siblings who came from the countryside. Before even waiting for Du Xiao Li and them to reply, she just turned and left.
Du Xiu Heng wanted to get angry but was stopped by Du Xiao Li as she shook her head at him, pulling him along as they followed behind Xiao Cui towards the rear court.
Whoever loses patience first is whoever will lose. Since that madam wanted to play with them that much, then she'll just accompany her till the end!
Xiao Cui had Du Xiao Li and them lead to a shabby courtyard and said, "Madam said recently the living spaces are rather tight, so will just have to trouble young master and miss to put up with this place for now. Once the courtyards in front are fixed up, then let young master and miss move over. Madam is still waiting for Xiao Cui to return, Xiao Cui will leave first."