Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 460 Greed is Not Enough (3)
La Jianbin nodded slowly, digesting the news he had just learned. ๐ณ๐๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐๐ป๐ผ๐ง๐ฒ๐ฅ.๐๐๐ฆ
"You go back and have a good rest. I donโt need your service here. The day after tomorrow, I will set off for home," said Lou Qianyu.
"Yes, my lord." La Jianbin, losing focus, turned and pulled the door open to leave, not noticing the expression on Lou Qianyuโs face at that moment.
As he watched him go, Lou Qianyu picked up the teacup from the table and leisurely savored it. Suddenly, a figure landed quietly, without a sound, indicating the intruderโs superior martial skills.
"Master, why not kill this traitor?" Fan Yi asked, his eyes red with anger as he looked at his lord.
Lou Qianyu shook his head slowly, "No rush. He was just delivering a message from the old man. Through this opportunity, I also want to know what the old man intends."
Fan Yi blinked, quickly understanding, and the sword-like eyebrows near his temples slightly raised. The mouth hidden beneath the black scarf curled into a slow smile, "Master, this strategy is brilliant."
Lou Qianyu gave a soft laugh, "The old man is really greedy, isnโt he? Having swallowed half of Mingyi Country isnโt enough for him, and now he dares to provoke Dugu Chen. Heโs really asking for death."
"Master, if he insists on going his own way, Iโm afraid that...," said Fan Yi.
"I wonโt give him the chance. I believe his poison will act soon, and once I ascend the throne, I wonโt have to follow his orders anymore," Lou Qianyu said, her eyes narrowing, a chill flashing in them, and the corners of her mouth curling into a meaningful arc.
Fan Yi frowned tightly, looking at his masterโs face, which spoke so lightly of murder. Looking into those laughing but not laughing eyes, for some reason, a chill ran down his spine and he felt an emergent fear.
With Lou Qianyu gone, the palace returned to its peaceful state. Dugu Chen still attended court as usual. The thirteen cities that had been recently reclaimed were also gradually stabilizing, and there had been no riots. Much of the credit for this went to Feng Xuxu, who had timely allocated over thirty thousand jin of grain to help the refugees through the crisis. For this, the Empress (Feng Xuxu) was recognized and praised for her virtue by the people of Xueyan Country and those newly incorporated into Xueyan Country.
A year later, Feng Xuxu sat bored in the Imperial Garden. She could tell with her eyes closed the position and color of each flower. Pouting her lips, she irritably plucked a peony flower and began to tear off its petals one by one.
In the bushes of the Imperial Garden, two small heads poked out, watching the beautiful woman sitting by the pond airing her grievances and taking out her frustration on a peony flower.
"Little brother, whatโs gotten into mom?" The doll-like little girl, with her large innocent eyes, asked in a soft voice, seemingly harmless, as she looked up at the pretty young boy beside her.
"Big brother, call me big brother, I am your big brother," the pretty young boy glared with his peach blossom eyes, repeating the correction he had just made to the doll-like girlโs words.
Yueyue rolled her phoenix eyes and puffed up her rosy, diamond-shaped little mouth, "Whatโs the difference? You were only born a little bit earlier than me," she said, holding up her little finger to indicate just how tiny that bit was.
Qiqi looked skyward in resignation, pursing his lips. His eyes, dark as black grapes, blinked, "Even if itโs just by a little bit, I am still your big brother," he huffed. She was always trying to take advantage, but there was no chance of that.
Feng Xuxu squinted her eyes at the two bickering, unruly little things. Ever since they had learned to speak, they quarreled almost daily, each believing they were right. What was even more outrageous was that after the two little things learned martial arts, they began to play tricks on her and Dugu Chenโs personal palace maids and guards, leaving them miserable, caught between resentment and affection.
