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Winter Hunting in the Outskirts (2)
T/N: Translated by Jen on Broken Jinsei! Please do not repost my translations! All translations outside of Broken Jinsei are stolen and reposted without permission!
She originally thought that she would see Lu Zhi Ning’s expression change, suddenly relaxing, or something like that. Who knew, Lu Zhi Ning still carried a sullen look on her little face, saying: “Then, congratulations, my older brother is someone that can’t be any better. If you marry him, you certainly will live extremely well.”
Shen Lan Chi slightly frowned, feeling somewhat confused inside.
In the past life, the Jiangxia Wang heir, Lu Chang Si, married a noble young lady from the capital according to his mother’s wish. That noble young lady married all the way to Jiangxia, but in merely four to five months, just made a fuss about wanting to get a divorce and return to her maiden home.
Afterwards, she really returned to the capital. Once she returned to the capital, she just said that her mother-in-law and younger sister-in-law were both scathing and harsh, making things difficult for her day and night. Her husband also didn’t protect her. Having married far away alone, she was already scared and anxious to begin with. After getting treated this harshly for nearly half a year, she couldn’t take it anymore, thus got a divorce and returned home.
Shen Lan Chi thought to herself, this heir’s consort clearly was a noble daughter of the capital that Jiangxia Wangfei sought out with great difficulty. But once the person married over, Jiangxia Wangfei and Lu Zhi Ning instead treated them that harshly. In this matter, there must be some secret worth deliberating over. That’s why, she wanted to carefully test her theory, so as to use this opportunity to get herself out of this dilemma.
Just, Lu Zhi Ning’s attitude truly was strange. At the moment, she was somewhat unable to figure it out.
Ever since learning that her mother went to the Shen family to discuss marriage, Lu Zhi Ning was just in a bad mood the whole time, not even wanting to hunt anymore, also not saying anything for a while. Shen Lan Chi was also helpless. After following behind her for a while, she went with her to a temporary resting place for hunters in the mountain.
This wood shack was simple, with only an oil lamp placed on the ground inside. Some hay were spread out on the ground, in addition to a worn out fur blanket. Although dirty, Lu Zhi Ning didn’t care at all, actually directly sitting down on the ground, saying to the people around her, “You all go out, let this junzhu be alone for a while.”
The servant girls and servant boys looked to one another in dismay. No one dared to go out, and they further didn’t dare to leave her alone here.
“I told you all to go out, do you all not have ears?” Lu Zhi Ning got angry, yelling at them, “No one is allowed to come disturb this junzhu! All of you stand far away!”
Lu Zhi Ning was ultimately the master. The servants didn’t dare to disobey and could only obediently go out. Seeing the situation, Shen Lan Chi wanted to pacify her, “Junzhu, if there’s something you’re unhappy about, you can tell me. I……”
Who knew that with a loud ‘pah’, Lu Zhi Ning actually slapped aside Shen Lan Chi’s wrist, saying: “Don’t think that just because you can marry my older brother, you can just come show off in front of me. You go out too! Not allowed to come near me!”
Once these words came out, Shen Lan Chi was also somewhat baffled.
Earlier she was still getting along perfectly fine with her, so how come Lu Zhi Ning was now suddenly angry at her?
But, seeing that Lu Zhi Ning was like a little tiger grinding its teeth, squatting on the ground, and shrinking far away, Shen Lan Chi didn’t want to make things difficult for herself either, so could only go out. Once she exited the little wood shack, she instructed the servants to look after Lu Zhi Ning, then headed a little deeper into the snow mountain alone.
She stood by the mountain cliff and gazed outward. The winter snow had yet to melt, everything wrapped in silver, the scenery extremely beautiful.
Looking down from the mountain, she saw on the main road leading out of the capital city a speeding horse, seemingly in a hurry.
That speeding horse exited the capital and directly headed towards the mountain forest. Behind that horseman followed a few servant boys. As soon as they entered the mountain forest, they instantly spread out, seemingly looking for someone, like a few clusters of black dots.
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Shen Lan Chi was curious, so kept watching, discovering that the person that hastily came on horseback was actually Lu Qi Yang.
She was a little delighted inside, the annoyance from getting yelled at by Lu Zhi Ning suddenly dissipating. She immediately pulled the reins and rushed towards Lu Qi Yang.
From afar, she shouted, “Lord heir, you also came to hunt?”
Lu Qi Yang was currently like a headless fly, randomly wandering around in the snowy forest. Hearing this shout, Lu Qi Yang suddenly turned around, seeing in the upper area of the mountain forest, Shen Lan Chi riding on horseback, dressed in agile riding clothes, lightly smiling at him.
He sized her up with a look of relief, saying: “Thank goodness you’re okay.”
“En?” Shen Lan Chi frowned, sensing that something was wrong. She asked, “What do you mean I’m ‘okay’? What happened? For you to come look for me in such a hurry, did something happen?”
Lu Qi Yang exhaled a breath of cold air, pulling the reins of his horse as he walked up the mountain step by step with difficulty, saying: “It’s already fine now, you don’t need to worry. It’s that Noble Consort Liu, her thoughts malicious. Hearing that you came out to hunt, she actually ordered Wu Zheng Mo to bring people to wait here, don’t know what for……..Presumably, it’s nothing good. I just learned of this matter from Zhao Lu and immediately rushed over. Fortunately, Wu Zheng Mo didn’t run into you.”
Shen Lan Chi thought for a long while before finally recalling that Wu Zheng Mo was the Wu family’s young master, also a renowned wastrel in the capital.
“Wu Zheng Mo came into the mountain forest to wait……?” She mutteringly repeated, then immediately turned around, and anxiously said, “This won’t do. Jiangxia Junzhu came with me today. Although there are a few servants guarding her, but leaving her alone like that, I’m ultimately a little worried.”
After saying this, she headed towards that hunter’s shack together with Lu Qi Yang.
When they arrived before the shack, they saw four servants collapsed on the ground outside, unknown if dead or alive. Inside the wood shack came a woman’s sharp screams and crying sounds, extremely piercing to the ears.
“You let go of me! Do you know, do you know who this junzhu is!? How dare you!”
“What junzhu? The junzhus in the capital, which one doesn’t this young master recognize? To dare pretend to be a junzhu, you’re the one that’s daring!”
“Junzhu!” Shen Lan Chi was shocked and hurriedly kicked open the door.
That shack was very small, but there were quite a few people standing inside. Six to seven of the Wu family’s servant boys crowded around inside, each and everyone all carrying smiles on their face. Wu Zheng Mo was pressed atop Lu Zhi Ning, tearing at her clothes. Just, Lu Zhi Ning was quite fierce, kicking and hitting as she cried, not letting Wu Zheng Mo gain the slightest advantage, even letting him get slapped several times.
“What are you all still standing around for? Quickly come help your young master hold down this girlie’s arms and legs! Didn’t that person from the Liu family already say, the women here today are all for me to play with! You all…….ahhyoo!” Wu Zheng Mo was just about to give an order when he detected a sudden heart-penetrating pain below his crotch, his complexion instantly turning deathly pale as be held his crotch and rolled onto the ground.
“It’s hurts to death…….who…..who’s that daring…….” Wu Zheng Mo inhaled a breath of cold air as he knelt down. However, lifting his eyes, he saw Shen Lan Chi slowly put down her foot, her face full of a mean look.
This girlie that claimed to be a junzhu, he didn’t recognize, but Shen Lan Chi and the person standing behind Shen Lan Chi, Wu Zheng Mo did recognize.
“H-heir?” Wu Zheng Mo endured the excruciating pain, squeezing out a fawning smile and saying, “How come you’re here? All things emphasize a first come first serve. The girls here today were all prepared for me by the Liu family. If heir wants, then just separately ask for……..”
Lu Qi Yang didn’t look at him, just removing his cloak and quietly wrapping it around Lu Zhi Ning, not saying anything. Lu Zhi Ning’s clothes were torn, her face full of tears, endlessly sobbing.
Seeing Lu Qi Yang come, a tearful “tang brother” just came out.
Hearing Lu Zhi Ning shout ‘tang brother’, Wu Zheng Mo was just somewhat dumbstruck.
That person from the Liu family, for the sake of currying favor with him, said that they specially prepared a few beautiful girls, sending them into the forest to hunt and play. Meanwhile, he can also have some fun. But, this girl, could it be…..
“Could it be that she’s really a junzhu?” Wu Zheng Mo lost all color.
“Yes.” Shen Lan Chi said with a cold look, “She is Jiangxia Junzhu. As for her name, you’re not worthy to know.”
Jiangxia Junzhu wasn’t in the capital all year round. Every year she would just come back for a few days. Even if this year, she performed for the Banjaro delegation, she was still wearing a veil, so Wu Zheng Mo naturally didn’t know what Lu Zhi Ning looked like.
At this time, hearing that Lu Zhi Ning really was a junzhu, Wu Zheng Mo was instantly scared witless, crawling on the ground.
“Heir! The Liu family wants to ruin me! Heir save me!” Wu Zheng Mo immediately started crying, streaming with snot and tears, saying, “Where do I have the guts to do something to a junzhu? I-it’s all that Liu family’s fault, saying that they want to curry favor with me…….”
But no matter how he pleaded, Lu Qi Yang didn’t spare him a single glance.
Right at this time, the shack’s door opened again.
Shen Lan Chu turned to look, yet saw an unexpected person.
Liu Yu supported himself against the doorframe, slightly gasping for his breath. His face that has always been deathly pale dyed with an unhealthy red. The wind that carried the snow particles made his black hair slightly messy, his thin body seemingly unable to withstand the wind and snow, his chest heaving non-stop.
Liu Yu lifted his eyes. Seeing Shen Lan Chi safe and sound, he relaxed a breath.
He originally had his own plan already, wanting that Shen Lan Chi to marry far away. But, Noble Consort Liu in the palace acted on her own, wanting to find someone to ruin Shen Lan Chi’s purity. Liu Yu had just learned of this matter. Ignoring his old symptoms, he hurriedly spurred the horse to come look for her, wanting to stop this matter.
Noble Consort Liu’s underhanded means almost caused all his plans to be disrupted.
Furthermore……
Pouring dirty water on a girl’s reputation, what does that count as?
When Shen Lan Chi saw Liu Yu’s figure, her heart couldn’t get any colder. Recalling how Wu Zheng Mo said just now that the Liu family wants to ruin him, even thinking with her toes she can figure out what happened.
She coldly smiled and lifted her hand, ruthlessly slapping Liu Yu.
When the crisp sound of the slap sounded, everyone was dumbstruck.
Liu Chang, who was behind Liu Yu, was the very first to jump out, “You stinky brat! Our young master anxiously rushed over……”
Anxiously rushed over to save you, yet look at you, repaying kindness with a grudge!
But Shen Lan Chi didn’t wait for Liu Chang to finish talking, coldly opening her mouth, “Young master Liu, I know, your Liu family wants to deal with me. Jiangxia Junzhu just innocently got dragged in. For you to come now, is it wanting to come laugh at me? Using this kind of dirty underhanded trick, what a clean and noble gentleman!”
Her gaze was fierce, not holding back in the slightest with that slap.
Having gotten slapped by her, Liu Yu’s face was slightly turned.
His eyelashes faintly trembled, but he didn’t speak.
The fine snow particles fell, melting between his brows.
“………Forget it.”
He said after a long moment of silence.
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