"Stingy, isnât it just two pieces of clothing?" Li Luru pouted, "Iâll compensate you when I get home."
"Tsk, even if I sell you, you couldnât afford to pay." Ye Haoxuan said, "The fabric of my clothes is bestowed by the palace. Your family probably doesnât have even a scrap of it."
He circled around Li Luru while speaking, "And you call me stingy? Do you know that any piece of clothing you damage costs five or six hundred taels of silver? Itâs rare because itâs bestowed by the palace. Damaging such a bestowed item is punishable by beheading, and harming the prince of the current reign is also punishable by beheading. If I really wanted to hold you accountable, you wouldnât know how many times your head would have been chopped off."
"If I were you, for such a great kindness, I should offer myself as a wife!"
Li Luru rolled her eyes, looked at him suspiciously, and when she saw where his gaze was focused, suddenly threw all the clothes she was holding, shouting, "I thought you were a gentleman, where are you looking? Believe it or not, Iâll have Xiaobai bite out your eyeballs?"
She hadnât noticed just now, but this guy was actually staring at her front, it was too much.
"Whatâs wrong with looking?" Ye Haoxuan pulled off the clothes from his head and said indifferently, "Didnât you look at mine too? This is called reciprocity, donât you know? Didnât your mother teach you?"
"You, you, you..." Li Luruâs face turned red with anger.
Ye Haoxuan, on the other hand, remained calm, still touching his towel with one hand and asked, "Why arenât you leaving? Could it be that two points werenât enough and you want to see more?"
"Who wants to look at you?" Li Luru hummed, turning around to leave.
Ye Haoxuan squinted his eyes but shouted, "Wait!"
"What now?"
"Come here and help me dress." Seeing her stand still, he said, "Is there a problem with the servant girl dressing the master? If I count to three, and you donât come over, Iâll send you to be neighbors with Huang Manli right now."
Being neighbors with Huang Manli means going to prison?
She had been with Ye Haoxuan for some time, and understood him a bit; although he threatened in various ways each time, he never really did anything.
Thinking of this, she made a funny face at him, "Dress slowly yourself, I am going to turn around and be the master today."
"Hehe..." Ye Haoxuan chuckled softly. Thinking it was right to keep this girl by his side, itâs really interesting to tease her when heâs bored.
That dream left him very unpleasant and somewhat guilty, making him feel like a lecherous person.
"Master!" After dressing and coming out of the room, Xiao Yuan was waiting at the door, "San has asked the servant to inquire of you, should we keep going, or wait at Heng River for the results of the investigation in Jingzhou."
"Wait a couple of days, until Si comes back, then weâll go."
"Yes!"
The Jingzhou side didnât make him wait long, and soon sent news.
"Upon investigation, Huang Manliâs family was indeed taken into custody, but after Huang Manli arrived at Heng River, her family was released. Furthermore, what Huang Manli said about sugar causing deaths isnât true; the yamen reported that the family who bought the sugar didnât die. They said that the child who drank sugar water that day was saved by a doctor after the Huang Family was imprisoned. So the county yamen released the Huang Family, and the Huang Family compensated the child with some silver, thus settling the matter."
"Oh?" Ye Haoxuan frowned, "And what about the shop Huang Manli mentioned?"
"The shop was burned down, reportedly because a lamp was knocked over at the Huang familyâs neighborâs place at midnight, and it burned down both the neighborâs and the Huang familyâs shop."