ebookland Chapter 119: Marquis Jingming was betrayed by his relatives and friends
Chapter 119: Marquis Jingming was betrayed by his relatives and friends
"Don't be angry, uncle. Auntie cares about you very much. I heard from the servant who brought me the news that Auntie has been so worried these days that she has lost her appetite and lost a lot of weight."
Feng Wuhen's words softened Marquis Jingming's heart instantly. At this moment, he was no longer willing to scold his wife for anything.
"Well, your aunt is——"
Marquis Jingming stopped talking, paused for a moment, changed the subject, looked up at Jiang Yimo, and then stared at Feng Wuhen.
"You haven't told me who this girl is yet?"
"She is Momo, the granddaughter of General Gu Yebei."
"Oh, so she is Momo. Your mother mentioned her to me twice. She also said that Miss Momo is kind, smart, and has superb medical skills. She is the perfect choice to be your princess."
Jiang Yimo: “…”
Is it really okay for these two people to talk about her in front of her?
However, Feng Wuhen did not avoid her, but agreed with his mother's evaluation.
"Uncle, it was Momo who rescued you from that huge vine web today. It was she who came up with the idea of attacking those vines with fire, and that’s how she rescued you. Now that strange man-eating vine has been burned by her." Feng Wuhen said without any reservation.
Finally, he continued to ask: "Uncle, how did you get into the banyan forest?"
When Marquis Jingming was asked this question, he let out a long sigh.
"I really didn't expect that he would plot against me. He and I have been friends for more than ten years..."
When Marquis Jingming reached this point, he lowered his eyes and his voice became choked with sobs.
"I really never dreamed that he would hurt me, ah..."
"However, this is all because of my uncle's poor judgement of people. That day, he sent a message to the Marquis' Mansion saying that he hadn't galloped on the grass with me for a long time, and wanted to invite me to go horseback riding with him at Lion Ridge tomorrow. I agreed without even thinking about it."
"Then, the next day we happily came to Lion Ridge and rode horses on the grass for a while. Suddenly, a group of masked men in black rushed out of the woods and surrounded us. At first, I protected them tightly and led everyone back to the woods.
"I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect that he would actually try to stab me in the back with a dagger. Fortunately, I noticed it quickly, grabbed his dagger with my hand, and kicked him. We started fighting on the spot. Because the noise was so loud, all the assassins were attracted. That's when I realized that he actually knew martial arts."
"They were outnumbered, and after a short while we were at a disadvantage and had to hide in the woods. We accidentally escaped into the banyan tree forest. We were all injured and were caught off guard by the vines, which kept entangled us. The vines got tighter and tighter, and I passed out."
Jiang Yimo and Feng Wuhen listened quietly as Marquis Jingming recounted what happened that day.
After a moment, Feng Wuhen quickly guessed the man's identity, "Uncle, that man is Mr. Shi Qingmo from Hanwen Academy, right?"
"How did you know it was him?"
"My aunt said so. She said you went out riding with a gentleman from Hanwen College. I think he is your best friend."
"Ugh……"
Marquis Jingming sighed again, stared at his hand which had already been bandaged, and stopped talking.
Seeing this, Jiang Yimo pulled Feng Wuhen, Anying and Leng Mei aside, took out a few bags of sesame cakes from the storage room in the space and distributed them to everyone to fill their stomachs.
But Jiang Yimo took special care of Jingming Hou. She gave him a piece of sesame cake and handed him a white plastic bottle of pure milk.
He took the small white bottle that Jiang Yimo handed to him, and after examining it carefully, he asked in confusion, "Miss Momo, this bottle you handed to me is so strange. It is neither made of porcelain, bamboo, or wood. Can you tell me what it is made of?"
"Uh……"
Jiang Yimo had never thought that Jingming Hou was such a careful observer. Before, when she and Feng Wuhen were on their way back to the imperial city, she gave this pure milk to Feng Wuhen and the others as a breakfast drink. At that time, Feng Wuhen and the others did not ask anything.
It is not known whether Feng Wuhen really did not notice that the bottles of drinks she gave them were a little different, or whether they discovered something fishy but pretended to know nothing.
At that time, she was thinking that since Feng Wuhen didn't notice it, no one else would be able to notice the difference in these beverage bottles, so she didn't think too much about it at the time. Now that this question was raised by Jingming Hou, she really didn't think about how to explain this problem to him, because there was no such thing as plastic in this time and space.
But just when she was about to explain to Marquis Jingming, Feng Wuhen spoke.
"Uncle, Momo's master is a hermit. I heard from Momo that he has many things that none of us have ever seen. Now he has gone to travel around the world, but before he left, he left Momo many things that have never been seen in the world. The fairy drink bottle in her hand was also left to her by her master."
"Normally, she treasures it like it's nothing and is reluctant to give it out to drink. Momo and I have known each other for such a long time, and I have only had the honor of drinking it once, but she is willing to give it out to honor you. If you don't want to drink it, just give it to me, your nephew."
After hearing what the Evil King said, Marquis Jingming smiled happily, quickly protected his drink bottle, and imitated Jiang Yimo and Feng Wuhen, using a straw to suck big gulps of pure milk into his mouth. However, he choked because he sucked too hard, and started coughing loudly, and it took him a long time to recover.
Then, Jingming Hou pointed at the drink bottle in his hand and joked: "It seems that it has something against me and doesn't want me to drink it."
After that, everyone burst into laughter.
After finishing their breakfast, everyone immediately set off back to the imperial city.
Outside the Jingming Marquis's residence, a woman in her thirties was running around in a panic...
This woman was the wife of Marquis Jingming. She was wearing simple clothes and had her hair neatly combed. She stood at the gate of the mansion before daybreak, anxiously waiting for her husband. She looked left and right, but never saw the figures of her husband and the Evil King returning.
Today is the fourth day since her husband disappeared, and there is still no clue about him. Yesterday, the Evil King also took people to Lion Ridge, but no news was sent back. No one knows what the Evil King’s condition is.
She was so anxious yesterday that she asked someone to ask the Evil King for help in finding someone. If something happened to the Evil King, the Emperor would not be able to atone for his crime even if he dragged all the people in their mansion to be buried with him.
Now that both the Marquis and the Evil King have lost contact, what should she do?
"Madam, you have been standing at the gate of the mansion since early morning. You have been standing there for the whole morning. Go back to the mansion and rest for a while."
The maid behind the Marquis's wife tried to persuade her with a distressed look on her face.
Madam Hou immediately refused, "No, I must wait here today until my husband and the evil king come back."