Revenge of the Concubine’s Daughter - Chapter 128
Chapter 128 The vampire lord as a matchmaker
The villain who captured Madam Luo was about 1.7 meters tall and his voice sounded hoarse. If it wasn’t his innate voice, he must be hiding his true voice deliberately. According to his Adam’s apple, skin color and body shape, they could be sure that the villain was a man on his thirties.
He Danggui also noticed that there were attractive purple lights in his red eyes. And maybe he was the person “you-know-who” that Chan Yi mentioned. If his purple eyes weren’t born that way, it could be caused by practicing some immoral kung fu and then he was possessed by the Devil. Thinking of his action of sucking blood, the truth was more likely to be that. However, these were not what He Danggui cared about the most, and what she wanted to know badly was that–
“Come clean! Where did you get this facial mask?” He Danggui stood up rapidly and took some steps forward to the vampire lord. Her voice sounded anxious. Why was he wearing her collection?
This was a facial mask made by hand-painted pottery paper. The characteristic of handmade facial mask was that each of them was different from others, and you could say that they were unique. So, He Danggui was pretty sure it was the one she bought from Tu’er Town. Gao Jue insisted on compensating for the wooden hairpin that he damaged at that time, so she asked 15 wen from him and bought 5 colorful facial masks. She kept the yellow one and gave the other 4 as presents to Gao Jue. This yellow one had always hung in her room, and she even had seen it before she went out this afternoon. Why it appeared on the vampire lord’s face now?
Had the vampire lord gone to Tao Yao Yard? What was he doing there? Were Chan Yi and Huai Hua OK? The masked man didn’t answer her, so she got anxious. She ran straight up the hall, and couldn’t help but wanted to pull down his mask, grab his collar and ask whether he had sucked some person that he shouldn’t suck or not?
But before she got there, her arm was grabbed by someone. She looked back and found it was Meng Xuan. She waved her arm angrily and wanted to get rid of him, while he even didn’t move. He Danggui felt as if she was hit back by a wall of air. If her arm wasn’t grabbed by him, maybe she would blow off because of that. Actually, she was indeed crashed. For a moment she felt her feet flying backward off the ground while her arm was grabbed by Meng Xuan, so her whole body was like a flying kite flown by Meng Xuan.
Meng Xuan accidentally shook the little girl out and then he pulled her back. Because of inertia, the little girl headed into his arms. As all these happened in a moment, in others’ eyes, it looked like Childe Xuan suddenly hugged Third Miss! If Madam Luo was not captured by the villain at this moment with her life at stake, she would be very excited.
But it was a pity that even if Childe Xuan hugged was hugging Qiong right now, she couldn’t be happy either–the masked man stood close to her and pervaded a cold, angry feeling, which made her feel scared in her heart, and this fear even greater than death.
Madam Luo just felt the hand stuck in her throat was as cold as ice, and made her trembling and out of breath. Guard Nie Chun always protected her not far, and there had never been such a vicious incident. However, today Nie Chun was not here and there was such a terrible masked man! Though the man only said one sentence, she could feel that he was a cold killer. Whatever the purpose of this man’s abduction was, it was hard for her to imagine that she could escape today. She thought dejectedly, would she die here today… No! She had a big secret in her heart, and she must tell the secret to her family secretly, or she had no face to meet Luo Duzhong. If so, she would die with everlasting regret!
He Danggui flew out and then back, finally she went straight into the arms of Meng Xuan. She felt pain in her nose and then a warm feeling came out from her nose. Looking down at his green lotus embroidered collar, she saw a red flower appeared on it. Then she suddenly recognized that the guy’s chest made her suffer a nosebleed.
“Hey, let me go!” “No!” “I said, let me go!” “…” Meng Xuan loosened his hand and passed a white handkerchief embroidered with green lotus to her. But He Danggui covered her injured nose and refused to take it. She wanted to get around the obstacle in her way and continue to question the masked man whether he had hurt her two maids.
Seeing her like this, Meng Xuan straightly grabbed her sharp chin with one hand and put the handkerchief on her nose with the other, pressing the acupoint that could stop bleeding through the handkerchief. However, the little girl was so ungrateful that she kept beating his chest. He didn’t know whether she was intentional or not, every time the place she hit was either Qimen acupoint or Zhangmen acupoint, which were the most painful acupoints. And she used a lot of strength. Without Zhenqi for protecting his body, he would be beaten to vomit blood.
Peng Jian next to them couldn’t stand it, and wanted to stop Meng Xuan using his chest to hit his Third Sister’s hand. While Peng Shi held him down and whispered to him, then succeeded appeased Peng Jian’s mood.
After Meng Xuan had stopped the bleeding, he made a motion to take the bloody handkerchief inside his pocket first. But he paused for a while, then he turned back to put this handkerchief into He Danggui’s clothes.
He Danggui saw a hand pulling the collar of her robe and putting a bloody handkerchief in without explanation. She said angrily, “Why do you give this to me?” Meng Xuan answered naturally, “You’ve soiled this, so I don’t want it.” He Danggui glared at him, “If you don’t want it, you can throw it away.” While he answered with a low voice, “The green lotus on it is embroidered by my mother, I can’t throw it.” After heard this, He Danggui was amused and vexed. This boy was indeed a dutiful son, but what was the difference between giving it to her and throwing it away?
Unexpectedly, the next moment Meng Xuan bended over slowly, and his handsome face moved slowly towards her… As his charming face approached, He Danggui drew back unconsciously, while his hand clasped her waist unexpectedly! In a twinkling of eyes, his thin red lips skimmed her cheek and his warm breath blew her eyelashes slightly, making her close her eyes subconsciously.
Meng Xuan whispered to her, “The man at the hall is a senior, and it’s easy for him to kill one within 10 steps. A woman like you will be a corpse before you get close to him.”
Hearing this, He Danggui got a shock. She turned her face to him and whispered, “How do you know how powerful he is? Do you know who he is?”
Meng Xuan shook his head and said, “I could only recognize from his breathing that he is the man who had been hiding on the roof, and figure out he must be the man whose kung fu is unfathomable according to his breath, eyes, and killing intention. And it is highly possible he had practice Miao Shi Arts.” Seeing the little girl was about to ask something, he had guessed what she would ask, so he continued, “You won’t understand Miao Shi Arts even if I explain it to you. In a word, it’s a rare and evil art in the world. When you practice it, you need to suck blood, and human blood is the best. After you become a master of it, your internal force will increase a lot, and you will be very powerful. One can break a stone in at very long distance, not to mention your head.” Actually, Meng Xuan deliberately exaggerated. He wanted to let the little girl get frightened and understand that he is her savior, so she should be polite to him and shouldn’t pull up his collar tightly!
But He Danggui wasn’t scared, and she didn’t think there was anything wrong to pull a 10-year-old boy’s collar as they spoke. She thought for a while and whispered to Meng Xuan, “There were a lot of crows died in Luo’s Mansion 8 days ago. And they were torn into pieces by the murderer. The next day a guard’s blood was sucked thoroughly and his body was thrown in the garden. And Nie Chun has gone to investigate this since then. So, we can assure that the vampire lord must have lived in Luo’s Mansion for a long time. But why did he capture Madam Luo? If he wants to suck blood, there are a lot of people in the garden; if he wants treasures, there is nothing he can’t steal with his arts of lightness. What’s more, Madam Luo’s identity is very special, and the Four Guards of Luo’s Mansion are very powerful.”
“I don’t know, either.” Meng Xuan shook his head, while his lips touched He Danggui’s exquisite ear accidentally. At that moment, the two people both paused and felt embarrassed. Then they consoled themselves, that’s OK, he/she just a little kid. After consoling himself, Meng Xuan said in a low voice, “Well, I guess it has something to do with the officers and soldiers outside Luo’s Mansion.”
“You mean those officers and soldiers are here to arrest this guy?” He Danggui felt surprised that he thought the same thing as hers.
Meng Xuan’s mouth slightly raised. Before he could speak, he suddenly felt his collar was grasped by someone behind, and he was pulled back as He Danggui’s face gradually became smaller in his sight. Peng Jian’s face appeared in his vision sneakily as he snarled, “Are you tired of living? How dare you hold my Third Sister all the time!” Meng Xuan snorted, “Which eye of yours saw that I didn’t loose her?” Then he pointed at his collar, which had been caught crumpling. To be reasonable, it was He Danggui who grabbed him and didn’t loosen.
While the two men were arguing, He Danggui bypassed them and took some steps forward. She looked straight at the masked man and tried to negotiate with him, “Knight, if you tell me where you got this facial makeup, I can tell you how to leave Luo’s Mansion safely.”
Geng Bingxiu, who wore this facial mask, had recognized the little girl at first glance. The little girl was not anyone else but the reborn Miss He that he met at Shui Shang Temple at the beginning of this month. Though her face was a little pale and sallow now, and she was not as dazzlingly beautiful as before, he wouldn’t mistake her according to her charm and eyes. Though he didn’t know her, the intuition and experience that he accumulated over the years told him the little girl was weird and she wouldn’t be an easy-going ordinary person. Sometimes, he even felt a strange sense of fear of her!
Actually, he came to Yangzhou City again because of her to some extent.
At the beginning of the month, he led 8 subordinate generals and 300 capable seniors to Yang Zhou to look for Bai Yangbai, whom the Emperor wanted to hire the most. According to the message they knew, they arrived at Tu’er Town. And in there, they met Su Xiaoxiao, who was the escaped criminal of the Hu Weiyong case ten years ago. So, they set tight encirclement to arrest the woman. When they got near to success, a boy with bronze mask popped up and rescued her, failing their plan in the final second. Fortunately, before they escaped, Jiang Yi hurt that boy’s left shoulder by toxic Jin Mai Nail, and only Jiang Yi had the antidote of that poison.
According to their analysis, the bronze mask boy was probably the associate of Hu Weiyong case. Now he had been poisoned, and he must come back and stole the antidote. So, they rescheduled and wanted to arrest him. However, on the next day, the nine of them were played by him like a puppet. They not only didn’t let the boy fall into their trap, but also lost the whole antidotes. When they were fighting with each other, the bronze mask boy was outnumbered, and he escaped to a barren mountain outside the town with a bad injury. They went up the mountain in pursuit of him. To cover their tracks, they lived at Shui Shang Temple. Then they met that weird girl.
Lu Jiangbei had said that the evidence of Master Tai Chen’s case was found by that girl, so Geng Bingxiu began to be curious about her. The next day, Duan Xiaolou said that he was going to help the little girl find a lost gold lock, so Geng Bingxiu eavesdropped their plan, knowing they planned to fire the kitchen and draw the snake out of its hole wittingly. It was said that this plan was submitted by He Danggui–He hid in the back alley of the kitchen in advance to peep and saw the whole process of finding back the gold lock.
Seeing her calm attitude, firm determination and noble temperament, one wouldn’t believe that she was a 10-year-old girl. Even the women he had seen like Noble Consort Zhao and Noble Consort Zheng, both had experienced a lot of Palace scheming before they had the current aura. You could hardly imagine that such an unsophisticated girl was born with such grace and capacity.
What scared him most was the way she looked at Tai Shan. At the back alley of Shui Shang Temple’s kitchen, under the firelight and moonlight, he saw her bright, cold eyes looked straight at Tai Shan. It was hard to say whether she was happy or sad. It was as if the exalted queen stared at her prey, as if the noble goddess looked at the dregs, as if…a ghost from the hell watched at her lifelong enemy!
He was frightened by her eyes at that moment.
