Chapter 17

Translator: Exodus Tales

Editor: Exodus Tales

Nan Baoyi went back to her room and chased out all her maids.

She got into her bed, shut the curtains, and wanted to sleep for a while but she tossed and turned and could not get to sleep.

The figures of her Father and Madam Liu behaving like a loving couple repeatedly appeared in her mind, making her distraught with anxiety. She wished she could rush out now and grab her father back.

Xiao Yi walked in and saw the embroidered shoes kicked carelessly to the ground. The little girl stayed on her bed, hugged her knees, and stared blankly.

He stroked his own robe and casually sat on an embroidered stool.

Nan Baoyi saw him and pushed back the curtains unhappily, “Second Brother, this is my bedroom, why did you come here?”

Xiao Yi took out a peach candy box.

He slowly opened a drawer, picked a light pink candy, and put it in his mouth.

“Strawberry flavored…” He smiled, “Want a taste?”

Nan Baoyi was annoyed, “Already a grown-up and still eating candy, shameful!”

“A stubborn little crybaby also knows how to coax her father to buy candy for her, doesn’t she?” Xiao Yi passed the candy box to her, “For you.”

Nan Baoyi was stunned.

She looked at the beautiful and exquisite candy box, stretching her hand to take it after a long while.

She hugged the candy box and teared up, “I acted coyly in front of Father and asked him to buy candy for me not because I want the candy… I only hope he actually cares for me.”

“But it’s obvious your father doesn’t want you anymore and cares about the other family more.” Xiao Yi casually admired her tearful looks. “Nan Baoyi, what should you do?”

Nan Baoyi wiped away her tears, slightly annoyed that Xiao Yi was mocking her.

She touched the candy box and suddenly raised her eyebrows, “Why did Second Brother give me candy, are you trying to make me happy?”

Xiao Yi laughed, “I only use this opportunity of giving you candy to come here and mock you. What you did to me last time, you and I both know it very well. Nan Baoyi, there are still a lot of scores not even yet between us.”

So calculative…

Nan Baoyi muttered in her heart. She really did not have the mood to entertain him, “Since Second Brother already mocked me, then please leave, I want to sleep.”

After saying this, she climbed back into her blanket gloomily.

Xiao Yi looked at the lump in the blanket.

He sat for a while, took out a letter from his sleeves, and put it beside her pillow before he got up and left.

Nan Baoyi sneakily climbed out of her blanket.

She stretched her head, looked at the closed door, and then curiously opened up the letter.

Her pupils reduced slightly.

This was…

Madam Liu’s indenture for sale of oneself!

The girl’s heart was beating rapidly. The sadness just now was overwhelmed by happiness. She hugged the indenture and screamed happily while rolling around her bed!

Suddenly the door opened.

Nan Baoyi smartly laid on her bed still and faced the walls sighing.

Xiao Yi glanced at her small movements and the corner of his mouth curled up slightly, “Your father and Madam Liu’s wedding is scheduled on the tenth day of next month. You only have half a month’s time to prepare.”

Nan Baoyi motionlessly waved her hand.

After Xiao Yi left, she sat up like a thief, made sure that he was really gone, and hugged the indenture while jumping around the room, happily twirling around.

The future powerful minister was really generous. He promised her the indenture and he actually gave it to her!

Ten thousand gold!

She kept the indenture happily and called in a maid. She asked her to ask around which local hoodlum was the nastiest and most savage in Jinguan City.

She planned to give a surprise to Father and Madam Liu on their big day.

She kept the indenture in a drawer and leaned beside her dressing table. She couldn’t help but smiled widely while caressing her candy box.

She still felt that the powerful minister actually cared about her.

“Second Brother is so good to me, I need to repay him…”

Fame and fortune can come later. For now, it was imperative to make him realize that she, Nan Baoyi, was a cute, obedient, and lovable good sister.

“In the future when he becomes the powerful emperor’s teacher, I, Nan Baoyi, would be the powerful minister’s beloved sister. I can marry whoever I want and my entire family would live a good life!”

Nan Baoyi smiled with her eyes shining, a picture appearing in her mind:

She was leaning on a couch wearing a luxurious outfit in Jinluan Palace. That damn governor of the West was kneading her shoulders and massaging her legs. The Cheng Wang siblings who always teased her viciously were kneeling in front of her begging for mercy. The ministers’ sons in the imperial court stood in line for her to choose a husband. Xiao Yi was holding a drawing beside, kindly introducing the royal family on the painting…

Pfft, who would want to marry Cheng Deyu!

“Hahahaha, hahahahaha!”

Nan Baoyi laughed out loud.

He Ye carried a pile of papers when she came in and looked at her Mistress curiously, “Miss, why are you laughing on your own? Even your saliva came out.”

“Oh…” Nan Baoyi wiped away her saliva embarrassingly, “You finished the calligraphy?”

“It’s finished. I found a few other maids to help, it was finished very quickly.”

“That’s good, help me to send it to Second Brother’s study.”

He Ye was surprised, “Miss you don’t want to go?”

“Second Brother gave me a candy box. I want to cook two of my specialty dishes for him. This is a surprise, don’t tell him about it!”

Nan Baoyi rolled up her sleeves and happily went into the kitchen.

He Ye felt like something bad was about to happen.

Her Mistress led a pampered life all these while and she wants to cook her specialty dishes, can she even cook?

She sent the twenty pieces of paper to the study. Xiao Yi was around.

The teenager slowly flipped through the calligraphy.

Tsk, every handwriting was different, it was obviously copied by different people.

Facing him alone, He Ye was a bit scared, “If Second Young Master has no other orders, I will retreat first.”

“Where’s your Miss?”

“She, she, she respects Second Young Master…” He Ye tried to avoid the question and talked about something else. “She always says, He Ye, Second Brother tells me to practice calligraphy for my own good, and tells me to study is also for my own good. He Ye, Second Brother is the world’s most capable person and he will definitely become a successful person in the future!”

She imitated Nan Baoyi perfectly.

Xiao Yi twitched the corner of his mouth and felt such a waste the both of them were not acting in an opera show.

“Oh no! Oh no!” Yu Wei suddenly rushed into the room panicking, “Master, Fifth Miss blew up the kitchen!”

When Xiao Yi and the rest went over, the kitchen was a complete disaster.

Nan Baoyi’s whole body was covered in flour and her hair was like a chicken’s nest. She stood there under the eaves covered with dirt and started to cry.

Seeing Xiao Yi, she ran towards him, wailing all the way and explained in tears: “I accidentally spilled the flour everywhere and then when I started the fire, there was a ‘bang’ and it exploded, exploded! Wahhhh…”

Xiao Yi could not even look at her, “Nan Baoyi, you don’t even have any basic common knowledge?”

When flour and soot come in contact with fire, it would cause an explosion.

But Nan Baoyi did not know.

She only knew that she was reprimanded.

She lifted two fishes with difficulty and choked back her sobs, “I wanted to cook Second Brother some fried fish… Look at how beautiful this fish is, it must be very delicious wahhhh…”

Xiao Yi looked at the two fishes and his expression changed.

That was the Arowana that he asked someone to buy from overseas and it was the rarest breed of Arowana, the blood-red Arowana. One fish cost more than two hundred gold excluding the cost of their fish pond!

He only had two fishes and Nan Baoyi caught it both and killed it!