Frequent footsteps and voices came from inside. This time, the coachman could hear them clearly when they were speaking outside the room.

“Don’t worry, Miss Zhao. Childe Yan and I will always be your backup, and you will be safe! That guy is just a son of a low-grade official. You don’t have to be afraid of him,” Wang Shengxue was comforting her, and the coachman heard it clearly.

“Thank you, Childe Wang, and Childe Yan. Without you, I wouldn’t have known what to do. As a single woman alone in the capital city, I would rather die if… if that’s the case,” the woman sobbed in a low voice which sounded very delicate but with a little strong firmness.

“Don’t be worried about it, Miss Zhao. It will be solved, and I assured you,” Yan Xi also comforted her. He was given a headache by the current situation. He was willing to do her a favor but had no idea how to do it at the moment. He himself was also a foreigner in the capital city, and the only person he knew was Duke Xing. Was it possible that he could ask Duke Xing for help?

But he was not a cold man who would let people die if they got in trouble. He reached out to relax his glabella. Never encountered such a troublesome thing before, YanXi really didn’t know how to deal with it.

Miss Zhao was a delicate and pretty girl at the age of seventeen or eighteen, just in her youthful prime. She was looking at Yan Xi with her big watery eyes that seemed to be able to speak, which aroused more sympathies for her.

Despite the fact that she was not the most beautiful one, she was more pretty and fragile than the average. It was really admirable for a weak woman like her to say such things with such determination.

Gazed by her trustful eyes, Yan Xi felt it even more awkward for him.

“Don’t worry. Childe Yan and I will help you to solve the problem. Leave it to us! It’s infuriating that a playboy wants to take a young lady for his own!” Wang Shengxue said with anger, making casual promises one after another.

Yan Xi was speechless at Wang Shengxue. He had an intention of discussing it with him, but… After all, it wasn’t an easy problem to deal with.

Wasn’t it possible that a man would dare to possess a woman like that just because he was the son of such an inferior official? That was the capital city, not a remote town! Any official of the capital city was superior to his father. Was it just because of ignorance that his playboy son dared to do whatever he wanted?

“Thank you, Childe Yan. Thank you, Childe Wang!” The woman said in a delicate voice. She wiped her face with a handkerchief and looked up again with a beautiful smile. She looked as charmingly delicate as a lily in the breeze. Fixing her affectionate eyes on Yan Xi, she said, “Thank you for helping me, Childe Yan!”

As they talked, they had arrived at the entrance. The servant girl opened the door, but Miss Zhao did not see them out first. Stepping to beside her servant girl and touching the shoulder of the latter, reluctance to say goodbye, she look at Yan Xi and said, “Childe Yan, if you save me from it, I will definitely…”

She stopped before finishing her words and her face blushed.

Before Yan Xi spoke, Wang Shengxue clapped his hands and said to Miss Zhao with a happy smile, “Miss Zhao, you are indeed a passionate person. But Childe Yan is not an ordinary man. He can be the Number One Scholar in the future!”

Yan Xi frowned. He didn’t like Wang Shengxue’s exaggerated words.

“Childe Wang, let’s go!” Yan Xi said and took the lead to go out.

“Okay, let’s go back!” Wang Shengxue nodded. Making sure that Yan Xi had been out of the door, he looked back and cast a dirty peep at Miss Zhao’s pretty face.

With her head lowed, Miss Zhao seemed not to see what Wang Shengxue did to her.

Wang Shengxue turned around and left with a satisfied smile. When arriving outside, he saw Yan Xi waiting for him by the carriage. So he immediately stepped forward with a smile and said, “After you, Childe Yan!”

Yan Xi nodded and got on the carriage, followed by Wang Shengxue. The coachman skillfully turned the carriage to another direction, during which he happened to see Miss Zhao inside the courtyard. She was a beauty. A thought instantly came into his mind—he didn’t know this Miss.

Miss Zhao seemed to have noticed that the coachman was peeking at her. So she gestured to the servant girl and asked her to close the door of the courtyard. Both of them hid behind the door together.

“Childe Yan, what do you think we should do? Should we tell Uncle Shao?” Wang Shengxue couldn’t wait to ask as soon as he sat down.

Yan Xi frowned tightly. He didn’t know what to do either.

Beholding his frown, Wang Shengxue said again, “It won’t be settled if it just depends on us two, but it will if Uncle Shao gives a hand. Miss Zhao came to the capital city alone to turn to her relatives. It’s pitiful that she is trapped in such trouble before she finds her relatives. If she hadn’t met meet you, she and her servant girl might have lost their lives!”

Speaking of this, Wang Shengxue sighed with a sobbing tone.

“Ask Duke Xing for help?” Yan Xi finally answered.

“I know no one else better! What’s more, the playboy’s father is not a high-ranking official, he can be easily dealt with as long as Uncle Shao shows his face. Then the whole thing will be over, the son of that inferior official won’t trouble Miss Zhao anymore, and she can rest assured to go on seeking her relatives!” Wang Shengxue said and nodded.

Yan Xi fell silent again. It was a good idea, but he was not sure whether it was practicable. They must find a reason to persuade Duke Xing to help. But the truth was Yan Xi had nothing to do with Miss Zhao, which made it hard to explain to Duke Xing.

Here was the whole thing. Miss Zhao, who came to the capital city without families, encountered a playboy who had a crush on her when she was on her way to the Buddha Temple to offer incense. The moment she was stopped and about to be offended by the playboy, she was saved by Yan Xi, who happened to go by when he was hanging out on the street.

In general, it was a coincidence, and it came to a quite good end. The playboy was repelled. But when Yan Xi was about to leave, unexpectedly, Miss Zhao fainted away. Yan Xi could only help send her home, and then he met Wang Shengxue.

Wang Shengxue was very warmhearted and joined him to help.

Unexpectedly, it was not over. That idle man didn’t intend to give up. He found Miss Zhao and forced her to marry him as a concubine. However, Miss Zhao would never be a concubine even though she was in such a predicament that she had to come alone to seek refuge with relatives in the capital city because of the decline of her family.

She was a decent girl from a good family. She would rather die than be a concubine.

She had a strong will, which was very admirable. If Yan Xi hadn’t known it, it would be acceptable that he was not going to help her. But now that he knew it, he would feel guilty if he stood aside and watched her die.

That was why he made up his mind to take care of her.

Though the problem was not easy to solve.

“Childe Yan, I heard that you are not engaged yet. What if you tell Uncle Shao that Miss Zhao is your fiancee, then he can interfere with a reason?” Wang Shengxue rolled his eyes and then come up with an idea for him.

He knew what Yan Xi was worried about. But in his opinion, there was nothing to worry about.

“No!” Yan Xi shook his head decisively.

“Why not? It’s just an oral statement. Have you not understood Miss Zhao yet? If you get her out of this trouble, she will definitely be willing to devote her life to you without considering the reputation,” Wang Shengxue reminded him, ignoring Yan Xi’s worries.

That was exactly what Miss Zhao meant.

“Childe Wang, stop that, please! I don’t expect to be repaid. If I get her reward, her reputation will be ruined. It was not easy for her to refuse to be a concubine before, so that is too bad if she becomes one of mine!”

Yan Xi shook his head and denied Wang’s idea. At first glance, he had affirmed that Miss Zhao was a noble woman, who would never be willing to be anyone’s concubine.

Such a thing would never happen even though it was mentioned.

“Then what do you think we should do?” Wang Shengxue shrugged his shoulder. He put all the blame on Yan Xi, without even thinking that it was he who had patted his chest and made the promise.

Yan Xi frowned and kept in silence. At the moment, he was also at a loss. It became quiet in the carriage, no talking but their heavy breathing.

The coachman had been paying attention to the people in the carriage. On their way to Miss Zhao’s, they talk little. But now on their way back, they talked a lot.

The carriage was steering to Duke Xing’s Mansion and when they arrived, the coachman had known most parts of the whole thing.

After the carriage stopped, Yan Xi and Wang Shengxue got out of the carriage together. Yan Xi took out a small purse from his pocket and then gave some money to the coachman, and the latter bowed to thank him.

Wang Shengxue didn’t do anything. He just pulled Yan Xi’s sleeve and left, showing no respect to the coachman as if it was the coachman’s duty to give a ride to him, who was not even a master.

The coachman, with a good temper, held the money that Yan Xi gave him and saw them off with a smile…

When Qing’er came back to report the news from the coachman, Shao Wanru was making clothes for Chu Liuchen, who had sent people to give his size in the morning.

Yujie and Qu Le helped her cut the cloth, and they listened to Qing’er’s report in silence. After Qing’er finished, Yujie put down the needle and thread in her hand and said in surprise, “Miss Zhao sounds like a woman with evil intentions. But, why did she play a trick on Childe Yan? I heard that Childe Yan is just the son of an old friend of Duke Xing. He is not powerful and influential in the capital city, isn’t he?”

“Could it be that Childe Yan is actually a rich man, so she wants Childe Yan’s money?” Qu Le blinked her eyes and asked, following Yujie’s thoughts.

Shao Wanru didn’t put down the scissors in her hand. She blinked her eyes, in which and there was a trace of sharp hostility. If her supposition was right, then someone was plotting to destroy Yan Xi’s prospects.

But who would want to plot against an ordinary student, who just came to the capital city for the imperial exam? With the fact that a lot of students were on the list of candidates who were qualified for the exam, why was Yan Xi the only target? There should be something that she hadn’t known!

“Go and gather some information about Childe Yan!” Shao Wanru looked up and order slowly. It seemed that the key to uncovering the mystery was on Yu Yan himself.

Shao Wanru had a vague feeling that what happened to Yan Xi must have something to do with her!

“Yes, Miss. I’m going to do it right now!” Yujie was a straightforward girl. On hearing Shao Wanru’s order, she immediately turned around and go out.

“Let Nanny Yu do it. She is familiar with the people in the mansion!” Shao Wanru stopped her. Compared with Nanny Yu, Yujie stayed with Shao Wanru more, so it was easy for others to have suspicions of Shao Wanru’s intention if they were questioned by Yujie. She curled her lip up slightly and gave an instruction. “Nanny Yu, don’t ask Yan Xi first. Let’s start from other people, like Second Uncle!”