Chapter 49
Chapter 49 A Completely Safe Plan
“It’s your Princess. Please hurry up and think of a plan to save her.”
Long Tianhao’s attitude suggested that he cared much about Lin Mengya. Jinyue was sure about this.
But he had been used to hiding his true feelings since he was a child. He seemed to be indifferent and reticent, but in fact, he was not iron-hearted at all.
At least, he had never vented his anger on innocent people who were not to blame.
“Lin Mengya? What’s wrong with her?” Long Tianhao raised his eyebrows and asked. He couldn’t believe that there was someone in the world who could screw her over.
Jinyue sighed and carefully told Long Tianhao everything about the statuette of Songzi Guanyi.
“The Empress is too mean and despicable. Aunt Jinyue, if my memory serves me right, Aunt Mingyu and Aunt Xiyue were killed by this scheme, right?”
Long Tianhao’s words reminded her of something painful and terrible.
She nodded while her eyes were filled with tears.
Mingyue was her twin sister. At that time, both of them were brought to the imperial palace by Concubine De.
But she didn’t expect that she would be separated from her sister forever.
Therefore, Jinyue didn’t want anyone to be framed by this thing.
“Don’t worry. I’ll find a way to solve this. Thank you, Aunt Jinyue.”
Long Tianhao didn’t know these past events. But every time when Aunt Jinyue mentioned this thing, she would break into tears.
He would never let this thing happen again!
In the Qinglan Courtyard. Lin Mengya had been lying on the couch in her room for three days.
She claimed that she had some discomfort but in fact, she was staying in her room and watching Xiaoyu draw the image of the statuette.
“Sister Princess. I finished it. Please have a look.”
Xiaoyu had finished dozens of drawings of the Songzi Guanyin statuette in the past three days.
At first, it looked a bit like the statuette. But now, his drawing was almost the same as the original one.
Lin Mengya was surprised by Xiaoyu’s talents in drawing.
“Little guy, I didn’t that you were good at drawing. Who taught you to draw pictures before?”
Lin Mengya just asked him casually but Xiaoyu answered her question shyly.
“No one taught me. I learned from the old beggar who adopted me before. He looks crazy but he knows a lot.”
Every time when Xiaoyu mentioned the old beggar, he looked reverent and longing.
She touched the little guy’s head and thought that the old beggar must have given him the simplest warmth in the first years of his life.”
He was really a poor kid. Lin Mengya felt sweet and relieved.
“Who do you think you are? How dare you break into my room!”
At this moment, they suddenly heard rude and impolite noise outside the courtyard.
Lin Mengya and Xiaoyu looked at each other and went out to the yard to have a look.
Baizhi, Baiji, and Baishao lived in the wing-rooms which were not far away from the principal room. They were all first-class servant girls, so they usually served her in her room.
The aggressive words were said by Baishao.
At the moment, this girl put her hands on her hips and stared at the woman servant in front of her with her beautiful eyes. It seemed that she would not stop until the woman left here.
“Baishao, you’re wrong. I’m ordered by the butler to look around. I can even check the Princess’ room, not to mention yours.”
“I’m going to cut your tongue if you don’t stop speaking! The butler is nobody here! The Princess is the real master in this mansion! You evil old woman, I’ll not spare you if you dare to offend the Princess!”
The servants in the courtyard gathered around in a circle and no one noticed that the Princess and Lin Zhongyu were looking at them.
Baishao was bold, vigorous, and loyal.
Lin Mengya knew that it was wise to choose Baishao as her servant.
“Well, I’m determined to check your room no matter you’re Baishao or peony. Come on, drive her away!”
This old woman servant was also bossy and shrewd. She was determined to enter this girl’s room.
But Baishao was an important servant in the mansion anyway and no one dared to drive her away.
“Who is it? Why are you so daring? How dare you check the room of my personal maid?”
They heard a soft voice and Lin Mengya appeared before them.
The old woman servant suddenly changed and it seemed that she saw her family members. She cried loudly and rushed at Lin Mengya to complain to her.
“Princess, please help me. I can’t even finish my task. The butler asked me to check the room. But Baishao didn’t even let me enter her room. What should I do?”
Lin Mengya gave her a cold look and the old woman servant stopped crying automatically.
Why did the Princess look even more terrifying than the Prince?
“Well, you’ve said that you also want to check my room. OK, I can let you in. But to put it bluntly, if you break anything in my room, you have to pay with your life.”
It seemed that Lin Mengya was impartial and didn’t defend any of them. But that old woman was scared by what she had said.
But she suddenly summoned up her courage after thinking of what the butler had said.
“Princess, please forgive us. Come on! Follow me and check the room of the Princess.”
Lin Mengya’s looked at them coldly. She stopped Baishao from rushing forward to stop them and shook her head slightly.
“Princess, after you, please.”
These servants were not allowed to enter the master’s room and the old woman also planned to enter her room alone.
Lin Mengya took Lin Zhongyu’s hands and sat at the desk. They stared the woman who was looking at her room carefully.
They heard a sudden bang and Lin Zhongyu threw the sandalwood box on the ground. The sandalwood box was originally put on his desk and there was an ink-stone in it.
“Childe Yu, why are you so careless?”
The old woman smiled broadly and picked the box up. Lin Zhongyu stared at her coldly and asked some servants to come in.
“This desk is in a mess. I can’t even draw pictures here! Come in and clean it up for me!”
Several second-class servant girls entered one by one and found that the old woman was holding a box and standing in front of Childe Yu with mixed emotions.
“Have you finished? Get out here if you finished!”
Lin Zhongyu didn’t care about her feelings at all. Both his face and his voice were cold.
Looking at this little guy, Lin Mengya smiled. He was really a cute and clever monkey.
“Yes, I’ve already finished. There’s nothing wrong with the room of the Princess. By the way, I want to give you a heads-up. The capital city is not safe these days and we all know that the robbers broke into our mansion and stole something. Princess, please be careful.”
Lin Mengya didn’t even look up at her. They came here in a big way and she had already known their intentions.
“Well, I know this.”
The old woman didn’t expect that the Princess was so nice and open to persuasion.
In an instant, she felt that she would live comfortably in this place.
This group of people left arrogantly.
Lin Mengya looked out of the window and her sneer at the corner of her mouth became more and more obvious.
They came here at the right time. The Empress and her followings were too impatient.
Lin Mengya looked at the tea in her hand without saying anything.
“Master, how can you let them search your house!”
Baishao was angry. If she hadn’t stalled them, Baiji and Baizhi wouldn’t have had the time to hide all these drawings and embroidery.
But she felt sorry for her master.
“They’re just clowns and I don’t care what they did. But I didn’t know that you’re so bold and vigorous.”
Baishao, who was tough and bossy just now, immediately blushed and pinched the corner of her clothes shyly.
“My mother is a widow and the clansmen always wanted to bully my mother and my siblings, so I have to…”
“This is good. It’s a good thing to protect your loved ones. Don’t feel inferior. I need a tough girl like you to protect the Qinglan Courtyard.”
Lin Mengya looked at Baishao with appreciation. Baizhi was loyal to her, but she was too innocent.
Baiji was calm, but she was too soft to others.
Baishao was beautiful and shrewd. She was a bit like Wang Xifeng (a tough and shrewd woman in Dream of the Red Chamber). After training, she could help her a lot.
“By the way, master, they said that the robbers broke into our mansion. Do we need to take action to guard against them?”
Lin Mengya shook her head. Even the robbers broke into this mansion, they couldn’t find her room.
Last time she was taken away by Qinghu.
Since then, Steward Deng had been crazy and buried a lot of hidden piles in her yard.
Although he didn’t tell her, she noticed it through the clues.
“Find Steward Deng and ask him who is the butler mentioned by the old woman. Please be careful and avoid alerting the enemy.”
Baishao left quietly and Lin Mengya sat in her room to sort herself out.
This person put many plants in Prince Yu’s Mansion without raising suspicion. He couldn’t reveal himself so easily.
There must be a reason for all these events.
What did they want to cover up?
She hadn’t even solved the problem of the statuette of Songzi Guanyin. But now, more and more things happened. Even she was a little confused.
No, she must calm down, otherwise, people around her would be in danger!
“Little guy, what are you thinking about?”
Suddenly, she heard a feminine voice. Lin Mengya’s eyes widened. But there were only her and Lin Zhongyu who was also shocked in this room.
“Qinghu? Why do you come here today? You said that you would start to protect me three months later. Come out and don’t hide.”
Lin Mengya said calmly to the air.
A white figure suddenly appeared before her.
They hadn’t seen each other for a few days, but he seemed to have grown taller.
“You…”
“I become more handsome, right?”
Lin Mengya couldn’t help but roll her eyes. Why was this guy so shameless?
“You are a killer, not a rapist. It’s no use being handsome.”
Lin Mengya was calm but Lin Zhongyu was nervous as if confronted by a formidable enemy. He looked at the strange guy in front of him with alert and secretly clenched his self-defense dagger. He looked cold and grim.
“Well, you don’t know how to appreciate my beauty. Oh? Who is it? I have to admit that he’s even more handsome than me.”
Lin Mengya touched Xiaoyu’s head with complacency and said proudly.
“This is my brother. He looks better than you, right?”