I just want to be a princess, no, you want to be a queen

Chapter 271 Spring is coming

"Brother Wei!" Yang Nianshu's eyes lit up, and he excitedly threw the half-broken wooden stick at the bearded man who was trying to get up. "Brother Wei, hurry up and beat them up."

Yang Hao led his men to rush over and subdue the bandits.

Wei Luo looked at the girl in front of him, his expression suddenly changed: "Where are you hurt?"

The little girl was covered in blood, and the color of her original clothes was no longer recognizable.

"I'm not hurt." The dirty little face grinned. "I didn't dare go into the city. I slept in the ravine at night and almost froze to death. But I was lucky. I came across a wolf that was about to die of old age. I skinned it to keep warm. I'm not very good at skinning, so I got covered in blood."

"Luckily, I was smart. The next day, I went into the city and found someone trying to catch me. I had no choice but to walk back along the valley. Unexpectedly, I stumbled into a black shop that was trafficking women. I almost escaped, but I felt so disloyal, so I went back and rescued them."

"what happened to you?"

Yang Nianshu kept talking and found that the person in front of him had an increasingly gloomy expression. He hurriedly reached into his clothes and took out a jade pendant.

It was a piece of emerald green Hetian jade, but the shape was a bit strange, a four-leaf clover.

"A birthday gift for you!" Yang Nianshu said, shaking the four-leaf clover jade pendant. "I carved it myself. There's a kind of grass called Oxalis that grows by the river in my hometown. It usually has three leaves, but occasionally there are four-leaf Oxalis."

"My second sister said that a four-leaf clover represents luck. So I carved a four-leaf clover for you. The sword is a dangerous weapon, and if you wear it, you will surely be able to turn misfortune into good fortune and turn disaster into blessing."

The hand holding the four-leaf clover jade pendant was covered with chilblains, and Wei Luo frowned in pain.

"Don't be angry!" Yang Nianshu hurriedly explained: "I didn't mean to break the appointment. I went to see you on your birthday, but I didn't expect to be... um..."

The girl who was speaking bumped into his warm chest. Wei Luo held the girl he had lost and found again, speechless for a long time. Tears fell on the girl's neck and flowed into her developed chest.

A strange feeling spread in her heart, and Yang Nian'er twisted her body in panic.

"Are you cold?" Wei Luo hugged him tighter.

"Young Master, Young Master..." Yang Hao coughed and reminded him. Wei Luo turned around and saw Lu Mingyang. She rode over hurriedly, also covered in snow.

"Second sister!" Yang Nianshu jumped off the horse and threw himself into Lu Mingyang's arms.

Lu Mingyang rubbed his frozen face and asked, "Are you scared?"

"No!" Yang Nianshu smiled happily: "I knew you would come to save me."

"Cousin!" Wei Luo walked over, his face full of nervousness. He didn't want Nian'er to know about those things, and he didn't have the face to explain them to her.

"I'll take Nian'er to wash up first. We can talk about the other things later." Lu Mingyang took Yang Nian'er into the city.

At the inn closest to the city gate, Yang Nianshu sat in the bathtub, eating osmanthus cake while Lu Mingyang sat outside, helping her wash. The whip marks on her back, soaked in water, looked even more hideous.

"Didn't you say you weren't hurt?"

"It's okay!" Yang Nian'er's voice was full of joy. "I just didn't expect that on the way back, I was discovered by the black-hearted store owner and was whipped a few times. A few whips in exchange for rescuing eight people, it was a good deal."

"Is it worth it?" Lu Mingyang said distressedly: "You saved them, but they actually left you and ran away."

"They were scared too. I don't blame them. It's just that…" Thinking of the scene when they just entered the city, Yang Nian'er curled her lips in confusion: "I obviously saved them, why do they have to thank Brother Wei?"

"Maybe they thought the cousin was yours..."

"My what?"

Seeing that her second sister had only said half of her words, Yang Nianshu urged her in confusion, and her face suddenly turned red. Now that she had grown into a big girl, how could she not understand what it meant.

However, that feeling was instantly suppressed by Yang Nianshu. She curled her lips and angrily threw herself into the water. "Even if Brother Wei is my man, let's put things in perspective. How can you do this?"

"Yes!" Lu Mingyang agreed.

"But they're not wrong to thank Brother Wei." Yang Nianshu lay on the bathtub, his face getting redder from the steam. "If it weren't for Brother Wei's fireworks, those girls wouldn't have dared to follow me. It was also because of those fireworks that we didn't get lost. Second sister, how come Brother Wei is so smart that he even thought of setting off fireworks?"

Seeing that look of admiration, Lu Mingyang rolled his eyes in disdain: "He's not smart, he just has too much money and doesn't know where to spend it."

As she said that, she snatched the osmanthus cake from her sister's hand and pushed her into the water.

"Hmm..." The water gurgled and bubbled. Yang Nianshu raised his head breathlessly, "Second sister, you are going to kill me."

Lu Mingyang felt upset. She didn't know how to tell her sister about Wei Luo. If he really helped the Song family, they would be enemies from now on.

"Wash your hair!"

"How can you wash like this...Second sister!" Yang Nianshu saw a shadow outside the door and hurriedly shrank into the bathtub.

Lu Mingyang followed his sister's gaze and went to open the door, but only opened it a crack.

Wei Luo stood outside the door with new clothes in her hands.

"Thank you!" Lu Mingyang took the clothes with an expressionless face.

Wei Luo retracted his hand and whispered, "Cousin, can you and I talk?"

"I'll come find you later." Lu Mingyang took the clothes and closed the door.

Across the street from the inn was a restaurant. Wei Luo ordered a pot of tea and sat in the attic, quietly waiting. Not long after, Lu Mingyang pushed the door open and walked in.

"Cousin, sit down." Wei Luo poured the tea himself.

The tea had already lost its warmth by the time it was poured into the cup. Lu Mingyang held it tightly, applying a little pressure. "Cousin, just speak frankly!"

Wei Luo put down the teapot and spoke carefully, "That night, Concubine Song did come to see me. She wanted to ask me for some of Yunzhao's finest corals for..."

"What you are going to do has nothing to do with me." Lu Mingyang couldn't stand his lies and interrupted him.

"Well then," Wei Luo stopped beating around the bush and said directly, "I hope my cousin won't let Prince Ningyuan know about this."

"What if he already knows?"

"what?"

After hearing Lu Mingyang's answer, Wei Luo was obviously a little restless.

"Cousin, you have nothing to do with him anymore. Looking at the entire imperial family, who has ever married a second wife? The emperor is already choosing a concubine for him. Even if you try to please him, he won't give you any status, not now, and certainly not in the future."

Lu Mingyang looked at Wei Luo quietly without saying a word. Wei Luo realized that he had said too much and his tongue was tied: "Cousin, I don't mean to humiliate you."

"I know!" Lu Mingyang smiled faintly. "My cousin means that he is willing to pretend to be nice to me now because he needs the Chengyang Marquisate. When he no longer needs me, he will abandon me like a worn-out shoe. After all, he has to save face, right?"