A Slap

Yu Wan had not had such a comfortable sleep in a long time. It was so comfortable that she actually started to dream. This was really a rare thing. However, her dream was a little strange.

She dreamed that she was lying on a soft beach, comfortably basking in the sun. Suddenly, a little wild boar came out of nowhere and bit her finger. After a long time, she was unable to pull it out. Hence, she raised her other hand and sent the little wild boar flying with a slap.

In the dark carriage, a translucent veil covered the luminescent pearl's clear radiance. The atmosphere was ice-cold to the extreme. Even breathing seemed to emit a trace of coldness.

Yan Jiuchao was sitting on a messy soft chair. There was a huge bump on his forehead and a large palm print on his right cheek. His face was ashen.

Uncle Wan sat at the side, not even daring to breathe. Who would have thought that the Young Master of Yan City, who had never been touched by anyone, would be slapped by a little village girl.

"Ahem!" Uncle Wan covered his mouth with his fist and said in a low voice, "Who asked you to take advantage of her?" The Princess Consort sent so many women over, but you didn't want them. Instead, you had to take advantage of a village girl. Young Master, your taste is a little too strong.

Of course, this wasn't the most shocking thing. The most shocking thing was why the Young Master didn't kill her.

Yan Jiuchao's expression was extremely ugly.

By the side, Little Snow Fox hugged the small jar that was emitting the fragrance of meat and fell asleep drooling.

Yan Jiuchao pinched it playfully and shook it awake! Little Snow Fox with a small tuft of fur on its head opened its eyes sleepily with a confused expression.

Young Master Yan: "You're not allowed to sleep."

Little Snow Fox: I want to sleep!

The man and the fox came at each other.

Uncle Wan was afraid that he would be the next one to be affected. He quickly stood up and said to Yan Jiuchao, "I saw that the snow has stopped outside. We can start our journey now. Why don't we enter the Capital earlier?"

The real reason was that it was unsuitable for Young Master to go out to meet others with his glory. It would damage his high and mighty image. It was better for him to stay obediently in the carriage!

Uncle Wan went to check out of the room and paid the bill for the dishes that he had instructed the kitchen to prepare. He picked out a few light dishes and took them away.

Watching the carriage turn around and leave the courier station, the Great Uncle in the attic revealed a perplexed expression.

"Great Uncle, what's wrong?" The young man had just gone to see the horse that had been cured by the village girl. The moment he returned to the room, he saw his great uncle staring blankly into the night.

Only when the carriage disappeared into the night did the shadow guards brought by that terrifying person finally seem to disperse from above his head. He found his voice. "Damn it, those that were supposed to die didn't die, those that weren't supposed to die were dead… How did this happen?"

"What did you say, Great Uncle?" The young man did not understand.

"Ah, it's nothing." Great Uncle came back to his senses and sized up the young boy from head to toe. It was a look of regaining something he had lost, as if he couldn't get enough of it.

"Great Uncle, why are you looking at me like that?" The youth tilted his head in confusion.

"I haven't seen you in a long time…" A thin layer of moisture appeared in the Great Uncle's eyes.

"Haven't I always been with you?" The young man didn't notice his great uncle's strange behavior.

His parents had died early, and it was his great-uncle who had raised him. Wherever his great-uncle went, he went. Even when his great-uncle returned to the Capital to resume his duties, he would follow him!

"Do you still want to stay in the best room?" Great Uncle changed the topic.

The young man instantly forgot about his great uncle's weirdness. He hugged his arms and nodded vigorously. "I want to! This room is too cold! I'm shaking! Wait, we can get the best room now? Didn't they say we can't?"

"Now you can," said Great Uncle.

"Why?" The young man asked.

The Great Uncle smiled and patted his young head, but didn't answer him.

...

Yu Wan woke up from a bumpy ride. When she opened her eyes, she first saw a dim yellow lantern. Then, under the faint light, she saw her condition clearly. She was actually lying in a carriage that was many times more tattered than before. Yu Feng was dozing off as he sat at the side, his head nodding like a chick pecking at rice.

She was puzzled. When did the carriage change while she's sleeping?

She sat up.

Creak—

The board that had been out of repair for years started to move.

"Achoo!" It was too cold in the car and she sneezed without warning.

Yu Feng's body trembled. He opened his eyes and turned to look at her. "You're awake?"

"Yes." Yu Wan rubbed her sore arm. "Big Brother, why did we change our carriage?"

Yu Feng glared at her resentfully. "It's not that the carriage has changed. You got on the wrong carriage just now!"

After Yu Feng finished his business with the Courier Wang, he rented a carriage and returned to the courtyard. However, he found that Yu Wan had disappeared. He searched inside and out and almost flipped the courier station over, but she was nowhere to be found.

"Could she have been abducted?"

Yu Feng's face turned pale with fright with the courier's words. There were people coming and going at the courier station. His sister must have met with an accident. Just as he was about to report to the authorities, a middle-aged man in his forties walked over and asked him if he was looking for a sixteen or seventeen-year-old village girl.

He had just found out that his sister had fallen asleep in someone's carriage.

"I couldn't wake you up no matter what from the outside of the carriage."

Thus, the middle-aged man had Courier Wang find two servants to carry Yu Wan back to his rented carriage.

Although Yu Feng hadn't seen much of the world, he could see that Courier Wang treated the person in the carriage more respectfully than the person in the North Garrison General Manor. It wasn't difficult to guess that this person's background was even greater than the General Manor.

"It's rare that they didn't take issue with you," Yu Feng said as he glanced at Yu Wan. "You even pulled their blanket down!"

"Huh?" Yu Wan was stunned at first, then realized that she was indeed wrapped in a light and thin blanket.

Yu Feng was ashamed when he recalled the situation at that time. The elderly maid was sweating profusely while trying to pry it off her hands, but she couldn't get it off. Even the middle-aged man laughed. In the end, the middle-aged man let his sister take the blanket away.

His sister immediately rolled the blanket over her body—

You know to roll the blanket around your body even when you're dead to the world. Yu Feng was speechless.

"Big Brother, where's my jar?" Yu Wan suddenly couldn't find her own jar.

Yu Feng thought for a while and said, "I probably left it in their carriage. I forgot about it."

Yu Wan wrung her hands. "There's still half of the meatballs left in the jar. I was planning to have a meat feast with you guys tonight… But now, it's all gone."

Yu Feng held his chest and heaved a sigh of relief.