in his hand, speaking unperturbed: “The most unfortunate thing up to now has been to allow Juan Shu become my attendant.”

“Mistress personally used strong paste to seal our main entrance shut.”

“Yes, sealed,” w.a.n.g Yun Feng paused, asking: “what has she sealed?”

“The main entrance.”

w.a.n.g Yun Feng raised his eyebrow: “She did it herself?”

Bai Yan nodded, moving quickly to follow w.a.n.g Yun Feng to see the `strong paste` on the main entrance. This was a large residence with three entrances, it couldn’t be considered an official residence, it could only be a villa, therefore there wasn’t too strict a rules as the official residence in the imperial city, w.a.n.g Yun Feng only entered and left from this main entrance.

Right now, this six person wide main entrance had been sealed by the narrow-minded, grievance must be paid back Xia Ling Mei. Even the door frame and the small cracks in the door were blocked by lumps of rice flour paste, not a breeze came through.

Juan Shu touched the paste which had dried completely really quickly already: “Master, you can never use the main entrance again.”

Bai Yan said: “This door cannot be used, we must split it open from the inside.”

Juan Shu asked: “Even if we split the door open we still can’t take the door frame off, what should we do?”

Bai Yan thought about it deeply: “Then, then we can only demolish this wall, rebuild a new wall.” He rather bitterly said to his master, “Master, I warned you before, the woman from Xia family cannot be trifled with. You only saw her face once, your main entrance was sealed, next time the one who will be sealed…”

Juan Shun and Bai Yan both said together: “I reckon its your mouth.”

w.a.n.g Yun Feng was worried. Equally he was worried about Xia Ling Mei, she continuously found several tarverns, and she was told they were full. The last tavern still had one room left, however someone had already reserved it, Xia Ling Mei was slightly familiar with that person, they had met once before, she practically recognised them immediately: “Ah, pervert.”

Zhuang Sheng repeatedly waved his heand: “Lady, firstly I’m not a pervert, secondly I’m also not a thief. I simply cannot take that false reputation of being a flower thief on myself. If you are firmly set on slandering me in this way, then I can only call you this -----“ His line of sight fell on the long whip at Xia Ling Mei’s waist, “Lioness.”

The consequences of offending a lioness, is to experience the feel of a whip.

The night before last Zhuang Sheng happily celebrated that his opponent’s martial arts wasn’t that great, at least that whip didn’t land on his body at all, instead it barely pa.s.sed by him, that whip had formidable power, whipping at him he leapt and frisked about inside the tavern, like a monkey, or rather a ruffian monkey.

His face became green.

Even more strange was, no matter where he ran, just before his foot touched the ground a concealed weapon would suddenly slide across the floor, he couldn’t step on the hidden weapon. He could only leap before he touched the ground, afterwards there would be another extremely tiny concealed weapon advancing towards his head, if his neck stretched out a hair width more, his scalp would have split open.

“You go so far as to throw concealed weapons.”

Xia Ling Mei sneered: “I don’t need to bother about weapons when facing a flower thief.”

Zhuang Sheng twitched his mouth: “You lioness how many lackeys do you have secretly protecting you.”

Xia Ling Mei laughed sarcastically, borrowing the a.s.sistance of the secret guards, while Zhuang Sheng avoided the concealed weapons, she took the opportunity to whip the opponent’s b.u.t.t.

Zhuang Sheng `wailed----` with a miserable shriek, covering his b.u.t.t jumping three feet high: “You!”

“Me what?”

“Ao, ao, you this…”

“I this what?”

“Ao, ao, ao…ao, let go of me.”

The head of the secret guards lifted and trussed up the flower thief, with the face of a zombie he asked his young lady: “How should I deal with him?”

Xia Ling Mei looked at Zhuang Sheng who had completely pa.s.sed out, shrugging her shoulders: “This sort of dirty person, you guys drag him down and rough him up a bit, warn him to not do such lowly thing of taking advantage of woman.” She finished speaking, indicating to Ying s.h.i.+ to pick up the key to go to the last best room.

Waiting until the two people already turned to go up the stairs and could no longer be seen, Xiu Yu then rushed in, facing the secret guard she jabbered on for a while, no one could see in these two people, one black, one white, one dark, one bright, the sinister twinkling in their eyes.

Xia Ling Mei who had been tormented for half the night went to bed, she slept exceptionally well, not worried at all about the suffering Lord Gu could be in after she left the Gu residence.

The Gu residence without Xia Ling Mei, should be demolished by the angry w.a.n.g Yun Feng? Perhaps, the place where she next sees Lord Gu, would be in the imperial prison! If someone asks the reason for the destruction of the Gu family, it was only because Lord Gu, on a moonless and windy night had lost Lord w.a.n.g’s…therefore, the petty Lord w.a.n.g used his public office to avenge private wrongs, exploiting his position as imperial censor against the recently promoted Lord Gu.

Truly scourge without cause!

Poor Lord Gu.

Clinging onto this `perfect` illusion, Xia Ling Mei slept extremely soundly.

The next day, when the sun had risen as high as three bamboo poles, Xia Ling Mei’s entire body was unable to get up. Last night tossed aside two men, her body and mind were both considerably tired. After she heard the endless sounds of laughter and noise outside, she yawned as she asked: “What is happening, so noisy?”

Just then Ying s.h.i.+ came in carrying water for her to wash, Xiu Yu rolled up her sleeves, wringing the cloth dry she lightly wiped at Xia Ling Mei’s face: “Nothing much, just a group of people looking at nothing.”

“They’re not finished after looking at it so early in the morning?”

“Yes. Supposedly someone is being paraded through the streets.”

“A major criminal for adultery or treason to the imperial family?”

“No.”

“A commoner who stole and robbed?”

“Also no.”

Xia Ling Mei washed her face, rinsed her mouth, picking out her own clothes she shook it out, putting it on with the hands of the maids next to her: “Then who is it, unless it’s a major robber of the Jianghu who committed murder and arson?”

Xiu Yu laughed, after arranging her lady’s clothes she then pushed open letting air in. This tavern had six stories, the highest floor was where the best rooms were, wide field of vision, extremely beauty scenery, from the window you can overlook more than half of Chenzhou.

Xia Ling Mei was somewhat doubtful, holding a cup of tea to moisten her throat she looked out of the window, she could only vaguely see a person suspended fromthe memorial arch in the distance.

“It’s the flower thief.” Xiu Yu explained.

“I wonder where there would be a flower thief who fell into someone’s plan, fed a knock-out drug, removed of all his clothing, publically exposed and suspended on the memorial arch. Lady, tell me isn’t that person to be blamed for his own troubles?”

Eh, Xia Ling Mei blinked.

Compared to Lord Gu, actually the flower thief was the number one most tragic person in the kingdom. Perhaps, compared to government officials, flower thief is the most dangerous occupation?

Such pitiful, Mr thief.