12. Secretly Hiding A Strange Man

It was another tranquil night after heavy snowfall. The next morning, the peach blossom residence became even more serene and lovely.

Ye Lan was astonished and asked Xiao Hei with her head tilting to one side while having the soup of peach blossom made by Xiao Hei, “How come there’s peach blossom in the middle of a freezing winter?”

“Yummy!” She unwillingly put down the bowl and chopsticks after finishing the last mouthful of soup.

Xiao Hei took his time drinking the soup and put down his spoon later. He looked at Ye Lan with a mysterious smile; the question remained unanswered.

“You don’t want to tell me?” Ye Lan sniggered and said, “Well let me guess… If I am right, you should teach me how to make the soup.”

Xiao Hei nodded without saying anything.

“You made the peach blossom bloom with your spiritual power!” She raised her eyebrows towards Xiao Hei, “Am I right?”

A shocked look flashed through his eyes. She really deserved to be his master; no one could be as clever as she was throughout the Fengtian Continent, right?

He bowed with his hand clasped to Ye Lan, “How wise you are, my master!”

“When will you teach me how to make the blossom soup?”

Xiao Hei flushed on hearing this; a vague smile emerged at the corner of his mouth.

Ye Lan asked coolly before he made his answer, “What’s the noise outside?”

“Master, I will go have a look.”

Ye Lan was now lying on the bed, fiddling with her spiritual power and the corn poppy on the window frame gradually flowered under the nourishment of her spiritual power. Its leaves and stem had turned green from grey; its layers of buds were now in full blossom.

She stopped her fiddling as she saw him come back and asked, “What’s going on?”

“Ye Wanru has taken lots of guards here and is challenging you outside!”

“She really can’t give me a break, can she?” Ye Lan jumped out of her bed and walked towards the door, “I didn’t leave her alive to cause more trouble and be so ungrateful!”

Ye Lan attached the dagger at her waist and said grimly, “She asked for this as she disturbed my peaceful life!”

“Don’t go!”

She questioned him, tilting her head, “Are you afraid?”

Ye Lan had walked in the peach forest before Xiao Hei told her why.

“The Master of Ye family is also here!”

Ye Lan still had some impression of the Master of Ye Family, “Why is he here?”

Xiao Hei stopped Ye Lan; his face flushed. He tried to say something but hesitated.

“Xiao Hei… Are you hiding something from me?”

Xiao Hei said it with his head down, “They are ruining your reputation. I can go kill them all at once. You may stay here and wait for my good news.”

Ye Lan shouted at him, “Stop!”

“Wait for me in the residence. I will be back soon.”

“But… Master…”

“It is my order!”

She bypassed the fence without turning her head back.

Layers of cedar covered with ice crystal blocked his view. He followed her in a stealth mode as he was worried about her.

“Ye Lan, you disgraceful bitch, finally you have the gut to come out, huh?” Ye Wanru, gnashing her teeth, with two hands on her hips, ordered the guards to surround Ye Lan.

Behind her stood a middle-aged gentleman—the Master of Ye family: Ye He.

“Why aren’t you saluting to Master Ye? You uneducated country girl!”

Ye Wanru squeaked to Ye Lan who was keeping silent, “Well, I almost forget, this girl here secretly hides a strange man in her residence. We shouldn’t have expected her to bear the family rules of Ye in mind.”

Ye Lan shot a harsh stare towards Ye Wanru before she finished her speech. Ye Wanru was scaredand retreated behind Ye He, stopped saying anything.

Ye He cleared his throat slight, and tried to protect Ye Wanru who was behind him, “Wanru told me you hide one man inside your residence, is that true?”

He raised his voice a bit and kept his composure and his master manners, “An unmarried girl hiding a man secretly shall face the punishment of being tied up and then soaked in the water inside a bamboo cage made for pigs.”

“Master, you just believe whatever Wanru has told you? And you will kill me without any proof?” She sneered at him while meeting his incisive eyes fearlessly.

Ye He was shocked. He couldn’t believe his concubine’s daughter could have such a drastic change just after a few days. It seemed like there was a little bloodthirsty monster living in her purely dark eyes, bruised and scarred but invincible.

“Drop your actand stop lying here, Ye Lan, the Master will not buy it!”

Ye Waru craned her neck from behind the Master, played the bully with the support from her Master.

“I saw a man follow you into the peach blossom residence with my own eyes!”

She continued, “Apart from me, all the door guards saw it as well. What else do you want to say with all the evidence?!”

Ye Lan’s eyes flicked from all the best men the Master had taken, she significantly glanced at Ye He and mocked him, “Your Master has taken so many best hands this time; You just want to force me to admit it, don’t you?”

She regained her composure and slowly said, “You’re right; I have kept one guard.”

Ye Wanru kept adding fuel to the fire, “See? You all hear that. This bitch admits herself! A guard? How interesting! A single man and a single woman living together under the same roof and nothing happened, bullshit!”

“Ye Wanru, watch your mouth!”

Ye Lan smile devilishly, “Believe it or not, Ye Wanru, I will plug all of your teeth out one day!”

“Enough!”

Ye He yelled at them, “We are a family; no need for more embarrassment or further fierce argument, heh?”

Family? Ye Lan hated Ye Wanru’s guts at hearing the word; the so-called family member watched her mother being tortured to death and didn’t do a thing. What a hypocrite you were, huh, Ye He!

Later, Ye He said to Ye Lan gently, “Ye Lan, in accordance with the family rules, you should face death penalty as you secretly hide a strange man, however…”

“Why can’t I own my personal body guard? Or is it because there’s no enough guards in the Ye family so that a concubine’s daughter doesn’t deserve to haveone?”

Ye Lan took Ye He’s words and threw all of them back, leaving no decency for Ye He. He became irritated and said with contained anger, “As long as you hand out the thing your mother leaves to you, I will forgive your mistake this time!”

Ye Lan chuckled on hearing this. Her eyes cooled and turned into a murderous look in the darkness, “Master, I appreciate your leniency, but my mother had led a simple, rustic life her whole life, and she had never left me with anything.”

“Oh, really… maybe I got it wrong?” Ye He was thinking to himself, “Does your mother really leaves you with nothing?”

Ye Lan looked straight at Ye He’s suspicious face and said with a determined tone, “Nothing at all!”

From the memory of the previous owner of her body, Ye Lan did know that her mother had left her with one thing, which was now hidden in the peach garden behind her.

As for what this thing was, she had no idea either.

Nevertheless, this thing must be important and she would never hand it to Ye He!

Ye He had now lost his patience and roared, “Ye Lan! Don’t push your luck! Hand the thing out immediately and I shall keep you alive!”

“What if I said no?” Ye Lan didn’t beat around the bush and responded harshly.

Ye He was now furious and pointed her nose angrily, “Then you shall never get out of here alive!”

“Let me ask you again. Do you give it to me now, or not?”

Ye Lan ignored him and turned around towards the residence.

“Stop her!”

The guards swarmed to her, but were fended off by an invisible air wave.

“The spiritual shield!?” Ye He’s eyes were full of shock, “You, you are now a spiritual cultivator?”

Three days ago, the weak little girl was still a loser without any spiritual power, but she had now become a stage three spiritual cultivator within just three days…With a few more days, she could be…

Ye He couldn’t keep thinking and hurried to hide the fear on his face. He decided that he must kill this girl while she was still young, in case she became a big threat to him in the future.

“Hidden spiritual cultivators!”

Ye He called out the death servants of Ye family—dozens of men in black robes. They stood behind their master spookily and waited for the order.

Ye Lan realized that these men in black robes were different from the previous batch with Ye Wanru. The men Ye He just summoned had greater spiritual power and were cruller.

She couldn’t believe that Ye He would use the death servants of Ye family simply to kill a daughter of his concubine!

Ye Lan saw what Ye He feared most.

“Are you afraid of me, Ye He?”

“Me being afraid of you? You must be joking! Come on, go kill her!”

The men in black robes flew to the air and approached like dark clouds.

Ye Lan had a twitch at the corner of her mouth, a devilish smile appeared like a poppy flower. She opened her arms and a pair of spiritual wings stretched. The surplus spiritual air had been converted into flying fireflies.