"Redeeming someone isn't that easy. Even if I add up all my monthly earnings over the years, it still won't be enough," she said. Although she had sounded so confident just now, she couldn't think of a good solution for the moment.
"Alas, if the young master could paint a picture and sell it for several hundred taels of silver like the Jade - faced Gentleman, then we wouldn't have to worry about anything."
"Even if I could, casually painting for money wouldn't make it worth that much! Right! Why didn't I think of it!" Yue Ru's words suddenly inspired Mei Qingxue, and an idea popped into her mind.
"What did you think of, young master?"
"Hehe, you'll know then." Mei Qingxue smiled confidently. Maybe Yue Ru would be extremely surprised when she saw what she was going to do.
"Are we going back to the mansion now, young master?"
Actually, just now, Mei Qingxue had already thought of how to settle the man who might be from the same time as her after time - traveling. Although this method was rather mean, she couldn't think of any other good way for the time being, so she could only wrong him.
"Yue Ru, go and buy..." Mei Qingxue whispered in Yue Ru's ear.
"What do you need those things for, young master?" Yue Ru was surprised after hearing this. Her young mistress couldn't be...
"Alright, don't ask so many questions. Just go and buy them for me first."
Mei Qingxue walked back to the medical clinic first. Tianzi No. 1 Medical Clinic should be an old - established one, and there were quite a few people coming to see a doctor.
"How is Yu Yi? Has he woken up during this time?" Looking at the motionless man still lying in bed, Mei Qingxue asked Yu Yi, who had been guarding beside him.
"Benefactor, this young master has never woken up. But I've already given him the medicine prescribed by the doctor."
"Go and hire a carriage for me. Ask the carriage to wait for me in the backyard of the medical clinic."
"Yes." Unconsciously, Mei Qingxue seemed to have regarded Yu Yi as her subordinate, and she was quite straightforward when giving him orders.
Mei Qingxue took the things Yue Ru had bought, dismissed the attendants around her, and started to work hard on the man lying in bed.
Half an hour later...
"Ah, young master, where is the young master you saved? Why is he gone?" Yue Ru said in surprise, looking at the "woman" lying on the sickbed with a very pale face. However, if she had looked carefully, she would have found that the "woman"'s pale face was because she had put on a lot of powder.
"Tell them when we get back that we saw him selling himself to bury his father and felt pity for him, so we bought him."
"Ah, young master, is he the one you saved!?" Her young mistress had actually dressed a grown man like this! She could vaguely see two small mounds on his chest. Could they be the two white buns she had bought? It was really a sin!
"I'm doing this as a last resort. Do you want me to bring a grown man back to the mansion openly?"
"What? You're going to bring him back to the mansion? If the master finds out..."
"That's why I'm dressing him like this."
"Benefactor, the carriage is ready for you." While Yue Ru was still hesitating, Yu Yi had already rented the carriage back.
"En, go and get a sedan chair. Let it follow the carriage."
"Yes."
Mei Qingxue asked the waiter in the medical clinic to help carry the man into the carriage, and then she got in too. Yue Ru looked at the man lying in the carriage, still worried.
Mei Qingxue found Yue Ru's hesitant look quite funny. She originally didn't want to care about her, but she couldn't bear to see her worried look, so she comforted her softly, "Yue Ru doesn't want this man to die outside, does she? If we don't help him, do you think anyone else will help him at this time? The Buddha said that saving a life is better than building a seven - level pagoda. We're doing good deeds for ourselves, and we'll surely be rewarded in the future." She hoped that God would really reward her and not let her die suddenly and unluckily again.
After the carriage arrived at the side gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Mei Qingxue asked the sedan - chair bearers to help the man out and put him into the sedan chair. Then she got in too. Just like this, she successfully brought the man into the Prime Minister's Mansion. Although the guards in the Prime Minister's Mansion were very curious about when the second young mistress had left the mansion, it wasn't their business to interfere in the master's affairs.
Mei Qingxue settled the man in the room where the maids in her courtyard lived. Since she wasn't used to being served by too many people, she only had Yue Ru as her personal maid. There were many empty rooms beside her main bedroom, so she settled the man in the second room on the left of her house. This was also for her to easily keep an eye on his movements.
"You've been with me all day today. Go and rest first. We'll go to our parents' place for dinner later." They had both gotten up very early this morning, and after going out and doing so many things, it had consumed a lot of her energy. Now that she was back in the mansion, she was really a bit tired. She'd better take a nap first. How could she handle things without energy?
After Yue Ru left, Mei Qingxue lay on the bed and fell asleep in a daze.
"Miss, miss?"
"Don't make noise, handsome guy. I'm here, I'm here..." Mei Qingxue tightly clamped the quilt with her feet and mumbled in her sleep. Her appearance really damaged her usual image.
"Miss, wake up quickly. Miss, that young master has woken up. Do you want to go and have a look?"
"What? He's awake? When did he wake up? Why didn't you call me earlier! Really." Hearing Yue Ru's latter words, Mei Qingxue suddenly jumped up from the bed.
"Quick, quick, quick, go and have a look." She was about to run out without even putting on her shoes.
"Miss, you haven't put on your clothes and shoes yet!"
Mei Qingxue stopped her hasty steps. How could she forget that she was only wearing her underclothes! "Oh, I forgot."
After getting dressed, Mei Qingxue finally came to the room where the man was.
The room was simply furnished. Apart from a three - paneled screen, a table, a bed, and a few chairs, there was nothing else. And the man was lying on that bed at this moment.
The man on the bed was no longer dressed as a woman. At this time, his eyes were slightly open as he looked at Mei Qingxue walking towards him.
"You're awake? Do you still feel uncomfortable? Don't worry. As long as you're here with me, I'll surely cure you, okay, Andy Lau?" After dismissing the servants in the room, Mei Qingxue looked at the man on the bed with full expectation and a smile.
The man seemed not very conscious yet. He just blinked his eyes slightly, as if he hadn't heard what Mei Qingxue said at all.
"Hey, say something! Did you hear what I said?" Mei Qingxue was quite disappointed to see that the man didn't respond. But seeing the man looking so dazed, she thought to herself that maybe he had lost his memory because of the serious fall.
"Water..." The man was even more confused by what Mei Qingxue said. He could only helplessly utter a hoarse word.
"What? Water? You want to drink water, right? Okay, wait a minute. I'll pour it for you right away."
Mei Qingxue walked to the table, poured a glass of water for the man, and fed it to him. Only then did the man feel much better.
"Is it you who saved me?" The man, whose mind was gradually clearing up, looked at Mei Qingxue and asked.
"Yes. I saw you fall from the sky and still alive, so I saved you. Are you really Andy Lau?" Mei Qingxue was very happy that the man had woken up. She quickly asked again suggestively. If he was also a time - traveler, he must know who Andy Lau was.
"Who is Andy Lau?" To Mei Qingxue's disappointment, the man looked confused after hearing the name Andy Lau and didn't know what Mei Qingxue was talking about at all.
"What about Aaron Kwok and Leon Lai? Do you know them? Or Jay Chou?" Mei Qingxue still didn't give up and asked. Maybe he just didn't know Andy Lau?
"I don't know." This time, the man didn't even show any confusion. He just answered firmly.
"Uh... Have you ever taken a plane? Did you fall because of a plane crash?"
"What is a flying chicken?" This time, the man was really confused.
Looking at the confused man, Mei Qingxue was really disappointed. If he was from the 21st century, he couldn't not know what a plane was. She finally understood what it meant that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment! She shouldn't have had such high hopes in the first place. How could it be possible that a person falling from the sky casually was a time - traveler? Where would the people in the 21st century live then?
"It's okay. You should recuperate well. You can go wherever you want after your injury recovers." Mei Qingxue had a good quality that she didn't like to pry into others' privacy. However, if others wanted to tell her, she would listen.
Since this man wasn't a time - traveler but fell from the sky, it meant that either he was highly skilled in martial arts but was beaten away by someone more powerful or fell during the process of being chased, or he had no martial arts skills at all but was beaten away by enemies or someone else.
No matter which possibility it was, it was someone else's private matter, and she didn't want to inquire too much.
The man, namely An Ying, carefully sized up Mei Qingxue. If he remembered correctly, it was also her who had approached his hiding place in that dilapidated temple and was about to discover him. At that time, he thought she was a killer sent by those people. In a hurry, he threw a wooden stick at her and then ran away. But unexpectedly, after leaving the temple, he met those who were chasing him again. Because he had been injured before, he couldn't fight against so many enemies with his two hands. During the hasty escape, the true energy in his body flowed backwards, and he fell from the roof. Then he lost consciousness. He didn't expect that when he woke up, it was the woman whom he had thought was a killer who had saved him...
An Ying made a move as if he wanted to get out of bed.