Yi Qing gave a snort. "I don't care."
"Then don't," Xiao Tian replied. "Let's just continue with our original plan."
Yi Qing: "..."
Couldn't he talk to her nicely? This stupid straight - laced man didn't even know how to take a shortcut.
But Xiao Tian said, "If you mind, even the slightest bit, it's not worth it."
Yi Qing felt an inexplicable sweetness in her heart. It must be that the dragon's beard candy she had today was so delicious that the sweetness still lingered.
She thought for a while and said, "Let's wait until Xue Miao'er comes next time. How about we stay here for a few more days?"
"Do you still want to eat dragon's beard candy?" Xiao Tian asked with a smile.
"Yes. I ate too much last night. There were still a lot of things I didn't get to try," Yi Qing said, counting on her fingers. "I think I can keep eating for another two days."
"Then we'll go again tonight," Xiao Tian said.
In the evening, they were blocked in their room by Xue Miao'er again.
"Tian Wen," Xue Miao'er called Xiao Tian by his alias - of course, such a "cultured" name must have been thought up by Yi Qing. "Help me this time. In the future, no matter what trouble you run into in Henan, I'll help you twice."
Yi Qing suddenly let out a sigh.
Xue Miao'er said aggressively, "Why are you sighing?"
"I think it'd be better if you went back to selling yourself to bury your father. You were cuter then."
Xue Miao'er was fuming, but then, as if thinking of something, her momentum suddenly weakened. "As long as you can help me, even if you think I'm cuter when I cry, I'll cry for you!"
Yi Qing: "..." "Are you really at the end of your rope?"
This down - to - earth Xue Miao'er was a bit cute.
"Otherwise, do you think I'd be standing here to let you pick on me?" Xue Miao'er grumbled. "I see that you two are fearless, so I had no choice but to come to you for help. Don't worry. I, Xue Miao'er, am the most loyal. And even if you don't trust me, you must have heard that my father always keeps his word. As his only daughter, I'm no different."
Yi Qing thought for a while and said, "Tell me first. What on earth has you so panicked?"
Xue Miao'er said, "Didn't I tell you? I want to call off my engagement. Call it off!"
"You've wanted to call off your engagement for ages, but what has you so panicked today?" Yi Qing asked.
While the women were talking, Xiao Tian stood with his hands behind his back, looking out of the window at the bustling scene outside.
Xue Miao'er plopped down on a chair and said, "I ran into that disaster - star Meng Qinglong."
Yi Qing rolled her eyes. "The second young master of the Meng family?"
"That's right, it's him," Xue Miao'er said distractedly. "I hate him so much. I even run into him here."
"Did he pester you?"
"Yes," Xue Miao'er said. "If my guards hadn't held me back, I would have castrated him long ago and been done with it."
Yi Qing stroked her chin. "That's actually a good idea. Why didn't you do it? Those people must have also tried to stop you from coming to my husband, but you still came, didn't you?"
Needless to say, of course, she was picking on the softer target.
Xue Miao'er said distractedly, "Both my guards and his guards are on his side. How could I succeed? No one here dares to provoke him. No one would help me. I just thought you two could."
"Then you've come to the right people," Yi Qing said. "Why don't you like Meng Qinglong?"
"He doesn't like me either. He looks down on my family background, but he still wants to get his hands on our family fortune. He wants to be a whore and yet build a chastity archway. Would you like someone like that?" Xue Miao'er said.
"Then why don't you tell your father?"
"How haven't I? I've worn out my lips, but my father won't listen! He just wants me to marry into an official family. He even said that as long as I manage my dowry well, I won't be wronged in the future. But I'm already so aggrieved!"
Yi Qing seemed to understand why Xue Miao'er behaved so boldly and rebelliously. It turned out that she was expressing her dissatisfaction with the arranged marriage and wished the marriage could be called off.
"I'll teach you a way," Yi Qing said with a sly smile. "Make Meng Qinglong so fed up that he has to call off the engagement."
"What way?" Xue Miao'er perked up.
But Yi Qing played coy. "Is what you promised us just now still valid?"
"Valid, valid. Of course, it's valid."
Yi Qing said, "I'm not afraid of you lying. Anyway, this plan can't succeed without me."
As long as she could stay by Xue Miao'er's side, she was sure to get in touch with the Lin and Meng families.
Calling off an engagement was a huge deal. Once it started, it would surely cause a great stir.
"Tell me the plan first," Xue Miao'er said impatiently, waving her hand. "I'll definitely do what I promised you. Otherwise, I'm a turtle or a bastard!"
Yi Qing said, "I don't want you to be a bastard, but we can make Meng Qinglong one."
Xiao Tian: "..."
Xue Miao'er said, "I'd like to, but the question is, who has the guts?"
She also wanted to find a random man to infuriate the people from the Meng family, even if it meant infuriating her father half to death. But the problem was, she couldn't find one. Otherwise, would she be so humble as to come to these two people?
Yi Qing said, "I don't know either."
Xue Miao'er: "Are you joking with me?"
"I don't need to know, and neither do you. No one needs to know. As long as they're convinced that there is such a person."
Xue Miao'er was completely confused. Eagerly, she said, "Just tell me straight. I'm not smart. I can't figure it out."
"You can pretend to be pregnant. As for who got you pregnant, no one will know."
Xue Miao'er was stunned, and Xiao Tian frowned.
This idea seemed a bit... not so harmonious?
Xue Miao'er gritted her teeth. "I'm not afraid of making sacrifices. But the problem is, I can't even find one man, let alone many?"
Yi Qing said, "Where are you getting this? Do you really want to give birth to a child with an unknown father?"
"Isn't that what you said?"
"I said false pregnancy."
Xue Miao'er: "How can you fake that?"
"You can't, but I can. I say you're more than four months pregnant and will start showing soon. Do you believe me?"
"No."
"But I can do it," Yi Qing said. "Flawlessly. No one will be able to find any loopholes. Think about it. Do you want to give it a try? I'm just doing a good deed. I'm not forcing you to listen to me."
Xue Miao'er thought for a long time and said, "Well, I'm so clumsy. What if the thing I'm hiding in my belly falls out? I'm a bit worried about being exposed."
"You don't need to hide anything. I can make your belly really big," Yi Qing said confidently.
"Really?"
"You'll know if you try."
Xue Miao'er gritted her teeth. "I'll trust you this once."
She didn't really trust Yi Qing, but Yi Qing's words were irresistibly attractive to her.
She didn't believe that they could still go through with this engagement if she was "pregnant"!