CHAPTER 1826: CHAPTER 1827: GENTLEMAN

Your intimidation is quite effective. Actually, you weren’t planning to kill anyone; you just didn’t want to waste words on these aristocrats, no, royals, so you opted for a simple act of killing the chicken to frighten the monkeys. Such behavior is straightforward, simple, clear, and highly efficient!

Just like that, Liu Cheng and Little Liu, along with their group, moved out all the gold and silver jewelry from the Liu Garden.

Actually, you are not fond of those antique paintings and calligraphy, which is a strange comfort to Liu Cheng; after all, two of the antiques were extremely valuable.

"I say, this stuff could at least buy a city. Why don’t you want it?" At this time, Ren Hongchang entered the hall with a dozen people carrying five large boxes. She looked at you with a rather amusing expression, one that resembled a wife chiding her husband.

"Uh, I just think it’s too troublesome." You shrug your shoulders.

Ren Hongchang rolled her eyes at you with annoyance: "If you don’t want it, I do. These things could redeem my kin!"

"You still have kin? An elder sister or younger sister?" Upon hearing this, your inner lecherous intentions peeked out.

Ren Hongchang ignored you. Apart from you, she was the highest authority here. Given your wastefulness, Ren Hongchang took it upon herself to manage things. Also, due to your overly revealing attire, Ren Hongchang personally selected an outfit and dressed you in it. And as you were getting dressed, you took every opportunity to take advantage of Ren Hongchang.

You seemed addicted to Ren Hongchang’s touch and glances.

"Xiao San greets the master. Master’s great kindness and virtue are beyond life itself. Hereafter, Xiao San will be the master’s dog, the most loyal dog!" Just as you were boringly picking your nose, Xiao San rushed in with a group of people from outside, and a dozen people knelt in front of you, kowtowing, expressing gratitude and reverence.

You waved your hand and cursed, "Alright, alright! Stop giving me this empty nonsense. If you’re truly grateful, hurry up and pack things away, and lock up these esteemed masters first. Their mere presence here annoys me."

"Yes, yes!"

After everything was set, only Ren Hongchang and you were left in the hall.

Originally, Ren Hongchang stood in front of you, but how could a rogue like you pass up the chance to take advantage? You pulled Ren Hongchang’s delicate body into your embrace, held her tightly, inhaling her alluring scent, your right hand occasionally teasing her, causing a rush of redness on her face, beautifully shy.

"Today, we’ve gained a lot. Just now, I had Little Liu count, and there’s already ten thousand pounds of gold. According to Xiao San’s friend, the owner of Liu Garden has estates elsewhere, potentially storing even more money."

"Tsk tsk, it’s hard to tell, but you have the making of a butler." Your right hand is caressing Ren Hongchang’s smooth and tender thigh, while your left hand slowly moves upwards. Just as your left hand is about to climb Ren Hongchang’s lofty Jade Maiden Mountain, Ren Hongchang’s right hand suddenly flicked, and when did an embroidery needle prick the back of your hand!

"Hiss—"

You couldn’t help but inhale sharply, knowing regular embroidery needles shouldn’t pierce your hand’s back, Ren Hongchang just used inner strength, breaking through your defenses.

"You, little girl, you really have no mercy, even wanting to murder your own husband."

"I’m discussing serious matters, don’t interrupt!" Ren Hongchang didn’t refute your term "husband," showing that in her subconscious, she already considered you as her man.

"Heh heh, you absolutely won’t escape my grasp." In your heart, you snickered slyly.

Ren Hongchang naturally knew that she couldn’t escape your grasp. Although her feelings for you were still quite thin, at least she didn’t dislike you.

You are the most unique man Ren Hongchang has ever encountered. To her, you never looked down on her slave status. Although outwardly you seemed like a downright rogue and lecher, you were upright and straightforward in your conduct and speech.

An ancient saying goes: The gentleman is open-minded, cough, and expansive; the petty man is always worried.

In some ways, you could actually be considered a gentleman.

Simultaneously, Ren Hongchang could see that you were quite respectful and caring towards her. Although you often got handsy with her, once she resisted slightly, you’d desist. This was something unthinkable for those aristocrats. In terms of class, Ren Hongchang was your slave. Whatever you demanded Ren Hongchang do, she had to comply, yet you seemed not to act out of the master’s identity, although you frequently referred to yourself as the "husband."

Sitting on the lap of a man she didn’t particularly dislike, Ren Hongchang had gotten used to your troublemaking, and anyway, she had resigned to her fate. One way or another, this day would come, and following you was much better than those disgusting old bastards by many times.

"I heard from Xiao San’s sister that that Lü Dai was originally a person from Guangling and once served as a General Zhonglang, able to suppress the revolts in five counties including Kuaiji with soldiers he recruited himself."

Speaking of Lü Dai, you paused your "work," revealing a contemplative expression: "Since he was a man of Yang Zhou Sun Jian, why would he fall to being a slave?"

Mentioning the word slave, Ren Hongchang’s expression also darkened, and she said solemnly, "I heard that Lü Dai was excellent in training soldiers. Under his personal tutelage, his subordinates are all elites. This should’ve been a good thing, but for some reason, he had a conflict with Sun Jian’s second son, Sun Quan, refusing to lend his troops to him. Sun Quan bore a grudge and used special means to imprison Lü Dai, ultimately turning him into a lowly slave."

"That’s not right." When Ren Hongchang said the last sentence, her body naturally shook slightly. You held her tightly, placed your chin on Ren Hongchang’s fragrant shoulder, inhaling the faint fragrance of her hair, "While no one can choose their birth or resist childhood misfortunes, as long as our limbs are intact and you’re alive, you can change your destiny. You saw today how those so-called upper-class, so-called aristocrats didn’t even dare lift their heads in front of us! In this world of survival of the fittest, fists are the hard truth! From today on, I don’t want to hear ’lowly’ from your mouth, and such terms as ’slave’ should also be abandoned."

Your words left Ren Hongchang’s mind in a whirl, as she had never heard such statements until now.

However, you added another line, making Ren Hongchang sink into your embrace completely——"Oh, right, I forgot to declare to you, from the moment I held you in my arms, you became my wife, and that’s my legitimate wife, oh."

Ren Hongchang didn’t know when you left; her mind was utterly blown at the time, and when she snapped back to reality, she was alone in the hall.

When Ren Hongchang stepped out of the hall and asked the two night shift guards, they told her, you seemed to have gone to the outer wall.

Ren Hongchang quickly rushed to the outer wall and found you and Lü Dai both standing there, the bright moonlight cascading over you, making you appear exceptionally grand in her eyes at this moment.

Ren Hongchang didn’t follow up, merely standing quietly below, watching your back. She didn’t know what you discussed with Lü Dai, but along the conversation, Lü Dai’s somewhat hunched body gradually straightened, and his half-lowered head slowly lifted. Gradually, Lü Dai knelt before you on both knees, as men say, beneath a man’s knees lies gold. Ren Hongchang could feel that this was different from the typical slave’s obeisance to a master; it resembled more of a vow, akin to Lü Dai swearing an oath to you.

That was the world of men, and as a woman, Ren Hongchang didn’t engage. You then had a conversation with Lü Dai for a time, and it wasn’t until Ren Hongchang couldn’t help yawning that Lü Dai walked off the outer wall with chest held high.

Passing by Ren Hongchang, Lü Dai gave her a polite nod before leaving quietly.