Edited by NZRose

  Big Miss put away the eyebrow paintbrush, covered the tin box, curled her lips, and said with a smile, “Long time no see.”

  The morning light was faint, and the room was illuminated through the lattice of the window. The room was not very bright yet, and Big Miss looked more and more radiant.

  Lin Shu quietly accepted the impact from the aesthetic for a while and said, “Long time no see.”

  Thinking about it carefully, he and Big Miss have indeed not seen each other for many days-only once in the Dreamscape.

  Big Miss is different from Cousin.

  Cousin has a mild temper, comparable to Mr. Meng. When he was raised by Cousin, he felt very stable and not nervous. But the bad-tempered Big Miss, although also very stable, she is always a little flustered.

  “Come and let me have a look at you.”

  Lin Shu walked over.

  Ling Fengxiao looked at him for a while, satisfied: “A little fat.”

  ——Lin Shu suspected that he had been scared thin by Big Miss before.

  After observing his condition, Big Miss asked again, “How are you doing?”

  “Not bad,” Lin Shu said

  Big Miss said again: “Did you like Cousin?”

  Lin Shu said: “.……I like him.”

  Big Miss “Hum” for a while, the tone was a little unclear, then said: “Him and I, are quite similar.”

  Lin Shu: “.……”

  Really?

  Big Miss, I think you’re lying to me.

  Big Miss turned to the mirror, picked up a rhinoceros horn comb and began to comb her hair.

  A few strands of like black-ink hair were picked up from the temples, and then loosely fixed at the back with two-finger-wide gold combs. After being tied in this way, it would not hinder her movements, and it will be very beautiful.

  Lin Shu watched Big Miss’ movements and felt that he had discovered a truth.

  If Baoqing and Baochen were around, the eldest lady’s hair would be combed more complicated by them, and then wrapped with some fine gold tassels around it. If Big Miss was alone, she would use such a simple and beautiful method to deal with it.

  Big Miss said: “I can’t make it myself, you come here.”

  Lin Shu took a small golden comb with a carved phoenix wing pattern and dropped a red jade bead into the hair of Big Miss.

  The hair was slippery and cool, and the little golden comb went in and went down and tried to slide to the ground.

  Lin Shu caught it and took it down. He was very confused,

  Ling Fengxiao said with a smile, “It’s not like this. I want you to plait it.”

  Lin Shu was confused and asked, “How to plait?”

  Big Miss took a strand of hair and showed it to him. While demonstrating it, she said: “You don’t even know how to tie your hair, what can you do in the future?”

  Lin Shu said to himself, I don’t need to get my hair done like this.

  Immediately, he thought of a possibility.

  Does Big Miss want him to tie her hair for a long time?

  This is in line with the position of Big Miss as the exploiting class.

  Moreover, because of the existence of the marriage certificate, it turned into legal exploitation.

  He watched Big Miss attentively and learned, this time he successfully fixed one strand of hair and started to turn to another strand.

  Looking at the mirror, Big Miss said, “In that case, you don’t know anything about hairpin, rings, jewelry, rouge, gouache, eyebrows, and flowers?”

  Lin Shu: “I don’t know.”

  Big Miss: “Then, I have to teach you.”

  Lin Shu: “?”

  Does Big Miss meant to let Ling Baoqing and Ling Baochen resign and go practice martial arts at ease, then let him serve her daily life?

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  This is wrong.

  This is a feudal society, men and women are equal, how can he go to Big Miss every day and do eyebrow dressing?

  However, thinking that the two of them have a marriage contract, it seems that there is no violation of etiquette.

  However, something is still wrong.

  Lin Shu was puzzled.

  After finishing her hair, Big Miss looked at herself in the mirror from left to right and did not make any comments. It seemed that he had passed the test.

  Big Miss said: “Let’s go down to eat.”

  He naturally took Lin Shu’s hand and took him to the door.

  Lin Shu was frightened at first, and then he calmed down a little when he thought of holding hands with Big Miss in the dreamscape.

  Big Miss not only led him, but when going down the stairs, she had to go down first, and then took care of him going down, as if she was afraid that he would fall on the stairs.

  Lin Shu felt as if he had suddenly turned into a protected animal, and for a while, he didn’t know what to do.

  Down the stairs, came to the lobby of this small inn.

  The inn’s business was sluggish, and Cang Min was alone in the lobby. There were a dozen plates of soup dumplings on Cang Min’s table, and many empty plates were stacked beside him.

  He heard the footsteps, looked up at people, and was just about to say hello, but then he froze.

  “Elder Ling……Miss!” He said.

  Then he quickly looked at the table full of food, his face was very ashamed.

  Lin Shu said in his heart, Brother Cang Min, when we were at the foot of Huandang Mountain, you ate a whole table in front of my cousin and me, and I didn’t see the slightest embarrassment.

  Ling Fengxiao nodded slightly and said, “It’s you.”

  Cang Min took a few deep breaths, and finally spoke fluently, and said, “Miss Ling, why are you here?”

  Ling Fengxiao said: “I’m picking up Lin Shu.”

  Lin Shu saw Cang Min look at Ling Fengxiao, then at himself, and then at the hands held by each other, a sudden realization flashed in his eyes.

  ——He felt that Cang Min was probably thinking that the rumors in the Academy were true. Lin Shu was indeed a hamster raised by Big Miss.

  Cang Min scratched his head and said, “I did hear the sound of horses’ hooves last night.”

  Ling Fengxiao said: “That was me.”

  Cang Min smiled embarrassedly: “I was a little excited when I saw Big Miss just now.”

  Ling Fengxiao and Lin Shu sat down on the table next to him and said, “No harm.”

  Cang Min said: “Where are you going next, Miss?”

  Ling Fengxiao: “Jiang Prefecture.”

  Cang Min said again, “Is it for the plague, Miss?”

  Ling Fengxiao: “Yeah.”

  Cang Min seemed to have thought about something, and said: “I don’t have a mortal identity, and I don’t understand these things……”

  “You go back to the Academy to consolidate your realm,” said Big Miss. “Mortal matters interfere with the state of mind. Don’t intervene too deeply.”

  Cang Min: “Yes, Miss.”

  After a while, the waiter served them breakfast, egg soup and dumplings.

  Lin Shu watched as Big Miss put the dumplings into the dish in front of him, poked it on the top, let the steamed stuffed bun out of the wrapper and let the hot air out. Then he took the vinegar bottle from the table casually and poured a few drops into his egg soup. In a trance, he felt that Cousin had not left.

  He said: “I will do it myself.”

  Big Miss closed her hand, resting her cheek with one hand, and watched him eat without expression.

  Lin Shu ate two dumplings and a bowl of egg soup under the eyes of Big Miss.

  Big Miss said: “Have you done eating?”

  Lin Shu said, “I am done.”

  Big Miss said with displeasure: “You ate too little.”

  Lin Shu: “.……”

  He had to pick up another dumpling and ate with difficulty.

  Big Miss said: “There are not many now.”

  Lin Shu tried to impress Big Miss with innocent eyes like he did with Cousin, so he looked at Ling Fengxiao and said, “I can’t eat it anymore.”

  Big Miss looked at him cautiously, and said lightly: “I will let you go.”

  ——It turns out that not only Cousin, but the eldest lady also eats this set.

  Lin Shu has acquired new skills.

  Then, his gaze swept across Cang Min’s table and saw Cang Min looking at their side, his gaze was dumbstruck, his eyes were about to fall to the ground.

  Lin Shu felt embarrassed.

  After eating, they stayed in the inn for a while to digest the food, and then left.

  Cang Min said: “Big Miss, Younger Martial Brother Lin, I’d like to say goodbye. I’ll see you again in the Academy.”

  Lin Shu: “Goodbye.”

  Cang Min left here alone with his sword on his back, and Ling Fengxiao returned to the stable and brought out Zhaoye that Lin Shu hadn’t seen for a long time.

  Zhao Ye was still as beautiful as she was, the eldest lady turned on her horse and brought Lin Shu up. The two of them headed north, got on the official road, and galloped towards Jiangzhou.

  The official road was dilapidated, even invaded by decaying grass, and the posthouse next to it seemed to have been unused for a long time, with several late autumn withered vines crawling on the wall.

  In autumn, the wind was cold, the horse was galloping, and the chill would fill the nose directly.

  But before Lin Shu had time to breathe, he was wrapped up in a sable fur cloak by Big Miss, and even choked by the fur.

  The cat was sitting on the horse’s head, looking very arrogant.

  Lin Shu was also puzzled by the fact that the cat stayed behind.

  It stands to reason that, if the cat had repaid Ling Xiao and Cang Min’s cause and effect when they came out of the Ten Thousand Ghost Abyss, he should go to Yun Lan to repay the debt.

  But the cat did not leave—it means that the cause and effect owed to Ling Xiao has not been fully paid off, and it must be paid back.

  However, Cousin left last night, and the cat actually slept in Lin Shu’s room. It didn’t mean to follow Cousin at all. The next morning, not only did it not find Cousin, it even got into the arms of Big Miss to offer some flattery. It even pulled the pendant on the lady’s dress a few times to play.

  When Cang Min left, it didn’t even show any sign of keeping up.

  It’s puzzling.

  Just thinking about it, the cat looked down for only three seconds. After being blown by the wind for a while, he got off the horse’s head and tried to get into the Cape. Finally, he succeeded and was held by Lin Shu.

  ——Shame.

  There was no word all the way, two hours later, he arrived at the boundary of Jiang Prefecture.

  Lin Shu felt that along the way, Big Miss was paying attention to the conditions of the towns and villages they passed by.

  Jiang Prefecture is the capital of this state, but it is a big city.

  However, although it is a big city, there were not many people walking around. The soldiers guarding the gate were chatting with each other in a boring and shapeless way. Seeing them come, they cleaned up their heads and prepared to check the identity certificates of the people entering the city.

  However, Big Miss did not rein in her horse. She only showed a bright red mark in her hand. Seeing the burning token in her hand, the soldiers suddenly turned pale. The soldiers stood up and did not stop her.

  Lin Shu looked at the token curiously.

  The big lady said lightly: “The tokens are divided into four colors: Vermillion, Ochre, Purple and Black. Black is held by the office of the Imperial Guards, Purple is for the Imperial Inspectors history inspection of counties and states, and Ochre is held by the special envoy of His Majesty. There is only one Vermilion…… It is specially designed for Phoenix Mountain Villa. It is called “Order of the Phoenix”. Seeing the Order of the Phoenix is like Your Majesty’s presence. ”

  First of all, she was the Eldest Lady of Phoenix Mountain Villa, and then the Eldest Princess of the Southern Xia Dynasty. Not only did the Emperor’s Imperial Guards obey her orders, but also the only “Order of the Phoenix” in Phoenix Mountain Villa was in her hands.

  Lin Shu looked at the Order of the Phoenix, and knew that the token, which was half the size of the palm, might represent the power of the world.

  The next moment, he felt it.

  Perhaps it was the small soldiers at the gate of the city who quickly reported the letter. The sound of horse’s hooves sounded in the originally desolate street, and hundreds of soldiers were used to form a Guard of Honor, and then several County Officials in green and purple robes came in a hurry.

  All the people knelt down together, and the sound was deafening.

  “We’re here to pay our respects and see Your Royal Highness Fengyang!”

  Fengyang, it seems to be the title.

  Lin Shu thought about it for a while, and found it quite nice. His Royal Highness Fengyang’s four-characters were very imposing and suitable for Big Miss.

  He looked at the kneeling crowd and the expressionless young lady in front of him. He had only one thought in his mind.

  Who am I?

  Where am I?

  What kind of rich woman did I meet?

  ———–

  TL’s Mini Theatre:

  Rose: Did I just see the “Order of the Phoenix” in LFX hands? Danggg!! Harry Potter is in the house!

  Zaki to Cat: I should have known you would be here Professor McGonagall!

  Cat: *looks around, transform Zaki into a mouse and disapparate and apparate back to Jiangzhu*

  Rose: *stroke the cat and sips tea*