Reborn: Revenge of the Concubine's Daughter

Chapter 221 Got a good-looking guy

Chang Nuo covered his cheeks and ignored his anger at a blow that his mask was broken. He stared at He Danggui in alarm and said, “Sister He, are you bitten by the poisonous mosquito in Luo’s Mansion? Your eyes are all bloodshot and red!”

He Danggui covered her forehead and nodded. She said weakly, “To tell you the truth, I’ve been sick lately, and I need to soak in the thermal water in my room every day, or I’ll be like this. After a while, my nose, ears and eyes would bleed all the time, and eventually I would die.” Then, she fell feebly and leaned on a bitter bamboo as if she were in a coma.

Chang Nuo felt very worried, so he went up to check her condition. He felt her pulse and her breath. When he was about to give her some Zhenqi to control her condition again, He Danggui, like a boneless fish, suddenly raised her head. The small plum blossom needles in her hands came out together, which were across the back of Chang Nuo’s hands. Then He Danggui beat him seven times continuously, which sealing seven major acupoints of his body quickly. After he was stiff and motionless, all she had to do was to give a little push. Then Feng Yang, the owner of the invincible “Fuliu Sword”, was pushed down to the ground.

Chang Nuo was very surprised, and shouted, “You cheat me! How dear you set me up!”

With innocent eyes, He Danggui crouched beside him and said softly, “You have just had a roast. If you are angry now, you may get a blister on your lip. You just kidnapped me. We are the same.”

Chang Nuo pressed the acupoints vigorously and asked coldly, “Why did you seal my acupoints? Are you going to kill me?”

He Danggui looked at him in surprise and said, “Kill you? That sounds scary. You are Lord Ning’s confidant. I would never dare to hurt you. In addition, my limp palms are not enough to tickle you. I overestimate myself that this acupoint block may last 5 minutes...” She took the handkerchief out of her sleeve and was about to wipe the face of the man on the ground. She said, “I just wanted to wipe the sweat of your face because you were scared by those bones on the ground. But you’re too tall. It’s easier to wipe when you lie down. Don’t be afraid. Let me wipe your sweat.”

Chang Nuo’s mask on the left side of his face had a big crack. Seeing her handkerchief close to his face, he was greatly worried and shouted in a low voice, “Don’t touch me. I’m not sweating!” Although the mask on his face was very light and thin, the sweat inside the mask would not permeate out basically. What did this girl want to do? Did she break his mask on purpose? Fortunately, his human skin mask should be removed in a unique way. It required the special Skin Mask Remover to clean the interface of the jaw, so that the mask could be taken off in one piece. Otherwise, the mask would not be peeled off even if it was broken or cracked. She, a little girl, was impossible to play any tricks on the Taoist Sage’s unique skill! He was going to embarrass her soon after!

“Skin Mask Remover...” He Danggui murmured as she searched in her arms. Then her eyes suddenly flashed. She said, “Aha! Found it!” And she really took out a celadon vial.

Chang Nuo was very scared. He was surprised to hear her muttering “Skin Mask Remover”, but now she actually took out a small bottle from her arms. He thought it was possible that Taoist Sage passed the disguise skill to her when he thought of her intimate relationship with Taoist Sage. As Chang Nuo tried to unseal the acupoints quickly, he said sharply, “Girl, if you take off my mask today, you’ll be dead.”

He Danggui paused and hesitated for a moment when she opened the stopper of the bottle. Then she said, “It would be a pity not to see your original face on such a fine occasion. Even at the risk of my own life, I want to see the real face of the world’s richest man, Childe Feng. The more risk I take, the more reward I get. Besides, you won’t kill me. Don’t you want me to go sightseeing with Lord Ning in Yangzhou City? How can you kill a tour guide like me? Come on, let me put some Skin Mask Remover on your face, so that I can see what your face looks like.” As she spoke, she continued to unscrew the bottle stopper. But she could not unscrew it several times. She shook her hands and said with a frown, “It’s tight. Let me rest for a while.”

Chang Nuo relaxed for a moment and seized the brief opportunity to negotiate with her, “Dear sister, I have offended you, but I didn’t harm you. How can you use my sympathy against me? This is so immoral. It’s not the work of a gentleman! The face behind it is a secret that only Lord Ning and I know. Even if you are Lord Ning’s favorite woman, he won’t let you go. I promise, once you see my face, you will definitely die! It is no good for you to see my original face, so you should not die in vain to satisfy your curiosity.”

He Danggui stuck her slender finger into the split skin mask of his face and said to herself. “Well, although you have taught me the Mysterious Footwork as my master and you are not bad to me, you are in league with Lord Ning. And Lord Ning is the one I hate. Qing’er said, ‘The friend of the enemy is our enemy’. So, you are also the enemy, and we don’t need to talk any morality to each other. Besides, I’m not a gentleman. I’m just a spiteful young woman. If you want to kidnap me and send me to Lord Ning, I would rather be dead than be alive. And if Lord Ning has any devious attempt on me, I will probably hit and kill myself on the spot. I’m going to die anyway, so please have mercy and let me satisfy my curiosity before I die.” Then she continued to unscrew the bottle stopper of the “Skin Mask Remover”.

Chang Nuo persuaded, “Girl, Lord Ning and I bore you no ill will. We can easily detain you, directly by a bridal sedan chair, or indirectly by a rope. If Lord Ning is flirtatious towards you, why does he keep you here all the time? He’s really good to you. You don’t have to doubt him. I ask you to stay with him for a few days, but it is not what you think. He once told me that you are the best Go player he has ever seen, and he is fascinated with your tea art. So, he wants to have tea, play Go, and have a chat with you around the fire. In our eyes, you are just an effeminate young woman, so how can we take advantage of you?”

He Danggui was still not satisfied and snorted, “In the past 3 years, I have said to you many times that I am not worthy of Lord Ning, and I have no intention of marrying him. I pour my inner thoughts to you tonight, and tell you how much I hate Lord Ning. I have nothing to say to him. Now you said you want to follow me all the time and threaten me with sealing the acupoint. Isn’t that bullying me and kidnapping me?”

With a bitter face, Chang Nuo told the truth, “I know what you have done to Lord Ning, but the Lord doesn’t know anything about it. In these 3 years, every time he asks about your situation, I just tell him good news that you are very happy when living in Luo’s Mansion. And when you grow up, you will go to his mansion. Otherwise, he would not wait to leave his fief privately to see you again. Sister He, I mean, this opportunity to come to Yangzhou City in the open is not easy for him. Since you are in Yangzhou City, he values this opportunity so much. And he won’t be here for long, maybe 10 days or at most a month. Just do me a favor and pretend to be a nice and gentle lady. Treat Lord Ning well, and be a sweet woman by his side to make him come with happiness and leave with satisfaction, ok?”

Because of the sudden reversal of the “strong-weak situation”, Chang Nuo not only told the whole truth, but also spoke in a much better tone, from a forced and imperative tone to a consultative tone. However, what he said was still very irritating. He Danggui sneered and said, “To be a sweet woman by his side? This thing only happens between lovers, and why should I dress up as a servant girl to serve him comfortably? If I do what you say, and he leaves satisfied, I will never be able to escape from him in the future.”

The man with the mask of Feng Yang was really a good lobbyist. In a few words, he sketched out an affectionate Lord Ning. If she had not known Zhu Quan in the previous life and understood him so well, she might be under the mistaken impression that the Zhu Quan of this life and the Zhu Quan of the previous life were very different people. It was fortunate for her to hear that Ming Ri mentioned Zhu Quan’s opinion of her in the previous life, so she had the experience. Zhu Quan said she was a “useful woman”, and she suddenly remembered that in Zhu Quan’s eyes, the people around him were divided into “useful” and “useless”. Unfortunately, she just became the first kind of people in his eyes!

Chang Nuo sighed, “Now you can kill me at will, and I can’t force you to do anything. But we have been friends for the last 3 years. You and I have agreed on 3 things. The first is not to mention Lord Ning’s name in front of you. The second is to keep your secret in front of Madam Luo, and not to mention the marriage easily. Third, when the Lord comes to Yangzhou City to look for you, or when the bridal sedan-chair of the mansion comes to pick up you, you ask me to tell you 3 days in advance. So, you can prepare yourself.”

He Danggui smiled and nodded, “Good memory”.

“I have done all this. But this time I am afraid you will avoid Lord Ning, so I prepare the invitation in advance. I need to pick you up as soon as you get the news. You can stay in the Feng’s Family, or in my separate courtyard, as long as I can control you.” Chang Nuo said after a while, “I know I don’t do right by forcing you, an effeminate woman. But I think we are friends, so I am always polite to you. If I were Ming Ri, he would show you no mercy. Why don’t you do your friend a favor and act like a sweet lady for a few days?”

He Danggui touched the celadon vase and said slowly, “There are 2 basic principles of friendship. One is equality. A master and a slave cannot be friends. A fierce tiger and a small rabbit cannot be friends. The other is honesty. You don’t trust me at all. You suspect that I will run away, and then you detain me without any respect for my opinion. I said I want to spend the New Year at Luo’s Family, but you just sneer and laugh at me for going to worship in the ancestral hall. If someone laughs at you for offering sacrifices to your relatives, will you still be friends with that person?”

Chang Nuo said after a moment of silence, “I’m sorry. I don’t mean to laugh at you, but I am angry with you since you are so ruthless towards Lord Ning. Don’t you just say that you are interested in him and would like to meet him? If you do as I say, I will give you something in return, as compensation for my misdeeds.”

He Danggui asked with interest, “What can you do for me? Will you be willing to consider the hydrologic intelligence deal I mentioned earlier?”

As soon as she said this, Chang Nuo suddenly moved. He rose from the ground and sat cross-legged. The palm energy made his long hair flutter in the absence of wind. He looked very powerful. Although a piece of the left side of his face was damaged by He Danggui, he still looked so handsome.

Seeing He Danggui take several steps back with a look of defensiveness, Chang Nuo smiled kindly to her and said, “Don’t be afraid, Sister He. I treat you badly before, so we call it even now. Come and sit down. I won’t hurt you. And if you agree to my terms, I’ll give you a big present. I will give you all the wealth of He Fu? Do you like it?”