His Peasant Wife : Yao Ling

Xiu nodded. "This servant doesn’t want Xiao Yu to hear about this. This servant knows it will break her heart."

"You are doing a good job. I will let Young Mistress know about this and it will probably better if she’s the one who breaks the news to Xiao Yu."

"Thank you, Young Master." After pausing for a while, Xiu decided to ask, "What should we do about the kid? If we want to save him, I will need someone’s help to create a distraction first!"

Yao Ying wondered if he could ask for Wang Luo Hai and Lin Jian’s help for this. However, he retracted that thought. If he weren’t able to help his own subordinate by himself, then he wasn’t suitable to become their young master. He couldn’t always turn to another for help when something happened unless it was really necessary.

"Xiu, do you know someone called Feng who serve my father?"

"Feng? This servant knows him. Why do Young Master suddenly talk about him?"

"Father wants to give him to me and he said that you know him very well, so tell me all about him!" Yao Ying needed to know all the details about this man before using him and letting Feng serve him.

"We can trust him," Xiu wholeheartedly said.

"How so?"

"He’s my twin brother," Xiu grinned widely.

"What? How come I don’t know about this?"

"Well... This servant hasn’t got the time to tell Young Master and also thought that it wasn’t important enough. We did our job separately and rarely met with each other, but our bond is still there. His martial arts skills are as good as mine," Xiu explained. He asked excitedly, "Really? He will come to serve Young Master too?"

Yao Ying nodded. "Tomorrow, I will ask Father about it."

Before Xiu could answer, someone knocked on the door. "Who is it?" Yao Ying asked.

"Answering Young Master, Master heard that Young Master already comes back, so Master sends this servant here," The man answered. The man’s voice was very similar to Xiu’s voice and Yao Ying got a pretty good idea who he was.

"Are you Feng?"

"Yes, Young Master."

"Xiu, open the door and let him in," Yao Ying ordered.

Xiu nodded and quickly unlocked the door, letting Feng in. Yao Ying looked at them in surprise, they were basically the carbon copies of each other. The only difference was the scar on Xiu’s face. That was it! Their face, body posture, height... everything looked exactly the same!

"Wow! Both of you indeed look like each other," Yao Ying laughed.

Xiu and Feng looked at each other and grinned at the same time. "Young Master, this is Feng," Xiu introduced.

"So, how long have you been working for Father?"

"At the same time with Xiu. We were sold together --- buy one get one free, to be exact." Feng grinned and joked. It seemed like Feng was much more lively than Xiu who was more on the aloof side.

Yao Ying laughed at what Feng said and nodded, feeling satisfied with his new aide. "What did you generally do for Father?"

"This servant was Master’s shadow guard. Xiu always worked as a servant while I worked behind the scene. However, it seems like this time Master wants this servant to serve Young Master as both servant and hidden guard --- just like Xiu," Feng explained.

"Are you willing to follow me and be loyal only to me and my wife from now on?" Yao Ying asked seriously.

"This servant is willing. And also... these are our servant contracts deeds. Master gave it to me and he wants Young Master to keep them," Feng explained. He pulled out two scrolls from his sleeve and gave it to Yao Ying politely.

Yao Ying opened them and they were both authentic. Both of these servants belong to him now. "Good! Welcome to the family! I won’t mistreat you and I will treat you as my own family --- as long as you know your place," Yao Ying said. The last part was his warning for them. Although they treated them as families, there should be boundaries that couldn’t be crossed.

"This servant knows," Feng bowed politely. "Does Young Master has an order for this servant?"

Yao Ying glanced at Xiu and asked, "Does he know about Xiao Yu’s matter?"

Xiu shook his head and answered, "No."

"Tell him everything from the start! After you finished telling Feng about it, we can arrange a plan and Feng can serve as a distraction," Yao Ying said to the both of them.

Feng looked at Xiu curiously, "What happened?"

Xiu fed him with all the recent news about Xiao Yu and her predicament. Feng looked at Xiu weirdly, "Brother... since when do you care about a woman that much?" As far as he knew, Xiu wasn’t an outgoing person and he always kept to himself. He was a bit aloof and well... he never talked to a woman --- ever, unless it was about work. This was also the only time he talked a lot about a woman and even worried about her! A woman named Xiao Yu, huh? It made Feng very curious about her.

Xiu slightly blushed but he said nothing and only glared at Feng. "What are you talking about? I only told you because Young Master asked me to!"

Feng was quite dumbfounded after watching Xiu blushed. His aloof brother... blushing? Did he...? Feng couldn’t help but laugh out loud, making Xiu winced. Yao Ying laughed along with Feng, making it more obvious.

"Feng... it looks like you will get yourself a sister-in-law soon," Yao Ying said merrily.

Xiu coughed in embarrassment while Feng laughed happily. "It seems like it, Young Master." Feng looked at Xiu playfully.

"What... what sister-in-law?!" Xiu awkwardly said.

The cute Xiu really made Yao Ying and Feng snickered. His feeling was this obvious but he still dared to lie. However, Yao Ying was in a hurry to give presents to Yao Ling, so he quickly drafted out a plan with the both of them. They needed to scout Liu Li’s behavior pattern for the time being. They needed to know for sure when Liu Li would meet his lover and found out about her master. They didn’t want to alert the enemy by blindly saving the kid. They needed to find a way so no one would find out that they were the one who rescued Xiao Yu’s brother.

After finishing the details and diving the tasks between the brothers, Yao Ying decided to go back to his room. "Come on! Let’s end it for the night." Yao Ying could feel that his headache started coming back. He supposed he really needed to sleep to ease the pain.

"Er--- Young Master," Xiu hesitantly called Yao Ying.

"Young Master, are you sure for going back to Young Master’s room just like that?" Xiu asked.

"What do you mean?" Yao Ying asked in uncertainty. Why couldn’t he go back straight away?

"Young Master has a heavy perfume smell and Young Mistress will probably..." Xiu trailed off the last part but Yao Ying perfectly understood what he meant.

Yao Ying quickly ordered Xiu and Feng, "Quick! Prepare a bath for me!"

How could he forget about this? He sniffed his own body and yes... the smell was heavily permeated there. Damn! How could he forget about this matter?

"Yes, Young Master." Both Xiu and Feng answered him at the same time.

Fortunately, Xiu reminded him. Yes... indeed he wanted to tell Yao Ling the truth, but not with his whole body smelling like this. Any sane person would get angrier if her husband smelled like a brothel --- even if she learned the truth that nothing had really happened.