Allure of a Country Maiden-Chapter 602 - 600

Rou’er, the maid, had a good idea. She went to the lakeside and sat for a while. As expected, a patrolling servant saw her sitting alone there and came over to ask why she was there.

She told him the explanation she had thought of beforehand, and the servant walked away without further questioning.

It was quite normal for a person sold into servitude to miss their family during festivals. He had also felt that longing and resentment before.

It soon reached the late hours of the night, and it was time for Rou’er to return.

On her way, she didn’t encounter anyone else.

When she was almost at the study, she indeed saw Shen Haiqiang walking out, heading toward the stable.

She waited until he had walked far away, and she could no longer see his figure, before she hurriedly ran to the study door, pushed it open, and walked in.

She didn’t dare to turn on the light, but she could make out the scene in the room through the faint moonlight streaming in through the window.

She tiptoed into the rest chamber attached to the study.

She saw a figure hunched over, lying facedown on the bed.

She quickly removed the clothes she was wearing, threw them on the floor, and then climbed onto the bed and lay down next to the figure.

She didn’t need to do anything. Her body, due to being soaked in a special fragrance, emitted a faint scent. This aroma had no strong erotic effects and was not a real aphrodisiac. Its main function was to induce hallucinations. But Rou’er thought that for someone who’d been a monk for a year, even that slight aphrodisiac effect would be more than enough.

She dared not undress Shen Chengyao for fear of waking him. She planned to become his concubine by earning his trust. So she only had to lie quietly next to him, allow him to inhale enough of her fragrance, dream a romantic dream, and then everything would naturally fall into place.

When he sobered up the next day, he wouldn’t be able to distinguish between the dream and reality.

Rou’er’s plan was a good one. But despite all her waiting, the figure beside her didn’t stir. She thought he was still deep in his drunken stupor, so she decided to wait a little longer.

Shen Haiqiang didn’t return, probably off slacking somewhere.

After waiting awhile, she fell asleep. After all, it was deep into the night.

Dawn gradually approached, and the crowing of roosters echoed in the distance.

Finally, the man beside Rou’er stirred. His hand was placed on her waist.

Last night, he had a beautiful dream. After he woke up and found a beautiful woman lying beside him, he realized it hadn’t been a dream at all.

When his hand touched Rou’er, she woke up.

The irregular crowing of the roosters reminded her that dawn was near!

Marquis Shengping was too drunk, and he was only reacting now.

She opened her eyes and turned to face him, and their eyes met: one full of soft affection, the other full of shock.

"Miss Rou’er, I will take responsibility for you!"

"Ah~~~ how can it be you! Why are you here?" A piercing scream echoed and lingered.

The man thought: Who else did she expect?

As dawn arrived, the servants of Marquis Shengping’s Mansion were already busy with their duties. The master and protector were already practicing martial arts in the training ground.

Seeing the young masters getting up earlier than them to practice martial arts every day, Xiao’er’s protectors felt both ashamed and worried. After all, if the masters had better martial arts skills than them, who would be protecting whom? So they voluntarily asked to learn martial arts from Zhao Yong.

When the people at the training ground heard the piercing scream from the study, they all ran toward it.

Some thought with the scream being so dreadful, there must have been a murder!

On the way, they ran into many fellow servants with the same objective. But seeing the masters rushing there too, they didn’t dare to follow for fear of causing a scene. They couldn’t help but be curious about what had happened!

The door to the study had been pushed open.

Rou’er had already put on her clothes. Sitting on the bed holding her knees, she was crying. The man was standing at the foot of the bed without clue.

A crowd of maids and boy servants were gossiping outside.

When Xiao’er and his siblings came to the study door, they were blocked by the servants.

Xiao’er’s voice wasn’t loud, but she articulated clearly, exuding a sense of authority: "What’s going on? Is this how you’ve learned to behave? All crowding around here?"

When they heard the young master’s voice, they turned to look and, obediently, the young masters had all come. They stepped aside, greeting the young masters respectfully.

"What happened inside?"

"It’s the new maid Rou’er and Shen Qiao..." The servant answering had a hard time finding the words.

Xiao’er and Yun’er went in.

Xiao’er looked at Rou’er and asked, "How did you end up in the study?"

Upon hearing this, Rou’er started crying again.

She had a good plan. Last night, when she passed by the study, she heard a bump and a "oh!" She recognized the voice as the master’s and was worried that he might have fallen and hurt himself. She called out a few times, but there was no answer from inside and there was no one nearby, so she had to go in by herself to check if the master had been hurt...

Who would have thought that such a perfect excuse couldn’t be used now. She woke up too angry and sad, and she hadn’t thought of anything in time, so she could only cry out loudly to buy some time.

"Alright, stop crying. First, explain why you’re in the study," Xiao’er asked, trying to be patient.

Rou’er hadn’t come up with an excuse yet, so she feigned sobbing uncontrollably, "I, sob... last night..."

She hadn’t come up with an excuse yet? Xiao’er didn’t wait for her response: "Shen Qiao, why were you in the study?"

When asked, Shen Qiao’s face, full of pockmark scars, turned red. He scratched his head embarrassedly: "I was so happy last night that I accidentally got drunk. I don’t know why I woke up sleeping in the study!"

After he got drunk, he didn’t run into the study to sleep, right? This was the masters’ domain, a place where common people were usually prohibited. He felt a bit scared thinking about it.

The voice of Shen Chengyao rang out from behind Xiao’er: "Last night, after I woke up, I left the study and went back to the inner courtyard. I saw him drunk on the roadside. I didn’t want to wake anyone up to help him back to the servants’ quarters. So Haiqiang and I carried him into the study before we left."

All the servants hearing this thought that their master was indeed a good man, generously allowing his own study to be used by a servant.

Chengyao, at his core, was a peasant and hardly had any notion of regarding servants as lower-class beings. As long as they did their jobs without dishonesty or cunning, he respected them.

Rou’er forgot to cry when she heard this!

Last night, she deliberately left to find an eyewitness, but in such a short time, the study changed hands?

All of these coincidences were incredible to her.

She really had lost badly.

Xiao’er saw her look of disbelief and said: "Rou’er, why that expression? How did you end up in the study?"

Rou’er came back to her senses, hurriedly hiding her shocked expression. Although the situation felt incredibly coincidental, she had quickly thought of an excuse: "Yesterday was Mid-Autumn Festival, and I was missing my deceased parents. Unable to sleep, I went to the riverside garden to admire the moon. On my way back, I passed by the study and heard some noise. I thought someone was stealing, and because it was too dark, I tripped and fell. I hit my head and passed out. I didn’t wake up until just now."