Extra: Yingliu × Mo Duo (1)
"Your Highness, Prince Ning's Mansion has been raided!"
Mo Duo was feeding the fish beside the koi pond in the garden when his personal attendant suddenly stumbled towards him.
Mo Duo's hand trembled, and all the fish food in his hand was thrown into the fish pond, causing the koi in the pond to scramble for the food.
The attendant ran closer, panting, "Your Highness, the palace has just issued an order to search and confiscate the Ning Palace. The Ning Prince and his wife have hanged themselves, and the two young masters have been sent to Jianning. The rest of the people in the palace have been imprisoned or sent into exile. The Ning Palace is now in chaos."
There was a gloomy look in Moduo's deep eyes. No one could understand what he was thinking. After a long while, he said, "Where's Yingliu?"
The attendant said, "Miss Yingliu was arrested and taken to the Dali Temple prison. The prison said that Miss Yingliu herself had no crime, but because she worked as a tutor for the children of Prince Ning's Mansion , she was implicated and convicted and demoted to slavery.
Right now, as long as someone pays for bail, he can be released."
Mo Duo raised an eyebrow.
The attendant speculated on his master's thoughts, "Miss Yingliu is outstandingly talented and beautiful. When she was tutoring the young prince and princess in Prince Ning's mansion, many people came to propose marriage to her. Now that she has been reduced to slavery, I'm afraid..."
I'm afraid there will be more people who want to buy her.
Mo Duo's face darkened. "Go and bring him back."
The attendant opened his mouth and said, "Your Highness, Prince Ning's property was confiscated because he surrendered to the enemy and committed treason. Now..."
Without waiting for his attendant to finish, Mo Duo sneered, his eyes tinged with amusement, "Whether it's treason or not, the people who convicted him know best. They don't care too much. The more cautious I am, the more they will be wary of me. So, if I act recklessly, they can breathe a sigh of relief!"
The attendant had nothing more to say and obeyed the order.
In the Dali Temple Prison, Yingliu sat on the pile of thatch on the cell floor with a wry smile. She really didn't expect that she was so valuable.
She was a convicted slave, and in order to get her out, those people outside raised the price to thirty thousand taels.
There are so many things you can do with thirty thousand taels of silver. Why do you have to get her out of here? What good will it do if you get her out? You can just keep her around for two days.
With her status, she is not qualified to be married as a wife, let alone a concubine.
She was not only a slave, but also a criminal slave.
"Miss Yingliu, congratulations, congratulations on being freed from the suffering of prison."
The jailer of Dali Temple knocked on the prison door himself, with a smile on his face, and personally welcomed Yingliu out.
Ever since entering prison, Ying Liu had long been accustomed to being auctioned off by outsiders. Now that she was released, she felt a little uneasy. "Excuse me, sir, which family is this young master from..."
The jailer smiled and said, "The Prince's Mansion."
Yingliu felt as if a needle had pierced her heart, and she froze.
Mo Duo?
Seeing Ying Liu stunned, the jailer laughed and said, "Miss Ying Liu is really generous. The second son of the Dali Temple official offered 50,000 taels. I thought it would work, but the prince's people directly offered 100,000 taels.
The second young master had no room for bargaining.
If the ladies in the mansion knew about the fifty thousand taels, they would give her a good scolding. However, he loved the girl so much that he was willing to accept the scolding and continue to redeem her.
Who would have thought that the Prince's Mansion would directly come with such a sum? Who could afford it? The second son of the Dali Temple's family fainted on the spot from anger."
Yingliu didn't bother to guess what the prison boss's purpose was when he said these words. Her head was buzzing.
The Ning Palace was convicted of a crime of colluding with an enemy country. If Mo Duo takes her back, will he be implicated?
Ying Liu was extremely nervous, but now that she had been released, she couldn't ask them to take back the 100,000 taels because she wanted to follow the second son of the Dali Temple.
With a depressed sigh, Yingliu followed the jailer and walked out step by step.
After walking out of the cell door, she was greeted by the long-lost sun. Although it was a cloudy day, the light was still so bright that she could hardly open her eyes.
The carriage of the Prince's Mansion was parked outside. Ying Liu remembered the man guarding it. He was Mo Duo's personal attendant.
Yingliu took a few steps forward and bowed to the attendant, "Yingliu thanks the Crown Prince for his kindness."
The attendant didn't say anything, but just opened the curtain for Yingliu.
There was no Moduo behind the curtain or in the sedan chair.
Ying Liu couldn't tell whether she felt disappointed or something else. She smiled and nodded to her attendant, then got into the carriage with all the courtesy.
Her ears were filled with all kinds of voices coming from all around. Some said that she was a seductress, some said that she would not die a good death, some said that the prince just wanted to humiliate and play with her, and of course, there were also those who said that she was lucky. Ying Liu turned a deaf ear to all of them.
Before meeting Moduo, everything was fake.
Yingliu entered the Prince's Mansion through the main gate. When she realized that she had entered through the main gate and not the side gate, her heart suddenly rippled, but it was soon replaced by uneasiness.
The person who brought her into the mansion took her directly into Moduo's yard.
When Yingliu entered, Moduo was sitting lazily on the armchair under the flower stand, with his chest half open, looking indescribably lazy and unrestrained. He looked like a dissolute playboy, and Yingliu couldn't take her eyes off him.
He took a few steps forward and knelt down to salute.
"Sinful slave Yingliu, thank you, Your Highness, for saving me."
Ying Liu finished speaking, then she knelt down with her forehead touching the ground.
However, there was no sound from Murdo.
Ying Liu's heart was beating like thunder. She didn't dare to look up, but she was eager to know what Mo Duo was doing at this moment.
Moduo leaned forward slightly, his eyes lowered to look at the person kneeling in front of him, looking at her thin shoulders, the loose prison uniform that she had not had time to change, and the neck that was exposed when she lowered her head.
He narrowed his eyes slightly, like a hunter staring at his prey.
After a long while, just when Yingliu was about to kneel down, Moduo suddenly leaned back and raised his hand lazily, "Bring the things up."
A waiter immediately came forward with a tray.
"Get up."
This sound was from Moduo and Yingliu. Yingliu's legs were numb from kneeling, and she almost fell to the ground when she stood up.
I managed to stand firmly and saw a storybook on the tray.
Mo Duo looked at Ying Liu lazily, "Miss Ying Liu is extremely talented and I have admired her for a long time."
His voice was a little hoarse and low, but it was like a drumstick, hitting Yingliu's heart again and again. She dared not breathe, for fear that she would accidentally reveal what she was thinking.
"Guhua spent a huge sum of money to buy Miss Yingliu back. Does the girl know that?"
Ying Liu's gaze reluctantly left Mo Duo's face, and she lowered her eyes and said respectfully, "The sinner knows."
Mo Duo chuckled, "Now that you know, be a good boy and listen to me from now on. Don't make me angry."
The words "Be good" made Yingliu feel mixed emotions.
She knew that Moduo's words didn't mean anything else, he was just warning her to behave herself, but these two words were too easy to arouse people's imagination, and she couldn't help but want to attach other meanings to them.
After Mo Duo finished speaking, he squinted his eyes and looked at Ying Liu. Seeing a blush on her earlobe, she smiled while twisting her fingers, and then said, "From now on, you will read the storybook to me."
Ying Liu was stunned and looked at Mo Duo in surprise.
Mo Duo raised an eyebrow, "What? Did you wrong Miss Yingliu?"
Ying Liu hurriedly knelt and bowed, "I dare not."
Mo Duo snorted coldly, "You'd better not dare! Read it, I'm listening, read it with emotion!"
The servant next to her brought the storybook to Yingliu.
Yingliu reached out and took it, then...
"The Domineering Prince's Spoiled Little Concubine"?
Ying Liu looked at Mo Duo in shock. Mo Duo looked at her with a half-smile on his face, and his meaning was clear: I'm waiting!
Yingliu couldn't describe the feeling in her heart. Maybe... shame was greater than anything else.
But Mo Duo was not a good person. He suddenly seemed to think of something, stood up from the armchair, and walked up to Yingliu.
The man, with the scent of agarwood on him, approached in an instant, so close that their bodies were almost touching, causing Yingliu's heart to beat faster and faster.
Moduo lowered his eyes and observed Yingliu's reaction until he saw a blush on her cheek. Then he stepped back a little as if to pardon her and took the notebook from her hand.
When she took it, her fingers scratched Yingliu's palm, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
Mo Duo turned to a page in the storybook and said, " Start reading from here."
After saying this, he sat back with his arms and legs stretched out, waiting leisurely.
Yingliu looked at the words on the notebook with her heart pounding.
[She took off the prince's outer garment, and the thin inner garment immediately revealed the prince's muscular body...]
As soon as she saw these words, Yingliu blushed.
Mo Duo snorted and laughed, "Hurry up, I'm listening. I didn't spend a hundred thousand taels to buy you back just to make you unhappy."
Yingliu bit her lip, suppressing the shame that was boiling in her heart, and slightly opened her red lips.
"...The prince took her plump earlobe in his mouth, rubbing that tender little spot with his lips until it burned, causing her whole body to tremble softly and limply. She couldn't even stand steadily, and she slid directly into the prince's arms, their skin pressed against each other. In her ear..."
Yingliu read haltingly, her face as red as a cooked shrimp.
But Moduo was not a good person. He often interrupted Yingliu while she was listening. For just these few sentences, he forced Yingliu to repeat them more than ten times in seven or eight different tones before he gave up.
"Alright, I still have things to do. You should go and rest. Miss Yingliu doesn't need to tutor any young princes or princesses anymore. In your free time, study these storybooks carefully and try to fully understand the characters' emotions, so that you don't end up reading them in a stiff and dull manner like this time, without any emotion!"
After leaving a comment, Prince Moduo walked away.
Yingliu was left alone, looking pitiful and almost collapsed on the ground.
Back then, when she was teaching the two young masters at Prince Ning's Mansion, she fell in love with the Crown Prince at first sight.
But she knew exactly what her identity was, so she could only secretly love him.
Now, reading these obscene words in front of the man she had loved for three years, Ying Liu didn't die of shame because of the 100,000 taels of silver.
We can't let the prince spend money in vain .
