Chapter 67 What can be done (2)
Chen Hui blanked out for a moment. Little Monkey? What kind of name was that? She would’ve even accepted it if he called her Xiao Huizi (Little Hui)!
“Lord, this name is very ugly!” Chen Hui protested.
“Not ugly. I feel that it is very good,” Li Youde was satisfied with the name he came up with and hammered, “It is decided on Little Monkey. If you are unsatisfied, you can go back.”
Chen Hui didn’t want to go back because of the issue of a name and said unwillingly, “Then, Little Monkey it is…”
“Little Monkey, come over here and massage my legs,” Li Youde looked proudly and smiled at Chen Hui. He felt that this name matched very well with Chen Hui. She jumped up and down every day and was restless. If that wasn’t a monkey, what was?
“Yes, lord,” Chen Hui came over slowly and massaged Li Youde’s legs. After a while, the unwillingness was gone. What was her motive? Follow Li Youde to the frontier! Was it realized? It was realized! There was nothing to haggle about the little annoyances under the premise that the big goal has been realized.
“Third…”
Chen Hui was stunned, “There is still more?”
“Since it was three things, naturally there is the third thing!” Li Youde cast a sidelong glance at Chen Hui, “Listen well!”
“Oh…,” Chen Hui uttered a sound. She didn’t know how to roast him, so it was better to listen.
“Third, you do what I say during this journey. You can’t disobey me, do you hear?”
Chen Hui raised her head and looked once at Li Youde and happened to bump into his gaze that had been looking at her. He suddenly realized that her eyes hid an ineffable shyness. It was just that she looked at him in the eyes for only a moment before she lowered her head again. He just frowned when he heard her say, “Okay, whatever lord says is what this Lady Chen will do and will definitely not disobey lord…”
They were obviously the same words, but coming from Chen Hui’s mouth, they had a distinct charm to them. Li Youde’s heart jumped madly twice. He prayed Amitabha silently in his heart. He didn’t know if it was his illusion or not, he felt that Lady Chen had an… indescribable feeling than in the past…Was it him who has changed or was it her who has changed?
“…Good,” Li Youde pretended that he didn’t hear the different implications from Chen Hui’s words and replied coldly.
Afterward, Li Youde called Ah Da in first. When Ah Da saw that there was another person in the carriage, he was almost scared to death. When he realized that it was Chen Hui who was dressed like a man, he was also very shocked.
Li Youde ordered him in a cold voice, “Lady Chen will go with us in the future. She will be called Little Monkey from now on. You can go tell Ah Er outside. I won’t spare anyone who leaks the secret!”
“Yes, lord!” Ah Da said quick-wittedly. He quickly went out to tell Ah Er.
Li Youde has brought some people when he set off with the army. Aside from the ones outside in the carriage, the others were from the palace and some Brocade Armed Guards. His troop wasn’t much lesser than the army, but the two groups were as different as the day and night. They were in a situation where they have to be polite to their peers, but don’t think about having more in-depth conversations.
“Lord, I heard that the one who will set out together to the frontier to lead the army is the right vice minister of the Ministry of War sir Lang Yu. Isn’t…he very brave?” Chen Hui massaged Li Youde’s legs and tried to find something to talk about and while she was at it inquire about more information…She suddenly has a misconception that she had been sent as a spy to Li Youde’s side by the Xi tribe.
“Humph, he is just a person short in stature. Where would there be any braveness?” Li Youde sneered disdainfully, “If he could be called brave, I can be called great and imposing!”
Chen Hui felt that the information Qi Shengwen gave her should be correct. Li Youde indeed has some personal grudges with that person.
“How is lord not called great and imposing? In this Lady Chen’s eyes, lord is the mightiest!” Chen Hui took the opportunity to bootlick.
Li Youde laughed and accepted this bootlick from Chen Hui. As long as she doesn’t make trouble, these beautiful words could make him comfortable.
“Lord, this Lady Chen also heard that you have some animosity with sir Lang?” Chen Hui watched Li Youde’s face and said with indignation, “Sir Lang is really not someone sensible. When a man of character does something wrong, he should just come to apologize to lord. Lord is magnanimous and would’ve forgiven him. He doesn’t admit his fault and doesn’t alter his ways. It really is not what a man of character ought to do!” She directly theorized that the animosity between Lang Yu and Li Youde was because Lang Yu had offended Li Youde to fawn Li Youde and make him happy.
“He is just but a clown who jumps around!” Li Youde sneered once, “I will see what kind of fight (war) he could put on this time!”
He laughed sinisterly once, revealing his white teeth and his eyes narrowed. It was obvious that he was scheming something.
Chen Hui felt that it was the right thing that she came. See! Isn’t Li Youde planning to make trouble now?
She stopped talking. Instead, she remembered the nightmares that she had.
Li Youde was originally thinking about his own business. He raised his head unintentionally and happened to see Chen Hui lick her lips. He abruptly withdrew his gaze, but his mind was full of the touch that he didn’t know if it could be called a kiss. He really wanted to ask her what she was thinking at that time to kiss him like that! She had asked him before if she could kiss him. He was frightened at that time. How could a decent girl be so shameless? She was not a prostitute. Didn’t she have a lover? Usually, she made such a big fuss when he touched her chest, so, why did she instead take the initiative to kiss him?
He couldn’t understand Lady Chen sometimes, but he knew very well that she was doing everything possible to please him just because she wanted to live well in his residence or maybe waiting for a good time to leave. As for the former, he naturally can satisfy her, but for the latter, he would never agree to that. For the past so many years, he had seen many people of any shape and color and also saw some pairs of pairing food that made people envious. He originally has never thought about this matter, but who would’ve known that he happened to encounter one? As long as she is well-behaved, he could give her anything she desires, except for letting her go.
Li Youde suddenly became irritable. She was now trying to please him at all costs, the result that she wants must be to get rid of him in the end, right? It was either that or not. After all, it wouldn’t be staying in Li residence for the rest of her life like he wished. For this reason, she even often spoke about things like giving herself to him. She deliberately stirred him up. When he let her take off her clothes, wasn’t it just because she thought that he couldn’t do anything just because he is a eunuch? It was the same as that he felt that she didn’t scorn him, but perhaps she was secretly happy that he is a eunuch.
She is too naïve. If he really wanted to do something, he could let someone tie her to the bed. What else could she do by then besides crying?
Li Youde suddenly looked at Chen Hui who was still massaging his legs. Her face was calm and focused. She didn’t know what evil thoughts were turning in his heart.
The gloomy eyes disappeared without a trace after closing them. Li Youde signed silently and helplessly. He couldn’t bear to do it. It took so many years for someone who made his heart move appear. Forget it that he hasn’t figured it out before, but how could he bear to treat her like that now? In the matter of going to the battlefield, he would rather leave her in Li residence and give her the chance to escape than bring her by his side and have her suffer hardship. How could she endure hardship? But it happened that she came without telling him…No matter what she thought and no matter what risk he had to take for bringing her with him; what else could he do? He could only bring her with him. Even if he knew that those words were not the truth, he was happy to hear them from her mouth.
At noon, the whole team stopped to cook and rest. Chen Hui finally followed Li Youde out of the carriage and moved her body. She looked in the distance and only saw a line of people that were so long and that winded like a centipede. The handcarts also came one after another. They were piled with army provisions.
She was about to withdraw her gaze when she saw a few men adorned as high-ranking generals walking over quickly. Her inadvertent gaze immediately fell on one of them. She was stunned.
Isn’t, isn’t that person Qi Shengwen?! Why did he also come?!
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