Who is spreading rumors that my filial piety towards them has changed?

"That's not quite right. I'm a man of my word, an honest man who would never dig up someone's ancestral grave or plant grass on their grave. Young Master Xiao must have taken a strong medicine to treat his hand yesterday, right?"

The effects of this medicine won't dissipate quickly, and even if I take out the herbs I prepared beforehand, it won't help; it's not my fault. And there's another point—

"Has Young Master Xiao suffered a new injury to his left arm?"

The Queen Consort of Chu remained silent.

She wasn't a medical practitioner, but she had common sense and knew that what the other person said was the truth.

Everything was going well, and Feng Nan's hand injury was almost healed. Who would have thought that one of Chu Mingkong's old spirit pets would suddenly jump out and give Feng Nan's arm another vicious blow?!

Given the current situation, it's acceptable for Xiao Fengnan to heal on his own slowly, but the Xiao family wants him to recover in a short period of time!

"Can Your Excellency provide the medicinal herbs that Feng Nan currently needs?" she asked.

Chu Mingkong took out a section of flower stem and placed it in front of her:

"This is a small piece of the root of the White Jade Infused Lotus. Princess Chu may take it back to the physicians of the Xiao family and ask them if this medicine can cure Young Master Xiao."

"What are the conditions?" The Queen Consort of Chu understood what he meant.

Chu Mingkong placed several items on the small table, including an embedded cat tail and jade dildos.

The Queen Consort of Chu frowned, a shadow falling across her alluring and beautiful face. She looked at the armored man and asked in a deep voice:

"You'd better explain what you mean!"

"As I've said before, I love animals and plants. I've admired Princess Chu for a long time, and I'd like to have her be my cat so we can spend an evening chatting about flower arranging and gardening."

For the sake of the Xiao family and her son, there's nothing wrong with Princess Xiao making a sacrifice!

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Inside the study of the Xiao family mansion.

The Queen of Chu relayed the armored man's words to her father, saying:

"Father, kill him! Seize that so-called White Jade Infused Lotus! This man is so arrogant that he doesn't respect the Xiao family at all!"

There was a sudden knock on the door, and Xiao Chengren gestured for his daughter to be quiet. The elderly doctor walked in, his face beaming with joy.

"Clan Chief, I have just consulted ancient texts. This is a pair of white jade lotus blossoms infused with sap. Even in the era with the most abundant spiritual energy, it would be a priceless treasure. It can not only heal physical injuries, but also directly improve the bones, muscles, and spiritual meridians of the user!"

"Improves muscles, bones, and meridians... Is this really true?" Xiao Chengren asked in surprise.

“Absolutely true! How did you get this root?” the old man asked rhetorically.

Xiao Chengren waved for him to leave, then turned away in deep thought. The old doctor, unaware of the truth about the object, felt his heart pounding with anxiety, but could only retreat first.

This Minister Zuo's background seems to be even more impressive than imagined. He dares to reveal such a treasure, so he is definitely not a fool without confidence.

There is definitely a treasure trove within him, and even this white jade lotus with its infused juice is just the tip of the iceberg.

Even if someone has a problem with Feng Nan, you still have to try your best to befriend that kind of person.

It's not that I'm afraid of someone with a strange temper, but I'm afraid of someone who has no desires and whose preferences I don't know. And now, hasn't he revealed his own preferences?

Xiao Chengren looked at his daughter and once again felt deeply that having a daughter was no worse than having a son!

"Zhi'er, it's only for one night. For Feng Nan's sake, just bear with it!"

"...?!"

The Queen Consort of Chu looked at her father in disbelief.

Chapter 208 Try to be more tactful

In terms of selling his daughter for personal gain, Chu Mingkong admired Xiao Chengren quite a bit. After giving out the conditions during the day, he received a positive reply not long afterward.

The Xiao family personally vacated a mansion to accommodate Lord Zuo. The mansion was decorated in a rather... tasteful style, all to provide Lord Zuo with a better overnight experience so that he could obtain the twin lotus.

All the servants in the mansion had been cleared out, leaving only the Princess of Chu serving in the vast residence.

Chu Mingkong stepped inside, walking from the front courtyard all the way to the bedroom. The fluttering ribbons and curtains decorated the mansion like a fairyland.

"This Xiao Chengren is really something else; he's born to be a pimp."

His request for the Princess of Chu to come and exchange a night of passion would have enraged even a normal family, let alone a powerful one. Even if they were forced to accept, they wouldn't have gone to such lengths as Xiao Chengren, arranging the venue beautifully as if he were afraid the Princess of Chu wouldn't serve him well.

Moreover, it's only evening now, so Xiao Chengren probably accepted the terms without hesitation the moment he heard them and started having people prepare the mansion.

After sitting quietly for a moment, a series of wet footsteps came from outside the corridor, slow and heavy, reluctantly approaching the humiliating place where the night began.

The beautiful queen's sinister gaze fell on the armor on the seat. The armor was very quiet, as still as a dead object. How she wished that the armor could remain motionless forever.

Unfortunately, this is destined to remain just a pipe dream.

Chu Mingkong ended his brief period of resting with his eyes closed and opened them to examine the beautiful and mature Queen Consort Xiao Zhi.

Pheasant is a beautiful bird, and Xiao Zhi perfectly matches the auspicious meaning in her name.

She had just finished bathing, her beautiful long, dark hair tied up, her skin delicate and rosy, her figure alluring and captivating. Even the outline of her full, hourglass-shaped body was enough to ignite a burning desire. The Princess Consort of Chu and Empress Pei shared many similarities; both were beautiful, mature, and sexy noblewomen, like ripe peaches. Her slender waist connected her to two stunningly beautiful areas, her proud, snow-white breasts drawing attention, the two plump, pinkish-white mounds breathtaking. Even her somber expression couldn't suppress the alluring aura she exuded; her charm was innate.

Xiao Zhi was wearing a princess's outer robe, but underneath she only wore a close-fitting undergarment and sheer silk trousers. Her two long, slender, and smooth legs, like white pythons, were dazzlingly white and tender. When she walked, a cat's tail could be vaguely seen hanging down and swaying.

Her beautiful face wore an expression of utter despair, devoid of any fawning, only a gloomy disdain that made no attempt to conceal her disgust and contempt for the man in the room. When she overheard her father urging her to "spend the night in humiliation," she never imagined she would be accompanying a strange, unsavory herbalist from the countryside!

From a young age, she was taught by her mother to accept her fate. After accepting the family's arrangement to marry into the Chu royal family, she gave birth to a pair of outstanding children. However, her husband preferred to leave the crown prince to an adopted son he had taken in rather than give the children to her.

She doesn't object to her husband adopting a son, but why should he be given the position of heir?

Now that she trusts her family so much, her father, upon hearing these conditions, didn't even try to negotiate and immediately ordered her to come and serve him.

Xiao Zhi truly couldn't understand why she was a princess or a woman from a brothel. Where exactly did her nobility lie?

The pride she had always held in her heart now seemed laughable; even this oddball could so easily possess her...

Xiao Zhi walked up to the armored man, knelt down, gritted her teeth, and whispered:

"...I have cleansed this body."

After she finished speaking, the princess's robe slowly slid off her fragrant shoulders, but halfway down, it was caught by Chu Mingkong's fingers and pulled back.

"Don't take it off, it will be meaningless. You are a pheasant, this royal robe is 'Queen of Chu,' and the surname Xiao is your 'family.' If these two are gone, Queen Xiao Zhi of Chu is just a pheasant, a beautiful bird, and nothing more."

"Once you take off your clothes, what makes you more noble than others? Dress properly; that's Xiao Zhi's value."

His words stung Xiao Zhi's nerves. She bit her red lips hard, and blood trickled from her tender lips. Chu Mingkong's fingers brushed across her lips, the blood making them appear even more vibrant.

"Medicine, I need to see the medicine."

Xiao Zhi stared at him. If looks could kill, Chu Mingkong's armor would probably have been pierced countless times.

He took out a black wooden box containing a lotus-shaped medicinal herb with twin stamens. The so-called twin lotus is a plant with two flowers growing on one stem, each flower with its own stem, similar to twin sisters among humans.

The beautiful medicinal herb was reflected in Xiao Zhi's eyes. It was exquisitely beautiful. In the past, Xiao Zhi had thought that even the most precious things were only for someone like her. But in reality, her dignity seemed to be equivalent to that of such a medicinal herb...

After showing the medicine to Xiao Zhi, Chu Mingkong closed the box and put it aside. This was something she could only take away after dawn, after she had paid the price.

"Who are you trying to impress with that sour face? Have you even the slightest sense of how the Lu family feels?"

Chu Mingkong pinched her exquisite face, and Xiao Zhi did not flinch. She stared at him fiercely, pursed her lips, and the hatred in her eyes seemed to have expanded to include more targets, gradually extending from her husband's family to her own family, who only treated her as an object, and to the shameless woman in front of her who did not show her true face!

In the midst of their hateful stare, two lines of clear tears slowly slid down Xiao Zhi's cheeks, dripping onto her soft breasts, bouncing off, and falling.

She closed her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling. When she opened them again, her tears had dried.

"Are you always hiding your face because you're afraid of being recognized?" she said.

“You’re right.” Chu Mingkong wouldn’t be angered by such words. “But I’m more afraid that you’ll collapse after seeing me like this.”

"...Oh, so you really care about me. You know you're ugly, are you afraid of scaring me? Ha!"

Chu Mingkong pulled her close, stroked her cat tail, and said:

"Now I'm giving you a choice: be mine, or... straighten your expression, wag your tail and come fawning over me, then answer my questions, and I can let you leave safely."

The Queen Consort of Chu sneered, looking at him with disgust as if he were an insect, and said:

"Stop your tricks and pity, I don't need them! Take out your filthy, ugly stuff, anyway, useless things like you will be finished soon, hurry up!"

Chu Mingkong turned cold, stood up in front of Xiao Zhi, and unfastened his waist armor. Her pupils shrank, and a look of astonishment appeared on her face. She subconsciously took two steps back.

"You beast!" Xiao Zhi gritted his teeth.

The woman's gaze was fixed on the doorway, longing for the sunrise, hoping that this night's nightmare would finally end.

But it's still evening; the sun hasn't set yet, and night hasn't even fallen.

But soon, her eyes were covered with a black cloth...

Chapter 209 I'll Return a Pair of Twin Lotuses to You

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Dawn is approaching, and daylight is about to break.

Xiao Zhi didn't even know how time had passed; the faint glow of dawn in her eyes was only seen after the armored man removed her blindfold.

It was supposed to be one night, but this beast really did take her all night!

Chu Mingkong withdrew from that warmth, got up, washed a warm towel, wiped Xiao Zhi, and then took out the princess robe that had been worn by Consort Wan a long time ago, returning it to its rightful owner, and put it on Xiao Zhi.

The princess robe she wore last night... well, it's normal for equipment to break down when its durability reaches zero.

Recalling last night, Chu Mingkong felt that he still hadn't quite mastered controlling his emotions. In the past, he would lose his temper easily when he got angry, but now he could lose his temper even when he was calm and restrained.

Xiao Zhi struggled to her feet, put the black wooden box into her storage ring, and suddenly saw the armored man place a bottle in front of her.

"The potion of forgetfulness can make you forget what happened last night. The medicine is yours, I won't take it away. I don't want to hold grudges and die young. Why not just forget it?"

Having conducted two clinical trials at the Rakshasa Society's branch altar and gained experience in administering the drug to the Bewitching Incense Girl, Chu Mingkong can now roughly control the dosage. The amount he left for Xiao Zhi is just enough to make her forget what happened one night, stopping her memory at the carriage at the city gate.

She should be able to deduce what happened next, but won't remember the specifics, so at least it won't be too upsetting.

Xiao Zhi, her forehead rubbed, her black hair hanging down, looked haggard. She said sarcastically:

"Scared? Afraid I'll remember what happened and then seek revenge?"