Chapter 36: A Small Stratagem

  Outside the capital city, Moon Mist Mountain.

  It's just early autumn, and the Osmanthus fragrans and Crabapple flowers on the mountain have bloomed in great numbers. The fragrance that intoxicates people's hearts is drifting everywhere with the gentle breeze, and the pink petals are scattered all over the ground.

  After eating, Qin Luo Han and others forced him to go to Yuewu Mountain, Qin Luo Yi's mood was very bad. When he arrived at the mountain, looking at the vast expanse of tender and beautiful sea buckthorn flowers, the fragrance of osmanthus flowers, and calculating the time with his fingers, his mood finally improved a bit.

  Found a blooming peach tree, took Dahei to pick two branches, and planned to insert them into the antique flower vase at home after returning. When turning around, I unexpectedly overheard Meng Wan Jingyun Yunluo whispering to Du Yuxiang.

  Du Yu's eyes were filled with a sense of desolation.

  "She's so ugly, how did she end up marrying the Third Prince?!"

  "That face is hidden all year round, and she doesn't even dare to lift her veil to see people!"

  "What a pity that the third prince is such an excellent person, but the emperor actually gave him to her as a husband... I really don't know what the emperor was thinking!"

  "Yuxiang sister, you should be more open-minded. We all know that the Third Prince has feelings for you... As long as the Third Prince has you in his heart, who cares who the official wife is?"

  ……

  Qin Luo Yi gazed at the resplendent camellia in her hand, a cold smile spreading across the corners of her lips.

  "I also know... This time, the King of Qin drove away the enemies of Yan and Zhao, making great contributions to our Great Chu State, so the Emperor specially granted this marriage. However... " She said softly while turning to Qín Luò Hán, regretfully saying: "Why didn't the Emperor grant the marriage to Second Sister Qín instead? If it were Second Sister Qín, that would be good. Although Lù Yī is a legitimate daughter, she's also too..."

  Before he could finish speaking, he let out a deep sigh again.

  Qin Luohan's eyes flashed with a bright, crystal-like color for an instant before he grasped her hand and said seriously: "Miss Du, please don't say such things. The Third Prince is a dragon among men, how could I, Luohan, possibly be worthy of him?"

  "You're not worthy, does that ugly woman deserve it? She's the daughter of the king, aren't you? Besides, she's even younger than you by a year, if anyone should get married first, it should be the older sister!" Meng Wan Jing sneered: "Miss Du is right, it would be better if the emperor gave you to the third prince, we wouldn't have to sympathize with the third prince and Miss Du! That ugly woman marrying the third prince is really a waste of the third prince!"

  Yun Qiao nodded in agreement, then smiled again, her eyes narrowing with amusement: "She's indeed lucky, last time she cracked open her head and still managed to survive, otherwise... Luohan, you really could have married into the Third Prince's estate."

  Meng Wanjing looked around, but didn't see Qin Luoyi's figure. She suddenly covered her mouth and laughed at Qin Luhai: "Your sister went to pick flowers, why hasn't she come back for so long? This mountain is high enough, could it be... the heavens couldn't bear such an ugly person going to torment the Third Prince, so they threw her off the cliff?"

  She knew Qin Luohan didn't care about this sister, so she dared to speak so recklessly.

  Qin's eyes flashed with a hint of a smile, and she stumbled slightly before blurting out: "Don't go spouting nonsense, but up ahead... there really is a cliff!"

  In her heart, she couldn't help but wish that Qin Luo would really fall off the mountain, and then maybe she could be the one to marry into the Wang family.

  Du Yu's eyes flashed with a hint of coldness, and he burst out laughing: "Then let's go take a look, maybe it really fell down?"

  "This time she's going to fall, let her die from it. Her face is already ugly enough, if she falls again and becomes half-dead, she won't have the face to see people!" Yun Qiluo said.

  ……

  Qin Luo's eyes gleamed with sharpness as he gazed at the four women laughing and giggling, his heart filled with cold sneers. He stood behind the tree for a moment before walking out with Da Hei, a big smile on his face. A hint of killing intent flashed in his eyes.

  She had originally planned to slip away quietly and wasn't going to take action against them, but the way these women were eagerly waiting for her to fall into misfortune really made her feel extremely displeased.

  A group of people continued to walk forward and soon arrived at the Xianhuai Forest. The fragrance of the Xianhuai flowers was rich and overflowing, just like snowflakes, crystal clear and translucent, truly a beautiful sight.

  Du Yucui saw so many Xianhuai trees, that snow-white crystal one piece, a vast expanse, beautiful and transparent, occasionally dotted with bright Begonia flowers, like the mortal fairy world, extremely joyful in her heart, calling out to Meng Wanjing Qin Luohan and others to quickly walk in.

  Qin's smile in her eyes grew thicker, she had unintentionally passed by here earlier... She fell back a few steps and followed behind them. As she walked under one of the largest Xuanhua trees, which would require two people to hug it, she paused for a moment, slightly raised her head, and saw a huge beehive on top of the tree. Her fingers moved lightly, and a strand of transparent smoke popped out, then left.

  Qin Luohan was warmly and intimately accompanying Du Yudie in conversation, while casually plucking a fist-sized Xianhuai flower and sniffing it at the tip of his nose.

  "Humming..."

  Suddenly, a strange noise came from behind them, and she quickly turned her head to look. Hundreds of wasps flapped their wings and flew in rapidly from the back.

  "Ah! It's a Mutant Red-Footed Wasp!"

  The venom of the variant red-footed bee is not severe, but its flying speed is extremely fast. Moreover, people who are stared at by it will experience unbearable itching all over their body, which will only stop after 24 hours.

  Qin Luoyi's face lost its color, she let out a cry of surprise and didn't even notice Du Yuzheng, who was also pale and flustered beside her, and hastily ran forward in a panic.

  "Ah! Damn it, get out of here! How can there be mutated red-footed bees on this Moon Mist Mountain...!" Meng Wanjing also knew the ferocity of the mutated red-footed bees and let out a sharp cry as she ran wildly while flailing her hands to swat away the incoming bees.

  But there were too many wasps, and after shooing a few away, even more swarmed around. A sharp pain hit my forehead as I was stung again, and Meng Wanjing let out a blood-curdling scream.

  Qin Luo Yi was also running, the green collar of her clothes fluttering in the wind. However, unlike Qin Luo Han and Meng Wan Jing's disheveled appearance, upon closer inspection, it could be seen that although there were many mutated red-footed bees around her, they would only fly a few circles around her before quickly flying away, as if Qin Luo Yi had something on her body that they feared greatly.

  Qin Luo Han and the others were busy avoiding the attack of the mutated red-footed bees, so naturally no one noticed anything unusual about Qin Luo Yi.

  After a moment, Qin Luo Yi, Meng Wan Qing, and Yun Xue Lian, no matter how they tried to cover themselves up and run away, were all surrounded by the Red Foot Bees and stared at fiercely for several moments. Du Yu Die Xi was much taller than them and could already use her spiritual power. Even though many of the Red Foot Bees had mutated and moved quickly, none of them managed to stare at her successfully.

  Even so, the terrifying buzzing sound behind her made her dare not stop for a moment, she didn't want to be stared at by that barefoot bee.

  She had once seen a woman who was also stared at by a swarm of angry bees, unable to bear the intense itching, and scratched out many deep blood marks on her face with both hands... In the end, that originally lovely and beautiful face became extremely ugly!

  She couldn't help but shiver as she arrived here, and her footsteps quickened.

  "Ah!"

  She only kept running forward, occasionally turning her head to see if she had shaken off the pursuing variant bees, without noticing that her foot was already on the cliff, and suddenly fell off the cliff.

  Digression

  Thank you Xiangxiang Muru's flower (11 flowers)