Be Modest,My Master of Imperial Guards

Chapter 40 The Master's Kiss

On the way back to the Eastern Depot, the three people in the carriage were all in silence.

Once one had idle time, he would spend more time imagining things. At this time, it was the elaborate-style painting booklet brought by Ming Lan that was constantly frying Leng Qingtang's mind.

Those still pictures which inadvertently jumped into his eyes were so enchanting and enthralling that they seemed to be ghosts endowed with invisible lives, violently and inescapably messing around in front of Leng Qingtang's eyes.

At this very moment, Gu Yunxi was sitting beside him, looking tiny and pretty.

Suddenly, there were a lot of evil thoughts in his mind. If he had pushed down this graceful and svelte little girl, lying on her water-like silky body, feeling those pictures, how exciting it would have been to see her self-possessed and blissful look.

Leng Qingtang only felt that the blood in his body swelled sharply, and the feeling of arousal somewhere in his body could not be suppressed.

"Master, what have you done to Lord Ming?"

Gu Yunxi noticed that Leng Qingtang and Chiliarch Cheng had been serious since they got on the carriage, so she was suspicious about how Ming Lan was going.

"Relax... He's alive..." Leng Qingtang's absent-minded answer was very perfunctory.

It meant that he was still alive but not very well.

As she perceived that the Master's look was not right, Gu Yunxi didn't dare to continue to question, so she stopped asking.

Leng Qingtang moved to one side uncomfortably, deliberately got a bit away from Gu Yunxi, then lifted the curtain of the window, and took a deep breath towards the cold and wet air outside the carriage to force himself to calm down.

Gu Yunxi's body quivered gently, with her arms tightly looped together. She was wearing a gauze skirt with thin long-sleeves, which was too thin to wear in late autumn. As the night breeze poured in, she felt a feeling of chill. Seeing this, Leng Qingtang dropped the curtain compassionately.

They were getting closer to the Eastern Depot.

A smell of fragrant soup flew in. Leng Qingtang looked out of the carriage to find they had arrived on Luoyin Street.

There was only one lantern beside the dark and silent street. It was a stall which was selling night snacks. A hot pot was simmering on the stove beside the trolley. The fragrant smell came out from that pot.

"Let's get off the carriage to have something to warm our bodies!"

As soon as Leng Qingtang said that, the driver immediately parked the carriage. The carriage ensuing stopped immediately as well, and Xiao Xiaoshen and the other two jumped off the carriage.

"Master, what's wrong?"

Xiao Xiaoshen thought that the Master had ordered something for him to do, so he ran over quickly. His master Cheng Wanli said to him,

"Let's have a rest and eat something first."

The stall owner was an old white head, in his 60s, who welcomed them with a smiley face immediately after seeing them.

After the six people were seated around the table, Cheng Wanli ordered six bowls of wonton on behalf of the Master.

After a while, the steaming wontons were put in porcelain bowls and then served on the table in front of everyone, who felt warmth merely seeing the food.

Gu Yunxi was indeed hungry.

She was busy in the morning preparing some pastry, then went to the Western Depot to meet Ming Lan after dressing up and got back to the Eastern Depot to change her clothes. After all the toil, the food she had had at noon was completely digested. Now, as she wore so little on the cold autumn night, she felt cold and hungry.

She squeezed the spoon with her slender fingers, spooned a white fat wonton that looked like a piglet, and swallowed it whole after blowing it a little.

Wontons were really tasty! The fresh chicken mince was mixed with some sesame oil, five-spice powder, and a bit salt. With chopsticks, the mince was made into meatballs. They were wrapped in fine flour, and then the wontons were boiled in savory soup that was made with meat chops.

After the mince was cooked, the wontons were separated into eight balls a bowl. Then some green ground chives were sprinkled into the thick milky white bone soup, which was garnished with a little seaweed and sea rice. This was definitely a perfect late-night gourmet with good color, smell, and taste.

Gu Yunxi swallowed three wontons and eventually felt warming up.

Leng Qingtang didn't feel hungry. He only drank some bone soup and then turned his head. He looked at Gu Yunxi with a smile, who was enjoying wontons. His eyes were gentle and joyful.

Cheng Wanli quickly finished a bowl and turned his eyes to the Master, looking helpless.

Given the personality, appearance, and position of the Master, not short of any beauty would surprise him. Before, many officials and businessmen, who wanted to bootlick the Eastern Depot, tried to send him some women. But in front of them, the Master really looked like a eunuch. When faced with the seductive beauties, he always looked indifferent. In the end, he directly sold them to his men at a low price, which spared Cheng Wanli a lot of worries.

But now when facing Gu Yunxi, a childish little girl, why was he so infatuated with her that his eyes were laden with romantic messages?

Leng Qingtang spared some wontons in his bowl to Gu Yunxi and asked everyone,

"Who wants some more?"

"Me!" Xiao Xiaoshen and Yuan Qian raised their hands at the same time. It wasn't strange that teenage boys had to eat more to build up their strength.

The stall owner boiled two more bowls of wonton. While waiting for them to be cooked, Xiao Xiaoshen stared at Gu Yunxi, smirking.

Gu Yunxi thought her bad table manners made him laugh, so she stroked her hot cheek with one hand and stared at him in embarrassment,

"Brother Xiaoshen, what are you doing..."

"Huh-huh, Yun Xi, you look really pretty with this red makeup, like a bride."

He laughed happily while talking nonsense. The tenth captain Yuan Qian immediately stepped on him under the table,

"Eat, don't look! How dare you gaze at Yunxi?"

The seventh captain smoothed his beard, glanced at the Master and Gu Yunxi and smiled silently. Cheng Wanli shook his head in annoyance and sighed softly.

...

Gu Yunxi was stunned and confused by their strange behavior and then said to Xiao Xiaoshen angrily, "Badass!"

Leng Qingtang winked and smiled with her lips pursed, "Yes, you do look good!"

There was a bit of panic in her brown eyes. She bowed her head awkwardly and dared not to meet the eyes of the Master.

After feeding himself, Leng Qingtang sent the stall owner a piece of gold, and then everyone continued on their way.

It was midnight when they arrived at the Eastern Depot. The Southern Residence was quiet with moonlight splashing on the ground, so silver-white like frost. The scene was completely an obscure dreamscape.

Leng Qingtang followed Gu Yunxi to walk outside her house.

"You must be tired. Have a good rest."

He lowered his head after that to carefully appreciate the delicate and pretty person in front of him. Her smooth and delicate little hands seemed to be covered with glue, which was so hard for him to let them go once they were held by him.

Eventually, he let her go unwillingly, and raised his head slightly towards the door of the room, instructing her to enter the room earlier to rest.

"Master, I... I'm going. You might as well have a rest early."

She instinctively noticed that the breath of the Master was fiery, like a raging flame that continued to heat up, making her panicked and shy.

She moved gently but stepped on the mopping skirt somewhere not far, and her curvaceous body immediately fell towards the hard blue brick road.

As Gu Yunxi screamed in horror, her thin waist was firmly held by a solid arm, and her body immediately fell into a warm embrace.

"Girl, are you all right?"

Leng Qingtang was watching Gu Yunxi back to the house, only to reach out in time when seeing what happened so that she was not hurt for a second time.

False alarm.

Despite this, she was taken aback just now.

Gu Yunxi panted against the chest of the Master. Her two small hands involuntarily grasped his lapel, and her petite body trembled between his powerful arms.

She looked pitiable but adorable when she was in a status of apprehension.

An unquenchable thirst suddenly rushed up, like throwing a small stone, which easily disrupted his ever-reasonable mind.

He reached out to Gu Yunxi's smooth and delicate chin and gently lifted her face.

In the deep and silent night, her tiny sharp face was so soft and white that a ray of lustrous light was reflected under the bright stars. Beautiful eyebrows, exquisite veiled nose, pink cherry lips, the slender smooth long neck exposed above the petticoat and a long red dress. They all revealed her attractive charm that was beyond her age.

When their eyes met, time seemed to rest at this moment suddenly.

In the dark night, the Master, standing in the moonlight, was surrounded by the cold and quiet color. With the black shirt wrapped tightly around his long and firm body to reveal its sharper outline, he looked so chic and handsome in the night. When the breeze blew, his black hair danced with the wind, gliding over his bright white face lightly. The outline of his face, which was immersed in the cool moonlight, became clearer and more handsome. His nose was tall and straight, his thin lips were chiseled, and under the slender eyebrows, his black eyes were like the night sky at the moment, shining and rolling, making them so obscure that the girl in front was totally infatuated with them.

He fixed his emotional eyes on Gu Yunxi, and all of his thoughts turned into an affectionate call,

"Yunxi..."

His slow voice lingered in the midnight, long and distant, with a slight tremor in the tail.

It's the first time that he had called her boudoir name, which signaled that he would no longer disguise deep feelings in his heart.

His girl immediately had her eyes enlarged as a pair of apricots. Her long and thick eyelashes twitched gently, and her pink lips half-opened, just like a frightened deer. Her eyes, which were now gazing at him, were seared with panic.

The Master didn't want to be reserved but held the delicate body in front of his chest and forced a fiery kiss on her cherry lips, ignoring any possible consequence.

She almost lost her conscience.

She forgot to dodge and didn't seem to want to dodge.

In her view, the face of the Master had been enlarged to the limit, which at this moment was so unreal for her.

Gu Yunxi lowered her long eyelashes and obediently clung to the firm body of the Master to let his kiss wander around her lips.

The hot thin lip, the solid embrace, and the hot temperature coming from the clothes had all melted Gu Yunxi's body into a pool of soft water.

There were some things in the world that could be learnt without guidance....

Suddenly the courtyard door was pushed open, and the abrupt sound broke the tenuous and romantic vibe in the courtyard.

Leng Qingtang and Gu Yunxi were shocked by the uninvited guest and hugged together in a panic, staring at Cheng Wanli, whose thick arms were carrying a large bucket, dangling into the yard.

A while later, Leng Qingtang was so angry that his handsome face blushed obviously.

"Who asked you to come in." With a roar, the Master flew into a rage.

Cheng Wanli smiled, and his face was as calm as usual,

"I got some hot water for you, the Master, to clean your body. Then I would send Yun two buckets as well. After a busy day, it's best to take a hot bath before going to sleep."

When he finished, he carried the steaming bucket with his strong arms and entered Leng Qingtang's room without being ordered to do so.

"I... I'm going back to the room."

Gu Yunxi got away from the Master, picked up her skirt, turned around, and quickly walked back to her room. A look of shame and desolation intertwined on a beautiful face.

Leng Qingtang couldn't stop her anymore, but could only watch her enter the room and close the door before striding back to his own room.

Cheng Wanli had already poured some hot water in the big bath barrel and was about to leave with the empty basket when he ran into the Master who slapped on an unpleasant face.

"How dare you! Cheng Wanli, you are good." Knowing that he deliberately appeared to make a mess, Leng Qingtang pointed at him and cursed him with irritation.

Cheng Wanli smirked,

"Master, calm down, please. Tomorrow I will come to the Southern Residence to live with you. This courtyard will be livelier with more people..."

"How dare you! Believe it or not, I would cut half of your yearly salary!"

Leng Qingtang raised his jaw and stared at Cheng Wanli with a tone of coercion in a bid to force this straightforward Chiliarch to give up.

If Cheng Wanli had moved to the Southern Residence, there would have been more eyes on his every move, so how could he make out with that little girl?

Surprisingly, Cheng Wanli was still smiley.

"At your please, Master! I am a bachelor, as long as there's enough food and drink, I will show my loyalty. Huh-huh."

"You..." Leng Qingtang was completely speechless.

Even if he had a lot of dissatisfaction with Cheng Wanli, he knew best about his personality. The reason why he showed such stubbornness was entirely out of his loyalty and protection of his Master.

Then his cold, iron-stiff expression softened. Leng Qingtang sighed helplessly, and waved to him helplessly, "Go on, and take a good rest."

"Yes, Master." Cheng Wanli picked up the barrel, but his expression became heavy when he went out.

On the way back, he witnessed the Master's discomfort so he couldn't help worrying about it.

In any case, he must keep an eye on his Master and Gu Yunxi, even if he would disgruntle the Master from then on. In order to protect his Master, he always reminded himself to be careful.

He knew that they must be as cautious as they could before succeeding.