Bab 10: Cinderella is a Coquettish Green Tea (10)

The taste still lingered in his mouth, and even the lazy cat eyes were narrowed faintly in contentment, the slender peach-tipped tail swung from side to side in happiness.

Xie Han licked the exposed fangs, immersed in happiness and only walked back into the hall when his emotions calmed down sufficiently.

Nailu looked at its smiling host once... twice until Xie Han finally turned his eyes to the poor cat. "Host, this.. are you really not angry?"

You must know in all the previous worlds that it had travelled in, all those who dare to provoke its host like this would die without a burial immediately.

But now his host was smiling, not the fake perfunctory smile that was always on those rosy lips but a true smile from the bottom of his heart.

Such an abnormal reaction made the whole cat feel uneasy and unwell.

For the first time, it felt like it couldn't understand its host.

Xie Han's delicate skin carried a faint blush and the scent of fruit wine wafted around him as if it had been combined with his bones, when he glanced down at the deflated cat, his sweaty locks fell softly onto his forehead covering his half-hooded eyes.

His eyebrows were filled with a frivolous and evil air, he patted the fried hair of the cat but did not answer its question.

When he arrived back at the banquet, things had almost come to an end. The topic was too risky and only a few more daring aristocrats would occasionally come up to make an oolong.

At this point, many young ladies began to be restless, it was an open secret that an important noble would be here today but up until now there had been no sign of this noble.

Cecilia saw her brother waltzing back into the hall with a lazy flush and waved her hand to him frantically. Xie Han walked towards her and sat down, picking up the wine jug and taking another sip.

His delicate face immediately frowned in displeasure, at some point the wine in the jug had been replaced by warm tea. He pursed his lips and pushed the jug away, taking a few tart pastries and biting into them unhappily.

Cecilia glanced at her beautiful brother amused and whispered in his ear mysteriously, "Brother, do you think that there'll be someone else coming here today. "

"I hope to see the handsome third prince today. Such a literary gentleman, how can these people bear to frame him."

Xie Han lifted his eyelids and glanced at the platform still feeling the cold temperature around his neck.

Cecilia saw that her brother was in a daze and was about to nudge him impatiently when there was a sudden scream that echoed throughout the banquet.

All the aristocrats were startled and the chatter in the hall was muted for a second. Then there was a burst of footsteps coming from outside and the fearful cries of servants sounded.

Despite the back being a semi-forbidden area, the spirit of gossip was too strong and regardless of whether they would offend the hosts, everyone hurriedly made their way to the back of the main hall.

Lady Ann came over last and hesitated for a moment to go but under the coquettish pestering of Cecilia, she still gritted her teeth and followed the crowd.

Xie Han followed a little curiously, the screams came from the side of the main hall, a little further away from where he had originally wandered to.

This was originally a set of the courtyard, where young ladies and young masters would go to rest or change their clothes in case of an accident and it was usually quiet.

But at this moment, the nose in the courtyard was overwhelming, mixed with faint sobs and startled exclamation, the entire place had descended into chaos.

Cecilia was like an ant on a hot pan and she pushed forward desperately, trying to see what happened, not forgetting to drag her lazy brother behind her, quickly leaving Lady Ann behind. Xie Han munched on a peach that he had gotten who knows when and his narrowed eyes were filled with contentment.

Cecilia shoved to the front with a lot of effort and the scene that opened up in front of her caused her face to turn a deadly white. Xie Han who was originally calm, suddenly stood up sharply and stared at the ground.

"Dead!"

"Dead, someone has died!"

"Quick go the yamen and call the officer in charge. "

"Go call the hostess and tell her the situation."

Cecilia gripped her brother's hand tightly and stared at the ground in horror, no matter how strong she was on weekdays, she was still only a young lady who has never left the boudoir and at this moment, she had already lost half her soul in fright and she was trembling faintly.

Xie Han felt the pain in his hand, looked at her pale face and sighed, pulling her back and standing before her, blocking her sight.

The terrible sight in front of her was replaced by the thin and slender back of her brother and at this moment Cecilia felt that the thin shoulder was filled with immense strength. No matter how the sky falls, he would hold it up for her.

The servants were still crying in fear and the noisy exclamations were unbearable. Xie Han looked at the dead body before him and raised a thin eyebrow, the plump lips raised a strange grin.

The dead body of the man in front of them was face down and no one could see his identity and no one dared to turn him over until the yamen came.

Nevertheless, it could still be seen that he was of noble birth, dressed in a luxurious blue robe made of the finest silk and cloth shoe characteristics of nobles.

There was half empty wine bottle lying by his hands and the servants who originally found him thought that he had simply passed out from drunkenness.

But when the servant went to touch him and bring him back, his body was already stiff and had evidently been there for a while.

He was standing relatively close to the body and he sensed a strange smell, when he took a deeper smell, Xie Han immediately sneezed.

It was a strong rotten scent like a mixture of overpowering rose petals with a hint of bloody decay. The scent was familiar to him but the chaos made it harder for him to pinpoint where he had smelled it before.

A flutter of footsteps sounded behind him and the noisy chatter quieter by a lot. Xie Han turned his head to see a beautiful and elegant woman walking quickly in this direction.

There were many servants around her and they quickly cut a path through the crowd he followed the crowd to step aside.

The servants she brought blocked the sight of the dead man and the woman hurriedly had someone pull away the crying servants before bowing to the crowd. This was the original hostess, Lady Horan.

"Due to my negligence, such an unpleasant and unfortunate event has happened at today's poetry banquet. " She apologized clasping her hands solemnly, "Before this, the Duke's mansion will try our best to cooperate with the yamen and find out the ins and outs of this matter and give you all an explanation. "

The other aristocrats waved their hands and magnanimously stated their understanding. After this, it would not be appropriate for them to stay here any longer, so the banquet could only end before the yamen could arrive and the nobles entered their carriages and left the mansion.

It was a pity they did not get to see the noble person but today's events were enough for them to gossip for a least a week.

Xie Han followed Cecilia whose face was still a little unnatural and Lady Ann back to the carriage. Before they could leave, they were stopped by the lady in the green dress from before, called Elvine

She smiled at them and extended an invitation, "My family is having my grandfather's birthday banquet in a week, would you like to come?"

"Oh, yes thank you!"

This lady in green was originally the daughter of a marquis and was high above them, there was a little friendship but not much. Lady Ann was flattered and quickly accepted the invite with blushing cheeks.

Elvine laughed and waved her hand before walking away cheerfully. Cecilia seemed to have walked out of the gloominess somewhat and she looked at Lady Ann with twinkling eyes.

Lady Ann looked at her bright eyes and patted her face helplessly, "Ask your mother, if you and your brother can come along."

Xie Han made a final glance in the direction of the mansion before looking away.

Cecilia cheered and they all got back into the carriage after dropping off Lady Ann, they made their way back home.