The Legend of the Concubine in the Harem

Yan Xun, who was drinking tea, almost choked.

He suppressed the itch in his throat and unconsciously felt a little relieved that the topic was finally turned back, so he put down the teacup in his hand and said in a gentle voice with a little sadness: "My master passed away many years ago. At that time, I and my junior sister were only ten years old."

"Oh?" Lu Weiyuan's face showed obvious pity.

Yan Xun continued, "Master is a famous magician in Tong County, Luzhou, and the owner of the Xiangyun Troupe. When he was still alive, we often performed acrobatics and magic shows in various counties in Tongzhou. Later -"

A clichéd story.

While Lu Weiyuan listened to Yan Xun's narration silently and made the most appropriate response at the right time, he felt that the story was a bit old-fashioned and not fresh enough.

In Yan Xun's story, his master was very kind to him and his junior sister, and was no different from a biological father. Unfortunately, good people do not live long. Once when he went to perform at the home of a local official in Luzhou, the props that the master was going to use to perform the magic show were damaged by the official's servants, so that the magic show failed.

However, even though the official knew that it was one of his own people who had damaged the magician's props and thus ruined the performance, he still took his anger out on Yan Xun's master. Not only did he want to expel the entire Xiangyun troupe from the city, he also fabricated a crime against Master Yan Xun, arrested him, beat him with a stick, and put him in jail for a month.

By the time he and his junior sister borrowed money from everywhere and raised enough to "redeem" their master from prison, their master was only half alive. He died with hatred in his heart less than half a day after being out.

However, even more unfortunate things are yet to come.

In order to redeem their master, he and his sister made too much noise in the prefecture city, and the official who framed their master noticed it. He then colluded with the government of the prefecture and convicted his brother and sister of "prison robbery". Because they were young and beautiful, they were...

"... released me and my junior sister from the prison and sent us to the music academy as slaves." Yan Xun lowered his head, his shoulders trembling slightly. "Fortunately, although my junior sister and I are still young, we have not forgotten what our master has taught us. We have also won the favor of the music academy nanny. Before the senior official did anything to us, he recommended us to the head of Heyi Tower, and that's how we came to the capital."

After he finished speaking, he timidly raised his head. The princess sitting on the other side of him was also deeply moved. Her delicate and beautiful eyes were filled with a faint light. Her voice was soft and full of compassion: "This man is really bad. Do you still remember his name? He is an official in a place, but he did such a shameless thing. This palace will definitely punish him!"

Upon hearing this, Yan Xun's heart, which had been hanging in his throat since he came in, finally fell back - Princess Yuyi was so favored, there were even rumors among the people that Queen Xie promoted female officials vigorously to pave the way for her daughter... But she was not spoiled after all, she was just a soft-hearted little girl, a little girl... who was spoiled to the point of not knowing what others were thinking.

Yan Xun had seen many children of the powerful and wealthy. The more powerful the parents were and the more they doted on their children, the easier it was for their children to be deceived and controlled.

So he said sadly: "My master has suffered such an unexpected disaster..."

Although he was a magician, he also had a good voice. His originally trembling voice suddenly became high-pitched. "But that great official did not end well later. I heard on the way to Beijing that Lord Lim Guan Eng was inspecting the nine provinces on behalf of the Queen Mother, investigating and dealing with illegal activities everywhere. As early as a month ago, that great official had been arrested."

Yan Xun stood up again and was about to bow to Lu Weiyuan: "As a humble servant, I can only silently thank Lord Lin for his kindness in my heart. Today... today, I learned that Your Highness was visiting Heyi Tower. I couldn't help but ask the housekeeper to... to thank Your Highness in person."

He had a tragic life and lived in the dust, but the evil official who killed him, whom he regarded as his own father, had been punished by the relatives and elders of the man in front of him...

Lu Weiyuan tapped lightly on the armrest of the chair with his fingers.

Faced with such a person who is good at talking and dealing with people, has no background, is good-looking, has a pitiful life experience, and whose family is naturally grateful to him, and he himself acts like he is grateful... it is really hard not to be moved.

Who doesn’t like to be a savior?

Or he is the kind of person where all the conditions for the road ahead are already paved and ready, and he can easily get a savior who will admire and be grateful to him just by talking.

And he has a younger sister.

In the capital, it has long been known that the relationship between Marquis Yongjia and Princess Yuyi, the half-siblings, is the most harmonious and close.

Lu Weiyuan reflected on himself and wondered why he could understand the effect achieved by Yan Xun's method, but had no other thoughts in his mind except for having fun?

Could it be that... just like what the other soul in the female official Ai Suqiu said, my temper is a little too - despicable?

Lu Weiyuan wasn't quite sure.

She once again carefully looked at Yan Xun's face, which still looked very handsome even though he was moved to tears. She thought that although this man was handsome, he was still not as handsome as her brother. If her brother performed here, he would be much more lively and handsome than him. Unfortunately, because she always teased her brother, he was not very willing to play anything she proposed.

Lu Weiyuan's thoughts flew away for a moment: "That's good, I will accept your gratitude on behalf of my aunt, you——"

Yan Xun was looking forward to establishing the bond he wanted with this innocent little princess, but the next second, Lu Weiyuan put away the emotion on his face and said lightly: "You go back first. It's easy to make money in Heyi Building. I believe that you and your sister will be able to redeem yourself and go home soon."

There was no intention to take him away, and he didn't even leave a word of care to make his life in Heyi Building better, which was something that could be done with just a word of mouth.

Yan Xun was stunned for a moment. He didn't understand where he had gone wrong. Everything was fine before, so why did it end like this?

Seeing him stunned, Lu Weiyuan showed some kindness, "Your life story is pitiful. I do feel sorry for you, but I am not the owner of Heyi Tower. However, Aunt Rong Le is also a person who sympathizes with the poor and the weak. If you had told her about your life story earlier, she would definitely not ignore it."

"Your Highness..."

"You just appear in front of me like this and say so many things... It would be fine if you were specially arranged by Aunt Rong Le to entertain me, but your story is not something Aunt Rong Le would appreciate." After comparing this man with his own brother, Lu Weiyuan completely lost interest in "saving Fengchen", but he still wanted to tease him in his heart.

"I think my aunt doesn't know your background, right?"

"I guess, if I really sent someone to investigate your background, they would definitely be able to find out that there was a senior official in Luzhou who committed evil and was later punished by my aunt, right?"

"You can play with anything, why do you have to involve my aunt?" Lu Weiyuan tilted his head, "Since you are so well-informed, your hands must be quite long, and it is worth chopping them off."