The Green Tea Lady was reborn as the God of House Fighting

The few of them rested for a while in an inn two miles away. After the girl bathed and changed her clothes, she put on a cassia green silk dress and sat leaning against the wall in the inner room.

Dong Jun brought a bowl of hot ginger soup in and handed it to her. The girl held it between her fingertips and took a sip slowly, and the coldness in her body warmed up. She could hear the low voice coming from the cupboard next door.

Xia Yue's voice was inevitably a little angry: "How could our wife... encounter such a thing... ruin her reputation... if the master and mistress in the mansion blame her..."

When she had vented her emotions, she heard another calm and gentle voice.

"I would like to marry the fifth lady of your house."

His voice was neither high nor low, but it contained an unquestionable firmness and determination. As if they had not expected to get such a straightforward answer, the people in the hall were all stunned.

The hall fell silent for a moment, and after a long while, Xia Yue seemed to have come to her senses. Her tone appeared happy on the surface, but inside she was slightly cautious and worried.

"…Is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince joking with us?"

The young man said calmly, as if he didn't take the matter seriously: "A man's word is his bond. I'll keep my word!"

"But... the Fifth Lady is just a concubine's daughter. I'm afraid the Duke's Mansion won't agree..." a housekeeper said worriedly.

This matter is really difficult to resolve.

Wu Niangzi was a virgin girl who went out to the temple to burn incense when she was kidnapped by bandits. Fortunately, her innocence was not defiled.

After being rescued by the prince of the mansion, the two fell off a cliff and spent a day and a night at the bottom of the cliff. Many people saw it. Later, the Ruan family also sent a lot of servants to search for them. When the local county magistrate heard that this matter involved the daughter of a fourth-rank official in the court, he also hurriedly sent people to look for her.

With so many eyes watching, there's no guarantee that this matter won't leak out... The Fifth Lady spent a whole day and a night alone in the mountains with a non-blood relative. Her innocence is no longer safe!

Any official family with some respectability...would not want a woman with a tainted reputation, let alone a concubine's daughter!

The best solution now is for the prince to be willing to marry her!

Yin Xu held the teacup with his fingertips. Hearing this, he just took a sip of the tea and said slowly, "My family's affairs... naturally I will take care of them. You just need to go back and report to Master Ruan and tell him to wait for me to come and propose marriage."

This was a very responsible statement, and the housekeeper could only smile and say, "The prince is very courageous and responsible. I will report this to the master and his wife, and I'm sure they will be very happy!"

Xia Yue didn't say anything more and quickly sent the young man out. When she came back, she inevitably stepped into the inner room.

"Madam..." Xia Yue walked to the side of the couch, with a complicated look between her eyebrows.

"I heard everything." The girl said, and handed the bowl back to Dong Yu, motioning her to leave. Soon, there were only two people left in the room.

"Sister Xia Yue, tell me, if the prince refuses to marry me...what will happen to me?"

Her eyes couldn't help but fall on Xia Yue in front of her.

Xia Yue was able to become the most respectable maid in the main courtyard, so she was naturally not a fool.

Her eyes couldn't help but flicker: "The master and the mistress are not such cruel people..."

The worst outcome would be to give her a white silk scarf to preserve her reputation. The best outcome would be to send her back to her hometown in Meizhou... to end her life.

These are not the outcomes the girl wants to see.

"Sister, you are a smart person..." She lowered her eyelashes and whispered softly, "You will know that if I lose this only marriage I can get... your fate will not be any better."

Xia Yue raised her eyes in slight shock, having never expected that the seemingly well-behaved and weak Fifth Lady would say this.

Yu Luan stared into her eyes and said word by word: "Madam instructed you to keep an eye on me before she left, so that nothing could go wrong... Now that such a big thing has happened, it would be fine if I could marry into the Duke's Mansion smoothly."

"If I can't, I'll be punished... I'm afraid my sister can't escape the blame for her negligence."

Yes... Madam's original intention was to let me control every move of Fifth Lady, but now... she was nearly kidnapped by bandits, and I was too scared at the time that I didn't even dare to step forward to stop them like Madam's two maids.

If I investigate all these incidents carefully after returning, I will find it difficult to escape punishment.

It seems that the Fifth Lady can only marry into the Duke Xuan's Mansion so that she can barely cover up her mistakes.

In the moment when the girl was whispering, a layer of sweat had already appeared on the maid's forehead. She raised her fingertips and wiped it away with the corner of her sleeve.

When he spoke again, he was very respectful to the girl.

"Yes...I understand."