Xianxia’s Working Emperor Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Great Ideas, Marry Her!

The lady in front of Lu Feng looked at him with disdain, and said, “It’s good that nothing’s wrong, hurry and sort out these piles of rubble.”  Saying this, she turned to leave, Lu Feng was elated, and said with a smirk, “Old Man wasn’t toying with me, I didn’t dare to confess to the campus belle, the one who was always pursued by others, here at last, I have unexpectedly been given such a beautiful fiancée.”   

Upon thinking this, Lu Feng secretly made up his mind, he must conquer the lady before him, to be precise; to obtain the top seat, and definitely not the three rules of the so-called engagement contract.  In his heart he also pondered on how to make young lady Bai give birth to his children. (TN/EN: what the heck Lu Feng.)

That’s why he immediately chased after her, and yelled, “Young lady Bai, young lady Bai, wait for me!”  However in the blink of an eye, she disappeared, Lu Feng couldn’t even see her shadow, he could only hear the sound of the door closing.

Lu Feng let out a sigh and said, “Is this qinggong?  No, I heard the Old Man say this world is about cultivating to immortality.”  As he thought about how people in town were speaking of how amazing cultivators were. Lu Feng could remember how those he had met were fake cultivators, who didn’t even have a little bit of actual ability.  Now that he had seen it for himself, he actually did not know if the young miss actually had any abilities, or it was just a simple qinggong technique.

“I don’t care how amazing she is, I will conquer her.”  Lu Feng made a grunt of resolution, then patted off the dust on his body.  He went to the doorway of the building next door and laughed, “Young lady Bai.”

A sound could be heard from inside, “Yes?  What is it?  Is there a problem?”  Lu Feng replied with a silly laugh, “Young miss Bai, you see, tomorrow we are getting married, shouldn’t we get to know each other?”

“What’s there to know?  Just obediently prepare to be the Son-in-law, and stop bothering me.”

Lu Feng, stunned by young lady Bai’s coldness, didn’t give up.  Rather he laughed, “Young lady Bai, I want to give you something in exchange for a bit of money.”

At this moment, the door opened, young miss Bai stared at Lu Feng with a cold gaze and asked, “Do you think I need anything from you?”  Lu Feng replied with confidence, “Any woman who sees this will be attracted by it.”

Young lady Bai, being interested, immediately said, “Impossible,” Lu Feng replied immediately, “In that case, how about we bet on it?”  Young lady Bai looked at the messy and sloppy Lu Feng with eyes full of suspicion, before asking, “What bet?”

“If the thing I have here appeals to you, you will have to give me fifty gold taels, how about it?”

Young miss Bai who was naturally not short of money, said, “I thought it was something else, so it’s just fifty gold taels?  I’ll see what you can bring out.”  Lu Feng was pleased, and said, “You had better take a good look then.”

Only seeing Lu Feng reach his hand behind, her heart was silent. Suddenly, a rose flower appeared in his hand, afterwards, it was then quickly brought in front of young lady Bai’s eyes. Lu Feng had a sinister smile, and said, “How is it? Not bad, right?” Young lady Bai’s face was blank at first, eventually saying, “Immature.”

Lu Feng was perplexed, “How?  Could it be that you have seen it before?”  Young miss Bai coldly replied, “No.”  Having said that, she pointed one hand over, afterwards scattering a large amount of gold taels on the ground, before finally slamming the door shut.

Lu Feng was nervous with excitement, he knew young lady Bai really liked it, just that she deliberately pretended not to.  He happily picked up the gold taels on the ground, then looked at the ruins at the side once more.  He laughed, “I ought to get people to clean up this mess, then I shall build a nice house.  En, it had better follow my own design.”

Lu Feng was once a building architect.  Needless to say, he liked designing buildings, which meant that designing a house was also no problem. He hummed a tune and left.  Young lady Bai looked at the faraway rose in Lu Feng’s hand.  Her cold face revealed a slight smile, “How did he manage to bring out that flower, it was really nice.”

With regards to Lu Feng, he was frail and weak, but he had artistic talent, and self-confidence.  He thought he could rely on this, in addition to the stuff he brought from Earth in order to entice young lady Bai to form some sort of understanding, afterwards slowly making her emotionally attached to him.

That’s why he decided it was necessary to have a nice house, once he came to the garden, he saw only guards.  Once they saw that Lu Feng wanted to leave, they immediately blocked him, one of them said, “No one is allowed to leave or enter through here.”

Lu Feng gloomily said, “I’m hungry, am I not allowed to leave even if I want to eat something?”  The guards nodded their heads.  Lu Feng immediately took out a few gold taels and laughed, “Is this not enough?”  They earn only two hundred coins a year, in a month they earn a dozen, if tempted with a gold tael, naturally they would falter a bit.

Lu Feng’s expertise was in luring others, having dealt with customers in the past, however none the less, that is why he shook with laughter and said, “Want it or not?”

The guards felt awkward, one guard said, “Young son-in-law, it’s not that we don’t want it but the master and the mistress would hold us accountable.”

Lu Feng knew they were afraid of him leaving secretly.  After pondering, he laughed and said, “Alright, I won’t go out, however, could you guys help me buy some stuff?”

One after the other, people started to notice.  Lu Feng told them the things he wanted and asked the guards to buy them, not forgetting to give them the money to buy the items.  Watching Lu Feng carrying piles of gold, everyone beamed and quickly went off to work.

As for Lu Feng, he stood at the entrance of the garden and whispered secretly to himself, “Apparently very little people know young lady Bai’s true colours.”  After saying this, Lu Feng turned to look at the messy flowers in the garden, before then sighing and saying to himself, “n.o.body even manages it.”

After thinking a bit, Lu Feng had an idea. He let out a few giggles, then the guards carrying piles of fancy wood came in.  There were also some tools used for building.

Seeing this, Lu Feng laughed with satisfaction, “Not bad.”  Both guards laughed, one of them even asked, “Young son-in-law, what else do you need?” Lu Feng shook his head and said, “Nothing else for the time being.”

The guards then took the rest of the gold and one said, “In addition to the five gold taels, and the ones you gave the five of us, there are 40 taels left.”. Lu Feng smiled and asked, “What’s your name.”

That guard laughed and said, “My name is Ye Gu.”  Lu Feng made an en sound and laughed, “Ye Gu, you should be their captain.”  Ye Gu made an en sound, “We are the team responsible for this place.”  Lu Feng beamed and said, “That’s alright, the remaining will be given to you for safekeeping, should I need anything, I’ll get you to go buy it.”

Ye Gu was stunned, he said, “You aren’t afraid we will pocket it?”  Lu Feng laughed and laughed some more, “What’s there to be afraid of?”  The guards including Ye Gu were extremely moved.  They did not expect that there would be someone who trust them that much, after all in a large family the guards had to defend against each other.

As for Lu Feng, this was what he planned to do, he wanted to get these guards on his side.   However, after all he was still in the Bai Family, which is why he laughed, “Ok, you guys, stop daydreaming, here, move these inside.”

These guards felt embarra.s.sed, Ye Gu explained, “Young son-in-law, it’s not like we don’t want to help, if someone were to see, the master of the house would not let us off.”

Lu Feng found it was suspicious and asked, “Oh? So it’s like this?”  Everyone nodded their heads.  Lu Feng then said, “Then it’s fine, I will personally go.” After he finished saying this, he started to get busy.  First to fix the wood, second he had to clean up the rubble and third he needed to deal with the messy garden.

Over some time a few construction sounds could be heard, from inside the house.  Young lady Bai was wondering, “What is this d.a.m.n guy doing?”  She looked out through  the gaps of the window, and saw Lu Feng messing around with some stones and wood.

It was as young miss Bai suspected, “This guy is building his own house?”

Lu Feng was not aware that young lady Bai was spying on him. Young lady Bai did not see anything particularly special while looking at him.  As Lu Feng toiled till noon, there was someone who sent food over.  Ye Gu also laughed, “Young son-in-law, you must be tired, come there’s water here.”

After eating and drinking Lu Feng said, “Of course.”  Ye Gu was curious as to what Lu Feng had built, except Lu Feng asked, “Wait, why is there only my food, what about the young miss, does she not eat food?”

Ye Gu looked around before whispering, “Some people say the young miss practices cultivation and has no need to eat for a long time, also we have never seen the young lady eat.” While eating Lu Feng said, “Oh? So mysterious?”

“There’s no way.”

Lu Feng muttered under his breath, “This young miss can’t really be starving to practice cultivation, won’t she burst into flames?”  Seeing that Lu Feng was lost in thought Ye Gu asked, “Young son-in-law have you ever met the young miss?”

Lu Feng made an “En” sound, everyone was suddenly excited, Ye Gu also asked. “Then how was it? Was the young miss like the rumors?”  Lu Feng was surprised, “What?  You guys never met her?”

Ye Gu embarra.s.sedly said, “We’ve been here for a long time already, the young miss had never appeared in public, at most we would hear her voice only.”  Lu Feng had never thought of this matter, this made him curious as to why young miss Bai would hole up in her garden and not see anyone.

Then a voice shouted, “What are you guys doing, ah!?” The guards then abruptly stood at attention as if nothing had happened.  From the pa.s.sageway revealed a figure, which turned out to be the annoying housekeeper.

He was staring daggers at Lu Feng, then he snorted, “You little beggar, stop trying to lead my guards astray or else I will miss you.”  Lu Feng acted as if he did not care, as if he did not see the housekeeper there.  Ye Gu could no longer bear it and said, “Housekeeper, he is going to be the future son-in-law, don’t say bad things about him.”

Housekeeper Liu did not expect someone would speak up for Lu Feng, he angrily replied, “What? You have an opinion? I see that you haven’t disciplined yourself enough, slap yourself a hundred times.”

Ye Gu understood housekeeper Liu’s words, he could only raise his hand  but Lu Feng could not help but say, “Come housekeeper Liu, since you act so fierce, if you have the ability then come and hit me.”

Housekeeper Liu till this time, had no one that refuted him so badly before.  He furiously said, “You little kid, you think you are a carp jumping over the gate to become a dragon?  Let me tell you something, in here, what I say counts.”

Lu Feng could not help but snicker, “Really?  That’s great, then the day after tomorrow I won’t have to get married already, let’s see whether the master of the house cares more about his daughter or you?”