Chapter 7: Aim for the heaven [1]

Before returning to her flame cloud courtyard, she sent people to plunder everything in the Gourd Courtyard and let them put into the magical bags.

‘One can provoke the heaven, can provoke the god but cannot provoke Luo second miss.’ The servants reminded themselves. They diligently do their work in an incredible speed.

After making sure the place is emptied by them, she left to her courtyard and encountered Luo Zheng along the way. The man only stares at her for a while before sighing while she walked away without saying a thing.

Luo Zheng was about to enter the house in the Gourd Courtyard but he halted his step when the shout was heard.

“What kind of daylight robbery is that wretched slut doing?!” After Elder Ban Guo woke up, he shouted in fury and fainted again from the sight of his courtyard emptied. Luo Zheng had to appease that old man by moving him into another courtyard and filled them up again with some high quality furniture.

After settle down everything, she summoned her contractual beast the Lightning Sky Owl and let it carried the bags with his legs to Luo Qing Qing.

“Make sure it arrives to her, Shiro.” She said as the sight of the white owl faded from the sky in a split second.

Earth Eagle is not her contractual beast but just her pet. It is merely an eagle without any cultivation stage but has an affinity with earth which allowed them to recognize places, therefore called Earth Eagle. It has no ability to fight therefore it is only useful to sent letters and non expensive objects.

Lightning Sky Owl is not only a fast wind affinity beast. Its raw power combined with its speed makes it one of the top ten among strongest named contractual beasts in the Xi Continent.

Meanwhile, she brought out useless treasure like golden hairpin, imperial fabric silks to be put into the grave. During the funeral praying moment, while everyone else wearing white she wore black clothes and sincerely prayed and wished that her sister will be reincarnated and lives well for her second life.

Even if the girl doesn’t remember her, she is sure that when they meet, she will recognize her.

‘One destined to meet surely will meet.’ She remembered the words that the author often writes in the novel.

Although other people found it weird for her to be mourning in black, they don’t dare to say anything. It also doesn’t matter as long as she doesn’t wear bright color during the mourning period.

How would they know that more than anyone else, she trusted in reincarnation? It is said in myth that God of life and death hated white because it was too pure. Therefore, she wore black to mourn in hope that the little girl can pass by the afterlife quickly and reincarnate soon.

The corpse got covered in white veil but no one suspect anything because they could see the resemblance in fourth miss. When the coffin got closed, Han Xia Yu eyes let out tears and she wiped it quickly as she watched it got carried away by the yamen people.

“Thanks for coming.” Luo Zheng greeted the guests.

Since Han Xia Yu’s identity is special in the whole kingdom and even in some part of the Xi Continent, many prominent guests that came to give their condolence for the death of the Luo’s fourth miss. They all found out today that the famed second miss, the main disciple of the Principal of Jia Martial Heavenly Art Academy is close with this abandoned fourth miss. The rumors about she almost got crazy because of her sister’s death also passed around into the people’s ear.

They came to get on good side of Han Xia Yu but the person in speaking doesn’t even care about them. She only bowed her head once as a greeting and continued to pray together with the monks.

Some people thought of her as a benevolent sister while some thought of her as ungrateful and impudent for scolding her elders and blaming them for her sister’s death.

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When the misses in the other side of the room heard the murmurs, the fifth miss couldn’t help but say something.

“Hmph, she just acts benevolent.” Luo Xia Qin scoffed.

“If you don’t have any good thing to say during the funeral, don’t say anything.” Luo Zhu Yao that was sitting in front of the wall reminded her.

Luo Xia Qin grumbled as she was unsatisfied being scolded by her brother. Although the third young master came from the same mother, Luo Zhu Yao is more sensible. He could see that Luo Zheng is giving face to the second sister. Else, why would they need to host the fourth sister’ funeral service?

When the news of the Luo Fourth Miss passed away reached to her close friends, legitimate third miss from Yang house and illegitimate eldest young master from Prime Minister Qin House, they both immediately dressed into mourning clothes and visited the Luo Manor.

However, they arrived too late and the funeral service already ended. Luo Fourth miss already been buried down in the deep earth.

Afterward, they heard that Fourth Miss title was given to the supposed fifth miss, Luo Xia Qin. They thought that their friend would be fury after hearing such thing but she doesn’t even care.

Prior before they arrived, Han Xia Yu sat in her study while drinking sencha brewed by her new maid and read the recipe book her shifu taught her. When she left Pan Ai and Pan Liu to Luo Qing Qing, she took another maid and named her Pan Yi. The maid also had the same fate as her other senior sisters and feared Han Xia Yu deeply to her core.

But, unlike her senior sister, she is clumsier.

When she passed the cup to her master, she accidentally tipped it over and Han Xia Yu was covered in the wet dress.

“…” Han Xia Yu stared at the book on her hand and on her clothes. When she saw that only her dress is wet, she glanced to the maid shivering in fear and said in monotone voice.

“Go serve all the guards in the Luo Manor as punishment. Doesn’t matter if they accept it or not and if anyone ask, make sure to say that it is your punishment for tipping the tea over to your master’s dress.”

Pan Yi immediately bowed and proceeded to do exactly as she was told.

Han Xia Yu sighed and stood up as she kept the book back into her ring. She walked over to her bedroom to change clothes and heard the servants in her courtyard gossiping.

“Isn’t her punishment too soft? If it was other maids that make the same mistake to their master, they will at least be planked twenty times.”

“Shh, don’t talk so loud. You don’t know this since you are new here but…” The maid glanced around before continued, “Only second miss and third young master treated their servants well. On the other hand, the other misses that put up kind and benevolent façade, every each one of them has kill some of the servants intentionally. I saw with my eyes that Eldest miss has started beating her servants in her courtyard again, who knows who has angered her?”

Han Xia Yu opened the door and told them to not gossip about their masters lest being caught and killed. She also told them that their voice is still loud even if they whispered because the higher the cultivation of a person will have their five senses gradually enhanced.

They nodded vigorously and carry on with their own work as one sweeping the dried leaves while the other carries clothes to be washed.

Han Xia Yu in pale green dress closed the door and sat back in her study. She leaned her back on the seat and stared at her hand.

She is not as kind as those two said she is. ‘This hand that has always been used to cook, to touch beautiful thing and to care for someone… has killed someone.’

Her eyes lowered as she reminiscing the face of the person she killed. The utterly disbelief and shocked had on the maid face doesn’t waver her determination to kill at all. She has never kills anything with the exception of food material like chicken and fish. She doesn’t knows, where the courage to kill comes from and where her sense of guilt is at.

When she changed the maid face to shape like Luo Qing Qing, she only felt sad because of her sister’s death but not guilty at all when she killed or change the maid face.

It made her doubt herself whether she is still a human or a devil incarnate like she has said to her personal maids. In the past, she used to have the urge to kill people that annoyed her to death but because of the laws, she had to be a good citizen. Even so, she has never kill anyone or torture anyone whether mentally or physically.

She killed someone now but there is no sense of guiltiness.

She is afraid of herself but as she calmed down, she imprinted the thought of revenge for her sister in her mind. If the revenge requires her to be heartless devil, she will never hesitate to be one.

Suddenly someone interrupted her day-dreaming with the guards announcing their arrival.

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They sat in the Flame Cloud Courtyard’s study room in front of Han Xia Yu that is drinking peacefully while Pan Yi another maid that feared Han Xia Yu is serving them tea and sweet peach buns. Han Xia Yu wearing black whiles the other two wearing white mourning clothes.

“Xia Yun.” Yang Fei Ya timidly called out to her name with a frown on her face.

Qin Yan Jin on the other hand just observed the girls as he sat a bit farther from them.