“Generally speaking, offending an unmarried girl means offending the family behind her, and each family has its own set of friends. To put it this way, although there are many people attending the banquet today, according to my careful calculations, we only need to target sixteen unmarried girls to offend everyone in the entire noble circle of Kedor City!”
Stone's lips twitched violently. Honey, please don't say such cruel things in such a gloating tone, okay?
Suddenly, Stone began to feel sorry for an old man whom Luo Pipi held a grudge against. She thought that it might be a good time to take his youngest son home.
"Let's go. This last one is quite difficult. Let me give you a heads-up: she's the youngest daughter of the Lord of Kedor City. You know, the Lord's wife had nine sons before finally having this precious daughter. If we can thoroughly humiliate her, that will be the best welcome gift for my soon-to-be-appointed brother!"
The little voice inside the stone began waving a white handkerchief, "Little brother, may you rest in peace..."
Chapter 194 The Second Miss Who Was Escaped from Her Bride
"Phew, I'm finally back. I hate high heels!" Stone slammed into the hotel bed, feeling like he was about to fall apart.
Luo Pipi instructed the maid to bring some calming drinks and snacks to help with sleep, and placed them on the small dining table in the bedroom.
I am very satisfied with your performance today.
Stone waved weakly at Luo Pipi: "Thank you, but don't come looking for me again if something like this happens!"
Luo Pipi smiled slightly: "I have a question. If you don't mind, could you answer it?"
"explain."
Do you know Yi Siyu?
puff!
Stone rolled right off the bed and crashed heavily to the ground. Luckily, the bed wasn't high and there was a thick carpet on the floor; otherwise, Stone might have become the first person in the history of this other world to die from falling off a bed.
"Is Yisi Rain really that scary?" Luo Pipi showed no intention of helping, but simply elegantly picked up a drink and raised it towards Shi Tou: "Come and have a drink?"
It took Shi Tou a lot of effort to get up from the ground: "Yi Siyu isn't scary, you are."
He looked down at the drink; it didn't seem to be alcohol or juice: "What is this?"
"You can try it, it's definitely not poisonous." Luo Pipi had already drunk half a cup, then picked up a piece of pastry and put it in her mouth: "Try it."
Stone took a careful sip and raised an eyebrow in surprise: "Honey water?" She had always thought that there were no bees in this world.
"Honey water? What's that?" Luo Pipi looked at her innocently.
Stone momentarily lost her train of thought, but thankfully she wasn't completely stupid. She slowly took a large gulp of her drink. After figuring out a solution, she finally spoke: "A kind of sweet fruit... isn't this one?"
Luo Pipi looked at the stone intently: "This is a specialty of the Elven race, and it can be considered a kind of sweet fruit."
Elf race?
Stone subconsciously thought of MiFen'er in her ring space, and her understanding of the elf race. Her knowledge came from Baozi and Huoqian, while MiFen'er was too young to explain clearly at the time.
"By the way, do elves really exist in this world? Are elves pretty?" Stone put down his cup, a gossipy expression on his face.
Luo Pipi ate a few more pastries: "They look very nice."
"Huh? You've seen her before?" Remembering Mi Fen'er's ugly appearance, Shi Tou began to doubt Luo Pi Pi's words.
“Yes, I’ve seen them. My mother’s family lives very close to the Moon Goddess’s Forest. My uncle once took me there, and the elves’ beauty amazed me.” Luo Pipi’s expression was very sincere, and there was no sign of her being fake.
Stone didn't doubt that Luo Pipi was lying. Instead, he began to question Luo Pipi's taste. Beauty? Do elves even have that?
"Then you mustn't tell anyone, otherwise, such a beautiful elf will definitely be captured by someone else." After hesitating for a moment, Stone changed his approach.
"No, elves lose their beauty once they leave the Moon Goddess's Forest. If they are elves from the Demon Sound Forest, they lose their voices."
Seeing the stone's confused expression, Luo Pipi explained, "The elves are divided into two groups: one group lives in the Moon Goddess Forest, and the other group lives in the Demon Sound Forest. The elves in the Moon Goddess Forest are all so beautiful that they can make the world pale in comparison, while the elves in the Demon Sound Forest have voices that can bring spring earlier than expected."
Is it really that exaggerated?
Stone scratched his head in confusion: "They'll lose their beauty and voice once they leave?"
"To be precise, you will only lose one. Either your beauty or your voice. Of course, unless an elf possesses both unparalleled beauty and an amazing voice, then it is possible to lose both."
Stone rolled his eyes: "So, if you're both ugly and have an unpleasant voice, even if you escape, you won't lose anything?"
Luo Pipi paused for a moment, clearly not keeping up with Shi Tou's train of thought: "Okay, you're right, but I think there are probably only a few elves like that."
What about rice noodles?
Stone began to ponder a very serious question: Was this rice noodle born ugly, or did it become ugly after it ran away from its home?
"Have some snacks. You've been giving others a hard time, you must be tired."
At Luo Pipi's prompting, Shi Tou stuffed several pastries into his mouth: "By the way, are there any elves in the Crimson Forest?"
Because he had a snack in his mouth, Shi Tou's voice was a little muffled, which made Luo Pipi stunned for a moment.
"Although both the Demon Sound Forest and the Moon Goddess Forest are forests, and elves do indeed live in forests, you should know that not all forests have elves. Among them, the forest least likely to have elves is the Crimson Forest."
Seeing the disbelief on Shi Tou's face, Luo Pipi explained, "When I take you to the Crimson Forest, you'll see that it's a place suitable for all kinds of bloodthirsty monsters, but absolutely not suitable for the gentle and nature-loving elves."
Oh dear, don't portray elves as something so wonderful~~~Aren't there exceptions to every race?
"Darling, I'm starting to look forward to the Crimson Forest." Stone, sipping the sweet water, finally swallowed the pastry in her mouth. She hoped in her heart that she would find another elf in the Crimson Forest…
However, what saddened Stone was that although Luo Pipi's destination was the Crimson Forest, she didn't head straight for it. She would stop at every city she passed, and sometimes she would even instruct the coachman to go to a particular city.
Along the way, although there weren't banquets in every city they visited, there were quite a few. Shi Tou roughly counted, and she attended no fewer than ten banquets, not even counting the ones that Luo Pi Pi attended alone.
"Just how much hatred do you have for your brother?" Shi Tou asked with a face full of resentment. She couldn't help but feel resentful. She could treat one banquet as fun, but after a few, she had long since lost her patience. If it were just an ordinary banquet, it wouldn't be so bad, but Luo Pi Pi would deliberately seduce a bunch of flirtatious women at every banquet, and then hand them over to Shi Tou to make her the target of hatred.
After attending about ten banquets, Shi Tou felt that her ability to attract hatred was comparable to Yi Siyu's. But this did not make her feel any better.
What upset her most was that she received messages almost every day from the communicator Huo Xiaoxiao had given her. Strictly speaking, these weren't messages, but rather signals, each one indicating that she was safe and sound and should hurry back.
However, seeing the numerous missions throughout the city searching for the second young lady of the Huo family, Shi Tou became increasingly uneasy.
Ever since she came to the Huo family with Huo Xiaoxiao, she had always regarded Huo Xiaoxiao as a trustworthy friend. In fact, Huo Xiaoxiao had really treated her well; in fact, the entire Huo family had taken very good care of her.
But what's the situation now? Did she really misunderstand, or did Huo Xiaoxiao have to betray her for her own benefit?
"Why are you looking so long-faced again? You don't need to attend the banquet tonight, because I just found out that the nobles attending tonight are all those you have previously offended."
Luo Pipi walked up to the stone, put his arm around her waist and sat down. The two looked very intimate.
Stone looked up blankly: "Have I offended all the noble girls in the Fallen Empire?"
“I think not.” Luo Pipi suppressed a laugh and reminded him, “Haven’t you noticed? There hasn’t been a single descendant of the Dongfang family at any of the banquets I’ve taken you to these past few days. So, I can tell you with certainty that you haven’t offended the Dongfang family.”
"That's really good news." Shi Tou's lips twitched slightly. "By the way, has that Miss Huo been found?"
"Probably not?" Luo Pipi was a little unsure: "I heard that Miss Huo the Second also ran away from her marriage. Is it that running away from marriage is popular in the capital recently?"
What?! A runaway bride?!
Shi Tou was utterly bewildered. She suddenly became very curious about who had come up with this reason to issue a warrant for her arrest. Running away from an engagement? Weren't she and Lin An already breaking off their engagement?
"Could it be that I was right?" Luo Pipi asked with amusement, looking at Shi Tou's bewildered expression.
"Probably."
Seeing that Shi Tou was being perfunctory, Luo Pipi reached out and patted Shi Tou's head: "Don't always look so preoccupied at such a young age. By the way, since you've met Yi Siyu before, have you met Yi Siyue? You know, the fourth prince who looks more feminine than a woman."
Stone silently shed a tear of sympathy for the Fourth Prince. To be called more womanly than a woman by a tomboy was truly unlucky of him: "We've met once, haven't we?"
"Is it pretty?"
“Very beautiful.” Stone thought for a moment, then added, “Much prettier than me.”
"That's obvious!"
Faced with Shi Tou's piercing gaze, Luo Pipi quickly changed the subject: "But a man being too handsome isn't a good thing for a woman. By the way, I heard that Miss Huo ran away from her marriage because she didn't want to marry Yi Siyue."
o(>﹏<)o
God! Just send down a bolt of lightning and kill me! Isn't her fiancé Lin An? Even if Lin An found another woman and dumped her, that has nothing to do with Yi Siyue, right?
Damn it, she ran away because she kidnapped the Sixth Princess, not because of that damned Ishizuki!
"Duo'er, what's wrong?"
Shi Tou stared at Luo Pipi with a twisted expression: "Aren't Yi Siyue and the second young lady of the Huo family engaged? Isn't it said that the descendants of the six great families of the East can only marry within the same family?!"
"You even know this?" Luo Pipi frowned. "If you knew these things, you should know that the royal family is also a descendant of the Dongfang family! Before the current queen married, wasn't she a young lady from the Qin family of the Dongfang family?"
Is that true?!
Stone was shocked once again. So she could be considered royalty?!
Completely bewildered, Stone had no idea that her body was actually that of the Queen's biological daughter.
Royal relatives and such are nothing compared to a real princess...
Chapter 195 Those Vanished Races
Time passed slowly amidst constant travel and intermittent banquets. Two months later, Luo Pipi and Shi Tou left the Luo Ming Empire.
"Huh? So the Crimson Forest doesn't belong to the Fallen Nether Empire?" Leaning against the car window, Stone watched the scenery outside getting closer and closer to nature, and naturally realized that they were not far from the Crimson Forest.
Shi Tou, who had his back to Luo Pipi, didn't notice that after she finished speaking, Luo Pipi's face twitched violently: "How could you think that the Crimson Forest would belong to the Luo Ming Empire? In terms of area, the Crimson Forest is more than ten times the size of the Luo Ming Empire."
"Huh?" Stone exclaimed in shock, turning around abruptly: "Really?"
Luo Pipi looked at Shi Tou with great shame: "Don't you know? Didn't your tutor teach you these things?"
Private tutor?
Stone was speechless. The Fallen Empire had many schools, but these were usually higher education institutions; kindergartens and primary schools like those in Stone's previous life didn't exist in this world. The poor in the Fallen Empire were generally illiterate, while the wealthy would hire private tutors to teach their children.
“A private tutor… my family is poor, we didn’t hire one,” Stone said, pouting rather irresponsibly.
Luo Pipi hesitated for a moment. The identity that Shi Tou told her was that of a young lady from the Beth family. Although she was not the biological daughter of the family head, the Beth family did not seem to have fallen to this level, right? Or was it that the Beth family had already become corrupt from within?
Stone had no idea that her casual remark would later become the final straw that broke the back of the Beth family.