Chapter 7 Chapter VII

Aini didn't know where the kitchen was, but she seemed to find it instinctively.Instinct was the only thing left of her now. She walked down the atrium, then instinctively walked up a narrow staircase.Something was squirming under her feet, but she didn't notice it.Nor did she notice that the people got out of bed one by one and followed her, curious to see what their master's little sheep was up to. Ai Ni climbed up the stairs, kicking away a few big rats who wanted to eat her toes for dinner along the way, and finally reached the top floor.She quietly opened the first door on the left and entered the room.The handsome naked body lying on the side of the bed is her husband, and her right hand is placed on the naked body of a maid who once openly defied Aini.

Without thinking about it, Aini stretched out the torch to one corner of the mattress—this was the feather mattress she brought from Fei’s house—and then went to burn the other corner. Lowe woke up almost immediately.He grabbed the sleeping maid and jumped out of bed.The girl woke up and started screaming. Lowe threw her in a far corner while he grabbed the quilt and slapped it on the ground. The door burst open and Seaman ran in to help his brother put out the fire.The fire finally went out, and the two brothers joined forces to throw the burned mattress out and into the moat again. The maid's screaming stopped, but became fits of sobs.

"Enough!" Lowe yelled. "Just a small fire." Then his eyes followed the girl's gaze to where Ernie was standing, still holding the torch.It took Lowe a while to figure out what was going on, but he still couldn't seem to believe it. "You set fire to my bed! You're trying to kill me!" he said, turning to Seaman. "She is the running dog of the Huo family! Take her away and burn her to death tomorrow morning!" Before Seaman and anyone else had time to answer, Aine exploded. "That's right, I'm trying to kill you!" she said, approaching with a torch. "I wish I'd killed you. You've dishonored me, insulted me—"

"Me?" Lowe said, in utter surprise.He could have easily taken the torch from her hand, but in the light of the fire, her long hair and sheer nightgown looked very beautiful.And her face!Is this the spinster he married back? "I respect you enough that I didn't even touch you!" "That's right!" she hissed at him through gritted teeth. "You left me alone at the wedding reception! You didn't even come to see me on the wedding night!" Lowe had a falsely accused innocent look on his face. "You're not a virgin now, woman. I did it myself."

"You raped me!" she half growled. Lowe was really angry now.In his opinion, he had never raped any woman in his life, not because he had any moral objections, but because, with his papology and body, rape was almost unnecessary. "I didn't!" he whispered, his eyes on her chest rising and falling with anger. "I think we are redundant here." Seaman said loudly.But Lowe and Aine were too absorbed in each other to hear at all.Seaman pushed the others out of the room and closed the door. "But we've got to get her," Sal said. "She nearly killed Lowe."

"Interesting, that woman." Seaman said thoughtfully. "She took my room!" cried Wednesday, wrapped in a blanket. Seaman smiled. "She's probably taking more than your room! Go sleep with Sunday, and you," he said to Sal. "go to bed now!" In the room, Ai Ni and Luo Wei stood facing each other.He knew he should have punished her—after all, she had nearly burned him to death—but now he knew it was just a woman's jealousy. "I should give you a whip." "As long as you dare to touch a single hair of mine, I will set your hair on fire!"

"Listen to me—" he said harshly.She is getting more and more insatiable.He could tolerate a little temper from girls—women are women, after all—but it was too much. Aini suddenly held out the torch to him, and he almost completely forgot that he was completely naked. "No, you listen to me! I watched you ignore me and humiliate me all this time, and you let those... those Sundays laugh at me! I! Mistress of this castle! I am your wife , I want you to treat me reasonably. May God be with me, you will treat me with courtesy and respect - I dare not ask for love - or you better not sleep as long as I live, because you It’s likely that you’ll just fall asleep.”

Lowe was speechless.The person who threatened him was not an enemy, but his wife! "No woman has ever threatened me," he said quietly. Ai Ni held out the torch to him again, and Luo Wei snatched it as soon as he stretched out his hand, and grabbed her waist at the same time.He had intended to drag her out of the room and lock her in a cell downstairs.But her face was so close, his anger turned to desire.He'd never wanted any woman more than he did now, and if he didn't get him, he'd probably die. His hands reached out to her shoulders, and began to pull at the clothes on her body.

"No!" she said, stepping back.Desire has blinded him.His hands grabbed her head and pulled her toward him. "No!" she said, leaning her lips against his. "You can't rape me anymore. You can have sex with me all night, but you can't rape me!" Lowe was taken aback by her.Women have always embraced him, and no woman has ever ordered him.Suddenly he wants to please this woman.He never wondered if he ever made a woman happy, but this woman was different, she wanted to make her happy. He loosened his grip on her shoulders and pulled her gently towards him.He hadn't bothered himself to kiss women before; they were always eager, and kissing was a waste of time.But now he wanted to kiss this woman.

Aini tilted her head back to accept his kiss and feel his soft lips.His lips moved to hers, and his tongue touched the tip of hers.Ai Ni groaned and leaned her body close to him. Lowe couldn't wait any longer.He hugged her tightly with his arms, pressed her thigh with one hand, lifted her feet around his waist, and lifted her left leg with the other hand. Aini doesn't have much sexual experience, so she doesn't know what's going on.But she loved the feel of his kisses and skin-to-skin contact.She cried out in pain as he leaned her against the stone wall and rushed inside with all his might.But her face was buried in his chest, and her voice could not be heard at all.

This sprint seemed to go on for hours.At first Aine hated it all, this man, but after a while, she felt a deep joy spread inside her, and her eyes widened. She cried out in surprise, grabbed Lowe's hair with both hands, and pulled his mouth into hers. Her sudden outburst of enthusiasm shatters Lowe.With one final dash, he pushed her hard against the wall while he leaned against her, his heart beating wildly. But Annie wants more.She didn't know exactly what she wanted, but she knew it wasn't enough.Her nails dug into his shoulder. Lowe looked up from her shoulders and looked at her in astonishment.He could see that he wasn't satisfying her.He put her feet down immediately, and walked away to find clothes. "You can go," he murmured, feeling his anger rise. And Ai Ni is in high spirits! "My bedroom is in the sunroom." "Then go to sleep!" he said angrily.But when he turned and saw her, the anger disappeared.Her eyes were bright and her hair was wild and long.He almost wanted her again, but he forced himself to pull his hand back. Aini didn't want to hide her anger anymore, seeing him lying with other women made her too sad. "So you can go to another woman, won't you?" she yelled at him. "No," he said in surprise. "So I can get a good night's sleep, but there's no bed here." This sentence made Ai Ni laugh. "Come with me," she said softly, holding out her hand to him. "I have prepared a clean and fragrant bed for us." Lowe doesn't want to hold her hand because he knows that once he spends the night with a woman, they'll think they have you.He had been "possessed" by a woman once, and—he held her hand despite thinking, and her smile deepened. "Come on." She said softly, and he followed her like a well-behaved puppy.When they came to the atrium, the night was dark and the surroundings were quiet.Aini raised her head to look at the stars. "It's beautiful, isn't it?" Lowe didn't understand at first what she was referring to, the stars were used to indicate direction. "Probably." He said softly. Aini leaned back slightly.In her imagination, marriage should be like this.But Lowe didn't move, so Ernie guided his arms around her.Lowe was really taken aback.It's a waste of time to stand in the courtyard with a woman in your arms and watch the stars!He still has a lot of things to do tomorrow.But he put his nose down, sniffed the fragrance of her hair, and suddenly forgot what else he had to do tomorrow. "What's your name?" he asked through her hair.He was not very good at remembering women's names. Aini didn't let her inner displeasure show. "I'm Mrs. Aine, your wife," she said, turning around, looking up for him to kiss her.When he was still, she tiptoed to kiss him. Lowe suddenly found himself hugging her tightly.He had never done anything like this, women are supposed to be used to sleep, carry things, and serve men, how could they be used to hug in the courtyard in the middle of the night?The behavior was utterly irrational, but he couldn't move. Aini heard footsteps behind her, maybe someone couldn't sleep and wanted to come out for a walk.She is not used to being so close to a man in public. "Come on, let's go before they find out." So Lowe followed her up the stairs to the sunroom.It used to be the room of his father and several wives, and he hadn't been here for several years.The girl, love, hung a piece of tapestry on the wall, and there were huge candles burning on the table, and against one wall was a bed with a crucifix on it. Lowe took a step back, but the girl took his hand. "Come on!" she said softly to him. Lowe didn't know how she did it, but a moment later she was lying naked on the bed again, leaning against his body.As if it were a part of him. Aini leaned against him, with countless questions in her mind.Who is the woman spinning upstairs?What kind of woman is Seaman's Randy?Why wasn't Sal not adopted by the knights for training? But tonight she had experienced too many emotional ups and downs and was too tired to speak, so she put one hand on Lowe's chest and fell asleep contentedly. Lowe listened to her soft snoring and thought it was time to leave.If he got up late just now, he might have been burned to death by her, and she should have been locked up and burned at the stake.But instead of taking action, he lifted her hand and looked at her face curiously.What a small, useless hand, he thought, and fell asleep with her still in his arms. When he woke up again, the sky was already very bright, and the noise from the atrium downstairs also came up.He and the girl were entangled like tree roots.He pushed her away and walked to the toilet. Aini woke up, and she stretched out on the bed.She had never been so happy in her life. Marriage should be like this. At midnight, I watch the stars with my husband, embrace each other and fall asleep, and when I wake up, I hear a sound in the toilet.That's when Lowe came out of the toilet, scratched his chest, stretched his waist. "Good morning," she said. Lowe had put his heart and soul into the day's work.Now he has to hire some knights and warriors to help him attack the Huo family.Of course, he has to train them well first, most of the people here are lazy and don't use their strength.Speaking of lazybones, he has to hurry to dig his brother up from that woman, otherwise he won't even have the strength to walk.He then hurried out of the room without even looking at his wife. When he went out indifferently, Ai Ni sat up in shock.She kind of wants to follow, and then—what?she does not know.She leaned back on the pillow and smiled.Would Sir Lowe die for a woman who tried to set him on fire? "Miss?" Joss rushed into the room excitedly and began to chatter. Aini's mind was so occupied by her husband that she couldn't even hear Joss' excited shouts clearly. "What? Lady Flame? What are you talking about?" She smiled as she gradually understood the situation.It seemed that word of last night's arson had spread throughout the village and the castle, and they dubbed her Lady Flame. "The girl's gone back to the village for two weeks," said Joss. "The others are also afraid of you." There was pride in Joss's voice, Aini thought, this is really ironic, she was actually the one who urged her to be obedient to her husband in the first place.If she had continued to listen to Joss, then what happened last night would never have happened. "Excellent!" said Ai Ni firmly.She kicked off the sheets and got out of bed. "Take advantage of our power while we have power. You and others can spread the word that if they don't work, I'm going to put snakes in their beds." "Miss, I don't think—" Ai Ni turned to look at her. "What don't you think, Joss? Do you think I should continue your method?" Joss knew she had lost control of her mistress. "No, miss," her voice was barely audible. "I mean..." She broke off. "Get that green velvet and do my hair," she said. "Today I'm going to start cleaning out my house." The servants of Murray Castle discovered that the docile little sheep had really turned into the fiery Lady Flame.In the past, the Ou family brothers assigned them five tasks at a time, but now this little woman assigns ten times as much as before.Ernie in shining green silk, with braids of gold hanging down her back, took all the knights to haul the rubbish, shoveled the ashes from the furnace, and filled the wagons with buckets of bones and filth , and was immediately pulled away.Ai Ni asked Sal to find three men, and the four men were responsible for catching mice.She went to the village and hired some women to scrape the walls and furniture.She also hired some men to use nets to pick up the rubbish wrapped in the moat, but the nets only floated on the water, so she asked them to go down and dig them out.But they dared not strike, for Sir Lowe's sword was far more terrifying than Lady Flame's torch. "My husband will say yes," she said to the two trembling knights before her. "But, ma'am," said one of them. "Moats are for defense—" "Defense!" Aine said. "The enemy can come over now." But no matter what she said, they just refused to dig. She gritted her teeth and asked, "where is my husband? I'll go to him to find out about this." "He's whipping the farmer, madam." Aini froze for a moment before realizing it. "What?" she said. Aini lifted her skirt and ran into the castle, after the horses were ready.Rubian rode to the village where Lowe and his brother lived, followed by six armed knights. What she saw was a scene of hell on earth.A man is tied to a tree, his back bloodied from whipping.Next to them, three men stood together with horrified faces, their limbs trembling, and four women and six children knelt and cried, begging Lowe for mercy.There were six knights beside Lowe, and Seaman was concentrating on talking with people, as if he hadn't seen anything. "Stop!" cried Aine, jumping off the galloping horse.She turned and came to the trembling farmer. "Don't kill them!" she said, looking into Lowe's black eyes. Lowe and his men startled, and the knight with the whip dropped his hand. "Himan, take her away." Lowe ordered. "I'll find the thief for you," she yelled, dodging before Seaman could catch her. "I will hand over the thieves to you and let you punish them. But you can't just arrest and beat them." Her words stunned everyone present. "You?" Lowe asked, raising his voice, never seeming so surprised. "Give me two weeks," Aine gasped. "I'll find the thief for you. Nothing good will come of terrorizing the peasants." "Intimidation..." Lowe said, but then his confusion disappeared. "Take her away!" he ordered his brother. Ximan grabbed Aini's waist and was about to drag her away, but her brain moved very quickly. "I bet you I can find the thief in two weeks." she shouted. "I've got a whole chest of jewels that you've never seen. Gold, diamonds, jewels, and if I don't catch the thief in two weeks, the jewels are yours." Seaman's hand let go, and Annie ran to her husband, putting her hand on his chest. "I've dealt with thieves before, let me try this time. If I can't help it, you can kill them and take the jewels in two weeks." Lowe could only look at her.She nearly burned him last night, and now she's meddling in his affairs like a man.Yet he had little desire to lock her up. "I can get those jewels anytime," he heard his own voice say, but looked at her intently, remembering how she looked last night.A sudden desire rose, and he turned quickly to avoid touching her in front of his men. "I hide very secretly." She said softly, holding his arm with one hand.The same desire was warming her pulse. Lowe shook her hand away. "Get those bastard thieves out," he said gruffly, all he wanted was to get rid of her. "You'll have to give me the jewels in two weeks, and I'll teach you a lesson," he said, trying to maintain his master's dignity.But he glanced at his brother and the knights and saw that they were almost laughing.They all had a lot of fun looking at love. Lowe cursed. "Let's go!" he roared, walking up to the horses. "Wait!" Annie called after him.Her heart was pounding because she knew that what she was about to say next was borrowing the guts of God. "What's my pay if I win?" "What?" Lowe said, looking down at her hard. "You get the thief when you win. What more do you want?" "You," she said, thrusting her waist. "If I win, I'll make you my slave all day long." Lowe glared at her.It seemed that he had to skin the woman a little bit so that she would know what his wife should do.Without a word he put his foot on the stirrup. "Wait, brother." Seaman said with a smile.He hadn't seen many people in his life who dared to challenge his brother, let alone women. "I think you should take the madam's bet. You can't lose anyway. We've been looking for it for months, and she can't find it. What do you have to worry about?" Lowe's face was blue and his eyes were cold. He looked from the knight to the farmer.He will win, and then he will send her away to see what she can do. "It's a deal!" He said, and rode away quickly without looking at Ai Ni.Damn stinky woman!She actually let him make a fool of himself in front of his subordinates! When he returned to the castle, his anger remained undiminished.As soon as he walked through the gate, he saw all the people digging up the trash, shoveling plaster, and everyone cleaning up. "I must be dreaming." Seaman murmured beside him.An old knight was dumping a shovelful of dung onto the garbage wagon. Lowe felt as if they had betrayed him, and he let out a long, sharp cry, and all the men and women stopped. "Go to work!" he growled. "You are not women, go to work!" He didn't stay to see if everyone obeyed.He rushed up the main hall to a private room beside it, where he lived.He slammed the door shut, and sat down on the oak seat that had been passed down from generation to generation in the Ou family. But suddenly he stood up again and looked at the chair.There is a puddle of water on the seat, it seems that someone has scrubbed it.He looked around and saw that the entire room was clean.The dirt that was several inches thick on the ground was gone, the spider silk between the weapons hanging on the wall was gone, even the grease stains on the tables and chairs were gone. "I'm going to kill her!" He gritted his teeth and said. "I want to tear her into pieces, and let her know who the owner of the Ou family is!" He punched a table hard.Then he suddenly noticed that the table was neatly arranged with a stack of fine papers, a silver inkpot, and six quill pens.He didn't know where the table came from, or maybe he hadn't noticed it before.Seeing the pen and paper, Lowe is like a moth seeing a light.For months he had been trying to build a wooden weapon that could throw rocks, and several times he had tried sketching in the dirt, but could never get it right. "It's okay to let that bitch live a little longer," he murmured, picking up his pen and beginning to draw slowly and awkwardly his ideas, though he wasn't as comfortable with the pen as he was with the sword.As the sun went down, he lit a candle and continued to draw his picture carefully.