Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 1200: Chapter 1201: Marquis of Boyang’s Mansion

The girl immediately pleaded, ”Please, take me in. I can endure any hardship!”

An Jing said, ”Miss, it’s not that I don’t want to take you in, but with your constitution, you might not even survive the selection process and get sent home. Why put yourself through such pain?”

The girl was especially firm as she said, ”I’m certain I can make it through the selection! If I can’t, I’m willing to be sent home, and I won’t cause you any trouble, sir. Please accept me!”

Ye Zhi found this girl quite pleasing to the eye and chimed in, ”Boss, just take her in, the worst that can happen is that she’ll be sent back home. But if she really makes it through, the military camp will have one more female soldier.”

An Jing also felt it made sense and nodded before asking the girl, ”All right, we’ll take you in. What is your name?”

An Jing opened the enrollment register, preparing to record the girl’s information.

The girl said, ”Liu Feifei, ’Liu’ as in willow, ’Feifei’ as in fragrant.”

An Jing noted the girl’s name and then asked, ”Where do you live?”

Liu Feifei hesitated for a moment, then still said, ”Marquis of Boyang’s Mansion.”

An Jing was startled, stopped writing, looked up at Liu Feifei, and asked, ”What is the Marquis of Boyang to you?”

It so happened that the Marquis of Boyang also had the surname Liu, but there were many with the surname Liu in the world. An Jing didn’t pay much attention when the girl said her name was Liu Feifei, but her living in the Marquis of Boyang’s Mansion could not be ignored.

Liu Feifei hesitated again before confessing honestly, ”The Marquis of Boyang is indeed my father.”

An Jing put down her pen, ”So that means, you came here secretly to join the army without the Marquis of Boyang’s consent.”

”...Yes.”

An Jing fell silent for a while, then said, ”Given your status, if I take you in, your father will surely come looking for me.”

Liu Feifei immediately grew anxious, ”Sir, you just agreed, you said you would take me in!”

”Do you really want to join the army that much?”

”Yes!”

”Is there no other reason?” This question was asked not by An Jing but by Xiao Changyi, who had been silently sitting off to the side. His voice was emotionless, making it impossible to discern his intentions in asking.

Liu Feifei’s heart skipped a beat, and she quickly knelt before Xiao Changyi, ”Feifei pays her respects to Prince.”

From this act of reverence, it was clear that Liu Feifei had recognized Xiao Changyi from the start yet pretended not to.

Xiao Changyi did not speak anymore.

An Jing said indifferently, ”My husband does not like it when people play tricks on him. Miss Liu, I advise you to tell the truth.”

With hesitation, after a long pause and a resolution in her heart, Liu Feifei said, ”Prince, Princess, may I speak with you in private?”

”Sure,” An Jing promptly agreed, got up, and took her husband to a tree not far away. There was nobody under that tree. There were hardly any people around.

Liu Feifei hurried after them, glanced around to ensure no one was nearby, then lowered her voice to almost a whisper and said to An Jing and Xiao Changyi, ”My father has arranged a marriage for Feifei, and in half a year, Feifei is to be married off. But Feifei does not fancy the prospective husband. Traditional marriage has always been decreed by parents and arranged by matchmakers; Feifei is powerless to resist. I thought to just marry as planned in half a year, but now that women in Xiyun can join the army, Feifei figured that being in military service would prevent going home, and so this marriage arrangement would naturally be canceled in the end.”

An Jing at first wanted to say, what if your father arranges another marriage you dislike in the future?

But before An Jing could speak, Xiao Changyi asked, ”Do you like Liu Buli?”