Please Call Me Husband, My Lord

Ning Chuan chatted and joked with the two great beauties, and time passed exceptionally quickly.

After half an hour, a sound of footsteps came from outside the door.

Judging by the sound, there were three people coming in total.

The footsteps stopped at the door, and the arrivals seemed to hesitate and linger outside, not daring to come in.

"Come in, you big men, fidgeting and dawdling like that, what kind of behavior is this!"

Xiao Lian recognized the people outside the door as her three chief centurions: Zhang Lu, Huang Long, and Wang Meng.

They saw Huang Long nodding and bowing, baring a large pair of front teeth as he walked in from outside the door.

Zhang Lu and Wang Meng followed behind with their heads lowered, standing with their hands at their sides after entering, looking like newlywed brides coming out of the nuptial chamber, their faces full of tension.

The two of them had just been discussing the rumors about Lord Leng at the entrance of the dungeon, only to be overheard directly by Lord Leng herself outside, which made them feel extremely apprehensive.

They had offended a superior, and a female superior at that—even worse, a female superior known as Demoness Leng.

Their hearts were filled with fear and dread, yet they had no choice but to come and report for work, and their hearts were simply hanging in their throats.

Seeing the three of them timid and showing nervous expressions,

Ning Chuan felt a burst of amusement inside. The more he looked at the three of them, the more pleasing to the eye they became, and he couldn't help but secretly twitch an eyebrow at them.

I don't know who started that rumor, but it really fits my desires damn it. I must invite them for a drink another day!

This gesture scared the three of them so much that they gave a start, and flattering smiles hurriedly appeared on their faces.

"Tell me!"

Seeing the three people's appearance, Xiao Lian felt a fit of anger rising, and she let out a cold snort, clearly still holding a grudge in her heart.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!"

Like a chick pecking at rice, Huang Long nodded and bowed profusely once again.

"Under the wise leadership of the three lords, after going through all kinds of hardships and trying all one hundred and eight forms of torture, the brothers have..."

He changed his previous timidity and became extremely excited, immediately rattling on in a steady stream.

"Get to the point!"

Xiao Lian's pretty eyebrows stood on end.

"Yes!"

This time, Huang Long directly shut his mouth, pulled out a list from his bosom, and presented it with both hands.

"My lord, the Six Bandit Overlords really held something back. They all left behind evidence of colluding with the Han Family."

"However, this evidence is hidden in very secretive places within the bandits' lair, so we still need to send experts to retrieve it!"

Xiao Lian took the list and asked the three of them:

"Regarding the evidence, apart from the six chieftains, is there anyone else who knows about it!"

Huang Long hurriedly replied:

"No one else knows!"

Xiao Lian pondered slightly, exchanged a glance with Leng Hanshuang, and said:

"Good work. This matter must be kept strictly confidential. Externally, just say the Six Bandit Overlords refuse to confess under torture, and interrogation must continue every day from now on, understand?"

"Also, don't kill the Six Bandit Overlords just yet. We still need to keep them to verify the truth and falsehood of their confessions. Do you understand?"

Xiao Lian instructed Huang Long and the other two with a stern expression.

"Yes! Yes! Yes! This humble subordinate understands, Lord Xiao Lian is wise!"

Huang Long nodded and bowed, then hurriedly retreated.

Seeing that Demoness Leng was not going to settle accounts with them after the fact, Zhang Lu and Wang Meng let out a great sigh of relief in their hearts.

Damn it, that scared the hell out of me!

Wang Meng let out a low cry outside, and the several of them quickly hurried away, not daring to stay a fraction longer.

Xiao Lian handed the list to Leng Hanshuang, who looked at it and then handed it over to Ning Chuan.

Taking it and looking, Ning Chuan saw that the paper recorded the situation of the bandits' collusion with the Han Family and the locations where the evidence was hidden.

Leng Hanshuang flipped her hand, and two human-skin masks appeared in it.

"A Storage Ring!"

Ning Chuan let out an exclamation of surprise when he saw a quaint and exquisite ring worn on Leng Hanshuang's slender index finger.

The ring was entirely silver, flashing with a mysterious, faint light that seemed capable of swallowing a person's gaze.

"You know about Storage Rings?"

Leng Hanshuang was slightly surprised.

Storage Rings were extremely rare, always having been divine objects of legend, and many martial artists even doubted whether such things truly existed.

"This subordinate has heard of them occasionally, but how does one manage to get one?"

Ning Chuan said hurriedly.

"Work hard. As long as your strength reaches the level, there is nothing you cannot get!"

Leng Hanshuang handed over the human-skin masks. The two of them took them and looked: the two human-skin masks happened to be one male and one female.

"Take advantage of the fact that it is not yet dawn; immediately put on the human-skin masks and head to the six bandit strongholds to seize the evidence. Delays bring changes!"

"As for the Han Family's Martial Emperor, his elder grand-uncle will watch over him for you.

Based on your strength, as long as you are careful, there should be no match for you left within Qingshan County!"

Leng Hanshuang gave the two of them a few more instructions and took out two sets of clothes. The two of them took turns changing in the office.

The clothes Ning Chuan wore were a set of black garments, and once the human-skin mask was put on, he transformed into a burly, dark-faced man in black.

Xiao Lian wore a long white dress, transforming into a bizarre-looking female demon.

"Hahaha..."

The two of them looked at each other, exchanged a round of mockery, quietly led their warhorses out, and left the Imperial Guard Yamen.

They rode out through the south gate of the county town, mounted their warhorses at last, and galloped in the direction of Bishui Dock.

Bishui Dock was located three hundred li south of the county town.

Along the way were green mountains and clear waters, birds singing and flowers fragrant, and the moods of the two suddenly became vastly cheerful.

"Ning Chuan, what kind of relationship do you think we should play?"

Xiao Lian did not have much Jianghu experience, but she knew how to humbly ask for advice, querying Ning Chuan all the way.

"In my opinion, we should act as a married couple, nothing else will do!"

Ning Chuan pretended to ponder for a moment, then spoke slowly.

"You, you're small in age but full of crafty ideas, up to no good aren't you? Why can't we act as fellow apprentice-brother and sister, or brother and sister would do too!"

Across his two lives, Ning Chuan added up to thirty-two years old, and with the advanced flow of information in his past life, his knowledge far exceeded that of ordinary people in this world.

Although Xiao Lian was as clever as snow and capable in her dealings, basically proficient in the standard operations of the Imperial Guard,

When it came to Jianghu experience, she was still a novice and extremely easy to fool.

Pretending to be worldly, Ning Chuan slowly said:

"Lord Xiao Lian, if we act as fellow apprentice-brother and sister coming from the same sect, our martial arts styles would be largely similar.

What you and I have learned are worlds apart, and the moment either of us makes a move, flaws will be exposed!"

Xiao Lian nodded, seemingly feeling that what Ning Chuan said made quite a bit of sense, yet she still felt something was amiss.

Seeing Xiao Lian half-believing and half-doubting, knowing she had been fooled, Ning Chuan continued:

"If we play brother and sister coming from the same family, relatives are connected by blood, and our appearances and temperaments are bound to share certain similarities."

"Look at the two of us; no matter our looks or our temperaments, we couldn't possibly be related in the slightest."

Xiao Lian looked at Ning Chuan, then looked at herself, and her heart believed it another thirty percent.

She nodded slightly, as if expressing agreement.

A wave of joy bloomed in Ning Chuan's heart as he went on:

"Therefore, Lord Xiao Lian, in order to successfully complete the mission, you'd better call this husband 'hubby' a few times first,

lest you fail to say it at a critical moment, expose our identities, and ruin the big matter! Hhahahaha..."

"You rascal, so full of mischievous tricks, take this!"

Xiao Lian reacted instantly, her frost-defying and snow-white cheeks immediately flushing all over with a red glow.

With a dainty cry from her lips, the riding whip in her hand lashed toward Ning Chuan's waist.

Ning Chuan dodged sideways, nudged his horse's flanks, and galloped forward.

"Help, it's uxoricide!"

"Little thief, where are you running..."

Cackle, cackle... Hahaha... Hehehehe...

Wherever Ning Chuan and Xiao Lian went, they laughed out sounds like various grunting pigs.

One was a passionate youth accompanied by a beauty, filled with high spirits...

One was a spring-struck maiden accompanied by a handsome guy, experiencing tension and excitement...

The two were so happy they forgot to return, feeling not a shred of the tension of heading to a bandit lair!

What they did not know was that just as the two of them stepped out of the Imperial Guard official yamen,

inside the County Yamen, the brown-robed Martial Emperor slowly opened his eyes and said indifferently:

"Two little mice have come out of the county yamen, and one of them is the very Ning Chuan you mentioned!"

County Magistrate Han Zhang was clueless, while the Straw Bag Strategist beside him turned pale with fright and spoke hurriedly:

"County Magistrate Sir, not a single person coming out of the Imperial Guard can be let go!"