"Third Senior Brother, I think I may have to go on a long - distance trip."
"Hmm?" Kong Ze was a bit confused by Feng Yunshu's sudden words. "You're going on a long - distance trip? Where to?"
Feng Yunshu hooked her lips and smiled meaningfully. "As for where, I'll keep it a secret for now. Anyway, I'm going to do something very meaningful. It's a long and arduous task..."
Xiaoling blinked her eyes and looked at her mistress. "Mistress, what new way have you come up with to provoke the prince?"
"This time it's not about provoking him..."
"Then what is it?"
"Hehe, it's a secret for now." Feng Yunshu gave a mysterious smile and didn't reveal her real plan.
Just then, the servant at the gate walked in in a hurry to report. "Great National Master, the Fifth Princess is here again!"
Hearing this, Kong Ze's face instantly darkened. Then he looked at Feng Yunshu as if asking for help.
"Little Junior Sister, considering how nice I've been to you on weekdays, please handle the Fifth Princess for me! I'll retreat first!"
Except for the former demon princess Xiyao, Feng Yunshu had never seen her third senior brother so embarrassed. For a moment, she didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Third Senior Brother, is it really necessary? She's just a mortal princess. You're so scared. You're making our master lose face..."
"Yes, yes, yes. Junior Sister, you're so capable. But who was it that thought the prince was in trouble and cried on me so much that my newly made robe was soaked?"
As he said this, Kong Ze glanced at Feng Yunshu. "Well, anyway, I'm not the one who cries easily. I don't know who's the one losing face..."
Feng Yunshu rolled her eyes at Kong Ze angrily. "Since Third Senior Brother is so capable, I think you should handle the Fifth Princess today. I have to go back to my room to pack for my long - distance trip."
"Hey, hey, hey, Little Junior Sister! Don't go... Okay, okay. Third Senior Brother takes back what he just said. I'm the one who's making our master lose face, okay? Please help me. The Fifth Princess is really hard to deal with. She's just as hard as Xiyao back then!"
Before Feng Yunshu could even agree, Kong Ze had already disappeared. She could only shrug and stay to clean up this mess for him.
"Qingzhu, let's continue playing Gomoku."
She turned to look at Qingzhu, but Qingzhu shook her head with a faint smile. "Yunshu, I just remembered that I have some things to deal with. I'll let you win next time."
"What do you mean 'let me win next time'! Humph! I'll become a Gomoku master sooner or later!"
Feng Yunshu looked at Qingzhu angrily. "Go, go. Oh, everyone is so... It really hurts my feelings."
"Mistress, Xiaoling is still here!"
Ziyuan stepped forward worriedly. "Miss, the Fifth Princess is really hard to deal with, and she seems to be hostile to you. You'd better be more careful."
Feng Yunshu nodded. "Don't worry. Can she eat me up?"
As she was speaking, the Fifth Princess, Dongfang Mengling, rushed in, lifting her skirt. "Kong Ze, Kong Ze!"
Feng Yunshu looked up. The moment their eyes met, Feng Yunshu could clearly feel the full - blown anger radiating from the Fifth Princess.
"It's you again! Where's the Great National Master?"
Dongfang Mengling frowned and gave Feng Yunshu a cold, angry look. There was no hiding her dissatisfaction in her tone.
Feng Yunshu crossed her arms in front of her chest and leaned against the chair. She looked at the Fifth Princess unhurriedly and then yawned.
"Fifth Princess, why are you so noisy? You're disturbing my rest."
"How dare you! You don't even pay your respects when you see the Fifth Princess?!" Seeing this, the Fifth Princess's personal maid frowned and scolded Feng Yunshu.
Feng Yunshu glanced at the maid indifferently. "Why should I pay my respects? I'm not from the Dan Kingdom."
"How bold you are!" The maid was so angry that she couldn't speak.
It was the Fifth Princess who interrupted her. "Forget it, forget it. This woman is just rude. I'm magnanimous and won't argue with her! I don't know what the Great National Master sees in her. Is it just because she's his junior sister that he takes special care of her..."
"What is the Fifth Princess doing in the National Master's Mansion?"
"Of course I'm not here to see you. Where's the Great National Master? I'm here to find him!"
Dongfang Mengling pouted. Her words and deeds all revealed a spoilt and overbearing temper.
During the days in the National Master's Mansion, besides playing Gomoku with Qingzhu or going out for a stroll, the most headache - inducing thing for Feng Yunshu was this Fifth Princess.
Feng Yunshu finally understood why Kong Ze frowned every day because of this Fifth Princess, and she finally knew what the knot in Kong Ze's heart was.
It was said that the Fifth Princess had a special relationship with the former Great National Master. The reason was that the Great National Master accidentally saved the Fifth Princess's life. Since then, somehow, rumors had spread like wildfire in the palace that the Fifth Princess had taken a fancy to the Great National Master. She pestered him every day and wanted to be with him.
The Fifth Princess was so obsessed with the Great National Master that she even had the courage to find the emperor and hoped that the emperor would arrange a marriage for them.
The emperor was so angry that he almost fainted when he heard about this. But the Fifth Princess was the only princess in the royal family. After all, she was his own daughter, so it was not good to punish her. So he had to forcibly separate the two and didn't allow them to meet. However, the Fifth Princess still tried every means to see the Great National Master.
During this period, the Great National Master had an accident and almost died. The news from the palace was that the Great National Master was backfired by the Heavenly Dao because of his long - term overwork and too many divinations. But in fact, the real Great National Master was already dead, and he was poisoned.
The current Great National Master was not the original one. His core had become Kong Ze, Feng Yunshu's third senior brother.
However, except for Kong Ze himself, Feng Yunshu, Xiaoling, and the prince, no one else knew this secret. So the Fifth Princess didn't know that the Great National Master she had been pursuing had already died.
Feng Yunshu knew clearly that this matter must not be known to the Fifth Princess. It was not only to protect Kong Ze but also to protect the Fifth Princess. She was just a simple - minded woman. If she knew that the man she liked was already dead, she might do something crazy.
As her thoughts raced, Feng Yunshu didn't seem to be so disgusted with the Fifth Princess's spoilt and overbearing behavior. She just thought of her as a junior and found her very noisy.
"You mean my senior brother? Because I suddenly wanted to eat the soup dumplings from the shop in the north of the city and the osmanthus cakes from the famous pastry shop on the long street, my senior brother said he would buy them for me. He might still be outside now."
Although she didn't dislike the woman in front of her, Feng Yunshu was really annoyed. So she had to play a prank on her as a little punishment.
Hearing her mistress's words, Xiaoling couldn't help but "meow" and laugh, shaking her tail.
The Fifth Princess looked at the cat in Feng Yunshu's arms. She always felt that the cat seemed to be laughing at her. Was it just her imagination?
"You have hands and feet. If you want to eat, why don't you buy them yourself? Why do you ask the Great National Master to buy them for you?" Dongfang Mengling glared at Feng Yunshu angrily. "How can there be such a rascal woman like you! This is the Great National Master's Mansion, yet you just won't leave, right?"