I'm Ecstatic About Transmigrating Into a Novel As the Villainous Empress's Follower

43: Section 43”This...”

Second Uncle Xu and Aunt Xu An’s minds went blank; they did not understand what This Marquis meant.

After a moment of silence.

Second Uncle Xu was the first to react: ”This humble one is willing to serve you, Marquis, as a loyal servant!”

”Very good...”

”Very sensible...”

”That’s more like it...”

Cao Yang smiled and cast an appreciative look at him.

Only then did Second Uncle Xu heave a sigh of relief.

He also finally understood.

The reason why Cao Yang would show mercy and spare their family.

As expected.

There is no free lunch in this world...

However.

He was just a minor Head Guard of the Imperial Guards; why would the Marquis of Pingyang, Cao Yang, personally try to recruit him?

Doubts arose in his heart.

Before he could finish exhaling that breath, he saw Cao Yang turn his gaze to his wife nearby: ”Head Guard Xu is willing to serve This Marquis as a loyal servant, but what about you, Madam?”

”This servant girl?”

Aunt Xu An was stunned for a moment.

”Otherwise, what?”

Cao Yang asked back.

A smile played on the corners of his mouth: ”Judging by your reactions earlier, you should know This Marquis’s name. Do I, This Marquis, look like the type of person who bestows favors without expecting a return?”

”No... not at all...”

Aunt Xu An answered subconsciously.

But she immediately realized.

How could she say that?!

She hurriedly shook her head: ”No, This servant girl did not mean that, This servant girl meant...”

Her face flushed red for a long time.

But she could not find a suitable explanation.

”What does Madam mean?”

Cao Yang asked quietly.

Facing Cao Yang’s half-smiling expression, Aunt Xu An thought of what her husband had just said and hurriedly followed suit: ”This servant girl is also willing to work like an ox or a horse for you, Marquis!”

”Good!”

”Madam is also very sensible...”

Cao Yang cast an appreciative look: ”May I ask how to address you, Madam?”

”Liu Wen.”

Aunt Xu An replied with her head lowered.

”It just so happens that This Marquis’s manor is short of two maidservants; what does Madam think?”

Cao Yang went straight to the point.

Of course, he was not kindly rescuing Second Uncle Xu’s family.

It was to suppress the Protagonist, Xu An, by starting with those around him and step-by-step intercepting his Luck.

”Two?”

Liu Wen was suspicious.

Cao Yang looked at the timid yet delicate and beautiful young girl in her arms: ”Does Madam not intend to let your daughter also leave the prison?”

A naked threat!

Liu Wen gritted her teeth.

She nodded and said: ”Everything shall be as the Marquis says. To repay the Marquis’s kindness, Qingyue and I are willing to go to the Marquis’s manor to be maidservants...”

”This...”

”Sigh—!”

Second Uncle Xu sighed silently.

He was naturally somewhat reluctant for his wife and daughter to go to the manor of this Great Treacherous Minister, Cao Yang, to work as maidservants.

But compared to being beheaded himself.

Or his wife and daughter being sent to the Official Entertainment to become official prostitutes and suffer inhumane torture.

This seemed.

To be already quite good!

To the side.

Prefect Liu also understood at this moment.

He had been wondering how Cao Yang, a person who never does anything without profit, would suddenly have a change of heart and want to release Head Guard Xu’s family?

So it turned out—

He had taken a fancy to their wife and daughter!

But truth be told.

This Head Guard Xu looked rough and ordinary.

Yet this wife and daughter of his were rare beauties.

This Liu Wen had already given birth to a daughter, yet she was still extremely well-maintained—her skin was fair, her waist slender, and her figure plump and delicate.

Even after staying in this prison for several days, her face haggard, she could not hide the charm in her brows and eyes; it was bone-eroding and soul-melting.

This...

Truly a beautiful woman with excellent charm!

Marquis Cao truly has a good eye!

Prefect Liu smacked his lips, swallowed his saliva, and actually started to feel greedy.

Why didn’t he have the same eye as Marquis Cao?!

Furthermore.

There was also this Head Guard Xu’s daughter, Xu Qingyue!

She was also a little beauty!

She didn’t look like the rough Head Guard Xu at all, but rather inherited all of her mother, Liu Wen’s, beauty.

At seventeen or eighteen years old, she was in the prime of her youth and vitality.

Compared to her mother Liu Wen’s plump charm, she appeared extremely pure and refined.

Tsk,

Just the thing to cleanse the palate...

If he had this older and younger pair as maidservants...

Prefect Liu didn’t even dare to imagine how cheerful his days would be!

”No!”

Xu An, who had been silent on the side for a long time, spoke out angrily.

Cao Yang actually wanted his Aunt and younger sister to be maidservants; he did not agree!

”No?”

Cao Yang smiled and glanced at him.

Before he could continue speaking.

Liu Wen preemptively glanced sideways at Xu An: ”You have no manners, how are you speaking to the Marquis?”

”Aunt!”

”How can you and younger sister go and be maidservants for someone?”

Xu An was anxious.