Plotting with You: The Forensic Scientist in Ancient Times!-Chapter 411 - 410: Skin Fairer Than Snow

Zhu Yu spoke with great confidence, yet the musicians exchanged awkward glances, none eager to be the first to break her face.

"Why?" Zhu Yu raised her voice a little, adding a touch of embarrassment and annoyance, "Could it be that in your eyes, we truly aren’t up to the mark?!"

"What are you saying, young master! In my view, saying you descended from the heavens wouldn’t be an exaggeration!" The musician quickly praised with a smile, "In the steward Mrs. Shen’s room hangs a painting, and none of the people in it are as mesmerizing as you are, young master!

However, the Little Mountain Building has its own rules. We’ve heard rumors from outside that only if the master of the building takes a fancy to a noble family, will they take the initiative to play matchmaker. Outsiders wishing to approach first is absolutely impossible.

We’ve just heard too many of such rumors and are concerned such honorable young masters might knock on the door without it opening, so we’re kindly reminding you.

Don’t mind my blunt words, young master, but you came out to find happiness, and there’s no point in banging your head against a wall, am I right?"

"So after all this, you’re just spreading rumors, and haven’t seen it with your own eyes." Lu Qing nodded, looking indifferent to their advice.

A round-faced musician gave an awkward smile: "You’re joking, young master, we don’t have the privilege of seeing for ourselves!

The women whom the Little Mountain Building values can be taken in regardless of wealth or family background, as long as they have a good base, they could be nurtured to look like immortals descended to the earth, but they look down on us musicians from the music houses.

Never mind us, even Mrs. Shen once met an old maid from the Little Mountain Building outside and talked to her, but the old maid completely ignored her, looking disdainful as if Mrs. Shen was something filthy.

I don’t know what gives the Little Mountain Building such audacity to be so arrogant. After all, we are musicians in a music house, and they are just so-called Yangzhou Thin Horses. Who is really superior?"

"So... are the women nurtured in that building truly so stunningly beautiful and ethereal?

Or is it just a rumor spread by the master of the Little Mountain Building to inflate the girls’ value, when actually they’re not as pretty as you?" Zhu Yu asked curiously.

Praised so openly, the musicians immediately beamed with smiles, their joy palpable.

"I’ve never seen the girls in the Little Mountain Building," the round-faced musician blinked and straightened her back, "Their building is located in the most remote corner of Lianxiang City. Though it’s on the riverbank like us, there’s a forest between. Who would wander to such a place?

So about the girls being beautiful inside, I honestly only heard it from others and haven’t seen it myself."

The almond-shaped face thought for a moment: "I remember Mrs. Shen mentioned once that she did see a girl from the Little Mountain Building, probably when meeting the old maid there, as the maid took the girl to a cloth shop to tailor clothes.

Mrs. Shen said, if you consider solely appearance, the girls inside may not compare to our top ladies along the riverbank, but girls from the Little Mountain Building have skin as white as snow.

According to Mrs. Shen, she has seen wealthy women who consume tonics year-round, and even though their skin is fair, it doesn’t compare to the girls in the Little Mountain Building.

She said when she saw the girl, she could hardly look away, feeling it wasn’t a human but like a jade figurine exquisitely carved from the finest mutton fat jade!

Mrs. Shen said she’s never seen such flawless skin in her life, with not a spot or line, and combined with the good looks, it makes them seem unreal."

Zhu Yu looked shocked, and this time it wasn’t entirely an act, with much of it being genuine.

She’s seen all kinds of living people and touched just as many dead bodies; she knows every inch of human skin intimately, from the look, feel to the sensation of a blade cutting through, almost ingrained in her soul.

Not just for grown women in their teens or twenties, even newborns or fetuses bathed in amniotic fluid have some natural wrinkles and spots.

In other words, there’s no such thing as a flawless person in this world.

If that caretaker indeed saw such a girl who actually exists, it’d be truly bizarre, even more chilling than Zhu Yu originally imagined.

Beside her, Yan Daoxin also looked taken aback.

He might not be like Zhu Yu, dealing with death, but as a Divine Doctor, he’s seen plenty of living people.

He too had never heard of someone with skin so fine as to lack a single line.

Perhaps noticing Zhu Yu’s incredulous expression, the almond-faced musician sighed: "Unfortunately, according to Mrs. Shen, lately the old maid from the Little Mountain Building comes out by herself with protectors to shop, and it’s been a long time since anyone’s seen their girls."

"Didn’t you know?" A tall musician who had been silent until now spoke up slowly, "It’s said that not only are they hunting for women with beautiful bone structures, but even tall, handsome young men... they also..."

They exchanged knowing glances.

The almond-faced one, always chatty, smiled at Zhu Yu and the others: "In that case, the three of you should spare yourselves the thought of going after the Little Mountain Building!

Your appearances are not just rare, but truly once in a lifetime. If they take a liking to you, and persistently pursue... that wouldn’t do!"

Zhu Yu glanced at Lu Qing, growing more uneasy about the Little Mountain Building.

If previously, the Little Mountain Building tempted beautiful girls from everywhere, allowing even those from extreme poverty to marry into wealth as respected second wives, and their family could gain a substantial bridal gift, it was akin to manna from heaven.

But now hearing that even men aren’t exempt...

That’s just beyond unacceptable!