"What other news came from the Capital City?"

"Also, the Old Master said that the leave you requested from the Emperor is about to expire. You better return to the capital quickly. If you delay your return, the Emperor might seize this opportunity to make things difficult for you."

"Hmm, let’s get ready. We’ll head back to the Capital City in three days."

Ye Haoxuan had taken a half-year leave to leave the capital, and then he asked for another three months. He just couldn’t stand seeing Ye Haoxuan looking so free. Whatever Ye Haoxuan could do, he could do too, and he would do it even better.

Hmph, even though he wasn’t born into as good a family, and the Situ Family didn’t have the same deep heritage as the Ye Family, why was it in the eyes of those in the Capital City, that Ye Haoxuan was better than him?

"Is the Second Young Master returning to the capital?" Miss Bai came walking with a Persian cat in her arms, "What a pity!"

"Miss Bai, you’d better remember this is my courtyard, not your boudoir. You can’t just come and go as you please."

Situ Er was very annoyed with the woman in front of him, sometimes she was too conceited.

She talked about cooperation, but so far she hadn’t given a single idea.

"Second Young Master, don’t be so irritable," Miss Bai said with a smile, "I bring good news for the Second Young Master."

"What news? Has Ye Haoxuan died?"

In Situ Er’s view, unless Ye Haoxuan was dead, no news would be good news.

Miss Bai was momentarily speechless, what did Ye Haoxuan’s life or death have to do with her? She currently only wanted to catch that person with the surname Li.

"My people have received news that there is a huge gold mine on the White Stripe Mountain outside the city."

"A gold mine?" Situ Er was momentarily stunned, "Is it true?"

"It’s highly likely." Miss Bai pulled at the fur on the cat in her arms, causing the cat to meow in discomfort, sending chills down one’s spine.

"The people from the bank in the prefecture said that the mountain folks of White Stripe Mountain came down the other day and took gold bullion to the bank to exchange for silver taels. Without a gold mine, how could a bunch of mountain dwellers have gold bullion?"

"Well, that’s what they say, but I don’t see how this is good news." Situ Er thought to himself that their family didn’t lack money, and even if there was a gold mine so close to the prefecture, he couldn’t just take it for himself.

But did it have anything to do with him?

Perhaps his future was more important.

"How can this not be good news?" Miss Bai said with a smile, "Think about it. If you discovered this gold mine and reported it first, how much gold could there be on such a large White Stripe Mountain? It’s unimaginable. If the court gains such a massive mine, it would all be thanks to you. Such a great merit, how could the court ignore it, right?"

To be honest, these words did strike a chord with Situ Er. If he reported this matter first, he was bound to outshine Ye Haoxuan in this year’s assessment.

As for his leave, he could write to his father to help extend it further.

"Why are you telling me this?"

"If I don’t tell you, you’ll find out in a couple of days anyway," Miss Bai smiled, "My request is simple, I want that little girl dead."

Situ Er looked at her suspiciously for a few moments, "Is it really that simple?"

"What else could it be?" Could she say she simply couldn’t stand that girl for having two white carrier pigeons?

Things that even she didn’t have, what right did others have to possess them?

"Heh!" Situ Er stood up, looked at her a few times, then said, "A woman’s heart is as unpredictable as a needle at the bottom of the sea; maybe you’re just jealous that she’s prettier than you?"

Miss Bai was so furious she exerted force in her hands, and the Persian cat in her arms ceased to breathe.

Seeing this, Situ Er stepped back and asked, "I remember you’ve changed cats three times now, where did the others go? Did they all die like this?"