…..I almost can’t finish these in time due to GW in GBF and I got hungry translating the food names (only two of them though). Anyway, enjoy the chapter(s)~
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Chapter 95 – Teasing Female Warrior Mei?
Translated by HaruOngy at Geniusly Plain (If you can see this line, you must have read this in the aggregator site which illegally steal various works. Be shameful of yourself for not appreciating the translator’s hard work. Don’t think only you want to have it the easy way. Support the fanbase and translator!)
Chu Xun was in the Imperial Study, reading the memorandums. He wrote a comment on an irrelevant booklet: Zhen knows now.
Closing it, he swirled the vermillion brush hanging on the stand. Stopping, he raised his head and asked outside, “Zhu Li, what’s time is it now?”
The previous few times, Zhu Li properly opened the door and answered but Chu Xun asked too many times. She opened and closed the door too much that her arms and old waist were sore. Now, she was lazy to push it open, she just stood outside the door and cleared her throat to shout, “Replying to Your Majesty, in a bit it will be you[1] time.”
The Emperor mumbled, “You just said it in a bit earlier. Why is it still in a bit?”
“Because only a few moments have actually passed!”
When he looked at the memorandums, Chu Xun would read ten lines in a glance. He would read one memorandum and asked once each time. It was really just a short time.
He asked again, “It’s about to be you time. Has Mei gonggong returned?”
Zhu Li silently rolled her eyes. This question, His Majesty had asked countless times too, “Replying to Your Majesty, Mei gonggong has yet to return.”
Wu…… Chu Xun frowned.
“Mo Biao.” He couldn’t hold it any longer, lifting his head he looked at the rooftop.
Mo Biao was fully in black as she swiftly jumped down from the roof beam. Truthfully, the big sister Mo Biao was quite sick of listening to him. Without waiting for the Emperor to speak, she said first, “Your Majesty, this subordinate will go immediately to call Mei gonggong to return to the palace.”
“En?” Chu Xun was worried. She had just left for half a day and he had urged her come back. Female warrior Mei was a chivalrous person who wandered from place to place. Would she hate being tied up and pressured? What if because he gave too little freedom to her, she got scared and ran away? The loss would outweigh the gain then. “Go and find her, call her to return to the palace for a meal. It’s you time, time for meal. If she returns too late, the imperial kitchen will not leave any food behind.” Right, Mei Qian Deng was a covert eater. In the past, Chu Xun had suffered a lot from her on the dining table.
“Yes.”
Chu Xun continued reading two memorandums. He had just took the third one when Mo Biao appeared again before the imperial table.
Mo Biao, “Your Majesty, Lord Zhao had already sent Mei gonggong to the main gate of the palace.”
The scheming Emperor knitted his eyebrows, “Zhao Mo Ran?”
“En.”
“Why is he with Qian Deng?”
“Possibly due to the rain. Gonggong didn’t bring an umbrella. This subordinate saw Lord Zhao and Mei gonggong sharing an umbrella.”
The veins on the sly Emperor’s forehead throbbed crazily. He was silent while his molars were creaking. He spoke to himself, “He as a young magistrate is quite free.”
……
When Mei Qian Deng returned to the Imperial Study and gave a greeting to Chu Xun, she only saw the Emperor raised his head from the mountain pile of memorandums, as if he was completely in the forgot to eat and sleep from working hard on the country’s state. He glanced at the person before him and very calmly told her, “Oh, you’re back.” In the passing, he rubbed his forehead, “Zhen had looked an evening of memorandums. To think it’s already this late.”
The king of acting.
“Your Majesty should have a meal now.” Mei Qian Deng wasn’t aware at all earlier the Emperor was at here babbling with Zhu Li and Mo Biao like an old man. She really thought he forgot to eat and sleep and hence kindly reminded him.
Chu Xun stood up and stretched his sore waist, “Let’s go. Return to the palace to have a dinner.”
Reaching the door, the sly Emperor said, “So it’s raining. This spring rain comes silently.”
Zhu Li could be said coming just right as she stuffed an umbrella into Mei Qian Deng’s hand. Female warrior Mei was a bit confused. Normally, when it was raining, wouldn’t they be using the imperial carriage? The Emperor disliked the rainwater wetting his shoes and trousers since it would break his flawless image. Zhu Li blinked her eyes: Accompanying a monarch is like accompanying a tiger! Don’t try guessing the tsundere and scheming Emperor’s thoughts because you won’t guess them!
“Open the umbrella, what are you standing there for?” Chu Xun turned his head and hastened Mei Qian Deng like it was normal.
“Oh……”
Chu Xun was satisfied in his heart. With a swing of his sleeves and putting both his hands at the back, he let Mei Qian Deng held the umbrella as he walked in front to open the path.
The ripples caused by the imperial shoes could almost contain the delight.
The scheming Emperor only lacked whistling a simple song as he held back exult smile.
You say, what was he so happy about?
……
Ever since Mei Qian Deng became the Emperor’s personal eunuch, she basically didn’t leave Chu Xun’s shadow. According to the rules, when Chu Xun eat, the personal eunuch must be serving beside the table. Chu Xun of course couldn’t bring himself to let this foodie only look when facing the fragrant food. Every time, he would signal Mei Qian Deng to take some dishes for him and then closed the Ming Jue Palace’s main door. After that, he would let her to sit with him and eat.
Today, it was like that too.
“Xiao Mei Zi, get some sit-fried shredded pork with water bamboo[2] for zhen again.” Chu Xun gave her the rice bowl. The wicked preference he had deep in his heart, he felt the dishes Mei Qian Deng picked for him were far tasty than those he picked himself.
Female warrior Mei didn’t make a fuss as she changed to the serving chopsticks and picked some stir-fried shredded pork with water bamboo. Just as her chopsticks about to go to him, Chu Xun childishly said, “Don’t want the shredded pork, just the water bamboo.”
“Your Majesty, you’re this old already yet you’re still picky with your food.” Female warrior Mei silently set aside the shredded pork.
“Recently zhen is getting fatter. Zhen have to control the food intake.” Why wouldn’t it, it was because after Mei Qian Deng returned, everything he ate was delicious, that he turned contented and easy-going.
Mei Qian Deng sized him up, “Your Majesty, even if you’re fatter, you’re still handsome.”
“Really?”
“En, must be the most handsome fatty.”
“……those two chicken thighs called as beggar’s chicken[3] on the small plate there, you can eat them all.”
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Chu Xun bit a few grains of white rice as he secretly peeked at Mei Qian Deng who was picking up the chicken thighs. He foolishly grinned.
A sage said, no talking when eating.
Chu Xun didn’t listen to that sage at all. After he ate a bit, he wanted to tease female warrior Mei.
“Hey, Xiao Mei Zi.”
“Hmm?”
“Xiao Jing Zi was injured quite badly. For now, he can’t come and serve zhen. In the past, he would be sleeping beside zhen’s bed. Zhen is already used to it. In these few days, there are no one accompanying, zhen can’t sleep peacefully.”
Mei Qian Deng gnawed the chicken thigh. Her eyes didn’t look up at all as she said, “When Your Majesty is still the Crown Prince, I don’t think you have this habit.”
Chu Xun straightened his neck, “Someone researched it before, developing a habit just need twenty-one days.”
“You can try to discard this habit.”
“Do you know how difficult it is to change a habit?” Chu Xun hit Mei Qian Deng’s rice bowl with his chopsticks.
Mei Qian Deng put down the chicken thigh and blinked her eyes: ???
“You left for five years. Zhen had no yet accustomed there is no you by zhen’s side. Sometimes when eating, zhen keep having the wrong illusion you will use your chopsticks to snatch away zhen’s chicken thigh.”
Female warrior Mei who had always been excellent in mental calmness didn’t have any preparation. She suddenly felt her heart skipped three beats. She looked down and licked her lips. There was still some pleasant aftertaste of chicken juice on her lips. She actually felt a bit embarrassed, “Wu……Your Majesty, there is still a chicken thigh. Why not you have it instead……”
“Zhen’s main point is not the chicken thigh!!!!!” (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
(Female warrior Mei who had an innocent look.)
Chu Xun sighed and turned back into a normal face, “Today, Fourth Miss Di looked for you?”
“Hmm. She want to let me persuade Your Majesty to take back the edict.”
“Then, what do you think? Did you agree?”
Mei Qian Deng was truthful, “No. Your Majesty as a monarch never make joke. If the marriage is cancelled, the imperial prestige will be tainted. Fourth Miss Di naturally have to marry Zhang Hu Bao.”
Chu Xun cunningly smiled, “Then, Fourth Miss Di actually let you return?”
Mei Qian Deng was excellent. Back then, she promised Fourth Miss Di to help her, but she didn’t say she would help her to annul the marriage. How should she help her yet at the same time didn’t annul the marriage?
Chu Xun asked too, “This pair of jokers are not easy to handle, have you think of a plan?”
“It’s obviously Your Majesty’s problem yet why I am the victim.”
The sly Emperor secretly laughed. That was because he had patiently guided Di Mu Yang, so that Di Mu Yang would patiently teach his Fourth Sister and finally succeeded in turning Mei Qian Deng into the ‘victim’. He let Mei Qian Deng be the ‘mediator’, that naturally was part of his plan. As for the actual plan, he couldn’t say it, couldn’t say it.
“Then, you have a plan to solve the problem between them two?”
“I do have one but I need to ask for Your Majesty’s opinion.”
“Oh? Let zhen listen to it.”
[1] Between 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Translated by HaruOngy at Geniusly Plain (If you can see this line, you must have read this in the aggregator site which illegally steal various works. Be shameful of yourself for not appreciating the translator’s hard work. Don’t think only you want to have it the easy way. Support the fanbase and translator!)
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