I apologise for the late update. No excuse for me, I just had no mood to translate.
Chapter 11 – Peeping Servant, Crazy Demonesses Mei Qian Deng"s nose detected a fragrance smell.
She was a very sensitive person. Instantly, she circulated her internal energy and bit her teeth as she instantly pushed away the person beside her.
"Young Master Mei, nubi just has good intention to support you. Why are you still pus.h.i.+ng nubi away?"
She saw Zhu Li"s face.
Zhu Li"s face flickered around in her view. It was very annoying. Hence, Mei Qian Deng frowned and quickly made a move. She had practised for a long time and had a solid foundation. Under the drunk condition, she could still fan far away that annoying head. The Heaven as testimony, Mei Qian Deng was not trying to hit people. She just wanted to chase away that round head.
The victim cried, "Aiyo!" She never thought that the already drunk Mei Qian Deng was this savage.
"Young Master Mei, a gentleman uses his mouth and never his hands!"
No one replied.
"……Even if you move your hands, you can hit anywhere but the face!"
From the start until the end, Mei Qian Deng never answered. Hobbling along, she went towards the table and chairs. She used a lot of energy before she could sit down. She poured a cup of cold tea for herself. With the slightly bitter and astringent tea poured into her stomach, Mei Qian Deng felt she had got much sober. She looked at the person inside the room. That palace maid had been beaten yet had not get away.
"A man and a woman together, young lady please return."
She didn"t go away, instead she ran to Mei Qian Deng"s side and smiled bewitchingly. "Young Master Mei, a drunk person will have his head ache the most. Let nubi give you a ma.s.sage."
"You still wanted to be hit in your face?"
That pair of small, soft and white hands had just extended a little when they shook slightly and sulkily kept back.
"Then, nubi will help Young Master Mei make the bed and serve Young Master Mei to wash face and rinse mouth." The palace maid quietly observed Mei Qian Deng"s reaction in cordial.
She saw Mei Qian Deng kneaded her eyebrows and felt it was an opening. She then immediately ran into the inner room to make Mei Qian Deng"s bed.
She heard Mei Qian Deng poured another cup of cold tea. The latter ought to be drinking it without making a sound.
"I have to trouble you to return and tell the Empress, this personnel is not suspicious."
That person"s hands which were making the bed stopped. A flash of astonishment flashed through the large eyes. She swallowed a mouth of saliva and giggled as she followed up. "Young Master Mei, what are you talking about?" She rejoiced that she was hiding in the inner room, not letting Mei Qian Deng to see the current expression on her face. If not, she would absolutely be exposed.
However, even if Mei Qian Deng didn"t see her fl.u.s.tered expression, as before she was absolutely sure. "You"re probing me."
"I"m not fond of women." Because I"m originally a woman so beauty trap will not work on me. Besides, you"re not as beautiful as me. The last sentence, based on Mei Qian Deng"s personality, she would never say it to hurt those of same gender. Mei Qian Deng had always been a good young lady who was cold outside but warm inside.
It was impossible for that person in the inner room to still have the mood to make the bed. Right now, she was anxious as she thought of an explanation. Suddenly, a pair of skinny yet strong hands captured her. She was forced by that strength to stand upright. Entering her sight was a pair of clear black eyes.
Actually, Old Master Mei had a wrong impression. The youngest child of the Mei family had no distracting thoughts in her heart, her thought was so clear until one could see the bottom of her heart and sometimes she indeed had a shortcoming in her EQ. However, she could distinguish right from wrong, being able to see much clearer than most people.
"Get out then."
"Or, you"re not Zhu Li?" Zhu Li had a small mole at the edge of her eyes. When Mei Qian Deng first encountered her, she thought it was rheum. The second time when they went out of the palace, she had quietly studied it and found out it was actually not rheum! Mei Qian Deng secretly thought that rheum was indeed a rotten mole. Though she had the same appearance with Zhu Li, her eye corner was clean. The "rheum" was not there.
This young lady was thoroughly amazed!
She blurted out, "Never before had anyone distinguish me and Zhu Li on first glance. I respect this manly you!"
Mei Qian Deng didn"t know, only based on this point, she had already succeeded in seizing this woman.
"I"m Zhu Li"s elder sister. Why don"t you guess what"s my name?"
"……" Mei Qian Deng seriously pondered. She gave a rhetorical question probingly. "Hei Wai[1]?"
Eat your d.a.m.ned Hei!
That young lady pulled a very long face. This name was seriously unpleasant to death. Of course, in the past she was cold to the person who picked the names for her and her younger sister as she thought that person had no standard. However, tonight after hearing the answer from Mei Qian Deng"s mouth, she suddenly realised. So, her parents actually had never pick name casually!
"I"m Mo Biao[2]."
Mei Qian Deng subconsciously raised her eyebrows.
Mo Biao was gloomy. What"s your meaning?!
Very well, now Mei Qian Deng had basically been formally integrated into Ming Jue Palace"s ranks.
"Don"t worry, it"s not the Empress who send me here. The Emperor and the Empress are really trustful of you. I just can"t stop my curiosity and can"t bring myself to believe your ability. Hence, I applied to captain and secretly probed."
The probing result was——this team member was exceedingly reliable, absolutely had the highest IQ among the group!
According to Zhu Li"s twin elder sister Mo Biao"s words, it was just like Mei Qian Deng"s guess. The people in the Ming Jue Palace were all dispatched by the Emperor and the Empress to protect the Crown Prince. Some were on the surface like Mei Qian Deng and Di Mu Yang. Some were in covert like the Ming Jue Palace"s "Four Great Beauties" (self-proclaimed t.i.tle) led by Zhu Li.
And Mo Biao was Zhu Li"s shadow, constantly concealed in the darkness. Other than Zhu Li and small number of core servants, even the Crown Prince was not aware of her existence.
When Mo Biao was saying all these, she released outwardly a sense of pride. Even though she didn"t have any presence, she was the most special presence among the ranks. Tonight, she was fearless as she pretended to be Zhu Li to probe Mei Qian Deng. Who would had thought that she would be exposed by Mei Qian Deng in one look?
Having a second thought, she caught Mei Qian Deng and was truly inconceivable. "How does Young Master found out?"
"The two of you have parts that are different."
Mo Biao was stupefied. Then, her whole aura changed as if she was drifting in the middle of a type of spring breeze. Mei Qian Deng could sense the ardency in her eyes but she couldn"t understand what this elder sister was drifting about.
Mei Qian Deng was disinclined to describe in detail about that sense she was getting, regarding that "eye rheum" as well as the perfume on Mo Biao"s body. Mo Biao intentionally placed on her body an enchanting perfume that hastened the movement of internal energy. As part of a wealthy and influential family of jianghu, Mei Qian Deng knew very well of such thing. In addition, when they went out of the palace last time, it was Zhu Li who said there was a newly opened vegetarian shop in the capital. By coincidence, this vegetarian shop lady had an involvement with the Crown Prince.
Mei Qian Deng didn"t understand stratagem nor did she have wonderful foresight. She only used her own eyes, carefully observed this intriguing world and everything that occurred. Hence, it was simply a doubt, she had no idea of the truth.
"Mo Biao."
"Nubi is here." Mo Biao and her younger sister"s movement in throwing amorous glance was exactly the same.
"I want to retire for the night, please return to your place."
Currently, Mei Qian Deng no longer swayed around. Her drunkenness was now at the second half part, she only felt drowsy.
After Mo Biao went out, she fell down and instantly went to sleep. She slept very soundly until she couldn"t hear later the door to her room was forcefully pushed open by someone.
A certain person fiercely walked inside. He originally wanted to question Mei Qian Deng what Imperial Father told her. For the sake of this question, he had already dated with the mirror in his room for a very long time. The more he thought of it, the much unhappy he became. He thought of it until he couldn"t sleep so with a slap on his table, he furiously dashed to Mei Qian Deng"s place.
The result was he saw Mei Qian Deng sleeping very soundly with her clothes still on.
"Didn"t even change the clothes, didn"t even take a bath, the face must had yet to be wipe. Such sloppy appearance!" Chu Xun couldn"t let ignore it anymore. He looked around and found a Mencius book left at the bedside. Therefore, he used two fingers (orchid-shaped fingers) to pick it up and used that book to sweep on her face.
"Wei, boor, wake up."
Mei Qian Deng this time slept over the top. Even with such large disturbance of Chu Xun, it could only make her threw a breath and scratched her own face. At first, she slept with her face facing inside. With Chu Xun disturbing her, she turned her face facing outside instead and continued to sleep.
Chu Xun couldn"t wake her up so he could only throw that book back to the side of the pillow and about to go away. However! He didn"t understand why, his heart obviously wanted to go away and wait tomorrow to settle the debt with this boor. But, his feet didn"t move while Chu Xun"s sight unconsciously moved to Mei Qian Deng"s sleeping face with his mind wandering a bit.
The more Chu Xun looked, the more he got spellbound. He looked for a very long time until in the end, Mei Qian Deng as if noticing his annoying stare turned her face towards inside again. It was then that Chu Xun recovered.
Chu Xun frowned and stretched out a finger which landed on Mei Qian Deng"s slightly flushed white cheek. With a cold-shoulder posture, he forced her face to turn back to face him.
Facing Mei Qian Deng who was soundly sleeping, who closed her always calm eyes and that loathed sharp mouth…
Why——
Why does this Crown Prince feel like this boor"s face seems quite nice looking?!
It almost catches up to this Crown Prince"s level!
The Crown Prince had continued secretly watch Mei Qian Deng"s sword dance under the moon. When he got this thought of correspondingly favouring Mei Qian Deng again, he would reproach himself excessively.
He repeatedly admonished himself. It was this boor"s appearance that destroyed this Crown Prince"s originally peaceful and harmonious supreme life. How could he approve Mei Qian Deng"s merit?! He should be amplifying Mei Qian Deng"s demerit and then think of a plan to chase Mei Qian Deng out. This was the proper one!
He judged for a moment. He felt relying solely on his strength, he might never be able to complete this formidable mission since Imperial Father and Queen Mother were favouring this boor greatly. Hence, he should rally all his subordinates that he could gather including Di Mu Yang, Xiao Jing Zi, all those little demonesses and others.
But on the next day, he found out that in a one night period, those little demonesses in Ming Jue Palace that usually wanted to climb onto his bed day and night, those little demonesses that upon seeing him would act bewitchingly and charmingly had already changed their target! All the spring breeze were blew to the had-just-arrived-three-days Mei Qian Deng.
"Young Master Mei, nubi really wors.h.i.+p you!"
"Young Master Mei, can you teach nubi how to do a sword dance?"
"Young Master Mei, don"t pay attention to those two. Look at me, don"t I look beautiful?"
"Wei! Aren"t you all like the Crown Prince? Didn"t all of you following the tempo of despite being a nubi yet still wanted to be an imperial concubine? All of you, go and glue to the Crown Prince"s body instead!" Zhu Li roared as she blocked in front of Mei Qian Deng, doing her utmost to protect Mei Qian Deng"s innocence.
"Yo, you still have the face to say so. Last night, we already saw you entered Young Master Mei"s room."
The four palace maids kept talking until they almost fight physically.
Mei Qian Deng squeezed herself out from the centre of the crowd. Her expression was calm as usual. From the start, she had no interest in girls. It just that her clothes were in disarray from their earlier pulling. She then lowered her head as she fixed her clothes. When she raised her head, she saw Chu Xun who was standing not far away. The Crown Prince was hugging the vermillion pillar of the corridor, his look was ominously glinting and his expression was resentful. It was not known if his small face was red from the reflection of the pillar or because he was seething until his face turned red.
Mei Qian Deng"s and Chu Xun"s attention converged in the mid-air. Chu Xun quickly threw two meaningful glances which all were sucked into Mei Qian Deng"s calm as the clouds eyes. There was no sign of spark at all.
Hum!
Chu Xun had escaped.
Misfortune never came in ones. Today during the morning cla.s.s, a news that made the Crown Prince crumbled even further arrived——
During late spring, the Anxi Prefecture unexpectedly was engulfed in a blizzard.
The Emperor"s verbal edict was like this:
"The Crown Prince"s age is gradually getting older, he should a.s.sume a responsibility. A blizzard in Anxi. If it"s a natural disaster then by norm, the Crown Prince will send disaster relief; if it"s a man-made snow calamity during the sixth month, it"s unjust to disturb the season, then by norm the Crown Prince must punish them."
As a nation"s Crown Prince, the matters under the heaven, it was only right that he had a sense of vocation and a sense of responsibility!
Chu Xun had this undertaking and awareness.
However!
His old dad had left an extra line at the end:
"This trip is dangerous so the Crown Prince"s study partner Mei Qian Deng will personally protect the Crown Prince."
(Author: To all the readers, please focus and circle the four words[3] personally protect, thank you.)
[1] 黑外, literally means black outside. A pun on the sisters" name. 朱里, Zhu Li literally means vermillion inside. Get it? Black and vermillion, outside and inside.
[2] 墨表, literally means ink meter
[3] In the original text, it"s four words (贴身保护)
This is orchid-shaped fingers pose for those who are curious.