Okay, so my eyes and brain had played a freaking long time of misread. Instead of Mei Zi Zhou Tou, I read those four words as three words instead. Hence, the Mei Zhou Tou. But at the previous chapter, I finally noticed the errors. How long is that? Six months?! And after some consideration, that term will be changed to Mei Zi River Islet and will not be changed anymore (I"m too lazy to change it again if there"s anymore).
Chapter 43 – The Cherished Person 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!)
A few days later, a group of people reached the Martial Arts Alliance Leader"s house first.
Alliance Leader Zhao was a heroic and unrestrained old man. He treated the Crown Prince cordially like how the next door neighbour treated the dog he had watched it grew, naturally and familiarly and didn"t bother with trifles. Chu Xun with the imperial family being amiable and steady att.i.tude didn"t have any slip up when paying the visit. This made the jianghu people had an insight of the imperial family"s majestic manner. So, actually if the Crown Prince wanted to act, he still have the capability.
At that night, the Alliance Leader entertained the Crown Prince with a banquet. During the banquet, Chu Xun did his best to express his appreciation. He praised the Alliance Leader that his orders in leading the martial arts circle was like an outstanding hero, complimented the Alliance Leader"s wife"s youthful appearance would last forever and also praised Zhao Mo Ran as the Crown Prince"s study partner was dedicated and had extraordinary literary talent. Anyway, he highly praised the Martial Arts Alliance Leader"s whole family, implicitly expressed in the eyes of the Emperor and Crown Prince their position was far higher than the other distinguished martial arts families (such as Mei family), the hint of winning them over was completely obvious.
Compared to the fifteen years old young man, Alliance Leader Zhao who had tempered himself in great storms remained calm in the face of the situation. He accepted the Crown Prince"s praises but he didn"t response to the sweet-talking, he merely put the Zhao family"s loyalty at the abundantly clear position. After all, the Martial Arts Alliance Leader belonged to the world while the world belonged to the Chu family.
"Your Highness arrives today. We coa.r.s.e people had nothing worthy to be taken out so just let the young girl perform to liven up the night!" Alliance Leader Zhao clapped his hands, the music resounded.
Only for a young girl descended from the sky, like a celestial maiden distributing flowers yet she didn"t lose heroic bearing, she circled around while falling down. In her hand, she held a sword, all her black hair was tied up. It was a beautiful face, its childishness had yet to disappear, her das.h.i.+ng eyebrows paired with the almond eyes. It had the unique jianghu qualities, fresh and refined.
She sword-danced, using the sword to display Zhao family"s evil killing sword art, graceful within the bold moves. Let"s not say about its usefulness in actual fight, with just looking at the result of the visual arts alone, it matched well with her whole person. All her moves were neat and efficient, her posture was soft and delicate, when she grew up just a bit more, surely she could charm a lot of jianghu men.
Alliance Leader Zhao rubbed his chin as he snickered. While he snickered, he peeked at His Highness Crown Prince sitting at the main seat and then Seventh Young Master Mei below him. Chu Xun looked absorbed in something, his eyes kept following Zhao Shu Ran, as if he was deeply attracted by this young girl. Although Mei Qian Deng was watching seriously, there was no fluctuation in her eyes. Obviously she had yet to set her heart for Zhao Shu Ran.
Half a year ago, Alliance Leader Zhao planned to squeeze his daughter into Mei family as their daughter-in-law but until now it had yet to succeed. Today, His Highness Crown Prince had arrived, Alliance Leader Zhao this father who sell his own daughter had another target. It was fine if Little Young Master Mei didn"t fancy his family"s daughter! If His Highness Crown Prince could fancy the young girl, wouldn"t it be much wonderful?
His wishful thinking was a very good one, but if he stripped Chu Xun"s current inner heart, Alliance Leader Zhao would probably be very disappointed. The reason Chu Xun stared fixatedly was just him thinking, if Mei Qian Deng fought with this young girl, who would win? If Mei Qian Deng did a sword dance, would it be more interesting? Pondering nonstop, his incredible imagination ability had already changed Zhao Shu Ran"s face into Mei Qian Deng"s, visualising a certain programme where Mei Qian Deng sword-danced under the moonlight.
"Minnü[1] Zhao Shu Ran, pays respect to Your Highness Crown Prince." It was not a delicately sweet baby voice, Zhao Mo Ran"s throat was naturally raspy, not unpleasant to hear. It could be counted as s.e.xy.
The "Mei Qian Deng" visualised by Chu Xun instantly disappeared. He abruptly returned to his sense, had a moment of self lose control. Immediately he applauded, "Good! Good! Good!" with a beautiful as a heavenly immortal smile attached. Chu Xun"s eyes due to the awkwardness in his heart blinked rapidly several times.
As a result, Zhao Shu Ran"s face blushed while Alliance Leader Zhao happily laughed.
What"s the situation?!
This Crown Prince is not throwing flirtatious glances at you, this young lady, you must not misunderstand!
After the night banquet, Chu Xun stayed a night at Zhao family then he would set out with Mei Qian Deng towards the Mei family.
In the room, Chu Xun walked from the east to the west, then from the west to the north, from north to the east. He stamped his feet, opened the door and stepped out of the door and then took a few steps. He raised his hand planning to knock the door neighbouring his room.
The neighbouring room naturally was where Mei Qian Deng staying.
Chu Xun was at lose in his heart. He was scared Mei Qian Deng would misunderstand, because tonight his intention to express goodwill to Alliance Leader Zhao was very obvious. No matter how slow Mei Qian Deng, she would still be able to hear it. He was scared because of this Mei Qian Deng would be hurt mentally, would feel that the imperial family had treated Mei family coldly. Chu Xun really wanted to explain to Mei Qian Deng, he did this, only because he wanted to protect Mei Qian Deng.
As they said, the bird which takes the lead gets shot first[2]. Previously Chu Xun drove Mei Qian Deng out of the palace to make those nosy people a.s.sumed the Crown Prince and Mei Qian Deng had a gap. If he showed favour like tonight to the Zhao family, it would make it much firmer the rumour the Crown Prince didn"t really like Mei Qian Deng. The feelings between two people, was just like the drinking water, the person who drank it knew best whether the water was hot or cold.
But when the words were in his mouth, His Highness Crown Prince really had no idea how to start it. His raised hand was put down, then raised again. This repeated several times, from the beginning to the end, he didn"t have the guts to knock Mei Qian Deng"s room door. Chu Xun gritted his teeth. Whatever. What is there to explain to this boor? With his IQ, it"s absolutely like a chicken speaking with a duck, wasting saliva.
After a period of self consoling, Chu Xun was just about to turn his body around and return to the room when the door of Mei Qian Deng"s room silently opened. "Crown Prince, what are you doing in front of my room?"
"I"m just pa.s.sing through!" He anxiously roared.
"Your shadow stopped in front of the door for a very long time." How was it just pa.s.sing through, obviously it was stopping over.
"The position of your room door is excellent, I"m admiring the moon!" he continued to cook up excuses.
Mei Qian Deng actually raised her head and looked at the moon. The moon was not full, there was nothing special about it.
"I"m returning to my room then!"
The Crown Prince lowered his head and directly rushed back. The sound of door closing resounded loudly.
Probably only the door and the moon knew His Highness Crown Prince"s distress.
While Chu Xun was on the road towards Mei Zi River Islet, the jianghu news spread all over the land.
Everyone was saying, the Crown Prince had already formed an alliance with the Zhao family, currently the relations.h.i.+p between jianghu and imperial was unprecedentedly on intimate terms.
Some didn"t believe it and asked, "Why such words? Do you all have any proofs?"
They do. Do you all still remember the Crown Prince"s recent blind dates? There are so many young ladies but none are selected. In the end, while visiting the Alliance Leader Zhao, he saw Alliance Leader Zhao"s daughter sword-danced. His Highness Crown Prince watched until his eyes were glued. If the Crown Prince fancies Alliance Leader Zhao"s daughter and marry her back to the palace, then Alliance Leader Zhao is the future Emperor"s in-law. You say, is this relations.h.i.+p intimate or not?
Aima, it indeed seems to be very intimate!
Only the Mei family"s die-hard fans expressed their dissatisfaction and refuted, "His Highness Crown Prince goes to the Mei family to spend the Mid-autumn Festival. If he had a good relations.h.i.+p with Alliance Leader Zhao, why didn"t he stay back to spend the Mid-autumn Festival?"
This is not on the way, can you die-hard fans don"t use lame arguments?
Anyway, an overwhelming majority of public opinion leaned towards Martial Arts Alliance Leader Zhao"s side. While the person involved, Chu Xun currently wasn"t aware of these rumours. Mei Zi River Islet had several parts seemed to be isolated from the world. Mei Qian Deng brought him to ride the bamboo raft to travel by water. The bamboo raft moved for a cup of tea time before they saw a mini island surrounded by crystal clear water.
"Your Mei family has quite excellent eyes, when the nation was founded your family bought this piece of beautiful landscape land, seizing this place and claim as its ruler." Chu Xun didn"t understand, when he talked to Mei Qian Deng his tongue seemed to be not his, saying without any filter through the brain.
Mei Qian Deng was used to it, "Crown Prince wants to take back Mei Zi River Islet?"
"Che, it"s originally the emperor"s land. What, you still want to make yourself king?!"
Mei Zi River Islet had no local authorities, hence it didn"t actually break the imperial laws since there was no government officials to collect taxes. It was completely based on the Old Master Mei"s words, although from top to bottom it was only around one hundred people, it was a special existence in the nation. Plus, during the early days of nation founding, they staked a claim to the territory and sold it for money. Later, for various reasons, maybe the family declined, maybe they committed crimes or maybe a scheme to dig a hole, in any case, most of the parts had been reclaimed by the imperial family. The only parts left was only the Mei Zi River Islet and a remote mountain valley.
Mei Qian Deng didn"t reply. They had already arrived at the house entrance. She could already see the figures of the whole Mei family members were anxiously waiting at the riverbank. She couldn"t anger the Crown Prince right in front of her old dad. That would make Old Master Mei angry to death.
Old Master Mei hopped: My daughter have finally returned!
[1] Literally, this woman from ordinary family
[2] The person in the limelight bears the brunt of the attack. Another idiom: the shot hits the bird that pokes its head out
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!)