h.e.l.lo again! Sorry, this week there will be only one chapter (the second one is longer than the usual so I can"t finish it in time). Anyway, this time we will be reading some the Crown Prince"s blind date sessions~ They are funny but for the first date, I almost flipped my mouse. d.a.m.n both you Eldest Young Miss of Prime Minister and Chu Xun, why torture my brain with those poems? Therefore, please forgive me if I couldn"t do justice for those poems. My brain is not well with these poetic words.
Chapter 34 – Blind Date (First Half) 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!)
The next day, Chu Xun began his blind date"s plan.
The Eldest Young Miss of Prime Minister was a girl who had a stomach of Confucius cla.s.sics. To be blunt, she was someone who couldn"t actually rely on her face to make a living. She was the type of young lady who depended on her genuine talent. In simpler words, she was a bookworm. This sort of young lady would not be demanding of her partner"s physical appearance. The one she focused on was the congenial spirit. Hence, when she met the celestial-alike His Highness Crown Prince, her eyes didn"t have much waves in them.
Chu Xun"s acting level was extremely high for he was refined and courteous. "The white lotuses in the imperial garden had just bloomed. It"s worth to admire them. Shall I take you to look at them?"
"Fine."
The two of them moved to the pond of lotus flowers. When the Eldest Young Miss of Prime Minister opened her mouth, what came out was, "The rustling of spring wind and drizzle arrive and outside the lotus pond are the light thunder. The golden toad nibbles the lock to enter and burn incense and the jade tiger pulls silk to draw from the well in circle. The budding love is not shared as the flowers vie to bloom. A cun of lovelorn, a cun of disheartened."
The Crown Prince jokingly said, "Don"t worry, today there will not be a thunder shower."
The Eldest Young Miss of Prime Minister, "……" Obviously, she didn"t think the Crown Prince"s joke was very funny.
After a moment of awkwardness, the girl side asked, "Then, why don"t Your Highness recite one too?"
The Crown Prince softly coughed. He casually made up one, "A hangover from sorrow of parting with sluggish hair bun, six zhu of clothes meagre belittles the winter. A languid, red melancholy as the jadeite covers the green luan[1]. Silk socks in addition to golden lotus, snowy flesh is but jade pearl stone while the bone fragrance and slender waist get heavier."
"When Your Highness recite a poem, in it cites the six School of Logicians poets" accomplishment. It"s distinctly and excellently match up. There are no traces of them pieced together at all."
That is because this Crown Prince has encyclopaedic knowledge and overflowing with literary talent, okay! Chu Xun suppressed the corners of his mouth, he shouldn"t reveal his complacent look.
"However, in the end, it lacks the reciter"s own thoughts." The Eldest Young Miss changed the topic of conversation suddenly and actually dared to say out the Crown Prince"s fault.
Chu Xun had no word to say. These six lines of his were randomly pieced together to sound natural. However, this Eldest Young Miss obviously didn"t comprehend Chu Xun"s regards.
Even so, His Highness Crown Prince was not angry. Hence, he didn"t plan to explain nor argue. Not everyone could understand him. He too noticed that he wouldn"t actually fly into a rage when facing everyone. A future monarch didn"t have much feelings and he actually shouldn"t have. But, why Mei Qian Deng that boor can anger this Crown Prince with just a small ignition?!
Chu Xun fling around his head. He and this young lady was from two different world. They had different three views. If they had no common ground, a single word was a waste of breath.
And yet! This date was planned by the Emperor and Lord Prime Minister was a rigid person. If he didn"t play the Crown Prince"s appearance satisfactorily, tomorrow during the morning court, Lord Prime Minister would surely pa.s.s a memorial about him. Chu Xun gnashed his teeth. Continue the blind date. "Why don"t we compete painting lotus flowers instead?!"
Someone come, serve the brushes, ink, papers and ink slab.
Behind the fake mountain in the imperial garden, led by Senior Official Song, Mei Qian Deng and Di Mu Yang accompanied him at both his side. The three of them leaned over as they peeked the Crown Prince"s blind date course from the crevices. Senior Official Song"s eyes were spangling. He pushed Mei Qian Deng, "Little Deng, what do you think of this young lady?"
Mei Qian Deng was forcefully pulled to here by the other two people. Actually, she didn"t pay attention at all towards Chu Xun"s blind date. Her six elder brothers all already had a marriage partner. A grown man should get a wife and a grown woman should get a husband. It was a so normal that it couldn"t be more normal matter. It just that when the involved person changed into His Highness Crown Prince who had difficult taste, this course was doomed to be very complicated.
"She"s a talented woman, it"s quite good."
"And?"
Mei Qian Deng pondered. She didn"t know whether she should say it or not. She didn"t say so Senior Official Song and Di Mu Yang gazed at her, waiting for her next words. Then, she should say it then. It was not like there was any other people to hear it.
"This young lady is a lone flower admiring itself[2]. Both Crown Prince and she are narcissists. It"s highly possible to end in failure."
Today, Chu Xun painted an afternoon of lotus flowers.
Later, he sent all the paintings forcefully to Mei Qian Deng since recently this boor seemed to be quite pleasing to his eyes.
On the second day, the Crown Prince met the Fourth Young Miss of Di family in the drilling ground.
Because of Di Mu Yang, Chu Xun could be considered as familiar with the several elder sisters in the Di family. This Fourth Young Miss loved military equipments the most. Plus she loved to jolly and had a candid temper. She even established a troop of iron ladies army to ward off enemies. However, the capital city was peaceful and had no place needed to use military force. Old General Di saw she was full of enthusiasm and let them go to take a walk in the streets and lanes of the capital city, turning them into female joint defence team, preventing fires, guarding against theft and explosions and guarding against wolves.
When Chu Xun arrived at the drilling ground, Fourth Young Miss Di cladded in silver armour suit was emitting a powerful valiant aura under the sunlight. She had met the Crown Prince several times and frequently listened to her little brother chattered away. Now when she looked at Chu Xun, it was incomparably intimate, as if he was her second little brother.
Fourth Young Miss jolly greeted, "Brother Crown Prince!"
Chu Xun was willing to accept her view. "Fourth Sister!"
A slap from Fourth Young Miss landed on the Crown Prince"s shoulders as she heartily smiled. "Long time no see. Brother Crown Prince seems to get fatter a lot. It"s much better looking than the previous bean sprout look!" Then, she gestured a martial art move and hooked both her hands. "Come, let"s have a contest!"
Chu Xun didn"t move. For a split second he petrified. In his mind, a word floated around——fat!
Nani? He seemed to have heard Fourth Sister Di said he was fat? And it was fatter by quite an amount?! Where was he fat? He was obviously thin! How could he be fat? If he was fat, how could he still be the nation"s best gra.s.s? Impossible, this was impossible!
"Brother Crown Prince?" Fourth Young Miss was a slapdash person, how could she know her unintentional words could deeply affected the Crown Prince? She was perplexed by the Crown Prince"s sudden inarticulateness.
Because of the Crown Prince"s blind date, Senior Official Song didn"t have to conduct a cla.s.s at afternoon. He was unbearably idle so he decided to peep the Crown Prince"s blind dates until the end. Mei Qian Deng and Di Mu Yang were naturally dragged along by him. Today, Di Mu Yang was especially agitated. The temper of that Fourth Sister of his, he was the one understood it the most. This morning before leaving, he even urged repeatedly: Sister, today you"re going for a blind date! Having a contest is a cover, absolutely don"t turn it real with the Crown Prince! Be a virtuous maiden, don"t swear around, be reserved, don"t be offhand, be modest and don"t be c.o.c.ky after being praised by others. Since when she was c.o.c.ky she would easily slip out of bound and easily get into troubles.
In the end, the detailed plan was ruined because of a small miscalculation. He forgot to tell Fourth Sister that when young ladies talked, it must be in tactful way and not to be too frank!
Di Mu Yang bit his own sleeves with tears in his eyes as he silently blamed himself.
At that side, Chu Xun had already took out his own small copper mirror. He stared at his reflection around before quickly putting it back inside. He didn"t say anything but the whole body"s aura was obviously very low. It seemed like he really got fatter. Even the small mirror couldn"t reflect his whole face. But how could this be? He didn"t discriminately eat sweets, only three meals a day though……
"Brother Crown Prince, don"t stare at the mirror already. Come and have a contest with sister! I heard from my brother that recently you had learnt quite some skills."
"Your wish is my command[3]." Since Chu Xun had come, it was good to exchange some of his knowledge before going back and deal with the boor!
Chu Xun followed Di Mu Yang"s taught pattern. He displayed one time towards Fourth Sister Di. Fourth Sister Di effortlessly countered it, she turned over her body and instantly gave Chu Xun a back throw.
(Di Mu Yang: Please don"t, Fourth Sister!)
"Ao……" The Crown Prince whole person had been thrown over.
Fourth Sister Di however had a serious face. "Brother Crown Prince, you used my family"s martial arts to fight me. Of course you have no chance of victory. Di Mu Yang that brat can"t even defeat me."
Chu Xun who laid on the ground felt it was true after some thinking. He suddenly saw the azure blue sky. There were some white clouds adorned on it. The horizon was very tall, very tall. There was no flying bird. As he gazed into the distance like this, he got absent-minded a little. Those light breeze and clouds were extremely similar to Mei Qian Deng"s pair of eyes. Accordingly, his soul went along with the quiet wind blows to a very far place. Many years later, Chu Xun still felt this afternoon was perfectly satisfying.
"Brother Crown Prince, did I make you hurt from the fall?" Fourth Sister Di had waited for half a day yet she didn"t see Chu Xun stand up and hence got worried.
Chu Xun returned to his sense. He carefree and happily said, "Again!" He a.s.sumed a stance, it was secretly learnt by him from Mei Qian Deng"s style.
Fourth Sister Di exchanged several rounds with Chu Xun and her eyes shone. "Brother Crown Prince, these are quite interesting. Where did you learn them from?"
"A boor casually use them."
"And you just mastered them by looking?"
"Of course." Chu Xun replied very quickly.
Fourth Sister Di blinked her eyes multiple times. With a rotten smile she said, "You must had been "taught by words and examples" many times by that person."
Chu Xun got agitated, he risked his life to use a hook attack. "Let"s not mention this person!"
It was just at this moment a young woman from the female joint defence team hastily ran over and reported to Fourth Sister Di, "Captain! At the northern part of the capital, that little bully comes out again and is being rude and unreasonable! We are confronting his people right now. Captain, come quickly and deal with him."
When Fourth Sister Di heard it, the arms that were prepared to block didn"t stretch out. Instead, she abruptly stood up. She angrily roared, "What? Zhang Hu Bai this little b.a.s.t.a.r.d, see how this big sister go and deal with him!" After roaring, Chu Xun"s fist which unable to stop in time landed on her cheek. Chu Xun was helpless, he really didn"t think he could hit Fourth Sister Di and the strength he used was quite huge.
Female warrior Fourth Sister Di however didn"t even consider it a thing. She rolled up both her sleeves in one go. From outside the drilling ground she brandished her red-ta.s.selled spear and said, "Brother Crown Prince, today is unfortunate. Let"s contest again another day!" Without even turning her head around she rushed out.
Chu Xun: ……
Senior Official Song: ……
Mei Qian Deng: ……
Di Mu Yang (from the beginning until the end biting his own sleeves): Sister, have you forgot you"re having a blind date right now……
This was obviously not a blind date!
[1] A mythical bird related to phoenix
[2] Narcissist
[3] I can"t find a better phrase but the meaning is the same.
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!)