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46. Ancient Times: Hide-and-seek

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Yaoyao shook her head. “No, it was not me.”

Su Bei slightly frowned, “Then it’s…”

Yaoyao did not speak, but just supported Su Bei up, “Your Majesty, take the medicine.”

Su Bei has a kind of immature guess. Would it be that big villain Mu Qinghan?

He made a cough, looked at the black Chinese medicine and asked, “Can I not drink it?”

It looked horrible, but smelled even more horrible.

Yaoyao felt a bit helpless, “Your Majesty, please don’t be self-willed. How would you recover without taking the medicine?”

Su Bei took a look at it, made a mental construction, and took another look at the medicine.

Then drank it all in one gulp…

It was not just bad, and it was not just bitter. It was mixed with some other strange taste, too!

Now his mouth was full of that smell.

Yaoyao brought him a cup of water, “Your Majesty, have some water to remove the bitter taste.”

After rinsing his mouth several times, Su Bei still felt the smell in his mouth.

He felt, with hindsight, as if some part of the body was no longer so painful.

Which was kind of gratifying, otherwise he would really say F word！

After feeling a little comfortable now, Su Bei did not stay idle. He said to Yaoyao, “Let’s go to see Lu Jinyao.”

Yaoyao bit her lip. “Do you really have to see her, Your Majesty?”

Su Bei found that Yaoyao really opposed him to see Lu Jinyao.

He asked Yaoyao thoughtfully, “Anything wrong?”

Yaoyao shook her head. “I will accompany Your Majesty.”

Su Bei did not object.

Although grounded, apparently far away one can hear the laughter in Lu Jinyao’s yard.

Su Bei stood outside the courtyard and signaled the guards not to report, and then he walked in.

Lu Jinyao covered her eyes with a white cloth and was playing hide-and-seek with the maids and eunuchs.

As the maids and eunuchs saw Su Bei, their laughter stopped abruptly.

Yaoyao raised a hand, and a few strong mammies and guards dragged them aside, covering their mouths covered.

Only Lu Jinyao still didn’t know what was happening. She asked, “Why don’t you make any sound? Are you cooking some evil plan?”

said Lu Jinyao while rubbing her hands. She then touched Su Bei’s body.

She said with excitement, “I can still catch you even if you don’t speak. Let me guess who this is.”

She kept stroking on Su Bei’s body, while Yaoyao darkened her face. She wanted to do something but Su Bei stopped her.

Su Bei said quietly, “Can you guess who I am? You’ll lose your head if you can’t.”

Lu Jinyao shook her head, hurriedly take off the white cloth, made a salute reluctantly, “My greetings, Your Majesty.”

Lu Jinyao had bright eyes, white teeth, and porcelain skin.

As the female lead, it was only reasonable she was so beautiful.

Su Bei said with a flat tone, “You are really in the mood, still playing hide-and-seek with the maids and eunuchs.”

Lu Jinyao did not speak, in her view, the emperor was just a paper tiger.

He just had a pretty face, but with no real power, only looking for superiority from them.

Su Bei’s tone suddenly changed, “It’s fine Jinyao knows nothing about etiquettes, even you maids and servants don’t?”

“Don’t forget about your identities! How dare you offend me?”

Of course Lu Jinyao couldn’t take this. She said crossly, “I did a wrong thing and I should take the responsibility. Why yelling at them?”

Su Bei looked at Lu Jinyao, wearing a fake smile, “You still know they are servants and maids?”

Lu Jinyao choked on his words, suddenly did not know how to answer it.

Su Bei approached Lu Jinyao, pinched her chin, “Since you know they are servants and maids, then pay attention to what you do and say!”

Although Su Bei performed domineering from the surface, in fact, in his heart he was crazily complaining.

47. Ancient Times: Everyone Was Born Equal

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

He felt pinching other people chin so good. No wonder Feng Xinglang always liked pinching his chin.

Lu Jinyao frowned due to the pain, brushed off Su Bei’s hand and took a step back, “They are not my servants and maids, we are equal, there is no master and servant difference!”

“Everyone was born equal, and why labeled as high and low, noble and lowly? Aren’t we all human being?”

Su Bei nodded, “I suddenly think what you said makes sense.”

Lu Jinyao thought that Su Bei was really convinced by her, so strike while the iron is hot, “Things like hierarchy system is fundamentally wrong. Isn’t it good that we get along with each other equally?”

Su Bei nodded again, thinking ‘where has this retard transmigrated from? Really losing the face of modern people!’ “In that case, that I will give you a chance of realizing equality.”

“What these maids and eunuchs used to do, you do the same. In this way, it is equal; otherwise, if you are the imperial concubine while they are the servants, that is not equality.”

Lu Jinyao’s pupils slightly shrunk, she opened her mouth, but only felt like a thorn in the back.

All the maids and eunuchs looked at her expectedly, and it was she who advocated equality, so why didn’t she say yes?

Lu Jinyao gnashed her teeth and retorted, “This is not equality, but you are trying to embarrass me under the guise of equality.”

Su Bei slightly smiled, looking at her like looking at an ant, “Why would I do that? If I want someone to die, it is very easy, isn’t it?”

After saying that, Su Bei only felt thrilled acting as a poser in his heart.

Lu Jinyao continued to argue back, “Then why don’t you let them enjoy the same treatment as me. We are also equal that way.”

Su Bei looked at Lu Jinyao with a strange face, “You have such treatment, because you are my concubine, you mean to let me marry all of them?”

Lu Jinyao argued, “Then do it.”

Yaoyao gave Lu Jinyao a slap directly, saying domineeringly, “How dare you! You, a little concubine, who gives you the right to speak to His Majesty like that?”

Lu Jinyao covered her mouth, maliciously looked at Yaoyao, “I just tell it like it is!”

Su Bei’s OS was he was not such a bossy man, “How about this? Let us make a deal. If you can insist on doing these menial things for a month, I’d agree to let them enjoy your present treatment.”

Lu Jinyao said categorically, “Deal!”

Su Bei let people let go of those maids and eunuchs, “So, in a month from now on, you are just a small palace maid.”

Then he asked someone to lead Lu Jinyao to the place where the maids lived.

Standing in the courtyard, Su Bei asked Yaoyao, “Do you think Lu Jinyao is really that stupid?”

Yaoyao clenched her fists. “Your Majesty, no woman in the harem is stupid.”

Su Bei smiled. “I also think so.”

If the body was taken away by Lu Jinyao, and now she could still stray so calm, then this woman was really horrible.

Su Bei’s OS was ‘I am still a child, why let me face such a vicious woman?’

Though afraid, things had to be done.

Su Bei made a signal, then the dark guard appeared in front of him.

He said, “Find something even if you have to dig the ground for three inches.”

The dark guard was silent for a moment. “Does digging earth count?”

The mouth of Su Bei twitched, “Do it now! Go!”

After the dark guard left, Su Bei asked Yaoyao, “I’m afraid I should trouble you to keep an eye on it.”

48. Ancient Times: The Empress Casts the First Stone

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Yaoyao’s pupils shrunk slightly, murmuring, “Your Majesty seldom asks me to work for you.”

Then she smiled and said, “Your Majesty can rest assured. I am willing to share your worries.”

Su Bei was a little bit flustered. All Yaoyao’s thoughts were for him the emperor, while he cannot respond to her. What to do?

After coming out from Lu Jinyao’s place, Su Bei returned to the royal study.

As the emperor, he was a total loser, who even didn’t have to attend the morning court.

Basically the prime minister and Mu Qinghan were in charge.

Su Bei thought that, since in this position, he should seek his duty, and take his responsibility.

Since he was the emperor, he had to do something anyway.

Su Bei analyzed the current situation. Now the court was divided into two sides.

One was Mu Qingyan, the other was the prime minister.

Till now, Mu Qinghan didn’t show a trace of usurping the throne.

However, the prime minister could not sit still now. He wanted to push his grandson into this position, so he had been cooking something behind the scenes.

You asked who was his grandson? Of course, it was the son of Su Bei and the empress.

Su Bei who suddenly had a son felt so pathetic.

In his memory, Su Bei actually had never slept with any concubine, in fact, this was also kind of silent resistance.

Because a lot of concubines were others’ eyes planted by his side.

The empress could have sex with this body only because she drugged the emperor.

Then only doing it once, the empress got pregnant and gave birth to a prince.

Not long after the prince was born, the prime minister urged to confer him the crown prince, constantly giving pressure to the emperor.

Finally, it was Mu Qingyan who rescued him, so the prime minister and Mu Qingyan were also enemies now.

The prince was only ten years old.

Su Bei wanted to see how the prime minister and the empress had raised his son into.

However, before Su Bei went to see his son, the empress came first.

The empress was wearing elegant and noble, and the way she looked at Su Bei was with disdain, but she was very clever not to show it, “Your Majesty, did you go to the harem today?”

Su Bei sat down in his chair in a less uncomfortable position and asked with a smile, “What advice do you have, my empress?”

The empress stroked her sleeve, “I dare not. It’s just that Jinyao’s tomfoolery is just enough, but how could you also play with her?”

Su Bei asked back, “Are you lessoning me?”

The empress replied, “I dare not.” But with not much sincerity, “Lu Jinyao advocates equality every day, trying to disturb the harem. I suggest Your Majesty throw her into the cold palace.”

Su Bei hang his eyebrows, slender fingertip holding a page of book, “I think you also should go to the cold palace and experience what life is like.”

The empress opened her eyes wide and raised her voice. “Does Your Majesty mean to relegate me to the cold palace?”

Threatening, a total threatening tone!

Su Bei smiled, “I was only joking. Don’t be angry.”

“This harem is really too boring. I can only find my own fun.”

The empress softened her face. “Your Majesty, you can amuse yourself, but don’t go too far.”

In a threatening tone again! Su Bei felt that as the emperor, he was really a failure.

At that moment, the eunuch said in a high voice, “Your Majesty, the prince regent asks to see you.”

Su Bei said, “Yes.”

As the words fell, Mu Qinghan walked slowly into the royal study, wearing the faint smile, “Her Empress is also here?”

The empress rose slightly and said. “Prince Regent.”

Su Bei swept over those two people, both were looking so sophisticated.

“What brings you here, Prince Regent?” He asked, picking his eyebrows.

49. Ancient Times: Getting His Chin Pinched

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Mu Qinghan flashed a glimmer of light in the eyes, saying smilingly, “I heard Your Majesty caught a cold, so I specially come to pay a visit.”

Su Bei’s face turned all black. A cold? Isn’t it all because of you? Still pretending?

The curve of the mouth of Mu Qinghan deepened. He was pleased by the response of Su Bei.

748, “Captivating bar increased by 5%, current progress 34%.”

Su Bei’s OS was ‘I do not understand the point of captivating Mu Qinghan. So the more miserable I am, the faster the captivating bar rises?’

He shivered at this thought.

He did not want to be in that terrible situation again.

The empress also slightly fell in a daze. Why didn’t she hear that His Majesty caught a cold?

Moreover, Mu Qinghan had never been so concerned about His Majesty.

Was it possible that there was something fishy between them that no one else knew?

She suddenly remembered the rumor that Mu Qinghan carried His Majesty to get off the carriage.

The empress became more suspicious. Are His Majesty and Mu Qinghan doing some kind of business under the table?

No, she had to inform the prime minister of this, and gave this matter future thought.

“If there’s nothing else,” said the empress, “please excuse me.”

Apparently Su Bei would have no objection.

After the empress left, Mu Qinghan approached Su Bei and caught a glimpse of his hand holding the record of his only child.

It was about how old the child learnt talking and how old the child learnt walking, and so on.

The smile on the face of Mu Qinghan grew a bit colder, “Your Majesty, how suddenly do start to you care about your son?”

Su Bei closed the records, saying, “I only have this son. Of course I should pay some extra attention.”

On the thought that Su Bei ever had sex with the empress, Mu Qinghan suddenly felt uncomfortable, like his own precious thing was touched by someone else.

He stepped another step forward and looked at Su Bei with a strong sense of pressure. “Does Your Majesty still feel uncomfortable?”

Su Bei could hear some jealous feeling through his words.

He swallowed some saliva, thinking that it was in the royal study, Mu Qinghan wouldn’t dare to do something that crossed the line, “Yeah, sure, after all, the injury is quite serious, you know.”

When saying this, he did not even feel ashamed at all. It seemed that his face was getting thicker and thicker.

“Then, Your Majesty,” Mu Qinghan said, while stretching out a hand to pinch his chin, forcing him to look up. “Do I make your more confortable or the empress?”

Su Bei’s pupils shrunk. Isn’t it too personal?

Besides, why everyone in this world likes pinching his chin? His chin also has its dignity, OK?

Seeing that Su Bei did not say a word, Mu Qinghan pressed closer, two people’s breaths intertwined, “Your Majesty, why don’t you speak?”

Su Bei squeezed his lips. He was still a child and could not understand what the old driver was saying. “What do you want me to say?”

Mu Qinghan smiled flatly, “Isn’t it simple? Me or the empress, just a simple choice question.”

Su Bei’s OS was he did not know how to choose. As for the empress, in his memory he was drugged and when he woke up, they were already sleeping together. No feelings at all.

While Mu Qinghan, he nearly died? How is it ever feeling comfortable???

He retreated, trying to relieve some of the pressure brought by Mu Qinghan, “My wound is not fully recovered.”

So the cheeky regent should be a bit self-aware.

The smile of Mu Qinghan grew even colder. It was as cold as an ice tube. “So Your Majesty means that the empress makes you feel more comfortable, right?”

Su Bei shook his head, “I didn’t say that.”

Mu Qinghan rubbed the chin of Su Bei, the familiar sense of touch made him a little fascinated.

50. Ancient Times: With a Wolf Before and a Tiger After

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

He thought he must be mad to find His Majesty inexplicably alluring.

Especially that pair of peach blossom eyes. With a casual sweep, one’s heart would be itched.

748, “Captivating bar increased by 10%, current progress 44%.”

His voice became a little hoarse. “Your majesty knows that the prime minister the old fox is coveting your position under your ass.”

Su Bei tilted his head, but still not able to save his chin from Mu Qinghan’s hand, “I know, so are you.”

Mu Qinghan smiled, “I am different.”

For this position, he was not interested at all, but now he was much interested in the emperor. “There is a wolf before, and a tiger behind, so what is Your Majesty going to do?”

Su Bei gasped and blurted out, “Be with the tiger!”

Mu Qingyan then tried to lead him, “So who is the tiger, and who is the wolf?”

Su Bei already regretted, unexpectedly and accidentally falling into Mu Qinghan’s scheme.

He clearly wanted to force himself to choose him, and although he was planning so, the process made him unhappy.

So Su Bei could only play silly, “I do not know who the tiger is.”

Mu Qinghan let go of Su Bei, facial expression restoring that kind of faint smile, “Your Majesty has become a lot cunning recently.”

“No, I haven’t,” Su Bei said.

Mu Qinghan ignored his words, “Since Your Majesty is all fine, please excuse me.”

Out of the imperial study, Mu Qinghan felt that even the cold breeze outside could not put out the burning fire inside his body.

What is wrong with him? Why is he so obsessed with Su Bei suddenly?

He’d like to see what Su Bei would do next.

A puppet, trying to cut his strings that were controlling him, if not careful enough, he would be doomed.

After Mu Qinghan left, Su Bei threw away the pamphlet in his hand.

He probably wasn’t the material to be an emperor, so the best way was to cultivate a new good emperor.

That was the best he could do for this body.

From the growth record of the little prince, there was no problem.

He just didn’t know how the empress had cultivated him now.

If he was the material and not to be the next puppet emperor, Su Bei did not care whose child he was.

The next day, for the first time, he went to the morning court.

Which surprised all the ministers, who were used to letting the regent and the prime minister make decisions since His Majesty had not gone to court for a long time.

Su Bei smiled and asked the ministers, “Am I not welcomed here?”

Many ministers felt that the emperor’s smile was familiar, making them feel cold down the spine.

Suddenly they swept the face of the regent, and immediately understood, is not that the regent’s smile?

The prime minister was the first to open his mouth, “Why not? But Your Majesty has been too tired lately and needs some rest. You can let us share the worries for you.”

Su Bei sighed, “But I feel pretty bored, so I decide to feel the atmosphere of the court today.”

He gave everyone the feeling that he was still that fatuous ruler who went to the court only because he felt bored.

The prime minister’s eyes showed disdain, “If so, I have nothing to say. You can start reporting.”

As the big tycoon spoke, of course other ministers responded.

A minister quickly presented his memorial. “Your Majesty, it rained heavily in Chongzhou for a few days. Many bridges and roads were washed away, and the harvest of the civilians was also affected.”

Su Bei turned it over randomly, and raised his eyebrows, “If destroyed, repair them.”

Why even bother to report?