Chapter 16: MtE [Part 1]
After they have arrived inside the hall, there are already a few people inside, one of them being the handsome guy from yesterday. Just now, Feng Tian Qing seem to have called him ‘Yun’.
“Son greets Imperial Father,” Feng Tian Qing does the ceremonial bow, and Qin Yu copied him haplessly.
“Greetings to the emperor.” Qin Yu does not know how to address herself, ‘little lady’? ‘Peasant girl’? All of them sounds weird, so she chose not to.
“All of you rise. Son, who is this lady? How did she join the banquet yesterday?” the emperor calmly asks, his words are not hurried, his tone containing interest and wonder.
Why would he be wondering, you ask? Feng Tian Qing has never showed up with any women before! He who has never shown any interest in woman actually had a moment like yesterday, as a father, how could he not be wondering? Moreover, the lady definitely got his attention on the banquet last night. There has never been such situations before, where a girl manages to answer the envoy’s riddles. Much less by a girl whom he has never heard of or seen before!
Even though the envoy addressed her as
wangzifei , but as Feng Tian Qing’s father, he knows his son has never taken any consort before. Even the entire palace knows the second prince has never taken any consort!
Because the emperor’s seat was far from her’s in the banquet, she did not manage to take a good look at him. But he did give her the feeling of being amiable. Now that they are only a few metres apart, she finally manage to take a good look at him.
His deep facial features are almost the same as Feng Tian Qing, almost as if they were made from the same mold. He must’ve looked exactly like Feng Tian Qing when he was younger, a total handsome guy! Indeed a pair of father and son!
At that exact moment, the emperor too is assessing her in reverie. She actually had the guts to look at him, with such assessing eyes at that! How courageous!
“She is son’s personal maid. Last night, son noticed she wanted to see the Chi Lian envoy so son took her with me.”
Personal maid? He actually dared to say that, she never really served him! But thankfully he didn’t say she suddenly showed up in his room. Wouldn’t that basically inviting her to sit in the prison?
“What is your name?”
“Answering the emperor, my name is Lan Qin Yu.”
Her voice is neither humble nor overbearing, but then she never lost her etiquette. What a unique woman, the emperor secretly thought. As for Lan Qinyu, the modern people has no sense of hierarchy, everyone are equals. So she naturally thought her answer is just normal.
“You did well last night,” the emperor smile at her.
“Thanking the emperor’s grace. Being able to be of use to Your Majesty is my luck.” She is only saying some words that are nice to the hearing. The modern people are really good at that, like they say, speak people when you meet people, speak ghost when you are facing ghost.
Feng Tian Qing also glance at her in surprise, who would’ve thought she would be so good at talking!
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Chapter 17: MtE [Part 2]
“Nicely said, but zhen has a question
zhen would like to ask you. How did you know the answers to the question? And what is the name of the musical piece you played?”
“The people in my hometown always solve questions like that in our leisure time, so naturally I am used to them. As for that musical piece, it is a very famous in our hometown. It’s called, ‘The Smiling, Proud Wanderer’.”
“’The Smiling, Proud Wanderer’? En, ha ha such a fitting name! Where is your hometown?” The envoy’s riddles are actually being used to pass leisure times over there? Wouldn’t that mean everyone in that village are geniuses? His country actually has such a place?
“My hometown is far away. Nobody lives there anymore.”
She travelled through time and entered another dimension, of course the people in her hometown isn’t here. When the emperor heard this, he thought it means everybody is dead. Probably from a plague, or got caught in war. Such things are inappropriate to be asked lest it opens up other people’s wound.
“Then how did you enter the imperial palace and becomes Tian Qing’s personal maid?” He originally wanted to ask how she met Feng Tian Qing, but he’s still the emperor. If he ask such questions, it seems like he will lose a little points.
“This- not long ago, I hit my head, I no longer remember how I entered the palace. A few days ago, I accidentally entered the prince’s chamber, dianxia noticed I have a quick-thinking and receptive head, so he decided to let me stay.” Constructing excuses is not a hard thing, anyone can do them!
Feng Tian Qing pull the corner of his lips, looking over to Lan Qin Yu as though saying, “A quick-thinking and sensitive head? If you want to lie, at least make it believable.” Lan Qin Yu pretends as though she didn’t see him.
“So that is how it is?”
“Yes, imperial father.” Feng Tian Qing answers.
“So it is like that. Are you living in the maid’s quarters right now?”
“Ah? No. Dianxia assigned me a room in Ling Feng Palace.”
The moment the emperor heard that, he meaningfully looked over at Feng Tian Qing, ambiguously smiling. Feng Tian Qing turn his head, slightly embarrassed, fiercely staring at Qin Yu beside him.
Why is he staring at people for no apparent reason ah? Qin Yu does not understand why.
“Then you can continue living there. But you are quick and creative, being a mere maid is too much of a waste. For the time being, zhen will confer you as Yu Cairen. Here is a medallion, it gives you free access to go anywhere in the imperial palace.”
Exactly what she was looking for! This emperor is too good! Lan Qin Yu can’t help but to look at him with tears of gratitude, though honestly, she just wants to look at handsome uncle more!
“What do imperial son think?” the emperor asked Feng Tian Qing, secretly pondering about the importance his son placed on the girl. The status of a personal maid clearly isn’t enough for them to associate with each other, there shouldn’t be any objection.
“Son has no other opinion.”
“En. As for living quarters, you can continue living in Ling Feng Palace. If there’s anything you are not satisfied with, you can go to zhen’s imperial son. If not, you can also come to look for
zhen . What do you think?”
The emperor seems to have liked her, Lan Qin Yu also think the emperor is interesting.
“Thanking the emperor.”
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