387 The Busy Emperor
After several rounds of retorts from both parties, Jun Zhenxian finally cald down. He had decided to stay within the room to help Nanglong Souka with the work. He had just finally got away from his previous work, but now he had to work for free. He really felt that the emperor needed a good thrashing from him sotis, so he won't overuse old n like them.
"That emperor gets the bad side from Soujin," Jun Zhenxian muttered.
Nanglong Souka smiled, "Are you sure it's not Jun Hua?"
"My granddaughter is the best in this entire world! There is no way she would teach how to be shaless to the emperor."
"…" it's possible from either of them since both of them gave influence to Ming Yan very much. Nanglong Souka decided to not think about it anymore as he knew how much this friend of his dote on the little girl. Telling a grandfather that his granddaughter did sothing bad would be harder than telling a grandfather that his grandson did sothing bad.
"What? You don't want to admit that Soujin gets all the bad side from you?"Jun Zhenxian smirked. "He's a shaless man like you."
Nanglong Souka's face scrunched in annoyance. "You say that Jun Hua is not like that?"
"Of course not!" Jun Zhenxian snorted. "There's no way a good girl like Jun Hua can be shaless like ."
Nanglong Souka recalled the interaction of the couple when they were alone. From what he saw, he still felt that Jun Hua did inherit her grandfather's attitude. Although it was not too obvious, she was quite similar in so ways with this old and annoying man in front of him.
"Jun Hua is the best granddaughter that one can have in this world. No one can compare to her…"
Hearing Jun Zhenxian practically bragged about Jun Hua, Nanglong Souka got the urge to toss this old man out of the workroom this instant. He knew that this old man loved his granddaughter very much, but was there any need to brag them to him?
"Stop bragging so much!"
"What? I can only brag to you, so I'm using this chance to the fullest," Jun Zhenxian answered with a laugh.
Nanglong Souka looked towards his best friend as he shook his head lightly. He recalled sothing as he nudged his best friend. "Old pal, do you want to have one last bet?"
Jun Zhenxian smirked, "Sure why not? This shall be the conclusion of all our clashes all these years."
"Nah, not really that way," Nanglong Souka shook his head, "I just want to have one last fun with my friend-enemies."
"Just don't cry when you lost."
"You're the one who's going to cry!"
The two old n soon finished their banter with a bet. The last bet that they would ever make in this world.
…
Palace
Yan was staring at the workload on his table with a dark expression. He had the feeling that the work would be never-ending at this rate. Right now, he truly wondered how his father could be so at ease every single day to the point that he had the ti to visit all of his wives.
"Your Highness, we have delivered the work to Pri Minister Nanglong Souka," Shu ca in and reported to the Emperor.
Yan nodded his head. He leaned back on his chair. "Shu, is there no way to lessen the work that I have to do? I feel like there's always tons of workloads every single day."
"As the ruler, it is the Emperor's duty to read them all and give his opinion," Shu answered flatly.
"I know that too, but I feel like my father always relaxes every single day. I never see him work at all with him spending so much of his ti visiting the ladies," Yan's face scrunched when he recalled that. Even though he rarely road around, it was pretty easy for him to see that father of his walked around with different won every day. After all, there was a lot of beautiful gardens in the palace.
Shu also knew about that matter since he spent his ti in the palace a lot to deliver the ssage and the likes. Seeing the Emperor abandoning is work was pretty common during the ti of Yan's father's reign. No one ever questioned him about that because they were afraid that they would lose their head.
"He has a lot of people who are willingly taken over his work," Shu answered after a slight pause.
"Can't I be like that too?" Yan recalled that he had Soujin, Ming Hui, and a few others who would willingly co over to help him.
"They can help you, but the most important work still has to be finished by the Emperor or you won't be able to familiarize yourself with the task in hand, Your Majesty."
Yan sighed at the answer. He played with the brush on his hand when Lin Hong ca in to deliver another stack of paper to him. The sight of paper has beco his nightmare right now.
"You can place them on the table, Lin Hong."
"Yes, Your Majesty," Lin Hong did as Ming Yan told him. After placing them, he turned towards Ming Yan once again. "Your Highness, Princess ng is coming to visit for a talk about the trade again."
"She cos again?" Yan's eyes lit up when he heard about Princess ng coming. The sight of beauty was surely far better compared with the paper in front of him. The only problem was the topic she brought up would surely be about trade and the condition of the river.
Standing up, Yan dressed up properly before walking towards the hall. As it was uncomfortable, he usually wore his dress a bit loose.
In the middle of the hall, he could see Xiao ng and Tang Xuan standing. Xiao ng was wearing a light beautiful blue dress with so hairpin decorated her hair. She was not dressing so extravagantly, but her appearance alone exuded the elegance a royal would have.
'She reminds of Ming Hui when that man dressed up as an elegant lady.'
Yan tried to push his thought to the back as he greeted the two of them.
"Is there anything wrong with the trade again, Princess ng?" Yan asked politely.
Xiao ng shook her head. "It's not there's sothing wrong, Your Majesty, but I want to make sure that everything is clear for the two of us."
"I believe we already go over the detail for over 10 tis."
"The importance of this trade is far more than the others, so I believe that talking about it more is surely very beneficial. Don't you think so, Your Majesty?"
Yan forced a smile out on his face. He could say that he liked to see her beauty, but her tendency to go over the detail over and over again irked him. Not that it was not important, but she was too ticulous in her action.
However, he knew that he too once was like this young princess. Because he had just started to deal with things in a big trade, he bothered his partner a lot of tis and reviewed them again and again.
Really, interacting with this young princess made him recall his youth very much.
On the side, Tang Xuan acted as if he was air in front of them. He didn't want to disturb either one of them. It would be better to let them talk about the trade again by themselves as he stayed on the background.
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