Chapter 190: Untitled
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Days resud its peace. The conflict due to the treasure from Moon Soul and the longing for a woman long gone was finally carefully kept in the bottom of their hearts; never forgotten yet never talking about it again. After all, one should continue to move forward instead of turning back for what lay behind was nothing but shadows. Only by looking forward could they see the sunshine.
ng Fuyao and Zhan Beiheng had been getting along well recently — That one sentence, ‘Your death is imminent’ ng Fuyao had told Zhan Beiheng the other day terrified him, and she was almost thrown out of the door by Zhan Beiheng’s guards. Even then, all ng Fuyao did was to sit there, unperturbed, slowly sipping her tea. “The kind-hearted has taken the risk to enlighten you with the perfect wisdom, but yet you want to throw out of the door? Very well, I shall leave, but I will never enter here again.”
She rearranged her clothes and even ordered the guards. “Lead the way properly. Next ti, you won’t get to see such amazing general as .”
The actions of this smart yet dumb, bold yet ignorant general rendered Zhan Beiheng at a loss whether to laugh or to cry. But even so, he stopped the guards and let ng Fuyao continue to enjoy her tea and chat.
After their tea session, Zhan Beiheng finally could not help but ask, “That sentence, what do you an?”
“No explanation,” replied ng Fuyao. “You are perfectly aware of what I an without any explanation.”
Zhan Beiheng leered at her. After a long pause, he continued, “What about you? Instead of being the fair-haired boy in front of his Majesty, why did you co here and provide information?”
“n. When sober, they want power over the world, and when drunk, they desire the lap of a beauty.” ng Fuyao giggled. “What is the position of the General of Flying Leopard Army even worth, to be an official that aids the emperor of a whole new dynasty would be the real aspiration! ”
Zhan Beiheng was once again provoked by her as he jumped up and yelled, “How dare you! Guards-”
ng Fuyao sat still with a smile on her face.
Zhan Beiheng’s sentence stopped short as he glared at her. The anger that flooded his veins robbed him of his ability to form a coherent sentence, with any attempt sounding like ‘You! You! You!”
With a look of pity, ng Fuyao stood up and waved her hand. “Aiyo, not going to drag onto the palace hall? Not going to behead in the grandiose palace gates? I was still thinking that it would be such an honor to be able to have our heads rolling on the sa ground. What a pity, what a pity.”
Zhan Beiheng had his hand pressed on the table. He really could not go against the infuriating lass—With a single sentence, he would be dragged to the palace hall? If the emperor were to ask ‘why was he telling this to you in your residence?’ and connect the dots a little, his punishnt for a felony would definitely be heavier than General ng!
‘This fellow, vicious!’
But ng Fuyao added, “I know it might be hard for you to believe now. That’s alright, one day I will let you see my sincerity.”
She strolled arrogantly out of the residence to et her fellow soldiers in the imperial camp. In general, the commander of the imperial camp usually would be stern and serious. Not only that, they were usually rigid in handling affairs, and as a result, unpopular. However, this new vice commander was not only generous and straightforward but she also never ddled with the daily affairs, turning a blind eye to their illegal thods of earning a bit of cash. A good person!
After gambling on the dice for a period of ti, ng Fuyao lost again. She gave a half-hearted laugh and casually dug out a large silver and chucked it on the table. “I did not carry any spare change today, so just take this,” announced ng Fuyao.
Stumped, the person replied, “I don’t have a scale, how do I find change for you?”
ng Fuyao casually waved her hand. “What change, just rember it, and it’ll be easier when I lose next ti,” she said as she walked out of the door, “I’m going to go pee.”
After a burst of laughter, soone comnted, “He even keeps so silver in case of losing, General ng, nice one!”
ng Fuyao waved her hands. ‘What nice one? Aren’t they just laughing behind my back and cursing to lose next ti? Idiot!’
ng Fuyao walked out of the room though she did not head to the toilet; After all, she never went to the toilet outside. After walking a few steps, she unsurprisingly welcod a pale, beardless man. It was a familiar-looking face that turned out to be the eunuch in the palace.
That eunuch looked at her for a mont, cleared his throat and announced, “General ng, the emperor has summoned you to the palace.”
With an ‘mhm’, ng Fuyao obediently followed the eunuch with a stoical expression, ignoring the curious and odd gazes that the eunuchs gave her along the way. Zhan Nancheng waited for her in the imperial study. She greeted him, but he did not show the sa warm welco as he did previously. It was as though he had not heard her and did not pardon her from kneeling. And so, ng Fuyao patiently kneeled there, counting the tiles on the floor.
It was after a very long ti that Zhan Nancheng put down his book and turned to ng Fuyao. With an insincere smile, he said, “General ng has certainly been busy with the new position and doesn’t have the ti to enter the palace.”
ng Fuyao blinked and replied, “Your Majesty did not summon for .”
This reply made Zhan Nancheng choke a little. “Couldn’t you request for a eting? I see that you have been eagerly visiting Prince’s Heng residence?”
‘He couldn’t stop himself from asking, eh?’ ng Fuyao thought with much disdain. ‘Old Zhan, you and Zhangsun Wuji are certainly on a different level, no wonder he couldn’t even be bothered to deal with you.’
Zhan Nancheng stared at ng Fuayo and thought that this fellow would definitely beg for forgiveness in terror. But instead, she stated, in a matter of fact manner, “Your Majesty, I am tired from kneeling.”
Zhan Nancheng’s face turned black then white. He suddenly rembered that, indeed, she was as uncivilized as the reports had stated and that her guts were without a limit. That being said, she was not scheming and to exchange ‘blows’ with this person was a waste of energy.
He could only ask her to stand up, and he even granted her a seat. Happily, ng Fuyao took the seat and started chatting with Zhan Nancheng about random affairs in the imperial camp. Looking at her straightforwardness, he knew that beating around the bush with her would be useless and could only directly remind her to watch her behavior.
“You are an official, and it wouldn’t reflect very well on you to be on close terms with princes. I suppose there isn’t much to report to Prince Heng’s residence?”
“Yep, there isn’t much.” ng Fuyao honestly nodded her head. “But Prince Heng is my superior, if he asks to go over, I cannot not obey.”
This reply once again stumped Zhan Nancheng. Everything about this fellow was good, just a little too pea-brain. Troubled, yet at the sa ti, Zhan Nancheng felt assured—as an emperor, for a general to be too smart was in no way good.
ng Fuyao continued to excitedly gossip about Prince Heng’s residence with Zhan Nancheng. “Prince Heng has 18 concubines, called 18 celestial beings. They say that the prince is like a Buddha that subdued the celestial beings till they are all obedient and docile. I don’t even know how he has that stamina, mhm, I bet it is the herbal recipes and the dicine that the imperial physician gave him. I asked him for the dicine he was using. At first, Prince did not admit. Hehe, I said I wanted to marry three concubines and have fun and f*ck them every day. But I was afraid to hurt my body and pestered Prince to make a copy for . He ordered to not spread it around, but I found the words a bit blurry, so I snuck in and secretly copied myself. Your Majesty, do you want?”
Zhan Nancheng did not know whether to laugh or to cry. ‘What is this, a discussion about the Prince’s promiscuous lifestyle and share viagra recipes?’ If this were to spread, people would think that he was a licentious ruler, so he very quickly refused. But ng Fuyao dug out a dirty piece of paper and shoved it in his hands. Zhan Nancheng took a glance and suddenly paused.
On the paper were listed a few types of herbs, which were tributes from Mo Lo that he had seen on lists from previous years. He had been under the impression that Mo Lo had not sent any this year and did not question about them either. The other ti, when Lady Cheng had wanted to use the dicine, there had been none left in the storage. Beiheng had been present when it was announced, but he had not said anything, who could have thought that they were actually in his residence?
He took over the redy, thoroughly looked through and could not help but frown a little. He knew dicine and could tell this redy was more than just a viagra. In fact, it could help greatly with boosting the recovery ti of a weak body that had received external injuries—a precious redy. When he was held hostage, he had been injured and never fully recovered. He had hinted Beiheng to find so good redies for him. Beiheng had agreed and indeed had brought redies though they were useless. To think that he had such a miraculous redy on hand! So why did he not give this redy?
He then thought of his children — he had only two sons and one daughter, his third son was slow in learning while the crown prince as weak… at that thought, cold sweat dripped down his back.
Despite the cold sweat on his back, Zhan Nancheng did not reveal his feelings on his face. He casually threw the redy on the table and said, “I will not carelessly use a redy provided by an official. But seeing your sincerity, I will keep it and ask the imperial physician to look through before returning it to you. Naturally, I will not be using so random redy, but it would be safer to check the redy before you use it.”
“Thank you, your Majesty, for your care and concern!” ng Fuyao giggled. “I have not consud it yet as the herbs were hard to find no matter how much money I was willing to spend. What a waste of ti for to sneak into Prince Heng’s residence to copy this redy.”
Zhan Nancheng revealed a cold smile. ‘Of course, you can’t buy it, even I don’t have the ingredients!’
Suddenly, he caught ng Fuyao’s last sentence. He raised his eyebrows and asked, “This redy, you snuck in Prince Heng’s residence to copy it?”
“Yep!” replied ng Fuyao innocently. “The copy that Prince Heng gave was very ssy and did not have as many dicines as this list. This redy was locked up in a hidden drawer and imperial physician Su did not let go near it. I had to dupe him to go elsewhere, and I even had to pick the lock. As a gangster, I might not know other things, but I definitely know how to pick a lock, hehe.”
Zhan Nancheng laughed insincerely and waved his hand. “You may leave.”
ng Fuyao left the palace. Then, she got on the horse and rode it under the beautiful rays of light reflecting on the roads.
It was at this mont where she relaxed and revealed a small smile.
Within a few days, there was a decree that promoted ng Fuyao to be the vice commander of Flying Fox and the commander of Flying Leopard. In the three imperial camps, Flying Fox, Flying Leopard, Flying Tiger, had a commander position left empty and the many vice-commanders fought hard for it. At last, the position was taken by the overall head of the imperial camps Xie Yu Jian. Now, Xie Yu Jian’s position as overall head of the imperial camps remained untouched, but he was relieved of his duties as the commander of Flying Fox, General ng, claid the position out of nowhere. It was certainly a strange move by the imperial court, and what was weirder was that Prince Heng, who was directly in charge of the imperial camps, had no objections to the decree nor did the various vice commanders. Prince Heng thought that General ng was under him while the various commanders had the mindset that ‘if I can’t have it, you can’t have it’. And on Zhan Nancheng’s side, he believed that ng Fuyao was his too.
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