Chapter 27

                                    

                                          
CHAPTER 27
                          
You Can’t Read? Wangfu
                          
“You…… Why didn’t you tell me that earlier ah!?” Jing Yue really wanted to weep yet she had no tears. That was the son of the Emperor ah! If she had known earlier that he was such a vengeful person, whatever she’d said, it wouldn’t be something that might provoked him.
                          
“You also didn’t ask earlier.” Xiao Chen narrowed his eyes with an unperturbed appearance.
                          
“Ke ke (cough)……” Jing Yue coughed. She stared earnestly at Xiao Chen and asked: “Good or bad I am your Ninth Huang Fei, can’t you help me block such problems and disaster? The proverb says it well, ‘it takes a hundred years to bring two people to stay in a boat together, it takes a thousand years to bring two people to sleep on the same bed’*, it is also fate that we could meet ah!”
                          
“You wish too much.” Xiao Chen opened his eyes, turned towards Jing Yue and said: “You’ve also seen inside the jungle, BenWang’s own self is hard to protect. It’s better for you to pray for a lot of luck.”
                          
“Damn…… you can’t pit people like this ah!” in a flash, Jing Yue already jumped up and glared furiously at Xiao Chen. She ineffably felt that she might be entering a wolf nest.
                          
Wrong, she was in a wolf nest in the first place ah.
                          
A pooh! If she could choose, she would rather stay inside the forest for the rest of her life, that way, how could there be so many rotten problems ah!?
                          
“It’s already too late even if you want to regret.” Xiao Chen raised his eyebrows, stood his body up and said: “We’ve arrived.”
                          
“A? Arrived where?” Jing Yue was dumbfounded and watched Xiao Chen went down from the carriage.
                          
“Our home.” Xiao Chen stood outside the carriage and extended his hand towards Jing Yue. That gentle and soft appearance of his made a small move in Jing Yue’s heart; our home? Jing Yue avoided Xiao Chen’s hand and leaped down from the carriage. She was immediately stupefied by the building before her eyes.
                          
“This is the Imperial Palace ah, great style!”
                          
Xiao Chen, who was about to walk away, almost sprained his ankle when he heard Jing Yue’s words. His whole face went black as he stared at Jing Yue and asked: “You can’t read?”
                          
“Can ah.” Jing Yue nodded her head.
                          
“You see above you, what words are those?” with a dark face Xiao Chen pointed at the board above the tall door and spoke.
                          
“Let me see a…… Wang… Fu… Wangfu!” Jing Yue suddenly shouted in fear. She stared unbelievingly at the red-vermillion gate, the gold inscribed board as well as the imperial guards dressed in mighty armor standing in that huge gate. Jing Yue suddenly felt like she was about to faint.
                          
Jing Yue’s complexion unexpectedly turned grave; she moved closer to Xiao Chen’s side and asked: “Xiao Chen, be honest and tell me; did you rob the country treasury and snatch a lot of money to build this house?”
                          
Xiao Chen was dumbfounded; he then looked at Jing Yue with a gaze that seemed like he was looking at an idiotic child, silently waved his hand towards Xing Yi and said: “Throw this woman into a pond, let her head clear a bit.”
                          
“Wei wei wei! I’m not going to play with you guys!” Jing Yue suddenly jumped and glared at Xing Yi Xing Er these two persons. Until she saw the two persons didn’t make any movement, she finally loosened her breath.  When she gazed at this huge gate and thought that in the future she would be the mistress here, her heart suddenly burst with joy ah!
                          
Man ah, still the rich one’s good!
                          
“Ninth Huang Fei, master told you to live in the Lotus Court.” Xing Er took Jing Yue towards a building among an exquisite courtyard. The abundant blooming lotuses on the pond made Jing Yue widened her eyes. What she saw made her mouth drooled, a lot of lotuses! There would be things to eat!
                          
“This is the maid that’ll wait upon you.” Xing Yi stood inside the courtyard, pointed at a small girl kneeling on the ground and said: “Very few people inside the Wangfu have no fixed duties, master only picked one maid for Ninth Huang Fei, if Ninth Huang Fei felt it isn’t enough, you may pick from outside the residence.”
                          
“Enough, enough……” Jing Yue kept nodding her head and answered.
                          
“Huang Fei, your two wolves have already been placed inside the Lotus Court.” Xing Er had said all the things he needed to say, his reporting manner was exactly like a machine, ice-cold and without any warmth.
                          
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*百年修得同船渡，千年修得共枕眠 (bǎinián xiū dé tóng chuándù, qiānnián xiūde gòng zhěn mián), “It takes a hundred years to stay in a ship together, it takes a thousand years to sleep on the same bed.”, it means people meeting are fated, couple meet and marry because of fate/destiny.
                          
Wangfu: Prince’s Residence/Prince’s Household