What an Audacious and Sly Servant! Chapter 100

Hah, 21 chapters left. Poor Mei Qian Deng, becoming the counsellor for those girls.

Chapter 100 – Gonggong is Very Busy

Translated by HaruOngy at Geniusly Plain (If you can see this line, you must have read this in the aggregator site which illegally steal various works. Be shameful of yourself for not appreciating the translator's hard work. Don't think only you want to have it the easy way. Support the fanbase and translator!)

It was said that since Princess Xiang Xiang came into the palace as a guest while expressing her wish to join the Empress selection, the guests coming to see Chu Xun were one group after another. Even Empress Dowager lamented. The palace had not been this bustling for a long time already, it just that it was unknown if this bustle was good or bad.

The Empress Dowager asked Chang Xiao, "In this palace, how many girls have arrived?"

Chang Xiao was as if counting the family wealth, "Replying to Your Majesty, the first to arrive is Princess Xiang Xiang from the nomadic tribe at the northern border, after that His Majesty personally invited the Martial Alliance Leader's daughter, Zhao Shu Ran into the palace with Po Ye female emperor followed behind her. Various imperial relatives and loyal officials had selected some girls into the palace but the Minister of Rites said, His Majesty preferred jianghu girls more. This was because His Majesty had once insisted selecting the Empress must not be only among the distinguished families, Oh, yesterday, Young Miss Qian from the wealthiest family was invited into the palace too."

"Then, what had His Majesty do recently?"

Chang Xiao was beaming from ear to ear, "Other than morning court and retiring for the night, His Majesty was basically inside the Imperial Study unwilling to come out."

"Since Xun er wants to select his Empress, being this cold to these girls is not really good. Send aijia's decree, three days later, aijia will hold a dinner banquet in the imperial garden. His Majesty and the girls all must attend. The spring has arrived, with hundreds of flowers fighting to bloom, how can we missed such a good time." Her Majesty Empress Dowager choose a candied fruit and put it inside her mouth. She chewed while smiling slightly.

Chu Xun hid in the Imperial Study. Most of the works that require moving about were passed over to Mei Qian Deng instead.

Coincidently, Princess Xiang Xiang was peeking from the corner of the wall. Seeing Mei gonggong walking from afar, she swiftly pulled the person into the shade.

"Shh……"

Mei Qian Deng blinked her eyes. She had a calm face as she waited Princess Xiang Xiang to talk.

"Mei gonggong, I hear you're the favourite of His Majesty." Mei Qian Deng raised her eyebrows, there was such rumour?

"Can you help me……"

"Princess, just say it." Xiang Xiang's eyes shone, "Before I leave the house, not only to my Imperial Father, I had even promised to the others that coming here this time I must take down the Emperor Chu." Oh, Princess, this time the way you brag was too much.

"Emperor Chu seems to dislike me, gonggong, tell me what type does he like?"

Mei Qian Deng pondered. What type did Chu Xun like? She seriously looked at Princess Xiang Xiang's eyes, "His Majesty likes those who adhere to their selves. Princess doesn't have to specially change, it's fine to be the real you."

Xiang Xiang curled her lips, "Gonggong, I understand your meaning. What you're trying to say is no matter how I change, His Majesty will not like it."

Female warrior Mei felt a bit awkward. She didn't think Xiang Xiang who usually appeared bold and uninhibited and never bother about trifles in the end had a young girl's sensitive sense. Hence, Mei Qian Deng didn't know how to comfort her.

"Princess, among the girls who arrived for the Empress selection, nucai likes you the most."

Xiang Xiang cheerfully smiled and bent her arm around Mei Qian Deng's shoulders, "It's still Mei gonggong who has good eyesight."

Mei Qian Deng's eyes rolled around, "Princess, nucai has an idea. You know that when a string of pearls falls onto the ground, they will bounce back. The bigger the gap, the higher they will bounce. Princess, the impression you have right now in His Majesty's eyes are……" She pointed at the sky and the ground, "As long as you change a bit, you will be more attractive than the other young misses." Because Xiang Xiang's image was really, really too bad.

This princess who came from the prairie grasped Mei gonggong's meaning.

She dragged her voice, "Oh~ reasonable, reasonable!"

"Princess, you still have lots of time to improve, good luck!" Mei Qian Deng had always been a kind, good young miss. She gave Xiang Xiang a cupped fist. What she should say she had already said them. She prepared to leave yet who would have guess she got stopped by Xiang Xiang. Mei Qian Deng confusedly turned her head around.

She heard Xiang Xiang pled, "Gonggong, please give another pointer to me. From my head to my toes, where and how should I improve?"

After she gave some suggestions to Xiang Xiang, Mei Qian Deng had yet to pass through the gate of the Ming Jue Palace when another person stopped her again.

"Little Steward, it has been so long since we last met." The one who came was Qian Wan San's daughter, Qian Qian[1].

Qian Qian didn't have the smelly copper smell on her body like her father. She was dressed cleanly and very moderate. Her appearance and temper had some similarities with her father. Her look was not shocking but pleasing to look. She had never been interested in doing business. She liked to roam the jianghu the most and making new friends. Because of her family situation, she was very generous. If one counted all those big and small helps she had helped others before, she could be considered as having some power to rally supporters in the jianghu.

Mei Qian Deng gave Qian Qian a cupped fist salute, "Young Miss."

"Don't call me Young Miss. I don't dare to be. I heard you're the Emperor's favourite at his side. I had always been away from house so I don't really keep in touch with the situation in the house. How come you from a steward turns into a eunuch……" Qian Qian didn't know Mei Qian Deng's true identity. In her mind, Mei Qian Deng was a good calculator who her dad dug from somewhere, with male gender.

Mei Qian Deng still didn't explain to her as she calmly said, "It's the fate of coincident. This humble one has never thought too there will be a day I'll turn into a eunuch."

Qian Qian suddenly remembered in her heart. A man turning into a eunuch had never been a matter worth celebrating, even if got elevated into the Emperor's favourite. So, she only clapped Mei Qian Deng's shoulders, no longer asking further.

"My father wants me to enter the palace. At first, I didn't know. So it's actually for Empress selection. Say, as a mere merchant's daughter with low status, why does my father insist me to tread in this muddy water."

Mei Qian Deng still remained calm, "Please don't belittle yourself, Young Miss. His Majesty previously even borrowed money from your father."

"Really?!"

"En."

Qian Qian seemed quite happy, "Yesterday I got to see the Emperor's face. I had roamed the jianghu for so many years yet I have never see anyone much better-looking than His Majesty. When did His Majesty see my father?"

"It's just a few days ago……" His Majesty went to find your father to borrow money but your father didn't want to lend them. I accidentally gave a kick to His Majesty's handsome face. Your father even used your name to hide me, Young Miss, are you aware of this or not?!

Qian Qian revealed some regrets but in the next moment she smiled while looking at Mei Qian Deng, "Little Steward, it's my first time inside the palace. I don't really understand the rules here. We have interacted for about four to five years already. On account of our past, you have to give pointers to me. What does His Majesty like? What he dislikes? Tell me about them."

It looked like Qian Wan San's daughter was quite interested with Chu Xun. Thinking about this carefully, for these young misses to remain unmarried despite being around Chu Xun's age, one was their identity was not bad, matching status marriage had been quite rare. Two was these young misses had high standard too, since it was rare for them to find one they took fancy of, naturally they had to grab it well.

Mei Qian Deng had to deal with Young Miss Qian to talk for a long time.

That scheming Emperor who locked himself inside the Imperial Study unwilling to come out waited for so long but Mei Qian Deng never returned. He couldn't refrain from marvelling, "Zhen is just asking her to go to the Ming Jue Palace to bring two storybooks. She went so long that it's enough to act a full play. Zhu Li——go and bring back Mei gonggong for zhen!"

Zhu Li shortly returned, "Your Majesty, nubi sees Mei gonggong is quite busy recently."

Chu Xun threw a glance over, "Can she be as busy as zhen this monarch of an empire?"

Zhu Li hence slowly counted the situation where Mei Qian Deng got surrounded by various young misses in these few days. After counting, she didn't forget to ask Chu Xun, "After undergoes Mei gonggong's earnest advices for these young misses, which one Your Majesty is more satisfied?"

Chu Xun: (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻

The Emperor was very furious. The Emperor was very furious.

When Mei gonggong returned to the Imperial Study again, she could clearly sense the strange atmosphere inside the room.

Five years had already passed but Mei Qian Deng still couldn't really understand why Chu Xun was angry again. Just like now, Chu Xun sat alone in front of the imperial table, he held the memorandum but never move. His eyes didn't land at Mei Qian Deng's area but Mei Qian Deng seemed to able to see largely written on Chu Xun's forehead 'zhen', 'is', 'very', 'angry'!

"Your Majesty?" Mei Qian Deng carefully put over those storybooks he wanted to read.

Chu Xun's nose released a puff of breath, "In this time waiting for your return, zhen can even write a whole story."

Mei Qian Deng didn't want to response in her conscious. She believed if she replied to Chu Xun, his anger wouldn't dissipate. But if she didn't reply, he would still explode. The female warrior Mei was baffled before she answered, "Then, what sort of story did Your Majesty write? Say it for nucai to listen?" Female warrior Mei felt this response was the one which could give His Majesty face the most.

As expected.

Bang——!

Chu Xun's palms hit the imperial table, "Zhen wrote a story named Wooden Fish and Monk. Many female demons were attracted to that monk but the monk chanted sutras every day. He only cherished his wooden fish. The female demons hence wanted to snatch away that wooden fish. No one expected that wooden fish after a long nurture of Buddha's teachings was like Buddha who cut his own meat to feed a hawk, willing to lay down its' life for a just cause. It let the female demons possessed the wooden fish's body. The monk realised the possessed wooden fish could no longer make Buddhist sounds when knocked, after a few days he got angered to death."

A silent awkward.

Mei Qian Deng licked her lips, "Your Majesty, is quite talented."

Chu Xun's handsome nostrils had expanded. Lifting his chin, he faced his big nostrils to Mei Qian Deng and ambiguously said, "You, wooden fish brain!"

Mei Qian Deng made an innocent face.

"Your Majesty, if there is nothing else, nucai will first retreat first."

"Her Majesty Empress Dowager will hold a dinner banquet at the Imperial Garden in three days. In these days, countless people will surely seek you. You have to properly stay with zhen inside the Imperial Study and are not allowed to go anywhere."

Mei Qian Deng obediently replied, "Yes."

Chu Xun pointed at a corner. He specially ordered people to move an extra table and chair for Mei Qian Deng to sit down and read some secret martial arts texts or others she was interested when bored. Sometimes she had to arrange the memorandums. Mei Qian Deng didn't feel it back when she was the Crown Prince's study partner. Now that she was the Emperor's personal eunuch, she had experienced the daily numerous state affairs of the Emperor.

Sometimes when the two of them were in the Imperial Study, Chu Xun would check the memorandums until late night. He didn't let Mei Qian Deng foolishly stood at the side so Mei Qian Deng sat reading books while accompanying him. Once in a while, she would raise her head and see Chu Xun's eyebrows slightly knitted. The way he thought was like an old monk sitting in meditation, his face no longer immature. She had missed those times when Chu Xun slowly matured. Sometimes, Chu Xun busied himself until he slept. His head would just lay on the memorandum without any care how the inks smeared on his handsome face. Mei Qian Deng would lightly walk over to drape a small blanket. The soundly asleep Chu Xun looked like he had returned to the five years ago carefree Crown Prince.

"Mei Qian Deng, you suddenly use this look to look at zhen, makes zhen feel really uncomfortable." Chu Xun suddenly sensed Mei Qian Deng approached him. His eyes were slightly daze and his imperial body trembled. He felt insecure, "Say it honestly, did you cooperate with those girls in the palace to sell zhen off?!"

Mei Qian Deng smiled. She said nothing.

The cunning Emperor suddenly gave a start.

[1] 钱浅, literally Money Easy (could be shallow, superficial, not close or pale but according to Qian Wan San's naming sense, I opt for easy)

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