Chapter 19

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Author: Xiao Yao

Chapter 18 – Title – Chapter 20

T/N: I’ve changed the following translation from Hall of Virtue to Hall of Heavenly Virtue, and from Hall of Tranquility to Hall of Calm Fragrance.

Having been circumvented by Xu-momo, even before Hui Ming was able to clearly resolve the matter, she was neatly driven out the door with words of seeing off the guest. Please read at insidethemirror translations. DO NOT REPOST.

And then, apart from carefully doing her errands, Hui Ming didn’t have the nerve to do as what Xu-momo had suggested, to go and personally ask Su-gonggong the reason why His Majesty instructed him to preside over the sacrifice for the previous empress.

After sending the knee pads to Xu-momo, she had yet to start on the garment for Su-gonggong, nor figured out the words that Xu-momo said to her early that morning, when the sky suddenly became heavy, that by evening, heavy snow started to fall, and overnight, the entire palace was already wrapped in silver, covered in a thick layer of pure white, but the rustling snow still continued for a while, without knowing when it would stop.

In this kind of weather, if everyone could they were determined not to go out and suffer the cold, while the occasional servants that would come and go from the Hall of Heavenly Virtue, would all put on hooded cloaks that had long ago been issued to them, bowing their heads as they rushed, ignoring any trivial matters around them.

Hui Ming and Lu An were on alternate duty, and yesterday it was her turn on doing errands, so today, she happened to be free for half the day, coupled with such heavy snow, if there was an appropriate time to send the fox fur to His Seventh Highness, when could there be such a suitable time than now?

Seeing that the palace servants who were on duty today had already left, and in the end, since she was still unclear about the situation with Su-gonggong, Hui Ming thought about it for a while, then changed her clothes to go out, she hugged the fox fur coat inside her mantle and rushed early towards the Hall of Calm Fragrance.

Hui Ming couldn’t be clearer on what the situation was inside the Hall of Calm Fragrance, not to mention the circumstances when His Seventh Royal Highness came last time with Wang-momo, Hui Ming still remembered that with such a significant matter as meeting the emperor, it was probably the most decent clothes that they could find, but His Seventh Royal Highness still had to wear layers of clothing that made him look bloated and felt cumbersome, not to mention Wang-momo, who was wearing half-old clothing that weren’t new, clearly, the charcoal fire and winter clothes over at His Seventh Royal Highness’ were nothing to be desired.

With regards to the thing about the charcoal, it was something Hui Ming couldn’t do anything to replenish, but with this fox fur coat, according to Su-gonggong, it could be used as bedding that does the job well, as long as the weather wasn’t extremely cold, it could be used for more than ten years.

Although the snow fell heavily last night, but the roads along the palace where the Masters and their children lived, were nevertheless already being swept and shoveled by menial palace servants for most of the snow that had fallen early in the middle of the night, and regardless of the chilly wind they also spread coarse salt on the ground to prevent it from freezing over.

It’s just that in the remote palace of Imperial Concubine Kang that no one cared about, it was natural that there was no such treatment, the further west one went, the thicker the snow was on the ground, and when one arrived at the Hall of Calm Fragrance in the distant, Hui Ming’s shoes had already been soaked with the snow, the cold air seeping in along with it, and her feet had frozen from the cold.

Having been serving in the Hall of Heavenly Virtue, it seemed that she had been spoiled with the hearth that was constantly lit all through the night, with just this bit of coldness, she unexpectedly couldn’t help it, and Hui Ming stomped her feet outside the entrance, while she inwardly shook her head.

Maybe it was because she came too early today and with such heavy snow, the gate at the corner closest to the Hall of Calm Fragrance was still closed, Hui Ming had to knock for a long time before an impatient old steward finally opened the door. Please read at insidethemirror translations. DO NOT REPOST.

Hui Ming only said that she knew Wang-momo and came to see her, then she stuffed a piece of silver she had prepared to him, which made him reluctantly open his mouth, and led the way while speaking in a gruff manner: “I haven’t seen you before, did you come here to collect the corpse?”

Hui Ming frowned when she heard the words, but owing to the fact that saying more meant making more mistakes, so she didn’t dig into the cause of what this servant was saying, until he took her to the side door of the Hall of Calm Fragrance, then thanked him politely before calling out to Wang-momo, but after waiting for a moment without anyone answering, she then opened the door and entered the room.

The brazier inside was cold, and the room wasn’t much warmer compared to the outside, Hui Ming frowned and slowly went in, she walked past the wooden partition and looked in, with just a glance, she vaguely understood what the old steward meant by “collecting the corpse”?

There was a person lying under the quilt on the bed, with only their grey hair exposed, seeing Wang-momo, who she had just met a few days ago, Hui Ming’s heart tightened, she put down the fox fur coat and rushed forward, and the moment she got a clear look at her face inside the bed, her heart sank, but also couldn’t help breathe a sigh of relief.

The sinking feeling she felt was because the person on the bed with their eyes tightly closed was unmistakably Wang-momo, her complexion looked flushed, that at first glance she looked really ill, and breathing a sigh of relief was precisely because her face looked flushed, in so much so that she could still slightly hear her gasping when she went closer, in any case this couldn’t be said of her coming over to “collect the corpse.”

Hui Ming took a few steps closer and sat down on the corner of the bed, she was going to take a good look at Wang-momo’s situation, but who knew that when she placed her palm on Wang-momo’s forehead, her eyes incidentally swept over the corner of the room, and it suddenly made her jump in fright!

His Seventh Royal Highness was crouching down with his hands holding his knees, he was nesting at the corner of the bed, quietly looking at her with a pair of clear black eyes!

“Seventh, Seventh Highness…” Hui Ming came back to her senses, Little Seventh Highness was not at all frightened, instead he was just sitting very quietly, it’s just that when she suddenly saw him, it scared her just a little, Hui Ming stroked her chest still a little unsure: “Why are you here alone?”

Seventh Highness looked at Hui Ming motionlessly, and with the usual practice that Hui Ming had also undergone for more than ten years in her previous life, towards such a Little Highness, she could only be patient and quietly wait for the other person to speak. After a long time being like this, Seventh Royal Highness just turned to the person lying on the bed, then slowly opened his mouth, but only called out with a hoarse voice: “Momo.”

At the same time, Hui Ming’s palms had already touched Wang-momo’s cheeks and forehead— it was burning hot, then thinking about the last time Wang-momo went to the Hall of Heavenly Virtue, where she couldn’t help coughing and shaking, it was obvious that it’s wasn’t just a day or two when Wang-momo had fallen ill.

Recalling the time when she arrived at the Hall of Calm Fragrance in her past life, but had never seen a trace of Wang-momo, Hui Ming’s heart sank again, having been very ill, but only the young Seventh Highness keeping watch over her, let alone inviting a physician for medicine, she was afraid that there wasn’t even a person who lit the fire and fed her water, so how could Wang-momo in her age survive? In her previous life, it’s very likely that Wang-momo must’ve fallen ill this winter, so it was no wonder that when Hui Ming came here in the previous life, His Seventh Royal Highness wasn’t being cared for at all, and his affliction had become much worse than it was now.

But with it being like this, along with His Seventh Highness’ temperament, in the previous life, was he also keeping watch like this, and watched as Wang-momo went?

Hui Ming felt stifled looking at the thin figure nestled in the corner of the bed, then after pressing down the sadness in her heart for a moment, she slowly sat down, and softly said: “Your Majesty, Momo won’t wake up for a while, why don’t you come out first?”

His Seventh Royal Highness having heard her raised his head and looked at Hui Ming, he ignored this chance, and although he was trembling with fear and his words were not as clever as a normal child, his every word, made people’s heart ache:

“Help, Momo, please.” Please read at insidethemirror translations. DO NOT REPOST.

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Chapter 18 – Title – Chapter 20

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