Chapter 21

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Author: Xiao Yao

Chapter 20 – Title – Chapter 22

“Many, thanks…cough, cough.” In the inner room behind the Hall of Calm Fragrance, although Wang-momo was already awake, but after having passed this serious illness, she had lost weight and her cheeks were sunken, her appearance looked wan and sallow, that before she could even finish her sentence, she was already coughing from being out of breath. Please read at insidethemirror translations. DO NOT REPOST.

Upon seeing this, Hui Ming, who had just entered the room, quickly went to fetch the pills on the side table, then took a few steps forward to support Wang-momo with ease, after that she turned her head and fetched the warm water on the side, holding it and slowly feeding it to her, after waiting for quite a while, Wang-momo with great difficulty finally recovered, panting with some embarrassment as she said, “Really troubled you, young lady.”

Hui Ming shook her head: “There’s no need to be polite with me, nowadays the Hall of Calm Fragrance is already aware that you are my elder, and you being polite to me, I can’t afford it.”

After a few days of explanation, Wang-momo has also admitted to this “old nominal kinship” version of events, but whenever this was mentioned, she still blamed herself and would smile in embarrassment: “You kindly saved my life, but with this body of mine… I am afraid that it will be difficult to repay you in the future, so where could I even have the face to speak of things such as being your elder.”

With Su-gonggong’s token, the young steward in Imperial Concubine Kang’s Palace did not dare to delay, after reporting Wang-momo having fallen ill, a female physician was sent by the Palace Office to the Hall of Calm Fragrance, who was naturally the best in the art of medicine, then after coming to check on her pulse, she only made her take a few medicine, but after one night, Wang-momo’s high fever dropped right away, only according to the words of the female physician, that although it was merely common typhoid, it had been delayed for too long, with Wang-momo’s age not being young anymore, even if her fever went down, it’s very likely that the root cause of the disease wouldn’t be cured, and she would need to be carefully nursed in the future, which indeed proved this point when Wang-momo woke up in poor health.

It’s just that Hui Ming’s heart stirred when she heard this, so her words became a bit solemn: “You misunderstood, it was not me who saved you, it was Su Jin, Su-gonggong that serves His Majesty, if he hadn’t stepped in, how could I invite a female physician? If you have a chance in the future, just repay him.”

Not to mention age, but in the future, most of his body would be abandoned, that even Hui Ming, who had become the woman in charge of serving the emperor was unable to return the favor, so how else could she help the imperial chief steward? Wang-momo smiled wryly when she heard her words, only thinking that Hui Ming was just casually saying words to humbly decline, and didn’t take it to heart, but she didn’t know that these words from Hui Ming, was seriously genuine and sincere.

Wang-momo, including His Seventh Royal Highness, was admittedly of no interest to anyone at this moment, but when His Seventh Royal Highness ascended the throne in the future, she would be the closest and most useful person to the Little Majesty, even more incredible than the position Xu-momo currently has.

In addition, Hui Ming had already made up her mind, whatever the case, this time she would not go to the Hall of Calm Fragrance to hide by herself and leave Su-gonggong, even if she didn’t have the chance to be called the sole personal palace maid that His Little Majesty relied on like last time.

In this way, thinking in retrospect after Rui Wang forced the emperor to abdicate, she and Su-gonggong won’t know what the situation would be, so if they really couldn’t go against it, then it’s just that their life would cease, but if they were lucky enough to survive, at that time, taking care of Wang-momo couldn’t be inevitably avoided.

When Hui Ming saved her, it was certainly not for the purpose of wanting gratitude, but since she had been saved, she also had to think about Su-gonggong’s future.

For this reason, when facing the frail Wang-momo at this moment, Hui Ming had never made pretentions about this, and after a few words of comfort, she turned her gaze to the Little Majesty who was quietly staring at the brazier: “You are well, and it looks like His Highness also feels very relieved.”

“His Royal Highness is timid, but he has the best intention, my having been ill for several days also really frightened him.” Having mentioned His Seventh Royal Highness, Wang-momo’s appearance became increasingly kind: “Speaking of which, in front of strangers there are very few people that His Royal Highness would put his guard down, you and His Highness are also predestined.”

Hui Ming nodded understandingly, in the previous life, whenever a stranger appeared beside His Highness, even if they didn’t come close, he would become nervous and tense, staying somber, that once he receives even a little stimulation he would explode.

But these days, it seemed that His Seventh Highness at most would just retreat in a corner all by himself while counting beads, and not only had he become used to being close to Hui Ming, even when a stranger such as the female palace physician arrived, although he became tense, but as long as no one paid attention to him, he could remain calm by counting the Buddhist beads, he did not even have a shadow of becoming insane, and having the behavior of harming himself while screaming like in the previous life, thus in Hui Ming’s eyes, he wouldn’t be too bad in front of ordinary people anymore. Please read at insidethemirror translations. DO NOT REPOST.

“Yes, His Seventh Highness is deeply blessed, and your blessing is also yet to come.” Thinking of this, Hui Ming also nodded in agreement, and stroked Wang-momo’s palm in comfort.

Hui Ming at this time had rushed over when His Majesty was at the palace of Concubine Xian, she just found some time to come over to take a quick look, so although Lu An had remained there to cover for her, she could not tarry too long, as such after saying a few more words she stood up again, and before leaving, regardless of the person’s refusal, stubbornly left half of the monthly wage that she had just received, then asked the old steward who she had met a few days ago to take good care of her, then seeing the time of day, she turned back towards the Hall of Heavenly Virtue.

His Majesty had not yet returned, and not only had he not come back, but a small inner eunuch came to pass on a message, saying that His Majesty will sleep at Concubine Xian’s tonight, and instructed the palace maids to prepare his court beads and dragon robe for tomorrow morning, and also for the servants to bring it to Concubine Xian’s Palace, Wan Xi Palace.

Hui Ming and the others were servants in the Hall of Heavenly Virtue, so with His Majesty resting elsewhere, it also meant that they could have a rest in the evening, which was why after hearing this message, except for those few with ulterior motives and those particularly “motivated”, the rest of the people inside the palace breathed a sigh of relief, they merely took care of their own duty, and except for a few guards who were left behind, the rest wore their cloaks, and gathered together in twos and threes, gossiping as they walked back along the cloisters to rest.

As usual, no one dared to speak or chat with her, all of them dodged and remained at a respectful distance from her, fortunately Hui Ming also seized this moment to do something, Su-gonggong’s mink fur garment was just a few stitches away from being complete, seeing that the weather was getting colder, she had remembered to make it early, so she just entrusted Lu An in helping bring back the evening meals, then rushed back, and no more than half an hour later, she had also finished the garment.

Looking at the color of the sky, it was painted in black winter night, but although it was already dark, in reality it was just early in the evening1, and was not yet too late, Hui Ming thought about it and decided that it was neither too early nor too late, so she wrapped the garment, then got up and put on her mantle and walked towards Su-gonggong’s residence.

At such an hour, she originally thought that Su-gonggong would still be accompanying His Majesty, and might not even return, who knew, that when Hui Ming just got to the rear entrance, she happened to meet Su-gonggong and Yuan Bao who was walking back carrying a lantern.

Seeing Su-gonggong’s slender figure, Hui Ming unexpectedly thought of what Xu-momo had said to her a few days ago, and her face immediately went red again, so she just stood there for a while, waiting for Su-gonggong to come nearer before opening her mouth and calling out.

Su-gonggong raised his head when he heard her voice, but before responding back, he first took out his hand from his sleeve and reached out to take the lantern in Yuan Bao’s hand and pointed it at Hui Ming’s feet: “Coming out so late, why aren’t you carrying a lamp?”

“I’m used to walking, there’s no harm in it.” Hui Ming slightly bowed her head and followed behind Su-gonggong: “His Majesty is resting at Concubine Xian’s, so I originally thought that you also wouldn’t be able to come back, but we coincidentally met.”

Before Su Jin could reply, Yuan Bao who was behind him wanted to please, so he laughed and said, “It is clear that Gugu and Master are predestined!”

Hui Ming’s heart jumped, wanting to see Su-gonggong’s face, but the lantern was lighting her feet, and looking up, only unclear darkness could be seen, then for a moment she recalled that in her past life before leaving from serving the emperor Su-gonggong sent Yuan Bao to explain to her, Hui Ming’s heart tensed up, she paused then smiled and said: “Others don’t know the real story, it’s just a misunderstanding, Yuan Bao why are you talking nonsense like this?”

Su-gonggong became silent for a moment, his face indistinguishable in the curtain of the night, but his voice was still dull without a bit of fluctuations: “I watched over the sacrifice for the late empress with Xin-wang this afternoon, the prince had just left the palace, so I came back to have a look.”

Seeing Su-gonggong ignore this stumble, Hui Ming’s heart also relaxed, and it happened that they had arrived at Su-gonggong’s door, so she took a step forward, opened the door with one hand then turned back and said: “That’s a coincidence, previously when Yuan Bao sent me some mink fur, I’ve made a garment, please try it on, if it’s not suitable, I can alter it.”

Su-gonggong’s steps paused, and there was an imperceptible undulation in his voice: “You’re giving it to me?”

Coming over to give a mink garment that she had personally made, this clearly looked like two people having affection for each other, why couldn’t this be spoken of? Yuan Bao felt puzzled, and when he turned his head, he saw his Master staring at him with a serenely deep gaze.

This stare made Yuan Bao’s scalp feel numb, he felt extremely helpless, he opened his mouth wanting to both laugh and cry, intending to explain, only to see that Master had already walked past him and entered the room.

Yuan Bao was about to follow, but immediately before his eyes the door was slammed with a “bang” in his face, and only the gentle voice of Master could be heard coming from a distance: “You’ve worked hard, there was no need to trouble yourself.”

Yuan Bao: … Please read at insidethemirror translations. DO NOT REPOST.

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TRANSLATOR’S NOTES:

1. 酉时: 5 to 7 pm; 1700 to 1900 ↩

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Chapter 20 – Title – Chapter 22

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