Chapter 6

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Author: Xiao Yao

Chapter 5 – Title – Chapter 7

“What’s the matter?”

Hui Ming heard the sound and looked, sure enough it was Su-gonggong who was standing quietly just in front of the curtain, he must have been tired from serving, because his complexion looked a little pallid, he looked pale, so the blue under his eyes were particularly obvious, but good-looking people always had an advantage, and with his dark red robe lining his slender body, with such exhaustion and wanes falling on his face, it unexpectedly displayed a somewhat different charm. Please read at insidethemirror. DO NOT REPOST.

Hui Ming slightly raised her eyes, and before she could speak, she saw Wei-gugu with a gentle face, step forward and gently shake her head towards Su-gonggong, “It’s just a small matter, I will explain it to His Majesty in a moment, clearly speak of Hui Ming’s devotion and progress.”

Su-gonggong looked down and saw the hairband with the jade buckle off, and thought he understood the reason, but didn’t look at Hui Ming, he just took a step forward and almost like he owed Wei-gugu some apology leaned forward: “The newcomer is not sensible, troubling Gugu to pardon.”

A maid serving the emperor like Hui Ming sounded grandiose, but if placed outside in the house of a noble person, she was merely a second-class maid who could just do errands for the master, could stand before the master, but the one who really reached out to serve the master was the “head maid”, nevertheless at the moment to speak about Wei-gugu who was in front of her, there was still another Xu-momo and they were both in charge of the palace maids.

These two aunts were the immediate superiors of Hui Ming and several small palace maids serving the emperor, it’s just that Wei-gugu had the honorable status promised by His Majesty’s words, which in comparison became more honorable, so for no other reason than this, if she was the first person among the palace ladies that targeted her, Hui Ming’s life in the future would definitely not be good.

Although this was right regarding them as palace ladies, but Su-gonggong, as the chief eunuch who followed the emperor every day, his privilege was even above Wei-gugu, a seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister’s gate1, not to say that Wei-shi had not yet become a noble, but since in the future her fate of having a distinguished position was really sealed, and for Su-gonggong who had the most important position in the imperial palace, she was still very polite.

Sure enough, facing Su Jin’s attitude, Wei-gugu hurriedly returned the salute, her voice and gesture all became gentler and more modest: “This is what it should be, not to say that you have already mentioned it, so I will naturally bear it in mind.”

Now facing Wei-gugu’s generosity, Su-gonggong actually smiled, and politely thanked her again with a couple more words, such words and deeds were not like his usual reticent and forlorn temperament.

Obviously, Su-gonggong did it because of her.

Facing Wei-gugu’s deliberate fault finding, Hui Ming except for some inexplicable reason, in fact didn’t have too many disturbances in her heart, let alone that she was a person who lived again, so the isolation and cold treatment of her fellow maids, for the time being had long become irrelevant to her, because thinking about the death of His Majesty a year later, and Wei-gugu following to be buried with the dead, so Hui Ming towards Wei-gugu’s act of making it difficult for her, could completely be disregarded——

After all, who would fuss too much about a person who was about to die?

But seeing Su-gonggong bowing his head in gratefulness towards Wei-shi, after Hui Ming’s stunned reaction, she couldn’t help feel a bit of genuine anger at Wei-gugu who had inexplicably made trouble for her.

Had Su-gonggong bore such responsibility like this for her in his life? She didn’t care at all in her last life, but now that she thought about it, in her previous life, she frequently “made mistakes”, so such scenes must have apparently happened more than once, not to mention, listening to Wei-shi’s words, it was obvious that Su-gonggong had meticulously requested Wei-shi before, asking her to take care of herself who had just arrived to serve the emperor.

But what about Wei-gugu? On the one hand, agreed with the gratitude and favor of Su-gonggong, but on the other end, she relied on Su-gonggong’s inability to attend to things, and dug pits to make things difficult for her, so on the surface, it seemed that she was stupid and made mistakes everywhere, and Wei-gugu who for the sake of Su-gonggong’s face would excuse her many a times, and Su-gonggong, would fall out from tiredness and become more and more indebted and grateful towards her! Such a petty behavior made her Song Hui Ming become a cumbersome and useless burden, so what position did that leave the gentleman and upright Su-gonggong!

“It was Gugu who instructed that His Majesty was not feeling well, so did not permit to bring things that would be personally burdensome, but unexpectedly it turns out that this maidservant misheard Gugu’s meaning, thanking Gugu’s reminder, it’s just that this servant is stupid, in the future will ask Gugu to instruct more clearly about it.” Thinking of this, Hui Ming who had originally planned to let the incident pass, couldn’t help but refute, her own reputation was fine, but no matter what, Su-gonggong must know of Wei-gugu’s pretense, the reason why this had been concealed from Su-gonggong for so long in her last life was probably because she was scrupulous about Su-gonggong’s “devious plot,” and she never said more about it herself.

Sure enough, when he heard her words right now, Su-gonggong’s expression became frozen, then he turned his head and glanced at her with an expression of deep thought showing on his face.

Wei-gugu on the side frowned instantly and looked at Su-gonggong with her face a little flustered, but before she had time to explain, the two palace maids inside the canopy had already retreated, saying that she should go in to help wash and dress His Majesty. Please read at insidethemirror. DO NOT REPOST.

In front of His Majesty, no matter how big the current situation was it would all be put aside for the time being, Wei-gugu made a strong face and waved her hand, while Hui Ming stepped back and looked down again together with the two Ku Kou and Yu Gan sisters, this time because of Concubine Xian personally serving, Wei-gugu couldn’t even get a hand in, Hui Ming also retreated to the far side and only lowered her gaze, then out of the corner of her eyes looked at His Majesty and Concubine Xian that she hadn’t seen for a long time.

“The ancestors bless you, you’ve finally gotten better.” Concubine Xian looked at His Majesty who could already get up to change, her eyes filled with tears of excitement.

His Majesty was already in the year of knowing his destiny2, now that he had fallen ill like this, he had become much older, especially when compared with Su-gonggong, who was standing next to him, he was more pot-bellied, and his facial features drooped, his whole person seeming to be the inside of a rotten fruit, faintly revealing an air of decline.

Concubine Xian was different, although she was also in her middle age, her figure was still graceful, while there were some inevitable fine lines on her face, on the contrary it revealed an amorous charm that fresh and tender young girls rarely had.

Such a Concubine Xian to still be full of affection towards such an emperor, really didn’t know how true or false this attitude was?

Discovering that she was slandering the emperor like this, Hui Ming, who had recovered couldn’t help but become stunned, in her previous life, she believed in her heart that His Majesty was truly the Immortal Son of Heaven, not to mention now, where his last real illness made him have facial nerve paralysis, she was still full of respect and fear even when he was in that tragic state, and she didn’t dare go beyond the rules, let alone give birth to such offensive thoughts like that.

Originally having lived once again, not only did she have a different outlook and experience, even her courage could turn into something so big?

With Hui Ming secretly being surprised, the aforementioned emperor had already properly washed himself, and with the help of Concubine Xian, he turned towards the small heating pavilion while leaning against her, upon seeing this, Su-gonggong slightly bowed his head: “Your Majesty is getting better, the several concubines would surely be filled with joy, would you like to see them Your Majesty?”

The weak emperor waved his hand, and his voice was filled with something unclear: “All of you go back, and call the little ones over.”

Being sick for so long, and summoning his sons as soon as he got better? Concubine Xian’s eyes lit up, it’s just the “all” in His Majesty’s words clearly included her, so no matter how her mind thought of all sorts of things, she had no choice but to carefully endeavor the palace maids with a few words before she got up and curtsied then retired.

Hui Ming curtsied and followed the palace servants to send out Concubine Xian, they also withdrew from the hall one by one, as His Majesty didn’t need them for the time being, but later when it was time to have a meal and rest, or if a courtier was summoned to help change his clothes, they still had to wait and serve.

Just now they were in the presence of His Majesty, so everyone dared not be presumptuous, but at the moment, they had left the hall so the maids in charge of the food and clothing gathered in one place, chatting and laughing with gossip, and ultimately left her alone, Ku Kou and Yu Gan who could still smile at her early that morning, at this moment, hurriedly rushed away in the distant, as if afraid that she would go up and converse with them.

Obviously, even if she had just tried to defend herself, but she had offended Wei-gugu, her immediate superior, so these fellow servants did not dare take more notice of her.

Hui Ming was not surprised by this, so when she saw this, she didn’t stay there to get in the way, she just went back to the rear chamber and put away the lacquer tray, then searched for a shallow porcelain urn in the special cabinet, planning to go out and get some warm water to clean the jade pendant, who knew that when she just found an ice glazed chrysanthemum patterned round urn, then after turning around, she would run into a dark shadow.

Hui Ming was suddenly startled aback, almost letting go of the round urn in her arms, but in the end was able to hold it at the last moment, the bottom of the urn was also supported by a slender and powerful hand almost at the same time, making Hui Ming breathe a sigh of relief, then looking up, it turned out that it was Su-gonggong who was supposed to be serving in the small heating pavilion.

“You… are you going to clean the jade ornaments?” Seeing Hui Ming carrying the porcelain urn, Su-gonggong stepped back,with a hint of hesitation in his words.

Hui Ming instantly understood what Su-gonggong meant, she was naturally familiar with this duty now, but in this lifetime, she had just arrived to serve the emperor so she should not have learned the step of cleaning and keeping the jades yet!

“Yes, a few days ago, I learned a bit from Qiu Ya, this one has nothing to do, so wanted to try it.” Hui Ming tightened her palm, and after speaking, she couldn’t help but lower her head, try? Which of the accessories that His Majesty used was not worth a thousand pieces of gold3, and her a poorly skilled palace maid wanted to take it to try?

Su-gonggong’s complexion was indeed a bit weird, but after a moment of silence, he still mentioned the earlier matter first: “Earlier with Wei-shi, it was my negligence, and I had brought trouble to you, I…”

“It was nothing!”

Hearing Su-gonggong seemingly wishing to apologize, Hui Ming quickly interrupted him, coming back to life again, she still hasn’t expressed gratitude to Su-gonggong, so how could she let her benefactor say sorry to herself?

Thinking of the “kindness” of Su-gonggong in the previous life, Hui Ming’s expression became more serious: “It is Wei-gugu who has her tongue in her cheek, deceiving one’s superiors and deluding one’s subordinates, so where can I blame you? Speaking of which, it is already thanks to Gonggong’s help that I was able to come serve the emperor, and this maidservant was ignorant before, never thanking you, Gonggong must not be offended.”

Looking at Hui Ming, who was facing him with her body lowered, Su Jin had a look of being taken aback, he stretched out his hand to help her up, but for some reason he instantly shrank back when he touched the other person’s arm.

A few days ago, towards him she did not embellish and was stern in her speech and countenance, and avoided him, but now had she learned to be a little bit smarter, and learned to deal with him politely? A trace of undetectable bitterness flashed in Su Jin’s eyes, then he let it pass, to come up with a plan to make trouble, when he had already fallen to this point, doomed to have a dangerous future, why the need to make her feel frightened again?

Perceiving that Su-gonggong’s movements had stopped, Hui Ming couldn’t help but raise her head and look up, crashing into his deep phoenix eyes.

Facing Hui Ming’s brilliant gaze, the light in Su Jin’s eyes sank, and he tightly held the ruyi around his waist, then almost evasively took a few steps back, originally, he wanted to talk about the fact that she still didn’t know how to clean the jade ornaments, but at this moment, he couldn’t say anything at all, then it so happened that there was a call from Yuan Bao searching for him from outside, and Su Jin breathed a sigh of relief, so he turned and disappeared outside of the curtain.

“Master, Xin Wangye and Rui Wangye are here.” Yuan Bao reported respectfully.

Su-gonggong only nodded slightly, and then calmly said: “You go to the Palace Household Department and ask them to send a few more sets of adornments for His Majesty, those that could be used right away.”

“Huh? This, is originally supposed to be Wei-gugu who commission…” Yuan Bao was only halfway through his question when he saw the cold look on Su Jin’s face, which made him suddenly stifle his breath, then he quickly lowered his head and responded: “Yes.”

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The author has something to say:

Su-gonggong who at first glance saw the fawn that was his beloved person bump into him: You, you feel free to try, if you break it after trying there will be more! Please read at insidethemirror. DO NOT REPOST.

TRANSLATOR’S NOTES:

1. 宰相门前七品官: the person who guards the prime minister’s house has the same status as the seven-ranked officials of the imperial court. If you want to see the prime minister, you must let the gate-keeper notify and convey it on, and you often have to spend money to please them, so their power is not small. ↩

2. 知天命: refers to the age of 50 ↩

3. 价值千金: very valuable ↩

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Chapter 5 – Title – Chapter 7

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