Chapter 16

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Zhu Yan did not know whether she had been successfully carried out that night or how long she had been in a coma. All she knew is that when she woke up, her head was splitting in pain, her vision was blurred, and the entire body was sour and could not move at all. It seemed that she had overdrawn too much energy, and her body collapsed.

What awakened her was the familiar roar of her father’s arrival that she was so accustomed with;

“What’s going on here? I can’t believe you let this happen! I told you to keep an eye on her, but both of you are just useless! I’ll take you back to the Mansion and sell you! Rubbish scums!”

Yu Fei and Yun Man shrank aside in fright, weeping. She wanted to hold up her body to help the two and take responsibility, but she couldn’t move a finger.

What is going on… Why is she so weak?

“Forget it, you also know Ah-Yan’s temper. How can Yu Fei and Yun Man control her?” A gentle and weak voice coughed and tried to persuade her father, “Since she is okay, let them be.”

Oops! Even the Princess’s mother came here? That’s great… She was surprised and delighted, and was half relieved. Her father was grumpy and fiery, but he always gave in to his consort and dared not to speak loudly; with the support of her mother this time, she is much less likely to be beaten.

“This girl, I knew she wouldn’t get married obediently! Made me lose face… What a disgrace!” The father was still furious, roaring like thunder in the golden tent, “At first she wanted to elope with that shark slave, now that I have found her a good husband, she still wanted to run away from marriage? I’ll kill this unfilial…”

How did her father know about running away from marriage so quickly? The master obviously didn’t go to inform him! Could it be… Ah, yes! It must be these two coward servants who confessed everything as soon as they were scared with death!

When she heard her father’s roar so close to her ear, she knew that he rushed to her side and was ready to slap her. She was so frightened that her entire body tightened as she struggled to move.

“Stop! Don’t you dare to hit Ah-Yan!” The Imperial Concubine’s voice was also suddenly close to her ear, and her usual gentle tone instantly changed and become stern, “Don’t you think about what kind of husband you picked for Ah-Yan? The Huotu Clan harbored evil intentions and almost implicated us! Fortunately, she didn’t really get married, otherwise… Ahem, otherwise Ah-Yan’s life would have been ruined by you? If anything happens to Ah-Yan, I won’t live either!”

“…” Father’s roar suddenly ceased, and he gasped for a long time without saying a word.

Great, as expected, when the mother was losing her temper, even her father the King was also getting scared!

“Who does she want to elope with this time? Speak!” The father stopped arguing with the concubine, turned around and directed his anger elsewhere; glared at Yu Fei and Yun Man, and raised the whip in his hand, “Which cub toad wants to eat swan meat? Who dares to hook up with my daughter?! If you don’t tell me the truth, I will break your legs at once!”

“Is… is…” You Fei was timid and scared and her voice trembled.

Hey, don’t talk nonsense! I just didn’t want to marry this time. I just ran away. Where can I elope? Even if she wanted to go to Yuan, she has to know his whereabouts first!

She was very anxious, but couldn’t open her mouth to explain by herself.

With the sound of “brush”, the whip slashed on the ground, and You Fei immediately squatted on her knees to the ground crying and shouting, “Your Majesty, forgive your servant, spare my life! He is… he is the Great Priest of Jiuyi Mountain! Master Shi Ying!”

“What?” The father suddenly froze, “The Great Priest?!”

“Yes!” Yu Fei trembled, “That night… that night the Princess was going to elope with him! I don’t know why there were so many troubles, the two quarreled, but they didn’t make it in the end.”

“What?” The father and the concubine remained speechless together, and they were extremely shocked.

“No! That can’t be like this. Obviously, the Great Priest himself wrote me a letter asking me to come here to pick up Ah-Yan! How could he abduct her and elope?” After all, the father was sober and sensible, he quickly refuted Yu Fei’s words, “The two of them are Master and apprentice, how can they…”

Yu Fei was frightened of getting whipped again, so she hurriedly said: “The slave servant… The slave servant heard from the Princess that because of the Great Priest, she could not look up to any other man in the world, and… also asked the Great Priest to take her with him! Your Majesty, if you don’t believe me, you can ask Yun Man!”

Yun Man shivered from the side, and nodded quickly: “It’s true! This servant girl also heard it!”

What? These two little girls actually eavesdropped on their conversation? And they still understood nothing! Zhu Yan was so angry that she almost vomited blood; she simply gave up on the effort of waking up and decided to just lay down flat. Yes, when things got like this, isn’t it better to lie and pretend to be dead? At this time, as long as she spoke, wouldn’t her father kill her?

However, it was strange that the father and the mother did not speak again for a while.

“You all, get out first.” After a long time, the concubine opened her mouth.

Suddenly there was a rustling sound coming from the golden tent, and the attendants and maids left one after another. In an instant, the room was so quiet that even the sound of breathing could be heard.

“I’m wondering, did you secretly had this outcome in mind when you sent Ah-Yan to Jiuyi Mountain?” The Imperial Concubine suddenly opened her mouth and asked this strange sentence, “In fact, they are only nine years apart.”

“Nonsense!” The Red King roared.

“Why nonsense? I think he came to Susa Haru this time for the sake of Ah-Yan.” The concubine coughed, but in her tone was a strange smile, “Furthermore, you, you know, cough, cough… The Jade Bone he gave to Ah-Yan is obviously the relic of Queen Bai Wei… Can this thing be given away so casually?”

“They are Master and apprentice!” The Red King snapped, “The Great Priest can’t take a wife. You’re thinking too much!”

However, the Imperial Concubine still argued in a low voice: “So what if the Great Priest cannot take a wife? He was not supposed to be a priest in the first place! As long as he takes off his white robe and returns to…”

The Red King sternly interrupted his concubine: “This is impossible! Don’t even think about it!”

Suddenly, the golden tent fell silent again. Zhu Yan couldn’t see the expressions on her parents’ faces, she didn’t know what happened, she just felt the atmosphere was weird and depressing, and breathless.

After a long time, the mother let out a sigh: “Forget it, in the end he didn’t take Ah-Yan away with him… Let’s not make a fuss about this matter, just assume it didn’t happen. Otherwise… ahem, otherwise it will not be good for us, Red Clan people. How many pairs of eyes are staring at us?”

“That’s right. That’s what I just said, don’t even think about it. It’s a crime of extermination.” The Red King murmured, “When I sent Ah-Yan to Jiuyi Mountain, I just wanted her to learn more skills and have more backing. I didn’t want her to get into trouble.”

“Alas…” the concubine sighed, “it’s a pity.”

After a pause, she said: “In the next year, don’t force Ah-Yan to get married. Let’s wait and see; we have only one daughter after all. We have to find a good family for her. Don’t be too hasty.”

“…” The Red King was silent and did not speak, which seemed to be an acquiescence.

Zhu Yan was laying there with surprise and delight in her heart. Naturally, after the rain will come sunny days, she was glad that the things evolved to be like this. No one will settle accounts with her now, and she will not be forced to marry again for the time being, so naturally there is no need to rush to escape anymore. This is really great news; to be perfectly honest, she couldn’t bear to leave her father and mother.

What surprised her the most was the attitude of her parents. How come even the mighty powerful father was a bit afraid of her Master?

Master, how capable he really is? However, this round of pretending to be dizzy took an unexpectedly long time to recover.

Until she was taken back to the Red King’s Mansion in the Heavenly Wind City, Zhu Yan was unable to get up from the bed. Her body was very weak, she could only open her eyes on the third day, barely able to say a word or two, and moved her fingers slightly on the seventh day, but she didn’t have the strength to stand up. The Red King had invited the most famous doctors in the Heavenly Wind City to check his daughter but did not see her getting any better, so in a hurry, he invited priests from the temples worshipped by the Red Clan.

“You don’t need to worry too much. The Princess has recently improved by leaps and bounds in her cultivation, jumping over the cognitive barrier, and it is estimated that she has performed techniques beyond her existing ability, so her spiritual power has been exhausted for a while.”

After pondering for a long time, the red priest finally made a diagnosis and used some internal elixirs. It’s good to let her have a month rest. It is rare to be able to cultivate to such a realm at such a young age.

While resting in bed, she froze for a moment: advancing by leaps and bounds? Really? She only read the booklet given by her Master for a few days. That’s right! As if remembering something, she suddenly turned her head and said, “By the way! Where’s Yu Fei? Where’s Yun Man? Where did they go? Did they carry me out of the tent that night or not?”

Her father frowned and said coldly, “Yu Fei and Yun Man didn’t do well their work. I have demoted them both as punishment to a year of hard labor.”

“No!” She cried, “It’s all my fault. It’s none of their business!”

“It’s just to make them suffer a little bit and teach them a lesson for the future, so they can remember it well. They will naturally be called back after a while.” The King Father pacified her hastily, like coaxing a child, “Just call them back to serve you when the time comes.”

“No!” Zhu Yan stared, bitterly, “These two servants so hollow inside and out, are betraying me at every turn, so I don’t want to see them again!”

“Okay, then don’t let them come back, and send them far away.” The Red King had long guessed that she would have said this sentence, so he couldn’t help smiling and asked, “But what’s the matter with lifting you out of the tent?”

Zhu Yan scratched her head and said with a little uncertainty: “That night, I seem to have broken the barrier left by the Master… but I can’t confirm it because I fainted before being carried out.”

“…” The Red King was silent for a moment and did not speak.

As the magical genius of the Great Shrine of Jiuyi Temple at the age of only twenty-five years old, Shi Ying’s spiritual power was extremely high, he is alone in the world, and his cultivation base is second only to the Great Commander on the top of the White Pagoda. Can her daughter actually break through the barrier he set up? Is she growing too fast, or has he always underestimated Ah-Yan?

He thought the matter must be a little more complicated than this, and suddenly said: “Ah-Yan, do you want to go to the Imperial Capital to play?”

“Huh?” Zhu Yan’s eyes brightened, “To the Imperial Capital? Really?”

The Red King nodded. “In March, when the wind raises. your father will go to Jialan Capital to meet the Emperor. Would you like to join me?”

“Want, want, want!” She smiled with delight. She didn’t know where the strength came from, but she sat up from the bed all of a sudden, “If you go to the Imperial Capital, you have to go through Yecheng, right? That’s great… I haven’t been to Yecheng in years! I’m going to visit East City and West City! I’m going to eat boat food on Mirror Lake! Oh, father, that’s very kind of you!”

She put her arms around the Red King’s neck and imprinted a loud kiss on her father’s bearded face.

“Not a big deal!” The Red King had a jump in the corner of his eye, but he didn’t lose his temper with his daughter.

“I’m so hungry!” She shouted and looked around. “Is the meal ready? I want to eat stewed bamboo chicken with matsutake!”

After retreating, the Red King happened to have a face-to-face with the princess standing on the porch outside. The couple glanced at each other silently and walked side by side through the long corridor of the palace. It was not until there was no one around that the princess sighed and asked, “Have you decided after all?”

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