Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Have I been disfigured?” Ren Baqian pulled Shi Hu and pointed to his face. He still depended on his face to survive!
Who would have thought that after experiencing ordeal after ordeal, he was actually attacked right outside Hong Wu’s residence. Even if he could endure it, Hong Wu wouldn’t be able to do so! If Ren Baqian was disfigured, he would have to get an explanation from Hong Wu.
“It’s okay, it’s okay!” Shi Hu touched the back of his head and giggled.
“Okay, my foot!” Ren Baqian touched the strips of cloth that were stuffed into his nostrils. His nose was aching and swelling while his forehead had traces of blood.
“Sir Ren? What happened?” asked Qing Yuan in surprise. He came out and saw that strips of cloth had been stuffed into Ren Baqian’s nostrils. Ren Baqian’s forehead was also red and had two long cuts on it.
“I was ambushed!” Ren Baqian felt very wronged. Who had he provoked to get smashed by a flying roof tile.
“Her Majesty beckons you to enter.” Qing Yuan pursed her lips and smiled.
Ren Baqian conveniently stuffed a White Rabbit Creamy Candy into Qing Yuan’s hand. This thing was always successful in paving a way for him. When he had enough money, he would certainly purchase a factory which manufactures White Rabbit Creamy Candies.
As expected, Qing Yuan was beaming with happiness.
“Sir Ren, where do I deliver the beautiful maidservant to?” that burly man tugged on Ren Baqian’s sleeves and asked sneakily. Up until now, he still hadn’t given up yet.
“The palace, Pingle Park!” Ren Baqian replied without even turning back to look at him.
If you have the ability, you will deliver the beautiful maidservant. Let’s see if the empress will hang your head on the city wall and let it become bacon. Leaving behind the burly man who was depressed and confused, Ren Baqian brought Shi Hu along with a few other winged cavalry captains as they followed Qing Yuan into the residence and passed through two courtyards before arriving in a room. From the exterior, the room wasn’t that big and the decoration was quite ordinary. Hong Wu had never been too concerned about these things.
After entering the room, Ren Baqian saw the empress sitting by the table. She was using her fingertips to poke at a five centimeter thick table and was creating holes in it. Ren Baqian sized up the room which couldn’t be considered big at all. It was about 60 square meters and was considered a humble abode for the empress.
The furnishings were also very simple with a bow hanging on the side wall. That was the only ornament in this room.There was pink muslin hanging around the huge bed inside, and this made the room a little more like a girl’s boudoir. The room should have been arranged by Hong Wu after the empress moved in.
In addition, there was that table as well as a radio station sitting on top of it.
“Greetings, Your Majesty!” everyone said in unison.
After that, Ren Baqian continued to lie through his teeth and said, “Your Majesty has loss weight.”
“Have I?” The empress looked up at him and touched her cheeks.
“Yes, but you became even more heroic looking,” Ren Baqian added.
“What happened to your face?” the empress casually asked.
“I was attacked by someone right at the door of this residence,” Ren Baqian complained since he felt very wronged.
“Oh, Shi Hu didn’t protect you well. A month of his salary will be forfeited!” The empress couldn’t bear to look at the hurt Ren Baqian and conveniently punished Shi Hu.
Shi Hu lowered his head and said, “It is all your humble servant’s fault!”
The empress glared at him. It was obviously Shi Hu’s fault. Otherwise, could it be her fault?
As for the attack on Ren Baqian right in front of Hong Wu’s residence, this was never brought up again.
“What about the rainbow clouds?” The empress slanted her head to the side as if she were trying to see if there were any rainbow clouds outside.
“When Your Majesty is ready to leave, you will naturally realize that you have to walk on rainbow clouds to leave. In the future, the commoners of Tiesuo Pass can also spread the heroic disposition of Your Majesty to the entire world.” She used her fingers to poke her chin and was rather astonished.
“Your Majesty, I have also brought along other gifts. Please allow me to make some preparations,” Ren Baqian said.
“Come back as soon as possible.” Even though the empress wanted to ask Ren Baqian some questions, she was even more excited to find out what the gifts were that he had prepared. In particular, she had been stuck in Tiesuo Pass for more than half a month. Apart from recuperating from her injuries, she had absolutely nothing to do and found it very boring.
“I need some time,” Ren Baqian announced before he left. He then brought Shi Hu with him and left hastily, leaving the few winged cavalry captains to be interrogated by the empress.
After he left the empress’s room, Ren Baqian dashed to the main door of Hong Wu’s residence. Just as he stepped out of the courtyard, he bumped into Hong Wu, who was wearing a green shirt.
“Greetings, Great General!” Ren Baqian cupped his hands in obeisance. According to the ordinary course of events, he should have went to pay his respects to Hong Wu first.
Upon meeting the jerk that he was going to “marry” the empress off to, Hong Wu glared at Ren Baqian and walked past him without saying anything.
“Did I provoke him?” Ren Baqian was in doubt and was very surprised by Hong Wu’s attitude. At the very least, when he came back from Great Xia previously, Hong Wu’s attitude wasn’t this bad. They had still managed to converse with each other back then.
“We were attacked right outside his residence and have yet to even talk to him about it. He actually has the audacity to be so unreasonable!” Ren Baqian was aggrieved.
Shi Hu bowed his head and said nothing. Hong Wu was the military hero of Dayao while Ren Baqian was his immediate superior as well as the future Prince Consort. No matter who said what, he couldn’t butt in at all. “Forget it. It isn’t easy for an old man like him to sustain such serious injuries,” Ren Baqian shook his head and said.
After he walked out of the courtyard, Hong Wu suddenly stopped in his tracks. He was fuming mad now.
A jerk like Ren Baqian, who was going to marry the empress, had even scolded him in his own residence. Any human being would also definitely be angry.
However, it wasn’t worth finding any trouble with Ren Baqian over this issue because prior to this, Hong Wu was already determined to show him some colors.
Ren Baqian brought Shi Hu along and moved a pile of items to the courtyard. He then proceeded to dig a hole and placed the base of the tree into it. A few guards followed Ren Baqian’s instructions and hung candies on the tree. Meanwhile, Ren Baqian continued to make cotton candy. Whenever the cotton candy expanded to the size of a human head, he took it out and passed to the guards so they could hang it on this tree.
Not long after, this tree with its originally bare trunk and branches became brightly colored.
A variety of candy wrappers and colored cotton candies made the tree extremely splendid and vivid. More importantly, the smell of cotton candy drifted far away, and even Qing Yuan and Hong Luan ran out from the room with their eyes sparkling with joy. A tree like this, filled with sweets and cotton candy, could be lethal to females. Just when Ren Baqian looked down, a silhouette appeared at the bottom of the tree and then began to climb upward.
“Librarian Lin…” a few of the guards shouted. Ren Baqian looked up and saw Lin Qiaole squatting on a thick branch while taking a bite of cotton candy. Her eyes were beaming with happiness. Lin Qiaole’s other arm was still busy grabbing lollipops and stuffing them into her pockets. Her movements were so swift that it was almost shadowless.
Seeing that the size of her bust had grown three times larger, a few pieces of candy that had been hung up went missing as well.”Get down!” Ren Baqian glared and shouted at her.
Lin Qiaole blinked her eyes and declared, “I’ll collect an advance on the protection fee! Give this tree to me and I’ll protect you for a year!”
“You are not even worthy of this tree!” Ren Baqian noticed that there were pieces of candy missing and was hopping mad.
Lin Qiaole was confused. She hesitated for a while before saying, “Two years!”
Ren Baqian was speechless.
“Come down. I’ll give you White Rabbit Creamy Candies.” Seeing that there was candy missing from the tree, Ren Baqian’s heart ached.
A look of disappointment appeared on Lin Qiaole’s face for a second. Soon after, however, she appeared in front of Ren Baqian and stretched out her hand right in front of his face.
Ren Baqian grabbed a bunch of White Rabbit Creamy Candies and passed them to Lin Qiaole. In the end, Lin Qiaole snatched the cotton candy that was in Ren Baqian’s hand, ran to the side, and ate mouthfuls of it. From time to time, she looked at the tree and was full of admiration for it.
Ren Baqian turned around and saw the look of admiration on Lin Qiaole’s face. His heart then softened as he sighed and said, “Let’s continue to hang the candy!”
Fortunately, he had brought back about 150 kilograms worth of candy this time around. This amount was sufficient enough to hang candy around the tree several times over.
After instructing the guards, Ren Baqian grabbed another bunch of candy from his bag and threw them to Lin Qiaole. In any case, she was a cute and delicate girl, so he decided to treat her as his pet.
