Chapter 184: How Could A Person Possibly Be Perfect?
“Wow,” Lin Xin was dumbfounded, “Is it that ruthless?”
“These people should be Secret Guards raised by certain forces, and they don’t have clean backgrounds, so they automatically disfigured their appearances when joining.” Mo Ziyuan simply explained to her.
“Alright,” Lin Xin didn’t look at that face covered in scars again, thought for a moment and asked: “So those people outside were all just messing with us, and these two are the real protagonists, right?”
“Of course not, the arrows they used were all coated with deadly poison, even a tiny bit could be fatal, and they were still messing around.”
Lin Xin was noncommittal, she really thought those people were quite weak, but now she was more concerned about another issue, “Did we achieve our goal with today’s act? Did we trick the person out?”
“The opponent should behave for a while, after all, they need to spend time investigating your strength before they can make a move against you.” Chu Qingye walked over from behind holding Chu Mingchen, answering before Mo Ziyuan.
“Greetings, Your Majesty!”
“Greetings, Your Majesty!” Lin Xin glanced at Mo Ziyuan, also curtsied, though her movements were a bit awkward, Chu Qingye didn’t mind, leaned over to look at Eunuch An, and told someone to quickly call the imperial physician over.
“Greetings, Your Majesty!” Soon, a very young imperial physician arrived at the Imperial Study with his medicine box on his back.
“Mm, check him.” Chu Qingye pointed at Eunuch An and said to the imperial physician.
Lin Xin clearly saw a flash of astonishment in this imperial physician’s eyes, though it was quickly concealed, but she firmly believed her feeling was correct.
“Your Majesty, Eunuch An’s injury is not serious, but that crossbow bolt happened to hit a blood vessel, so he lost quite a bit of blood. The medicine on his wound is very effective, and the bandaging is perfect too. Eunuch An just needs to rest for some time and he’ll be fine. If Your Majesty is not at ease, your humble subject can also prescribe some blood-tonifying medicine for him.” After treating Eunuch An’s wound, the imperial physician said to Chu Qingye.
“Then prescribe it!”
The same astonishment appeared again in the imperial physician’s gaze, Lin Xin raised her eyebrow.
After the imperial physician finished prescribing and left, Lin Xin finally began her formal audience with the emperor.
“Miss Lin, Chen Chen has been under your diligent care these years, I am very grateful.” Chu Qingye looked at Lin Xin, who looked particularly pleasing standing with Mo Ziyuan, and didn’t put on too much airs.
“Your Majesty, no need to thank me, Mo Ziyuan and the others have actually helped me a lot too.” Lin Xin said.
“Auntie,” Chu Mingchen had long been unable to stay still in Chu Qingye’s arms, but earlier Father said the situation outside was very dangerous and wouldn’t let him go out. Now that Auntie was right in front of him, he immediately began to assert his presence.
“Tao, Chen Chen.” Lin Xin gave him a warm smile.
“Father, can I go play outside with Auntie for a bit?” Chu Mingchen had many things he wanted to say to Lin Xin, his big round eyes looking pitifully at his own father.
“Yes, go ahead! Father Emperor will have Secret Guards follow to protect you.” Chu Qingye agreed very readily.
Lin Xin also felt uncomfortable staying in the Imperial Study, and quickly took this opportunity to leave the place where the highest leader of the nation worked.
“Auntie, will you come see me again later?” Sitting on the little swing in the Imperial Garden, Chu Mingchen swung his little feet and asked Lin Xin with low spirits.
“What’s wrong? Is Chen Chen unhappy here?” Lin Xin asked.
“Not really, Father treats me very well, takes me everywhere he goes, I just······” Chu Mingchen frowned his little brow, trying hard to express his meaning, but he was too young and couldn’t form the right words no matter what, getting so anxious he started stuttering.
Lin Xin looked at the surroundings, then at the little swing under his butt, and roughly understood what was going on with him, tentatively asking: “Is Chen Chen feeling it’s too stuffy here?”
“Yes!” Chu Mingchen’s eyes lit up, “Everything here is square, and there’s a bunch of people following me all day, I······ I kinda don’t like it······”
“People following you is to protect you, you’re only this tiny, if someone wanted to bully you it would be too easy. These people are all sent by your father, just to keep you from being bullied. You can’t think about how to escape from them, okay!” Lin Xin said to him seriously and earnestly.
The palace clearly wasn’t absolutely safe yet, she was really afraid Chu Mingchen would get annoyed, act on impulse, and do something like running away.
“I know, Father told me.” Chu Mingchen obviously wanted to pull Lin Xin to his side by mentioning this, but unexpectedly Lin Xin stood on the same side as Father, his emotions visibly dropped, even the two little cowlicks on top of his head drooped down.
“Then can Chen Chen tell Auntie what you and Father have been doing in the palace these past few days?” Lin Xin rubbed his head and changed to a topic he was likely interested in.
Sure enough, Chu Mingchen’s eyes brightened, and his little mouth began chattering away.
“······Auntie you don’t know, Father’s singing tune is so weird, totally different from what you sing to me, it makes me even less sleepy!” Chu Mingchen complained.
Lin Xin: “······” Thanks a lot, is this kind of royal secret something an ordinary commoner like me can hear? Will the Emperor have to silence me later!?
“Father also taught me to read books, Auntie do you know? Father knows so much, even more than Mister Meng, and the Chen Chen he draws looks just like me. Wait till we go back later, have him draw one for Auntie too.” Chu Mingchen spared no effort in promoting his own father.
Lin Xin’s expression was indescribable, little kid what are you thinking, actually wanting the ruler of a nation to paint my portrait. She felt if her conversation with Chu Mingchen reached the Emperor’s ears, his forty-meter-long big saber would probably be unable to hold back!
“Chen Chen, Chen Chen, let’s not talk about that. You said earlier your father also taught you to read, right?”
Chu Mingchen nodded heavily.
“Then what has he taught you, can you recite it for Auntie?”
“Sure!” Chu Mingchen agreed excitedly, then began reciting the book in his childish milky voice. Lin Xin listened carefully and realized it was the Book of Songs.
Lin Xin propped her head listening to him fluently recite “Deer calling yo yo, eating the herbs in the wild,” and remembered how Lin Nan recited books, he also could recite many books at a very young age, a large part of which Old Cui taught him medical classics and prescriptions.
“Do ancient kids all have such heaven-defying IQs?” Lin Xin lightly tapped her cheek with her finger, “This makes me seem a bit useless!”
But thinking about it, her combat power was high! No one can be perfect!
Right, exactly!
