After Jing-wang became the Crown Prince, Li Yu also received the title of Taizi-fei.
Li Yu’s birth in this ancient era was basically a big fat nothing, without any background at all. Originally, he should have received a lot of criticism. The Crown Prince even made preparations to rebuke right back on the spot if anyone had any objections to his Taizi-fei. Unexpectedly, none of the officials said anything.
This wasn’t actually because certain people didn’t want the position of Taizi-Fei. After all, if they become Taizi-fai, they’d be able to become the Empress in the future when the Crown Prince ascended the throne. If this was a possibility, who didn’t want to strive for it? However, despite everything that these people did up until now, the Jing couple still had a great relationship. Jing-wang didn’t marry any side wives. Not only that, he didn’t even have any concubines. The Emperor was clearly just letting Jing-wang do whatever he wanted. Now that Jing-wang had become the Crown Prince, if they rashly went to fight for the Taizi-fei position, would they even manage to obtain it like that?
If they angered the Crown prince, it wouldn’t be worth it at all. Political marriage was a union to make connections, not to make enemies.
Although Li Yu’s birth was a negative for him, this person already had four sons and all four were loved by the Emperor. The Emperor bestowed them nobility status as soon as they were born and even held the kids often on his knees. It was clear how much he had favored and pampered them. If someone fantasized about becoming Taizi-fei, they’d have to offend these little royal grandsons as well?
None of the officials dared. Therefore, no one dared to protest against the Imperial Decree granting Li Yu the title of Taizi-fei.
The position of Taizi-fei was settled just like this. The Crown Prince originally lived in the Jing Estate. The Emperor had planned to make the Crown Prince move into the Imperial Palace. However, the Crown Prince said that his current residence was very nice, there’s no need to make all the hassle. The Emperor recalled that Taizi-fei also had a big stomach right now. Moving to the Imperial Palace was indeed not very convenient. There were also no regulations requiring the Crown Prince to live inside the Imperial Palace either. Therefore, the Emperor listened to the Crown Prince’s words and changed the name of the Jing Estate into the Crown Prince’s Estate. The Crown Prince couple may still live there. The guards will be increased according to the Crown Prince rules.
The Emperor finished making Jing-wang the Crown Prince and felt very satisfied inside. However, he discovered something immediately afterwards. Bao#1 was originally Jing-wang’s heir. Now that Jing-wang has become the Crown Prince, Bao#1’s heir position was gone.
Although being the son of the Crown Prince was far better than being the son of a wangye, the other Baos all had nobility statuses. Bao#1 didn’t. The Emperor obstinately believed that Bao#1 was experiencing an injustice here. With a wave of his hand, the Emperor separately supplemented Bao#1 with an official rank 3 duwei nobility position.
Originally the Emperor had planned to bestow the title of Wang. Giving Bao#1 the Crown Prince’s previous position was only an idle musing that he had spoken to Luo RuiZheng about. But it scared head manager Luo so much that his legs turned limp. He hastily persuaded the Emperor over and over. The Emperor finally changed his mind and reluctantly picked the duwei position. Even this, the Emperor still felt like it was being unfair to Bao#1.
When Li Yu received the Imperial Decree, the corner of his mouth twitched nonstop. He thought: this wasn’t so bad. He had been really afraid that the Emperor would lose his head pampering Bao#1 and give him the title of Crown Grandson or something. Luckily, the Emperor still had a thread of intelligence left.
Bao#1 was also an extremely fortunate fish baby. His life has been unbelievably good immediately after birth. He even managed to conquer his grandpa for his father. A baby, who wasn’t even 2 years old yet, actually had a 3rd ranked nobility position. Wasn’t this like he’s living life with a cheat code?
Just take a look at who was the real Koi in their family. Clearly it was Bao#1.
After accepting the title, they needed to enter the Imperial Palace to thank the Emperor. Li Yu got ready and prepared to leave the estate. Usually, he didn’t head outside much. After being pregnant, he became even more careful. However, there’s no avoiding going to the Imperial palace. Li Yu had ordered someone to send a message to the Crown Prince hubby bright and early in the morning to let him know ahead of time.
He even brought the crystal bottle, carrying the fish body double inside. The Emperor gave him the title of ‘number 1 fish in the world’. He had to thank the Emperor for this as well, along the way.
Wang Xi planned to personally accompany Li Yu to enter the Palace. Presently, Taizi-fei’s health was extremely important. Wang Xi specifically picked a round-faced maid that knew both martial arts and medicine to follow Li Yu without leaving for even a second.
Over here, they were just about to depart from the estate. However, a message came from the Crown Prince first, saying that Taizi-fei needed to wait a moment inside the estate.
The servant transmitting the information only received this unclear message. Although Li Yu thought it was strange, he still did what hubby said and halted his plans to enter the palace temporarily.
After waiting for not even one incense stick of time, the Crown Prince rushed back to the estate on a fast horse.
“How come you came back?” Li Yu was surprised at first. Then he asked his hubby with a smile.
“Came to bring you into the Imperial Palace.” The Crown Prince replied with a smile back.
“Really. Making it so troublesome……” Although Li Yu was grumbling verbally, his mouth was split into a wide grin. The classic case of saying no, when meaning yes.
Who wouldn’t like their other half thinking about them constantly?
At the hunting ground before, Jing-wang also personally brought him all over the place. He was already the Crown Prince now, but this habit still remained unchanged.
In these last few days, the Crown Prince has been terribly busy at the Ministry of Rites. However, because Li Yu was about to enter the Imperial Palace, he specifically rushed back to the estate.
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He completely didn’t even consider that according to his hubby’s current status, even if he didn’t request time off, no one at the Ministry of Rite would dare to stop him.
Since the Crown Prince had specifically rushed back, he left the estate together with the Taizi-fei.
Taizi-fei was pregnant, so he was not suited to ride a horse. The Crown Prince had returned on a quick horse. In order to bring Taizi-fei into the palace, he shared a carriage with Taizi-fei instead.
The carriage advanced extremely slowly. By the time that they had reached the palace gates, Taizi-fei had already taken a comfortable nap in the Crown Prince’s arms.
“Here so quickly?” Before Li Yu had felt that there was some distance between home and the Imperial Palace. This time, the time seemed to have sped by super fast.
Wang Xi, who was following the carriage, desperately suppressed his laughter. Whether it was really fast or not, only his highness understood this best.
The Crown Prince helped Li Yu get off the carriage. Head manager Luo and an attendant were waiting at the palace gates already. Seeing the Crown Prince, they hastily came over to greet them and guide the Crown Prince and his entourage to GanQing Palace.
Because of inconvenience due to Taizi-fei’s health, the personal servant specifically got a soft sedan ready for the Taizi-fei.
The Crown Prince gave this sedan a look and then shook his head. He ordered Wang Xi to bring over the little sedan that they had carried over from the estate.
Li Yu: ???
When did hubby prepare this? How come he didn’t know?
However, since there was a sedan to sit in, he didn’t need to walk. The indolent fish immediately sat inside.
He thought the Crown Prince would sit together with him again and promptly patted the space to his side, wanting the Crown Prince to come in as well.
However, the Crown Prince didn’t actually move.
The sedan was not as large as a carriage. The Crown Prince was afraid of squishing Li Yu so he didn’t enter. Instead, he lifted the left and right window curtains. This way, it wouldn’t be stuffy inside and he could also see this fish anytime.
After Taizi-fei settled in, 8 servants from the Crown Prince’s estate were responsible for lifting the sedan. They set off with the Crown Prince following beside the sedan.
The personal servant had heard of the Crown Prince and Taizi-fei’s public displays of affections before. He never thought that by just inviting the Taizi-fei into a sedan, he would be smacked in the face by a warm bowl of dog food.
He didn’t need to follow the Crown Prince. Therefore, the personal servant returned to GanQing Palace first to inform the Emperor.
The speed of the sedan wasn’t very quick. There were no issues along the way so Li Yu looked at the scenery outside along the way.
When they traveled near the Imperial Gardens, Li Yu suddenly saw a ball of white color under a shrubbery.
Heart skipping, Li Yu hastily said: “Wait a second.”
The Crown Prince quickly ordered the servants carrying the sedan to stop and looked towards Li Yu.
Li Yu said: “That ball of white……”
Did he see wrong? He kind of thought it looked a bit like Piao Xue.
Last time when he delivered the Tiger Seal, Piao Xue had helped him distract and lead away the guards. After what happened, Li Yu had Wang Xi make some inquiries. Piao Xue didn’t get caught by the guards at that time. The guards thought it was a wild cat so they didn’t go to the Cold Palace in search of it. Later on, there was that chaotic battle at GanQing Palace. However, in comparison, the state of the Cold Palace was rather peaceful.
Piao Xue wasn’t injured because of him. Li Yu was pretty happy. However, the Crown Prince and Qiu-shi’s son, Marquis An, were enemies. So Li Yu couldn’t express it too much. Therefore, Li Yu entrusted Wang-gonggong to indirectly deliver a bag of small dried fish to Piao Xue as a gift of thanks.
Although he didn’t clearly order Wang-gonggong to do anything else, the personal servant from the Cold Palace learned that Wang-gonggong from the Crown Prince’s Estate valued this cat a lot and didn’t dare to bully Piao Xue. Because of this, Qiu-shi’s days became better.
Li Yu didn’t hide this matter relating to Piao Xue from the Crown Prince. Instead, he voluntarily let the other know about it. The Crown Prince understood his personality very well. Xiao Yu was very kindhearted and always returned favors. Even if the other was a cat, he’d do his best to repay the thanks. The Crown Prince knew that Li Yu was well aware of what’s appropriate and continued to trust in him as before.
This time, while entering the palace, Li Yu also had Wang Xi bring some little dried fish, thinking if he happened to see Piao Xue, he’d feed it. Perhaps because of this, he had Piao Xue in his thoughts. Now, seeing a white ball while passing the Imperial Gardens, he subconsciously connected it with Piao Xue.
The Crown Prince followed Li Yu’s line of sight and also that ball. He ordered the round faced maid– Xiao Luo, to go look.
After Xiao Luo went over, she came back holding a white cat. Because this cat hasn’t been inspected yet, Xiao Luo didn’t dare to walk too close. A few steps away, she let Taizi-fei take a look at it.
Li Yu looked. It was Piao Xue no doubt. This must be some kind of fate!
“What’s wrong with it?” Why was it hiding in a shrubbery?
Xiao Luo held up Piao Xue and examined it carefully. Piao Xue was very clean, without any dirt or filth. However, there was a smell of blood.
Xiao Luo sniffed and inspected Piao Xue’s body. She discovered that one of Piao Xue’s back legs was wrapped up in heavy bandages. The bandages were covered with blood.
“It’s injured.” Xiao Luo said clearly.
Wang Xi took the initiative to step forth and test the cat’s fur with his silver needle. The needle didn’t change color. Wang Xi looked questioningly towards the Crown Prince, not knowing what decision the Crown Prince would make.
Normally, an inspection was enough.
After hearing that Piao Xue was injured, Li Yu felt somewhat worried. He also looked pitifully towards the Crown Prince.
The Crown Prince: “………”
The Crown Prince’s heart was tickled from being observed by fish’s round black eyes. He turned his face and coughed softly: “Check again. There’s nothing wrong with being cautious.”
The Crown Prince ordered Xiao Luo to hold Piao Xue, not allowing her to come close. He went over himself to inspect Piao Xue personally.
Seeing the Crown Prince, Piao Xue suddenly started howling tragically. It bit the bandage around its leg for a bit. The blood on the bandage spread rapidly.
Because of this, the Crown Prince noticed the injury on Piao Xue. Thinking for a moment, he said to Xiao Luo: “Unwrap it.”
Xiao Luo carried a wound ointment with her. If there was something wrong with the injury, she could apply medicine for Piao Xue to use.
With the Crown Prince’s order, Xiao Luo didn’t dare to hesitate. She immediately unwrapped the bandage. Under the bandage, a bloody red rolled up towel fell out.
Xiao Luo thought it was strange. Under a careful examination, she noticed that although there was blood on Piao Xue’s leg, there weren’t any wounds. The blood should have come from the rolled up towel.
“This maid had made a mistake!” Xiao Luo hastily knelt down and asked for forgiveness.
“What’s the matter?” Li Yu was still in the sedan. He suddenly saw Xiao Luo kneel and felt somewhat surprised.
“…….. it’s nothing. She’s wrapping the bandages for the cat right now. Don’t worry.” The Crown Prince’s face expression fell. Piao Xue wasn’t injured, but it was wrapped up in bandages, which made people think the cat was injured– there was definitely an issue with the thing hidden inside the bandage.
At that moment, the Crown Prince thought about a lot of things. However, he was afraid of frightening this fish. Therefore, he maintained his gentle and steady voice.
With this explanation from him, Li Yu relaxed and remained seated and waiting.
The Crown Prince gave Wang Xi a look. Wang Xi hastily pulled Xiao Luo up. The two people carried Piao Xue and walked far, taking off the bandages and balled up towel.
They have already verified. The reason why blood seeped continuously was because of this balled up towel. Wang Xi has seen plenty of sinister acts and understood that there was definitely something wrong with this balled up towel. If someone unaware got near Piao Xue, they would have most likely touched the thing inside the balled up towel.
Xiao Luo wrapped her hand with a handkerchief and opened the balled up towel. There was even more fresh blood inside.
This blood smelled extremely repulsive. Xiao Luo hastily covered her nose: “What is this?”
Wang Xi was the senior here and has seen many things. After looking at it carefully, he said to the Crown Prince: “Your highness, this isn’t human blood. To this old servant, this seems to smell like dog blood or chicken blood.”
The Crown Prince: “What is it used for?”
Wang Xi: “It’s said that common folks sometimes would pour dog blood, chicken blood and such things to expel evil spirits. Especially the blood of a black dog.”
“……. evil spirits?” The Crown Prince has never heard of this topic before. To wrap something in such a sinister manner inside bandages… was used to expel evil spirits?
Wang Xi said: “That’s right. It’s to expel evil spirits and demons. It’s said that if demons touched this kind of dirty blood, they would immediately change back to their original forms in front of everyone.”
Expel demons? Change back to their original forms?
The Crown Prince’s expression changed abruptly. He raised his head and looked towards the direction of Xiao Yu, who was waiting in the sedan.
He knew one demon by his side. If they hadn’t discovered this thing beforehand, Xiao Yu would have most likely touched Piao Xue and end up touching this balled up towel as well. Then what would have happened?
A voice said in his heart: he would change back to his original form in front of everyone.
Xiao Yu’s original form was a fish.
He had thought it was strange from the beginning. Why would a cat that was raised inside the Cold Palace have something like this wrapped around its body? Furthermore, it even appeared on the road that they had to travel past to get to GanQing Palace.
…… Most likely, someone knew about Xiao Yu’s true identity and wanted to hurt Xiao Yu!
Translator’s note:
Oh my goodness! I was so confused when the link took me to my drawing! Thank you so much! (⁎⁍̴̛ᴗ⁍̴̛⁎)
Nice drawing. That would be hilarious link and what the kitten is this? Hahahaha!
I was so confused! I thought twitter was broken and I just went: (・・?)
such a cute drawing of such a cute Liyu
Aww thank you!
Thank You for the chapter (ꈍ꒳ꈍ)❤
thanks for the chapter!
Li yu is not really a demon right? I wonder if he could change to fish when he touched the blood
So the pretend carp demon might get outed as not a carp demon…but otherwise not a danger…but still someone is plotting!!! Thanks for the update ❤️❤️❤️
But it won’t work though
It’s gotta be CYY, right? He’s the only one left who’d be holding a grudge.