Renovating ZhongCui Palace wasn’t urgent. Jing-wang first got acquainted with the work regulations of the Ministry of Works with Zheng Jing. He needed to consult the original blueprint of Zhongcui Palace. Zheng Jing already ordered people to find it and bring it to Jing-wang.
Jing-wang spread open the blueprint. Zheng Jing got ready to answer questions at any time. After all, Jing-wang has never managed this kind of thing before. Back then when Zheng Jing first entered the Ministry of Works, he was also completely blind, unable to understand anything.
However, Jing-wang didn’t immediately ask anything. Instead, he gathered his concentration and looked at the blueprint. Occasionally, he’d even write some notes on the side.
From Zheng Jing’s point of view, he couldn’t see clearly what Jing-wang was writing, however, he noticed that just now when Jing-wang opened the blueprint, the silver colored Koi inside the crystal bottle suddenly swam over and hovered closely to the side of the bottle that was next to Jing-wang’s elbow. Looking at it from afar, it almost looked like the fish stopped right on Jing-wang’s hand.
Zheng Jing had a misconception that this Koi seemed to be looking at the blueprint together with Jing-wang.
Zheng Jing: “…….”
Why would he think this? Don’t tell him, the Koi was a Jin?
The little carp who was mistaken for a Jin: Ao, here it comes, here it comes. Time to see the boyfriend’s concentrated working face!
Li Yu has seen Jing-wang write and draw before, but he has never seen Jing-wang handle any official business. Li Yu was also pretty curious as to what ancient blueprints looked like. Therefore, he kept moving closer. Jing-wang knew Xiao Yu was getting interested. Afraid that Xiao Yu might forget he was still in a bottle and accidentally break the bottle, Jing-wang nonchalantly moved the blueprint towards the fish’s direction and then continued to think with furrowed brows.
When the boyfriend got serious, he was really too handsome!
Li Yu enjoyed the view of Jing-wang’s handsome profile face for a while and gave him a flying smooch. Then he extended his fish head to look at the blueprint also.
Li Yu was a little hopeful. What if he had some special insight and could help Jing-wang?
On the blueprint, there were numerous little houses drawn. Li Yu couldn’t tell any difference between the houses. Under the houses there were also a lot of descriptions. As soon as Li Yu saw the words which were even smaller than his fish eyes, he felt his head starting to hurt a bit.
Looks like there’s no what if. The blueprint recognized fish, but fish didn’t recognize the blueprint at all.
Li Yu sighed. Looks like there was nothing he could do here.
Reaching a critical juncture in his thoughts, Jing-wang suddenly gained a certain understanding. Coming back from his thoughts, he saw fish leaning against the edge of the crystal bottle, also staring nonstop at the blueprint.
Jing-wang: Xiao Yu actually liked looking at blueprints?
The next second, the fish who liked to look at blueprints immediately slid back to the bottom of the bottle with a plop.
Jing-wang: “…….”
Jing-wang laughed quietly. Looks like it’s not that Xiao Yu liked looking at blueprints. He was just sleeping again.
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Recalling how Xiao Yu got up very early this morning and specifically went to the kitchen to prepare food, Jing-wang felt warm in his heart. Unable to help himself, he reached out and petted the fish. When he was in the Jing Estate and reading books, he did this as well. Jing-wang didn’t think anything of it.
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Jing-wang raised his head and gave a questioning glance at Zheng Jing.
Zheng Jing considered his words for a moment and lightly persuaded: “Your highness Jing-wang, while you’re working, you can’t touch the fish.”
Jing-wang: “……..”
Jing-wang shot Zheng Jing a cold glance.
He was used to reading while noting down details that he needed to remember. When he encountered something he didn’t understand, he didn’t rush to ask Zheng Jing. He also remembered it. Because he couldn’t speak, asking questions always used up time. To keep interrupting his thought process with questions would not end up well. Jing-wang instinctively looked through the entire blueprint first, gathering all of the questions he wanted to ask Zheng Jing.
Meanwhile, Zheng Jing was occasionally paying attention to Jing-wang. He was somewhat surprised by Jing-wang’s composure.
Although he reminded Jing-wang out of professional responsibility to not touch fish, actually it was equivalent to showing a certain disrespect to Jing-wang. If Jing-wang chose to cause trouble for him, Zheng Jing would have no choice but to endure it. A prince was the master after all. He was only the subject. However, Zheng Jing didn’t regret it. He was just this kind of person. Although he really wanted to build a good relationship with Jing-wang, if it involved work, he wouldn’t even make excuses for his own relatives.
Zheng Jing was very much against Jing-wang touching fish.
Other than helping Jing-wang, the Emperor still gave him an extra task, which was to report Jing-wang’s behavior during his time at the Ministry of Works.
Zheng Jing was already making a mental draft and getting ready to ask the Emperor for his forgiveness because Zheng Jing didn’t think that Jing-wang was very suitable for this assignment.
Because Jing-wang brought his pet fish to work, Zheng Jing already felt like Jing-wang didn’t actually take this assignment seriously. Seeing Jing-wang touching the fish, Zheng Jing thought this was a sign that Jing-wang was completely distracted.
However, after Jing-wang finished looking at the blueprint and gave him a pile of notes, Zheng Jing looked at the densely packed annotations, and felt very surprised. Not to mention, the stuff that Jing-wang recorded to ask him were also a lot of the crux issues.
Receiving all of these questions all at once, Official Zheng started to sweat profusely all over again.
Before he became sweaty because he couldn’t understand what Jing-wang was thinking and got worried. Now, it was because he almost shamefully succumbed to Jing-wang’s questions.
Zheng Jing couldn’t help but recall when the 3rd Prince came to do work at the Ministry of Works a few years ago. However, the 3rd Prince disdained the fact that the Ministry of Works spent all day constructing houses, which seemed unsophisticated and not good enough for him. The 3rd Prince was extremely unwilling to be here. To call it doing work, the most he did was come to the Ministry of Works and drink tea for a few days. The High Official from the Ministry of Works wrote a report to the Emperor, tactfully explaining that the 3rd Prince didn’t suit this kind of work. The Emperor ended up transferring the 3rd Prince elsewhere.
In comparison, although Jing-wang’s personality was strange, and liked to touch fish, just the fact that he can calm down to examine the blueprint, already made him incomparable from the other princes.
Cheng Jing revised his view of Jing-wang and decided against writing a report about how Jing-wang wasn’t suitable. He felt even somewhat regrettable that Jing-wang couldn’t talk. Jing-wang’s attitude was the type of person who can work calmly. How unfortunate.
“If you have any more questions, your highness, please ask me. If I can’t answer, you can also ask the High Official.” Zheng Jing said warmly.
Jing-wang nodded.
Since he was finished looking at the blueprint, that meant that he can touch fish now. Jing-wang regained some lost grounds. Under Zheng Jing’s extremely complicated look, Jing-wang placed the fish inside the crystal bottle into a teacup that he brought and stroked the fish openly, right in Zheng Jing’s face.
Zheng Jing: “……”
When it was time for lunch, Jing-wang opened the massive bundle that carried his food. He pulled out a lunch box that was equally huge from inside. Inside the lunch box were only three big bowls.
Jing-wang opened the covers to each bowl one by one. Zheng Jing, who was sitting not far from Jing-wang, saw with his sharp eyes…… a bowl of soggy rice, a bowl of unidentifiable, jet-black food, and another bowl of…… what looked to be soft, limp cucumber salad.
Zheng Jing asked with interest: “What kind of food did you bring, your highness?”
After asking, Zheng Jing suddenly remembered. Who’d write words while eating? How can Jing-wang answer? That question was really a waste of time. Who knows, Jing-wang might even get offended.
Unexpectedly, Jing-wang was in a pretty good mood. Not only did he not punish Zheng Jing, he even pulled out two pieces of paper from his sleeve and gave it to Zheng Jing casually.
Zheng Jing: ???
For Jing-wang to have written notes in preparation, did he foresee that Zheng Jing would ask this?
There were two dishes, so two notes. Zheng Jing looked at each of the notes in his hands. What’s written separately were: Minced pork and eggplants made by my boyfriend, cucumber salad made by my boyfriend.
Zheng Jing: “…….”
So the indistinguishable dish was minced pork with eggplants. Are eggplants supposed to be black like charcoal?
Zheng Jing didn’t dare to comment on the future wangfei’s culinary skills.
However, not only did Jing-wang prepare written notes so he could introduce his boyfriend’s culinary skills to people at any given time, he also completely ate all of the food in the three bowls without even changing his expression.
Fed a mouthful of dogfood, Zheng Jing said in admiration: “Your highness, you and …….wangfei really must have a nice relationship.”
Placing his hand lightly on the crystal bottle and touching the little carp’s slippery back, Jing-wang nodded his head slightly.
Inside the crystal bottle, the fish, who had woken up from his nap, started to feel immeasurably pleased with himself. Ao, was he being praised?!
He had gotten up early to make both of the dishes. He even made the rice. Although for some unknown reason, the eggplants became black, and the rice was a bit soggy, but the taste shouldn’t be bad! And also the cucumber salad was something that Jing-wang liked!
Li Yu suddenly felt inspired to have a taste of his own food. Perhaps, he already made leaps of improvement.
While Zheng Jing wasn’t paying attention, Li Yu quietly swam to the opening of the crystal bottle. Jing-wang’s bowls were placed not far from the crystal bottle. Li Yu decided to steal a small piece of eggplant from Jing-wang’s bowl.
It was a vegetable. Fish should be able to eat it.
Jing-wang had already tasted the eggplant before. Afraid that if fish ate it, he’d receive quite a blow, Jing-wang rushed ahead of fish and shoved all of the eggplants inside the bowl into his mouth, eating it all in two-three bites. He also ate all of the cucumber salad and didn’t even leave any grains of rice left over.
Li Yu: “…….”
Li Yu was extremely delighted. Sure enough, his culinary skills must have improved. Otherwise, why would Jing-wang eat it this quickly and even scrambled to finish it before fish could have a taste?
Li Yu started to consider unlocking even more recipes. He was a capable boyfriend. Although he couldn’t help Jing-wang read the blueprint, he can still help make food for Jing-wang.
Fish finally stopped trying to steal his food. Jing-wang was completely unaware that Xiao Yu’s demonic love bento had an upcoming sequel as he secretly let out a breath of relief.
The news of the Emperor giving Jing-wang an assignment reached the 3rd Prince’s ears. Mu TianMing(3) was somewhat distressed. The reason was none other than the fact that Mu TianMing(3) had entrusted some government official to beg mercy for him, hoping that the Emperor would entrust him again, yet the Emperor completely ignored him and instead, went to find Jing-wang.
What can a mute do?
Was this the Emperor saying, he’d rather use a mute than use him(3)?
No matter how dissatisfied Mu TianMing(3) was, he didn’t dare to act recklessly. The Emperor clearly felt very disgusted with him right now. The 6th Prince and his own(3) injuries were pretty much all better. The Emperor had released the 6th Prince from his confinement, but didn’t release him(3). He still had to read and copy scripts everyday. Mu TianMing(3) burned internally with anxiety. If he keeps being confined like this, how was he supposed to placate those court officials who followed him?
As he read in the imperial studies, he can tell that the Emperor already had intentions to groom the two young princes. Even the teacher that educated the little princes on their studies was changed to the Emperor’s own personal advisor.
The Emperor was so discriminatory! Placing him(3) behind the little princes, behind Jing-wang! Mu TianMing(3) couldn’t help but complain to the 6th Prince who came to visit him.
Mu TianXiao(6) warmly reminded him: “3rd elder brother, don’t forget the lesson from last time. You should first quiet down. Father wants to see your attitude. If you don’t make any more mistakes, father definitely won’t keep ignoring you for too long. Don’t worry, you still have me by your side. I will keep watch for you.”
Mu TianMing(3)’s eyes lit up. The 6th Prince’s words made sense. And plus, the 6th Prince has followed him for many years. He should be trustworthy.
Last time, he didn’t listen to the 6th Prince’s words, and ended up losing big. This made the 3rd Prince even more confident in the 6th Prince now.
Mu TianMing(3) said urgently: “With you here, I can feel more at peace….. I have a group of subordinates that I can give to you. You can take care of them for me right now.”
Mu TianMing(3) pulled out a command sigil from his robes. Hesitating for a second, he handed it to the 6th Prince. The 6th Prince accepted it. Regardless of how much this was what he had wanted, the 6th Prince did not show any complacent expression on his face and continued to thank the 3rd Prince politely, saying how extremely thankful he was that the 3rd prince gave him such an opportunity and how he was going to work extremely hard in the future to repay him.
The 6th Prince put away the command sigil and walked out calmly in front of the 3rd Prince’s face.
Upon exiting the estate, Mu TianXiao(6) looked at the sky, feeling complete relief. He knew that the dark cloud that has been looming over his head this entire time was finally about to dissipate. As long as he can grasp all of the 3rd Prince’s subordinates in his hands, soon he will no longer need to remain in hiding anymore.
Wow, prince 3 is not so smart.
How dumb can the 2nd and 3rd prince be…
Thank You for the chapter (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
thanks for the chapter!
Wow. Prince raised in power struggle palace should know better…. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🐟
prince 6 is dangerous! and cunning 😁
3rd Prince’s IQ is not very high I’m assuming
I really want Li Yu to taste the food he cooked 🤣😂
i really praise jingwang’s love for liyu and his stomach!!!
Cooking skills
Li Yu 🤝🏻 Xie Lian
Estaba esperando este comentario 😂
Iron stomach
Mu TianChi 🤝🏻 Hua Cheng
I mean anyone who will see pile of black food will know it’s not good I don’t know how dumb enough these mcs r to give it to their other half
Mc didn’t even taste it…..
number 6 is suddenly very scary QAQ
reminds me of our hua hua and dianxia!
Li Yu probably wasn’t successful in his cooking today either but Jing Wang liked him too much to admit that or maybe he’s just proud that his lovely boyfriend made something for him. Lol. It’s so sweet.