This Young Master is going to serve in bed.
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Putting his status as Lin Bozhou’s concubine aside, even a small pet bird the man raised would be revered like an ancestor by the servants and maids in this compound, being worshiped every day.
Moreover, Meng Huan would not make a fuss; the most he would do was cry a river from being scolded a little.
It seemed reasonable to be called useless.
Yes, that’s right. I’m useless, Meng Huan muttered to himself. Tell me, who is not useless in front of you? Could you have a little self-awareness, please? Even the Emperor has to call you ‘good older brother’ when he sees you.
He remembered the unfinished yard work, and since the matter was over, Meng Huan was ready to bolt.
But feeling like it was not polite to leave directly, he also put on an act and said, “Your Royal Highness, thank you for standing up for this Concubine.”, flattering him to the max.
Lin Bozhou said, “Mmm.”
“Then this Concubine…” Will be on his way.
Shan Xing reminded him, “Your Royal Highness, it’s time to eat.”
Lin Bozhou turned around and said, “Come.”
“?”
Come?
What do you mean by come?
Do you mean ‘you are unwillingly inviting me to come to dinner with you’?
Meng Huan gawked, and Shan Xing turned to him with a smile. “Madam, please.”
“…”
Meng Huan was baffled. He looked at the messy yard again with a frown before following Lin Bozhou reluctantly.
A table was set up in the dimly lit dining room.
Lin Bozhou was summoned to the capital six years ago as Prince Regent, so his residence had always been very quiet because all his relatives were back in Guzhou.
Before taking a concubine, guest scholars and mansion staff occasionally accompanied him for meals. But with Meng Huan here as His Royal Highness’s wife, nevermind sitting at the table, they did not even dare to cast a glance towards Meng Huan.
Therefore, only Meng Huan and Lin Bozhou were sitting side by side at the huge table.
At the sight of dinner, Meng Huan’s gloomy mood was swept away.
It was even better than breakfast and lunch.
Grain dishes: eight treasures buns, meat buns, streamed rolls, seafood rolls, butterfly pastries, steamed flatbread, salt and pepper flatbread, sweet flatbread, sesame flatbread, cream flatbread, thin flaky flatbread, mushroom flatbread, walnut date cake, white deep-fried noodles, sugar-coated deep-fried noodles, sesame balls, egg noodle, knife cut noodles, and crystal rice.
Meat dishes: roast swan, roast goose, steamed chicken, steamed chicken marinated in alcohol, stir-fried chicken, roast pork, steamed pork, pork rind in bone broth, litchi pork, sturgeon, steamed trout, pig ear, boiled gizzard and liver, tripe with lung, and steamed mutton.
Soup dishes: peony herbal soup, golden chicken soup, pork rib and squirrel soup, agate rice cake soup, brocade silk rice cake soup, melilot rice cake soup, sweet and sour soup, grape soup, honey soup, and milk.
Great. Meng Huan went straight to serving Lin Bozhou like he had done it for ages.
Once the man got his fill, it was his time to feast!
Meng Huan, who owned a large courtyard and had a thirty thousand yuan monthly allowance, knew who had the hardest thigh in the house.
Taking a sip of the soup Meng Huan had served, Lin Bozhou asked, “Did you reply to the palace?”
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Shan Xing, who was on standby, glanced at Meng Huan in slight surprise.
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The imperial court had been in chaos as of late.
A mid-ranking minister first issued the Emperor’s edict to Lin Bozhou. Then it was written into an imperial decree and made known to each ministry. So now everyone in the court was aware that His Majesty had punished the accusers and requested Lin Bozhou’s return to the cabinet.
However, Lin Bozhou actually resigned due to his eye illness!
Like, what was that? It was like saying you fought with a colleague and threatened to resign. Then your boss supported you, assured you, and fired the person with whom you fought, but you still went ahead and resigned?
Even the boss would be very baffled.
Meng Huan blinked, turned to Lin Bozhou, and cajoled, “Since Your Royal Highness’s eyes are not well, there is no harm in recuperating for a few more days, right? Why rush back to the imperial court as a corporate…as an official?”
Lin Bozhou turned sideways to look at him with a small curve at the corner of his lips.
Being the same cunning minister as others, the eye illness was a real illness, but it was not only that; it was also an excuse. Otherwise, how could the Emperor receive a memorial of a ‘request to resign from the post in order to nurse illness’ from a strong and fit minister every year?
Generally, there was an underlying demand.
Lin Bozhou looked as if he was showing concern for a fool, which had made Meng Huan very unhappy. He hung his head. Fine, pretend that I didn’t say anything.
“How did his Majesty respond?” Lin Bozhou asked.
Shan Xing wiped away his sweat, looking troubled. “Well…”
Their current emperor is young.
He was seven years old when he took the throne. Now, at the mere age of thirteen, he trusted and loved Lin Bozhou very much.
When his little Majesty learned that Lin Bozhou had refused to return to the court, he burst into tears in the throne room.
“If the Royal Brother is not here, then the Zong Dynasty is going to be in great danger!”
There was this ‘Yan Zi, how can I live without you?’ feeling.
The mid-ranking minister had come back again with tears in his eyes. “Your Royal Highness, please hurry back to court. His Majesty has not seen you for days. He has lost his appetite and has lost weight. Sniff, sniff.”
When Meng Huan heard this, he clicked his tongue internally.
As expected from a master of manipulation. Lin Bozhou had become the embodiment of a treacherous minister and brainwashed the young Emperor, becoming the sole pillar of the country in his heart.
“Tea.” A request suddenly came from Lin Bozhou.
“…”
Meng Huan hurriedly picked up the teapot, poured tea into the teacup, and blew on it, saying as sweet as honey, “Husband, for you.”
Too much inner drama. Lin Bozhou gave him a glance before continuing the conversation with Shan Xing, “Are there any urgent official documents in the cabinet?”
“Yes, a request for military funds from the Liaodong Military Commission and the transfer of provisions for the flooding in Huanghuai and the chieftain’s revolt in the southwest.”
Lin Bozhou put down his chopsticks and ordered, “Deliver copies of the memorials to the study.”
It sounded like he had to work late tonight.
He could not laze around completely, but he could be selective about the work that gets done.
When Shan Xing accepted the order, someone outside the door announced, “Your Royal Highness, the imperial physician is here.”
“Let him in.”
The imperial physician was a middle-aged man with a flowing beard and gaunt appearance, giving him a rather immortal-like look. He entered with his medical kit and asked, “Has Your Royal Highness been following this physician’s advice on not straining your eyes too much?”
Doctors have the most say in the world. Shan Xing hurriedly replied, “Yes, His Royal Highness has been idling around these days and not at all working on court affairs.”
Satisfied, Physician Zhou took out the needles. “Your Royal Highness, please have a seat.”
He began Lin Bozhou’s acupuncture session.
Each time the thin needles were inserted into a pressure point, twisting to reach deeper, Meng Huan felt sympathy pain at that spot.
This eye problem had been caused at a young age.
It had to be said that Lin Bozhou’s lust for power and his misuse of authority were also related to his childhood. His father, Lin Luan, was a disgraced crown prince who had been deposed in the past. Later, he left to rule a remote place on the northern border.
Lin Bozhou was born and raised in that place, where grass and water were plentiful, where people were good at riding and shooting, where they feasted on meat and milk, and where they had the habit of being free and wild.
Whenever it snowed, they would gallop on the plains of ice and snow in pursuit of their prey.
On that day, when eight-year-old Lin Bozhou’s father took him to hunt, his mother had been against it. She thought that their firstborn son was too young and weak to take part in such a dangerous activity.
The late king said, “He is a man and should have the courage of barbarians. He should defend the country by killing invaders and maintain peace by keeping the nation stable against revolts. What is the use of pampering and doting on him? He needs to go out and see the world.”
So at eight years old, Lin Bozhou’s father carried him on a tall horse through a frozen lake. The horse slipped on the slippery surface of the ice, and when Lin Bozhou fell, a shard of ice pierced his left eye, causing it to bleed profusely.
Fortunately, they were able to save the eye, and he did not go blind. But he did have small episodes of blurred vision or pain from seeing bright lights. In severe cases, it was temporary blindness.
Suffering from this since age eight until now, at the age of twenty-six, nearly two decades later, it was impossible for him to remain unaffected mentally.
They reached the end of treatment.
Physician Zhou removed each needle and said, “Your Royal Highness, please do not exert yourself for the next few days. Your Royal Highness should rest all the time.”
Lin Bozhou said, “Thank you, Physician Zhou.”
Hearing this, Meng Huan interrupted unconsciously, “Didn’t Your Royal Highness just say that he had to deal with some official documents?”
Lin Bozhou: “……”
Shan Xing: “……”
Physician Zhou: “……”
Physician Zhou instantly dropped his needles and admonished, “Your Royal Highness.”
He was also a highly skilled physician with a temper.
Every time he encountered a patient who disobeyed his advice like this, he had the urge to stab them to death with his needles.
If it weren’t for the high medical fees paid by the Prince Regent, he would rather rot in his office than come back here.
Lin Bozhou slowly turned his head and looked at Meng Huan.
Feeling guilty, Meng Huan said defensively, “This Concubine simply felt that what the physician said was—”
The eyes staring at him narrowed.
Meng Huan’s voice became smaller and smaller, “—reasonable.”
“…”
Shan Xing quickly mediated, “Hahaha, Physician Zhou, please be at ease. Since His Royal Highness should rest his eyes, we servants will do our utmost to assist and persuade him. We will not let him work tirelessly, hahaha.”
Looking indignant, Physician Zhou looked as if he had more to say.
“Please, Physician Zhou! Please come this way!” Shan Xing gestured the way for their guest with his hand.
Curse it.
Carrying his medical kit, Physician Zhou left in a huff.
Shan Xing followed behind to see him out, leaving Lin Bozhou and Meng Huan alone in the room.
Lin Bozhou turned towards Meng Huan again.
Meng Huan felt the need to explain himself. “This Concubine is also concerned about Your Royal Highness’s health…”
The truth is that it was just a slip of the tongue. He concealed his guilt with a look of utmost sincerity.
Lin Bozhou stayed silent, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Meng Huan kept his head down, looking like he was ready to be punished and scolded.
A moment later, there was a knock on his forehead, probably from a knuckle, though with very little force.
He looked up at Lin Bozhou in a daze.
Lin Bozhou finally spoke, “Stupid.”
Meng Huan: “……”
Outside the door, Shan Xing returned in gloom.
Just moments earlier, Physician Zhou had scolded him for no reason. “If His Royal Highness does not want his eyes to heal, he should not come to find this old physician, got that? I told him not to strain himself, but he never listens. He just keeps making his eyes worse. Other people would see it as my poor medical skills and wonder why I have not healed him yet. Let me ask you, does your high and mighty Royal Highness think he is so tough that he does not have to listen to me, well, blah, blah, blah…”
Shan Xing just smiled and nodded. “Yes, yes, it is this one’s fault, Physician Zhou.”
But he was more afraid of persuading Lin Bozhou. So this was what ‘one who always gets blamed’ felt like.
Lin Bozhou got up and said, “Finished.”
Meng Huan also stood up and heard him add, “Pingzhi, go and deliver the memorials to the study.”
Pingzhi was Shan Xing’s courtesy name.
Meng Huan showed a complicated expression. After all the racket, you are still going to work?
Fine, go do your job; I will catch some sleep. Meng Huan was ready to jump into his big bed.
A voice came from behind him. “You.”
Who are you calling? No way is he calling for me. Meng Huan pretended not to hear anything.
“Beloved Consort.”
Meng Huan: “……”
“Come with this Regent to serve in bed.”
Meng Huan coughed and said, his voice wavering, “What did Your Royal Highness say…?”
“Was this Regent not clear enough?”
Lin Bozhou gazed at him from above with his dark eyes, raised his hand, and pointed at Meng Huan. “You, come serve in bed.”
“……”
The author has something to say:
Lin Bozhou: Come, let’s hurt each other.
Huan-bao: QAQ
The translator has something to add:
Teo: Hela, thank you so much for the ko-fi (❁´◡`❁)!
I’m left speechless 😐
Meng Huan is so dumbly cute 😂 love it.
Tattle tale trouble…
They r so cute ahahah
Strict prince will slept with his baobei
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Poor baobei and his loose tongue 😂
Haha, you cannot tell me that Lin Bozhou isn’t going to give Meng Huan payback tonight for that.
Thanks for the chapter!
I love that in the moment LB’s response was to gently rap him on the head 🤣
Ngl i can relate so much with MC this is so far one of my most favorite story, mc is so stupid but relatable lol 😂
Run!
Thank You for the chapter (´,,•ω•,,)♡
This is why i love chinese fics. They are so funny and i love how the words are played.
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Why is our Meng meng so cute and dumb dumb..😂