Chapter: 017.1 of 087
Duan Yu simply said, “Oh.” He remained calm and composed as he sneered.
With his voice slightly raised at the end, he said, “Little Qiao doesn’t need to make fun of me. This prince has been reading about astrology from childhood and has never heard of this fire star. Since you’re so intelligent, it would better if you obediently tell the truth.”
(T/N: Literal translation of Mars in Chinese is fire star.)
Without him being aware, his words had leaked out a hint of danger like a swift and sharp blade.
However, the beautiful woman was unaware of the tension. Instead, she blinked her large eyes twice and burst out in laugher.
“So you always doubted me?” She let go of the reins and leisurely walked closer to Prince Duan Yu. Qing Qiao’s face couldn’t be calmer.
“Do you suspect that I’m an impersonation?” She moved her face closer to Duan Yu. The beautiful woman craftily smiled from ear to ear, “Come, this miss will allow you to touch.”
“What are you doing?” Duan Yu was startled from her sudden action and closeness.
“Letting you touch my face so that you can feel that it’s not fake!” Qing Qiao was smiling and the tone of her voice was generous, “I know that you martial artists do this to test.”
As she said this, she grabbed Duan Yu’s hand, placed his hand on her face, and pulled her cheeks left and right. After she finished enduring that, Qing Qiao looked at this prince with her swollen cheeks. Her eyebrows were curved in a smile. “See, my face is real.”
Duan Yu didn’t speak. His bright eyes cast sidelong glances at the beautiful woman. He looked at her for so long that his gaze made her feel nervous.
Qing Qiao sighed. It seemed that she could only use her killer tactic.
“I have a birthmark!” She rolled up her sleeves to reveal a slender, white as snow arm, “Look, there are five red dots here. Shang Qing temple’s head monk, Master Kong Kong, said that this was a plum blossom that was only seen once in a hundred years. There’s no one else born with the same birthmark.”
Duan Yu indifferently glanced at the plum blossom mark. He didn’t answer for a long time, but his eyebrows squeezed out a nice-looking Chinese character “川” between them
(T/N: She means that space between his eyebrows look like this.)
Argh, he still doesn’t believe me? I see that if I can’t bear to part with the child today, I can’t catch the wolf.”
(T/N: The original idiom was “If you can’t bear to part with your shoes, you can’t a wolf.” In Ancient Chinese, the words for shoes and child were very similar. This isn’t true in modern Chinese. At some point, people started replacing or mixing up child with shoes and made the idiom a lot crueler. Anyways, this is an idiom that means if you want to achieve a certain purpose, you need to pay a price.)
Qing Qiao made the painful decision after considered it for a long time. She stomped her feet, turned around, and shouted, “Come and bring a bowl of dog blood for this miss! Also bring a barrel of manure! The smellier, the better!”
The prince finally responded and spit out these words, “”You… what are you going to do?”
“Eh? Wasn’t the prince suspecting that I was an evil spirit?” Qing Qiao took half a step back. “I’m going to sprinkle some hot blood and manure in the courtyard to clean the surrounding area and to prove my true identity!”
“… No need. Thank you for worrying, Miss Gu.”
The veins on Duan Yu forehead twitched a few time as he forcibly suppressed his annoyance.
Duan considered each word and sentence before he cryptically said, “Since little Qiao had easily entered Shang Qing Temple and received Master Kong Kong’s personal guidance, this prince has never considered that you could be heterogeneity.”
“Then what else does the prince suspect me of?” Qing Qiao rubbed her cheeks and looked at him while smiling. She couldn’t conceal her exuberant smile, “Little Qiao’s thoughts are pure and my work style is proper. I love my country and give my allegiance to the emperor. I’m this dynasty’s grade A good person. What do you think is wrong with me?”
Duan Yu’s eyes flashed. As he was about to reply, he suddenly heard a servant anxiously report, “Prince, Mister Qi is here.
“Oh?” Duan Yu raised his phoenix eyes. A slight surprise flitted across his face. Very quickly, his face smoothed out and became peaceful, “Why does he have free time today?”
After he thought about it, he immediately looked at the servant, and said words of rebuke, “It might be because you leaked out news.”
The servant didn’t dare to breath. His entire body was frozen.
Thus, Duan Yu lightly waved his hand and didn’t continue speaking about the topic.
After passing through the long winding corridor with colored glass, Qing Qiao saw a slim, light green figure at the lake pavilion. He was the important guest.
“This is Miss Gu. This is Mister Qi.” Duan Yu introduced the two of them. The introduction was brief and concise. His face showed an inexplicable displeasure.
Qing Qiao was somewhat surprised and scrutinized him for a moment, then she turned around to face the green robed man and said with good manners, “Greetings Mister Qi.”
Mister Qi looked about thirty years old. His height was average. His manner seemed refined. He casually nodded. It could be counted as returning a greeting.
Eh? Are you that important? No matter what, I’m still Prince Duan’s future wife and you’re not even saying a single word.
Mister Qi acted if she was transparent. He turned around and directly started talking to Duan Yu. The core details that they went over and over again could be summarized in ten words. Maliciously gossiping about politics and the imperial court’s secret news.
En, to be able to discuss and give pointers on matters of the country with Prince Duan, Mister Qi must have a powerful person behind him. His status wasn’t minor!
Qing Qiao inwardly hummed. Noble person noble person, if you’re not noble, who is?
*Pitter-patter sound of abacus being used*
In her mind, she took out a small abacus and secretly started to calculate, “Natal chart… Emperor’s spirit…”
(T/N: Natal chart is a map of the sky that includes the planets’ position when a person was born.)
She didn’t know what was wrong with Mister Qi, but he suddenly thought of her a moment later. “… Miss Gu? Miss Gu?”
“Ai? I’m here!” Qing Qiao hurriedly looked up and showed a practiced diplomatic expression of harmlessness and environmental friendliness underneath her long eyelashes.
“… What does Miss Gu usually like?” Mister Qi’s face was polite and his eyes were clear and bright, “This is the first time I’m meeting Miss Gu. It would be good to give you a gift for our first time meeting.”
Hey, big brother who are you? Are you Duan Yu’s dad or mom? Even if there were someone giving me a gift for the first time meeting, it wouldn’t be you!
Qing Qiao rubbed the back of her head and deliberately gave a foolish reply, “Then… I like to eat meat.”
Duan Yu sprayed out the mouthful of tea that he had just drank.
Chapter: 017.1 of 087
Duan Yu simply said, “Oh.” He remained calm and composed as he sneered.
With his voice slightly raised at the end, he said, “Little Qiao doesn’t need to make fun of me. This prince has been reading about astrology from childhood and has never heard of this fire star. Since you’re so intelligent, it would better if you obediently tell the truth.”
(T/N: Literal translation of Mars in Chinese is fire star.)
Without him being aware, his words had leaked out a hint of danger like a swift and sharp blade.
However, the beautiful woman was unaware of the tension. Instead, she blinked her large eyes twice and burst out in laugher.
“So you always doubted me?” She let go of the reins and leisurely walked closer to Prince Duan Yu. Qing Qiao’s face couldn’t be calmer.
“Do you suspect that I’m an impersonation?” She moved her face closer to Duan Yu. The beautiful woman craftily smiled from ear to ear, “Come, this miss will allow you to touch.”
“What are you doing?” Duan Yu was startled from her sudden action and closeness.
“Letting you touch my face so that you can feel that it’s not fake!” Qing Qiao was smiling and the tone of her voice was generous, “I know that you martial artists do this to test.”
As she said this, she grabbed Duan Yu’s hand, placed his hand on her face, and pulled her cheeks left and right. After she finished enduring that, Qing Qiao looked at this prince with her swollen cheeks. Her eyebrows were curved in a smile. “See, my face is real.”
Duan Yu didn’t speak. His bright eyes cast sidelong glances at the beautiful woman. He looked at her for so long that his gaze made her feel nervous.
Qing Qiao sighed. It seemed that she could only use her killer tactic.
“I have a birthmark!” She rolled up her sleeves to reveal a slender, white as snow arm, “Look, there are five red dots here. Shang Qing temple’s head monk, Master Kong Kong, said that this was a plum blossom that was only seen once in a hundred years. There’s no one else born with the same birthmark.”
Duan Yu indifferently glanced at the plum blossom mark. He didn’t answer for a long time, but his eyebrows squeezed out a nice-looking Chinese character “川” between them
(T/N: She means that space between his eyebrows look like this.)
Argh, he still doesn’t believe me? I see that if I can’t bear to part with the child today, I can’t catch the wolf.”
(T/N: The original idiom was “If you can’t bear to part with your shoes, you can’t a wolf.” In Ancient Chinese, the words for shoes and child were very similar. This isn’t true in modern Chinese. At some point, people started replacing or mixing up child with shoes and made the idiom a lot crueler. Anyways, this is an idiom that means if you want to achieve a certain purpose, you need to pay a price.)
Qing Qiao made the painful decision after considered it for a long time. She stomped her feet, turned around, and shouted, “Come and bring a bowl of dog blood for this miss! Also bring a barrel of manure! The smellier, the better!”
The prince finally responded and spit out these words, “”You… what are you going to do?”
“Eh? Wasn’t the prince suspecting that I was an evil spirit?” Qing Qiao took half a step back. “I’m going to sprinkle some hot blood and manure in the courtyard to clean the surrounding area and to prove my true identity!”
“… No need. Thank you for worrying, Miss Gu.”
The veins on Duan Yu forehead twitched a few time as he forcibly suppressed his annoyance.
Duan considered each word and sentence before he cryptically said, “Since little Qiao had easily entered Shang Qing Temple and received Master Kong Kong’s personal guidance, this prince has never considered that you could be heterogeneity.”
“Then what else does the prince suspect me of?” Qing Qiao rubbed her cheeks and looked at him while smiling. She couldn’t conceal her exuberant smile, “Little Qiao’s thoughts are pure and my work style is proper. I love my country and give my allegiance to the emperor. I’m this dynasty’s grade A good person. What do you think is wrong with me?”
Duan Yu’s eyes flashed. As he was about to reply, he suddenly heard a servant anxiously report, “Prince, Mister Qi is here.
“Oh?” Duan Yu raised his phoenix eyes. A slight surprise flitted across his face. Very quickly, his face smoothed out and became peaceful, “Why does he have free time today?”
After he thought about it, he immediately looked at the servant, and said words of rebuke, “It might be because you leaked out news.”
The servant didn’t dare to breath. His entire body was frozen.
Thus, Duan Yu lightly waved his hand and didn’t continue speaking about the topic.
After passing through the long winding corridor with colored glass, Qing Qiao saw a slim, light green figure at the lake pavilion. He was the important guest.
“This is Miss Gu. This is Mister Qi.” Duan Yu introduced the two of them. The introduction was brief and concise. His face showed an inexplicable displeasure.
Qing Qiao was somewhat surprised and scrutinized him for a moment, then she turned around to face the green robed man and said with good manners, “Greetings Mister Qi.”
Mister Qi looked about thirty years old. His height was average. His manner seemed refined. He casually nodded. It could be counted as returning a greeting.
Eh? Are you that important? No matter what, I’m still Prince Duan’s future wife and you’re not even saying a single word.
Mister Qi acted if she was transparent. He turned around and directly started talking to Duan Yu. The core details that they went over and over again could be summarized in ten words. Maliciously gossiping about politics and the imperial court’s secret news.
En, to be able to discuss and give pointers on matters of the country with Prince Duan, Mister Qi must have a powerful person behind him. His status wasn’t minor!
Qing Qiao inwardly hummed. Noble person noble person, if you’re not noble, who is?
*Pitter-patter sound of abacus being used*
In her mind, she took out a small abacus and secretly started to calculate, “Natal chart… Emperor’s spirit…”
(T/N: Natal chart is a map of the sky that includes the planets’ position when a person was born.)
She didn’t know what was wrong with Mister Qi, but he suddenly thought of her a moment later. “… Miss Gu? Miss Gu?”
“Ai? I’m here!” Qing Qiao hurriedly looked up and showed a practiced diplomatic expression of harmlessness and environmental friendliness underneath her long eyelashes.
“… What does Miss Gu usually like?” Mister Qi’s face was polite and his eyes were clear and bright, “This is the first time I’m meeting Miss Gu. It would be good to give you a gift for our first time meeting.”
Hey, big brother who are you? Are you Duan Yu’s dad or mom? Even if there were someone giving me a gift for the first time meeting, it wouldn’t be you!
Qing Qiao rubbed the back of her head and deliberately gave a foolish reply, “Then… I like to eat meat.”
Duan Yu sprayed out the mouthful of tea that he had just drank.
