Lu Mingfei Development Program

Chapter 514: The King and Ministers of the Villain Country, and the Tiger Princess
In fact, Hara Makoto had doubted the identity of this "celestial being". After all, the West had the story of the Emperor's New Clothes, and there were monarchs in the Eastern countries who had been deceived.

But this "celestial being" was brought back by Ye Suli.

Who is Ye Suli? Don't be fooled by his silent and inconspicuous appearance at the banquet. Maybe even the waiter pouring wine for the guests at the banquet has a greater presence than him.

However, among the rulers and nobles of the Eastern countries, this name is known to everyone.

He was a famous wise man, proficient in governing the country and divination. All the kings of the Eastern countries who had heard of his name, including the Xia Kingdom, wanted to invite him to serve. However, he was famous for his seclusion and didn't want to care about these things.

But no matter how many places he moved to in seclusion, he once even became a monk, but he was still found.

Burdened by his fame, he decided to ruin his own reputation. As for how to do it, he naturally found a notorious monarch to serve. Looking at the Eastern countries today, there is probably no monarch with a worse reputation and more shameless than Yuan Cheng.

So Ye Suli came all the way to Zhongshan Kingdom. While she was amazed at its prosperity, she was also convinced by Yuan Cheng's statement that it was a country of villains.

Yuan Cheng said to him at that time, he has been known as a gentleman all his life, why not try to be a villain? Although villains are scolded by others, they can also show their true nature, which may be much easier than being a gentleman.

The two people's opinions can't be said to be in cahoots with each other, but they can also be said to be in cahoots with each other. As Ye Suli expected, as soon as the news of his appointment to Zhongshan State spread, those who usually begged him immediately turned hostile and acted as if they didn't know him.

He was also happy to be free, and while working for Yuan Cheng, he lived a true hermit life. Then he was sent to the West, and this time he was away for more than a year. When he returned to his country, he met this noble guest who fell from the sky.

Ye Suli glanced at her own king who was pretending to be stupid so that his guests would talk more.

He sighed, with some worry in his eyes. He was not worried that he had made a mistake and brought back a person who was not a celestial being, but that the king was treating him like a fool, and whether he would really become a fool.

Before the banquet started, Ye Suli secretly did some divination. When you are undecided, it is better to trust divination.

Although he himself did not believe in hexagrams and advised people who came to him for divination not to believe in them, sometimes, by accident, his predictions were actually correct, such as the previous hexagram that made him change his mind.

Ye Suli should have divined Lu Mingfei's identity before he woke up, but he was so stunned by his opponent's fight against thunder in the sky and a big hole on the ground that he forgot about it for a while.

However, the divination he had done earlier made him regret doing so. The divination money that had accompanied him for most of his life exploded, and a piece of it flew past his ear and was now embedded in the wall of the side hall and could not be taken out.

The divination failed before it even started, so naturally there was no way there would be any results. However, the meaning of "if you ask again, your life will be gone" was well conveyed to Ye Suli.

Ye Suli is still frightened until now. If the flying fragments were slightly deflected, they would be able to smash his head. The power is definitely stronger than the musket in the hands of Yi Zi Yue Xin, the famous guard of Zhongshan Kingdom in the east.

This Mr. Lu is indeed a celestial being. Anyone who wants to explore his identity will be warned by heaven. This is also one of the reasons why Ye Suli is worried about the king. Yuan Cheng is still thinking about how to use him to make Zhongshan Kingdom stronger.

In the Eastern world's legends about celestial beings, mortals who entertain celestial beings will receive extraordinary gifts in return. It may be wealth that will enrich their descendants, or immunity to all diseases, or... an invincible physique.

Yuan Cheng is actually not greedy. He would be satisfied with any of the above, so he would naturally not refuse if all of them were given to him.

But this is what Ye Suli is worried about. In the legend of the celestial beings, mortals who entertain the celestial beings will receive gifts. However, those who covet the celestial beings will also be punished.

Although the king has not done anything too outrageous so far, based on Ye Suli's understanding of Hara Makoto's shamelessness, even if the latter does nothing, he will be turned into a pig's head by the heavenly being and will have to face the court with a pig's face every day, which is considered a light punishment.

Ye Suli hadn't had time to tell Yuan Cheng about his failed divination. He was also worried because he had failed in his attempt to find out the identity of the Celestial Being. He was afraid that the Celestial Being would see him. He also couldn't ask someone to go up and call the king, so as not to be affected by the possible punishment.

Thanks to Yuan Cheng, Ye Suli, who already considered himself a villain, could still feel at ease watching the king suffer. Sacrificing the king to save the court of Zhongshan State, I think even the king can understand it, right?
Not knowing that his Foreign Minister had so many inner thoughts and still wondering why he didn't come forward to help him, Yuan Cheng secretly glanced at Lu Mingfei and found that he was actually smiling. He was immediately shocked. This distinguished guest from heaven finally smiled!
His dream of a rich and powerful country! His dream of being invincible! Finally, there is hope!
Yuan Cheng's expression changed, and he came up with an idea. He cleared his voice and knocked on the table: "Yuan Chun, come forward."

Princess Chun stood up confidently. She didn't want to show off in front of this guest who was said to be a celestial being, but simply thought that if she didn't respond to the words of her father, the king, people would think she was a coward.

When the king spoke, the ministers at the banquet bowed their heads in unison, and Ye Suli was no exception. The others were afraid of making eye contact with Yuan Chun, the fierce tiger princess of Zhongshan, while Ye Suli was afraid that her shameless king would come up with some brilliant ideas.

The princess was wearing a fiery red dress, just like the red maple leaves on the mountain outside the capital of Zhongshan Kingdom in autumn. It was as if she was wearing the entire Zhongshan Kingdom on her body.

In fact, with the princess's extraordinary appearance, even if her personality is a bit bad, it is not that no one likes her. There are many people who like such a strong girl. But unfortunately, the princess is the one who looks most like him among all the king's children.

This is not to say that the princess has no bottom line and no shame like the king, but she has completely learned the tough tactics. The title of Tiger Princess is not a casual one.

When she arrived in front of him, Lu Mingfei discovered that this pure princess was quite tall, and was not inferior to an adult male from the East.

"What's the matter, Your Majesty?" Yuan Chun asked calmly, ignoring the distinguished guest's gaze.

The title of King might seem too unfamiliar to a biological daughter, but it is the most respectful title she uses to address her father.

Yuan Chun did not believe in the saying of God and man, and thought that this was a scam by his foolish father, the king, and Ye Suli, who was a weirdo and liked to tell fortunes for people. After all, they had deceived many people in this way.

This scam was so huge that all the ministers in the court were called to greet him. On the way back to the palace, even the people in the houses beside the royal road looked out curiously, wondering what the king was doing so late at night.

As far as Yuan Chun knew, this scam was definitely the biggest one played by these two colluded guys. Calling her out to greet them was also meant to drag her into the water, but she knew her father's character very well, so how could she be fooled?

Yuan Cheng did not say anything, but waved his hand to signal the attendant with the tray to come up. He lifted the red cloth on the tray, and underneath was ten taels of gold. "Go, take this gold to the princess." The king gave the order, and the attendant immediately brought the gold to the princess respectfully.

Yuan Chun was a little puzzled. Zhongshan State was rich in gold, and the king liked to reward people with gold, and he was generous. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many lackeys in the court of Zhongshan State.

But Yuan Cheng, who was born as a businessman and always calculated everything, always rewarded according to the amount of work done. Ten taels of gold was nothing compared to the kilograms of gold stored in the national treasury... Well, actually it was something. There were ministers at the banquet who worked hard for Zhongshan State for a year and might not get these ten taels of gold.

Yuan Chun was naturally wary of this inexplicable reward, and asked, "What does the king mean by this?"

Yuan Cheng turned to look at Lu Mingfei: "Regarding this, I want to apologize to Mr. Lu first."

While thinking about how to tell Xi Ze Er about Yuan Chun, Lu Mingfei felt a little confused as to how the quarrel between the father and daughter was related to him.

"I told the girls in my dance troupe earlier that whoever can make Master Lu smile will get the ten taels of gold." Yuan Cheng apologized sincerely... As for whether he was sincere, probably only he himself knew.

"I didn't tell you in advance because I wanted to see if you are really a man of noble character. Now it seems that I was judging you by my own mean character." Yuan Cheng was telling the truth, after all, he was a real villain.

Lu Mingfei paused and said, "The king is really... quite interesting."

You are wrong, I have nothing to do with upright character, he added in his heart.

Yuan Cheng felt somewhat fortunate and somewhat regretful. He was fortunate that the hundred taels of gold were not given away. Although Zhongshan Kingdom was rich in gold, a hundred taels of gold was still a loss for him.

Unfortunately, no one could take the 100 taels of gold. He could see that even if Lu Mingfei was not a true celestial being, he was still a true warrior. It didn't seem to be a loss to use a hundred years of gold to keep a warrior in Zhongshan State.

Now the princess smiled and successfully made others laugh, so the ten taels of gold were given to her as pocket money.

"Hara! Makoto!" The princess' voice echoed throughout the hall.

In the Eastern world, it is important that the king is the leader of the ministers, and the father is the leader of the sons. It is absolutely not against the will of the ministers to address the king by his name, and for the children to address their father by his name.

But as I said before, "King of the Kingdom" is the most respectful name Yuan Chun can use for her father. When she is in a normal state, she will still call him "Dad", and when she is extremely angry, she can call him by his name.

This is the Zhongshan Kingdom. From the king to the princess to the ministers, all of them would make the wise men of Daxia so angry that they would call it a country with a broken ritual system.

The ministers at the banquet bowed their heads even lower, and Ye Suli bowed his head even lower. When he heard Huang Jin bought a smile, his heart skipped a beat. The thing he was most worried about had happened. Yuan Cheng had not discussed this with him beforehand!
Fortunately, there is now a princess to attract fire, and the probability of Tianren discovering him is even lower. Just like the king, in order to protect the ministers of Zhongshan, it is nothing for the king and the princess to sacrifice a little.

"Do you have any shame?" Yuan Chun pointed at the king's nose and cursed.

What are the identities of those dancers? What is her identity? Lumping her together with those dancers, is this something a king and a father can do... It seems like he can really do it.

Yuan Cheng was not used to her either: "Don't you know how your father came to be? You were once a merchant's daughter, too. Why do you look down on them? I gave you ten taels of gold, and I still feel like I'm losing out!"

Yuan Chun sneered: "Since you don't regard yourself as a king, why don't you go and make others laugh yourself? When the king before Zhongshan was still alive, you made him very happy."

For a usurper, mentioning this kind of thing is no less than touching the reverse scale. But who is Yuan Cheng? He is a real villain. If he still cares about this, the people of Zhongshan will be in a panic because they are afraid that he will kill them.

Yuan Cheng shrugged helplessly: "You know, your father is old, and it is no longer the age to make people laugh..."

As he spoke, he secretly glanced at Lu Mingfei again, and suddenly called the servant who had left the princess's side to prevent her from overturning the tray, and asked him to come back.

Yuan Chun was stunned again. What was going on?
Yuan Cheng took the gold back to his side and said dimly: "Now that the guests have been amused by me, it is time for the gold to return to me."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Chun looked towards his shameless father, the King. The guest, who had a stern face the whole time, was now extremely happy.

Lu Mingfei decided that Adele would definitely like such an interesting girl... although it was somewhat unrelated to her sister-in-law who was good at playing the piano and writing poetry.

As for César's opinion...he wouldn't have any opinion anyway.

The dinner was very satisfying to both the host and the guests. The king regained his power over his rebellious daughter, Lu Mingfei had a lot of fun, and solved his brother's single problem.

The ministers watched the fun, and the dancers were later rewarded with ten taels of gold by Hara Makoto to be divided equally, which was also a compensation for their hard work that night. The only victim, Princess Jun, left step by step. It is said that she sealed the palace and ordered the maids, the king and the dog not to enter.

In a hidden room somewhere, the king finally met with the long-lost foreign minister alone. Of course, the process was not very pleasant.

"Ye Suli! I think you think your brain is not big enough!" After being told that the divination failed and that the gods might punish the evildoers, Yuan Cheng pointed at Ye Suli's nose and cursed.

The latter had a calm expression, not caring at all about the king's anger: "How can we explain the affairs of heaven and man clearly? King, please be careful with your words. The power of heaven and man is unfathomable. What if I accidentally offend them with my words..."

Yuan Cheng stopped talking, but he mouthed "Just wait and see!", which Ye Suli saw very clearly.

(End of this chapter)