Masquerade in Bridal Attire and Marry the Prince

Chapter 157: A Trick

Translator: asassin

“Steward Dong, didn’t you say that Her Highness wanted to see us for an emergency? How long has it been now? You didn’t make that up just to fool us, did you?” Seeing that half an hour had passed, the men, who didn’t want to wait in the first place felt even more agitated.

Although it was an afternoon of late autumn, the sun during this time of day was still scorching. After standing in the sun for such a long time, their backs hurt and their legs were sore, all because of the unfavoured crown princess who was in no place to do this to them!

Dongxiang didn’t know what Du Chuxuan wanted to do. He was just an insignificant soldier who would have never had the chance to serve Du Chuxuan if it weren’t for the exception made by Yuxing Tianrui, who simply told him to only listen to Du Chuxuan when he was sent here.

Therefore, even if Du Chuxuan asked him to hold his sword against the world today, he would not raise the slightest doubt. Having reassured himself, Dongxiang answered rapidly, “Please don’t worry. You probably know that the Crown Princess has not been very well lately. I think soon we’ll find out what this is all about.”

“Manager Dong, can I trust you?” A chubby old lady opened her mouth. She had been serving the Empress since the Empress was young. Having lived in the palace for such a long time made her incredibly shrewd.

“At my age, no one would blame me even if I retire and leave the palace. I’m only here for I am grateful to the Empress and want to repay that kindness by serving His Highness. Now that the Crown Princess asked me to wait here for no reason, nor did she speak about the time of the meeting. If she doesn’t show up today, who is going to do my job for me?”

For a moment, Dongxiang didn’t know what to say. He was brought back because he was someone that is useful to Du Chuxuan, so he was given the position of a steward like Ada, the only difference being that Ada was working in secret while he was known by the public. However, all of these people had been working for the Empress for a long time, who he didn’t want to offend.

“I asked you to wait here. Well, are you going to defy me?” A lazy voice came out of the hall, which was like music to Dongxiang’s ear. He took a sigh of relief. “The princess is awake now. Please, wait for a moment.” As he said this, he walked in quickly.

“Your Highness, those people all used to work for the Empress. If what just happened gets around the palace, I’m afraid you’ll be accused of treating them harshly.” It was these past few days after Du Chuxuan was back did Dongxiang started to notice the gossips that was spread from East Palace.

Seldom did he pay attention to that nonsense. However, with further consideration, he sensed that someone in the palace wanted the East Palace to go down. Though not sure who that was, he needed to find out about it as soon as possible.

Du Chuxuan had just gotten up. Sitting by the bed, he tidied up his clothes. Then he glanced at himself in the mirror beside him and stood up after he made sure that everything is okay.

“Since they’ve been waiting for so long, it’s fine to let them wait a few more minutes.” After hearing that, Dongxiang, who still did not know what had happened, saw Du Chuxuan with a miserable expression.

“What’s wrong, Your Highness?” At the moment, there were only Du Chuxuan and him in the palace. Seeing the misery on Du Chuxuan’s face made him extremely nervous. He didn’t have time to think about the people outside the hall.

Hearing him, several guards rushed over immediately. After confirming with Dongxiang that it was the Crown Princess who was not feeling well, they went to the Imperial Hospital for the imperial doctors.

The people waiting outside were all being at a loss, not sure what had happened. That the Crown Princess didn’t summoned them in, nor did anyone care about why they were here with people hurrying to and fro. They stood there looking like children who were being punished.

Yuxing Tianrui who was in the study also heard the news. Just as he was about to stand up, Ada appeared. “My Lord, Luo Yi just came with the message that Her Highness is fine. Please don’t worry.”

“Fine?” He remembered Du Chuxuan was well during breakfast. Why was he suddenly sick? Still a little worried, he walked out.

Helpless, Ada had no choice but to block Yuxing Tianrui. “Her Highness asked Luo Yi to send the message. If you really wants to help him, play along. My Lord, no matter what you hear in the following few days, just ignore it. If you are needed, Luo Yi will come here.”

How could Yuxing Tianrui not know that Du Chuxuan was just pretending to be sick after hearing that? He couldn’t help frowning and asked Ada to figure out everything, but he still didn’t understand what Du Chuxuan was playing at.

However, he didn’t have time to care for this. The Emperor had sent news that Yuxing Wei would probably be back in three days and summoned him to the Imperial Study for a discussion. It was likely that there was also news about Manlou since Yuxing Wei returned.

Yuxing Tianrui sighed and let Ada keep an eye on Du Chuxuan, then hurriedly went to the Imperial Study. Now, he is just a prince who “doesn’t know anything”. Therefore he had to pretend he cared about such emergencies.

For three whole days, Du Chuxuan felt refreshed in the morning, so he took his men to visit the Empress each day. At noon, he always had those people over for inquiries. However, he would fall sick before he even saw them.

After three days, not to mention those people, even the Imperial Hospital was suffering but they couldn’t say anything.

They couldn’t say that their medical skills were so bad that they couldn’t even tell why the Crown Princess was ill. Otherwise it would be too disgraceful.

“Steward Dong, please let us wait inside so that we can help if Her Highness is in pain again.”

It was still the chubby old maid who suggested so and everyone else echoed. Even though these people knew their place, they still cared about their reputation and didn’t want others to see them as difficult to deal with.