Masquerade in Bridal Attire and Marry the Prince

Chapter 159: A Wonderful Show Going On

Translator: derekliang

“Who is the tricky maid you are referring to?” A cold voice came from the door. That fat old maid answered recklessly without notifying the coming person, “Who else could she be except the Crown Princess out of the favor of the Crown Prince in the East Palace?”

The room became quiet as soon as she finished her talk because the question came exactly from the most respectable Crown Prince of the Shenglan State!

Du Chuxuan couldn’t help but laugh when he was lying on the bed. As the saying instructed, ‘Conquer your enemy at one fling, or your enemy’s spirit would be boosted.’ Although some people in the crowd knew that Du Chuxuan was about to start his plan from this point, no one really knew how and when Du Chuxuan was going to carry out his plan. So Du Chuxuan remained silent until their grudge was amassed to a certain level. In this way, Du Chuxuan could easily take advantage from their impulsive talk and would gain a winning advantage.

Du Chuxuan decided to keep waiting until they amassed their anger and grudge to a certain extent and then properly took advantage of them. That was why Du Chuxuan asked Yuxing Tianrui to avoid appearing in his palace over these days.

“Your Highness, I’m sorry to be late.” The coming official was Luo Qing. In fact, Luo Qing was ready to cooperate with Du Chuxuan to finish the annual wonderful show. But all of a sudden, an Emperor’s oral decree asked all the Imperial Doctors to come to the palace of Concubine Xiao.

Over the generations, even the pregnant Empress could never receive the same importance from the Emperor, not to mention any concubines. Luo Qing didn’t bother thinking what tricky means had Concubine Xiao used, but he did especially remember the reporter from Concubine Xiao’s palace in his mind, because Luo Qing believed that the reporter declaring the Emperor’s oral decree must have his evil plot against his lord.

Yuxing Tainrui couldn’t help but frown, “I don’t know why the Imperial Hospital would come over so late. Does that mean that the Imperial Hospital is no longer caring about my East Palace?”

Hearing this, Luo Qing quickly got down on his knees, “Your Highness, please calm down. I’ve been looking for several herbal medicines as listed in the medicinal recipe of the Crown Princess recently. I’ve just come back to the Imperial Hospital today. In fact, I was patiently waiting for the call of East Palace in the Imperial Hospital. But suddenly, a reporter from Concubine Xiao’s palace asked all our Imperial Doctors to go to the residence of Concubine Xiao.”

Upon hearing his explanation, Yuxing Tianrui had a bigger frown. Du Chuxuan was also slightly surprised upon hearing the message. In fact, he didn’t really consider Concubine Xiao in his plan. He planned to ask Luo Qing to come at a late time with a random excuse. But he never imagined that Concubine Xiao was even helping him deliver a more wonderful show this time.

“Stop cheating me. I can’t believe a concubine would have such a great power.” Yuxing Tianrui kicked Luo Qing to the ground and found the crowd of maids in the palace was trembling with fear. In particular, that fat maid had a subconscious feeling that Yuxing Tianrui was in fact kicking her, instead of Luo Qing.

Luo Qing had a bitter face and believed that it was rather a difficult task to cooperate with his lord to finish a wonderful show. He had no choice but to quickly stand up when he said, “Your Highness, don’t be angry. The health of the Crown Princess is the most important. Let me check the health condition of the Crown Princess first.”

Yuxing Tianrui would naturally approve his application. So Yuxing Tianrui moved aside slightly and allowed Luo Qing to come over to the bed with another young apprentice. Only then did Yuxing Tianrui turn to look at the crowd in the room.

“Where’s Dongxiang?” Yuxing Tianrui had a gloomy face and turned to ask Luo Yun, as if he didn’t even find the crowd of maids sent over by the Empress.

“Your Highness, when Manager Dong found no Imperial Doctor was coming, he went out to go to the Imperial Hospital to look for a doctor. Those maids had made the Crown Princess angry. In order to prevent those maids from running away, I could only block the access.”

That fat maid could no longer bear Luo Yun’s talk and immediately jumped up when she shouted angrily, “That’s sheer nonsense!”

“Be quiet!” Yuxing Tianrui slapped the table beside him and no one dared speak anymore. Yuxing Tianrui squinted and said, “No one could save your lives if Xuan had anything wrong.” Instantly, the powerful momentum of a Crown Prince spread out, giving everyone a huge pressure that no one dared speak.

“Why not listen to doctor’s instructions, Your Highness? I’ve told you that you cannot be too tired and should especially avoid getting angry. If you don’t listen to my instruction, no one could save your life.”

Yuxing Tianrui, upon hearing Luo Qing’s talk across the screen, subconsciously tightened his fists. In fact, Yuxing Tianrui knew that Luo Qing’s talk was designed for the success of today’s show. But he secretly felt like Luo Qing was in fact reminding him and he was having a sense of worries towards the future.

“Guards,” Ada came in as soon as Yuxing Tianrui finished, “Put all those people in custody and leave them for the final judgment of the Crown Princess after she wakes up!”

Those experienced maids were startled. But before they could say anything, Ada’s people had already brought them away. They didn’t even have the strength to refute.

When Luo Yun found that the crowd was taken away, a trace of satisfaction flashed across his eyes. Luo Yun had been serving Du Chuxuan and she was clear why Du Chuxuan would start his plan from this point.

Because these people even started to manipulate financial account and steal public fund in the East Palace. Their intolerable outlaw behaviors would soon give the Crown Prince a huge burden that the Crown Prince could no longer afford even though the Crown Prince was kind enough and the Emperor was always generous to grant everything as long as the Crown Prince needed!

In addition, as what Du Chuxuan had said, some other princes would certainly take advantage of all of these illegal activities to put the Crown Prince into a difficult situation. Although no one really knew if Du Chuxuan’s personal assumption would happen in the real world one day, all of these illegal behaviors remained as a distant threat that they needed to try their best to eliminate, in order to protect the Crown Prince from being challenged by his royal brothers.

Seeing that there were no other outsiders in the room, Du Chuxuan let out a long sigh of relief and sat up straight. The show was finally finished.

“Concubine Xiao asked all of your Imperial Doctors to go to her palace today. And the reporter had even the written decree of the Emperor. Am I right?”

The questions in a row were key factors that could decide the success of Du Chuxuan’s overall plan. Although Luo Qing didn’t want to admit, he had to tell the two lords at the first time, “My lord, Your Highness, Concubine Xiao might be pregnant!”

All of the other people in the room were shocked upon hearing Luo Qing’s news!

Du Chuxuan and Yuxing Tianrui looked at each other and both of them could find disbelief in each other’s eyes. In fact, ever since the birth of the third prince, no other prince or princess was born in the palace.

The Emperor didn’t seem to care about this. In the eyes of ordinary people, the Emperor was known as a diligent monarch without caring about his concubines. That was why the Emperor was reputed as an outstanding model in the civil society.

In addition, Concubine Xiao and the third prince had just come back to the palace. It would take normally two to three months for the Imperial Doctor to  find out the pregnancy of Concubine Xiao. Did that mean that Concubine Xiao had already started her plot as early as two to three months ago?

“I don’t think we have to worry too much about this matter.” Yuxing Tianrui waved his hand, showing that he didn’t really care about it, “If Concubine Xiao is really pregnant, the child could only become an ordinary prince and would never challenge my position as the Crown Prince. In addition, the child is still a vulnerable embryo. It would not leave any tremendous impact over me.”