Chapter 129 Your Highness!

Chu Ran looked down at the sneakers, black casual pants and beige sweatshirt. He raised his hand and touched his hair. It was short and stubby...

This turned out to be his own body!

No wonder so many people around him looked at him like a monster!

Hurry up, hurry up, if you don’t leave now, you will be caught and treated as a monster.

But he was penniless and didn't know anyone nearby, so Chu Ran didn't know who to ask for help. Even if he did, it would be useless. No one would dare to recognize him in his current state.

I still have to find a way to change my clothes first.

After much thought and considering his own situation, Chu Ran went to the place where the bodies were kept in the city.

This kind of place is usually where the bodies of the newly dead and ownerless are placed. Chu Ran muttered to himself, "Don't blame me, don't blame me. I had no choice. I will burn paper for you when I have money in the future." While suppressing his fear and disgust, he stripped the clothes off the dead person.

After the makeover, Chu Ran thought that for the time being, he should first find a way to make a living.

After an "interview", Chu Ran successfully got a job in a bookstore with decent pay. The monthly salary was not a big deal, the most important thing was that food and accommodation were provided, so he would not starve to death for the time being.

Chu Ran helped the shopkeeper sell books, and in his spare time he would write stories, since he had many stories in his mind. The bookstore shopkeeper accidentally saw the stories written by Chu Ran, and thought that the stories were well written and very interesting, so he compiled the stories written by Chu Ran into a collection and published it.

Unexpectedly, quite a lot of people bought books, and the bookstore owner made a small profit and also increased Chu Ran's monthly salary.

When there was a moon at night, Chu Ran would move a chair and sit in the yard. He would walk through the low walls surrounding the yard and look towards the towering imperial palace several streets away, the place where he had stayed for many years and regarded it as a prison.

It has been more than three months since he came back here, and he has roughly known some of the things that happened after his death. Not long after he died, Qin Yuxiao also died. Li Fu did not hold a grand funeral as written in the book, but ordered people to transfer Qin Yuxiao's body thousands of miles back to Yunzhou. Because of this incident, people in the court and the public have complained about it, thinking that Li Fu was ungrateful and turned his face after he was restored to the status of a prince. He did not even mourn for his uncle who raised him for many years for a day, which was really unfilial.

A year later, that is, three months ago, not long after Chu Ran returned, Emperor Chengwen also passed away.

Although Emperor Chengwen's throne was seized, he was the emperor, so his funeral was a national funeral. A few days after Emperor Chengwen's death, Li Fu ascended the throne.

No matter what happens in the court, ordinary people don't care about it. They only care about whether they have enough food to eat and enough clothes to wear. What's more, there was turmoil in the court in the past few years. But since Li Fu restored his status as a prince, all major court affairs were decided by Li Fu, so even if Li Fu ascended the throne, the lives of the people would not change much.

Chu Ran would think of Li Fu from time to time, not all the time, but would suddenly think of him when he was free.

What is he doing? Has he eaten yet? He must be even busier now that he is the emperor? Chu Ran has been "dead" for more than a year. Will Li Fu forget him...

It’s not that Chu Ran didn’t think about looking for Li Fu. In fact, Chu Ran had thought about it since the first day he came back. However, the palace walls were too high and the guards were strict, so it was not possible to enter casually.

He had no way to take the initiative to meet Li Fu, so he could only wait for Li Fu to come to him. That's why he wrote those stories. Chu Ran had told Li Fu many of the stories in the book. He also hoped that one day these stories would reach Li Fu's ears. As long as Li Fu heard these folk stories, he would definitely know that the person who wrote the story was Chu Ran.

Chu Ran was still naive. What he didn't know was that these folk stories were actually very difficult to reach the emperor's ears. Even if that day really came, it would be many years later.

Fortunately, although these stories did not reach the palace and the emperor's ears, they did reach the ears of others.

"Let me see who is so bold as to copy my story?"

The bookstore had just opened, and Chu Ran hadn't had time to sort the books on the shelf when someone came in with an assistant, looking like they were looking for someone to settle a score.

"Is it you? Are you the one who copied... this young master's story?!"

With a heavy slap on the table, Chu Ran turned around from behind it.

The man opened his eyes wide and pretended to be ferocious. "What are you looking at? It's you!"

Before Li Dingning could ask loudly, the bad guy who copied his story suddenly held Li Dingning's hand tightly and shouted to him in a shocked, affectionate, and desperate tone: "Fifth Prince!"

Li Dingning immediately became at a loss, "How do you know I am... Did you tell them? Did you?!"

Li Dingning turned around and asked the servants standing behind him with narrowed eyes.

"Fourth Prince! It's me! Xiao Linzi!"

Li Dingning immediately shook off Chu Ran's hand and shouted in horror: "Who are you? You are so brave! Are you trying to kill yourself? How dare you impersonate... impersonate..."

Chu Ran was not going to give up so easily after finally waiting for an acquaintance. He quickly grabbed Li Dingning's hand and said, "Fifth Prince, it's me, Xiao Linzi, it's really me!"

Chu Ran was afraid that Li Dingning would not believe him, so he blurted out, "When you were ten years old, you suddenly wet the bed. You were worried that the palace servants would find out and laugh at you. At that time, Concubine Li happened to come in, so you splashed water on the bed, pretending that it was water... mmmmm..."

Chu Ran's mouth was covered.

Li Dingning's face turned red and blue, and he approached Chu Ran, frowned and whispered, "You, don't say anything."

Chu Ran: “Mmmmm.”

"Are you really... Xiao Linzi?" Li Dingning looked at Chu Ran suspiciously.

Chu Ran blinked at Li Dingning crazily.

Just me! Just me! Xiao Linzi!

Li Dingning hesitated for a while, let go of Chu Ran's mouth, and waved to let everyone behind him go out. When there were only two people left in the room, Li Dingning asked curiously: "But aren't you dead? The body is still there... uh... oh, I see, you are resurrecting through a dead body! Just like what you said before..."

"Ah, yes, yes, that's it."

Chu Ran was too lazy to explain so much. After all, Li Dingning might not understand. Anyway, as long as Li Dingning believed that he was the real Xiao Linzi, it would be fine.

"But I still can't completely trust you. Let me ask you one more question. If you can answer it, I will believe you."

Chu Ran nodded.

"Does White Snake have a son?"

"White Snake and Xu Xian had a son, Xu Shilin, who was the reincarnation of Wenquxingjun. Later, he passed the imperial examination and won the first place. He brought White Snake out of Leifeng Pagoda, and the family finally lived happily together."

“It’s really you!”

Only Chu Ran and Li Dingning knew the subsequent story of White Snake. Li Dingning said happily: "It turns out that you really have come back to life!"

“Yeah…”

Chu Ran didn't want to hear the words "resurrection from the dead", they were too dark.

After a while, Chu Ran said, "I think..."

"Wait, let me ask you a question first." Li Dingning interrupted Chu Ran, and Chu Ran nodded, "Your Highness, please ask."

"Li Fu...ah, no, Your Majesty, what is your relationship with him?"

Unexpectedly, Li Dingning would suddenly ask such a question. Chu Ran blushed in embarrassment, "Whatever relationship your Highness thinks it is, then that is the relationship..."

"Really? You really have that kind of relationship with Li, no, His Majesty! Oh my God! I only found out about it now!" After a while, Li Dingning said in annoyance, "Why did I only find out about it now?"

"Your Highness, this is not the point. The point is..."

"When did you two get together? Huh? When?"

Chu Ran: "I don't remember, it's been a long time, before he returned to Yunzhou..."

"Oh my god! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" Li Dingning stared at Chu Ran angrily, "Why didn't you tell me! Why didn't you tell me!"

Chu Ran: “…”

He didn't know that Li Dingning was interested in this!

"Your Highness, can you listen to me?" Chu Ran said helplessly.

Li Dingning was still very angry, but compared to being angry at Chu Ran, he was more angry at himself. He hated that Chu Ran and Li Fu had been hiding under his nose for so long, and he had never noticed it at all.

Thinking back now, Li Dingning couldn't understand why he didn't notice the relationship between the two of them at the beginning? Was it because of Xiao Linzi's identity as an eunuch that he thought it was impossible? Or was it because Li Fu's face, which was sometimes sinister and sometimes perverse, didn't look like the type that would be kind to others...

But no matter what, the reality is that he was wrong. He had been sharp-eyed and sharp-eared all his life, but when it came to the matter between Chu Ran and Li Fu, he was blind.

"You tell me." said Li Dingning.

Chu Ran didn't beat around the bush and said directly: "Can you help me enter the palace? I want to see His Majesty Li...

Like Li Dingning, it was difficult for him to change the way he addressed Li Fu for a while.

"Of course you can." Li Dingning glanced at Chu Ran, "But you may need to be mentally prepared."