Chapter 5: Lost at the Designated Location General Xiao Lu got lost and came to look for his wife...
Nothing happened for the remaining two days. After copying the scriptures, the two princesses left the Imperial Master's Tower, but they never saw the Imperial Master himself.
"Sister, what do you think the Imperial Master looks like? Who is he?" After three days of getting along, Qin Yuqing realized that Qin Qinqin was a soft-hearted person, which suited her awkward personality.
"This is not something we can know." Qin Qinqin turned around and said to Qin Yuqing seriously, "Let's stop here. Sixth sister, you can walk the rest of the way by yourself."
Qin Yuqing nodded in understanding, and seeing Chuntao standing waiting not far away, he left the carriage with Chuntao's help.
"Sixth sister, I will send some supplements to your palace. Don't forget our cooperation."
Qin Yuqing nodded, she looked at Chuntao and said, "I have something I want to ask you."
Chuntao nodded and supported Qin Yuqing as they walked step by step into the narrow palace courtyard.
"Please forgive me, Princess, but please believe Chuntao. Chuntao will follow your lead and will go through fire and water for you." Chuntao was a smart person. She took the initiative to apologize without Qin Yuqing saying anything.
"The princess has met the master and must have known my identity. This is a shameless statement and has no credibility, but princess..." Chuntao took out a hot water bottle from her bosom and placed it in Qin Yuqing's hand. "From the beginning to the end, Chuntao is loyal to you, princess."
Qin Yuqing's gaze shifted from Chuntao's face to the palace wall beside her. She found that more and more things deviated from the plot of the original book, but one of the tasks given by the system was to rewrite the plot.
So, does this rewriting of the plot mean rewriting the plot of the original book, or rewriting the plot of this world back to the plot of the original book?
However, as soon as this thought came out, Qin Yuqing laughed at herself. With the mission of becoming the empress, how could she possibly rewrite the plot of this world into the plot of the original book? If she really followed the development of the original book, let alone becoming the empress, even the concubines in the harem would not be able to leave alive.
"Don't be impatient. You're good in every way, except that you're too impatient." Qin Yuqing felt really depressed when she saw the thousand-foot-high palace walls, so she continued, "I remember the Fifth Princess' birthday banquet is coming soon, right?"
The original book mentioned that before the fifth princess' birthday banquet began, the heroine was celebrating her birthday alone when she happened to meet the emperor who was playing chess. Unfortunately, the heroine's panic and timidity made the emperor completely disappointed in her. It was because of the heroine's behavior that she was completely bullied by everyone in the harem, and finally she became an appendage of the hero.
"The princess is right. Chuntao knows she's wrong." Chuntao looked at Qin Yuqing worriedly. "Tomorrow at twilight hour, if the princess wants to celebrate her birthday, I can inform the queen and the palace of food."
"No need." Qin Yuqing had long since given up on birthdays, and besides, she wasn't concerned about her birthday. "Tell Lu Jingchuan that at tomorrow's birthday party, no matter what the emperor says, he can just refuse."
Chun Tao looked at Qin Yuqing hesitantly, her eyes seemed puzzled. After a while, she hesitated and asked, "Princess, won't you kill this servant?"
The moment Qin Yuqing stepped into the courtyard, white snowflakes fell from the sky. Qin Yuqing reached out to catch them and said, "Kill them."
Seeing that Chuntao was about to kneel down to show her loyalty, Qin Yuqing stopped her and said, "But I have to give you a chance, right? It's not my character to kill you with one blow." As she spoke, the snowflakes fell heavier and heavier. Qin Yuqing looked at the snowflakes in a good mood. She was a native of the south, and snow was a rarity for her.
Even after she became rich and witnessed many heavy snowfalls, she still had an obsession with snow deep down, an obsession that was almost pathological.
"Thank you, Princess." Chun Tao took out a coat from inside the house and put it on Qin Yuqing. She also took out a new bottle of hot water and said, "Don't play with me, Princess. Be careful not to catch a cold."
"Aren't you going yet?" Qin Yu calculated the time. If he didn't go now, the palace gate would be closed. By then, the security would be tight. How could Chuntao get out?
"The master will be here soon. Today is the young prince's martial arts class. Judging by the time, the master is about to get lost here." Chun Tao pointed to the swing under the old locust tree not far away and said, "Princess, please wait over there for a moment. I will go and make charcoal for you."
"Can you identify your location when you're lost?" Qin Yuqing couldn't help but laugh. When she first heard that Lu Jingchuan was directionally challenged, there was only one thought in her mind: if he was directionally challenged, how could he remember the way while marching and fighting?
Now that I think about it, this directionally challenged person was also acting, right?
"However, I don't remember the Ministry of Internal Affairs approving charcoal for us." Qin Yuqing asked casually while sitting on the swing, "Did Lu Jingchuan give us this charcoal?"
"Yes." Chun Tao did not hide it. At this moment, she and Chun Tao were the only two people in the courtyard, so she was not afraid of being overheard. "Don't worry, Princess. The master said that the charcoal fire is accounted for and will be returned later."
"So stingy." But after hearing Chuntao say that, Qin Yuqing finally accepted the charcoal in her heart. However, she didn't know how much charcoal cost in this world. She thought she should go out of the palace to see it when she had time.
"Excuse me, but which way is the exit from the palace?" His tone was as cold as ever, but this time there was a hint of a smile. "I heard it from the corner."
Qin Yuqing snorted softly. She sat on the swing and pushed it herself. "I'm in a different direction from the palace gate. General Lu wouldn't have deliberately gotten lost here, right?"
"You already know everything." The implication is, then why are you asking?
"Tomorrow is the birthday banquet. Whatever the emperor says to you, just refuse it."
"Reason?" Lu Jingchuan asked after thinking for a moment.
Qin Yuqing thought to himself, I can't tell you that I have a plot. I know that the emperor will force your Lu family to lead troops to fight tomorrow, and then your brother will volunteer to go to the battlefield in your place to protect you, but he will end up dying on the battlefield.
However, Lu Jingchuan never expected that his brother's death in battle and the Lu family army's vow to fight to the death and never surrender would be regarded as treason when reported to the capital. So far, their Lu family was completely defeated under the suppression of the male protagonist, and the biggest reason was that the Lu family did not take sides.
"I heard that the border region lost three cities in a row." That was enough. Lu Jingchuan was a smart man, and he knew the rest without Qin Yuqing explaining it.
"Oh, my little General Lu, you're here like this." Eunuch Ye's voice rang out, "Princess Six, please forgive me. I didn't wait for you at the palace gate. I guess I got lost again. I didn't expect to end up here again."
"It's alright, Eunuch Ye. I just returned to the palace as well." Qin Yuqing asked before Eunuch Ye could. "Has Fourth Sister arrived yet? I came in with her, but since we weren't going the same way, we separated."
"We're here, we're here. Look at my memory. Just now, the Fourth Princess asked me if the Sixth Princess had arrived." Eunuch Ye made a gesture of invitation and said to Lu Jingchuan, "Little General Lu, it's time for you to learn the way."
Lu Jingchuan nodded and left. Eunuch Ye apologized again and left.
Chun Tao poked her head out of the room and asked in a low voice, "Princess, am I right that the master will get lost here?"
"Does your master often get lost here?"
"No, the master has never been here since he entered the palace to teach, except this time."
Qin Yuqing nodded, feeling a chill all over her body. She walked into the room holding the hot water bottle, and then she remembered that she had forgotten to ask Lu Jingchuan how much he would charge for the charcoal fire.
I can only say hello next time we meet.
At almost the hour of You on the second day, Qin Yuqing changed into an outfit that was not outstanding but rather simple, with only a pearl hairpin on her head. Compared with other princesses and daughters of official families, Qin Yuqing looked much shabby.
"Princess, I have a question." Chun Tao asked while combing Qin Yuqing's hair, "You clearly have suitable clothes in your closet, why don't you wear them?"
"The princess has her own plans."
Qin Yuqing did not miss the expressions of the people at the scene. Most of them had expressions of shock on their faces, and their eyes occasionally looked towards the woman under the high platform not far away.
The woman, dressed in light green clothes, had few but extremely luxurious hair accessories on her head. She looked arrogantly at everyone who came to greet her.
"Fifth Princess, Qin Youran." Qin Yuqing's fingers on both sides clenched unconsciously, and her nails dug deeply into the palms of her hands. This was the reaction left by the heroine of the original book.
It seems that there are still many secrets waiting for her on the fifth princess, but she looked around and didn't see Qin Qinqin. It was not in line with her character that she didn't show up at such an important moment.
Qin Yuqing and the fifth princess Qin Youran looked at each other in the air. There was a disdainful smile in Qin Youran's eyes. She didn't care why Qin Yuqing appeared here, or perhaps in Qin Youran's subconscious, whether Qin Yuqing appeared here or not would not affect her.
Qin Yuqing curled the corners of her lips slightly, reached out and picked up the wine held by the palace maid beside her, tapped it lightly in the direction of Qin Youran, and then turned her wrist and poured it on the ground neatly.
A hint of surprise flashed in Qin Youran's eyes, then she smiled lightly, walked to her seat, and sat down leisurely. It was the seat that belonged to her alone, the seat closest to the emperor.
"He does have the capital to be arrogant." Qin Yuqing flipped through his memories. The original owner had never participated in such a banquet. Even if there were seats, he probably wouldn't know where to sit.
Is it possible that I can only retreat?
Qin Yuqing looked at Qin Youran, who had a subtle sarcasm in his eyes. She sipped her wine, watching the show, waiting to see how Qin Yuqing would respond.
Qin Yuqing smiled faintly. Of course, she didn't get the position by asking. This was not what she wanted.
After turning several winding corridors, an ancient and elegant pavilion came into view. In the pavilion, a man in dark green clothes sat upright, concentrating on the chessboard, holding a piece in his hand, as if thinking about where to place it.
Qin Yuqing approached quietly and only then could she see the man's face clearly. He had gray hair on his temples and fine wrinkles on his face. He looked to be in his forties or fifties, but his imposing aura made people dare not underestimate him.
I guess this must be her cheap father who only gave birth to her and didn't raise her, the Emperor of Great Yin.
"If this piece falls here, it will have no chance of survival." Qin Yuqing's thin fingers pointed at a place on the chessboard, which happened to touch the black piece that the emperor was about to place.
The emperor looked up and followed the finger. His gaze was deep, as if he could see through everything in the world. It made people feel awe and dared not look directly at him.
However, Qin Yuqing was not afraid at all. She stood there with a perfect smile on her face, and calmly faced the emperor's scrutiny.
"Why do you think so?" The emperor's gaze returned to the chessboard. He pointed to the position opposite him and said in a deep voice with unquestionable authority, "Sit down."
Qin Yuqing straightened her sleeves and sat down. From the plot, we can know that although Chen Cairen, the mother of the heroine in the original book, has a dull personality, she is also a talented woman. Even though the heroine is a girl, Chen Cairen always tries her best to educate the original owner.
What's more, Qin Yuqing had learned Go in modern times.
"Chess has its gains and losses, and its advances and retreats are called the way. If you are obsessed with gaining, you will lose more invisibly."
Qin Yuqing picked up the chess piece placed next to her and placed it down decisively.
"It's a small place, but in the big picture, it could be the difference between good and bad."
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