After the meal, Chuanwen finally remembered the haunted inn. However, she was a little tired from the journey and wanted to go back to her room to lie in bed and read the bedtime story.
She looked at the emperor, ["I really want to live next door to the emperor! Normally, the emperor is the Son of Heaven, he should be radiant with golden light, and no evil spirits can get close! Living next door to him should be safer!"]
Xu Yan looked at her daughter beside her and saw that her daughter's expression when she looked at the emperor was as if she wanted to stick the emperor on her forehead to ward off evil spirits. Sigh! She was a little frightened!
Chuanyu and the other women were unaware of the rumors of the inn being haunted, and they all ate their meals with relish.
Chuanwen sighed inwardly. She wanted to live next to the emperor, but she knew she had no chance. [I'm neither a princess nor a high-ranking minister. My grandfather is a marquis, but just a lowly one with no real power. Sigh, I guess I'll just have to stay in a quiet corner.]
Marquis Changxing stiffened, feeling a little ashamed. He never expected that he would be looked down upon by his granddaughter for having no status in the court when he was old. If he had known, he would have joined the others in making a name for himself when he was young!
The Vice Minister of Works, who had no hope of sharing a room with Zhao Dajia, suddenly brightened up. He was the Vice Minister of Works, a fourth-rank official! The highest-ranking official accompanying the Emperor on this trip was only a fourth-rank official. He should be able to stay next to the Emperor, right? Haha!
However, compared to high-ranking officials, the emperor preferred Chuanwen to live next door to him. After all, the Great Jin Dynasty could continue to function even without any high-ranking officials, but without Chuanwen, the Great Jin Dynasty would suffer serious losses!
However, he had previously arranged for Chuanwen to ride in the carriage with him so that he could talk and learn about the girls' school. But if he were to arrange for her to have her room next to his, he wondered if it would arouse her suspicion.
The emperor did not want to arouse Chuanwen's suspicion, nor did he want Chuanwen to encounter any danger. In the end, he had no choice but to give up on letting Chuanwen live next door to him, but ordered most of Xu Wuyou's guards to guard near Chuanwen's room, so that nothing could go wrong with Chuanwen!
Chuanwen's room was the second one up the stairs. When she entered the room, she saw Xu Wuyou. Xu Wuyou and Chuanyu exchanged a glance and both of them smiled sweetly at each other, which made Chuanwen's teeth ache.
Instead of protecting the emperor, Xu Laodeng runs off to flirt with Yu Jie. Isn't he afraid of being discovered and punished by the emperor?
Xu, Lao Deng?
Who is it?
Xu Wuyou and the others didn't react for a moment. After thinking about it, they realized that the person in charge of guarding their team was surnamed Xu and had a connection with Chuanyu. Wasn't that the young general Xu Wuyou?
"Is 'Old Deng' Xu Wuyou's nickname?"
The Vice Minister of Revenue, who had already reached the innermost room, was talking to Zhao Dajia with his head close. Zhao Dajia frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Never heard of it, but it's quite unique."
Xu Wuyou watched Chuanwen and Chuanyu enter the room, his lips twitching behind them. He guessed that this "Old Deng" was probably the same "Old Six" that Chuanwen had mentioned before, an insult!
After entering the room, Chuanwen lay down on the bed, while Chuanyu, seeing that it was still a bit early to go to sleep, sat at the table and read the lecture notes by the warm yellow light.
[Sister Yu is so hardworking!]
Chuanwen sighed and then hugged her blanket to read a bedtime story. However, she was still thinking about the room next to the emperor's, so she first checked who was staying next to the emperor.
[On the left live the Vice Minister of Works and the Vice Minister of Personnel, and on the right live the Marquis of Changxing and Shen Congliang of the Imperial Guard... Hmm? The Marquis of Changxing? Isn't that my adoptive grandfather?]
There were many of them, so to ensure everyone had a room, except for the emperor, everyone shared a room with two people. However, Chuanwen found it somewhat unbelievable: "Wow! So my cheap grandfather gets to live next door to the emperor!"
Chuanwen's sudden realization that his grandfather wasn't so useless made Marquis Changxing's lips twitch. He was, after all, a marquis, so what was so strange about him having the right to live next door to the emperor?
The main reason is that the emperor didn't bring many officials with him this time, so the Marquis of Changxing, a seemingly idle marquis, didn't appear to have such a low status.
Chuanrui and Xu Yan shared a room. Hearing his daughter's thoughts, Chuanrui chuckled, "Luckily, we were assigned to the room opposite that Lord Zhao!"
Xu Yan was still wondering why she had to live opposite Zhao Dajia, and asked a question mark. Chuan Rui then told Xu Yan what Marquis Changxing had told him, and Xu Yan was quite relieved after hearing it.
"It's just that we live a bit far from our daughter."
Xu Yan still wanted to live closer to her daughter so that she could have someone to look after her if anything happened.
Chuan Rui didn't take it seriously. "Most of the guards are protecting our daughter. Don't worry, our daughter is much safer than the two of us."
Besides, even though his daughter says she's scared, if there really were ghosts, he thinks she could catch one and play with it!
His daughter's dark, twisted, crawling antics are so terrifying that even ghosts would avoid her!
Xu Yan felt somewhat ashamed after Chuan Rui's words. How could she have raised such a free-spirited daughter!
Chuanwen was still reading about the ghost story, but he was already sleepy, and the indistinct words made it even harder to keep his eyes open. He managed to read a few lines, only managing to exclaim, "Oh, that merchant died in the room of the Vice Minister of Works and the Vice Minister of Personnel. Luckily, I didn't rush to live next to the Emperor!"
Then I fell fast asleep.
Chuanwen drifted into a sweet dream, but the Minister of Works, who was taking off his clothes and preparing to go to bed, was taken aback. ? ? ?
A gust of night wind blew by, making the window that wasn't closed properly creak and groan. The Vice Minister of Works immediately shivered!
He looked at the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel who was snoring on the bed, and hesitated whether to wake him up. After all, he had only found out this afternoon that the artificial mountain where his butt was stuck was a fake that the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel’s distant relative had sold him!
But if we leave him alone, the Vice Minister of Personnel might get carried away by a ghost in the middle of the night!
Although it was quite embarrassing for him to have his butt stuck and for the news to be leaked, there was no need to disregard the life of the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel because of this!
Thinking this, the Vice Minister of Works shakily stepped forward and tried to wake the Vice Minister of Personnel, but the Vice Minister of Personnel was snoring loudly and could not be woken up no matter how much he was pushed.
The Vice Minister of Works looked at his hand, then at the Vice Minister of Personnel's arm, and muttered under his breath, "Brother Du, I'm doing this to save you!"
So he twisted the Vice Minister of Personnel's arm hard with two fingers. He swore that he twisted it with such force not because of any personal grudge, but simply because he was afraid that if he twisted it too lightly, he wouldn't wake the man up!
"Ah! Ugh..."
Before the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel could even let out a scream, the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Works covered his mouth.
"Brother Du! Don't shout! Don't shout!"
The Vice Minister of Works even whispered a rebuke to the Vice Minister of Personnel, fearing that they might disturb the emperor next door.
The Vice Minister of Personnel finally stopped shouting, and only then did the Vice Minister of Works remove his hand. However, the Vice Minister of Personnel was furious, rubbing his arm that had been twisted, his eyes red with pain.
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