The Little Consort's
Eps. 15: Drama
“Your Majesty, you must give me justice!”
The Red-clothed still dared to lick his tongue as if innocent even though his body was already soaked. Beside him, Li Anlan stood firmly staring at the Red-clothed One with cynicism and disgust. The shameless woman still wanted to blame him. In fact, he himself pushed Li Anlan. In fact, the ants also know that Li Anlan is here to be harmed.
“Oh, Consort Ling, what kind of justice do you mean?” ask Long Ji Man.
“He, he tried to kill me!”
Li Anlan rolled her eyeballs, lazily listening to such a low-class play. Clearly Long Ji Man also knew who was at fault here. The woman told a very unreasonable lie. Li Anlan knew Long Ji Man was trying to provoke the honesty of his concubines. So, he would help Long Ji Man play the role.
“Mrs! Why are you soaking wet?”
Xie Roulan ran towards Li Anlan, then hit him and hugged him. Xie Roulan frantically saw his entire clothes and the body of his master drenched, like a cat being splashed. He heard that his master was confronted by another concubine when he was about to meet the king of a eunuch who had only been working for a few days in Xingyue Palace. He immediately ran after, worried that something bad had happened because all this time, Li Anlan had never bothered anyone.
“Your Majesty the King, what happened to Nyonyaku?”
Xiao Biqi stared intently at Xie Roulan. The servant girl was too panicked to forget to salute Long Ji Man.
“I'm fine.”
Li Anlan's gaze turned back to the Red Dress.
“So, you're Consort Ling, Xu Lingshu?”
“True. I am Xu Lingshu, a guifei!”
Li Anlan was getting lazy arguing with this woman. He regretted obeying Long Ji Man's order to save the woman. If he knew it would be this way, Li Anlan would rather let Xu Lingshu drown inside the lake. Let Long Ji Man come to save her. The arrogant woman would definitely not stop looking for trouble with herself after the events of today.
“Your Majesty, give me justice!”
Xu Lingshu returned to shimmering his tongue. Li Anlan screeched.
“Ck.. I should have said that.”
Long Ji Man exhaled. Xu Lingshu acted outrageously. She dared to push her other husband's wife inside the palace. Isn't this the same as killing outright? As a master concubine, Xu Lingshu should have set a good example to be imitated by a lower rank concubine. Although it never received the attention of Long Ji Man, Xu Lingshu should still maintain the image of herself as the main concubine and keep the good name of the harem palace. It seemed, Empress Dowager Han Yuemei had spoiled Xu Lingshu so much that she dared to act unreasonably.
“Guifei, Consort An didn't even touch you at all.”
Hearing Long Ji Man's words, Xu Lingshu's face reddened. It had never occurred to him that Long Ji Man whom he loved so much would witness his actions while oppressing Li Anlan. Xu Lingshu was completely unaware that his king had witnessed everything from the beginning. No, he can't lose. His self-esteem could not go down with just an event like this.
“Your Majesty, I really don't lie.”
Xu Lingshu turned back. His spoiled tone made Li Anlan cluck, disgusted by Xu Lingshu's mannerisms. The cunning and tongue-licking concubine's play was actually witnessed by Li Anlan in real life here, not just in the royal drama on television that he often watched. He even experienced it himself. Really, a role that tests patience.
“Do you doubt your king's vision?”
“Your Majesty, maybe your main concubine's brain is damaged because her head is too much water,” as long as Li Anlan.
“Your Majesty, he insulted me!”
Xiao Biqi hinted through hand gestures that Li Anlan would not speak. Seeing the gesture, Li Anlan's expression went back flat. It would be best if all this boring skit was over soon. Li Anlan's legs had been cramping due to standing for too long, plus a coldness that infiltrated through the pores of his skin.
“If you do it again, your guifei title will be revoked.”
Long Ji Man left the female crowd without saying anything more. His majesty still radiated despite his cold and flat face dominating. If the weather was not hot, anyone who saw his eyes would freeze.
Although only visible rear body, Li Anlan felt that the good looks of Long Ji Man still radiated. Finally, the show ended. Long Ji Man plays his character as a well-truthful and strict king. The women immediately walked away from the shores of Lake Houchi in dissatisfaction.
Li Anlan followed Long Ji Man, following the man to Hongwu Palace. The drops of water from Li Anlan's clothes left a trail along the way. The long, wet skirt he lifted up to half a calf so as not to complicate his steps. Her white skin that was wet like it was shining in the solar light.
Arriving at the main door of Hongwu Palace, Li Anlan stopped his steps. He looked around, ascertaining if any spies would report it to someone who might be more able to harm him. Once he felt safe, he immediately entered without concern for Xie Roulan and Xiao Biqi.
Long Ji Man sat in his great chair. As Li Anlan walked in in a wet shirt, she slightly turned her face away. Li Anlan's body curves were quite clearly imprinted. This scene was the same as when Long Ji Man saw Li Anlan for the first time in Houchi Lake, when the woman's head poked out from within the water with a bloody forehead.
“Say, what did you meet me for?”
Li Anlan's intentions had already been discovered. Since Long Ji Man already knew his intentions, Li Anlan would not mince words anymore.
“Your Majesty, let me climb Feiyun Mountain.”
It was not only Li Anlan's straightforward attitude that shocked Long Ji Man, but also the wish that the woman had just expressed. Getting into Feiyun Mountain was a violation. Whether it was ordinary people, officials, or the royal family could not enter the country's protected forbidden area. She, a little woman who saw the killer just ran away, instead boldly saying her wish to enter Feiyun Mountain blatantly.
Feiyun Mountain is a conservation area to protect rare plant and animal species. Long Ji Man deliberately locked the area so that he could protect something very important that concerned the lives of many people. If he allowed Li Anlan to leave, not only were the established rules broken, but also the ethics and morals of nature. Moreover, Li Anlan was a careless and reckless palace lady.
What if he were to burn and damage the animal habitat on Feiyun Mountain?
“No.”
“I've expected it.”
“Never think of going there!”
“Your Majesty, do you remember when you camped with me?”
Long Ji Man frowned. He never camped with anyone.
“You eat instant noodles and peek stars from my binoculars.”
“Oh.”
The woman clucked in disbelief. He hasn't finished his story. But, what is this? Long Ji Man instead decided on their topic of conversation. And also, what kind of expression was on the face of this Dongling King? The nerve endings on his face seemed to have been broken and died causing the handsome face to be flat with no expression.
It wasn't Li Anlan's name if he ran out of ways. In his brain, there were various bright ideas appearing like fireworks. It is said that one dead grows a thousand. One way missing, another idea came up. Such was the contents of Li Anlan's brain. Apparently, it was not only Xu Lingshu's head that was entering the water, but Li Anlan's head as well. It's just that the water made him look smarter.
“You don't trust me?”
“No.”
“I have the tools to climb.”
“I don't care.”
Li Anlan pouted. The man before him was truly stubborn. It was eager for Li Anlan to pierce Long Ji Man's head with an ink container before him. He really wished for Long Ji Man's brain to be troubled and turn out to be insane, or at least lose his memory until Li Anlan could use it to seek a huge profit. No, he's a king. Li Anlan could not sell the king to anyone else.
“I'll take revenge on Xu Lingshu.”
“Serah.”
“But he's your guifei!”
“You are also my concubine.”
Li Anlan endured the turmoil of resentment in her chest. The woman took a deep breath.
“Can I kill him?”
“No.”
“But he bullied me!”
“That's your business.”
Long Ji Man grabbed a document of note from the Ministry of Rites. His eyes rolled following the lines of writing that were scratched in the paper regardless of the existence of Li Anlan who was starting to get annoyed. He wanted to know what this woman would do when she was angry and upset. But, it had been almost fifteen minutes, there was no reaction whatsoever. Li Anlan was still standing staring intently at him.
“Useless,” murmured Li Anlan. The woman turned around, about to exit Hongwu Palace because the owner was so annoying.
“Hachi..”.
Li Anlan's head suddenly pulsed. His whole body shivered. The cold and heat ran through his body alternately. Not true, this is not true. Earlier when he witnessed Xu Lingshu's play, his body was still fine. Now, his head suddenly felt dizzy. Faintly he remembered the moment he saved Xu Lingshu, the woman thrust something into his body through a small needle in the water.
The needle was troubled, Li Anlan's inner being in the middle of her headache.
His body could not stand up straight and his legs were limp. Li Anlan turned her body back. The entire object in front of him was shaded and felt as if it was spinning like a merry-go-round in an amusement park. His vision became blurred until he could not recognize anything clearly.
“Your Majesty, why are you three?”
After saying that, Li Anlan's body instantly collapsed. Long Ji Man immediately jumped out of his chair, catching the small body of Li Anlan who was about to touch the floor. The woman was lying in her lap. Long Ji Man realized that Li Anlan was still wearing wet clothes. The man touched Li Anlan's forehead which was warmer than usual.
“You want to climb a mountain with a weak body like this?”
Long Ji Man enveloped Li Anlan's wet body with his robe. He then called Xiao Biqi and Xie Roulan, then ordered them to prepare a large stretcher. With his body wrapped in a robe, Li Anlan was laid down in a glittering luxurious stretcher. In front of Hongwu Palace, several people then shouldered the stretcher, taking it out of Hongwu Palace towards Xingyue Palace. Xie Roulan followed the stretcher from behind.
“Command Physician Tao to check it.”
“Good, Your Highness.”
Long Ji Man watched as the stretcher disappeared behind the gate of his palace. The man then entered, continuing his work which had been delayed.
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