Chapter 493 – I Want to Have a Look at Your Face (1/2)

Chapter 493 - I Want to Have a Look at Your Face

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

In the darkness, the palace was cold and cheerless. The pool and the small garden were also very cold and cheerless, even though it was a summer night.

It wasn't just two people by the pool. There was also the Black Goat. It was in the thicket not too far away.

Chen Changsheng first saw the middle-aged woman and then saw the Black Goat. If it were another person, they definitely would have been given quite the fright, but he was not. He had already grown accustomed to seeing the Black Goat every time he emerged from the underground space below New North Bridge. As for the middle-aged woman, he also did not find it strange. The first time he came out of the pool, he had seen her.

Deep within the Forbidden Palace, as if afraid that alarming the people within the palace would cause big trouble, he said nothing. Clasping his hands, he bowed towards the middle-aged woman.

His action was very courteous and his movements very proper. It was just that he was still soaked to the bone, so this respectful bow of his couldn't help but look rather comical.

The Black Goat watched him through the leaves, slightly tilting its head as if it was making fun of him.

He couldn't deal with all this. He gestured to the middle-aged woman that he needed to change into a clean set of clothes and wished her to turn around and wait a moment.

Then he used his mouth to say to the Black Goat, ”Close your eyes.”

He had always believed that the middle-aged woman was deaf and dumb and so could naturally understand the sign language he had learned from Senior Yu Ren. In fact, she really did know sign language.

But she did not turn around because nothing in this world had the qualifications to make her turn around and avert her gaze.

The Black Goat also did not close its eyes. On the contrary, it opened them even wider, two bright spots in the darkness.

Chen Changsheng didn't know what to do. Soaked through and through with water dripping off his body nonstop, he cut quite the pitiful figure.

The middle-aged woman seemed somewhat displeased at his reaction and waved her sleeve.

A gust of wind blew across from her side of the pool and wrapped around his body.

The wind of summer nights wasn't at all dry, but it was rather hot.

In a moment, his clothes were dry. From the inside out, they were dry and clean beyond compare.

Chen Changsheng was stunned, then he saw the middle-aged woman walk out of the garden, her hands clasped behind her.

The Black Goat glanced at him, then turned its head and walked out of the thicket to catch up to the middle-aged woman.

In the past when he had made his way back to the Orthodox Academy from the Imperial Palace, the Black Goat had always led the way, even later on when he had the key. Habit was always a most powerful thing. Consequently, he followed the Black Goat, accompanying the middle-aged woman into the darkness of the Imperial Palace, then through that secluded secret door arrived at…the Hundred Herb Garden.

Presently, Luoluo was staying in the Li Palace for a month, and then in the Imperial Palace for a month. The Hundred Herb Garden had been deserted for quite some time.

Besides when he came with Tang Thirty-Six to steal medicinal herbs, Chen Changsheng had also not been here in quite some time.