Chapter 1048 – A Very, Very Deep Place (1/2)
Chapter 1048 – A Very, Very Deep Place
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
”What?”
”I want to hug you as I sleep.”
”Ah?”
”Mm.”
Mo Yu spoke boldly and frankly.
Chen Changsheng felt like a thunderclap had gone off by his ear.
He waved his hands and said, ”Stop messing around.”
Mo Yu asked, ”Then why did you come?”
Chen Changsheng said, ”I came to see you, advise you, and also thank you.”
Mo Yu truly had done many things for him, truly did deserve to have him personally come and offer his thanks.
Mo Yu replied, ”If you want to thank me, then you should accompany me as I sleep.”
Chen Changsheng felt very helpless. ”You're going to get married in a few days.”
”Back then, I made no request to have you sleep with me.”
Mo Yu looked at him and said, ”It's precisely because I'm about to get married that I want to sleep with you.”
Her words were still bold and frank, but this frankness concealed many meanings, many very obvious meanings.
Chen Changsheng had no idea what to say.
Mo Yu stared into his eyes and said, ”If you don't dare come over, it means you have feelings for me.”
After some hesitation, Chen Changsheng walked to her bedside.
Mo Yu wrapped her arms around his waist and buried her face in his back.
Chen Changsheng suddenly remembered a matter.
”Didn't you take a set of my bedding and pillows from the Orthodox Academy?”
Mo Yu was currently leaning into his back, so she did not need to worry about being seen by him, which put her much at ease.
When she heard these words, two patches of red quickly spread through her face as she thought, I really was ridiculous back then. But she happened to forget that she was being quite ridiculous right now.
”It's been a long time. The smell on the bedding and pillows faded a long time ago.”
”Ah… Then have you still been suffering from insomnia lately?”
”It's strange. After Empress left, I stopped getting insomnia. When I was at Zhou Tong's other residence the other day, I even managed to take a midday nap.”
”Is that so?”
”That's right.”
”I'll just sit like this. You can sleep a while.”
”Mm, just for a while. A while will be fine.”
The room fell quiet.
Chen Changsheng sat on the side of the bed, not daring to move a muscle.
Mo Yu hugged his waist, not moving an inch.
This should have been an incredibly uncomfortable posture, but she still quickly fell asleep so soundly that she even began to softly snore.
Time slowly passed, just like the snow gradually piling up outside the window.
Just when Chen Changsheng believed that he would have sit for an entire night, just when he was thinking about how he should explain things to Xu Yourong on the morrow, Mo Yu woke up.
One hour of sleep had filled her with energy. One could imagine the quality of this sleep.
A maid brought her a bowl of swallow's nest soup. She took two mouthfuls and suddenly raised her head. Looking at Chen Changsheng, she asked, ”Why haven't you left?”
Feeling helpless, Chen Changsheng said, ”I thought that you wrote me a letter asking me to come because you wanted to discuss some things.”
It turns out that all you wanted was to hug me as you slept.
Mo Yu replied, ”There's nothing good to talk about. It's very quiet in the capital, not much different from before.”
Mo Yu had been writing him letters for the past three years, so he was no stranger to the state of the court.
In the court, the ten-some Chen princes, led by the Prince of Xiang and the Prince of Zhongshan, the Tianhai clan, and the several Divine Generals raised by Chen Guansong were part of one faction. The other faction consisted of ministers that had survived the previous government and Eunuch Lin in the palace.
A simple way to distinguish these two factions was in their attitude toward the emperor.
”If your master were willing to care about these matters, these problems naturally wouldn't have appeared, but it's clear that he doesn't want to care about them.”
Mo Yu added, ”Perhaps he wants to see His Majesty's administrative skills, or perhaps he just wants to temper His Majesty.”
”Senior can handle these matters.”
Chen Changsheng recalled how long ago in Xining Village, he had caught those scaleless fish living in the stream by the temple which his senior had cooked.
His senior was the best at cooking fish, because his heart was still, making him very patient and granting him a steady hand.
”So the Imperial Court's greatest problems are outside the Imperial Court. Put more accurately, it's its relationship with the Orthodoxy.”