Vol 6 Chapter 29 (2/2)

“Eh? Is that so?”

“Of course. I feel that it’s so much more exhausting to speak to the ordinary people instead of soldiers. They admire and respect you but they always ask you for this and that.”

Looks like Bo Fu is the type who is afraid of the ordinary people huh. But this works in our favour so that’s good.

“Seeing how well Shouchun city has been built up, Bo Fu must have put in a lot of effort. You should show your face a little and let the ordinary people shower you with admiration–” When I said this, I saw that Bo Fu was looking at me with her eyes fully revealed, and I got the hint that Bo Fu wasn’t happy and didn’t continue.

After a short while of silence, Bo Fu’s expression returned to normal, and she slowly said, “I don’t need to be admired. It’s more tiring that way.”

Bo Fu’s words felt nostalgic as she’d said something similar the last time we met. I couldn’t help but guess that Bo Fu just hated others to have expectations of her.

“Alright, let’s leave this aside for now. Xuan De, where do you want to go to first? A confectionery stall or the weapons shop at the race course?” She pointed about the city as she said so. Looks like she knows the city well.

“Bo Fu, you’re really familiar with this place huh.”

“But of course I am,” She puffed out her chest again, “Before we moved the capital to Jianye, I lived here for a very long time. I even know the names of the oldest inhabitants of the city.”

Looks like Shouchun is something like a second hometown for Bo Fu huh.

“But even if you said all that, I can’t really think of anything immediately.” Honestly, there’s no place I want to go to in particular, “And I also thought that the first thing I needed to do after coming here would be a meeting in your guest hall or something…”

Hahahahaha– As I finished my words, Bo Fu broke into raucous laughter as though she had heard a joke, and only stopped after several minutes.

“B, bo Fu?”

Was it really that funny?

“I’m sorry, I just thought of something interesting, that’s why.” Bo Fu immediately explained probably because she felt it was not very respectful to me, “Honestly, there was supposed to be a meeting but it has been postponed due to a comical reason.”

So she was triggered by that comical reason. Whew, that scared me.

“Honestly, you were scheduled to meet with my little sister now but…”

“But?”

Bo Fu paused and shrugged her shoulders, “But she’s ran away and we can’t find her.”

Eh?!

“Ran away?!”

“Unfortunately, you heard it right.” Bo Fu nodded. I can’t really see what her expression is right now but she should be having a helpless smile on, “How should I put it? She got forced into my position all of a sudden so she probably isn’t very used to it.”

Even if you aren’t used to it, you don’t need to run away right?

“Xuan De! Where have you run to?”

“My lord, don’t think you can skip today’s finance lesson just because you’re quick with your feet.”

Wu… Is this Zi Long and Mi Zhu?

I just got to Shouchun so why do I have to be studying!

“Bo Fu, please help me stall them.”

“Eh? Xuan De?”

Before Bo Fu got what I meant, I’d already rushed into the crowd. I finally got to land today so I’m having a holiday!

I don’t know how long I’ve been running for but I was beginning to feel tired and decided to stop as I looked about. Seeing that Zi Long and the rest couldn’t be found, I figured that Bo Fu has probably helped me stop them somehow and heaved a sigh of relief.

I was actually admonis.h.i.+ng that Sun Zhong Mou whom I haven’t met yet but now I see that I’m no different from her, so I thought self-deprecatingly as I slowly walked in Shouchun city’s residential district and calmed my breathing down.

“Watch out! Dodge!”

Eh? Before I knew what was happening, a force came at me from the right. There wasn’t too much power behind that force, but because I was still drained from the trip, I lost my balance and fell to the ground.

And in the next instant, all I could see was a tiger skin hat.

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