Vol 7 Chapter 43 (2/2)

Though I said that, Gan Qing has probably prepared all my things already. It feels like she’s like my housewife sometimes.

“Yi Ji, send uncle back for me.” Liu Qi said as she waved, at which Yi Ji came over with elegant steps befitting a Court official. Liu Qi bowed once more before leaving with broad strides.

“What about young mistress?” Yi Ji asked when she came up to me, but Liu Qi just waved.

“No need to worry, Wen Ping will come get me.”

“No matter how I think about it, I still think you are really weird.”

“Eh?”

Yi Ji’s sudden words made me feel puzzled. I didn’t know what to feel about her judgement of me either, as ‘weird’ was neither good nor bad by itself.

I have to see how she explains it.

“What do you mean?”

“No, it just slipped out of my mouth. I hope Imperial Uncle doesn’t take it to heart.” She said as she covered her mouth with her sleeve and bowed respectfully.

That isn’t an answer… Speaking of which, I still feel her stare on me. This feeling hasn’t stopped at all since we met.

“Will you be going as well? To Jiangxia.”

“Un, I am. I’m on first young mistress’s side after all.”

Everyone’s in factions already huh.

“But why did you choose to serve Liu Qi? Is Liu Cong a fatuous ruler?”

It may not be right to say this about Liu Cong before knowing her but it might be appropriate to word it that way to someone who is already Liu Qi’s retainer.

“No, I just find Liu Qi a little more interesting.”

Eh?

“Interesting… Huh?”

I never knew that a retainer would choose to serve a lord because the lord is interesting…

“Of course, I think that Imperial Uncle is even more interesting.” She continued.

Me?

“I’m very interesting?”

“Of course you are.” She said, and a smile appeared on her face but she quickly covered it, “This might be rude, but based on my a.n.a.lysis, Imperial Uncle isn’t the sort of person who can survive in these troubled times. To go even further, I would even say that based on my a.n.a.lysis, Imperial Uncle should have died long ago. But yet, someone who is unfit to survive in these troubled times can live on and go from strength to strength, and even has 10,000 troops and talented generals under his command. Isn’t that something very interesting?”

“Un… Perhaps.”

I can’t really say anything to this, since I can’t really say something like ‘this is history’s choice’ which might get me branded as a lunatic, and could only nod.

Ke. She laughed. I only heard her, and didn’t see her expression but I could feel her high spirits.

“Based on my a.n.a.lysis, something big will happen in the battle at Jiangxia.”

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