Vol 1 Chapter 3 (2/2)
“SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!! YOU JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH!! Don’t call me with that whatever s.h.i.+tty Honorable Sire, Heroic Sir, Big Brother a.s.sa.s.sin!! If not, I will kill you!!” The a.s.sa.s.sin had almost gone crazy because of him.
Li Cong Qing opened his mouth, wanted to say something, but thinking again, it would be better if he obediently shut his mouth. Beside frightened to the point of having an appearance of feeble legs, he truly felt that he was actually very unlucky. The hard to get undisturbed nap was ruined by this not too bright a.s.sa.s.sin. Was there truly no such thing as laziness anymoreeeeeeeeeeee………
Hearing the laughable conversation between Li Cong Qing and the a.s.sa.s.sin, the Emperor was almost unable to hold back his laughter from bursting out. This Li Cong Qing was unexpectedly this kind of interesting man. Death was about to befall on him, he was still able to speak off the cuff, blabbering nonsense to get his way, to make the a.s.sa.s.sin’s emotional state disturbed and disordered. He hadn’t experienced this kind of amus.e.m.e.nt for a long time, even though that under the threat of a sword Li Cong Qing could be dead at any time.
The Emperor didn’t laugh. May not laugh. Straightening his face to maintain his piercingly cold smart face, didn’t leak out the slightest amount of intent to laugh, the Emperor put on his completely majestic manner and ordered: “Let him go, I will let you escape.”
“Hmph!! You think I will believe your dog Emperor’s words? No! Rat Emperor is the correct one!!”
“That’s right! That’s right! Big Brother a.s.sa.s.sin, you finally can remember that Emperor is like a rat!” Li Cong Qing responded excitedly, only without giving the cheering applause to encourage him.
“Aaaaaaa…….----You shut your mouth!! Aaaaaa……..” The a.s.sa.s.sin stomped his feet in anger.
Li Cong Qing’s heart fearfully skipped a beat, the Emperor’s heart anxiously skipped a beat. Afraid that the a.s.sa.s.sin went crazy and stabbed him to death.
Taking advantage of the confused state of mind of the a.s.sa.s.sin for immediate precautions, The Emperor’s sharp eyes flashed with an idea. Seized this crucial moment, he decided to quickly instruct the Chief of the Imperial Guards who was standing by his side: “You can kill the a.s.sa.s.sin, but do not harm the hostage.”
The Chief of the Imperial Guards received the order. Swiftly, he charged forward, as sudden as a flash of lightning he launched his attack.
The a.s.sa.s.sin was driven to desperate action[10]. Hurriedly shoved Li Cong Qing to the Emperor.
The Emperor unconsciously spread both his arms to catch him.
Li Cong Qing’s whole body was staggering, then fell forward.
The a.s.sa.s.sin’s sword ruthlessly pierced through his shoulder blade from behind causing him to bleed profusely. He was planning to stab the Emperor who was about to catch Li Cong Qing, using his sword and pierced through his body, to stab the Emperor’s heart.
Li Cong Qing was being shoved too forcefully, instead of falling into the Emperor’s chest, multiplied by his own effort, he pushed away the Emperor’s opened arms.
The Emperor retreated two steps because of his shove, resulting in the tip of the sword being halted in front of the Emperor’s chest at a very close distance, didn’t even hurt half the size of the hair.
Everything, from the beginning to the end happened in the twinkling of an eye. Li Cong Qing was unable to bear the sudden acute pain, in front of his eyes was a layer of darkness. Gradually, he toppled down.
“LI CONG QING!!”
Before losing his consciousness, he heard the calm and deep voice of the Emperor uncontrollably broke out into a shout, calling out his name loudly. Haaii…. Who would have thought that the Emperor would remember his name…
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The next day, when Li Cong Qing slowly regained his consciousness, he realized that he was in some strange place.
Oh! Oh! Oh! , was it the sleeping quarter of the Emperor?
Ehem... If you are cupping your cheeks with your hand, and shrieking while expecting it with all the flowers in your heart in full bloom. Really have to say sorry to all the dear readers, you have guessed it wrong!!
Was the Emperor’s sleeping quarter a convenient place where just anyone could enter and sleep? [11] Just say that our Li fellow is the leading role here, but at this time, in the Emperor’s eyes, he is not more than an injured person.[11] To stay in the Emperor’s sleeping quarter to heal and recuperate is a matter that could stimulate alluring and erotic thoughts. At least for now, if there is nothing happening, of course it is proper and to be expected as a matter of course.
He was reclining on the Imperial Physician’s quarter’s sick bed. His entire body was weak and powerless. The first thing he felt right after he regained his consciousness was; the sudden burst of scalding hot with the extremely sharp and intense pain on his shoulder.
Hurts! It was really hurts! In his life time, he had never felt such acute pain!
“……So hurt……..” Couldn’t bear it, he let out a weak moan.
“Ah!! Sir Li has woken up!!”
“Great Doctor, Sir Li finally has woken up, come and check him!!”
“Quick, send the word to inform His Majesty. Report that Sir Li has awoken!”
There was an unnecessary racket by his side. All of Li Cong Qing’s awareness was on his acute pain, instinctively he struggled for a bit, causing more pain.
He was a man who adopted a comfortable life style. Never had to suffer such a serious wound. Never had to bear such acute pain. All of himself was spoiled with delicate skin and was a fair complexioned person. Regarding intense pain, his endurance was much more lower than any ordinary person. Absolutely couldn’t bear this kind of violent and intense suffering. Tears had been rolling down like pouring. Loudly cried and shouted: “So hurt!! So hurt!! So hurt!!”
“Sir Li, please don’t move randomly!! Your wound is bleeding again!!”
“Quick, hold Sir Li down! Don’t let him flail about!”
“SO HURT! SO HURT! SO HURT!” Li Cong Qing was weeping loudly like a little child. Unable to contain it, he was uncontrollably crying and shouting loudly. He felt like he was hurt to death!
Everybody acted in confusion in order to hold him down.
When the Emperor arrived, the sight of Li Cong Qing’s hands and feet being held down by a crowd of people met his eyes. The doctor was busily untying the blood stained wrapping cloth from his seeping out blood’s wound. Repeatedly applied the thick ointment on the wound.
The Emperor strode to the bed’s side. The attendants who were helping the Great Doctor saw the Emperor, hurriedly they let go of the troublesome patient who was still crying nonstop and respectfully greeted the Emperor. “Your subject respectfully greets Your Majesty.”
“SO HURT!!!” Once his hands and feet were freed, Li Cong Qing started to struggle and crying loudly again.
“I know you are hurt, don’t flail about anymore, otherwise, it will be more hurtful.” The Emperor even surprised himself with his unusual gentle intonation. Sitting on the edge of the bed, he lightly pressed the other side of his shoulder which was not wounded. With his gentle push, he pressed him back on the bed, not allowing him to resist. “Doctor, quick, carefully treat his wound.”
“Yes.” The Great Doctor proceeded without delay. He took clean wrapping clothes and wrapped the wound.
Li Cong Qing was hurt to the point of dying! But under the Emperor’s gentle pressure, he didn’t recklessly flail about anymore. Gradually, he calmed down. Only his tears were still rolling down like before. Couldn’t be stopped. His crying and shouting loudly had changed into a sobbing and whimper sound. Extremely miserable and pitiful. Whole heartedly he cursed and blamed the a.s.sa.s.sin, why didn’t he just give him a simple and direct stab to kill him? Making him suffer a living h.e.l.l.
His mediocre looks originally couldn’t be said as ugly. But he was crying so unsightly, with a running nose. The Emperor not only didn’t feel disgusted, he even felt that this kind of face was a little adorable. He couldn’t resist to lift his sleeve and wipe the flowing profusely tears and snivel from his face. Smiling while lightly mocking him: “A big man crying like this, don’t you feel ashamed?”
“Wuuu….. The one hurting is not you…. Of course you can speak like that…..” With much difficulty, he squeezed out his voice to retort, his hoa.r.s.e voice was shaking from the pain.
This was the very first time Li Cong Qing expressed his unruly self to the Emperor. At this moment, his mind was unclear because of the pain, he completely had forgotten that the one he was speaking to was his Big Boss.
However, unexpectedly, towards his disrespectful, unruly, inconsiderate and disobedient att.i.tude, the Emperor tolerated him with a contained smiling face.
This kind of manner, this way of speaking, was close to an intimate relations.h.i.+p.
After the wound had been wrapped, the Great Doctor brought a bowl of medicine, carefully propped to help him sit. “Sir Li, please drink this medicine.”
Li Cong Qing glanced at the dark with seven layers of blackness and thick with stink odor deathly looking medicine, he twisted his brows with a look of disgust on his face. “Don’t want!!” He cast his face to the side, pursing his lips and momentarily transformed into a child.
“Sir Li, this medicine, not only can heal your blood clot and relax your stiffened muscle, this medicine also has the effect of a pain reliever.” The Great Doctor also coaxed him like coaxing a child.
Hearing that it could relieve his pain, he couldn’t help but waver for a while. But in his whole life, he loathed to drink medicine the most. It was practically asking him to die!
“Give it to me.” The Emperor took the bowl of medicine from the Great Doctor’s hand and held it in front of him. Under the eyes of the shocked audiences, he condescended and held the spoon to feed the medicine to his mouth. Coaxing him with soft words: “Come on, drink this.”
Li Cong Qing with his childish temper pursed his lips tightly, his face was of defiant.
“Open your mouth.” The Emperor ordered him with a gentle voice.
He glanced again at the black and thick medicine, then glanced at the gentle but not losing his dignified expression of the Emperor, Li Cong Qing as stubborn as a bull, pursed his lips even tighter. Showing an unwilling to drink temper. Even though this man ordinarily showed a careless, lazy, easy going, obliging and an everything could be settled through discussion kind of appearance, but once he became strong-head, he wouldn’t be different to an obstinate bull.
Oh! Oh! Oh! Would the Emperor proceed to feed him the medicine with his own mouth?
Haiii… Dear honorable readers, your expectation are truly too high. This couple at this time hasn’t had that kind of sharing meager resources [12] relations.h.i.+p yet.
Deadlocked for a period of time, the middle of spring’s air was still cold, the hot medicine had become cool. The Emperor handed over the bowl of medicine back to the Great Doctor.
Li Cong Qing’s eyes were s.h.i.+ning brightly, he thought that he didn’t have to drink the medicine anymore.
The Emperor wouldn’t want to grant him his wish, instructed the Great Doctor: “Bring a new one.” He was not being impatient nor angry. Also not forcefully coercing Li Cong Qing, instead, he lightly said: “I will just sit here, waiting for you to drink the medicine. After that I will go.”
The words were telling that he would dilly-dally together with him. Just see, who had the most patience.
Looking at him pouting his cheek and biting his lips, The Emperor felt a kind of awkwardness for his spoiled as if being wronged impression. Attentively looking at his face, a hard to resist shred of interest was rising, wanting to ask him, are your lips delicious?
Not long afterwards, a bowl of steaming hot medicine was coming again.
The Emperor was looking at him, firmly and quietly looking at him.
Really wanted to dilly-dally?
Li Cong Qing, who at first persisted for a while, was feeling that the Emperor’s direct gaze had made his head and skin numb. Moreover, the pain on his shoulder was hard to bear, in the end, he raised his white flag and surrendered. Obediently opened his mouth. Forcing himself to swallow the medicine that the Emperor personally fed him. His brows were knitted into a deep frown. His whole face was distorted and forming a regiment.
The Emperor patiently fed him spoon by spoon. Li Cong Qing was unable to bear the spoon by spoon bitterness. Better to get it over with it rather than prolong the agony. He simply s.n.a.t.c.hed the bowl from the Emperor’s hand, faced up and gulped down a mouthful of the medicine. Mommy….. It bitterness is killing me!!
His too sudden reckless movement pulled the wound and causing a sharp pain. Made him cover his wound with his hand and leaked out a suffering expression.
“Don’t move about anymore, be good and recuperate.” The Emperor helped him to recline. Once again, unable to resist the urge to caress his pale face, like a gentle wind, his thumb carelessly brushed past the blood colored lips.
Recalling that dark red as the spring flowers’ color of his lips, beautifully fresh and made people enchanted.
After the pain was already alleviated a bit, Li Cong Qing also was worn out from the pain, worn out from the crying, worn out from the fussing. His consciousness finally became calmer and sober. With his eyelids half hanging, he returned to his normal humble subject’s bearing, respectfully said: “Humble subject is thankful for Your Majesty’s concern.”
Hah!! Finally you are aware about me, huh? The Emperor’s smile had become wider. Unwittingly he recalled the time when Li Cong Qing was seized as hostage by the a.s.sa.s.sin, the sad shaped face he made at that time was of a ‘how come I am so unlucky’ expression rather than ‘Help me!! I’m afraid!!’ expression. The Emperor thought to himself, this person is actually a very interesting one, unlike his ordinary dull and indifferent outward appearance as one has seen.
From this occasion, the Emperor firmly remembered about Li Cong Qing.
A pure coincidence had become an impure predestined relations.h.i.+p. These two people’s relations.h.i.+p was officially led by the red thread of destiny.
Long afterwards in the future, whenever he recalled about this matter, Li Cong Qing would suddenly be reminded, at that time, he was already literally being held firmly by the Emperor. Whenever he displayed his obstinacy temper, the Emperor would always have a measure to make him obediently listen to him.
The so called: there is a greater thing above a great thing[13], was this saying coming from this kind of sense?
And then, this kind of talk was not expected to be talked, Li Cong Qing, after that event had learnt one more truth which made him speechless.
When he was seized by the a.s.sa.s.sin, confronting the life and death situation, the Master of his family, Li Cong Yin, not only didn’t he rush to his rescue, but with the heart of a wolf and lungs of dog he even opened up a gamble board. [14] ---- The a.s.sa.s.sin was flatten, Li Cong Qing was rescued; The a.s.sa.s.sin successfully escaped, Li Cong Qing laid his life for his country; Both the a.s.sa.s.sin and Li Cong Qing was spent. ----- The payment compensation ratio was one to two to three.
Besides openly setting up a gamble board in the Imperial Palace, he also used his own younger brother’s life to rake in some dirty money as to settle the sum of money he had paid. After that event, he even said to Li Cong Qing, “Fortunately our family also has this funeral and interment business, in case you were unfortunate enough and departed earlier, the coffin could be afforded with a good price. Who knows, maybe the gravestone price also could be reduced to half.”
“Why don’t you just wrap me in a simple gra.s.s mat, then just casually dig a hole to bury me?” Li Cong Qing languidly responded to him.
“May not!! If I do this, it would hard for me to tell the people that I didn’t take too much from the relief payment.” [15] Li Cong Yin feigned his seriousness and earnestly answered him.
Although understanding that the Master really had faith in him, believed that he definitely would be rescued, and without any conscience pa.s.sed it off as a mere dark joke, Li Cong Qing still put on a dark expression. With this kind of big brother, what can a younger brother say?
As for the a.s.sa.s.sin, as the reason he wanted to a.s.sa.s.sinate the Emperor, was nothing else but about an authority dispute, enemy from another nation. To sum it all up, this kind of act could be counted as a wasteful act? [16] With this, for the time being, let’s press down the b.u.t.ton and not talk anymore.
End of Mo Shang Hua Kai Chapter 3
Notes ---The following are all the names of the antiquity breed of a variety of Chinese Roses:
Liu Chao Jin Fen, Fei Yan Xin Zhuang, Xi s.h.i.+ Zui Wu, Jiao Rong San Bian, Su Yu Han Hong,
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1 Paper tiger: only has the frightening appearance but can’t bite. In other words: Useless ruler or useless official.
2 Spring night: l.u.s.ty night.
Zhougong: Duke of Zhou, son of King Wen of Zhou, played an important role as regent in founding the Western Zhou, and also known as the “G.o.d of Dreams”. Of course Li Cong Qing was addressing him as the latest, as the G.o.d of Dreams.
3 Heaven is high and The Emperor is far away: an idiom for saying: a place one may do whatever one wishes without fear of interference from the higher power/authority.
4 Affairs: the actual meaning for this word is: adultery, an improper relations.h.i.+p.
5 Birds don’t defecate and hens don’t lay eggs: an idiom meaning; a very remote and desolate place.
6 Haiiii…. (a long sigh) : the author use this to correct him/herself from the word ‘affairs’ to ‘romantic love life’
7 The Beginning of the forth solar system: usually around March 20th/21st – April 4th.
8 Li Cong Qing considered Zhougong, the G.o.d of Dreams, as very lucky since could be always in the dreamland. XD
9 The sad shape here is literally the sad emoticon.
10 The original text was: a cornered dog will jump over the wall.
11 The original text is: whatever cat and dog, meaning: people of small importance.
12 Sharing meager resources: eating from the same plate/bowl, in other words: an indirect kiss. XD
13 There is a greater thing above a great thing: everything has its superior. In this case, Li Cong Qing’s obstinacy is still inferior to the Emperor’s patience.
14 Heart of wolf and lungs of dog: extremely heartless and ungrateful.
15 Relief payment: compensation payment for the family of the deceased.
16 The original text: Eat until full, then have nothing to do, so doing useless things to waste the energy. It’s a very popular Chinese idiom that is often heard ---In fact, my mom always said that to me… LOL… XD .
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