Chapter 8 (2/2)
Fu Shen had handled this horrid h a knot, yet the anger stuffing up in his chest wasn't the least bit alleviated He was both physically and mentally exhausted and annoyed at how he couldn't just kick his legs up and close his eyes This idea wasn't even finalized when a sudden burst of urgent knocking came from the door “Marquis, the leader of the I that soe to you
Fu Shen is still within the borderless bewilderht on by the wooden box and was especially sensitive to the tords ‘Imperial Guards' “Let him in,” he said immediately
Wei Xuzhou received eye salutes [3] all along his way All of the bodyguards in the Estate had been soldiers on and around the battlefield, and seeing this princely-living General of the Imperial Guards was a bit unbearable to the in a wheelchair, General Wei alave off a sense of fair familiarity “This lowly official of the Left Divine Pivot Arreets the Marquis”
Fu Shen is now in a phase where everyone is suspicious, but with the I under Yan Xiaohan's control, he can't extend too e to say, but, while he and Yan Xiaohan's principles of action and conduct are as different as black and white, they have a deep candidness between each other He has some sort of subconscious trust in the notorious Court lackey, and for that reason, he's quite peaceful when confronted with Wei Xuzhou “No need to be so polite Please take a seat, General Wei I'll pour you tea”
Wei Xuzhou didn't dare to get too buddy-buddy with hiot right to the point “There's no need to trouble yourself with attending to me, Marquis, I'll leave when I'm finished hat I have to say Our Royal Inspector Envoy was summoned by His Majesty, and tasked me to relay these words to you before he left: there's been ru about in the dark of the capital's noble households recently, saying that you have… a fondness for men This is a serious matter that must be dealt with as soon as possible, Marquis”
This neas the equivalent of no less than five bolts of lightning co him from the crown of his head to the heels of his feet “What did you say?!”
“He had also said that… no , and avoid acting rashly at all costs,” Wei Xuzhou continued
“Huh?”
Wei Xuzhou looked back at hi else”
Tooall on top of the other, each event like a hard stone stifling hi hi on, avoid acting rashly
The iron arrow packed into a box, the sheaf of paper in the hidden co Gou'er” that snuck into the study… is he referring to one of these things, or is there still more machinations hidden within the darkness that he hasn't noticed?
Did Yan Xiaohan predict this, or premeditate it?
“Marquis! Marquis!”
As he was lost in thought, the old servant burst into the study panting and out of breath, interrupting Fu Shen's hectic thoughts fro qi deviation He was sufficiently pulled out of the inner de that he was being too extre on?”
Uncle Fu spoke animatedly “An imperial edict! An i that you go out and accept it!”
Wei Xuzhou gave hiot up when he heard that “Since you have matters to attend to, Marquis, this lowly one will takein understanding “Uncle Fu, see this gentlee into er”
Within the Hall of Mental Cultivation
“Meng'gui” [4]
The Yuantai Emperor suddenly went and called him after the Crown Prince's departure Yan Xiaohan startled, but folloith a deferential response “Your Majesty”
“We have been frequently waking in the ht as of recent,” the Ee alone for the night in our bedroom, but there is always a sense that our bed is narrow, as if another is sleeping soundly by our side Tell us, what is going on with that?”
Yan Xiaohan may be a military official, but he's fortunately read several books When he heard those words, he broke into a cold sweat on the spot
Synapses firing off in his mind, his response was unusually quick He didn't offer any objections as he thereafter knelt down to beg for forgiveness “Your Majesty is the True Dragon and Son of Heaven [5] who evil beings will not encroach upon Thisto deceive you behind your back and host It's this servant's responsibility to provide guard at night, but I did not givethe peace of the palace to be disturbed and for you to find it hard to rest easy I should die countless tiated his begging This really wasn't what the Yuantai E for, and in the end, he wasn't clear on whether Yan Xiaohan was genuinely stupid or just acting like it He simply chose his next words to be a bit more clear “Combined, the foot soldiers within the capital, the North and South Imperial Guards, the Imperial City's military department, and the five major military camps add up to approximately 300,000 Yet as we look all around us at our environs that go on forever, we sense tigers and wolves he in on us in wait Sometimes, we even have doubts The Great Zhou's lands, the lands of rasp, or within the control of an outsider?”
As he's said this much, then his weapons are already drawn Yan Xiaohan is truly unable to not keep playing dumb “Please clarify, Your Majesty”
“Dost thou remember what thou said back then, e made an exception to proon Guard's Royal Inspector Envoy?” The Emperor asked
The Guard was foron Stable”, as it was originally the place where horses were raised in the palace and was eneration Chunhua Eovernment officials of the previous dynasty had a lot of authority and controlled the I the power of the er In order to turn the situation around, the Chunhua Eon Guard, utilizing the skills of the eunuchs to once again wrest control of the Imperial Guards of the Northern Office The Guard was the reliable ally of the reigning emperor, its influence enormous, and anyone asn't the trusted aide of the Eet involved in it The Imperial Guards of the Northern Office had been under the control of eunuchs ever since That was, until the 20th year of Yuantai's reign, when the for, passed away It was only then, when the Yuantai Emperor unexpectedly broke protocol and promoted the General of the Left Divine Martial Army to the position of the new Envoy, that this aspect was shattered
The basis for hih position is still a mystery to this day, but it cannot be denied that the Yuantai Emperor relies on him an extraordinarily heavy a a rather isolated official with no outside help, and under his discipline, the Guard became the sharpest blade the Emperor could wield
“Thy present title as the Royal Inspector Envoy is to patrol everywhere we say and supervise all sorts of departoes, or sword points, is to be as if we have done it ourself”
“Your Majesty's earnest expectations were carved into this servant's heart,” Yan Xiaohan replied, “and I wouldn't dare forget the such importance on you all these years was not in vain” The Eht, his tone stern “We want you to do one thing This matter may take two or three years, possibly more, but if it succeeds, ill rest free of worries”
“—We are sanctioning a e between you and Fu Shen”
The translator says: scare chord (…I' the E zhen (朕), a royal-only self-pronoun with the rough equivalent of the royal ‘we', and er (尔) to refer to YXH (except when he goes back to ni, which… okay), which is rough equivalent of thou So he'shimself sound like a stuffy royal)
[1] 修罗场 – lit an “field of Asuras”, describing a fierce battleground due to Asuras typically being /noun Prince, gou = dog, er = son/cutesy suffix I guess a good way of translating this would be… Prince Doggie Yikes
[3] Froht, facing the one being saluted, andeye contact in a show of respect
[4] 梦归 – YXH's courtesy nas, or even nothing at all – I'd give a tentative translation as “drea of return”
[5] 真龙天子 – A title for the Emperor, as it's believed that Eons and/or children of Gods
[6] 淳化 – a county in Shaanxi, lit ”