Chapter 271: Spirit Possession (1/2)
Chapter 271: Spirit Possession
Translator: NinetalesEditor: DarkGem
In a daze, Qin Mu felt someone climbing up his body. He had quite a temper while asleep, and thus, he gave two kicks and kicked that person off the bed.
That person was also in a daze and climbed back onto the bed while pulling on the blanket, snuggling up to his chest. However, she was kicked down by Qin Mu once again. In the end, the three girls huddled up together to sleep, leaving Qin Mu alone on the other side.
The last few days of hard work had resulted in Qin Mu and Ling Yuxiu falling into a deep sleep. When Qin Mu woke up the next morning, Ling Yuxiu had snuggled herself under his arm. To get up, he carefully shifted his arm, afraid of waking her up.
Actually, Ling Yuxiu had already woken up, but she was a thin-skinned girl. She was afraid things would be awkward when she woke up, so she pretended to sleep. When he had gotten up, she secretly opened her eyes and saw him grabbing his shoes and tip-toeing out of the room.
Qin Mu let out a sigh of relief after walking out of the room. The twin sisters had woken up earlier and were talking in the courtyard. One of them said, ”Young Master Qin likes to punch around in his sleep. He gave me a good beating, just look at my swollen eye.”
”Not only that! I got kicked on the chest and pushed off the bed. Did he take advantage of you?”
”Not even once. However, how are we supposed to report that the princess and young master were sleeping together and even we were on the same bed, sharing a blanket?”
The two girls stayed silent for a moment, then said in unison, ”We won't. Young master and princess won't speak of it, so it's best not to say anything!”
In regards to the face of the imperial family, saying too much would result in being executed. The girls naturally knew that, and that's why they had made the decision to keep their silence.
Qin Mu put on his shoes and walked out with a cough.
The two palace maids immediately greeted him. ”Young Master is awake? Us sisters were rude and impetuous yesterday. Luckily, with Young Master's care, we didn't lose our lives to Little Poison King.”
Qin Mu returned the greeting and said, ”Luckily the two big sisters were there and injured Little Poison King, preventing him from being impudent.”
The two palace maids looked at each other and laughed in unison. ”Young Master, don't call us big sisters. We serve Empress Dowager and don't even have a surname, only a name. I'm called Jianqi, and she's called Qinqi.”
The two palace maids couldn't help laughing when they saw him sizing up the both of them to differentiate who was Jianqi and who was Qinqi. With this laugh, Qin Mu noticed it that Jianqi had a small canine tooth on her left while Qinqi had a small canine tooth on her right.
”Young Master, we haven't returned for the whole night, so we have to come back to the palace earlier to report on the completion of our mission,” Qinqi said.
Qin Mu nodded and said, ”After a night's sleep, the remaining poison in your bodies should have been detoxified, so there shouldn't be any problems. Still, I have some detoxing pellets with me, so you two can take them.”
The two palace maids gave their thanks and received the detoxing pellets. They were about to leave when Ling Yuxiu's voice came from the room. ”Wait for me! I shall go back with the two of you!”
The two women stopped and looked back to see Ling Yuxiu running over at them in a panic, her clothes disheveled, her white undercoat askew. Her beautiful hair was also messy, and she was rushing with her outer clothing clasped under her arm and dragging her shoes out with her feet. When she dropped them behind, she immediately lifted her feet up to get the shoes up, but her jet black hair completely scattered, flowing down her shoulders like a waterfall.
She wanted to take control of her hair, but then the outer clothing she was clasping fell down. She cut a very sorry figure.
Qin Mu looked at her and saw a plump chest that was about to run out from her clothing. The youth's heart then wavered, and he didn't know whether to warn her or go forward to help her stuff them back in.
Jianqi and Qinqi looked at each other and walked forward to escort the princess back into the room to help her dress and groom herself.
Ling Yuxiu's cheeks turned red from embarrassment, and she collected her courage to ask them softly, ”Will I get pregnant?”
The two palace maids stared with their eyes wide open and asked in astonishment, ”Why did princess say that?”
”I've heard from people in the palace saying that when a male and female sleep together, the female will get pregnant,” Ling Yuxiu said seriously. ”We slept together for almost a whole day and night, so I might just be pregnant.”
Jianqi burst out laughing. ”Princess, you're mistaken, it's not like that. Aiya, I can't explain it to you clearly, but the young master is a divine physician so he definitely has ways to prevent pregnancy.”
Ling Yuxiu opened her eyes wide. ”That's possible?”
”Isn't that so. I've heard some rich madams who don't want to give birth look for apothecaries to prescribe them medicine so they won't get pregnant.”
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Qin Mu sent the three women off and noticed that the pear blossoms on the yellow pear tree had blossomed, filling the entire tree with their blooms.
”Spring is finally here.” He thought to himself, 'When the grains of the first season mature, this year of disaster will finally be over.'
He washed up, and since there was only the dragon qilin accompanying him, he didn't have the intention to cook and just went down the mountain to eat. When he walked out of his courtyard, he saw Chancellor Ba Shan walking over in a shirt. With a loud voice, he said, ”I saw the princess and two palace maids carrying lanterns down the mountain, could they have come from your room?”
”Senior brother don't say nonsense when you have no evidence,” Qin Mu said with a normal face and heartbeat. ”Did senior brother come to find me regarding Pangong Tso? Have you had breakfast?”
Chancellor Ba Shan was a loud mouth no inferior to Duke Wei. If the incident regarding Ling Yuxiu and the two palace maids sleeping in Qin Mu's room for a night were found out by him, the entire capital would know about it.
To Qin Mu, it started with emotion and stopped with politeness. He hadn't done anything out of line, but this was no small matter to the secular people. If news of him sleeping with the princess spread, the emperor would execute him, so it was best to hide it.