This Lady Is Trying to Kill Me

Chapter 397: Shopping (3)

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Ye Jingtang didn’t dare to stare, so he picked up the white porcelain wine pot and poured wine for the empress dowager. “I’m a Jianghu person. 1 don’t know much about being a literati. All I can talk about is fighting and killing…”

Daoist Xuanji swirled the small wine cup and interrupted with a faint smile. “You have two beautiful wives, and you’re still thinking about more. Why are you pretending to be a blockhead here?”

The empress dowager supported the side of her face with her hand and nodded slightly. “That’s right. If you didn’t know how to chat, how did you coax the girls home? It’s just drinking wine and chatting casually. There’s no need to care about status and etiquette. Just speak freely.”

“You can even tell two dirty jokes to relieve the empress dowager’s boredom. She likes to hear these the most.”

“Hey- What are you talking about…” The empress dowager swiped Daoist Xuanji with her sleeve. Seeing that Ye Jingtang couldn’t find a suitable topic to talk about, she pondered for a moment and took the initiative to speak. “Ye Jingtang, do you know why her name is Shuishui?”

Ye Jingtang’s gaze moved slightly, and he almost said something that would cause him to be cut into pieces. Fortunately, he reacted in time and didn’t say, “Because there’s a lot of water?” He only asked curiously, “Why?”

The empress dowager explained seriously, “Because her hometown is near the Golden Creek River. The river water is very fast there, and there are glaciers upstream. When she was an infant, her family took a boat to cross the river and accidentally dropped her into the river. Many people searched for her for a long time but couldn’t find her, so they thought that she had frozen to death or drowned.

“In the end, they discovered that she actually floated to the shore and was fine. So there were rumors that she was the reincarnation of the river god. They named her Binghe, nicknamed Shuixian (Water Immortal), and even sent her to Void Jade Mountain to cultivate Daoism…”

“I see… Then, why is she called Shuishui?”

The empress dowager picked up her wine cup, took a sip, and continued, “In the past, the Daoist nuns at Jade Void Mountain called her ‘Shuixian’. But later, they realized that she didn’t do anything serious at all. She drank, slept, and took baths in the wild all day. She didn’t look like an immortal at all. She became Shui’er. It’s like… umm… she cultivated from an immortal to a mortal…”

“Haha!” Ye Jingtang was indeed amused by these words.

Daoist Xuanji’s eyes were calm as she said casually, “This is called entering the world and returning to the path of simplicity. What do you know?”

The three of them chatted, laughed, and drank. Outside the window, the moon had risen about the branches unknowingly.

In the end, the drunken Daoist Xuanji lay on the table.

Although the empress dowager had drunk fruit wine, she was still drunk. Slowly, she became a little dizzy and forgot where she was. She said in a daze, “Hongyu… send me to rest.”

Ye Jingtang stood up and said, “This is Parasol Street. I’ll send Your Majesty back to the palace.”

“Oh…” The empress dowager looked around a few times before standing up and staggering to a wooden couch. She sat down directly and raised her hands to wait for the palace maids to undress her.

When she found that no one served her, she undressed herself.

?!

Ye Jingtang’s expression changed slightly. He hurriedly went forward to stop her. “Your Majesty, this is a restaurant. Why don’t you lie down and rest for a while?”

The empress dowager blinked, and her already red face blushed again. Then she obediently lay down on a couch.

Ye Jingtang shook his head silently and returned to the table. He gently shook Daoist Xuanji’s shoulder. “Fairy Lu?”

“Uhh?” Daoist Xuanji turned over. After looking left and right, she got up, walked to the couch, and lay down with the empress dowager. Then there was no movement.

Plop!

Ye Jingtang was speechless. He raised his hand and rubbed his forehead. He felt that there was no chance of him going home tonight to appreciate Ning’er’s white steamed bun.

He definitely didn’t dare to carry these two back, so he could only call the manager of the restaurant over and inform the Prince of Jing Estate.

Although Daoist Xuanji was drunk, her perception wasn’t bad. If Ye Jingtang had dared to look around, she would probably have immediately opened her eyes and raised her head to catch him in the act. For this reason, Ye Jingtang only sat at the table and made tea for himself.

After he waited for about half an hour, the sound of horse hooves sounded on the bustling Parasol Street. The nobles along the street started whispering.

“Why is the Prince of Jing here?”

“Hurry up and go to Dragon Cry Pavilion to inform Brother Wang. If he’s caught drinking with women by the Prince of Jing, he’ll be grounded for another half a month…”

Hearing this, Ye Jingtang stood up and went to the window. He could see a luxurious carriage was driving over on the busy street. The constables of the Black Office were clearing the way in front, and the doors and windows of the carriage were closed. He could only see a familiar profile from the window.

Clomp clomp!

The carriage quickly arrived at the restaurant.

On Parasol Street, the sons of nobles and generals gathered. The heirs might be having fun in a nearby pavilion.

Dongfang Liren didn’t want to show her face, so the Black Office constables directly closed the street and cleared the unrelated people around the restaurant before the carriage door opened.

In order to ask for a reward for Ye Jingtang today, Dongfang Liren had almost broken her tongue. Her sister had run away halfway through the assembly, leaving her to compete with the ministers in the Hall of the Supreme Principle. After the assembly ended, she even called an old minister of the Ministry of Official Personnel Affairs over and talked for a long time.

After finally settling the matter, Dongfang Liren had wanted to ask Sir Tangtang for credit. But when she left the palace, she had heard that Ye Jingtang had gone to investigate a case and shop. He didn’t even know to wait a while for her!

Dongfang Liren waited boredly at Jasper Pavilion all day and only saw Ye Jingtang in the middle of the night. She was obviously not very happy. She put on a dignified and calm expression, brought maidservants, and quickly arrived at the second floor of the restaurant.

“Your Highness!”

“Hmph!” Dongfang Liren came to the door and looked inside the room first. When she saw the empress dowager and her master hugging each other and sleeping soundly, she frowned. “How did you get them like this?”

1 got them like this? Ye Jingtang’s eyes were full of helplessness as he spread his hands slightly. “Your Highness knows Fairy Lu’s personality. I can stand now because 1 have strong willpower and didn’t drink much. Otherwise, 1 would have been the first to collapse.”

Dongfang Liren thought about it and agreed. After looking at the two women, she asked, “You didn’t do anything, did you?”

?

Ye Jingtang stood up straighter and looked at the suspicious Dumdum. “What can I do?”

Based on the experience learned from Tears of a Heroine, Dongfang Liren knew that something was bound to happen when a beauty was drunk.

But she also knew her master’s ability. As long as she didn’t take the initiative to give Ye Jingtang a chance, he wouldn’t be able to take advantage of her. She didn’t ask further and turned around. “Send the empress dowager and my master back to Jasper Pavilion to rest.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

The maidservants following behind hurriedly entered the room and helped the two beauties down…