in2ebook Chapter 187 Meeting of Travelers
Chapter 187 Meeting of Travelers
Xuanyuan Fu smiled and said, "With my father watching over me, I won't die anyway. There's nothing to worry about."
After the prince said this, all the ministers had no choice but to shut up. Once they shut up, their attention fell on Cui Luoshan, who was pretending to be the eighteenth prince.
Being stared at by everyone, Cui Luoshan felt his scalp tingling and he knelt down hurriedly to plead guilty: "Brother Emperor, it is my fault that I failed to discipline the palace servants around me. I am willing to..." and accept the punishment.
He was stunned by Zhao Gao's talk before and didn't have time to stop him. He never thought that it would cause such trouble.
Although he was able to deal with people he would never have dared to think of before without changing his expression, Cui Luoshan still felt guilty and wanted to slap himself a few times.
Just as he was about to take action, someone grabbed his wrist in time.
It’s Xuanyuan Fu.
He smiled at Cui Luoshan and said, "Royal brother is right. If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have known that Crown Prince Dongli had appeared in the capital."
"You have been frightened today. The imperial kitchen will send some delicious food to you later. If you want to go out of the palace to visit Lord Ye again, you don't need to let anyone call me. Just go by yourself."
"By the way, follow Lord Ye. If you are interested in entertaining envoys from other countries, you can stay outside the palace and help Lord Ye."
The surprise came unexpectedly, and Cui Luoshan responded in a daze. When he left the Golden Throne Hall and arrived at Ye Mansion, he still had a silly smile on his face.
Ye Xingxin was speechless: "I asked you to work and you still laughed, what a fool you are."
Cui Luoshan chuckled twice: "I am very happy to come out of the palace to see you. As for entertaining Crown Prince Dongli, that's nothing."
Cui Luoshan thought simply and believed that he could just follow the previous rules. Only Ye Shengxin sighed.
"Since ancient times, it has been difficult to work in the service industry. It is your duty to take good care of the guests. If the guests you are taking care of get hurt, they will look for you first."
"Now that I'm the person in charge of this project, to be honest, given the difficult nature of Crown Prince Dongli and his flexible mentality, I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with him."
Ye Shengxin was slumped in a wheelchair. She had never expected that she would encounter this when she left the palace today, and she had never expected that she, a patient, was involved.
"If you don't want to accept it, then submit a petition and ask the Ministry of Rites to handle it. After all, you have difficulty walking."
Emperor Jingming emphasized the last four words and continued knitting a woolen sweater. This one was for his eldest son, Crown Prince Xuanyuan, who worked diligently, so that he wouldn't have to send pigeons to complain about his partiality all day long.
Ye Shengxin patted the armrest of the wheelchair, and his lazy spirit instantly perked up.
"No, I have to do it. I also want to take a good look at the famous Li Aotian, the Prince Consort."
"I guess he's very interested in me, too."
[After all, we are travelers from the same world, so how can we not meet each other when we meet? 】
Emperor Jingming paused and said, yes, these two people must meet.
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The meeting between Ye Shengxin and Li Aotian was very ordinary. There was no excitement of fellow villagers meeting each other, nor did they confirm their identities by shouting slogans, nor was there any tension between two opposing camps.
Ye Shengxin sat in the lobby of Sifang Pavilion, drinking the milk tea made by Li Aotian. She had one cup after another. It was so delicious, even better than the milk tea in the modern world.
Ye Shengxin drank three cups in a row, then put the cup down and wiped his mouth.
He once again looked at Li Aotian, who was wearing a blue shirt and looked very gentle, and asked the first question they had ever asked since they met, apart from the formal greetings:
"Prince Consort Li, is His Royal Highness Crown Prince Huang here?"
Li Aotian nodded: "His Highness is still resting. Sir Ye can come to me if he has anything to ask. I can handle it for you."
Ye Xingxin rubbed his fingers together: "It's nothing, but as a receptionist, I have to come over to ask about your concern."
Li Aotian smiled. After that, since there was no one around, he could not hold back his excitement at seeing his fellow countryman, so he boldly asked, "Shengxin, when did you come here?"
Before Ye Xingxin could answer, Li Aotian said, "I came early, and with those poems as a basis, given your current position, you must have known something about me, so just take that as a fair answer."
Ye Xingxin glanced at him and replied calmly, "My original body won the first place in the imperial examination not long ago."
"Less than a year." Li Aotian murmured, "Less than a year, to be able to reach your current position, you must be very capable and have worked very hard."
He really praised her and also felt really sorry for her.
Ye Xingxin's eyes were filled with tears for a moment, but she pushed them back. She smiled and said nonchalantly, "It's just so-so, not hard, I just had better luck."
Li Aotian sighed, patted Ye Shengxin's head, took out a chocolate peanut ball he made himself, wrapped in fine oil paper, from his arms and handed it to her.
"Try this again and see how good my cooking is."
Ye Shengxin took it, opened the package, put the thing in his mouth, and after chewing it, he found that this chocolate ball not only had the delicious taste of chocolate and peanuts, but also had peach filling.
Ye Shengxin's eyes lit up as he ate, and he couldn't help but ask, "Were you a chef before? How come your cooking skills are so good?"
Li Aotian shook his head: "No, I learned the cooking skills after coming here, and I came up with this chocolate when I was bored. If you like it, I have more here, and I'll bring you a few boxes later."
Ye Xingxin: "Thank you, I like it very much."
Li Aotian smiled and answered the previous question again: "Before I came here, I was a student preparing to go to college, and I applied for the exam..." When he said this, he thought of the poems that made him famous before, and felt a little embarrassed.
"I applied for a medical university. As for how I got here, three days before school started, I was just on the roof to repair a house. I never thought I would fall down and end up here, becoming an orphan in a village in Dongli Country."
Hearing this, Ye Shengxin felt that he was still luckier than this guy.
Although he encountered a terrible family at the beginning, at least he didn't have to worry about food and clothing, and he didn't have to take the imperial examination. He just had to follow the original owner's path and work steadily.
Compared to Li Aotian who had come all the way here as a poor man, his journey had been more difficult than hers.
When the two sacred words "medicine" were mentioned, Ye Shengxin, after expressing his feelings, connected his train of thought with Li Aotian and couldn't help feeling embarrassed.
To be honest, this is the bad thing about meeting fellow countrymen in a foreign world. If you become famous through poetry, you will always feel like your toes are digging into the ground when you meet fellow countrymen who know the inside story.
As if he knew what Ye Xingxin was thinking, Li Aotian blushed, "Don't worry, I'm not planning to participate in the competition this year, and I won't recite those poems again..."
Ye Xingxin raised his hand, "You don't have to explain, I understand."
Facing Li Aotian's clear eyes, Ye Shengxin said affirmatively: "I really understand. If I started as a pauper and encountered such an opportunity, although it is a bit immoral, I would be a fool if I didn't grab it and just watched it foolishly, and let myself starve for that pitiful sense of morality."