Somehow Nie Qing was able to convinced the emperor to agree to
building the bank warehouse in Shang Yang, and the printing process had also
commenced. As soon as the warehouse was done, the reform could be pushed out.
Once the negotiation was done, Murong
Yun Shu immediately began her return trip to Jinling. Nie Qing was now her
right hand man, so he was travelling with her. Feng Ling volunteered to be the
second Lu'er, joining the party and helping out with errands and serving the
others. Naturally, everybody knew what her real intention was. Chef Gao went to
Sholin Temple, bringing with him Murong Yun Shu's "thank you note" to
Chu Changge.
Sitting inside the spacious
horse-drawn carriage, Murong Yun Shu fished out the hair clasp she bought the
day she arrived at the capital for Chu Changge. She stared at it for a long
time with an intricate look. Finally, she lifted the curtains and tossed it
out. When she found out all the extreme behaviors he had in the past for a
woman, she realized they were not meant to be. Their relationship would never
go beyond friendship.
Luckily, so far she had only
viewed Chu Changge as someone who's nice to have around to chitchat with when
she's board. She couldn't care less whether he was with her or not.
The carriage was spacious,
large enough for a tall person to lie down. And for someone who's of average
height like Murong Yun Shu, she could totally lie down as though she was in her
own bed and move around however she wanted. So she laid down and closed her
eyes. She figured they'd arrive at Jinling when she woke up.
Nonetheless, some people were
never meant to have a smooth sailing life and Murong Yun Shu certainly was one
of them.
Murong Yun Shu was woken up by
the abrupt stop of the carriage, her body flew forward, almost tossing her off.
Luckily she had quick reflexed and was about to reached out to steady herself
between the interior walls of the carriage.
"What happened?" She
lifted and curtain and looked outside. There she saw about seven or eight
roughnecks blocking the path of the carriage. They were all dressed in grayish
hemp garments with their hairs sloppily tied up with hemp strings, making them
look awfully like bandits. However, what made them appeared to be even more
like bandits were their cliche saying:
"We planted the trees, we
paved the road; you want to pass, you must pay us!"
Murong Yun Shu simply pretended
that she didn't hear them. She did not appear to be frightened at all. She
exited the carriage in a leisurely manner, scrutinizing the bandits with her
gaze, "How much do you want? I don't have too much on me today. If I don't
have enough, just put it on my tab."
The bandits were caught off guard
that not only was she not frightened, angered, or worried, but rather open to
negotiation. They didn't know how to respond.
Nie Qing snickered. Nobody knew
whether that was directed toward Murong Yun Shu or the bandits. Murong Yun Shu
watched on as Nie Qing wanted to the "front line". She figured he had
some plans up his sleeves, instead he let out a very grandeur bureaucratic
jargon of "Robbing under the broad daylight? Do you know there are laws in
our country?"
Murong Yun Shu busted out
laughing, that was very pedantic of a top scorer in the imperial examination.
If bandits would observe the law, they wouldn't become bandits in the first
place.
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thanks for chapter
ReplyDeleteDid Nie Qing think that spouting law to criminals would give them easy passage? I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chapter translation
This novel is talor made for me 😍
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