CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

368 The King and Ministers

BeiYau couldn’t stop smiling, how could he? This morning he just heard something that made him ready to die right then and there.

“My Prince, I’m sorry that Bei has made Prince worried, if only my Prince knew how much I miss you, I’m trying my best to get out safely so that I can see you again,” said BeiYau holding ChenMing’s smooth hand.

ChenMing pushed the young bodyguard’s chest.

“Don’t be sweet-mouthed Guard Bei, and I’m not worried about you.”

BeiYau smiled, seeing ChenMing’s gentle face getting too close to him.

“Is that true? So all this time the Prince didn’t think of me at all?”

ChenMing turned to BeiYau, the eyes of the two met and just stared at each other in silence.

“Because I believe, that Guard Bei can fulfil your promise, I believe, you will come back to me no matter what.”

Hearing that BeiYau fell silent, he grabbed ChenMing’s smooth palm and kissed it.

.....

“Chup”

“Thank you, my Prince, for trusting me”

...

SuLang smiled seeing BaiYing’s glowing face as he lifted the rather heavy sack into the hands of an old man, it was the last refugee who’s line up that day, a few young guards helped him.

“Be careful old man, it’s quite heavy.”

Before long, the food distribution that day was finally over.

SuLang stretched out his hand to help BaiYing straighten up.

“Please be careful Your Majesty”

BaiYing smiled, a smile that could make SuLang’s heart melt, the young man tried to restrain himself, he released his grip quickly and lowered his head in salute, unaware he had seen the face of the young man in front of him too closely.

“Forgive me for being presumptuous!” SuLang lowered his body to his knees in front of BaiYing.

BaiYing chuckled.

“Hehehe Young Master Su, it’s fine, thanks for helping.”

SuLang bowed his head deeply.

“Forgive servant, Your Majesty, for not recognized Your Majesty from the first time, Servant was so fool”

ChenMing approached, frowning at SuLang who was still kneeling.

“Young Master Su what are you doing?”

SuLang raised his head, frowning at ChenMing’s question.

“Eh Your Majesty, Servant...”

“Raise up young master Su” said BaiYing.

ChenMing pulled BaiYing’s hand leading him to sit on a chair not far behind them, several young maids including Yan and Bi served them.

“Brother, we will return to XinHua soon, will that rotten Crown Prince come with us?” he asked.

BaiYing frowned in thought, he reached for his teacup and sipped it slowly.

“Um, maybe, if not, where else?”

“Well back to YueYang, why is he staying in XinHua?”

ChenMing said in a loud voice, BaiYing looked around, including BeiYau who was standing outside of the small shed that they had been using since this morning to distribute the foods for the refugees.

“Em, then, do Guard Bei say anything about back to YueYang?” Bai Ying whispered.

ChenMing turned his head, looking at BaiYing with big eyes.

“W-what has that got to do with Guard Bei?”

“Well, it has something to do brother, if His Majesty returns to YueYang, then Guard Bei certainly will come along, so he must know something”

ChenMing took a sip of his tea, placing the cup back in its place.

“I don’t know, and I don’t care, I definitely can’t wait to go back to XinHua and sleep in my bed, this trip is very tiring, remember little brat, just watch out if you run away again next time” ChenMing pinched BaiYing’s nose in exasperation.

“Akkh Brother is hurt”

ChenMing stood up from his seat.

“Come on Guard Bei, help me tidy up my belonging” Chen Ming shouted as he passed the tall, burly bodyguard who had been standing on guard for a while.

BeiYau stuttered, he was willing to help, but he was the Crown Prince’s personal bodyguard, who when he glanced at him as if he didn’t care about him, didn’t even see him at all.

“Eh P-Prince, wait for me!” said BeiYau immediately following ChenMing towards the direction of the Su family’s mansion which was not far from the field.

While Crown Pince don’t care about his Guard, the only thing he care about of course his lovely Hua BaiYing who always spread his smiles to everybody there, what he can do, that boy is a King, a very powerful one.

,....

Late afternoon.

The atmosphere in downtown SuChou was bustling again after the disaster in CuiAn ended, although it was shaken for a while, the economy in the trading city continued to run. The main road is already filled with market traders and residents who come to study or even just to enjoy the sunny afternoon air.

In one of the crowded noodle stalls, ShiShen and two of his friends were seen sitting watching the road, until one of them poked ShiShen’s arm to see who had just appeared from the end of the street.

“Young master Shi, look who’s

here.” Among the residents, they saw someone they had been waiting for for a while, SuLang who was dressed as a palace guard with gold armour and a long reddish robe who didn’t hesitate to join the queue in front of the candy bar cart.

“Come on, what shape do you want? Horse? Or a tiger?” an old merchant this time, expertly shapes hot candies according to the wishes of his regular customers, the young kids.

SuLang’s face looked very cheerful, he was just as excited as the children in front of him, the tall young man clearly looked very eye-catching and made several young and old women who passed by cover their mouths laughing when they saw him.

“Hehe look at that handsome man, what he is doing there?”

ShiShen and two friends decided to get close after SuLang managed to get the candy.

“Wow, young master Su, long time no see, now you are interested in buying sweets, huh? Really, you never buy it before, did you?” ShiShen exclaimed approaching.

SuLang hadn’t even lifted his head when the candy in his hand was grabbed by one of the young masters who immediately ate it.

“Em this is delicious, no wonder it’s so crowded”

SuLang’s eyes widened, he was careless and the very precious sugar fell out of his hand, with big eyes because SuLang furiously pushed the young man who took the sugar.

“Insolent! What are you doing?”

Another young master pushed back against SuLang’s chest.

“You are very stingy, don’t be so angry like this, it’s just cheap candy, I’ll buy the cart for you” exclaimed the arrogant young man.

ShiShen smirked seeing SuLang who was already looking at him with big eyes as if to swallow him.

“You guys, don’t steal the candy from the kid, you guys have no shame at all”

The young man who took SuLang’s candy thrust the candy back in front of SuLang, after he had bitten the rabbit’s ear.

“Here, I’ll give it back”

SuLang was angry, finally very annoyed he pushed the young master to be thrown into the hard road.

“Bukk!”

ShiShen and the other youths were shocked to see what SuLang did, the young man didn’t hesitate to push their friend hard.

“Young master Su what are you doing?” cried ShiShen.

SuLang looked at the three youths in front of him with bloodshot eyes holding back annoyance, he was very angry but tried to suppress his emotions, these young people were nothing to him, they could only waste his precious time.

SuLang threw the cotton candy to the young man in his face.

“Take it, this is for you!” too annoyed SuLang grab his spear tightly and turned his body towards the melting candy merchant again.

ShiShen and the two young masters looked at SuLang in disbelief at the change in the attitude of the young man, who previously would have been serving them until a commotion broke out.

ShiShen immediately chased after SuLang and opened his palm hitting the young man’s back.

“Insolent, where are you going?” but a gust of wind sounded in the ears of SuLang who reflexively turned his body to block ShiShen’s attack with his hand still holding his spear.

A strong wind blew from the energy within the two of them making some of the residents in the vicinity flee.

“Young Master Su, you may have managed to lick Prince Chen’s ass, but I still came out victorious anyway, you are just a small soldier, is that position worthy of making you arrogant like this?” cried ShiShen.

SuLang pushed ShiShen back, still standing firmly where he was not intending to serve the person any longer, he had much more important work to do.

“I don’t have time to serve you, get out of my way”

.....

ShiShen didn’t give up, he stomped his foot at SuLang who turned his back on him, SuLang finally served a few punches from young master ShiShen, holding it with his bare hands, a few hard fists, to his flying kick, moves with considerable internal power that causes a strong wind that blows away some of the merchandise and the seller’s cart.

“Akh what happened”

SuLang blocked ShiShen’s kick, which spun around and kicked his long legs high enough to almost hit SuLang’s head.

SuLang thought he wouldn’t serve him but the young master’s attack was definitely no joke.

“Hiaaatt!’

The wind from the fight of the two made all the residents around him move away.

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