DWGL _ Chapter - 04

Are you secretly in love with Shada? 

The intertwined Liu family

Half an hour later, Lord Liu came out of the imperial study dazed, still holding the scroll in his arms. When he returned to the house, his wife, seeing his appearance, hastened to ask, "Has the emperor refused to help with the matchmaking?"

Lord Liu shook his head, "Not really, His Majesty agreed. He even said that the portrait was too plain and that he wanted the palace painters to redraw it."

"I thought you were being scolded by His Majesty again." Madam Liu sighed with relief.

"A housewife, what's the point of talking so much?" Lord Liu was displeased at her words and put the scroll on the table again, saying, "Go and ask Xiao Sanzi to find a good craftsman to frame this scroll, I want to hang it in the main hall."

Madam Liu was puzzled by this and thought he had a fever: "What are you doing hanging a portrait of Princess Goryeo in the main hall?"

"The portrait has been in the palace for a long time, it was given to me by the Emperor in his handwriting." Lord Liu carefully untied the ties.

"His Majesty has given you a name?" Madam Liu was overjoyed and rushed forward to admire it. On the gold rice paper, she saw a few big words in bold and elegant letters, which were very majestic.

‘The No.1 Matchmaker in the World.’

......

Lord Liu's feelings were also very mixed. He was happy, but he found it hard to show off these words. After all, he was a lord of the court, not a matchmaker woman in red and green with a flower on her sideburns in the streets of Wang Cheng.

In the imperial study, the court painter, after looking at the portrait sent by Goryeo, asked, "I wonder how Your Majesty would like it to be modified?"

"The more beautiful the painting, the better." Chu Yuan said, "Don't care what it looked like before."

Only then did Shen Qian Fan come out from behind the screen and wondered, "Does Your Majesty really want to propose a marriage to Xinan Wang?"

"It's just a show of hands." Chu Yuan put down his teacup and returned carelessly, "The oldest is not young, it's time to get married."

Shen Qian Fan: "......"

Do you want to take care of this?

"Among the Liu family, I'm afraid he is the only one who is still loyal." Chu Yuan continued.

"What about the Left Prime Minister?" Shen Qian Fan asked.

"Liu Yishui? He's an old greaser, I can't tell he's treacherous, but he's not loyal either." Chu Yuan said, "But if he is sensible, I don't want to touch him this time."

Shen Qian Fan nodded, "Once the Liu family is eliminated, there will be a lot of people in the court, and the ministers will inevitably be in a panic. Prime Minister Liu is here to mediate and make things easier."

Chu Yuan sighed deeply in his heart and leaned back on the dragon chair, closing his eyes slightly.

The Liu family was originally from Empress Dowager's maiden family. The foreign relatives were intertwined, and the people of Wang Cheng were muttering. The Liu Mansion on Zheng yang Street became more and more refined, and it looked like it was almost as high as the palace. The owner of Liu Mansion was named Liu Gong. He originally held military power and was stationed in the northeast. It took a full ten years for the first emperor of Chu to gradually reduce his military power, and on his deathbed, hundreds of civil and military officials came to the couch and passed the position of the prince to Chu Yuan-not Gao Wang Chu Xiang that the Liu family had been supporting.

The first thing Chu Yuan did after taking the throne was to demote his half-brother to a commoner and exiled him to a small island in the southwest sea. He was demoted with him, as well as Liu Gong's fifth son, Liu Jinde, the history of Liao Prefecture.

With these few things, the relationship between Chu Yuan and Liu Fu is self-evident.

But no one is a fool. Even if there are more entanglements and grievances in their hearts, the two sides still talk and laugh freely on the surface. One year after Chu Yuan ascended to the throne, Liu Gong took the initiative to resign, saying that he was going back to the mansion to raise his children and grandchildren.

The people regarded this move as a sign of weakness, but Chu Yuan knew it well. Don't say that Liu Gong was still in Wang Cheng. Even if he returned to his hometown in Northeast China, he would still be the actual ruler of the Liu clan. Hundreds of civil and military officials from the upper and lower dynasties, as long as they can get involved with the Liu family, will still follow what he says-with the exception of two people. One of them is Liu Da Jiong, who has just come to talk to the matchmaker. His relationship with Liu Fu has never been close, because he is too naive and straightforward, and because he has no ambitions, he just wants to do his job as an official conscientiously, so he has been staying out of it for so many years. Another is Left Prime Minister Liu Yishui. Strictly speaking, he can only be regarded as Liu Gong's fellow countryman. He was also worshipped by other adults in the imperial examination that year, and he was cunning, so he couldn't see what he was thinking in his stomach. 

"Your Majesty, General Shen." Eunuch Si Xi reminded him outside, "It's time for dinner."

"It's already so late." Chu Yuan returned to his senses, although he still did not have much appetite. He even drank a few glasses of wine with him until it was completely dark, and then sent Si Xi to send him out of the palace.

"If they were a civil official, you would have to send him away, but the last general is a military man, so I won't bother Eunuch." When he reached the Chongde Gate, Shen Qian Fan smiled and said, "Please go back."

"Good, then General Shen should go back to rest early." Eunuch Si Xi smiled, "I should also go back to serve the Emperor with his medicine."

Shen Qian Fan nodded and turned around to continue walking out, only to be intercepted halfway.

"...... Painter Zhang?" When he saw who was coming, Shen Qian Fan sighed with relief.

"General Shen." I heard Xiao Fu say that the general was dining with the emperor, so I knew I could wait for you here."

"Why are you waiting for me?" Shen Qian Fan did not understand.

"There is a small matter that I would like to ask the General." Zhang said, "Today, the emperor sent me to the imperial study to paint a portrait of Princess Goryeo, saying that he thought the person in the original painting was unattractive and wanted to paint a new one."

"Then you can just paint a new one, do you want me to help you paint it?" Shen Qian Fan laughed.

"I have already painted it, but the Princess Goryeo is not attractive, I think the original artist has already embellished it. So I would like to ask you, General, do you know anything about this? If you can tell me what the emperor wants to do with this portrait, I can also have a recipe for how to change it, otherwise, it would be bottomless in my heart now." Painter Zhang said a lot in one breath, holding back his breath.

Shen Qian Fan smoothed his breath and said, "The portrait was sent to the emperor by Lord Liu."

The artist suddenly understood: "Oh, matchmaking."

Shen Qian Fan held back his laughter: "You can just draw it, it doesn't matter how much it doesn't look like." Anyway, it was not the Emperor's own marriage, and no matter how beautiful or ugly it was, Xinan Wang would not agree to it, so it would be nonsense.

"Yes, yes, yes, that's fine. I'll go and present the portrait to the Emperor." Zhang was so happy that he couldn't help showing off, "I've done a great job with this painting, it's based on the most beautiful person in the Jianghu." The painting is as good as it looks, and he can be a matchmaker for anyone.

Shen Qian Fan patted him on the shoulder and turned around to stride back to the general's residence.

At the other end of the town, Duan Yao was playing with the bugs in the guest room when four or five men suddenly came in. He threw a handful of darts at him.

"It's me." The visitor dodged away, his heart palpitating.

"It's you guys?" Duan Yao was puzzled as to how the assassins from Xinan King's Mansion could have followed him all the way here.

"There's something going on in Xinan Mansion." One of them was named Duan Nian, Duan Bai Yue's confidant.

"Master is alive again?" Duan Yao was nervous.

"If he lives, the first thing he will do is to come and settle the score with you." Duan Bai Yue pushed the door in.

Duan Yao: "......"

"How?" Duan Bai Yue asked.

Duan Nian said, "As expected, within a few days of Wang Ye's departure, the Precious Pagoda was stolen."

"Those fake letters were stolen?" Duan Bai Yue smiled.

Duan Nian said, "Yes."

"Very good." Duan Bai Yue nodded and said, "Since you are here, you should follow us to the Wang Cheng, and remember not to reveal your whereabouts."

Duan Yao poked a little worm and grimaced in his heart.

No, even you went there secretly, not to mention your subordinates.

When the hell will we get back to Xinan?

The cold is getting colder and colder and the weather doesn't look like it's going to clear up at all. Duan Yao wrapped himself up in a bun and refused to come out of the carriage all day.

Duan Bai Yue, however, was not in a hurry and even went to a singer's house once in a while to listen to a tune.

Duan Yao: "......"

The time passed 20 days, and Duan Yao was taken out in the middle of the night to "fetch" an imperial decree from the Micropolis.

......

"It was originally meant to be sent to Xinan King's mansion." Duan Bai Yue sat at the table to open the seal, so it was not considered stolen.

Duan Yao rolled his eyes and paced over with his hot tea: "What's wrong again?"

Duan Bai Yue unfolded the decree.

After reading it, Duan Yao was shocked: "The Emperor of Chu still cares whether you are married or not?" How could it be the same as the aunt in the house?

Duan Bai Yue opened the scroll again.

Duan Yao was even more shocked: "The Emperor of Chu wants to marry Master Wuxue (Yin Wu Shuang) to you?"

"There's no such thing as Wuxue, this is Princess Goryeo." Duan Bai Yue knocked on his head.

"Are Princess Goryeo and Master Wuxue brother and sister?" Duan Yao held the scroll up to the light, "This is clearly Master Wuxue." The most beautiful person in Jianghu, he looks pretty good.

Duan Bai Yue smiled and threw the scroll into the fire with the imperial decree, and then brought Duan Nian in: "Have you heard anything?"

"There is one thing." Duan Nian first nodded, but then hesitated, "But I haven't found out anything yet."

"Let's talk about it first." Duan Bai Yue said.

"It is said that the leader of the Anu Kingdom, Shada, has arrived at Wang Cheng." Duan Nian said.

Duan Bai Yue frowned: "Him?"

There was nothing to be surprised about. Duan Yao snapped at his side, Didn't you sneak in here too, and you're allowed to come but no one else is?

He was staying at a pawn shop in Wang Cheng and our people found it by accident. Duan Nian said, "And his brother, Guli, was assassinated in an alley in Wang Cheng not long before. Emperor Chu was first investigating, but finally stopped."

Duan Bai Yue shook his head, stood up from the table and said, "Let's go."

"Where to?" Duan Yao was wary, it was the middle of the night.

"Wang Cheng!" Duan Bai Yue took a big step outside.

Duan Yao was dumbfounded, what kind of person would go to Wang Cheng now?

Duan Nian was also surprised by this; did he really care so much?

"I think he's secretly in love with that Shada." Duan Yao put the worm in his pocket, "So when he heard that he was in Wang Cheng, he was so excited that he didn't even sleep and rushed to meet him."

—— ฅʕ•̫͡•ʔฅ ——ㄚ

Note:

1. 高王(Gāo wáng): High King, refers to the Five Dynasties Nanping Wang Gao Cong instructions. Buddhist language. The most king.

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