Chapter 593: Bring Her Flying
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Qin Huai returned to the Hall of Abundance and originally planned to go to the small hall at the side, but he saw All Yu holding her chin and sitting on the stone steps in front of the hall, waiting for him. The little girl was looking at the eaves in a daze. When she heard Qin Huai’s light footsteps, she tilted her head, her eyes bright.
She called out in a low but excited voice, “Big Brother Ah You.”
Qin Huai’s originally furrowed brows softened the moment he saw Ah Yu.
The young man quickened his pace and walked over to pull her up. He took out a handkerchief and gestured for her to pat the dust off her body.
“Why are you awake now? Don’t you want to sleep more?”
“I couldn’t sleep, so I came out to take a breather,” Ah Yu replied casually and raised her chin. “Big Brother All You, look. This palace is so big and there are people everywhere, but other than the sound of footsteps and breathing, I can’t hear anything.”
Other than in the imperial garden and the built-in courtyard, it was very difficult to see even a tree in the palace. Occasionally, one would see a few, but they were all so short that they were almost invisible.
In spring, everything should have come alive. All kinds of snakes, insects, birds, and ants should have come out to move around. The night was supposed to be very lively, but the palace was terrifyingly quiet.
Ah Yu slept in the spatial pocket. She had always slept very quickly, but she couldn’t sleep well tonight. She simply left the spatial pocket and put on her clothes before leaving the room.
However, she did not hear Qin Huai’s breathing. Meatball told her that Qin Huai had gone out.
Qin Huai patted All Yu’s head and tidied her hair before saying, “We’ll go back tomorrow.”
“We’ll be able to find the person linked to your Shared Fate Gu tomorrow. Do you think it’ll be your mother?” Ah Yu felt that it was so, but she also felt that it might not be.
The main reason was that she felt that the Shared Fate Gu was an evil thing, but Madam Qin gave her the feeling that she was a very righteous person. She should not have touched such a thing.
“Mn. Ah Yu, I don’t want to mention her now.” Qin Huai was not in a good mood. Thinking of that woman, he felt upset.
All these years, he, All Yu, and the others had been traveling and studying. Seeing Ah Yu send letters home all the time, he had also thought about doing it. But in the end, he always put down his brush.
In any case, she would investigate his whereabouts and actions. What was the point of writing it or not?
In the end, he was only a young man in his teens. No matter how intelligent he was and how tenacious his mind was, there were things that couldn’t be understood just by knowing.
Even if he understood, he might not be able to accept it.
When he investigated his identity previously, he actually already knew many things, including why she had been so strict with him all these years. She only thought that if he could really survive one day, he had to shoulder the responsibilities that would eventually fall to him.
Even if he did not want to be a ruler, even if he was only a prince, he could not be mediocre. This was the pride of the Qin Family of Jiangnan.
Ah Yu tugged at Qin Huai’s little finger and said worriedly, “Big Brother Ah You, did you encounter something unhappy? Then tell me and let me help you.”
Seeing Ah Yu being so serious, Qin Huai felt even more like he couldn’t confide in her.
He was not a person who liked to speak openly.
“If you don’t want to say it, let’s practice martial arts. Mr. Chi Jia said that your lightness technique has improved a lot, but mine isn’t very good. Can you guide me?” With that, Ah Yu patted her head again. “Look at me. I forgot that your body hasn’t recovered yet. You shouldn’t be able to fly, right?”
Qin Huai glanced at her and pretended not to see the cunning glint in All Yu’s eyes. “…I can fly.”
He squatted down and leaned forward slightly, revealing his already broad back.
“Come up.”
After a while, a figure flew out of the Hall of Abundance.
An inner palace expert wanted to stop him, but he suddenly felt a hidden weapon flying towards him. He hurriedly grabbed it with his fingertips, but he realized that it was not a hidden weapon, but a piece of silver.
The Inner Palace expert:”?”
What is the meaning of this?
Someone in the know patted his shoulder and said, “Brother, take it. This is also the order of the higher-ups.”
As he spoke, he looked at the piece of silver enviously.
This was the money that the Emperor allowed them to earn. They had picked it up for free!
The Inner Palace expert:”…”
Qin Huai brought Ah Yu and flew for an hour. After flying around a corner of the imperial garden, they returned to the Hall of Abundance.
When the palace maids in charge of serving them woke up and realized that the people inside were gone, they were shocked.
Seeing that they had returned safely, their hearts beat even faster.
They actually dared to fly around the inner palace!
They were not beaten down by those hidden experts. What did this mean? It meant that the Emperor had tacitly agreed.
In addition, Qing Ye, who was serving the Empress Dowager, had instructed them to serve them well.
The identities of these two people must be extraordinary.
Ah Yu lay on Qin Huai’s back and flew to her heart’s content. She kept saying to Meatbail in her heart, “Big Brother Ah You is so powerful. Even if he doesn’t take the written examination, he can still take the martial arts examination!”
Meatbail was a little jealous. [If you go to the spatial pocket, I can also bring you to fly, You can fly as much as you want.]
“I know, I know. Our elf is the most powerful. Even Big Brother All You is not as powerful as you.” All Yu was speaking the truth.
She did not say the rest, but the elf was the elf and Big Brother Ah You was a mortal. They could not be compared.
Meatbail felt better. While Ah Yu and Qin Huai bade farewell, the two of them returned to their rooms separately and said, “He already knows who the Shared Fate Gu is connected to, but he doesn’t really want you to know. Then are you still going to look for it with him tomorrow?”
Ah Yu blinked. “Why won’t he want me to know? Will it be bad for me if I find out?”
[Kid, you’re very smart.] That was all Meatball could say.
Qin Huai’s thoughts were similar to Old Madam Wang’s. They both wanted to protect Ah Yu’s innocence as much as possible and did not want her to come into contact with these things too early.
She was still too young. Once she understood too much, her mind would easily be confused.
Meatbail actually thought so too.
The outside world was so chaotic. According to its thoughts, Ah Yu had grown up in its spatial pocket. It was in charge of telling her stories and teaching her culture. It was not inferior to the female teachers outside!
Qin Huai flew around and was indeed a little tired when he returned. He fell asleep after a while.
However, Ah Yu’s eyes were wide open. She held her breath and asked Meatbail, “Is Big Brother Ah You asleep now?”
[He’s asleep.]
“That’s good,” Ah Yu said. “After Big Brother All You woke up, he hasn’t been very happy. Let him be tired for a while today. Once he’s exhausted, he should be able to fall asleep.”
She knew Qin Huai very well. Qin Huai could not fall asleep even after drinking ordinary calming soup and tea.
On the other hand, if she accompanied him to waste his energy, he would be able to sleep.
“Big Brother All You must be very sad. His mother gave him the Shared Fate Gu.”
[His mother doesn’t seem like a bad person. She won’t harm him.]
“No, he’s sad. He’s probably worried that he’s not in good health, so he implicated his mother. Although Big Brother Ah You never says anything, I know that he actually likes his mother very much, just like me.” Ah Yu thought for a while and stopped thinking. She just covered herself in the cup. “I still have to look for his mother tomorrow and help Big Brother Ah You ask.”
She thought that Big Brother Ah You’s mother should be someone in the palace.
Because she had just smelled a familiar fragrance from Big Brother Ah You. It was from Madam Qin.
It was not incense, but more like the fragrance of plants.
Moreover, she had already come to the palace and met the greatest official in the world. Of course, she had to find a backer for her women’s academy.
She didn’t know what the Emperor wanted her to do tomorrow. In any case, since the Emperor asked her to do something, it definitely wouldn’t be a small matter. Since she could resolve it, it meant that it wasn’t a very troublesome matter either.
When the time came, she would take the opportunity to ask the Emperor for something good!