Chapter 79：Zhen Er's Enlightenment

[1]

Zhen er' is very confused.

I was only a small soldier in the army. Although I never retreated on the battlefield, and I was brave enough to kill the enemy, but I was always careful to preserve my life. Therefore, I have not made any great achievements and certainly have not rendered any meritorious service.

Who knew that when I came back, I will be promoted, moreover, directly to a second class minister...it is too exaggerated.

The most shocking this is that it was actually a civil position, moreover an Imperial censor!

I am very confused.

I...I have not read much and doesn't have much to say ah...

And...I didn't want to make irresponsible remarks to the emperor...The emperor was openly raising a rabbit in the military camp and I had decisively stood up to the emperor. Who is the person who would dare to supervise the emperor? Oh, maybe the emperor took a fancy to my character and specifically appointed me as an Imperial censor...Nevermind, nevermind...I held my head, thinking, in any case, a government position is not bad...

Having said that, I have not seen the little rabbit...Tian Wei?

Thinking about it, he probably has been hidden inside the harem, and must not be exposed. I wonder how he is doing now, after all, we went to the battlefield together. He likes the emperor, luckily for him, the emperor took fancy to him, so he should be good bor, but, I don't know if the empress is torturing or abusing him.

My first in Court, I was very careful and tried not to open my mouth. Anyway, there were so many officials. Every time I spoke, the emperor raised an eyebrow as if saying "there is a fart, quickly release it", it seemed as long as I was honest, it is okay.

**(Basically means to talk fast, he must have been mumbling/stammering)**

Finally, on the evening of the Spring Festival, I saw Tian Wei sitting next to the emperor...No, that's not right, next to the emperor, isn't that the empress?!

The emperor and the empress also looked my way, and then as if they had a tacit understanding, they revealed identical smiles.

...So that's how it is.

Seeing this, the clever Zhen er' immediately understood the truth of the matter.

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After dinner and performances, we all went outside for a walk. Zhen er' walked towards the emperor and empress to apologize: "Emperor, you are not homosexual hahaha..."

Yun Jiao thought about the events in the camp and laughed.

Wu Min Jun: "You would have realized it had you not been so stupid."

Zhen er' scratched his head and said: "Thank the emperor for his praise...However, where is Tian Wei?"

Wu Min Jun and Yun Jiao's smiling faces suddenly stiffened.

"What are you talking about?" Wu Min Kin looked at Zhen er' with an expression of disbelief.

Zhen er' blinked and said: "Since Tian Wei is the empress's brother, shouldn't he be in the palace?"

"My brother?" Yunxiao studied Zhen er' silently.

Zhen er' nodded: "Yes, Tian Wei is the empress's brother, you both look very similar. He must have looked for the emperor in the army under the instructions of the empress, to handle an important matter. The emperor must have been worried about his identity being known and so pretended that they were a pair, isn't it?"

Zhen er' is not sure if he is seeing things, but it seemed like the emperor and empress's expressions both fell at the same time...

[2]

Zhen er' finally realize that "Tianwei= empress", his face changed greatly, it felt very unreasonable.

Yun Jiao looked at him with a gloomy expression: "Is it reasonable to think that Tian Wei is my younger brother..."

After a long while, he barely managed to say the word "Yes."

However, he did not dare to stay, when he remembered all that he said to "tian Wei" like, "the empress is a tigress" and so, his head was in pain...No wonder the emperor appointed him as an Imperial censor...!

Zhen er' sighed, and quietly walked to a corner, he found a woman sitting on a stone bench there, this woman was dressed in all-white, with black hair up to her waist, In the moonlit snowy night, she looked like a...

Zhen er' took in a deep breath, the woman was very sensitive, so she turned back in an instant. Zhen er' thought she was a very beautiful woman, looking at her eyebrows, it seems she is not someone from the Central Plains.

She looked at him coldly and asked: "Who is it?"

Zhen er' straightened and said: "Miss, that question, should be what this official should be asking..."

The woman looked him over, and seeing him wearing an official outfit, she did not ask again but also did not reply Zhen er's question, and instead turned around and raised a jar of wine and took two gulps.

Zhen er' was somewhat puzzled, on this cold and snowy night, how can there be a woman dressed in white drinking in the Imperial Palace...

Maybe, it's not real...

Zhen er' felt cold and felt goosebumps, he swallowed and turned around to leave, then the woman unexpectedly suddenly spoke out: "Can I trouble you to go bring another jar of wine here?"

Zhen er' awkwardly replied: "Why should I help you bring wine...?"

The woman replied quietly: "Then I won't drink wine anymore."

Zhen er' was shocked - won't drink wine, then drink what? drink his blood?!

This woman is too terrible...

Zhen er': "Okay, ok, ok...I'll go bring wine."

Then he quickly turned and left, and went to the Spring Palace celebration to grab a jar of wine, on the way back, he happened to see Wu Min Jun and Yun Jiao, after some deliberation, he felt it was necessary to tell the emperor and empress, so he walked up to them and said: "Emperor, Empress, just now in the northwest corner, this official saw that there was a ghostly woman dressed in white..."

He had not finished his report when a woman's voice interrupted him: "Is it very ghostly?"

Zhen er' was shocked and turned around, his hand loosened and the jar of wine immediately fell, he saw a foot stick out and catch it before it hit the ground.

It is the woman.

She gently kicked the jar into the air and she extended her left hand and easily caught it, then coldly looked at Zhen er'in front of her.

The lights were much brighter here, and the woman doesn't look so scary, and she is very good looking, she should...not be a ghost.

Zhen er' was just about to apologize when he heard the empress behind him say: "Hu Fu, didn't you say you are not feeling well? why aren't you resting yet?"

Hu Fu?

Zhen er' thought this name was somewhat familiar but could figure out from where. Hu Fu replied: "Nothing, just drinking is more comfortable."

Zhen er' was embarrassed and said: "Miss Hu, I have misunderstood, I saw you in a corner, dressed in white, so I thought you...are..."

Hu Fu: "..."

"And you still dared to go take wine to her?" the Empress smiled, "Your courage is not small."

Zhen er' was even more embarrassed and he said: "It was Miss Hu who said that if I don't bring wine, she will not drink wine anymore, I was afraid that she will drink my blood, so I..."

Hu Fu: "..."

Wu Min Jun who had been facing the crowd with a calm expression all night finally smiled. That night to the crowd of onlookers, Zhen er' was seen to have obtained the Xi emperor's personal seal of approval - They are really thinking too much.

[3]

- I heard that Minister Zhen wants to take a wife.

- Which young lady is so unlucky, to marry Zhen er'?

- Well, it seems like the person's backing is not small, has some relations to the emperor and empress, her story is quite mysterious, only known of her surname, Hu.

- Hahahahahaha

-How funny

- Nothing, just thought that if you add Minister Zhen's name with that woman's surname, don't you get Zhen erhu hahahaha...?

- The mind is sick, honestly.

**(Erhu is a musical instrument, it'shaped like a guitar but is played with a bow like a violin...Yun Jiao seems like the sort of person to give her kids funny names just for laughs honestly, she gets such a kick out of names)**

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MiraiSaesang's notes: Finally done!! My first translation project!! It has been a tasking but enjoyable journey...It seems everybody got a happy ever after, even Liu Ya (hopefully off-script), I'm happy Hu Fu could move on, Zhen er' will help her a lot in lightening up with his absurd theories, he should really consider writing novels, he has a very imaginative mind ...and our main couple are as adorable and hilarious as ever...

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