The Promotion Record of a Crown Princess

Chapter 36: Bathroom Lord’s Promise (8)
Translator: Sissy That Walk
I didn’t know what Bathroom Lord was trying to do, so I turned my head and looked at them. Then I heard Bathroom Lord continue to say, “In order to prove his innocence, the Fifth elder brother won’t kill you and me at the same time. Let’s make a bet on who has the better luck to survive the attack from these guys, you or me.”

Qi Sheng struggled to stand up by the stone wall, silent for a moment and replied: “Okay.”

Then he turned to me with a gloomy face and said, “Stay where you are, and someone will come to pick you up.”

Bathroom Lord also smiled at me. “Stay here. No matter who survives, the third elder brother and I will keep you safe.”

Somewhat surprised than dumbstruck I was, sighed with complicated emotions, I finally gained the benefits of being a woman for the first time since I transmigrated here!

Qi Sheng, holding his arm by the other hand, went out first. Bathroom Lord then followed.

I felt a little sad when their figures were dying away.

Looking further away, I suddenly saw several red ships, which were specially fabricated by the army, floating downstream from upstream. I was froze for a moment and turned to exultation, hurriedly jumped up to the stone, shouting and waving at Qi Sheng and Bathroom Lord: “Come back quick! The savior is coming!”

Then I raised my arm and shouted at the top of my voice: “Look here, we are here!”

On the red ship immediately stand up a person, waving vigorously towards me. I heard the anxious voices of Qi Sheng and Bathroom Lord almost at the same time:

“Get down!”

“Get down!”

In a split second, I realized that my behavior before was so dangerous. How silly I was! What I had done clearly made me the target for assassins!

I was panic-stricken, totally at a loss what to do. My limbs were so numb that I couldn’t even get down there for a while. Seeing the arrow coming through the air, I leaned back.

Several arrows grazed my clothes and shot into the wall behind me. I continued to fall and down to the ground with the cracking sound, only felt a thump on head and then I lost my consciousness.

In a trance, Heavenly Lord of Life seemed to appear in front of me, smacking his mouth: “See what you have done, how could you act so recklessly? Is there something wrong with your brain?”

I raised my hand and planned to hit him. However, my arm was grabbed. I made an effort to struggle and then woke up, only to find Qi Sheng sat beside me, holding my arm with his hand that didn’t hurt, said with a fit of resentment: “You can’t wait to beat others when you are not even fully awake. I guess you are not seriously injured!”

Still in some daze, I turned to look around, and saw myself already in the ship, which was very big, like a warship.

I asked Qi Sheng, “Am I injured?”

Qi Sheng let go of my arm and answered with a faint voice: “You knocked the head and had a lump when falling down from the rocks.”

Relieved, I asked, “How about the Lord Ninth?”

Qi Sheng’s face turned clouded and replied coldly, “He is still alive, who is on another boat with Yang Yan.”

I said, “Ok.” and immediately began to worry about my situation. Although this chaos was the result of the three brothers’ conspiracy, however the outsiders would blame it on me for being secretly out of the Palace. If I went back to the Palace bearing this charge, how could the Emperor easily let me go?

Qi Sheng seemed to have seen through my mind. With a low, cold snort, he said: “I have reported to the Emperor that you were hijacked out of the Palace, and Lord Ninth will prove it in due course. For the sake of the Imperial court’s reputation, it will only be suppressed, and you will be punished for transcribing at most.”

I nodded. That was what it should be like, if even the Crown Princess could be easily robbed from the Palace, they will lose their face.

I was rejoicing when I heard a slight knock from outside.

Qi Sheng got up and went out. I did not know what the man outside told him. Then I heard him ask the man in the low voice seriously: “What? Say it again!”

My heart trembled for a second, so I got up to the door to eavesdrop, who knew that when I just opened the quilt to sit up, Qi Sheng there had followed the man walking far away quickly.

I waited for a moment, softly walked to the door and opened it. Before I stretched out my head, a guard flashed in, respectfully but firmly said: “Your Highness, the Crown Prince had orders that you should stay in the cabin to recover, and do not walk out at will.”

I nodded calmly and asked him, “Where is the Crown Prince? Go and fetch him for me. I want to speak to him.”

The guard replied, “He had something to deal with and had left after changing for another ship. He has asked Your Highness to wait for him on the ship.”

In a surprise, I did not know what happened on earth that forced Qi Sheng suddenly left the ship and went away. Whether it was for the military coup, or something happened in the Fuping Palace? “In that case,” I said casually, “I’ll ask you to do it for me. I have something left in Lord Ninth’s hand. Could you send someone to fetch it for me?”

The guard, with an awkward facial expression, said, “He is on another ship. It is not convenient to be on board at the moment. It would be better to fetch it after the ship is berthed.”

I was just trying to find out if Bathroom Lord was still there. Hearing what he said, I knew he was around. So I stopped asking and went back to the cabin.

Who knew I had stayed in the cabin unexpectedly for more than ten days!

The ship had come to Fuping that night, but I was not allowed to get off the ship following the order that I should wait for Qi Sheng in the cabin, so I was like a prisoner trapped in the cabin and stayed for more than 10 days, hearing no news at all.

It was not until the beginning of July that an imperial decree came, ordering me to set off immediately for Sheng City.

Once I heard that names on the imperial decree all changed, I immediately understood everything. So I just politely asked that eunuch: “When did the new Emperor ascend?”

The imperial eunuch rolled the imperial decree and handed it into my hands, smiled and said to me, “the present Emperor ascended the throne in Fengtian Temple on the second day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar. Then he ordered me to pick up Your Highness to return to Sheng City. I was specially instructed that I must serve you carefully all along the way.”

I nodded. No wonder Qi Sheng had no news for more than ten days. It turned out that he was rushing back to Sheng City to seize the throne. I was puzzled that since the previous Emperor looked very well before I left the Palace, how could he demise?

Now that Qi Sheng has become the Emperor, would the Bathroom Lord and Zhao wang still be alive?

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