Chapter 23: Being Flexible With Your Husband (6)
Translator: Sissy That Walk
I told the inner-palace servant to bring Yang Yan in. In a moment, Yang Yan came in the palace from outside like a gust of wind. At the sight of Lin shi sitting on the honorable seat, he was stunned, turning his relaxed and pleasant look into a serious one. Yang Yan greeted me reverently and then he picked the seat farthest from Lin shi.

Lin shi took the opportunity to say goodbye. And I asked Lv Li to walk her out.

After Lin shi walked out of the door, Yang Yan wiped the cold sweat on his forehead with his hand and cried out, “Wow! What is this tigress doing here? I was almost scared to death by her!”

I asked Yang Yan with curiosity, “Why are you so afraid of her?”

Yang Yan said in a shocking voice, “Well, you haven’t seen how fierce this tigress can be. She was seriously trying to beat He Liangchen to death. There was one time that she even chased him to my home, it scared the hell out of me. From then on, I swore that I would rather to become a monk than marrying a woman like her.”

I listened to what Yang Yan said with deep feelings and immediately changed my impression of him. With the understanding and consciousness like this, he would not be a man who was too dumb.

Right after this thought came into my mind, I suddenly heard Yang Yan whisper to me, “Well, did you… did you really get whipped?

I became speechless at once, secretly sighing what a straightforward boy he was, so straightforward that it bordered on one-track minded..

As there were other maids and inner-palace servants waiting for orders in the palace, I had to send all of them out. Before I got the chance to talk to Yang Yan, Yang Yan leaned forward and asked, “So, it is true? He cannot be counted as man. And you were being silly too. I told you to take refuge in the Empress Dowager’s place, but you just didn’t listen to me.”

I put on a grave face and said nothing.

Yang Yan put his hand into his clothes and fished around. Then he handed over a small white porcelain bottle, “Well, my ninth brother asked me to give it to you, he said there won’t be any scars left after using this.”

I took the porcelain bottle over and casually put it on the table.

Yang Yan said again, “You should use a little more of this. If you can get better soon enough, there is still enough time for us to go to the villa palace for a summer holiday.”

I had ever heard about the arrangement of going to the palace for summer holiday, but I was not planning to join anyway. Getting together with the Emperor, the Empress Dowager and Her Majesty the Empress usually meant chaotic bustling. I was better off shutting the door of my palace and playing with a group of beautiful girls in the cool water alone.

When I was secretly thinking about that in my mind, I saw Yang Yan staring at my face, and from time to time his eyes would travel down my neck as if he was hoping to pull my collar and to take a look at what it was like inside.

Holy gosh! Though I was a lecherous man before, but I had not been as bold as him. Maybe this man left his intelligence quotient at home when he went out, now all he was carrying with him was courage.

Yang Yan suddenly sneaked up towards me and said with a despicable laugh, “Well, Qi Sheng is really good at whipping, it is unexpected that your skin exposed outside escaped the whipping! If it weren’t for the smell of medicine in this room, I couldn’t believe you had been whipped!”

I was so annoyed that I wanted to change my expression and throw a temper at once. I used to think of Qi Sheng as an idiot, but I didn’t expect Yang Yan to be the dumbest of all the idiots!

Perhaps Yang Yan saw the annoyance in my eyes, so he quickly sat back and laughed, saying “Don’t you worry, Jiang shi is thousands of times more miserable than you. I am afraid she hasn’t woken up yet. It was a surprise that Qi Sheng restrained himself from slapping your face. It shows that he has really made a lot of progress in mental growth!”

I wanted to punch him. Suddenly realizing the fact that I had just been “whipped” last nightand no way should I move as agilely as before. I then forced myself to let him go this time, sitting on the seat without changing my position for a long time.

Yang Yan looked away from my face. He looked slightly disappointed, but it passed by in a flash, and then he put on a dandiacal smile. He made an obeisance by cupping one hand in the other before his chest and laughed, “I have to go now. See you again in the villa palace in a few days!”

I asked Lv Li to see off the guest, but I was still sitting on the chair without moving a bit.

Lv Li sent Yang Yan out and brought in a new job, the maid who was serving Her Majesty the Empress.

At that time, I was cursing in my mind. Being a Crown Princess was so not what a person should do. As long as you did not secure the title of Her Majesty the Empress one day, even if you were as noble as the Crown Princess, you were still in a position that was inferior to a normal person! Even a normal person could do whatever he pleased, could I? Did I dare?

I took a deep breath, straightened up my waist, and then went on to meet the guests in line.

In this way, visitors holding all kinds of thoughts in their minds didn’t leave until the noon of the day.

When Lv Li closed the door of the palace and came in, I was still sitting up straight. I called her in a hurry, “Come here quickly, pull out all these needles for me, they are killing me!”

Lv Li hurried over and carefully removed one by one the fine needles secretly hidden on the back of my collar. With eyes moist, she said, “Your Highness, why do you trouble to suffer from this pain? You are bleeding from the pricking. How good it is if you just claim that you are being ill and avoid seeing all those visitors!”

At the same time when I was stretching my stiff neck and waist, I said, “That’s how to make it look like a real thing. Otherwise, how can I fool all those people?”

If I lie in bed to avoid visitors, those people might suspect that I was shamming sickness, it was better to give them the chance to come over thus to make them feel assured.

It was not until evening that Qi Sheng came back from the outside. Lv Li suggested me inviting him over to have a discussion on today’s problem.

With regard to this thought of Lv Li, I showed my earnest contempt. What kind of discussion was it actually? It was in fact coaxing to sleep with him in the name of having a discussion. Is it worthwhile for me to please my boss with my sick body?

Besides, Lv Li’s work experience was still too little. It was a sure thing that bosses like diligent and active employees, but they would not like the employees who were over active. My profession was the Crown Princess, not the counselor of the Crown Prince. “Holding several titles at the same time does not mean that the boss values you, it only means that the boss wants to squeeze out every bit of your labor value.” I thought to myself.

Unfortunately, Lv Li was too green to get this enduring philosophy yet. Therefore, as soon as she heard me saying that I would not invite Qi Sheng over, she pulled a long face, anyone could feel disappointment was oozing from her.

I tried to persuade Lv Li, “Oh, my Lv Li, men do not appreciate it when women make indiscreet remarks or criticisms on their business. So we should save it, and do something else!”

I should say that Lv Li was still a girl who liked to use her mind. She turned her head and thought about it. Immediately Lv Li whispered to me in excitement, “I have understood what Your Highness said. Word has it that bitch Jiang shi fell down quite heavily. Zhao wang even invited over Imperial Physician Qiu who was still on vacation. It took him half a day to set her bones. She didn’t wake up until this evening. We shall think of a way to tamper with her medicine to let that bitch…”

I was amazed at this woman’s leaping thinking. I waved my hand and said, “Girl, just save it!”

Lv Li looked at me with her crystal-clear eyes blinking, half amazed and half puzzled.

I wondered how this girl could say such a despicable thing in such an innocent tone. I should say that she was kind or that she was vicious?

Woman, what a strange species indeed!.

Lv Li thought that I was annoyed, so she got frightened and stepped back to kneel down beside my bed. She pleaded guilty and said, “Your Highness, please don’t be angry, I am not going to mess with that bitch.”

I then felt gratified and nodded “That’s right. Jiang shi lives so far away from us, we are not wasting our time to mess with her! It is better for us to…”

Lv Li’s eyes brightened and she answered at once, “Your Highness is so smart! We should find trouble with Chen Liangdi at first. Last night, she put on a show presenting a bowl of lotus-nuts sweet soup to the Crown Prince in the name of maintaining his health. It was obvious that she was trying to seduce Crown Prince when Your Highness was not well!”

I was dumbstruck.

Lv Li thought I was getting angry for that. Then she gritted her teeth and said angrily, “Your Highness, when you were giving them a break these days, those seductive bitches couldn’t behave properly. They were using various ways to seduce the Crown Prince!”

I finally recovered from my shock and slowly closed my mouth, but I couldn’t help asking, “Well, how do you know that Chen Liangdi was taking the lotus seed sweet soup but not the eight-treasured rice porridge?

Lv Li stared at me with her almond-shaped big eyes wide open and finally became silent.