In fact, Murong Yunshu didn't do much, except for seizing the opportunity to write the character '楚' on the table, floor, books and other various places wherever she could. When she had nothing else to do, she would study how to copy other people's handwriting, so this '楚' character was written in a similar way to Chu Changge's handwriting. It was all thanks to a certain person's habit of leaving his name behind whenever he did something bad. This character '楚' was written like dragons flew and phoenixes danced, and not many people in the jianghu could not recognise it. Hence it had almost become his signature. As long as the people in the jianghu see the character '楚', they would associate it with Chu Changge. Thus, when the '楚' character left by Murong Yunshu was discovered, rumours sprung up everywhere and made everyone feel themselves in danger.
It was purely by chance that Murong Yunshu could think of this method. When they reached Jinling, she saw a bald monk strutting on the road while flirting with female performers. Some people tried to take up the cudgels for the injured party. Still, the monk pointed ferociously at his bald head and said, "Laozi have the signature of Chu Changge, the head of the Mojiao Sect, on my head! Which one of you is still brave enough to stop me?"
No one dared to complain anymore once they heard his statement.
Murong Yunshu was staring at this scene while being dumbfounded. Shouldn't the monk rely on Shaolin Temple to take advantage of deceiving other people? When did he gang up with the Mojiao Sect…
But then again, that monk really had the word '楚' on his head.
She remembered that all the men in Mingjian Mountain Villa not only had the word '楚' on their heads, but even their bald heads were also personally shaved by Chu Changge himself. Wouldn't that mean they were much more blessed by the Mojiao Sect? So it seemed that Chu Changge had become Guanyin...no, it should be Tagatha.
Although Murong Yunshu felt it was kind of ridiculous, she did not dismiss it with a laugh. Rather, it had made her realise Chu Changge's intimidating force in the jianghu. Hence, she had come up with the method of leaving the word '楚' everywhere.
God of Wealth
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"Chu..." Wang Chao suddenly shouted while staring at the chessboard. Then he said, "As I expected, this is one of your tricks! No wonder the rumours about Chu Changge in Jinling City come in waves. As it turned out, it was actually you who left the word '楚' around..."
Murong Yunshu raised her dark eyebrows slightly. She was surprised that he was able to find out about it. After all, ever since she interacted with him for this long, he never acted like he had any brains at all. She was rather unaccustomed to his sudden shrewdness. "Yes, I wrote all of them." Since she had achieved her purpose, there was no need for her to hide it anymore.
"I...I...I can't believe I fell for your trick again!" Wang Chao put his hands behind his back. He worried that he would lose control and immediately strangled her.
When she saw Wang Chao looking so pissed off to the point of him wanting to vomit blood, Murong Yunshu casually said, "That's why I believe that ignorance is bliss."
Wang Chao's boorish face began to distort as the corners of his mouth quivered severely like it had a sense of rhythm. It took him a long time to resist the urge to bite her to death before he questioned her, "Since you don't want me to find out about it, then why do you use those chess pieces to put out the word '楚'?"
Was there such a thing? Murong Yunshu suspiciously turned her attention towards a direction. When she turned the side originally facing Wang Chao towards her, a straight-out '楚' character came into her view right away. She was startled for a moment, then she smiled, "Chu Changge is everywhere, huh."
"Chu Changge is not in Jinling at all!" claimed Wang Chao.
Murong Yunshu nodded in agreement and said, "Well, he must have fallen for your plan of stealing the sky and putting up a sham sun. He must have been chasing after you to the capital of Shu Province."
It was initially a certain fact in his mind, but when she said it like that, the sense of his statement suddenly changed. Wang Chao hesitated again. This woman never told them the truth. Since she said that Chu Changge had gone to the capital of Shu Province, then Chu Changge must not have gone there. If he didn't go to the capital of Shu…could it be that...Chu Changge had come to Jinling?
Wang Chao suddenly felt that his brain had turned into a mass of paste, which was currently in extreme chaos. Murong Yunshu's apparently true but really wrong words were truly going to drive him crazy…
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Bath in Ancient China
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"Ah..." The people who had come to the door screamed.
"Who are you people?" asked the already annoyed Chu Changge.
After the visitors glanced at each other a few times, the eldest one boldly said, "We should be the ones who asked you this question. Who are you? What are you doing in Yunshu's room?"
Chu Changge raised his eyebrows. Yunshu? From the way they called her, they should be someone whom Murong Yunshu were close to. "I asked you guys first," he countered back.
The older one glanced at her sisters and then became the first one to introduce herself, "I am Yunshu's First Mother."
"I'm Yunshu's Second Mother."
"I'm Yunshu's Third Mother."
"I'm Yunshu's Fourth Mother."
"That's enough." Chu Changge didn't have the mood to listen to them go on and on. He summarised, "In short, you are all Murong Yunshu's mothers."
"Yes." The nine people said in unison.
Chu Changge placed a hand on his forehead. Didn't Old Man Murong feel annoyed by marrying these many women? Even the noise of them speaking just a word could kill a person. While he already felt tired just by looking at them all together.
"I heard that the future Guye has dropped by. It can't be you, right?" asked the Third Wife.
"Are you not satisfied with me?" Chu Changge looked at her coldly.
The Third Wife shivered and replied, "Satisfied, of course, we're satisfied. For Yunshu to be able to marry you who is such a brilliant and confidently at ease Guye, naturally, it is our Murong Mansion ancestors' sins...no, it is the ancestors' accumulated merits." Horrible. Really horrible. This Guye was unwilling to please his mothers-in-law and dared to threaten them with his cold eyes. Poor Yunshu. She had fallen into a fire pit this time around…
Although the rest of the ladies did not speak, they all had the same thoughts as the Third Wife. This Guye was so frightening to all of them.
When they noticed that Chu Changge didn't intend to pay attention to them anymore, everyone quietly withdrew. As soon as they left the yard, they all breathed a sigh of relief. Then the situation became noisy because of the seven mouths and eight tongues.
"Our Yunshu's foresight is always good. So why did she make an error in judgment this time around?"
"Yeah. I always thought that Nie Qing was the prospective Guye. Still, I didn't expect that Cheng Yaojin has come and ambushed the enemy."
"Actually, this one is not bad either. He's so handsome."
"What's the use of being so handsome? The main point to be the Guye of our Murong Mansion is to make money, just like Nie Qing."
"If you ask me, the most important thing is to have an extremely strong life-span."
"Yes, yes, yes. A strong life-span is the most important. Don't be like Master...ai!"
"I heard Chief Qian said that our Guye is a big devil. You think, him being the big devil, that must be a curse. There is a saying…."
"The scourge stays for thousands of years."
"Yes, The scourge stays for thousands of years. So he must live a long life."
When they thought that Chu Changge would be a long-lived Master, the ladies breathed a sigh of relief again. It was good that he would have a long life. Really good. Whether he was a fire pit or not, having a man by one's side was much better than being a widow.
Although they were a few dozen meters apart, their conversation still had not escaped Chu Changge's ears. He didn't hear anything else other than these two words—Nie Qing.
From the tone of their voices, they seemed to be more interested in having Nie Qing as their son-in-law, who would live off his wife's family.
Suddenly, a faint cold flashed in his calm black eyes.
In the study room separated by a wall, Nie Qing, who was currently writing a memorial to the Emperor, suddenly shuddered. He looked strangely at the sky. It was a stretch of cloudless blue sky. Unlike how the sky looked right now, why did he feel a dark cloud hovering above his head?
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Meanwhile, Wang Chao was anxious, extremely anxious. It was because he couldn't make up his mind whether to leave or stay. Therefore, he had been pacing back and forth in their room for the whole morning.
Murong Yunshu wanted to ignore him very much, but he seemed to want to attract her attention on purpose as he flashed past in front of her eyes. With a sigh, she stopped her hands from embroidering and said, "Exercising won't help you change the fact that you are born stupid. So just stop doing it for a moment."
Born stupid...born...Wang Chao discovered that over a few days, he had become a calm person. Such as now, he didn't feel anything at all after hearing her words since he was determined to carry his already cracked pot that should just be smashed vigour until the end...he never expected to hear any good things about him from her anyway.
"Are you happy to see me fidgeting?" Wang Chao weakly asked.
Murong Yunshu hung her head and continued to embroider plum blossoms on her handkerchief. She passed a needle through to make a stitch before she slowly and quite carelessly said, "I don't want to base my happiness on your pain, so why bother in insisting on entertaining me with your suffering?"
Wang Chao's whole face was full of black lines. It was his fault. It was truly his own fault. He shouldn't have released her mute acupoint at all!
With just a little bit of touch with his forefinger, Murong Yunshu could feel that her airflow had been blocked inside her throat. No matter how hard she tried, it was unable to breakthrough. For this reason, she could no longer pronounce any word. Thus, the time for her to get her fresh air had ended.
Zhang Yu could no longer sit around watching as he coldly said, "If we wait any longer, Chu Changge will be coming for us sooner or later."
Wang Chao nodded hard. At times like this, even if Zhang Yu said he should just go to hell, Wang Chao would still praise him since his words truly made sense.
"Rather than cowering and hiding inside the brothel, it's better to put our all into the fight till it ends our suffering by letting us die quickly and reincarnate."
Wang Chao continued to nod his head. 'Since your mind is clear-headed, I'm going to listen to you.'
As a result, the three finally left the brothel. They took a carriage that was neither good nor bad and drove towards the city gate.
When Wang Chao and Zhang Yu were drawing the carriage to make a right turn towards the south main road, a charmingly and amazingly handsome man in white spurred his horse from the north as well. His long, loose hair flew arrogantly in the wind, while his line of sight that was as sharp as a goshawk followed them from far till they got quite near to him, which was truly imposing. Wang Chao suddenly had the illusion of bumping into a ghost in broad daylight. He wondered whether he had been too worried about meeting up with Chu Changge on a narrow way, to the extent that he had hallucinated this meeting...
When Wang Chao had no idea what to do with his hands and feet, Zhang Yu pulled the reins and let the carriage drive onto the south main road. He drove the carriage neither too fast nor too slow until they managed to drive it smoothly.
"He, he seems to have seen me..." said Wang Chao with his trance-like look.
"Shut up!" Zhang Yu scolded him in a low voice. His eyes continued watching six roads and his ears listening in all directions while he constantly paying attention to the movement behind him.
Inside the carriage, Murong Yunshu closed her eyes to rest her mind when she suddenly heard Wang Chao mentioning Chu Changge. Her heart was overjoyed. She quietly looked out from the small window on the side, just in time to see Chu Changge's figure flash by.
Murong Yunshu immediately poked her head out completely, while her sight never stopped following his majestic figure. Her gaze followed him obsessively for a long time until she couldn't see him anymore before she withdrew her sight with a deep, long sigh.
After waiting for so many days, all she got was this brief encounter. Was she meant to stay this way, or their fate had not arrived yet?
Noob Translator's Mini-Note
The reason for Yunshu's father having these many mothers will be explained after the King Liang Jr. arc has ended.
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