A Western Doctor’s Happy Farming Life[1] 158

The hand of the Imperial Noble Consort grabbed even tighter on the Fifth Prince’s wrist. Yet it was too late for the Fifth Prince to withdraw his words since he had spoken with a flow of eloquence like that of a cataract venting his wrath.

Noticing the embarrassing countenance on the Imperial Noble Consort’s face, the Fifth Prince didn’t even realize that it was his own mistake. He glared at Hening, eyes bulging.

On the other side, Hening remained his peacefulness, yet among his eyes flashed across a trace of disgust. He uttered coldly, “Oh? The old dogs? So in the eyes of yours, the Fifth Prince, all the servants for you are just some well-behaved dogs. Does that mean your femina father is…?”

He didn’t bother to finish the words, yet what he meant was already clear.

Even though Song Qinghan did not know about the Fifth Prince’s background, he did figure out the rough one according to this sentence which was filled with mocking sarcasm.

It turned out that the biological femina father of the Fifth Prince was actually one of the servants within the palace?

The Fifth Prince was dumbfounded standing there, he took a while to finally figure out what Hening meant in his words. And then he patted on the table angrily, roaring in wrath, “Hening! You! How dare you talk like that about my femina father! I’m going to perish together with you today!”

Then, he walked down from the steps and rushed towards Hening while rolling up his sleeves like a rough and uncivilized boor.

Seeing that, Song Qinghan got tense suddenly and broke in to block the way of the Fifth Prince who was rushing over aggressively.

To his surprise, Hening stretched forth his arms in a lightning speed and then clamped on the Fifth Prince’s both hands, pulled his hands backwards. Such an action fixed the Fifth Prince tight without any chance to move.

“What did I say? How come I know nothing about it? Wasn’t it all your confession?” mocked Hening.

In his eyes nothing but only coldness could be caught, while his face remained unbelievable calmness as usual.

The Fifth Prince let out a cry of pain, and then glanced around with a ferocious expression, roaring, “Someone helps! Why are you so numb standing like a stick there?”

It was just a pity for the Fifth Prince that all the servants had already backed off at the moment Hening spoke rudely, only two or three of them who were the trusted subordinates to the Imperial Noble Consort stayed still. And they would only act when they got the orders from their direct master.

However, Hening did not intend to aim at messing up with the Fifth Prince today, he released his hands not long. Staring at the Fifth Prince who collapsed all of a sudden onto the ground, he chimed, “I know that you would rather be a phoenix tail than a chicken head, and you love to show off your noble identity and to seek connections in high places. Please get a brain, don’t be so foolish to be used by someone else.”

The Fifth Prince was stunned and subconsciously glanced at the direction of the Imperial Noble Consort. When two of them exchanged their glances, he noticed that the Imperial Noble Consort moved away his gaze intentionally. For some reason, the Fifth Prince felt a bit of being deceived.

But he still retorted with his neck stuck, “What nonsense are you talking about? Do you think that I won’t go get Royal Father informed?”

Hening took a random glance at him and then answered casually, “Go get him informed now! And it would be better if the marriage of mine is going to be canceled, and you will be the most suitable person selected who is well-educated and show a good sense of judgement. Won’t it be a perfect consequence?”

Even though the Fifth Prince bristled with anger, he was speechless currently.

He was really worried that Hening probably would do something stupid and irrational, and he would be the one to lose and suffer at the end. After all, there was no other suitable candidate in the palace besides him to go for the marriage for the peace of the country.

Moreover, he could clearly feel the despair he once suffered before, days ago he was drowning in the abyss of worry and fright. Yet it was totally beyond his expectation that Hening would take the initiative to take the mission himself and suffer.

Since the Fifth Prince got no words to speak now, Hening walked leisurely and peacefully onto the steps and sat causally beside the Imperial Noble Consort. He took a cup of tea over and took a sip, and then uttered peacefully, “Lord Consort, you got such a great power yourself, huh? You do get a power to change the Imperial Guard selected in the escort team. Well, even it falls on the Emperor, he still needs time to reflect.”

The Imperial Noble Consort’s expression changed violently all of a sudden. On his forehead covered with a thin layer of cold sweat.

He delivered an embarrassing smile, trying his best to keep calm and answer, “I still guard the former opinion of mine, don’t make any rootless slander if you get no evidences. As long as the Emperor doesn’t say anything, everything without proofs should be a rumor.”

Hening nodded thoughtfully, rose from the seat directly without hesitation, and then walked outwards without turning his head back.

“Since then, what I can do now is to deliver the clues I have found recently to the Emperor, alas, I was just considering not bothering you with this matter, after all, we have known each other for so many years…”

Yet at the moment Hening stepped out the gate, the Imperial Noble Consort suddenly uttered with any emotional change, “Years of what? For knowing each other through the bees?”

Hening smiled, he turned around and said to the Imperial Noble Consort leisurely, “You seem to be quite a humorous noble consort yourself. For the Buddha’s sake, at least you’re one of my senior relative I should pay respect to. You should know that at that time I was too young to know anything good or evil, and about the bee stuff, haven’t I had got your forgiveness? Alas, I just thought that you have long let it go, but beyond my expectation, you still remember that.”

His words stuffed in the Imperial Noble Consort’s mind which had made the man even more embarrassed without words.

What should he properly respond? Should he lie that he had already forgotten about everything happened in the past? But that would be an inconformity against the words he said. Or should he admit that he did remember everything, then he would admit indirectly that he was rather petty who sought revenge for the smallest grievance.

Staring at Hening who was delivering a faint smile, he clenched tight his fists. Wrath washed up his head that he didn’t even notice that his nails had stabbed into his skin.

What a fox! How come he never found out that Hening got such a silver tongue and was like a hungry wolf who would just shut up or give a deadly bite.

It was a great pleasing thing for Hening to enjoy viewing the embarrassing faces of the Imperial Noble Consort and the Fifth Prince. After that, he paced back and forth leisurely at the center of the chamber, while uttering in peace, “I will quit speaking nonsense now. Probably you guys have known the purpose of mine here today. For one thing, I need you to remove Wu Dahu’s name from the escort team list. And for the second one, APOLOGIZE TO SONG QINGHAN.”

Song Qinghan was stunned, he looked at Hening’s face with shock as if he never expected that Hening would create a disturbance here just for him.

The face of the Imperial Noble Consort became more embarrassing when he heard the requests from Hening. He answered coldly with his eyebrows frowning tight, “Since there is a rule regulating that consorts and concubines have no right to interfere the state affairs, I can’t make it. As for the second one,…”

He glanced at Song Qinghan and the momentum of a superior from inside was suddenly emitted. He said without any emotional change, “I can make it real. But I’m not sure if someone gets the luck to accept that.”

There was a hint of threat in his words, but Song Qinghan acted as if he didn’t hear it. He imitated the way Hening acted, with one hand behind his back and the other by his leg. He calmly said, “Well, excuse me, Lord, I’m not sure if the others gets the luck or not, but I know I am all ready to accept it.”

Hening took a glance at Song Qinghan, and fixed his sight on him, while he secretly smiled.

Song Qinghan noticed his little action and slowly smiled either.

Since Hening was willing to offend the Imperial Noble Consort for winning his benefit, if he was being a coward at this time, not only would he make Hening’s former effort a wasted one, but also got nothing good from the Imperial Noble Consort. Since the thing had broken down, he would just ignore it and tried to fight back against the Imperial Noble Consort, he didn’t intend to stay here for long anyway.

Thinking of this, he suddenly said to Hening, “Your Highness, I won’t be upset if the first request you mentioned is hard to realize. The team has to escort you anyway no matter what happens, in addition, it won’t just be a curse for us if we are involved in the team.”

Hening was silent for a brief moment, and then he took a glance at the Imperial Noble Consort. He sneered when he noticed that the man looked back at him with excitement in the eyes, “Oh, forgot to mention, your biological brother is a senior general, right? Since he is able to rig and manipulate the enrollment of the Imperial Guards in my marriage escort team, I think it is easy for him to promote someone as well.”

Seeing that the Imperial Noble Consort wanted to refute, he slowly put away the expression on his face and accented his every single word, “OR, DEAR LORD CONSORT, DO YOU WANT ME TO NEGOTIATE WITH LI HAI DIRECTLY?”

Shock overwhelmed the expression of the Imperial Noble Consort when he heard the name ‘Li Hai’, yet it seemed the he reacted quite quick, he roared in a low voice, “Just give me some times to think about it. Wu Dahu is the Tanhua of the final tournament after all, it won’t be difficult for him to get an important position.”

He didn’t seem to say that to Hening but try to persuade himself instead.

If Wu Dahu was able to get a higher position by his own ability, no one would ever again connect the fact he interfered the state affairs with this matter.

Yet, he still felt quite uneasy towards the fact that Hening indeed knew so many inside stories about him and about the imperial chambers.

No one would be able to know what other evil things he would do to prevent the leakage of the inside stories if Hening wasn’t going to marry for country peace soon.

Silence fell on the spacious chamber. It was Hening who suddenly stretched forth his arms and clapped to attract all the attentions of the people at present, and then calmly announced, “So now, the first matter we have all reached an agreement, and then only thing now is waiting for the result, I think Lord Consort will never let me down, right? Alright then, now it’s time for you, dear Lord Consort, to fulfill your commitment. Make it quick and that will be good for you to get your sweat on forehead wiped, does it make sense?”

The Fifth Prince subconsciously raised his arm in the air and rubbed his forehead. He mocked, “Do you think that we’re timid as you’re? How come we get sweat for such a lowly trifle.”

Before he could finish his words, he suddenly felt an icy gaze on his back. He quickly turned his head and to his surprise, he found the Imperial Noble Consort was just sweating fiercely like he was taking a shower. The next moment he felt his throat being dry while getting tense, and stuttering, “What, what I mean, what I mean is that the weather is too hot out there, it’s… it’s definitely normal if we sweat…”

The Imperial Noble Consort withdrew his gaze and did not bother with the Fifth Prince. He looked up at Song Qinghan and said calmly, “I apologize for what I might have offended you before, forgive me.”

After that, he uplifted the tea cup in his hand in an elegant manner and took a sip, loosening his shoulders as if he had completed a hard mission.

The Fifth Prince glanced at the Imperial Noble Consort, then at Song Qinghan. Finally, he gritted his teeth with reluctance and said unwillingly, “I apologize for what I might have offended you before, forgive me.”

Without waiting for Hening to say something, Song Qinghan uttered in a leisurely manner, raising his eyebrows, “Well, well, I, as a commoner, finally come to acknowledge the fact that the apologizing way within the palace is also with a condescending attitude! He who doesn’t know the event probably will think that I’m the one who did something wrong!”

“Bang!” the Imperial Noble Consort patted angrily on the table, while squinting and roaring in a cold and menacing tone.

“You were given a choice to do it the easy way or the hard way. Now it seems you picked the hard one? Do you think that you’re omnipotent staying with Hening, and you think you’ve become an infanta yourself as well?”

Hening smiled suddenly and said, “Oh, Lord Consort, you make the point. Give it a shot while regard him as me?”

The Imperial Noble Consort held the cup tightly, as if only by that could he calm himself down.

After a while, his expression turned back to a peaceful one again, and then looked at Song Qinghan expressionlessly, accenting every single word, “DOCTOR SONG, I SINCERELY APOLOGIZE FOR THE MATTER I SUMMONED YOU HERE THAT DAY, IT WAS INDEED ALL MY FAULT, PLEASE FORGIVE ME!”