lcionline Chapter 224 Extra (1) Parallel World 29
Chapter 224 Extra (1) Parallel World 29
Chapter 224 Extra (1) Parallel World 29
Lu Yuxi: "?"
Hold the grass!
Lu Yuxi's pupils dilated in shock, then she quickly regained her senses. Without a moment's hesitation, she said with a coy, hesitant air, "This...this isn't appropriate, is it?"
This is wonderful! Am I dreaming?
He was so happy his fox tail was practically wagging.
After the initial surge of emotion subsided, Zhang Ting calmed down, her heartbeat gradually returned to normal, and her thinking ability came back to normal. Without even looking, she could guess what happy things Lu Yuxi was thinking.
But she was so angry that she really didn't want to see that awful thing again anytime soon.
“I said it’s fine.” Zhang Ting replied coldly while tidying his slightly disheveled clothes. “Take him wherever you want, Chonghua Palace, Prince Jin’s residence, it’s all up to you. Take him away and do whatever you want with him, just don’t let him appear within ten miles of me.”
Oh ho ho ho!
Beneath Lu Yuxi's dignified exterior, she was already bursting with excitement and wanted to scream.
He knew then that hard work pays off! All his efforts over the past few days had truly not been in vain!
Thanks to nature for its bounty! Thanks to gunpowder! Thanks to the woodshed that was bombed into ruins! Thanks to myself for my painstaking efforts to gain recognition!
Lu Yuxi was filled with intense emotions, but she still tried her best to control her expression, not daring to let Zhang Ting see it and think that he was a frivolous and shallow person.
"Ten miles? Then I'll take him to Chonghua Palace. The Prince of Jin's residence is nice, but it's in the same neighborhood."
Back then, Lu Yuxi specifically instructed Lu Yuxu to choose a place for his Prince's Mansion near the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. Lu Yuxu was very helpful and directly gave his younger brother the largest and most prestigious mansion in the same neighborhood. He also emptied and sold off the private treasury left by Empress Dowager Qin after her death, and built the Prince of Jin's Mansion into a very beautiful place.
"Whatever." Zhang Ting was exhausted and too lazy to argue with Lu Yuxi whether her "ten miles" was an exaggeration or a realistic description. She didn't want to say a word more. "Leave now and disappear from my sight immediately."
Lu Yuxi couldn't help but smile broadly.
*
The carriage rumbled forward.
When His Highness Prince Jin went out to pray, a wonderful surprise came from heaven: he was told to pick up General Lin, who had been kicked out of his home and was covered in dust, and take him home.
The young general huddled in the carriage, touching his already swollen face with a wronged expression, occasionally hissing in pain.
"Here, there's ice in the carriage. Let me apply it to your skin and then put some medicine on it."
Lu Yuxi took out a handkerchief, wrapped some crushed ice in it, then pulled Lin Shiming closer to her and gently applied it to his face.
During the years they spent away from Beijing, minor bumps and bruises were commonplace, and the two of them had become quite adept at treating each other's wounds.
Lin Shiming did not refuse. He curled himself into a ball and remained motionless while Lu Yuxi slid a handful of crushed ice across his face.
They looked so pitiful that Lu Yuxi couldn't help but soften her heart.
"Are you feeling so wronged?"
Lu Yuxi freed a finger and gently poked Lin Shiming's flushed face, making him gasp. She slapped his finger away and glared at him fiercely.
"What nonsense are you talking about! Do you think I'm that kind of delicate pretty boy?"
Lu Yuxi rubbed her fingers, which had just been slapped, and smiled gently. "Of course you are not. Who doesn't know the illustrious reputation of General Lin?"
Lin Shiming hummed twice in satisfaction.
"So, what are you thinking about?"
Easily cheered up, General Lin happily moved on from the previous incident, lifted his eyelids, and then gave a slightly distressed reply.
"Because of what happened between us more than three months ago... you know, my mother was furious. So I was thinking of making some nice fireworks to please her and give her a surprise. But it turned out to be a disaster. I accidentally knocked over a cup, and instead of a surprise, all that was left was an accident."
Oh dear, I gave my mother a real fright. Who knows how my father and brother will retaliate against me later!
Lu Yuxi couldn't help but laugh.
"Laugh, laugh, laugh! How can you not laugh yourself to death!"
Enraged, Lin Shiming kicked Lu Yuxi. Unexpectedly, Lu Yuxi laughed even harder after being hit.
This lack of tact directly triggered Lin Shiming's already extremely fragile nerves.
"What do you mean? You want to fight?"
"No, no," Lu Yuxi quickly denied, trying to hide the smile on her face. "What I meant was that your surprise hasn't disappeared. Or to be more precise—it wasn't a surprise to begin with."
The man's rambling left Lin Shiming completely bewildered, and he looked at him suspiciously.
"After the loud bang, my aunt told me that you were working on gunpowder, so I rushed over to find you."
Lin Shiming's expression froze.
No wonder, no wonder he was able to extort so much gunpowder from the steward so easily, it turns out Mother had already suspected it!
But, "My mother personally ordered me to be punished, so why did she go out of her way to make things convenient for me and come to my aid?"
Lu Yuxi cleared the slightly melted ice into a tray, replaced it with some fresh ice packs, and continued to meticulously apply ice to Lin Shiming.
"It's very simple."
The Prince of Jin, who was riding high on his success, had his anxieties temporarily put to rest, and his intelligence, which had been suppressed by love, returned to its original level.
"Your aunt should have already accepted what happened between us. She only punished you because she was angry. Seeing that you obediently admitted your mistake and went to great lengths to please her, and that I also often reflect on my own actions, she will naturally forgive you to some extent and let you off the hook for small things."
But no one expected that Lin Shiming, this wild horse, would take a little sunshine and become ecstatic. When Zhang Ting loosened his grip on him, he turned around and went too far, almost burning himself to ashes.
It's hard to imagine how Lin Shihe managed to clean up Lin Shiming's messes all those years.
Lin Shiming—the man behind the Duke of Zhenguo's composed demeanor and ability to conceal his emotions. Lin Shihe's ability to effortlessly eliminate someone and successfully navigate complex relationships with ministers was inseparable from Lin Shiming's "cultivation." Half of the military merits were awarded to Lin Shiming.