Your Highness, Please Love Me Tender

146. Misunderstanding

Translator: Flying Lines

“Young Hero Wen, where are we going now?”

“The City of Divine Brilliance. You can stay there to start your spice business and I will continue my journey,” Su Jie answered.

The City of Divine Brilliance and the City of Divine Light were separated by more than a dozen counties, but they got there within one day by boat. As an emperor, Su Jie had seen the most detailed map of State YanLing. He had already remembered the locations of some of the main cities and counties.

“Young Hero Wen, why not let me follow you?” Tuoba Qingheng was a smart person. At first, he only wanted to use Su Jie, but later he started to feel admiration for Su Jie. And now, he thought Su Jie was very mysterious.

A young man with martial arts and appearance changing skills, he was dressed in ordinary clothes but had a Gold Leaf of Pavilion of Jinxiu. And he didn’t panic when he found out that he was the prince of State Xi. Instead, he was willing to help him escape from the City of Divine Light.

Why?

Could it be that Young Hero Wen was one of Lan BuHui’s supporters?

And he meant to cause trouble to the Emperor of State YanLing?

Tuoba Qingheng’s brain was working fast. He didn’t trust strangers easily. Even though Su Jie helped him last night, he was still wary of Su Jie.

After thinking for a while, Tuoba Qingheng started to see Su Jie as one of Lan BuHui’s subordinates, asTuoba Qingheng really couldn’t figure out why Su Jie, a citizen of State YanLing, would help the Emperor’s future concubine escape.

“I’m going to the border. It’s a long journey. Are you sure you want to follow me?” Su Jie glanced at him and asked.

“The border?” Taken aback, Tuoba Qingheng subconsciously wanted to refuse. After all, the border was very close to State Xi, but then he remembered that Su Jie might be working for Lan BuHui. He might have some conspiracy. Although he did not know martial arts, he was a smart man. Perhaps he could cause some havoc?

“Young Hero Wen, I’ve decided to follow you. Doing a spice business means that I can’t always stay in the same city. I need to know the local markets and buy raw materials. And we can take care of each other if we go together, “Tuoba Qingheng’s eyeballs circled, his eyes shining brightly.

“Alright,” Su Jie frowned. Tuoba Qingheng’s eyes always made him feel uncomfortable.

In fact, Su Jie didn’t want to have too much interaction with Tuoba Qingheng. If Xiao Shengnian knew about this, he would be jealous again.

Su Jie meant to dump Tuoba Qingheng halfway, but Tuoba Qingheng’s identity was special. He was a prince sent by State Xi to him and he was taken out of City of Divine Light by him. Su Jie couldn’t leave him alone.

However, given the identities of the two, Su Jie kept a distance from Tuoba Qingheng in an intentional way and did not say much to Tuoba Qingheng along the way.

Whenever Tuoba Qingheng took the initiative to say something, Su Jie just nodded coldly as if he were an iceberg.

“Young Hero Wen, I heard that this river is the mother river of State YanLing. Is it true?” Tuoba Qingheng racked his brain to find the topic because he mistakenly thought that Young Hero Wen was one of Lan BuHui’s subordinates. Tuoba Qingheng was afraid that if one day the royal family of State YanLing found him, and they found out that he had interacted with him, the Emperor of State YanLing might think that he had been brainwashed by Lan BuHui and he might sentence him to death for it.

For the sake of his own life, Tuoba Qingheng made up his mind to get something from Young Hero Wen. If he could ruin Lan BuHui’s conspiracy, he would make a contribution to State YanLing. And when he met the Emperor of State YanLing in the future, he could suggest that he was unwilling to be his concubine.

However, he did not know that all of that was just a speculation, and a completely wrong one. When he mistakenly thought that Su Jie was Lan BuHui’s subordinate, Tuoba Qingheng’s train of thought had completely deviated from the right track and was ridiculously wrong.

“Yes,” Su Jie answered in concise way. He didn’t know that Tuoba Qingheng’s brain was working so fast and that he had thought so much.

If Su Jie were not the Emperor of State YanLing, Tuoba Qingheng’s guess would be quite reasonable.

“Young Hero Wen, I plan to buy some raw materials in the City of Divine Brilliance. Let’s find an inn and stay there for the night.” Tuoba Qingheng found that Su Jie was not interested in chitchatting. And that made him frustrated. Was it possible for him to make Su Jie drunk and ask him about his relationship with Lan BuHui?

So that night, Tuoba Qingheng bought spices that could make people lose consciousness and asked the waiter of the inn to deliver ten bottles of good wine to their room.

“Young Hero Wen, destiny brings us together. You saved my life and I can ever repay you that favor. Let’s just drink till we’re drunk!” He rolled up his sleeves and said.

Su Jie looked at the ten bottles of wine coldly and wondered if Tuoba Qingheng had an ulterior motive.

“Till we’re drunk,” a cold smile appeared on the corner of Su Jie’s lips as he spoke calmly.

After the waiter of the inn finished serving the food, Tuoba Qingheng kept persuading Su Jie to drink.

Tuoba Qingheng had a good tolerance of alcohol, so he was confident that Su Jie would be the first one to get drunk.

However much wine was offered to him, Su Jie drank it all. Whenever Tuoba Qingheng toasted him, he simply drank up the wine in the bowl.

After a few bowls, Su Jie started to talk incoherently.

And Tuoba Qingheng toasted him even harder.

Strangely enough, although Su Jie seemed to be drunk, he still looked quite sober.

On the contrary, Tuoba Qingheng started to feel dizzy.

After drinking for a while, Tuoba Qingheng’s shining eyes became misty. His tongue was knotted and he stuttered, “Wen, Young Hero Wen, why aren’t you drunk yet…”

Su Jie put a mouthful of food into his mouth with a cold expression. Instead of answering Tuoba Qingheng, he just gave him a cold shoulder.

“I meant to get you drunk, but I didn’t expect you that you could drink so well…” Tuoba Qingheng’s thoughts started to get mixed up. Alcohol went to his head easily, so he would say everything once he got drunk.

Su Jie continued to eat the food on the table and didn’t intend to pay attention to Tuoba Qingheng.

“Hey, Young Hero Wen, you must be someone sent by Lan BuHui. There must be some conspiracy going on in the border. I will… stop you,” Tuoba Qingheng burped and said.

“Lan BuHui?” Su Jie looked confused. When did he start to work for Lan BuHui?

“I… I also know… I know why you took me out of the City of Divine Light, because you don’t want State Xi and State YanLing to unite by marriage. And then the angry Emperor of State YanLing would order his soldiers to attack State Xi. Then Lan BuHui would take the opportunity to seize the throne again…” Tuoba Qingheng said intermittently.

Hearing what he said, Su Jie didn’t know whether he should laugh or cry, so he asked, “You wanted to get me drunk just to ask me what kind of conspiracy Lan BuHui has?”

“Yes…” Tuoba Qingheng said feebly. He lay dizzily on the table and felt his stomach churning, then… he vomited.

He threw up all over the table.

It was the first time Tuoba Qingheng drank in State YanLing. He meant to get someone else drunk. Instead he got drunk. And he even vomited without considering what a mess he was in front of the Emperor of State YanLing.

Su Jie felt so furious that his facial complexion darkened.

After getting the waiter to clean up the disgusting vomit on the table, Su Jie helped Tuoba Qingheng get changed and threw him onto the bed. And he did not forget to cover Tuoba Qingheng with a blanket.

After doing all that, Su Jie took a deep breath and looked at the young man who had fallen asleep with a complex emotion before returning to his room.

And they two didn’t talk again that night.

The next day, Tuoba Qingheng woke up with a splitting headache. He was just about to turn over and continue to sleep, but the bed under him suddenly jolted and he almost fell off the bed.

Tuoba Qingheng was stunned for a moment and thought there was an earthquake. He rubbed his eyes and looked around before realizing that he was currently lying in a luxurious carriage while Young Hero Wen was sitting on the side, squinting while biting a chicken wing.

“Young Hero Wen…” Tuoba Qingheng felt much more sober when he saw Su Jie. He sat up and called Su Jie with a guilty conscience.

Damn it, did he say something he shouldn’t have said last night?

Tuoba Qingheng felt anxious and uneasy.

“Are you hungry?” Coldly, Su Jie threw a packet with a roasted chicken in it to Tuoba Qingheng, stopping him from finishing his sentence.

They continued their journey for almost half a month before they reached the border. On the way, Tuoba Qingheng gathered the ingredients to make the spices, and he intended to sell the spices in the nearest city—the City of Divine Traces.

Su Jie, on the other hand, went alone to the military camp.