Villain, Please Go Easy On Me (English Translation)

59. Ancient Times: Body in the Pond

Translator: Guy Gone Bad

Mu Qinghan was waiting for Su Bei’s analysis.
Su Bei seriously said, “The night when I slept with her, I also lost my consciousness like today without a reason. When I woke up, the empress was lying beside me.”
There was a gleam flashing in Mu Qinghan’s eyes, and in his heart there aroused a feeling called joy.

So Su Bei never had sex with anyone else?

748, “Captivating bar increased by 10%, current progress 90%.”
Su Bei already did not want to delve into how to raise the captivating bar, anyway he earned it.
Mu Qinghan opened his mouth, “I will get it investigated for Your Majesty.”
Su Bei paused for a moment, then said to Mu Qinghan, “It’s too late. You can go.”
Mu Qinghan gave Su Bei a meaningful look, “I think it is necessary for me to stay to protect Your Majesty.”
So using such an unreasonable reason, Mu Qinghan occupied half of Su Bei’s bed.
The next day Yaoyao came very early.
She bumped into Mu Qinghan on the way. She opened her mouth but said nothing, since Su Bei stayed silent.
She ignored Mu Qinghan and said to Su Bei, “Your Majesty, I think I found something.”
After saying that, she took a look at Mu Qinghan, meaning that he should avoid.
Mu Qinghan also had no interest of it, so he only said, “Tonight I will come over to protect Your Majesty.”
Su Bei twitched his mouth, saying nothing.
After Mu Qinghan left, Yaoyao seriously said to Su Bei, “Your Majesty, I found that those maids and eunuchs who have ever had contact with Lu Jinyao are different from before.”
Su Bei frowned. “What’s the difference?”

“In every way,” said Yaoyao, “there is something wrong.”
Su Bei thought for a moment, “Don’t alert these people. Spread out the news that Lu Jinyao has committed capital crime for trying to assassinate me, and see their response.”
Yaoyao was surprised, “Lu Jinyao tried to assassinate Your Majesty?”
Su Bei choked on her words a little, thinking that the thing last night was a bit embarrassing and hard to tell. So he just said yes and said no more.
Yaoyao did not notice Su Bei’s embarrassment, but sulked, “I knew Lu Jinyao was up to something!”
Very soon, the news was spread out, and then Su Bei found that many eunuchs and maids came to his palace more often.
Apparently they were very suspicious.
In fact, Su Bei also had no idea how Mu Qinghan had handled Lu Jinyao.
But he thought it was time to clear the palace.
Last time Su Bei had already cleared out the imperial army, and now the experience just came in handy.
Maybe because the movement was too big, those officials who planted eyes in the palace came to see Su Bei in turns sounded out His Majesty’s intentions.
Su Bei prevaricated all of them using the same excuse-Lu Jinyao tried to assassinate him.

As for the several suspicious eunuchs and maids, they all fled when Su Bei sent people to catch them for interrogation.
Yes, they all did.
Their martial skills were beyond common’s people’s comparison.
Mu Qinghan told Su Bei that Lu Jinyao was also taken away.
Then some concubine found the fish in the royal garden barely ate anything.
Whenever they fed the fish, the fish just sank in water.
Su Bei realized that there was something in the pond, so he let people dry the water.
Inside, there were a lot of bodies, belonging to those eunuchs and maids who stayed close to Lu Jinyao.
They got stones tied to their bodies so that they couldn’t float up.
Most of their bodies had been eaten by those fish, looking horrible.
If Su Bei hadn’t been scared by Mu Qinghan enough, he would have vomited already like hell.
The real eunuchs and maids were in the pond, which meant that those eunuchs and maids who looked exactly like them should be someone else who used some kind of disguising skills.