CROWN PRINCE'S CONCUBINE

141 WahYe trail

The next day, the sun was already over the head, and BaiYing who was in the knitting class with the other concubines, also aYa, that afternoon at the Peach Pavilion, BaiYing looks tired and several times covered his mouth and yawned with watery eyes.

“Hoaaa”

Lan’er furrowed her brows seeing how sluggish the young man had been since earlier.

“Brother, you’ve been yawning all the time, haven’t you slept all night?” Lan’er whispered, AYa who was sitting right beside BaiYing nodded her head as well.

“Yeah, just yawning since earlier.”

BaiYing looked at the two with bloodshot eyes.

“That ugly Majesty, all night making Ying’er read so many documents, I feel so tired, then this morning because of hunger Ying’er woke up so early, after that I was so full that I couldn’t sleep anymore, ouch, Ying’er was so sleepy”

Lan’ er and aYa stole a laugh seeing BaiYing’s languid face lowering his head on the folds of his hands.

“Hehehe this child, after this we go home, you can sleep all day,” said Lan’er.

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BaiYing waved his hand.

“Ying’er can’t, Sis, after this His Majesty has ordered Ying’er to go to the side, accompany him to find out about WahYe, heh, it’s tiring.”

The two girls looked at each other, frowning at BaiYing’s words.

“Um, actually, what are you guys busy with? How strange” Lan’er asked.

BaiYing raised his head, saw the two girls who were watching him waiting for his answer, and looked around his room, where there were only concubines Lui and ChaiMa who were seriously observing them, the old lady couldn’t wait to get angry, but she tried to restrain herself since BaiYing was the Crown Prince’s favorite, he can get angry if she pushes him too much, and the Queen has also ordered her to lower her emotions, she said she was old and should be able to tolerate a little, how the iron-handed old woman suddenly softened, better pretend not to see anything.

“Em” BaiYing raised his head and whispered, bringing the two girls closer.

“Em, don’t tell anyone, but, um, Ying’er and His Majesty, are trying to find out information about WahYe, are, Lan’er sister and aYa might have heard of it?”

AYa thought, frowning deeply.

“Hemh, never heard of, is there any country with that name?”

While FuLan was also deep in thought, she held his chin with raised eyebrows trying to remember something.

“WahYe, I seem to have heard of it, um, if I’m not mistaken Father used to say that name a lot, I almost forgot that if little brother didn’t mention it.”

Hearing that BaiYing held Lan’er’s hand, looking at her with big eyes.

“Really? Ever heard of that name?”

Lan’er nodded.

“Yeah, it looks like, three generations of the Fu family are Logistics and state administration officials, some of them are sitting in the document registration section, and my grandfather seems to have worked in the archives section, and since father always heard a lot of stories from him, so that old man, sometimes when he relaxed and bored he loves to talk about past things, so I remember that my father had discussed WahYe several times, if I’m not mistaken, it’s a country located on the west side of YueYang close to YiLi, he said that the country is very good so that all the people live a full life sufficiency and peace, but, it’s not clear how the stories go, sometimes I don’t really listen when dad tells old things, it all seems less important, hehe” Lan’er looked at BaiYing who was now staring at her deeply.

“Eh brother, why do you want to know about that country?” Lan’er asked.

Bai Ying smiled. He was torn between whether he wanted to tell the truth or not to Lan’er, whereas according to the Crown Prince, the fewer people who knew about this matter the better, so he shouldn’t have said much to anyone including Lan’er and AYa.

“Hehe, that’s, I don’t know either, Your Majesty is curious, Ying’er will tell Your Majesty that official Fu knows about this matter, who knows, he can tell some important things.”

Lan’er nodded, although she was a bit confused.

“Em, what, is it necessary to ask Father here to meet His Majesty so that he can speak directly?”

BaiYing thought.

“umm”

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Not long after, FuYa had arrived as a guest at the Crown Prince’s palace, that afternoon, the burly man came quickly after receiving the invitation from the Crown Prince to give the little information he knew about WahYe.

The stocky man lowered himself to his knees in front of the Crown Prince’s desk in the great hall of the Eagle Pavilion. BaiYing sat not far beside him with his two maids behind him.

“Greetings Your Highness the Crown Prince, may the Crown Prince always be protected.”

LuoXiang waved his hand for the old man to get up and sit down on the chair provided.

“Please stand up, official Fu, uh, no, Mr. Fu, please take your seat.”

The stocky old man with a bright face and a smile that made his cheeks round like dumplings stood up, glanced at BaiYing for a moment, and bowed his head as well.

“Greetings Young Master Hua”

BaiYing waved his hand.

“Uncle Fu”

Without wasting any more time, FuYa told him everything he knew about WahYe, and also brought a large book that supposedly was an important record that had been in his family’s library.

“This belongs to my grandfather, all the logistical records regarding the WahYe family, from the palace to minor officials, everything related between WahYe and YueYang is inside.”

The Crown Prince received the rather thick book that BeiYau handed him.

“Logistics? How about personal notes? Do you have it?” LuoXiang asked as he opened the book, just like the book he read yesterday, the scroll of documents he thought held a lot of data about WahYe, but nothing more than a record of arrival, name, position, not so many details, even though the book FuYa handed over had more information.

“Princess WuYi, Second Prince, WuYe, Queen LaNe, this, the palace family that once set foot on YueYang?”

FuYa nodded.

“It is said that Your Majesty, approximately seventy years ago, at that time according to records, if the great King of WahYe, namely His Majesty YenHui got a marriage proposal for WahYe’s first daughter with Emperor YueYang, at that time, His Majesty the Great Emperor LuoWang, however, somehow the marriage never took place, and there is no record of how all relations could suddenly be strained until the YueYang Empire took drastic measures and attacked WahYe, er, this...”

The old man paused, somewhat hesitant to continue, LuoXiang raised his head.

“Just say it old man, YueYang’s past should be known by the next generation, no one will blame you”

FuYa lowered his head.

“Forgive this servant, Your Majesty, servant don’t really know for sure, but in my grandfather’s diary, it says that the WahYe great palace was burned and razed to the ground overnight by YueYang palace soldiers at that time, and the one who led the attack, was His Majesty Emperor LuoWang, as, for the reason, no one knows for sure.”

BaiYing looked at LuoXiang, his big eyes blinking how many times he saw the Crown Prince’s eyes that were so serious looking at him.

“Heh, then, maybe you know, someone who knows about this WahYe problem? There should be a historian who knows apart from your grandfather, right old man Fu? What about the historical record officials at the time?”

FuYa again raised his fist.

“My majesty, the registrar at that time, official Wu had long died of old age, apart from him, no one knows where the records of knowing WahYe are located, servant, know about this matter, because, some time ago I also tried to collect the history of that country”

FuYa’s words made LuoXiang frown upon seeing it.

“Oh really? Why did you do it?”

FuYa gulped down his saliva, slowly raised his head looking at the Crown Prince’s eyes that had seen him sharp now, the old man quickly lowered his head back.

“Forgive servant, Your Majesty, just then, servant accidentally saw the tattoo, which was on the hand of the assailant who had broken into the Crown Prince’s palace, and, as I had seen it somewhere when I was a child, but, after trying to find it again, I couldn’t find the record about it”

LuoXiang looked at BaiYing, BaiYing slowly took something out from under his clothes, briefly holding his hand while looking at the Crown Prince, who slowly nodded his head, until the young man extended his hand to Yan who took it with both hands and brought it in front of FuYa.

The stocky old man widened his eyes at what BaiYing’s personal maid showed him.

“This” grabbed it with slightly trembling hands.

“Order plaque, WahYe”

LuoXiang sat up, it turned out that what he and BaiYing thought was true, the order plaque belonged to the WahYe palace, even though they knew about it, but they thought it was just a coincidence, how is the palace order plaque that has been missing for seventy years? that year could re-emerge? After all this time.

“Your Majesty, um, I know someone who might, can tell everything that Your Majesty wants to know about WahYe, but, I don’t know, whether he is still alive or not, if so, his current age, maybe almost a hundred years old”

FuYa’s words made BaiYing move forward in his seat.

“Who is that Uncle Fu?” he asked quickly.

FuYa looked at BaiYing, then at LuoXiang.

“Eh, but, please, Your Majesty must promise, to be able to protect his life, and also his family, because, maybe he is one of the high ranking WahYe officials who are still alive today, and, as I know, this person, is very loyal to his country, he, it might be a bit difficult to gain anything.”

LuoXiang pursed his lips, seeing BaiYing looking impatient to find out who the old man in front of him was referring to, he nodded his head.

“Well, as long as he doesn’t do anything weird, I promise,” LuoXiang replied.

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