Rebirth As a Fatuous and Self-indulgent Ruler Chapter 10 - Getting Out of the Palace with His Empress

Chapter 10: Getting Out of the Palace with His Empress

In the end, s.h.i.+ Qingzhou seemed to be persuaded by Long Xiaoyuan. At least, he didn’t refuse to read the memorials to the throne.

Since his empress joined him to deal with those boring memorials, Long Xiaoyuan found…the atmosphere quite comfortable.

In his previous life where he was in a bad shape, his family only allowed him to read novels. Besides, he was able to choose what he liked to learn.

Of course, his family asked a family teacher to teach him. Anyway, his family was rich.

He was thereby good at collecting historical books and memorizing things, but it didn’t indicate that he would like to handle those memorials.

Therefore, he found it quite pleasant that a charming person accompanied him.

More importantly, he could be a slacker!

After he turned lazy, he pa.s.sed his memorials to s.h.i.+ who dealt with them fast with remarkable reviews.

Strikingly enough, s.h.i.+ Qingzhou was capable of finding the focus among the nonsense and telling it to Long. Wow! His ability was so awesome! He was really an ancient person in name and in fact!

Under the company of his empress, Long finished the memorials early that afternoon. What speed!

Seeing that it was still early, he was eager to make a move.

Having glanced at him, s.h.i.+ Qingzhou asked, “Your Majesty, what’s up?”

He stared at s.h.i.+ with his bright eyes. The latter paused for an instant and asked with a smile, “Your Majesty?”

He said immediately, “Qingzhou, it’s still early, so let’s get out of the imperial palace.”

s.h.i.+ was astounded for a while with his pupils shrunk unnoticeably and said lightly after a while, “Your Majesty, don’t you forget that the imperial concubines can’t go out of the palace privately?”

“How can you go out privately since you’re with me?” asked he with surprise.

s.h.i.+ was stunned for a while and looked at him with doubt. “Your Majesty, will you go out with me?”

“Yes, I’ve said that just now,” said he. Having walked over and held s.h.i.+’s hand, he continued, “Qingzhou, let’s get prepared.”

s.h.i.+’s body slightly shook. How long had it been since he got out last time? It felt like it happened in his previous life.

s.h.i.+ said gently with his eyes closed, “OK.”

Even if it was a dream or there was a trap waiting for him to enter, he still wanted to go out of the palace at any cost!

Hence, attired in casual clothes, Long Xiaoyuan and s.h.i.+ Qingzhou appeared at the outside of the palace. Led by Chief-eunuch Zhou Qing, they were also followed by more than five Shadow Guardians who were unseen to Long, though.

The original emperor had Shadow Guardians, too. However, when s.h.i.+ Qingzhou decided to kill him, most of those guardians had actually sworn allegiance to s.h.i.+.

There was still three months before s.h.i.+ killed him, so half of the guardians must have pledged loyalty to s.h.i.+.

The novel didn’t describe those Shadow Guardians in details except for three ones.

The leader of the Shadow Guardians was deathly loyal to the original emperor and thereby was killed by s.h.i.+. The a.s.sistant leader transferred his allegiance to s.h.i.+. What was his name? Oh, he was called Ying Qiu.

The leader of the Shadow Guardians who was deathly loyal to the emperor was called Ying Feng. s.h.i.+ also respected his loyalty and abilities and thereby killed him quickly, making him no suffer.

Three Shadow Guardians were mentioned in the novel. The last one was Ying Shou, a 60-year-old drillmaster in charge of training Shadow Guardians. When s.h.i.+ Qingzhou succeeded to the throne, he “resigned” himself. s.h.i.+ was grateful for his contributions in training the Shadow Guardians, so s.h.i.+ let him go instead of killing him. But s.h.i.+ asked him to live with his ident.i.ty concealed and never show up in the imperial capital…

This time, Ying Qiu, who was loyal to s.h.i.+, followed them, too. However, Long Xiaoyuan didn’t care about it.