novelraw Chapter 346
Chapter 346
346~ The One Being Escorted Is... Lady Liuli!?~
Cup size had increased several times larger than before. Although it still looked small, still something one hand could grasp, compared to before there was indeed considerable amplitude!
"Um, Lady Liuli, can we really just keep sitting here like this?"
She didn't quite understand what the Little Princess meant, why they had to keep sitting here.
Their appearances sitting here quickly attracted the attention of passersby. Many pedestrians stopped around them to watch.
Their attire indeed didn't look much like ordinary people. One was dressed as a young miss, the other as a maid. No matter how you looked at it, it seemed like some family's young miss had come out for a walk, but due to being pampered and spoiled, hadn't walked more than a few steps before getting tired and needing to find a bench to rest for quite a while.
"I say, Lady Liuli!"
Maid He Yan squeezed the Little Princess's arm with a bit of force. The effect was surprisingly good. The Little Princess, who had originally been looking around in all directions too lazy to pay attention to her, immediately turned her head to look at her.
"What!?"
"Lady Liuli, I'm saying we should go now, right?"
"Mm, we should go, but the people haven't arrived yet."
"The people haven't arrived?"
He Yan followed the Little Princess's gaze and looked around, but didn't discover anything.
"Lady Liuli?"
"Wait a bit more. Today's main character is about to take their position."
The Little Princess pressed down on Maid He Yan's hand.
Very soon! Very soon! In a bit, someone would definitely come to take them away!
"Hey! What's going on with that crowd over there? Gambling!?"
The people hadn't arrived, but the Military Police arrived first. Several Military Police soldiers carrying long spears came over to disperse the crowd and happened to see the two of them positioned at the center of the crowd.
"What's going on with you two? Why are so many people gathered here? Are you preaching? Or selling something?"
"Hey! How dare you speak to my young miss like that!? Believe it or not, I'll beat you up?"
The soldier raised an eyebrow and looked the Little Princess and He Yan up and down. He immediately determined these were the people they were looking for.
"Good! It's these two. Someone come! Arrest them all!"
"Eh?"
He Yan was stunned for a moment, then immediately realized that these two Military Police probably had someone behind them specifically ordering them to take the two of them away!
Could it be that her first outing with the Princess would end with this kind of conclusion of being arrested by the Military Police?
No, even if she agreed to it, the Princess absolutely couldn't possibly suffer this grievance! Perhaps the Princess was just waiting for someone to want to take her away?
No...
He Yan shook her head, throwing this absurd thought out of her mind.
Even if no one knew their identities, just looking at their clothes should make people guess they were nobles. After guessing they were nobles, it would be absolutely impossible to so casually come offend the Princess like this.
After all, the nobles were now tightly tied together. In this current situation where they needed to jointly resist the Glaze Royal Family's oppression, it was even more impossible to come offend another noble.
If you offended a noble today, who knew which day this offended noble would pull together some people behind your back to stab you a few times.
"Who told you to arrest my young miss?"
"You'll know when you arrive."
The soldier escorted the two of them, quickly passing through various small alleys.
"...You'd better not let me know who it is, otherwise both that person and you will have hell to pay!"
Maid He Yan put down harsh words.
However, she indeed had that capability. Whatever happened, she could directly tell Maid Xiao Xi. After telling her, it was just waiting for Maid Xiao Xi to arrange these people. She guaranteed to arrange them all neat and tidy, not one could escape.
There was even a possibility that because the Princess suffered grievances, in a fit of anger she might slap a charge of "treason" on several people!
"You can wait until you've met that lord to say so."
While speaking, the soldier forcefully tightened his grip on Maid He Yan's and the Little Princess's hands, forcefully lifting upward to press on their shoulders.
"Hnng..."
The Little Princess couldn't help but make a pained sound.
To be honest, having their shoulders manipulated like this was indeed quite painful. She just didn't know how these soldiers planned to wrap things up after doing this.
"..."
Maid He Yan wanted to make a move but was glared back by the Little Princess.
If they took action to deal with these soldiers now, they wouldn't be able to see any good show in a bit!
"..."
Princess, what exactly are you scheming!
She really didn't understand what the Little Princess meant, but she still obediently went along with the Little Princess's intentions.
...
"My lord, I've brought the people."
"Good that you brought them. Leave them... you fool, what did you do!?"
Looking somewhat aged, the middle-aged man saw the Little Princess and Maid He Yan being escorted in and couldn't help but shout loudly.
"Ah? But isn't this your meaning, my lord?"
"My meaning..."
The middle-aged man covered his face, suddenly feeling his cheek burning with pain.
"My meaning was for you to respectfully invite the people back, not for you to escort them back! You fools!"
Moreover, did you yourselves know who you escorted? A royal family member and a royal maid! You dared to randomly arrest people without even knowing the other party's identity? Don't want your heads anymore, is that it!?
"Lady Liuli! Are you alright? If you're injured anywhere or suffered grievances anywhere, please tell me by all means. I'll get it back for Lady Liuli!"
"Lady Liuli...!?"
Hearing this, the soldier from just now also realized he seemed to have caught a particularly incredible person!
He remembered before, someone had caught a nest of fake Princess imposters, but discovered a real Princess mixed in among them. That person nearly got beheaded that very night!
And now he had directly caught another Princess, Liuli. If His Majesty the King knew about this, and knew he had so forcefully escorted Lady Liuli here, losing his head might even be considered getting off lightly, right!?
So he made a snap decision and immediately knelt before the Little Princess:
"Lady Liuli, please forgive me! This lowly one was blind first, failed to recognize your identity. Earlier was truly very offensive. If Lady Liuli truly cannot swallow this grievance, please dispose of me as you wish!"
At this time, saying the most cowardly words was correct! No matter what, he had to appease this Princess Liuli and make her comfortable!
She also didn't know what this "Princess Liuli's" temperament was like. She had been staying deep in Glaze Royal Palace before, never coming out to see anyone. Probably even people within the Glaze Royal Family didn't know, right?
However, there were recent rumors that this Lady Liuli had been in contact with Princess Mo. Perhaps only that First Princess Mo knew what Lady Liuli's temperament was like?
But according to his guess, if Princess Liuli had been together with Princess Mo all along, their temperaments should be about the same. About the same meant... he definitely couldn't escape punishment!
He only hoped he wouldn't be punished too severely and wouldn't implicate his family!
"No harm done. Get up."
The Little Princess twisted her arm for a while, finally recovering some sensation.
Hearing this, the soldier stood up tremblingly.
"Just like that, nothing happened?"
Not long after, the Little Princess added another sentence:
"Be more careful next time. Go receive your punishment yourself. Fifty heavy strikes. Just say it was Mo who punished you."
Fifty heavy strikes! And under Princess Mo's name using corporal punishment on him, didn't that mean he would most likely die on the execution ground!?
You should know Princess Mo was a ruthless person who killed decisively. Using her standards for punishment, there was a high probability of death...
"Lady Liuli, I have elderly above and young below! Please reduce the punishment!"
"...What, you can't even accept fifty strikes?"
It was just fifty strikes! Fifty strikes meant that as she had agreed with below, using her personal identity's name to punish couldn't deliver a fatal blow, but also had to beat him to the point where he couldn't get out of bed for quite a while...
However, seeing this little soldier kowtowing to her so crazily...
"Thirty heavy strikes. Can't be fewer."
"Thank you, Lady Liuli!"
Maid He Yan silently watched from the side without speaking.
She knew if she interjected a few more times, the Princess would probably glare at her again. She clearly felt there was no problem at all!
"Then tell me, what's your meaning in bringing me here?"
The Little Princess casually sat in a chair, crossed her legs and asked.
"Lady Liuli, making you suffer grievances on our first meeting truly makes me deserve death ten thousand times..."
"Stop. Cut the nonsense. If you have business, state it."
The Little Princess interrupted.
She was too lazy to listen to these nobles' nonsense. What she cared about was that matter... she wanted to hear intelligence with use value from this noble family head's mouth!
"Uh..."
The middle-aged noble was momentarily at a loss, but after organizing his thoughts, he began to speak methodically:
"Then I'll speak frankly. Lady Liuli, you don't know. Just when the Princess... that is, Princess Mo said she wanted to reform the ruling system, the people below were thrown into chaos!"
"The people below refers to which people? What does thrown into chaos mean?"
She grasped the key point and asked.
"It's... those merchants!"
"What does institutional reform have to do with merchants?"
She was somewhat confused.
When she was planning, she had specifically considered this point. Because Glaze Nation itself was a country famous for commerce, a first-rate trading nation of the Eastern Region, even when considering institutional reform, she had only slightly considered it and hadn't adopted a policy of emphasizing agriculture while suppressing commerce.
How did this suddenly get involved with merchants again?
"It's precisely because this institutional reform had a great impact on merchants that things were thrown into chaos, no?"
"But I remember when Mo implemented this institutional reform, she had considered the merchants' situation, so she merely tightened control over merchants' trading scope a bit compared to before, yet loosened things in other areas. Overall, there wasn't any particularly major impact. The environment was even more like fish in water compared to before. Why would the merchants below be thrown into chaos?"
"Also, what exactly does your 'thrown into chaos' mean?"
She continued pursuing the key points and wording.
She felt there was probably something behind this she didn't know about, and something very important at that. It was as if besides that chain of interests involving embezzlement of disaster relief grain, there existed another even more serious chain of interests directly threatening the Glaze Royal Family's position.