Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 813: Chapter 642: Donning the Imperial Robe, Southwestern Co-Ruler!

Outside the hall, the young Chenzhi, who had been hauled off by Yue Xilou for a scolding, heard his mother’s voice and dashed over.

Then he just stood at the entrance of the hall, dumbstruck, ”Mom... Mom, what are you playing? A new game?”

So many people were surrounding his mother, what were they playing? Tickling?

”Chenzhi! Chenzhi, help me, help me throw this bunch of people out!” Gu Changsheng urgently called out as soon as she heard her son’s voice.

The next moment, a silk handkerchief from Hongyan Jiaojiao’s hand was stuffed into her mouth!

”Mmm mmm...” Pressed down by the crowd, Gu Changsheng burst into tears.

Damn, is this handkerchief clean? Just stuffed it into her mouth!

”Mom? Mom?” Unable to hear his mother’s voice, Chenzhi walked forward with puzzled little steps.

”Heh heh... the young master is here? Come, come over here, and Granny Hongyan will tell you a story!” Hongyan Jiaojiao, having finished her dastardly deed, stepped out and scooped the little bundle off the ground into her arms.

”But mom...” Chenzhi hesitated, biting his finger, his eyes glancing toward the large chair surrounded by people where his mother was nowhere to be seen.

”Your mom found two pretty outfits she liked and can’t wait to change into them. She’s just shy, so she’s having people cover her a bit...” Hongyan Jiaojiao explained with a smile.

Nonsense!

Gu Changsheng howled in her heart!

How could she possibly have liked them? This was clearly these damn overlords forcing the issue!

To hell with it!

Spitting blood in frustration, Gu Changsheng felt utterly defeated!

”That... that... put on that one first!”

”The hairdo! The hairdo! The crown! Quickly bring the crown!”

”The waistband! The waistband! Where’s the dragon belt?”

”...”

Gu Changsheng, being fussed over from head to foot, cried as she watched the people busy on her body.

She had to remember the faces of these audacious people, so she could settle accounts in the autumn!

Make sure to remember them clearly!

”Herald!” Having placated the little one, Hongyan Jiaojiao, holding the small figure in her arms, walked to the entrance of the hall and called out firmly.

”Present!”

”Pass down the order, the new king of the Southern Border is ascending to the throne. Even though it’s wartime, the ceremony mustn’t be neglected. All female officials and nobles, and the clan chiefs of the great families, must swiftly don their crowns and come to pay homage!”

”By your command!”

”Someone! Summon the Bashu envoys residing in Red Rock City to meet the new lord!”

”Someone! The new ruler of Southern Border and Bashu is ascending to the throne, the Southwestern Co-Ruler is established. Order the Southern Border and Bashu to draft the decree officials and immediately draw up the Celestial Tome. One Shichen later, the Celestial Tome shall be promulgated across the nine layers and sent to the Central Plains. The Southwestern Co-Ruler Fenghuang Changsheng will personally lead the millions of people from the Witch and Gu Tribes to the Central Plains, showcasing the unparalleled divine might of our tribes!”

”Understood!” Came the impassioned voice in response.

In the next moment, the entire Red Rock City sprang into action!

Female officials and nobles took off their battle robes for court attire, and the heads of great families changed into grand outfits!

Red Rock City was destined to go down in history.

Because, in that year, at a time of external threats facing the Southwest, the Southwestern Co-Ruler ascended to the nine-layer high seat in the City Lord’s Great Hall of Red Rock City!

Gu Changsheng heard the continuous orders coming from outside and felt utterly helpless!

One’s face turned ashen, Manman betrayed her, and her inner strength was sealed, leaving her no choice but to submit!

The scarlet robe was replaced by the King’s Robe, the coiled hair adorned with a crown, and several people brought rouge and powder, smearing it on her face!

The Imperial Robe donned on her, Gu Changsheng, utterly without strength to resist, resigned to her fate!

By now, all six of her maids were nowhere in sight, presumably restrained by Hongyan Jiaojiao and Wuchang Yue’s people!

Truly, no one would help her now; indeed, there was no escape!

One wave after another of splendidly dressed women kept pouring towards the City Lord’s Great Hall in Red Rock City.

They stood in rows, with solemn and devout expressions...

Millions of the Southern Border’s citizens knelt on the ground, gazing eagerly in the direction of the Great Hall, bowing repeatedly.

”You all! Truly did a great job!”

Finally tidied up, Gu Changsheng looked at the female officials kneeling before her, speaking through gritted teeth.

With the Sky-facing Bead, the Sky-climbing Boots, and ten or so layers of the Dragon and Phoenix Royal Robe inside and out, Gu Changsheng sat on the steps, her brows arched to her temples, her eyes as deep as water!

The royal cosmesis, even more, amplified her commanding presence without needing anger.

Wuchang Yue and Hongyan Jiaojiao dared not even breathe heavily, kneeling in the center, heads lowered in silence.

This sight in Gu Changsheng’s eyes had quite the aura of a pig unafraid of scalding water!

Truly making her grit her teeth in anger, with no way to counter!

Outside the Great Hall, countless female officials awaited, but this was not the time to fuss further.

This move by Hongyan Jiaojiao was extremely shrewd, pushing the duck onto the perch, leaving her no room for regret!

”Hongyan pays respects to my Emperor, deities favor our Southern Border, long live the Emperor with a thousand autumns!”

”Wuchang Yue pays homage to my King, deities favor our Bashu, may my King’s beauty last for ten thousand years!”

Following their bowing and saluting once again, a line of female officials entered in a neatly ordered manner and promptly knelt on the ground.

”Hail to the Emperor!”

”Hail to the Emperor!”

The people came one group after another. They gazed at the elegantly dressed woman in the high position, their eyes full of deep reverence and devotion!

She is their emperor of the Southern Border!

She is their king of Bashu!

She is the co-ruler of the Southwest Witch and Gu Clans!

She is the master of the Southwest, bearing the blood of serving the God! The King of Witch Gu has come to the world, and the Witch and Gu Clans gain the mighty favor of the deities for another thousand years!

Even in times of war, the celebration is universal!

This is the Southwest that believes in the crowned king, this is Bashu and the Southern Border that believe in the ruler!

This is their emperor!

Gu Changsheng, amidst the thronging masses, slowly ascended to the highest terrace of Red Rock City, his Dragon and Phoenix Royal Robe trailing on the ground, the Sky-facing Bead shining brilliantly, and wherever he passed, the people bowed in submission.

”I, Gu Changsheng, am the Prince Changsheng of the Great Zhou in the Central Plains!” Gu Changsheng looked at the millions of people bowing throughout the city, and spoke gravely, his voice carried far and wide by inner strength.

”I, Fenghuang Changsheng, am the king of the Southern Border Gu Tribe!”

”I, Wuchang Changsheng, am the king of the Bashu Witch Tribe!”

How much he wished to be just Gu Changsheng!

But, things did not go as he wished!

”From today onwards, Changsheng is the co-ruler of the Southwest. Though he harbors no grand ambition or fierce spirit, yet, our Southwest Witch and Gu Clans, being the Clan of God’s Favor, shall not be oppressed!” Gu Changsheng looked down again, his phoenix sleeves fluttering, raised his voice and continued, ”Whoever dares to oppress our Southwest shall be punished, no matter how distant! Whoever dares to covet our Southwest shall be killed without mercy! As long as Changsheng is the co-ruler of the Southwest for a day, he shall protect our millions of citizens in the Southwest from foreign tyranny!”

”Whoever dares to oppress our Southwest, even if far, shall be punished!”

”Even if far, shall be punished!”

”Even if far, shall be punished!”

”...”

Cries and shouts of killing resounded through the skies, echoing off the clouds!

One by one, swift riders, holding the Imperial Scroll, spurred their horses, galloping out of Red Rock City!

”From this moment, the Southwestern Co-Ruler, Emperor Changsheng, shall lead the troops northward, and any who invade our Southwest Bashu and Southern Border shall be punished, even if far!”

”From this moment, the Southwestern Co-Ruler, Emperor Changsheng, shall lead the troops northward, and any who invade our Southwest Bashu and Southern Border shall be punished, even if far!”

”...”

At the summit of desolate mountains and perilous waters, an array of Celestial Tomes, in a thunderous momentum, transmitted to the frontier lands of the Southwest!

Southwestern Co-Ruler!

For a thousand years, there has never been a co-ruler in the Southwest, Bashu, or Southern Border!

This Celestial Tome will surely shock the Central Plains!

And at this moment, a certain co-ruler who was exhausted and collapsed, was waving a Little Willow Branch in Red Rock City!

”Damn it, you’re capable, huh! Quite a feat, huh! What, couldn’t manage softly so came hard! Playing ’delay first, report later,’ really great huh!” The Little Willow Branch slapped onto Hongyan Jiaojiao’s back, Gu Changsheng’s anger was beyond words.

”Damn it, I let you two plot against me! I let you two strip me of my clothes!”

”Slap slap slap!”

The Little Willow Branch was wielded onto the backs of Hongyan Jiaojiao and Wuchang Yue, causing the female officials kneeling behind them to shudder in fear!

”I’ve never been so aggrieved in my life, you two really have some skill!” Enraged beyond measure, she swung again!

Hongyan Jiaojiao and Wuchang Yue, being hit, lowered their heads without speaking, their bodies trembling in rhythm with the swaying Little Willow Branch!

”Why aren’t you speaking? Turn mute? Where did your courage to pit against me go? Isn’t it a bit late to pretend now?” The more she looked at the two, the more infuriated she got, Gu Changsheng swung the Little Willow Branch again.

”Waaah... Stop hitting my pretty sister...”

A chubby little figure swiftly rushed over here.

Wuchang Yue, upon hearing this, trembled and instinctively wanted to dodge. But before she could react, her neck was encircled by a pair of short little arms, and there was a small person pressing firmly on her back!

The sudden weight of the little chubby bun made Wuchang Yue’s small body tremble, nearly toppling over, and with her blow-away-puff-face, she was suddenly both angry and humiliated, ”Get off me, you little rascal!”

”No!” Lying stably on Wuchang Yue’s back, the little chubby bun held her neck tightly with both hands, spoke with extraordinary firmness, ”Little lady, fear not, for I shall protect you!”

Gu Changsheng’s hand, holding the Little Willow Branch, froze, her mouth twitched as she watched her family’s little chubby bun playing hero rescuing beauty.

”Mother! I’ve finally found such a beautiful little wife after great effort, please don’t hit her away, if you must hit, if you must hit...” The little chubby bun looked at the Little Willow Branch in his mother’s hand with reluctance, hesitated for a moment, then, pointing his chubby hand at Hongyan Jiaojiao kneeling beside, ”If you must hit, hit her! Don’t hit my little wife!”

This philosophy of saving oneself at the expense of a friend, the little chubby bun understands it deeply!

Named, Hongyan Jiaojiao’s body trembled, resignedly lowering her head further.

”You, get up, your old mother was so pitted by these two that even my undergarments were stripped, you won’t let me vent with a couple of hits!” Gu Changsheng pointed the Little Willow Branch at the little chubby bun, glaring.

”No! No! Don’t hit my little wife!” The little chubby bun shook his head.

”I am not your little wife!” Unable to bear it anymore, Wuchang Yue finally growled in fury.

”Not now, but certainly someday! Little wife, don’t be afraid, I will protect you!” The little chubby bun remained unmoved, determined as a mountain.

Gu Changsheng held her head, looking helplessly at her own little chubby bun misled by beauty, and spoke resignedly, ”You get up! Enough with the hero rescuing beauty! This beautiful little wife is destined not yours, you can’t marry her, get aside!”

”Why can’t I marry her?” The little chubby bun pouted defiantly.

”By seniority, she calls me ’elder clan sister,’ and you call me ’mother,’ that’s a generation gap, completely misaligned!” Gu Changsheng snorted at her own son.