Time Travel: The Best Doctor in Ancient Times

Chapter 882: Chapter 701: Xiao Gu Ze, Well Done!

In the traveling palace of the Capital of Great Zhou, the mother chasing her son with shouts of beatings and killings is a drama playing out in full swing. Within the Imperial Palace, an old Emperor nearly driven to despair by marriage pressure is genuinely turning gray.

When an Emperor like Emperor Zhoulin reaches this point, he can hardly rest in peace. Helpless, Emperor Zhoulin issued three imperial edicts, summoning Zhou Mu to the capital. However, the Prince Mu, no, rather the Crown Prince Mu, who has already moved into his own palace, received the edict on the battlefield at the Northern border, ascending to the position of Crown Prince of Great Zhou. Therefore, the Crown Prince simply ignored the edict of Emperor Zhoulin!

Emperor Zhoulin, feeling helpless and to prevent another incident of the bed being smashed, set out for the Crown Prince’s Palace with forlorn hope, only to find the Crown Prince was not home!

The capital turned from a bubbling pot of chaos to a tangled mess, with royal scandals and gossip flying everywhere. Where had the Crown Prince gone?

Emperor Zhoulin immediately grew anxious. Yuan Bao, under the roaring sky, bearing the Emperor’s wrath, finally tearfully reported the truth: his master had moved his bed chamber next to the Southern Emperor’s Traveling Palace and was now watching a fight!

Upon hearing this, Emperor Zhoulin could hardly believe it. Once known for having an indiscreet wife of the former Crown Prince, the face of the Zhou Imperial Clan was sufficiently tarnished. Now, with Zhou Mu, the current Crown Prince, acting so recklessly, the Zhou Clan’s reputation could not be salvaged. Thus, in anger, Emperor Zhoulin set off for the Southern Emperor’s Traveling Palace!

He wasn’t going to make accusations; he was merely going to retrieve his grandson who had yet to marry but was already acting unruly. Yet, the traveling palace was now in an uproar. Gu Changsheng was joyfully chasing her son, with some female officials helping their sovereign in pursuit and interception, while others assisted the little rascal to clear the path and block the interception, leading to a lively chase between mother and son, filled with shouts.

Meanwhile, on the other side, a purple-gold figure was half-hanging on the high palace wall, eyes intently watching the mother and son chasing each other within the palace corridors, while an old gray-haired man, dressed as a scholar, brandished a broom he’d somehow acquired, angrily wielding it at the person resembling a divine presence on the wall.

“Get down here, young man! Go back to your palace and stay put! Don’t you know you’re not supposed to meet before the marriage agreement? Are you a Crown Prince of Great Zhou for nothing?” Mr. Ban Shan swung his broom with vigor but failed to touch the corner of the climbing Crown Prince’s garment.

“Teacher, I’m just looking. My beloved hasn’t seen me, so it doesn’t count as meeting, does it?” Atop the wall, Zhou Mu replied earnestly, the memory of embracing someone and sleeping soundly last night having been conveniently pushed to the back of his mind; after all, Mr. Ban Shan didn’t catch him, right?

Mr. Ban Shan, hearing this, turned his head to glance at the chaos in the traveling palace, feeling puzzled but still exasperated, “Is this how you cover your ears and deceive yourself? She didn’t see you, but you saw her! That won’t do! There’s no reason for meeting before a blind marriage and dumb matrimony! Get down! A noble Crown Prince climbing walls, what decorum is that? Get down here, young man!”

Atop the wall, Zhou Mu frowned, “Teacher, a blind marriage and dumb matrimony? Surely, you’re being too self-deceiving. My beloved Changsheng and I don’t count as blind marriage and dumb matrimony. We are so familiar with each other that we don’t need to follow these rules!”

Saying thus, Zhou Mu leaped gracefully from one side of the wall to the other, naturally avoiding Mr. Ban Shan’s swinging broom along the way.

“You! You! You! You’re infuriating this old man! Are you still going to marry this bride or not?” Mr. Ban Shan, seeing this, grew anxious on the spot. He was someone who valued rules highly; though not a stubborn old fool sticking to outdated rules, concerning the marriage matters of his foster daughter, everything should ideally be according to procedure and perfect. Yet, these two young ones, accompanied by someone even younger, were never anything but worrisome! Early in the morning, he didn’t even know what had happened and mother and son were already playing cat and mouse, turning the entire traveling palace upside down! Oh, it was truly worrisome for the old man!

“Teacher, I’m here to mediate.” Zhou Mu deftly dodged Mr. Ban Shan’s thrown broom, flying over towards the chasing mother and son.

“Ah! Buddy Mu! You unscrupulous lad, just you wait! I can’t manage you; wait till Changsheng’s real father comes, you won’t get away unscathed!” Seeing Zhou Mu brazenly barging into the traveling palace and darting before his foster daughter in the blink of an eye, Mr. Ban Shan’s old eyes bulged in anger, cursing with a huffed nose and eyes.

In the distance, Zhou Mu, having already intervened between mother and son, froze, his purple-gold figure stiffening as he frowned at Gu Changsheng.

To be honest, the real father of his beloved Changsheng was the sore point in his heart. He managed to make things right with Mr. Ban Shan at great cost, yet Mr. Ban Shan was merely a foster father. But what about the real father?

“Wah! Uncle Wood, help! My mom’s going to eat me alive!” The little rascal, chased and in a wretched state by his own mother, saw Zhou Mu appear and immediately acted as if he’d found a rescuer. Forgetting to run, he turned and dashed into Zhou Mu’s arms.

“…” Zhou Mu’s eyebrows knitted tighter. Was this chicken-nest-haired child Xiao Gu Ze?

“Uncle Wood, if you won’t save me, I’ll tell Grandpa that last night you secretly…” Consumed by the safety in Zhou Mu’s arms, the little rascal whispered a threat, leaving out the part about sneaking into his mom’s bed chamber.

At these words, Zhou Mu’s body stiffened further, for he already sensed Mr. Ban Shan had picked up the broom and was charging over!

“Let go of that unfilial son; I’m going to sort him out!” Gu Changsheng yelled and charged over, baring her fangs and grasping, shouting at Zhou Mu.

“Calm down, calm down, let’s talk this over.” Zhou Mu dutifully assumed the role of mediator, speaking in a soothing voice.

“Calm down? Why should I calm down?” Gu Changsheng retorted in a flurry upon hearing this, jabbing angrily at the little rascal hiding in Zhou Mu’s arms, “Do you know what trouble he caused last night as you ask me to calm down?”

“Eh?” Zhou Mu was taken aback, last night? Last night, he and his beloved Changsheng slept soundly in the bed chamber and left early in the morning before Mr. Ban Shan awoke. Could it be he missed some news?

In Zhou Mu’s embrace, the little rascal’s body stiffened, and he drew his small head more tightly in, looking much like an ostrich.

Seeing Zhou Mu’s bewildered appearance, Gu Changsheng knew he wasn’t aware of it and immediately pointed at the hiding little rascal, laying bare the words, “Late at night, instead of sleeping, he caused a commotion in the Imperial Palace! Evildoer, if your grandfather gets permanently impaired by his antics, don’t expect me to specialize in unresponsive treatment!”

“Weren’t you also not sleeping?” A soft mutter came from within Zhou Mu’s hold, from a certain unrepentant little rascal.

Of course, his mutterings were automatically ignored by his mother, who was nearly fuming.

Zhou Mu heard the words of the mother and son duo and couldn’t help but twitch his eye corners. What could he say about this pair?

“It’s one thing that he smashed your grandfather’s dragon bed, but do you know what he did next?” Gu Changsheng was getting more and more angry as she spoke, “He went to push for a marriage proposal! A kid barely grown, still hasn’t grown all the hair, actually went to your grandfather to push for a date to get a sister! No matter how bad I am, I am still the Southern Emperor of the Southern Country, and my face has been completely lost by this unfilial son of a renegade! Do I look like I’m hard to marry off? Huh? Huh?”

As Gu Changsheng spoke, she seemed ready to jump to her feet.

“Did you go to push for a marriage date?” Zhou Mu lowered his head to look at the little chubby kid nestled in his embrace, asking in a deep voice.

“I…” The little chubby kid looked up at his words, eyes full of innocence and tearfully pitiful as he began to speak, “I just wanted to get a sister soon…”

Upon hearing the little chubby kid’s words, Gu Changsheng became even more flustered and exasperated, “Sister? Sister, my foot! Raising you alone has already made your mother gray-haired and short-lived by five hundred years. With another sister, should I go find Buddha for tea?”

“Well done!”

Just as Gu Changsheng was yelling in frustration at the little chubby kid, Zhou Mu solemnly nodded and spat out a few words in a deep voice.

“Huh?”

“Huh?”

In front of him, Gu Changsheng was stunned.

In his arms, the little chubby kid froze.

He was being praised? The little chubby kid couldn’t quite believe it, staring with his round, big eyes.

“You!” Gu Changsheng was speechless, staring at the man in front of her as if he were a deity, choking.

What’s this supposed to mean? Trying to make someone die of anger?

“The old man has already made such a mess in the Capital City, yet he doesn’t even pay attention to this one proper matter. He indeed needed some urging, and Xiao Gu Ze did well. Now, tell me, how did you break into the palace last night, and what did you say to that old man?” Zhou Mu cast a deep look at Gu Changsheng, holding the little chubby kid as he turned and walked to the side.

Leaving Gu Changsheng behind, confused and unsure of what to do with her head tilted.

“Useless!” Mr. Ban Shan arrived with a broom in hand, only to see his foster daughter gazing lost at a certain man’s back, dumbfounded, immediately throwing the broom aside, walking off in anger.

“I…” Is she useless? How is she useless? Clearly, she was just dumbfounded with anger, wasn’t she?

Gu Changsheng was speechless and choked with emotion, feeling deeply hurt, especially when she heard the barely suppressed laughter around her and all those malicious glances. Gu Changsheng suddenly felt that this emotional damage soared by a thousand points!

“Your Royal Highness, Emperor Zhoulin has arrived.” Hongyan Jiaojiao, with cold sweat on her forehead, thickened her skin to interrupt her majesty from watching her Imperial Husband’s back, reporting.

“Is he here to hold court or to gloat?” Gu Changsheng glared, speaking sourly.

“…” Hongyan Jiaojiao was at a loss for words. How was she supposed to respond to this as a subject?

“I won’t see him! I won’t see anyone from the Great Zhou Imperial Family; there isn’t a single good thing among them. I can’t be bothered to deal with them!” Gu Changsheng waved her hand, genuinely angered by that evildoer Zhou Mu. Damn it, her little chubby kid had done something so disgraceful, and he actually praised him? Is he kidding me? Bad people! They’re all bad people!

Hongyan Jiaojiao was about to retreat in embarrassment.

“Hold on, let Emperor Zhoulin show me the most rotten thing in his family!” Just as Hongyan Jiaojiao was about to exit Gu Changsheng’s line of sight, Gu Changsheng added a sentence.

“Huh?” Hongyan Jiaojiao was bewildered, getting twisted up by the “thing”, “Your Majesty, who exactly do you want to see?”

“The Wife of the Former Crown Prince, Madam Zheng!” Gu Changsheng spoke with a cold expression.