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Hua Hua You Long - Volume 2 - Chapter 16




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Chapter 16

But Lu Cang clearly didn’t appreciate his kindness. After being in dazed for a moment, he quickly got the clear understanding of the circumstances. ---  He got up and sat on the bed. His eyes didn’t even want to spare a glimpse at Jing, rather, he changed his focus to look at the bed interior.

“Where are Cao Xin and the others?” He asked.

“I have them sent to Hangzhou.” It was rare for Jing to be this honest, probably because he could clearly see the weary look on Lu Cang’s face.

Lu Cang grabbed the tossed on the bed side’s clothes and put them on. Without even looking at Jing, headed to the door was all he cared for.

“Where do you go?” Jing lost his temper and got angry. He was fully aware that his patience was already pushed to the limit. He stood and blocked the way to the door, asking with a rigid tone.

“I want to go back to Hangzhou.” Lu Cang went straight to the door, without caring that Jing blocking the way, so he ended up bumped against Jing’s bosom.

Jing quickly used both of his hands to hold and hug Lu Cang : “You are not allowed to go anywhere. Behave and obediently stay here.”

His hands busily stroke Lu Cang’s back to comfort him.--- This was Lu Cang’s favorite. Everytime Jing did this to him, he couldn’t help but groan happily.

However, this time, Lu Cang was disgusted, he dodged and moved sideways, slid and freed himself from that bosom.

“Don’t touch me! Just go and hold on to your crown.”

Jing, who had never seen this kind of disgust on Lu Cang’s bright eyes, stunned for a moment. Unconsciously, he let Lu Cang slid from his embrace.

Both of them were staring at each other eyes as if looking at a stranger. At long last, Jing sighed and softened his tone : “Xiao Cang, don’t be senseless, alright? I realize that my punishment earlier was a little bit too far, I can’t blame you if you are angry. But you really did make me lost face, made me unable to back down with good grace in front of my subject. Please, don’t be like this, okay?”

If only not because of his mouth was hurting like hell because of the tongue broken skin, since long ago Lu Cang would have let loose a torrent of abusive words.

But for now, he could only pick the pithiest word to utter : “Get lost!”

His eyes was very frigid. Jing suddenly missed and yearned for the former Lu Cang from these previous days : From the days that no matter how angry he was at Jing, his eyes that gazed at Jing would always have this un-extinguish blaze.--- His eyes that filled with love blended with longing desire could always make Jing certain of his love.

But at this very moment….. Lu Cang’s eyes was all sober and calm, clear and bright, as if that small seed of fire had died out.

“No!!” Jing started to panic. He was flustered. However, he still restrained himself, not to profess an apology.

He charged at Lu Cang and pressed him on the bed. His hand was groping and caressing Lu Cang’s sensitive buttocks.

“If you want to do it, then just do it! But don’t imagine that it’s possible for me to forgive you!” Lu Cang was laying down, straight, cold and all stiff. Jing lost his interest at once to see Lu Cang acting all cold and stiff.

“What exactly do you want?!” Jing finally exploded. He yelled and crawled up from Lu Cang’s body. --- Although Lu Cang supposed to be doing his utmost to restrain himself, nevertheless, the caressing action just now evidently had stirred up the pain on his mouth wound. Even if he resisted with great difficulty not to cry out, his eyes was turning white as if cying out the pain.

“Don’t want anything. Let me go, we are through!” this two words just served as a knife that severed the connection between the both of them. Even Jing felt like stabbed by this words and quivered all over from head to toe.

“Bullshit!! Who allowed it!?” Regardless his upbringing, Jing unexpectedly roared out loudly in a vulgar language. He was consumed by his anger already.

"You told me yourself! Using that action of yours, you told me! I could be careless however you treated me, but I definitely won’t forgive you for treating my Brothers this way! From the beginning you’ve never taken me seriously, but I’ve have always been convincing myself that it’s because of your special status. It’s my own stupidity! For a person like you, there is no way you will be able to love anyone! Not to mention to love me… In your eyes, I am merely a little plaything. Just that compared to those royal concubines, I’m just a little bit fresher and more unique……”
Talking too much, the wound in his mouth began to split open again. Fresh blood been dripping and flew down from the corner of his mouth. Lu Cang harshly wiped the blood stain. Closed his mouth tightly and fell silent.

“That was… That was only…..” Jing didn’t know how to provide an explanation to defend himself. In this world, there was no such problem he would care about. ---- He basically needn’t have to explain himself to whoever. So that when it was necessary for him to offer an explanation, he couldn’t figure out the words.

“Handsome men are many in this land. In fact, Zhang isn’t so bad himself." Lu Cang stared at Jing, the couldn’t speak Jing agitated him even more. He began to carefully choose the accusing words that he knew would hurt him : "Or did you two already sleep together?  But of course, he is Concubine Zhang’s older brother, they look so much alike like they were carved from the same mold. He hates me, but it’s more because he’s jealous of me. Hmph, why should he.. --  I was nothing more than an insignificant male pet. In one month, you’ll get tired of me…Hmph…What do you considered me as? Not more than whatever refined peach, an accessories to whatever king, to be..… “

Lu Cang had no chance to finish his speech. Jing, whose whole face was turning red turning pale because of his harsh speech, swung his palm and landed on Lu Cang’s face.

“Shut up!!”

Jing couldn’t stand to hear Lu Cang insulting his love towards Lu Cang like that. On the other side, Lu Cang thought that Jing was flying into a rage because of shamed by his mindful words. --- The heat from his cheek felt like burning. He inclined his head for quite sometimes, without an expression.

Jing also regretted his actions a little, but his high self-esteem didn’t allow him to utter the three words, “I am sorry.”

He could see the rage in Lu Cang’s eyes accumulated and grew deeper. His breathing uncontrollably became loud and heavy, the heat gradually burned and formed a flame. --- He suddenly jumped out of the bed, grabbed a porcelain washing bin by his side and threw it at Jing. “Fuck you. Go to hell!”

---- Like a living corpse, the stunned Jing couldn’t move and unable to avoid the washing bin, which speed actually was not that fast at all, from directly hit his head.

Looking at the fresh blood gushing out from the snow-whited forehead, flowing down to the whole face, together with the frightening dreadful looks in Jing, Lu Cang was shocked to the point he involuntarily fell back several steps before tumbled and sat on the edge of the bed.

“Your Majesty….”

“You Majesty, are you alright?” The loud, terrible noise attracted the imperial bodyguards. Witnessing the entire face covered with fresh blood, standing blankly, Jing, they all stupefied at once.

Jing looked like the spirit envoy from hell. Waved his hand to order : “Come, arrest Lu Cang!” The imperial bodyguards rushed to the still dumbfounded Lu Cang and tied him up tightly.

“Your Majesty, How to deal with Lord Lu?” Given the circumstances at the present, the injury Lu Cang subjected Jing to was worth at least 10 deaths penalties and exposed the corpse under the sun then cut into thousand pieces to rot in the wilderness.

Jing seemed to be unable to thoroughly think over it at the moment. After a long while, he ordered with his deep voice : “Take him to Dali Si judicial prison custody. Deal with it later.”

After being stupefied by the order, the dumbfounded imperial bodyguards took the order. Left Jing behind, alone, sitting devastated in his bedchamber. He let the blood from his forehead kept on dripping.

…….

 “Lord Lu….”  In Dali Si judicial prison, –-- This place, since the ancient time had been the place to put the relatives of the Emperor under detention. Locked up in this deep, dark and damp prison cell, for who knew how many of the Emperor descendants had been shedding tears for this wrongful treatment in this lonely place.

Leaning on the mottled wall, Lu Cang blankly stared at the bean-shaped light. He turned a deaf ear to the call from outer side of his cell.


“Lord Lu!” Liu Zhong Tang had no other choice but to helplessly smile. He opened the prison door and invited himself in.
Indeed, as the minister of Dali Si judicial officers, Liu Zhong Tang, as much as his post as the minister allowed him, within his range of power, had been showing his consideration to the greatest extend towards Lu Cang who he had met once, regardless, just because they hit it off on their first meeting.

He also heard of this Lu Cang predicament on committing disaster of the nation sin. Other than sighed with regret for ‘being close to the emperor is like being close to a tiger’ phrase, he could only secretly worried for Lu Cang future and be anxious about how his fate would be.

The whole kingdom had been restless because of Jing’s slow and tardy way to punish the criminal who committed this grave sin. All sorts of comments and rumors had been spreading like wild-fires. Jing, as if completely forgot about this issue, despite having his head wrapped in bandage, carefreely went in and out the palace as usual, discussing the government affairs as usual, so much that…. He began his royal visit to the long not visited royal concubines……

“Lord Lu. There is a visitor from the palace….” There was still someone following behind Liu Zhong Tang. That was the hadn’t seen for a while, commander of the imperial guards, Ding Peng.

“Ah.. Sir Ding….” Lu Cang clearly surprised, he sat up-straight right away.

Ding Peng didn’t show any emotion on his face. He sat on the bench by Lu Cang’s side. Looking back at Liu Zhong Tang : “Sir Liu…..”

“Ah. Then I will withdraw first.” Liu Zhong Tang was really sensible. He raised himself slightly and left them alone.

“His Majesty let me come to see you.” Ding Peng went straight to the point.

Lu Cang open his mouth slightly to say something. --- Even though he could guess that if not ordered by Jing, who would have the guts to come and visit him in this prison. Nevertheless, to hear Ding Peng bluntly said it out loud, an immeasurable sorrow made him sigh.

“He… How is he?” Lu Cang lowered his head and asked softly.

“His Majesty is very well. Concubine Jiang from the rear palace just add a new prince for His Majesty. “ Concubine Jiang’s pregnancy was something happened even before Lu Cang entered the palace, but nonetheless, to heard this kind of information, Lu Cang still couldn’t help but crooked and twisted his mouth.

He must have started his royal visit to his royal concubines again.--- This kind of thing already had nothing to do with him.

“His Majesty wanted me to ask you, are you still intending on going back to Hangzhou?” The next moment, the words that Ding Peng told him was like an explosive news.

“What?!” The surprised Lu Cang blurted out in shock.

“His Majesty decreed, I must guard lord Lu back to Hangzhou to catch up with your brothers.” Ding Peng stood up, cupping his hand to show his respect.

That was all he ever wished for----  But now, having his wished granted under this kind of assigned order, he couldn’t feel even the slightest shred of happiness. But did he had any other better options for now?”.

He couldn’t go back! --- Already became the talk of the town after creating such sensation, he could no longer be able to go back and stay by that honorable person’s side anymore.

Since it had come to this, wasn’t it the best option to return to his hometown.

He silently nodded his head. Lu cang asked Ding Peng softly : “What about here….”

Ding Peng shook his head : “Lord Lu need not to worry. His Majesty has arranged a scapegoat who resembles you, taken from the sentenced to death’s convict…..”

It was so like how Jing would deal with matters. --- Lu Cang couldn’t contain his bitter laughter.

Jing was this kind of man, valued his position as well as having the highest self-esteem, but also wouldn’t forsake his romantic feeling. ---- Was it fortunate or unfortunate for Lu Cang to love him the way he was?

He already had no time to drown himself in self-pity. How could Lu Cang think deeply over this trivial matter. He hurriedly tidied up his upper body clothing, together with Ding Peng, he walked out from the prison which he had been locked in for almost a month.

…………

Under his constant and persistent pressure, Ding Peng finally told him the place of his brothers that Ding Peng had arranged for them in Hangzhou, thus they parted way at the outside of Hangzhou city.

According to the direction that Ding Peng gave him, Lu Cang finally found the house where his brothers dwelled in while in Hangzhou.---- A common large building of a landlord house-hold, with it wide courtyard. Looked like Jing wasn’t completely ill-treated his brothers.

Unable to hide his excitement because very soon he would meet his brothers, Lu Cang, as soon as he saw the coated with black paint big gate, dashed and flied, entering the mansion without even noticing that on the gate, there were some kinds of white lanterns hanging on, --- That was to symbolize the family of deceased.

Not after he landed on the big guest hall that he finally faintly sensed something was off.--- From the middle of the guest hall, the faint crying sounds came through, a miserable weeping voice at that. That was the way to weep for the deceased family members.

His entire self froze from head to heel. He couldn’t figure out a way to step in to the guest hall. --- He saw that Cao Xin and every of his brothers were wearing the mourning apparels. Knelt down, facing a portrait of a figure on the wall. They were crying their heart out, so miserably.

Heaven!! Lu Cang’s eyes became fuzzy. He couldn’t even clearly see who was the person on that picture. He flew in, grabbed a seize on Cao Xin :
“Brother Xin, Who?! Who’s dead?!”

That Cao Xin was looking at him with both blood-shot eyes. All of a sudden, as if looking at a ghost, his eyes widened, then unexpectedly screamed out loud before fainted.

Lu Cang truly was at a loss. He was surrounded by all the brothers, --- His clothes was pulled by the baffled Ge Qing. After pulling his ears, Ge Qing finally shivered and said : “Good heaven, Big Brother, weren’t you killed by that fatuous and self-indulgent ruler? We all thought about going to the imperial capital and avenge you.”

At last, Lu Cang could clearly see the picture of a person holding a double-edged sword, it was no other than himself. He was stupefied at once : “What?! Who said I’m dead?”

“Marquis Lu Cang, hold the intention to contemn the monarch, Executed!” Ge Qing showed him the back of a yellow notification paper with the words about Lu Cang on it.

Lu Cang immediately realized that it was the scapegoat. Busily telling his brothers about the complete story from beginning to the end. After that, the brothers believed that he wasn’t a vengeful spirit who came back to living realm to revenge. They immediately ripped off their mourning apparels, came to Lu Cang and surrounded him, asking about this and that endlessly.

“Then, Big Brother, Are you going back to the palace again?” The one who finally regain his consciousness, Cao Xin, couldn’t help but asked this when he heard that Jing was willingly let Lu Cang returned to Hangzhou.

“How could I ?” Lu Cang laughed for a bit. “Now I am a dead man. He could be relieved and peacefully manage his throne. Everybody is completely through this. How would it possible to think about going back? Thinking back, it was a really stupid thing to do, for me, who is unknown and have no merit, to be with him. Looking at other men taking a wife and having children, looking at others who is deeply in love and together to a ripe old age. I, at this point, am still left behind, with no family nor property. Like this, how can I consider my own self as a man?”

“I have a full understanding now. From the start, I had been entangled in this kind of messed-up relationship. If not taking this opportunity to break it and come clean, --- I also don’t have to live that stuffy boring life anymore. He also doesn’t have to worry that I will ruin his Emperor’s Majestic. Everybody can be at ease!” Lu Cang placed himself among the brothers  who sincerely cared for him. He couldn’t restrain himself from pouring out all he had to say at once.

“Yes, it’s true. Big Brother’s nick name is The Eagle after all. So you ought to live freely!”   “What the deal with stranded by that annoying foul Emperor?”

“It is good that our Big Brother is back. Together, we can find a mountain stronghold to settle down. The hell with the emperor! The hell with the nobility! Big brother, as long as you are together with us, it will be more than enough!”

In a blink of an eye, the big guest hall broke into a burst of hail and cheer sound. Everyone was talking at the same times, Cheering for Lu Cang’s return.

Finding himself in the midst of this warm friendship, thinking back again, because of the love he had for Jing, because he stayed by Jing’s side, there was the kind of compromising. Lu Cang couldn’t refrain for having an immeasurable bitterness surging from his unlimited thoughts. He almost let his tears rolling down.

Cao Xin was aware of his severe mood fluctuation. He raised his hand to stop everybody from going on with their boisterous talk : “Alright, alright! Big brother was travelling all the way from the imperial capital to join up with us. He must have worn out.

“You all also tired from crying, Now let’s go to rest. This night…. In the town, we’ll have dinner and find some girls to have some fun!” Everybody was cheerfully shouting out “Wa!” thus clear off the recently misfortune event.


End of chapter 16



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