Forced to Marry the Enemy Prince

Translator – Xiao He Lian

Chapter 76

Of course he wouldn’t really hack Zhan Zhen.

But when Zhan Zhen said this, he fell silent again. He constantly had to remind himself that the person in front of him was not only a father, but also an emperor. He can be arrogant because he is the emperor’s favorite but he also knows when to stop. 

Emperor Jin thought for a while, took a sip of tea and said, “Could it be that the Crown Princess brought this up?”

Zhan Zhen hesitated for a moment and then said, “Yes.”

Emperor Jin was a bit puzzled: “Really?”

“That’s all.” Zhan Zhen said softly, “Erchen1this subject. this son told my father directly that Sheng’er wanted her brother to leave because of Zhan Yin because she suddenly started talking crazy and wanted to marry Prince Shang and go to South Liang and Sheng’er was worried that you would find fault with her brother and asked me to come over, it just so happens that erchen is  also not happy for him to stay long.”

Emperor Jin frowned: “Is this true?”

“If you don’t believe me, just call Zhan Yin and ask.”

He waved his hand and sent someone to find Zhan Yin, muttering, “What is wrong with you all? Even if you want to marry, there are those who want to marry. Can the enemy country even feed themselves well?”

Zhan Zhen lowered his eyes, turned the cup with his fingers and didn’t answer.

Zhan Yin quickly came over and Emperor Jin asked, “Do you like Xian Shang?”

Zhan Yin blushed and looked at her silent brother and said, “I saw him and I’m interested in him.”

Emperor Jin’s face turned green, he stood up suddenly, Zhan Yin shrank in fright, listening to him ask in a soft voice, “Do you want to marry South Liang?”

Zhan Yin averted her eyes and whispered, “yes.”

Emperor Jin took a deep breath: “Do you know that it is an enemy country? Do you know how many of our people they killed and how many of their people we killed?”

“Well, there is no specific number, but it should be quite a lot.”

“…” Emperor Jin retreated and sat back in his seat with an ugly face. Zhan Zhen said, “Father…”

“Get out.” Emperor Jin said solemnly, “Both of you get out.”

Zhan Zhen quickly gets up and salutes to leave. Zhan Yin doesn’t dare to face her father alone and hurriedly follows Zhan Zhen behind.

“Those two shits2狗东西 – dog things / Son of a bitch .” Emperor Jin took a sip of water and said after a while, “South Liang has given each one of them an ecstasy soup.”

Eunuch Liao said: “Looking at the Prince’s reaction today, it doesn’t look like he has a guilty conscience.”

“Yeah, Protecting daughter in law this way is not ambiguous, looks like Xian Sheng doesn’t have a problem.” Emperor Jin said, “But my heart is not at ease”

“Then Prince Shang, will we release him or not?”

This time, Emperor Jin was silent for a long time before sighing: “How did this Zhan Yin get involved… just, you tell the Queen, let her be grounded, Xian Shang still has to stay, let him …… stay until the birthday of the Crown Princess..”

“What are you going to do?”

“Send someone to South Liang.” Emperor Jin said, “Since they made sure to not leak a single drop3滴水不漏 [dī shuǐ bú lòu] – make sure that not a single drop leaks out — tell a story without missing a single circumstance;   There must be no leakage of any kind and degree;   watertight;   leakproof, I will personally send someone to investigate. If they really can not find anything, I will let this matter rest.”

“If there is something…” He placed the new string on the bow and shot out an arrow.

No words were spoken, but his eyes were cold.

Zhan Zhen walked in front with a cold face, Zhan Yin puffed up her cheeks and couldn’t help but say, “Why did you tell father everything?”

“So, you can get rid of those thoughts as soon as possible, you won’t have a chance with Xian Shang”

“Brother, are you worried about me?” Zhan Yin suddenly smiled, she pulled Zhan Zhen’s sleeve and said:  “In fact I feel that it is very nice that my brother in law broke into Great Jin for my Sister in law, and you mistreat my sister in law everyday, which is very inappropriate .”

Zhan Zhen stopped in his tracks, he frowned deeply “You think I mistreated him?”

Zhan Yin stopped and said, “Hmm.”

“…” After a while, Zhan Zhen said again, “You think I’m not good enough for him?”

“Not good enough.” Zhan Yin said: “Look, the royal father treats her well on the surface, but he seems to be calculating something in secret. You, as a husband, are greedy for her body all day long, and no one cares about my sister-in-law’s feelings. She looks so melancholic recently, I feel bad for her… I said that I want to marry my sister-in-law’s brother4Brother in law – but I translated it as sister in law’s brother because it sounds weird to say that she wants to marry her brother-in-law directly although it is normal in ancient times because if the royal father gets angry and kicks my sister-in-law’s brother away, will my sister-in-law be relieved?”

Zhan Zhen raised his eyebrows: “You didn’t really want to marry him?”

“It’s good to marry.” Zhan Yin’s eyes turned: “All the Liang people are like immortals coming down to earth. So there is no loss in marrying him.”

Zhan Zhen was silent for a moment, then suddenly knocked her forehead: “Nice try”

He no longer cared about Zhan Yin. Zhan Yin rubbed her head, wandering towards the palace when she heard a voice, it was Zhan Jin: “Did you get scolded by father?”

“No.”

Just now, it seems that the royal brother is not too happy either, you told him that you like sister-in-law?”

“No way.” Zhan Yin said, “I still understand this truth.”

“You don’t really think you like Xian Sheng, do you?”

“Yes, I think so.” Zhan Yin said hesitantly, “I just want my brother to love her, my father to love her, and my mother to love her too. When she frowns, my heart furrows, but she is not close to me, and neither can I coax her.”

“What ‘liking her’(ah) ?” Zhan Jin smiled and said, “If you really like her, you will be jealous of the person who is with her. Are you jealous of your brother?”

“I feel angry when he bullies my sister-in-law.” Zhan Yin said, “but when he adores my sister-in-law, I feel sweet again.”

“Forget it, you can dwell on it yourself, I’ll send you back first.”

Zhan Zhen rode his horse back to the house. When he entered the door, he found that Xian Sheng was sitting in front of the mirror in men’s clothes. His hair was not tied up yet and it fell down softly and hung down to his waist.

Zhan Zhen walked over and suddenly stretched out his arms to hug his waist, Xian Sheng was startled, “I’m back.”

“What, do you want to go out?”

“To go and seek my brother later.”

“Looking for him ah?” Zhan Zhen said: “You’ve been hanging out with him these days and I feel left out.”

“Our days are still long. This time my brother is here but I don’t know when we can meet in the future.”

Zhan Zhen looked at the white face in the bronze mirror and hesitated: “Yesterday, I should not have said in front of you that I was worried about Zhan Yin, so I let Sheng’er be aggrieved, I was wrong.”

“No grievance.” Xian Sheng glanced at him strangely and said, “If you talk about grievances, I was wronged when I married.”

“Good Sheng’er.” Zhan Zhen kissed him: “You’ve been wronged recently. If you really miss your family, how about I accompany you back to see them?”

Xian Sheng’s eyes flickered, suddenly turned his head and said, “What did your royal father say?”

“He didn’t say anything…”

“Tell the truth.”

“He beat me up today. It seems he wants to inquire about something from me. Although he was fooled, he can’t rub sand in his eyes5not prepared to turn a blind eye; unable to put sth objectionable out of one’s mind. I suspect…he will send someone to South Liang.”

“Sure enough.” Xian Sheng said: “”Your father is insightful. Even if we hide it, as long as there is a ghost in our heart6心里有鬼 [xīn li yǒu guǐ] have an ulterior object in view;   be up to some trick;   harbour intentions that can’t bear daylight;   have a bad conscience, we will definitely reveal some clues. Now his heart is hanging7The pinyin of hanging heart is xuán zhe xīn, which means that the heart is suspended, which is a metaphor for worrying, worrying or shocking, that is, hanging the heart. He’s not sure what secrets I have, so he can’t let it go.”

Zhan Zhen looked at him for a while and suddenly said, “I’ll send you away.”

Xian Sheng’s heart skipped a beat and Zhan Zhen hugged him tightly and said, “I’ll just say that you are in a bad mood these days and that I took you out to the outskirts of the city to relax. You can pretend to be dead and go with your brother. When I ascend the throne, I’ll marry you back.”

Xian Sheng’s eyelashes flickered and after a while he said, “You, do you really think so?”

“I just want you to be happy.”

“But this method won’t work.” Xian Sheng said softly: “Even if I die, I must enter your Da Jin’s Imperial Mausoleum. Your father is not a fool. If this plan fails, not only will I be unable to escape, you will even be scorned by your father.”

“Then, I will quarrel with you in front of your brother for a few days alone and ask your brother to propose divorce, and we will play a drama of a broken marriage…”

“Don’t be stupid.” Xian Sheng turned around, pressed against his forehead, rubbed the tip of his nose against each other and said softly, “No one can help me leave Jin, you can’t, neither can my brother. I’m married and I’m on the family tree. Even if you die, it is impossible to leave.”

“I can.”

“No you can’t.” Xian Sheng said seriously: “You can only save me if you keep your position as Crown prince.  You can’t protect the Princess of Da Liang, but you can protect the Crown Princess of Jin. If you have a quarrel with your father for me, it will be like abandoning the basics and seeking the end8The Chinese idiom, the pinyin of shě běn qiú mò, means to abandon the fundamental and the main, and pursue the minor and secondary; the metaphor does not focus on the fundamental link, but only works on the minor issues. From “Lv’s Spring and Autumn Period Shangnong”.”

Zhan Zhen looked at him for a long time, “But I don’t want you to be unhappy, you are so smart, think of a way out for yourself, I will definitely help you.”

“There is no way out.” Xian Sheng said “Unless I suddenly become a woman.”

Zhan Zhen was silent for a while and said, “If the royal father sends someone to…”

“When I came, no one in Liang Palace knew about this except the closest people. They are extremely tight lipped, your father won’t be able to find anything.”

Xian Sheng  pondered and said, “I am also curious as to how exactly your father is going to know my secret.”

“How do you know that he will definitely know?”

Xian Sheng suddenly looked at him: “The birthday gift you prepared for me, it won’t be a male costume, right?”

“……” After a long time Zhan Zhen said, “You can even guess this.”

Xian Sheng chuckled and said, “Someone has sent it that way.”

“Then I’ll be unprepared.”

“Okay, accompany me to find my brother.”

“You’re going to wear this?”

“I like it.”

For several days in a row, Xian Sheng went to his brother’s place every day. every time he saw him coming in male clothes, Xian Shang was frightened. Fortunately, there were no accidents.

*

“Just now that person just called me young master9Xiao Gong Zi – 公子 [gōng zǐ- son of a feudal prince or high official .” Saying goodbye to his brother again, Xian Sheng lay on Zhan Zhen’s back, biting the cake in his mouth and said: “This is a lovely name.”

“Have you eaten a little too much these past two days?” Zhan Zhen said: “I think you’re getting heavier day by day.”

“That means I’m in good health.” Xian Sheng handed the cake to his (ZZ) mouth: “Do you want to eat?”

“no.”

Xian Sheng then ate it by himself.

Zhan Zhen carried him all the way back to the Prince’s Mansion. Xian Sheng was already full and was a little choked. Zhan Zhen ordered someone to bring him water, pinch his face, then he glared at him and said:, “you’re really fat, your face is round.”

“I’m not happy about what you said. How can I relax and eat until my face is round, if you despise it, so fickle.”

“When did I despise you?” Zhan Zhen said: “This is about paying attention to you. I  can find any changes in you  at any time.”

“In addition to getting tired easily, my appetite has really improved in the past two days, and my sleep has improved. So I guess it has something to do with that medicine.”

“It’s March, we have to go to the imperial mausoleum to sweep the tomb during Qingming10清明节 (Qīngmíng Jié), Tomb Sweeping Festival, sometimes translated literally as Clear and Bright Festival, is celebrated on the 4th, 5th, or 6th of April. It is traditionally the time when Chinese families visit graves to honour their dead ancestors.. You have a good rest these days. If you want to see your brother, let him come to see you in the mansion.”

“You ah, you really understand me don’t you.”

Xian Sheng was sleepy after he was full. Just as he climbed on the bed, there was a sudden movement outside. Qi Sile delivered the medicine himself and said, “How are you doing? Is there any discomfort?”

Zhan Zhen described the symptoms, Qi Sile thought for a while and said: “If you can eat, it means your body is getting better. It’s a good thing.”

Zhan Zhen asked: “Do you need to take the pulse today?”

“Let me take a look.” He walked to the bedside, Xian Sheng obediently exposed his face to him, heard him laugh and said: “What pulse, the little face is rosy. It’s obviously all right. Come on, go to sleep.”

Xian Sheng was happy and grateful: “Thanks you Imperial Uncle.”

“Zhan Zhen has also raised you well.” Qi Sile was not greedy for merit. He caught a glimpse of Zhan Zhen getting sour again. He (ZZ) feels sour if he takes the pulse and he also feels sour if he looks at his(XS) face. Qi Sile was wisely preparing to leave, but Zhan Zhen suddenly followed out: “I have something to discuss with you11here ZZ uses 您 – pinyin nin → you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你 ) it is a honorific title.”

“What’s the matter?” Qi Sile quipped, “You actually used the honorific title.”

“If one day, Sheng’er’s identity is revealed I want Uncle to tells a lie.”

“What lie?”

“Just say, he is pregnant.”

 

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1this subject. this son2狗东西 – dog things / Son of a bitch3滴水不漏 [dī shuǐ bú lòu] – make sure that not a single drop leaks out — tell a story without missing a single circumstance;   There must be no leakage of any kind and degree;   watertight;   leakproof4Brother in law – but I translated it as sister in law’s brother because it sounds weird to say that she wants to marry her brother-in-law directly although it is normal in ancient times5not prepared to turn a blind eye; unable to put sth objectionable out of one’s mind6心里有鬼 [xīn li yǒu guǐ] have an ulterior object in view;   be up to some trick;   harbour intentions that can’t bear daylight;   have a bad conscience7The pinyin of hanging heart is xuán zhe xīn, which means that the heart is suspended, which is a metaphor for worrying, worrying or shocking, that is, hanging the heart8The Chinese idiom, the pinyin of shě běn qiú mò, means to abandon the fundamental and the main, and pursue the minor and secondary; the metaphor does not focus on the fundamental link, but only works on the minor issues. From “Lv’s Spring and Autumn Period Shangnong”9Xiao Gong Zi – 公子 [gōng zǐ- son of a feudal prince or high official10清明节 (Qīngmíng Jié), Tomb Sweeping Festival, sometimes translated literally as Clear and Bright Festival, is celebrated on the 4th, 5th, or 6th of April. It is traditionally the time when Chinese families visit graves to honour their dead ancestors.11here ZZ uses 您 – pinyin nin → you (courteous, as opposed to informal 你 ) it is a honorific title