I Just Won’t Play by the Book - Chapter 238

“Read more books.” Jiang Beiran answered without raising his head.

“Then… may I read the books here?”

“As you wish.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness!”

After saying that, Mu Yao happily went to look for the books.

Glancing at Mu Yao who was excitedly looking for the books, Jiang Beiran could not help but admire this silly girl who genuinely wanted to do something to save the commoners.

“No matter what kind of person they are, they will always something good in them.”

After sighing in his heart, Jiang Beiran shifted his gaze back to the book. Just as he was looking for where he was looking, a cold wind suddenly blew out the candle on the desk.

Jiang Beiran turned his head and saw Kong Qianqian holding a palm fan that was as tall as a person. She had her head lowered and was tired. It was obvious that she knew that she had done something wrong again.

If he could ridicule her, Jiang Beiran would definitely slap away the palm fan in Kong Qianqian’s hand and shout, “Are you going to use that Banana Leaf Fan and send me to the Flaming Mountain?”

Although she could not see Jiang Beiran’s expression clearly, Kong Qianqian could still feel that Jiang Beiran’s gaze seemed to be able to dismember her.

At this moment, another palace maid beside Jiang Beiran hurriedly came over and lit the candle again. When the candlelight lit up again, the palace maid who saw Jiang Beiran’s expression immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed profusely, “Your Majesty, please spare my life! Your Majesty, please spare my life…”

Kong Qianqian saw this and immediately knelt on the ground and shouted, “Your Majesty, please spare my life. Your Majesty, please spare my life…”

“Stop kowtowing. Stand properly.”

The two of them immediately stood up together when they heard this.

Jiang Beiran looked at Kong Qianqian who was still hugging her palm fan and asked, “What are you doing?”

“The weather is hot. I want to fan Your Majesty…”

“I think you just want to play with this fan.”

Kong Qianqian’s expression twitched, as if she was being told the truth.

“Your Majesty is wise. Your Majesty is the smartest person in the world. Please spare me this time, Your Majesty. I won’t do it again.”

“Put the fan away. Don’t move it again.”

“Yes!” When Kong Qianqian heard that Emperor had forgiven her, she quickly inserted the fan back into its original position and stood still.

“Sigh, this is probably how Qianlong felt when he saw Xiaoyanzi…”

Sighing in his heart, Jiang Beiran continued to read.

“Dong! — Dong! Dong!”

After the gong sound, a eunuch came in with his head lowered and knelt in front of Jiang Beiran. “Your Majesty, it’s already midnight.”

Jiang Beiran, who was reading, frowned and asked, “So what if it’s midnight?”

The eunuch carefully raised his head and said, “Your Majesty, I’m here to ask if you want to ring the bell tonight.”

“Ring the Bell?” Jiang Beiran looked puzzled. “What do you mean?”

The eunuch immediately replied, “Your Majesty, please allow me to show it to you.”

“Yes.”

“Thank you, Your Majesty.”

After saying that, the eunuch ran to the side of a coiling dragon pillar and pressed down on a bead in the dragon’s mouth.

Then, with a rumble, Jiang Beiran noticed that the caisson above his head was slowly rotating. At the same time, hundreds of lines of different colors slowly descended.

Just as Jiang Beiran was wondering what these lines meant, the eunuch walked over and knelt in front of Jiang Beiran again. “Your Majesty, this bell rope leads to the back hall. Each rope is tied with a bell. The names of the ladies are on the bell. Your Majesty could choose the lady and ring the bell, then the chosen lady will enter the hall to serve Your Majesty tonight.”

“What the f*ck!? The people in the palace really know how to have fun! No, it’s that pervert emperor Deng Bo who came up with this idea.”

As the eunuch spoke, ropes kept falling down. It reminded Jiang Beiran of the time when he used to play at the amusement park. There was a string lottery game. The prizes were tied to one end while the other end was collected together. The player pulled one of the strings and then they could win the prizes that moved by the string.

However, Jiang Beiran did not like this game. This was because most of the time, the things he drew were not worth much. He never saw someone won the grand prizes.

But here, he had a 100% chance of winning, and they were all “grand prizes”.

Seeing Jiang Beiran look at the rope in surprise, the eunuch quickly stood up and introduced, “Your Majesty, this rope of different colors represents the ladies of different ages. The empress attached to this blue rope is age of hair sticker. The red rope is age of nutmeg, and the white rope is age of golden hairpin. This…”

“Enough!” Jiang Beiran waved his hand. The eunuch was so scared that he immediately knelt on the ground again, not knowing what he had said wrong.

“F*ck… the age of the golden hairpin!? Isn’t that 12 years old? Animal!”

Although a 12-year-old girl in this era could indeed marry legally, Jiang Beiran could never accept it. He was deeply afraid that if the eunuch continued to report it, what if there were girls under 10 years old? He really didn’t want to hear it.

Mu Yao, who was beside him, also frowned. She didn’t have any opinion about age. After all, in her opinion, a ten-year-old girl could already get married. She frowned because the life of an emperor was too licentious. There were way too many ropes.

“I just ascended the throne. I still have a lot of things to do. Let’s not do this now. Leave.”

“Yes.” The eunuch quickly retreated.

Looking at the hundreds of ropes still hanging in front of him, Jiang Beiran looked at the palace maid beside him and said, “Take this thing.”

“Yes.” The palace maid nodded and quickly walked to another coiling dragon pillar to press on the bead. Only then did the rope slowly be taken back.

“What an impressive mechanism, but with an improper function.”

As the Serenity Hall returned to its original state, Jiang Beiran picked up the book again and began to read. Mu Yao, who was also reading at the side, kept glancing at him.

“No wonder father strongly recommended him to be the emperor. At least he knows that now is not the time for pleasure and knows what is more important.”

After secretly sizing up Jiang Beiran for a while, Mu Yao shifted her gaze back to the book.

When she was young, she had actually gone through many literature classics in the private school, but she rarely read them after she started cultivating. This was because she had an unyielding personality. Although she admired her big brother, she always wanted to surpass him. Therefore, she practiced hard every day. As a result, she slowly abandoned her study.

Now that she suddenly had time to read books, and they were all books that she had never read before, she actually enjoyed it. She even felt that she should not have completely abandoned her studies all these years.

Jiang Beiran was a little tired after reading until 3:00 am. He placed the book on the table and looked at the eunuch beside him, “I’m tired.”

The eunuch immediately understood what Jiang Beiran meant. He lowered his body and guided Jiang Beiran beside him, “I will take you to rest now.”

Mu Yao also quickly put down the book and followed Jiang Beiran.

Although Jiang Beiran gave her permission to read, she did not forget that she was a female official now and serving the emperor was the first priority.

Of course, Mu Yao was aware of this because she was afraid that if Jiang Beiran did not say anything now, he would settle the score later. She did not want to stand there foolishly for another day.

Back in the bedroom, Jiang Beiran changed into a nightgown and sat on the bed under the service of two palace maids.

“All of you may leave. I don’t like to have people around when I’m resting.”

The two palace maids replied with a “Yes” and left together.

“Hu…”

After the first day of sitting on the throne came to an end, Jiang Beiran stretched his body and felt that he had a lot of things to do next.

“This long-lost fulfillment feels pretty good too.”

When he had just entered Sect of Returning Hearts, Jiang Beiran’s life was also very busy. After he slowly improved his various skill points, he wanted to try everything. He searched for materials and fought with order master in terms of wisdom and courage. Then, he managed to obtain a cultivation place in the back mountain for himself.

During that year, Jiang Beiran was very busy every day, and also very fulfilling.

Later, he took in a few underlings and asked them to run errand for him. Thus, he had much more free time. Since then, he would practice some interesting skills based on his interests or trigger some options every day. In short, he had been quite relaxed for a long time.

Now that he was the emperor, his life had undergone a huge change. Although it was not what he wanted, he did not hate it. He even looked forward to the days to come.

“After being idle for a while, it feels good to get energetic again.”