The Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish [Transmigration] - Chap 144

Chap 144
Chu YanYu was dealt with by the Crown Prince. Piao Xue was washed several times by Wang
Xi and Xiao Luo. Wiped down multiple times, the cat’s fur was so white it shone. There was no
more filth on its body and it didn’t smell anymore. The Crown Prince even had servants from the
animal house come over to inspect it several times. They all said that this cat was fine, however,
the Crown Prince still didn’t allow Li Yu to get close to it.

Just because Chu YanYu had once placed black dog blood on Piao Xue. Although Li Yu
emphasized countless times that he wasn’t afraid of Daoist Priests or black dog blood, the Crown
Prince was still worried that something might happen to this fish.

An overly obsessive person was very hard to persuade. Li Yu also knew that the Crown Prince
was doing this for his sake. If it wasn’t black dog blood, and was some other filth instead, the
Crown Prince might still not allow him to touch it.

Got it! Li Yu came up with an ingenious idea and said: “Then can you hug it for me?”

People all say that husbands were as one. If the hubby hugged the cat, wasn’t that pretty much
like him hugging it?

The Crown Prince: “……”

The Crown Prince hesitated for a moment. He already refused Xiao Yu many times. It was very
clear that Xiao Yu was yielding a step here. For the sake of his safety and to make Xiao Yu
happy, he couldn’t refuse this request.

The Crown Prince agreed. Grinning widely to the side, Wang Xi immediately handed the clean
and pure white Piao Xue to the Crown Prince.

After all of this torment, Piao Xue had already abandoned all resistance. If there’s dried fish, it
ate them. No dried fish, it curled up and slept. Piao Xue, who was suddenly picked up: ?

Then, it was pushed in front of a big and tall man.

Piao Xue: “Miao!!!”
Piao Xue recognized this man. Its fur practically fluffing up as it cried out desperately.

The Crown Prince also didn’t like Paio Xue and picked the cat up, stiff as a rock.

Piao Xue opened its mouth to bite down. The Crown Prince shot an eye dagger over. Piao Xue
promptly got scared. Recalling the terror of being punished by the Crown Prince, it didn’t dare to
move at all and was held by those iron like arms.

The Crown Prince gave an eye gesture to Wang Xi. Wang Xi’s mouth twitched nonstop as he
handed over a dried fish with shaky hands.

The Crown Prince stiffly placed the dried fish next to Piao Xue’s mouth. Piao Xue didn’t dare to
refuse and took two bites in an alarmed manner. For the first time, it felt like little dried fish
wasn’t quite so delicious anymore.

“……I fed it.” The Crown Prince said.

The Crown Prince and this cat mutually disliked each other. After finishing his task, the Crown
Prince immediately put the cat down.

Piao Xue promptly grabbed the rest of the dried fish with its mouth and hid behind Wang-
gonggong in a flash.

Sitting in his chair, Li Yu was so amused by this scene that he couldn’t even speak.

The Crown Prince first went to bathe, changing all of his clothes from head to toe. Then he came
over to hug this fish who was laughing so hard he could have fallen over anytime.

What’s so good about hugging a cat? The Crown Prince thought to himself. He liked hugging
fish more.

Because of the incident with Chu YanYu, Piao Xue momentarily lived in the Crown Prince’s
estate for a few days and enjoyed a period of luxury. It didn’t like to play with the rabbit, nor did
it like to run around with the ducks. Normally, it curled up on a wall and slept all day, enjoying
the sunlight.

In the end, it still couldn’t settle in at the Crown Prince’s estate.
A few days later, Piao Xue suddenly disappeared again.

It must have gone to find its master. Li Yu thought to himself.

Before, Piao Xue didn’t know the way. It should know it by now.

Li Yu asked Wang Xi to take a trip to the Cold Palace to verify Piao Xue’s status. Wang Xi went
over. When he came back, he said that the cat had already returned to Qiu-shi’s side and it was
really quite strange. Piao Xue was all listless inside the Crown Prince’s estate. Inside the Cold
Palace, it was running around excitedly, jumping at butterflies and catching mice, quite lively
and vigorous. Even when Qiu-shi scolded it in a bad mood, she couldn’t stop it from sticking to
her.

Qiu-shi didn’t have any dried fish and often fed Piao Xue left over food. However, Piao Xue still
ate it like it was just as delicious as little dried fish.

Everytime Wang Xi entered the palace, he would bring dried fish for Piao Xue. This time was no
exception.

After learning that Wang Xi fed her cat quite often, Qiu-shi came over to converse quietly with
him. In the passing, Wang Xi told her how Chu YanYu used Piao Xue to slander Taizi-fei and
how Taizi-fei didn’t blame Piao Xue for this.

Wang Xi had originally hoped that Qiu-shi would feel grateful, however, Qiu-shi unexpectedly
changed moods and said coldly: “I’m an unfortunate person who really can’t afford Taizi-fei’s
kindness.”

This was indicating that she didn’t want Wang-gonggong to come again.

After all, Marquis An and the Crown Prince were mortal enemies. This relationship cannot be
fixed. Qiu-shi herself hated the Crown Prince a lot as well. The reason why Piao Xue was
exploited by Chu YanYu this time was ultimately because the Crown Prince’s Estate was
looking after Piao Xue, which attracted other people’s attention. Qiu-shi realized this and didn’t
want to get involved with the Crown Prince’s estate too much.

Wang Xi can only pass along Qiu-sh’s words. For a while, Li Yu fell into silence.
He remembered that when Qiu-shi was secretly brought to their estate, she even entrusted them
to take care of Piao Xue. When Wang Xi first went to feed the cat, Qiu-shi didn’t stop him either.
Why would she change her decision now?

Perhaps Piao Xue’s disappearance made Qiu-shi realize that they were still opposing enemies.

……forget it.

Li Yu only wanted to thank Piao Xue. Having the Crown Prince hug the cat in his place was
enough. People always needed to know when to give and take. If this will affect the Crown
Prince or put the Crown Prince in some kind of difficulty, then it’s unnecessary.

“Since it’s like this, it’s fine. Let Piao Xue be.” Li Yu said to Wang Xi.

Wang Xi let out a breath of relief. He was afraid Li Yu would be unhappy. In order to make his
master happy, Wang Xi talked about some other drama that he had seen and heard.

“…… When I went to the Cold Palace this time, this old servant also encountered someone else.”
Wang Xi said with a smile.

“Who?” Li Yu couldn’t figure it out momentarily.

“It was Chu-gui– cough, this old servant is so forgetful. The Chu guy no longer has any status
right now. At the moment, he’s only a commoner. This older servant saw him.”

…… Chu YanYu?

Li Yu almost forgot about this person. Ever since Chu YanYu was caned and then sent to the
Cold Palace, Li Yu never asked about him.

Wang Xi saw that Li Yu didn’t plan to stop him, so he continued to say: “This old servant was
barely able to recognize him with how he looks currently. However, this isn’t particularly
unexpected after going to the Cold Palace…..”

The rule of survival in the Imperial Palace is based on connections and relationships, especially
in a place like the Cold Palace, where it was pretty much impossible to leave. Take Qiu-shi for
example. She at least had a Marquis An behind her outside of the Imperial Palace. Although
Marquis An himself was not useful, as long as his estate remained, Qiu-shi was in a much better
condition than having nothing at all.

As for those people who didn’t have any backing at all, and also made mistakes that caused the
Emperor’s spurn, they can only resign to a life of being tormented by the servants and maids of
the Cold Palace.

Those who had a bit of money spent their days a little better, but only by a little. Those without
money, were basically spending their days in slow agony.

When Chu YanYu arrived in the Cold Palace at first, he originally had some things of value on
him. However, because he was caned, he couldn’t move very well and could only watch wide-
eyed as most of his possessions were split amongst envious palace servants within seconds.

These palace servants were like starved wolves. Even a single bracelet had to be broken into
pieces to be snatched away. Chu YanYu couldn’t stop them and he also needed treatment for his
injuries. He wanted to find a doctor and take medicine, but got swindled several times by people
he didn’t know. After that, he basically had nothing left over.

There was a servant inside the Cold Palace that knew a bit of medicine and casually treated him a
bit. Taking the last of his money, they gave him a commonly used ointment.

This ointment at least saved his life, but it didn’t save his leg. Because the treatment took too
long, his injured leg had already gained lasting after effects, making him limp when he walked.
The scars from being hit also couldn’t be healed. However, at least he managed to live.

Currently, Chu YanYu lived in a room where half of the roof was caved in. Everyday when he
got up in the morning, there was really nothing to do. The only thing that he could do was look at
the sky about his head with a pair of empty eyes.

If he didn’t try to expose Taizi-fei, if he didn’t anger the Crown Prince, how great would that be?

If he never entered the Imperial Palace to become an Imperial Concubine, how great would that
be?

If he had followed the Crown Prince from the start, how great would that be?
If…… he never knew the 6th Prince, how great would that be.

It’s impossible for these things to have never happened, however, imagining this already became
Chu YanYu’s only comfort.

The Cold Palace had a total of two meals, both distributed by the head manager of the Cold
Palace. Those with money and support naturally received a little better distribution.

However, in order to treat his injury, Chu YanYu had used even the last of his money, with not
even one single piece of rich fabric remaining on him. The head manager saw that he already
didn’t have anything at all and just gave him a bit of leftovers and cold roast. Chu YanYu ate it
like chewing wax. Despite this, he still had to swallow because not eating meant starving.
Starving for the entire day, then eating a meal, and then another meal. After that it was time to
return to sleep.

This day, he just finished eating one meal when suddenly someone came to find him.

Chu YanYu was just curious why someone would remember his existence. His loyal servants
had all disappeared after he entered the Cold Palace. However, recall Hong-er. Most likely, none
of these people had a good ending. As for others, he was already so decrepit, what’s the point of
caring for others?

Although he didn’t know who was looking for him, to remember him at a time like this was
already a kind of caring. Chu YanYu fixed up the coarse simple clothes he was wearing and
walked out of the room. What greeted him was the loud, crisp sound of palm, slapping Chu
YanYu so hard that it made him stagger.

“Bitch, how dare you hurt my cat!” Long, shapely eyebrows raised, Qiu-shi cursed loudly.

Chu YanYu’s head buzzed loudly, as if a swarm of bees was flying by.

Slowly, all noises gradually faded. He could only see Qiu-shi’s lips opening and closing, but he
couldn’t clearly hear what she was screaming.

To the side, a snow white cat sat crouched on the ground as it licked its paw in boredom.
Qiu-shi said some unknown thing and then pulled out a bottle from her sleeve, pouring the
content inside all over Chu YanYu……

“Master, this old servant finished narrating.” Wang Xi vibrantly described the interesting events
that had occurred in the Cold Palace and waited for Li Yu’s instructions.

“Wang-gonggong, are you saying, Qiu-shi, she beat Chu YanYu up?”

Li Yu felt somewhat bewildered. Just how did Qiu-shi find Chu YanYu? Did this count as a
smackdown between villains?

Nevertheless, Guifei-niangniang was mighty and formidable! Chu YanYu was a powerless
tussled chicken. He shouldn’t be able to win against Qiu-shi……

Li Yu privately hoped that Guifei-niangniang could educate Chu-guiren a bit more. Hiding dog
blood on a cat was really too disgusting!

“Master, Qiu-shi not only beat him up, she also gave Chu YanYu a tiny little gift.” Wang Xi
smiled mysteriously.

Don’t misunderstand. Qiu-shi didn’t spill any drugs. Instead, she poured a bottle of dog blood.
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

Chu YanYu managed to get his hands on dog blood, so why couldn’t Qiu-shi?

The caning that Chu YanYu received was a punishment from the Emperor and the Crown Prince.
This bottle of dog blood was a punishment from Qiu-shi. They can’t be mixed together in the
same discussion.

After that, Chu YanYu smelled pungent all over. Even people in the Cold Palace, who haven’t
washed or bathed in many days, all walked around him.

The Cold Palace didn’t have any conditions to bathe. Chu YanYu almost went insane. He could
only draw up water from the well and rinse to the best of his abilities. However, even after
rinsing several times, the smell still refused to dissipate.
“…… this old servant heard that everyone inside the Cold Palace all calls him a jar of walking
dog blood right now.” Wang Xi said.

Li Yu: “…………..”

Li Yu wanted to laugh but also thought it’d be rude. He can only dry cough a few times.

In terms of Chu YanYu, originally he had planned each of them to mind their own business.
Who let this person attempt to cause trouble first. This was probably the fate of those who
wished harm to others……

Furthermore, Li Yu didn’t feel like he stole away the Crown Prince at all.

Because back when he was a fish, he had already discovered that the Crown Prince didn’t
actually like Chu YanYu.

The person that the Crown Prince liked was him. He also liked the Crown Prince and wouldn’t
betray the Crown Prince. Green tea Chu can just go chill wherever is suited for him!

Li Yu told Wang Xi there’s no need to report to him news about Chu YanYu anymore. A
person’s time was limited. Instead of spending it on irrelevant people, he might as well think
about his hubby and sons more.

The business that his hubby had at the Ministry of Rites has gradually advanced onto the right
track. He wasn’t as busy as when he first started. Perhaps the Emperor had an issue with seeing
the Crown Prince idle. After the Ministry of Rites, he swiftly arranged work for the Crown
Prince at the Ministry of Works. The Crown Prince always had an endless amount of things to
do. However, whenever he had free time, he’d still return immediately to accompany Li Yu.

As for the kids, they would often travel back and forth between the Imperial Study and Crown
Prince’s Estate. Lately, they’ve all started to learn how to use chopsticks.

Since Li Yu was extremely bored while raising the unborn child, he wanted to find something
safe and interesting to do.

“Wang-gonggong, how about I make the hubby and kids a loving meal?”
The Baos went to the Imperial Study everyday. Li Yu combined their chopstick practice with
learning and came up with the idea of making the kids a loving bento.

Meanwhile, he had already made some for the Crown Prince before, so he was already familiar
with it!

Li Yu rubbed his palms and rolled up his sleeves eagerly, planning to give the kids and the kids’
dad a pleasant surprise.

The kids didn’t like to eat cucumbers, but being picky about food was an unhealthy habit. Why
don’t he just make the amazing cucumber salad that even the kids’ dad had praised to the
heavens!

Wang Xi: !!

Wang Xi once had the fortune of tasting Taizi-fei’s culinary skills. That taste was really hard to
describe with words alone. Luckily the Crown Prince gave an order of silence to the entire estate.
Taizi-fei still didn’t know how horrible tasting his cooking was……

Originally, this issue had passed a long time ago. Wang Xi thought that since Taizi-fei’s status
was high and noble, and he was also pregnant with child, he shouldn’t remember this. However,
unexpectedly, not only did he think about it, he wanted to do it immediately!

Taizi-fei wanted to cook for his highness and the little masters. Who can stop him? Wang Xi
needed to inform the Crown Prince immediately!