The Disabled Tyrant’s Pet Palm Fish [Transmigration] - Chap 87

Chap 87
The Emperor was gobsmacked. Wasn’t it just rewarding a subordinate? How did it change into
marrying a wangfei?

Yet Jing-wang forcibly called this marriage a reward, while rewarding Li Yu was really
something that the Emperor had allowed Jing-wang to decide for himself. The Emperor recalled
Jing-wang’s multiple inquiries previously and realized that it was extremely likely that Jing-
wang had laid this trap ready for him.

Back then, when Jing-wang was worrying about how to reward Li Yu, it was probably all fake.
What he really wanted was to facilitate this wedding.

The Emperor was extremely shocked and also very angry, angry that Jing-wang had plotted
against him, and also angry that Jing-wang suddenly wanted to marry a man for his wangfei.

Although this dynasty didn’t prohibit homosexuality, past Emperors have also had male wangfei
before and also doted on them very much; even the current Emperor himself wanted to try
something new and had a male noble before. However, whether a man can become the main wife
or a concubine…… Ultimately, men had nothing to do with the big picture. Because men can’t
give birth, they can’t possibly occupy the position of the main wife. If Jing-wang was determined
to make Li Yu as his side wife, the Emperor might have followed Jing-wang’s wishes and
permitted it. According to a wang’s status, he was permitted to have a main wife and two side
wives. Li Yu was a man and also a commoner. To gain the title of a side wife would be a
delightful and fortunate thing for him.

However, in Jing-wang’s report, what he had mentioned was the main wife. The position that he
wanted to give to Li Yu was also the main wife position. The Emperor naturally wouldn’t agree.

How can a man, especially one without any background, occupy the position of wangfei? If he
allowed it, and Jing-wang wanted to marry a noble lady from some high-ranking official’s family
in the future, then it’d be very hard. After all, which lady would willingly become a side wife
when there was a male wangfei who couldn’t even bear children? Not to mention, the children
that they bear would only be able to gain the title of son of a side wife/concubine?

In a mere moment of time, the Emperor already found a pile of justifications. He didn’t actually
endorse this marriage. Jing-wang’s cheap scheme here was just a clever gimmick. If the
Emperor’s mind could be so easily changed, then he wouldn’t be emperor anymore.
However, because the Emperor had made a promise earlier, it was really not good to take it back
so apparently. The Emperor thought about it and ended up simply holding onto the request,
refusing to reply.

If he didn’t answer, then Jing-wang naturally couldn’t marry.

The Emperor was very mad at Jing-wang internally, disappointed that the other had failed to
meet expectations.

He once worried to death over Jing-wang’s marriage. Jing-wang didn’t seem to have any desires
or preferences. Now, he had finally decided to get married. If it were a lady from any family, the
Emperor wouldn’t have refused him. However, Jing-wang had begged for a man to become his
wangfei. This son of his… the Emperor was just thinking that Jing-wang was somewhat
impressive, yet unexpectedly, Jing-wang was already stabbing him in the heart like this!

The Emperor really did get angry and planned to ignore Jing-wang a bit so that he could reflect
on his wrongdoings. The Emperor had sent Jing-wang to gain experience in the West Frontier to
give him an equal opportunity for the throne. It wasn’t to allow Jing-wang to request to marry a
male wife randomly.

In a fit of fury, the Emperor summoned the Old ChengEn Gong, Jing-wang’s maternal
grandfather, Ye Qian, to enter the palace to discuss what to do with him.

Ye Qian had already met Li Yu before. The letters that Jing-wang sent to him had already
reached his hands as well. In the face of the Emperor’s unexpected fury, Ye Qian seamlessly
gave him a few words of persuasion.

Jing-wang’s request to marry a male wangfei finally made the Emperor realize that it was indeed
time for Jing-wang to start his own family. Having no woman by his side to care for him really
wasn’t the way to go. The Emperor thought perhaps he could first appoint a marriage to Jing-
wang. If Jing-wang got married, then perhaps Jing-wang wouldn’t think about that Li Yu
anymore.

And even if he still thought about him, Li Yu can be granted the title of side wife. Wasn’t doing
this much better than marrying a male main wife?

Ye Qing understood the Emperor’s plans and deliberately made things difficult by asking him:
“Does your majesty have someone in mind?”
Questioned like this, the Emperor was speechless.

Jing-wang’s marriage wasn’t something that the Emperor had worried about only once or twice.
It’s true that Jing-wang didn’t really care; but it’s also true that the Emperor really couldn’t find
anyone suitable.

All of the noble ladies from well-matched families in the Imperial City had tactfully expressed
that they were more willing to become the wife of the other princes; they weren’t interested in
the mute Jing-wang.

There were willing choices from those born of lesser families, but either they had bad
reputations, were extremely ugly, or also had some kind of disability like Jing-wang.

The Emperor didn’t feel they were suitable, therefore, he has never bestowed marriage upon
Jing-wang.

So even his son was unable to marry a regular woman?

The Emperor was very irate and insisted on finding a suitable person for Jing-wang.

Ye Qing did his best to persuade him, saying: “This official has some honest words, I must say. I
have never seen his highness Jing-wang request anyone from you before, your majesty. His
highness is not someone impulsive or reckless. I think he genuinely fell in love here. Ultimately,
his highness is not the same as others. This old official feels, perhaps this genuine feeling is more
important in his highness’s eyes.”

How could the Emperor not know this. In the many reports that Jing-wang had sent, he outright
and secretly wrote plenty of praises for this Li Yu person. The Emperor was aware that this was
really a very good natured child who had also made a contribution. If it were anyone else,
perhaps the Emperor would have got rid of him a long time ago.

Recalling this point, the Emperor became even angrier. Jing-wang was indeed not impulsive or
reckless. He had been scheming all along.

Recalling how Jing-wang had lured him step by step into the pit, the Emperor felt extremely
annoyed. Yet still, Jing-wang made every single step logically and reasonably; the Emperor
didn’t notice any evidence of Jing-wang’s plot. At most, he could only reprimand Jing-wang for
being muddle-headed and treating something as important as marriage like it was a game.
The stinking brat dared to anger him like this, wasn’t Jing-wang afraid that he might order him to
stay in the West Frontier forever, never to return to the Imperial City?

The Emperor knew internally that he’d never do this. Jing-wang just got a little confused
regarding marriage. His mistake was much different than what the 2nd Prince and 3rd Prince had
done. And plus, currently Jing-wang can also be counted as a meritorious Prince. If he punished
Jing-wang because of this, the high government officials would object. The Emperor can only
criticize Jing-wang a bit in front of the Old ChengEn Gong.

Ye Qian was very familiar with the Emperor’s temperament. While the Emperor criticized Jing-
wang, Ye Qian only listened quietly, occasionally acknowledging his words, but never
interrupting. After criticizing for a while, the Emperor lost his interest. Although Empress Xiao
Hui had passed away many years ago, in terms of seniority, the Old ChengEn Gong was still his
father-in-law. Scolding his son in front of his father-in-law didn’t seem very appropriate.

At last, the Emperor calmed down somewhat.

Another one of Jing-wang’s reports also very quickly arrived. Because the Emperor didn’t reply
to the previous one and not many days have passed, the Emperor determined that Jing-wang
shouldn’t have gotten his message yet, but instead had sent another one over directly.

The Emperor picked up this report and scanned it. The report carefully narrated one of Li Yu’s
proposals.

In the past, other than the bandit issue, the West Frontier was bothered with another disaster that
made the Emperor worry. Several towns in the West Frontier had been plagued with locusts for
at least one, if not two years.

The West Frontier was chaotic from war all year round, with sparse farmlands. If they
encountered locusts again, the civilians would suffer famine again and be forced to be displaced
from their homes.

Plus, the Emperor was worried that the locust swarms would grow bigger and bigger. At first the
locusts only appeared at the West Frontier. Recently, they’ve been starting to cause trouble
elsewhere as well.
The Emperor diverted plenty of money every year to control the locusts, but they’re never
eradicated. Would the youth’s words be more useful than the professionals in charge of this at
the Ministry of Works?

However, this was the youth that once helped Jing-wang defeat the bandits.

The Emperor was curious. Even though he knew that Jing-wang was paving the path for Li Yu
here, he still couldn’t resist reading onward.

Maple’s Landing, Jing Estate.

The four fish babies that Li Yu birthed were one month old now. Under his and Jing-wang’s
meticulous care, the fish babies’ bodies have all changed. Out of the originally pretty much
transparent bodies, now three out of four fish babies have grown colorful scales belonging to that
of a Koi.

Bao#1 was a completely gold colored, majestic looking fish. Bao#2 was a fish with gold scales
with patches of silver; his coloring was exactly the opposite of Li Yu’s silver base with patches
of gold. Bao#3 was the best looking. He was completely silvery-white. Looking from afar, his
fish scales looked like exquisite pearls, shiny and dazzling.

The two colors, gold and silver, were tones that Li Yu had currently. At first, Li Yu didn’t see
the fish babies with any gold or silver scales. So he thought they wouldn’t become Kois. Their
fish dad himself only became a Koi from doing missions after all; he wasn’t born like this.
Therefore, it shouldn’t have passed down to the little fish babies.

However, unexpectedly, after a month, the fish babies began to have their own colors. Looks like
it wasn’t impossible to pass on the koi heritage. It was just that the fish babies were still too
young.

Of the four young fishes, Bao#1, Bao#2, and Bao#3 all changed. Only Bao#4 remained the same
again.

Li Yu couldn’t help but feel somewhat worried. Bao#4’s response was already a little slower
than the other fish babies usually. Was growing his scales going to be the same?

Clearly all of them came from the same batch, why would there be such difference?
The fish babies still didn’t know how to speak very well. They only knew the simplest phrases.
Li Yu still couldn’t figure out what Bao#4 was thinking at all. Bao#1, Bao#2, and Bao#3 were all
more and more Koi-like in appearance. After another half a month passed, the transparent Bao#4
finally changed.

Li Yu finally waited until this day had arrived.

However, the scales that Bao#4 wasn’t gold or silver like his older brothers. Instead it was grey-
black. He became a normal little black fish, extremely similar to when Li Yu first transmigrated.

Same batch, but why such a huge difference?

Lately, Bao#4 also became aware of his difference. Unable to change into a little Koi like his
older brothers, the little black fish was a bit depressed.

Li Yu saw this and immediately placed the little black fish on top of his head, bringing him to
spin around in circles to make him happy.

“Regardless of whether you changed into a Koi or not, Bao#4, daddy still loves you!” Before
when Li Yu heard these kinds of words a few times, he’d always got goosebumps. Now he can
say them to his baby without even blinking an eye.

With fish dad’s comfort, Bao#4 became happy very quickly again.

Done playing around, Li Yu changed into his human form and placed the fish babies inside the
crystal bottle to go see Jing-wang.

Jing-wang was currently handling official business. Li Yu would bring the fish babies to come
visit the other daddy at work everyday. Even though everyone all lived in the same room at
night, Li Yu still diligently cultivated the relationship between the fish babies and Jing-wang.

Upon seeing them, Jing-wang put down his brush. Discovering that Bao#4 had changed into a
small black fish, Jing-wang was very delighted. Bao#4’s personality was a bit like Li Yu. Now
that he had changed into the appearance of a small black fish, Jing-wang could see the shadow of
Li Yu’s original appearance in Bao#4 and liked Bao#4 even more.
Li Yu placed the crystal bottle on the table, sat down, and accompanied Jing-wang to look at the
reports for a while.

There were too many traditional words in the reports, and it was the old language; some words
were also written rather illegibly. Li Yu struggled for a while but couldn’t read anything, so he
started to fall asleep again.

Reading books has always made him drowsy, head nodding repeatedly, again and again. The fish
babies inside the crystal bottle followed his movement, anxiously moving up and down.

…… too noisy.

Jing-wang glanced at the fish babies inside the crystal bottle and made a shush hand gesture. The
fish babies all stopped moving obediently, plastering against the wall of the crystal bottle and
looking with wide eyes.

Jing-wang took off his outer robe and covered the sleeping Li Yu. Then he wrapped Li Yu and
himself up, creating a warm and comfortable place belonging only to the two of them.

Jing-wang gently pressed down on Li Yu and kissed his lips. The marriage request he wrote was
already sent to the Emperor. Everything was going according to plan. He still needed to wait
patiently.

Seeing his fathers’ outer coat shake for a while, Bao#1 turned around. Although Bao#2 and
Bao#3 didn’t understand why, they also copied Bao#1 and turned around.

Bao#4 knew he was a bit dumb; Bao#1 must be correct. Therefore, although Bao#4 was a beat
slower, he also followed Bao#1 and turned around.

However, Bao#4 still remained slightly twisted, looking curiously at his fathers.

Because Li Yu couldn’t recognize much of the words, he became drowsy. After sleeping a while,
he woke up and was more clear headed. He suddenly remembered what some of those words
were.

It was the word ‘locusts’, as well as the word ‘disaster’.
— Locust plague.

Li Yu jolted: “Your highness, is there a locust plague somewhere?”

This was an extremely serious insect pest! Locusts ate a lot of vegetation. There’s a phrase called
Locusts Migration, which describes this scene. A swarm of locusts flying by, the farm crop that
the common people toiled over for an entire year gone in an instant.

Jing-wang told Li Yu that some towns near the West Frontier have discovered locusts lately.

Li Yu’s expression changed subtly.

Jing-wang mistakenly thought he was scared and showed Li Yu the entire map of the West
Frontier, pointing out the position of Maple’s Landing.

Maple’s Landing was still very far from the towns encountering locust plagues. They were
definitely safe.

Don’t be scared.

Jing-wang consoled Li Yu. With him here, he will definitely protect Li Yu and the fish babies.

“No, your highness. I’m not afraid. I want to help the commoners and try to stop this locust
plague.” Li Yu suddenly raised his head and said.

Next

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Fish family!