Chapter 55
Li Yu rushed out of the room. He knew that King Jing, as a tyrant in ancient times, must have his own methods. But he just couldn’t stand the fact that his hot-blooded self was only acting – and deliberately acting for him.
God knows how much he hated being deceived these past few days. His rebellious heart was like a barrel of poison, exploding in an instant.
Eunuch Wang was waiting outside with a group of eunuchs. When he saw Li Yu come out, he called out in surprise, “Young Master Li!”
Li Yu’s lips moved a few times. He didn’t know what to say to Wang Xi, so he simply ignored him.
He turned his head and ran towards a garden behind the rockery.
Eunuch Wang hurriedly ordered people to follow him. King Jing followed behind and shook his head at Wang Xi.
Wang Xi understood that King Jing didn’t want him to get involved.
King Jing followed behind him to chase after Li Yu. Wang Xi was afraid that Young Master Li would run out again. Since His Highness didn’t want him to chase after him, he could bring some people to guard the garden, right?
The garden wasn’t big. King Jing quickly found Li Yu, who was standing in the pavilion in a daze.
King Jing didn’t know why the carp spirit was angry again. Ye Qinghuan wanted him to learn how to please people, but he would easily make a lot of mistakes. He didn’t understand. Being unable to speak also made it very inconvenient for him to express anything.
King Jing was holding a note in his hand. He was going to pass it to Li Yu, but Li Yu mistakenly thought that he was still going to catch him. He smiled miserably.
Li Yu had a premonition that if he was caught, it would be difficult for him to escape.
Besides, he was still angry with King Jing and didn’t want to see him. He didn’t want to talk to King Jing about whether he was happy or not. He had no choice but to transform in order to save King Jing. Since King Jing didn’t need his help, he had to disappear from King Jing’s sight as soon as possible.
He remembered that King Jing built a big fish pond that connected all the places in the manor with water. There was a pond under this pavilion. As long as he jumped into the water, he should be able to swim to another place immediately and get rid of King Jing.
By the time Li Yu made up his mind, King Jing had already entered the pavilion. Li Yu shouted, “Don’t chase me!”
King Jing hesitated for a moment and nodded. He even took a step back to show his sincerity.
Taking advantage of his retreat, Li Yu turned his back to King Jing and faced the pool under the pavilion. He jumped over the railing and jumped into the pool!
When he was still a human, he didn’t know how to swim. After he transmigrated into a fish, his swimming skills automatically lit up. Now, he also knew how to swim in his human form, but he rarely had the chance to swim in his human form.
However, he didn’t plan to wander around. He just wanted to hide under the water and endure until he turned back into a fish. This was the price of recklessly transforming. Hiding in his human form was safer than running around in his human form. However, when he suddenly came into contact with the water in the pool, his body felt cold. Li Yu shivered a few times and tried to adapt to the water in his human form.
King Jing didn’t expect Little Yu to do this at all. Just as he was wondering about Little Yu’s intentions, Li Yu had already jumped from the pavilion into the pool below.
King Jing’s pupils suddenly shrank. He subconsciously wanted to chase after Little Yu, but he missed. He noticed a figure moving under the water. Little Yu must have swam away through the pool.
King Jing knew that he couldn’t swim as fast as the carp spirit. He probably couldn’t catch up with Little Yu in the water, and it would be too slow. The water in the mansion was connected. He could roughly guess where Little Yu was going from the direction the carp spirit was swimming. Then, he just needed to catch up with Little Yu at the next pool or pond in advance.
King Jing didn’t hesitate. He left the pavilion and ran directly to the place where Li Yu might appear!
However, after waiting for a while, Little Yu didn’t appear. Only then did King Jing realize that the carp spirit had slipped away again.
Wang Xi came over and asked him about Young Master Li’s whereabouts. King Jing shook his head with an ashen face. Little Yu couldn’t stay in his human form for long. He couldn’t let all the servants go into the water to look for Little Yu. The fewer people who knew about the carp spirit’s identity, the better.
The pool he built was huge. Fortunately, it wasn’t connected to the outside. It was only connected to the water in the mansion. There were also guards on the shore. At least Little Yu was safe in the water. It was impossible for Little Yu to leave the mansion.
King Jing ordered his men to keep an eye on the water’s surface. He went back to the outside of his house and waited at the place where Little Yu often came out to play with him. He thought that maybe Little Yu would come out after swimming for a while.
King Jing waited for two hours, but Little Yu still didn’t come out.
Li Yu entered the water. In his human form, he couldn’t breathe as freely as a fish. Therefore, Li Yu didn’t swim very fast. After transmigrating into a fish, he could recognize many underwater plants.
He found a type with a hollow stem and broke it in half. He held it in his hand. When he felt that he couldn’t breathe, he stretched the plant out of the water and secretly took a breath.
He guessed that King Jing would go to the next pool to wait for him. Li Yu played a little trick.
When he arrived, he didn’t show himself. He hid in an undetectable place and waited. When King Jing thought that he really didn’t see him, in order to find him and leave, Li Yu didn’t show his face in the water.
He hid in the water until he became a fish again. After he took off his clothes and put them into his space, he began to swim freely. Because of his current body color, he would be discovered soon after he got close to the water’s surface. Li Yu deliberately only swam in the depths.
The bottom of the pool was still the same. King Jing built a miniature city for him at the bottom of the pool. When Li Yu saw these sights again, he felt very upset.
He wanted to destroy all these things with a swing of his tail. Out of sight, out of mind. With his current strength of the fishtail, even if he couldn’t destroy them in a second, it wouldn’t be a problem for him to destroy a large part of them. However, he raised his tail and didn’t swing it down.
This was King Jing’s gift to … the fish, and he was venting his anger on him.
Li Yu snorted coldly. He looked at the underwater city indifferently. He couldn’t find a place to lower his tail, so he turned his head and swam to the house at the end of the pool.
This house was built according to King Jing’s house on the shore. The jade statue of King Jing and the fish-shaped stone he placed there were all there. When Li Yu went into the pool to play in the past, he would come over and tear off the moss that grew on the jade statue and the stone.
However, he wasn’t in the mood to do that now.
Li Yu swam over angrily. He hit the jade statue of King Jing with his fish mouth and made it stagger. The jade statue of King Jing couldn’t be fanned with his tail. If it was broken, he couldn’t play with it anymore.
Li Yu hit the jade statue several times. The jade statue of King Jing was on the verge of collapse and finally fell to the ground. Li Yu then pressed his entire fish body on the jade statue, as if he was pressing King Jing down.
King Jing, you big bastard! Ahhh!
He was kind enough to save him, but he was actually lying to him.
Li Yu angrily curled up into a ball. The fish-shaped stone was next to him. Li Yu picked up the stone and put it on his back.
After tossing and turning for a while, the fish was a little tired and fell asleep on the jade statue.
After sleeping for a while, his body seemed to have become lighter.
After some time, Li Yu faintly heard people’s voices. How could there be people underwater?
Li Yu groggily tried to see who was coming, but he couldn’t wake up after struggling a few times.
Because he had been sleeping at the bottom of the pool, King Jing outside the pool didn’t wait for Xiaoyu to come out. He was very anxious.
King Jing decided to go into the water to explore. Wang Xi earnestly advised him that the pool was very big and that there might be danger. King Jing signaled with his eyes: Move aside.
Wang Xi saw that his Highness had made up his mind, so he begged King Jing to bring a few servants who were good at swimming to go into the water with him.
King Jing also shook his head and refused. He didn’t know what Xiaoyu was doing underwater. If there were other people around, he was afraid that Xiaoyu’s identity would be revealed.
It was best for him to go alone. King Jing himself was also good at swimming. He changed into a set of swimming clothes and went into the water.
The imperial bodyguards had been staring at the water for a long time, but they didn’t see Xiaoyu.
It was obvious that Xiaoyu had been underwater all along.
King Jing searched the underwater landscape one by one. After a few breaths, he went to the surface to take a breath. Not long after, he dived back down again.
King Jing had almost searched the entire bottom of the pool. When he came to the small house at the end of the pool, he was surprised to see his fish curled up in a ball.
King Jing’s heart skipped a beat. He went forward to touch the fish’s head, but it didn’t move.
King Jing gently picked up the fish, but it still didn’t feel anything. An object rolled out from under the fish. King Jing looked at it and saw that it was his jade statue.
King Jing: “…”
King Jing guessed that the carp spirit had entered a “meditative state” again, so the fish wouldn’t continue to throw a tantrum and refuse to leave.
King Jing thought for a while, pulled open his clothes, wrapped the fish in his arms, and swam to the surface.
“Your Highness, Your Highness, what’s wrong?”
Wang Xi rushed over and saw the fish in King Jing’s arms. His head buzzed for a moment. Wasn’t the master fish in the crystal fish tank in the house? Wasn’t His Highness looking for Master Li?
Why did he ….. find the master fish?
King Jing glanced at him warningly, not allowing him to say anything more.
Wang Xi thought hard and tried to sound him out. “Could it be … that I was wrong? Master Xiaoyu was playful and went into the pool. His Highness was looking for Master Xiaoyu, not Master Li?*
King Jing nodded without a trace of guilt.
So that was it. Wang Xi immediately accepted it. He was wondering why Master Li stayed in the water all the time. He was wrong. His Highness was looking for Master Xiaoyu. As for Master Li, he must have left long ago.
Wang Xi followed King Jing into the house. King Jing quickly pushed the fish pillow in the crystal fish tank to one side and put the little carp on the silver stone bed.
Wang Xi: “…-
Wang Xi then realized that the fish in the fish tank was fake. Wang Xi wiped his sweat and felt ashamed. His Highness must have deliberately set this up to deceive Chu Yanyu to protect the master fish. Why didn’t he think of it?
The master fish must have been placed in the pool. That was why His Highness was looking for it.
Wasn’t it right?
Wang Xi wanted to change clothes for King Jing. King Jing stared anxiously at the fish and waved his hand. Wang Xi had to bring a dry towel. King Jing wiped the water on his body, but the fish didn’t “wake up”.
In the past, when the fish was “meditating”, it would recover in half an hour at most. But since the little fish was brought back, it has been lying motionless.
King Jing realized that something was wrong, so he ordered the servants who were good at raising fish to take a look. But this time, the servants couldn’t see anything. They only said that the fish was still sleeping like before.
– — Since it was the same, why didn’t it wake up?
King Jing didn’t believe it, so he ordered Wang Xi to invite Imperial Doctor Xu. Imperial Doctor Xu only raised a lot of koi fish at home. He was not good at treating fish. King Jing stared at the fish for a long time, but he couldn’t answer the question.
King Jing was really anxious. Only he knew that this was a carp spirit. It couldn’t “wake up” for a long time. Could it be that it encountered trouble in its cultivation?
King Jing decided to take the fish to find Liao Kong. When Wang Xi learned about it, he hurriedly advised: “His Highness, please think twice. Almost no one knows about the relationship between you and Master Liao Kong. If you take Master Xiaoyu to find Master Liao Kong in private …”
He was afraid that it would be noticed by the emperor.
If Liao Kong was involved with any of the princes, the emperor would no longer trust Liao Kong.
His previous words of using Liao Kong would also make the emperor suspicious.
Of course, King Jing understood it, but saving the fish was more important. He couldn’t care less.
Liao Kong had some medical skills and knew Xiaoyu’s identity. He was afraid that other people couldn’t help.
So even if it would arouse the emperor’s suspicion, he had to go. Xiaoyu saved him when he was young. It was only right for him to sacrifice his life for Xiaoyu!
But Wang Xi’s words also had room for consideration.
King Jing wrote: “Help me send a memorial to the palace. The fish is sick. I will take the fish to find Liao Kong.*
Wang Xi’s eyes lit up. If he could get the emperor’s consent, he wouldn’t have to worry.
Wang Xi hurriedly ordered the servants to prepare King Jing’s luggage for the palace. King Jing personally put Xiaoyu into the crystal bottle and lifted his sleeves to write the memorial. It was already late at night, but King Jing still wanted to enter the palace. The palace also had to send someone to deliver the memorial.
For a moment, everyone was busy. This movement finally woke Li Yu up. In fact, Li Yu actually felt it a few times, but he couldn’t wake up no matter what.
This time, he used all his strength to barely open his eyes. He found himself in the crystal bottle.
His body hurt. Li Yu didn’t know what was wrong with him. He couldn’t move his tail even if he wanted to.
Li Yu thought that the system must know about his situation, so he tried to call the system in his mind.
He didn’t know if the system would respond to him after he argued with the system last time, but he was obviously not in a good state.
The system immediately said, “Hello, Host. You are sick.'”
Li Yu, “???”
Li Yu realized that the pain and weakness in his body were because he was sick. Were fish sick similar to humans?
The system corrected him, “You have been in the water for too long in your human form and caught a cold.”
Li Yu, “…”
Then what should he do? If he was sick… would the system treat him?
The system said seriously, “The cute pet system is only responsible for the mission, not the treatment. The host’s situation is very critical. If necessary, please tum into a human and ask for help as soon as possible.”
Li Yu, “…”
Li Yu also realized the seriousness of the situation. The system had never taken the initiative to turn him into a human. Was he really sick this time?
In fact, he couldn’t wake up several times. His body was weak, so he could more or less guess.
Moreover, the system made him turn into a human. Li Yu was slightly stunned. Was it already the next day?
Li Yu looked around. King Jing needed to change clothes to go to the palace. Eunuch Wang was busy serving him. There was no one in the room for the time being. The crystal bottle’s lid was still open. This was a good opportunity!
Li Yu gritted his teeth, swam to the crystal bottle, and rolled out with difficulty.
He could no longer feel the additional pain. His fins weakly pressed the transformation button.
The moment he turned into a human, he felt far worse than when he was in his fish form. His whole body was cold, and his teeth kept chattering.
The fish form seemed to be able to help him resist some of the discomfort, but it couldn’t cure him. After he turned into a human, all the discomfort came rushing over. However, only by turning into a human could he treat the symptoms.
Li Yu used the last of his strength to take out clothes from his space and put them on. He wanted to ask for help, but who could he ask for help?
King Jing had quickly changed his clothes and finished writing the memorial to enter the palace.
King Jing planned to rush from the palace to Huguo Temple as soon as the Emperor gave the go-ahead. He didn’t care that it was late at night.
He pushed the door open and was about to take the crystal bottle when he saw someone fall to the ground. The person was completely wet.
This was … Xiaoyu!!
King Jing recognized Li Yu and hurriedly went forward to hold Li Yu. He accidentally touched Li Yu’s arm and found that the other’s body was very hot.
Li Yu leaned into King Jing’s arms. He had been angry with King Jing and didn’t want to see him.
However, when he was unconscious, he heard Eunuch Wang trying to persuade King Jing several times. The chamberlains and imperial physicians all said that he was fine. Only King Jing insisted that he wasn’t feeling well and even wanted to take him to find Liao Kong.
He knew all about it, including when King Jing went into the water to find him and carried him out.
He could hear the strong heartbeat from the chest he was leaning on. Even if he couldn’t wake up, it was still with him in his dreams. It made Xiaoyu feel at ease.
“Your Highness, I, I feel terrible …”
Li Yu said with a hoarse voice and a sobbing tone. The pain from his illness and the grievances he had suffered over the past few days made him not want to care about anything else.
When King Jing heard this, he hurriedly pulled him into his arms and kicked the door open with a heartache.
He knew that Xiaoyu was feverish and anxiously wanted to call for help. However, he couldn’t make any sound and could only cough a few times. King Jing was so anxious that he was sweating profusely.
“Your Highness!” Wang Xi finally heard the commotion and rushed over.
