It has past a few days since that incident with the emperor. Yet the empress still has to be on guard to not to face consequense of her past actions.
Today also Mika was on his guard, hiding behind pillers or decorative pots to escape from the eyes of others. Little did he know that this method of his was drawing attention towards him more then usual.
This was the first time when guards and other servents saw a noble, that too a royalty, moving like a rookie thief in their own palace. They were trying their best to ignore her stupid act but her work was so unprofessional that their eyes were automatically following her every single move.
Mika being oblivious of their awkwardness continude his business. He leaned against one piller, pulling his head slightly out, scaning his suroundings, not feeling any problem, moved towards the next one. This way he finally exited his courtyard wasting more then two hours , ending other's perplextion.
Out of the courtyard he moved towards lake area to get some fresh air and to ease his mind. He sat down on the lake side. He pulled his robs up and put his feets in the water, not in elegant manner rather it was quite unhuman. While feeling coldness of water as it was slightly cold in weather. He began to sing a song that can capture any heart at an instant. But he stopped in his track suddenly as he had some weird feeling. He got up and hid behind a big tree closer to him. Few seconds later he heared some voices coming closer to him, which were quite familiar to him as he has been tourtured by the owners so he hid more trying to be one with the atmosphere.
"Looks like she isn't here, where did she go?" said Han Zhi turning to his nephew after looking around to find her.
"Looks like she got lost in this place, what more can be expected from that idiot." answered Long Xin totally insulting Mika. While later was trying best to controle his anger, chanting mantras that he read from this era's books.
"Hmm, you are right. I think we should send some of our people in search mission. Let's go and search elsewhere." With that they both left the area. Hearing footsteps fading away, Mika sighed in relief.
"Thank god , I managed to trick them." He loosened his guard down, suddenly a voice made it's way to his ears.
"So here you are?"
"Ahhh?" Mika shouted rather loudelly.
"Shut up, you are hurting my ears." Long Xin complained covering his ears with his hands, protecting them from getting damaged.
"And you are hurting my heart. You nearlly gave me a heart attack, sending me to the gates of afterlife." Mika roared on both uncle and nephew.
"Not our fault, who told you to hide like this. Trying to escape us but it's not happaning." Han Zhi said grininglly.
"What made you think that you could escape from us, who have been trained as a soldires." Lond Xin said.
"Fine you guys won. Now what do you want." Mika was pouting by now.
"Now we are talking. Well I was getting boared so I taged my dear naphew along and came to see you, Our entertainment place." answered Han Zhi as it was a most common thing to call a person their entertainment place.
With this he lead the way draging Mika along and Long Xin following behind. Making there way to find something interesting without waiting for his reply , which left him only to continue shouting 'Let go's or Leave me alone's.' as he could not match their strangth.
They manged to drge him outside completly unaware of a certain man watching them from quite some time, sitting on one of a tree around there. After they left, a man came to get the man on the tree, "General Mu, don't run off like that. It's already time for court, please come down." The person called general Mu to climb down from the tree, who was looking at the trio, who has gained quite distance, and smiled in amusement then went off with his escort.
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"By the way, these days you have become way more famous in gossipps. Every topic is related to you." Han Zhi looked at Mika and said.
"Huh? What did I do to become famous?" Mika asks with confused look.
"You really are oblivious, aren't you? You have been mimicking a thired rate theif from past few days and you are saying 'why you are in gossips?' And we also saw your weird show thar's why we wanted to ask what are you trying to do?" Han Zhi said as he lead them to a sitting area in a garden.
"Well, I was trying to hide, in case emperor comes to the palace, he won't be able to find me." Mika answered as he brewed tea for everyone.
"That was your attempte to hide? I was sure that you are in desprate need for attention but this is....You sure you were genius in your time?" Han Zhi takes a sip of tea.
"What do you mean I WAS a genius? I AM a genius." At this statement Mika heards his companions snoring "Stop this you basterds. I am a genius but you see I am a little antisociale and I spent most of my life alone with books, computers etc so I don't know how to behave in public." Mika calmly says.
"I would say you never had any intrection with society and that's a lot anti-sociable, not just a little, got that." Han Zhi had a grin on his face.
They were bickering as usual, suddenly some loud noices caught their attention. The gossip lover fourth prince dragged other two along to find out what is the ruckuse is about. When they arrived Mika grabbed them by coller and took them behind a piller.
"Hey, why did you do that?" complained Long Xin as Mika grabbed his coller quite hard, hurting his nack in process.
"Sorry've I never seen drama like this, let alone a palace drama. Let's enjoy. Hey, does someone has snacks with them." Mika said never leaving sight from the crowd.
"Then, you sure will love this place. It's emperor's imperial harem and those ladies are his concubines and consorts. They always do this kind of drama here. When want some spicies come here. They will do a fabulous performence." Han Zhi intoduced Mika to people as he passed some snacks to him pulling out of his rob sleevies "And here you go, your snacks. Although I don't share them with others but I'll make you an exception, just for you." he further added whinking at him.
Startled Mika first took snacks from him than hold his sleevies wide to look inside "Where did you pull these out from? do you have Doraemon's pocket or something?" he asked with most curious eyes.
"Doraemon's pocket?" duo implied their confusion.
"Doraemon is from my era. He pulls out anything and everything from his pocket. Leave him, answer me first." he asked again with impation.
"Well, I just .. you know..." Mika focushed at his words and action to not to miss anything, when he heard " I won't tell you. It's my secret." Han Zhi laughes at him.
Mika glared at his action, "Humph, leave it, it must not be impressive. I'll just have fun with this live drama." he turned towards the group of woman in sitting area over the lake.
The three of them were hiding behind a large piller with hheads poping out one over another. Long Xin in middle with Mika over and Han Zhi below him. They were looking rather strange from their backs. Still fighting about the position given to them with eating snacks and watching the drama before them.
Servents who were doing there job of around, chose to take a long root, not wanting to witeness this kind of embarassing situation of royalties.
The people having it most were Su Mei, empress's attendent, enoch Xiao, prince Han Zhi's attendant and enoch Wang who was crown prince's attendant.
These three were standing few feets away from their masters. While watching them doing some uncultured things once again. From past few days they had seen very different activities that their masters were doing, which sent them to a roller coster ride, giving shocking ups and downs over and over again.
Su Mei had to admit that this change of her mistress is quite a puzzle because her past self was too pitiful and depressed, spreading negative aura all around, which even caushed her to suffer from mountain of diseases, such as high blood presser, anxity and many more. But now this changed mistress is doing it worse, suddenly going nuts then cute all of sudden, speaking what ever comes to mind even to the emperor, doing weired activities, running around, putting her into books and speaking strang things, were causing her health some fatle damages. Most terifiying thing about empress was her present relation with fourth prince and crown prince. Now one thought is centering in her head, what if it is her who has gone crazy. Poor Su Mei.
Enoch Xiao and Wang were not remained untouched from this. They were also having doubts on their mental health as their master's has always been people who ditched their works to room around as Han Zhi liked to do and Long Xin was dragged along but they have never done something to disgrace their image and now they are doing so, that to, to be with her majesty. With whom they both didn't had that much intraction in past. Now a days the scenario was that 'if you want to find both crown prince and fourth prince then look for them at the pheonix palace.'
'I used to think that my mistress was the most freeloading person but now I found two more of her kind. Even those consorts's and concubines's fight give people a gossip to do but these three, they aren't up for even that simple use.' Su Mei thought to herself while attending to her mistress, who was oblivious of her thought, as she was watching drama of ladies who were also oblivious of the worth they were just given