The Five-Year-Old Baby Princess Rules the Palace - Chapter 62

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#62. King Yeon-jo, the Sword God

[No. Absolutely not!]

“It will work. Don’t I have my uncle who was a training officer at Yongho-yeong of Geumgun-cheong?”

[Nonsense! Still, absolutely not. Child, what would a small child like you do going outside the palace!]

“A small child like me going would not arouse suspicion. If we say we’re uncle and niece, everyone will believe it.”

[Good heavens! Who did you inherit such stubbornness from?]

“I inherited it from Queen Dowager.”

Outside the door of Princess’s quarters at Hyesin Palace, in the corridor where only Lady Park and Lady Han were present, the clear voice of the young princess arguing with someone echoed loudly.

Lady Park and Lady Han, who had learned of Gwangjo’s existence when Eunhye received the divine object at the shrine, kept glancing outside nervously, fearing someone might come to their young mistress’s quarters.

Meanwhile, Park Jeong-bin, who had dismissed all the palace servants and entered the room with Eunhye, stood with his mouth agape and eyes rolling around at the unprecedented sight before him.

Is what I’m seeing and hearing right now really true and not a dream?

Though Park Jeong-bin had been able to see spirits and sense their presence since childhood, he had never directly conversed with them like his young niece.

Moreover, the being before his eyes was not just any ordinary spirit, but King Gwangjo, the 6th ruler of Taeshin Kingdom!

Park Jeong-bin swallowed hard and looked with amazed eyes at Eunhye, who was stubbornly arguing in her clear voice toward the white misty form positioned in front of the folding screen.

Just how bold was his young niece’s character to engage in such casual argument with King Gwangjo, who was called the Blood Monarch?

That aside, summarizing what these two were saying, there was currently a conspiracy underway in the palace to assassinate the Crown Prince, with Lady Gyeongbin Choi and Prime Minister Choi Nak-hyeon at its center.

And they had recommended a distant relative of their family as a pastor to Miseondo, then obtained a poisonous mushroom called Cheongmyeong Cloud Fungus from descendants of Haeyong Kingdom who had ruled that place hundreds of years ago. So they had sent it up to the palace together with the tribute of yellow persimmons.

Therefore, they needed to intercept or eliminate that Cheongmyeong Cloud Fungus before it entered the palace, and that tiny Princess Eunhye was insisting on carrying out this mission together with him.

Sigh… What kind of ridiculous situation is this?

Park Jeong-bin pressed one hand to his throbbing forehead as the argument between Eunhye and Gwangjo continued.

[Fine. Let’s say that half-wit can protect you outside the palace. But child, how will you get out of the palace?]

At Gwangjo’s question, Eunhye rested her chin on one hand and tilted her head to one side.

“For that, I can use the royal family’s secret passage.”

[What?]

“Pardon?”

At Gwangjo’s questioning and Park Jeong-bin’s near-scream that erupted simultaneously, Eunhye smiled innocently as if it were nothing.

“I know everything too. There are secret passages in the palace that only royalty know about. Hehe.”

[Haha… What am I to do with that stubbornness? What will you do if this old man says no to the end?]

At Gwangjo’s probing question, Eunhye, who had been lost in thought with a furrowed brow, slowly raised her eyes.

“I will tell Crown Prince.”

“Pardon?”

[Wh-what?]

Again, simultaneous exclamations burst forth.

“Crown Prince has the Ikwisa, doesn’t he? Moreover, Crown Prince is very clever and excellent at martial arts, so he will surely find a way to expose Lady Gyeongbin’s crimes.”

“However, Princess, this matter must absolutely not leak outside. We might catch only the severed tail without catching the head, so we absolutely must not make this matter big. Therefore.”

Park Jeong-bin, unable to bear it any longer, was stating his opinion when Eunhye quickly cut him off and continued her words.

“Therefore, it would be good if I go. Who would dare imagine it? That a princess would be wandering around the marketplace. I can disguise myself as uncle’s daughter and go to that medicine shop. Queen Dowager, please allow it, won’t you?”

Gwangjo let out a frustrated sigh as if the floor heating would go out.

After roughly eating the lunch that was brought in, Eunhye hurriedly brushed off her skirt and stood up.

“Oh my, Princess, where are you going again?”

“Nanny heard everything from outside earlier. Since Gwangjo Queen Dowager can’t go outside the palace, I have to go out and help.”

“Pardon?”

Lady Park, who was getting up to follow Eunhye, lost strength in her legs and collapsed onto the floor. For the Princess, who had lived only inside the palace her entire life, to say she would leave the palace. What kind of bolt from the blue was this?

Lady Park unconsciously grabbed Eunhye’s crimson skirt hem.

“Princess! You cannot go!”

Seeing Lady Park collapsed while holding her skirt hem, Eunhye frowned and quietly sat down.

“I’m not going right now, you know? How can I go out like this? If I go out like this, people will know I’m a princess, won’t they? Doesn’t Nanny even know that?”

“Pardon?”

Looking at Eunhye’s face smiling brightly at her, Lady Park tilted her head to one side.

“Right now, I’m going to the Crown Prince’s library with uncle.”

“Pardon? You mean the library of the Crown Prince’s Palace?”

“Yes.”

Eunhye nodded and stood up, taking the collapsed Lady Park’s hand.

“Gwangjo Queen Dowager told me to come to the library. There’s someone he wants to introduce me to.”

“Who…”

When Lady Park, who had stood up together, asked with a completely puzzled face, Eunhye also shook her head.

“I don’t know that yet either. That’s why I want to go quickly and see. Nanny, since it’s tiring for you, you can stay here. I’ll go with uncle.”

“That won’t do! I am the Princess’s nanny, so how can I let the Princess go alone without knowing who she’ll meet? I will follow even if I die.”

Then Eunhye tilted her head to one side suspiciously and smiled mischievously.

“We’re going to run without taking a palanquin, you know?”

“Princess, Princess, please go together. Huff huff! Princess, I’m dying!”

“That’s why you should have let me escort her. Why did you follow, Madam?”

Lady Han shook her head while supporting the dying Lady Park.

“I, I am the Princess’s nanny, huff huff, so how could I let the Princess go alone, huff huff.”

“Why would she be alone? I’m here too, and the reliable Training Officer Park is also here, isn’t he? Oh my, she’s already gone that far.”

Lady Han let out a regretful sigh looking at Eunhye, who had gone far ahead with Park Jeong-bin.

Our Princess, if you get tired, I should carry you on my back… No matter if he’s her uncle, I can’t let that dark man carry the Princess on his back!

“Lady Park, this won’t do. I’ll run to the Crown Prince’s Palace library first, so Madam, please come slowly. We can’t leave our Princess alone with that dark man. You understand, right?”

“Wh-what?”

Lady Park gaped at the sight of Lady Han’s back as she immediately started running toward the Crown Prince’s Palace as soon as she let go of the arm she was holding.

Even you, Lady Han…!

I really need to lose weight even if I have to starve, or I truly can’t live with this sorrow.

Lady Park, with her face red from breathlessness and chest heaving, followed with her eyes the figures of Eunhye, Park Jeong-bin, and Lady Han, who had already disappeared from her sight.

Park Jeong-bin, who had stealthily followed Eunhye to the back of the Crown Prince’s Palace library, opened his eyes wide in surprise.

Who could have imagined that there was a side door that could be used to secretly enter and exit the Crown Prince’s Palace library?

Park Jeong-bin nodded to Eunhye, who was pointing her index finger at her lips, and carefully pushed the side door forward to open it.

The door opened smoothly with even the creaking sound seeming secretive, and Park Jeong-bin calmed his heart that was pounding with guilt and nodded toward Eunhye.

Please go inside quickly.

Lady Han, who had just arrived right behind them, breathing heavily, also opened her eyes wide.

Ah, so our Princess entered the library through this side door last time too, which is why the soldiers guarding the front didn’t see her!

Through the door that Park Jeong-bin had pushed open with one arm, Eunhye lifted her skirt hem and slipped inside like a squirrel.

The dark gloom that had been settled in the library was startled by the sudden bright light and stirred up unnecessary dust.

And as Lady Han tried to follow Eunhye through the side door, Park Jeong-bin suddenly extended his other arm.

“Wait!”

Lady Han, who was just about to stick her head through the side door, glared fiercely at Park Jeong-bin who had suddenly grabbed her sleeve.

How dare this person act so presumptuously?

“What do you think you’re doing?”

Then Park Jeong-bin, whose face had turned red with embarrassment, quietly released the arm he was holding and spoke in a small voice.

“Ah, no, it’s not that, but I don’t see Lady Park, my niece’s nanny. If we all go inside, what will happen when Lady Park arrives later…”

Ah, that’s right.

Lady Han, who had snorted at Park Jeong-bin’s words, chewed her lower lip.

Ah, what should I do? I want to go in right away and be by the Princess’s side, but since this person is the guard…

Lady Han looked with frowning eyes at Park Jeong-bin, who stood there unable to do anything without even meeting her gaze.

Ah, I really don’t trust him, but since he was a training officer at Yongho-yeong, it would be right for this person to be by the Princess’s side, wouldn’t it?

Lady Han looked with regretful eyes at Eunhye, who was already cutting through the darkness inside the library and going far ahead, then spoke to Park Jeong-bin.

“Please go in first. As you said, I’ll wait for Lady Park and escort her inside. And! If you dare grab my sleeve carelessly even one more time, I’ll simply snap that wrist of yours right off, so be careful!”

At Lady Han’s growling warning directed at him, Park Jeong-bin unconsciously gulped down his dry saliva.

As he had felt before, despite her beautiful appearance, wasn’t she truly a fierce woman?

“I understand. I’ll go in first and stay beside the Princess, so follow along when Lady Park arrives.”

Park Jeong-bin, his feelings hurt by Lady Han’s sullen appearance that seemed to thoroughly dislike him, pushed open the half-opened side door and entered inside.

What good was outstanding beauty when her manner of speaking was so terrible?

What? She’d do what to my wrist? Ah, what a wicked woman.

As Park Jeong-bin entered the library with a frown, his eyes caught sight of his young niece’s back as she walked steadily somewhere, completely unbothered by the pitch-black darkness.

Wasn’t his niece more amazing the more he looked at her?

Setting aside how remarkably clever she was for her age of five, to be so bold!

Park Jeong-bin let out a long breath through his nose and hurriedly followed behind Eunhye. However, after taking only a few steps, he stopped in his tracks with a bewildered face at the unbelievable sight before him.

“Huh!”

In front of the young princess in her adorable court dress, weren’t there now two piles of white smoke!

One was surely the spirit of King Gwangjo who had greeted them in front of the kitchen earlier, but who could the other spirit be?

Just as the sound of his wildly racing heart from unknown fear was pounding at his temples, a clear voice that broke through Park Jeong-bin’s thoughts echoed throughout the library.

“Wow! Then does that mean Your Majesty the Queen Dowager is the 12th King Yeon-jo, who was called the Sword God of Taeshin Kingdom?”

Crash!

At the mention of “Sword God” that burst from Eunhye’s mouth, Park Jeong-bin once again tumbled backward.

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