The Five-Year-Old Baby Princess Rules the Palace - Chapter 65

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#65. I Don’t Like King Yeonjo!

[Damn it, why is a grown man trembling over something like this? Living life, you’re bound to carry a ghost or two in your body at least once.]

At Gwangjo’s words, which had become even more playful than before, Eunhye shook her head again and looked at Yeonjo.

“But how did King Yeonjo come to communicate with my uncle?”

Park Jeong-bin, Lady Park, and Lady Han’s eyes simultaneously moved following Eunhye’s gaze.

Then Yeonjo smoothly touched the sword sheath wrapped around the waist of his ink-black dragon robe and raised one corner of his mouth crookedly.

[The moment I saw that fellow, I just recognized him.]

“Pardon? How could that be possible?”

[I do not know either. I simply felt drawn to him the moment I saw that fellow.]

“Wow…!”

Park Jeong-bin urgently called out to Eunhye, who was opening her mouth halfway as if amazed.

“Niece! What does King Yeonjo say?”

Then Eunhye smiled awkwardly and patted Park Jeong-bin’s arm as if to comfort him.

“Uncle has been chosen by King Yeonjo.”

“Cho… chosen, what do you mean by that…”

Seeing Park Jeong-bin’s tearful face at Eunhye’s absurd answer, both Gwangjo and Yeonjo burst into laughter simultaneously.

Meanwhile, Lady Park and Lady Han, who had been frozen like ice since entering the library, swallowed dry saliva and looked at each other.

To think that not just one but two spirits of late kings are present here in this library! Moreover, one of them, the late King Yeonjo, says he can enter Park’s guard’s body!

“Oh my, this is truly an incredible matter, Lady Park.”

Park Jeong-bin looked at Lady Han, whose hometown dialect had unconsciously slipped out, with despairing eyes.

Truly an incredible thing had happened.

To think that the spirit of Taeshin Kingdom’s 12th King Yeonjo could dwell within him!

However, as if unrelated to their surprise and shock, Eunhye clenched her teeth, spun around sharply, and asked Yeonjo.

“Does King Yeonjo also not know why he cannot achieve enlightenment like King Gwangjo?”

At Eunhye’s question, Yeonjo looked at Gwangjo with a puzzled expression and chuckled again.

[No. I have not left because I have not yet finished all the things I must do.]

“What might that be?”

At Yeonjo’s unexpected answer, Eunhye’s eyes sparkled with curiosity.

“Perhaps there is something I could help with?”

Then Yeonjo slowly lowered his body and looked at Eunhye’s sparkling eyes, slowly shaking his head.

[Just eat well and grow up quickly.]

“Hmph!”

As if it wasn’t the answer she wanted, Eunhye stuck out her lower lip and shot a small glare at Yeonjo.

“But now I don’t see evil spirits anymore, so people aren’t scary either. I have a guardian talisman too, so I sleep well and will grow quickly.”

Yeonjo chuckled again, straightened up, and looked at Gwangjo.

[So, does Your Majesty truly intend to tell this acorn-like child about the palace’s secret passages?]

Then Gwangjo gestured with his chin toward Park Jeong-bin, who stood with a tearful expression, feeling around his body here and there.

[Even if he seems a bit lacking, isn’t that fellow there?]

Following Gwangjo’s gaze, both Yeonjo and Eunhye looked at Park Jeong-bin simultaneously.

[As you say, time is urgent now, so we must either intercept or eliminate that wretched mushroom, mustn’t we?]

Watching Yeonjo slowly nod at Gwangjo’s words, Eunhye quickly lifted her small chin.

“I will go too! No, I must go together with Uncle. Uncle cannot do it alone!”

At Eunhye’s stubborn outcry, Park Jeong-bin, Lady Park, and Lady Han, who had been feeling around his body, shouted simultaneously.

“That must not be!”

Then, seeing Eunhye glare at them fiercely, Yeonjo let out an incredulous laugh.

[Hah… such a stubborn little thing.]

Then he sighed softly and showed stern eyes.

[Do you think outside the palace is like the courtyard in front of the Princess’s quarters! Stop this improper tantrum and leave this matter to your uncle, the guard.]

Upon hearing Yeonjo’s stern scolding, Eunhye’s eyes immediately filled with tears. Then she puffed up both cheeks and suddenly spun around and began walking forward.

“Princess!”

Startled, Lady Han and Lady Park called out to Eunhye and hurriedly followed her, while Park Jeong-bin, whose eyes had widened, looked at the spirits of Gwangjo and Yeonjo.

What was happening? Since he couldn’t hear the words of the two late kings, it was truly frustrating enough to drive him mad.

It was just as Park Jeong-bin swallowed dry saliva while watching the two pale spirits wavering in place and was about to take a step.

[Hey, hey, hey, you impudent thing, where are you going without even answering your grandfather!]

“I’m going to Crown Prince!”

At Eunhye’s answer, shouted without looking back, deep furrows formed on Yeonjo’s brow, and Park Jeong-bin, hearing Eunhye suddenly declare she was going to His Highness the Crown Prince, stopped his following steps abruptly.

[What did you say?]

[Child, stop for a moment.]

Unable to watch any longer, Gwangjo shook his head and blocked her path, but Eunhye stuck out her lower lip and even glared at Yeonjo.

[That impudent… Your Majesty, why do you cherish and protect such an impudent child so much?]

At the sight of Eunhye looking straight at him with eyes that seemed ready to drop tears at any moment, Yeonjo looked at Gwangjo in great alarm.

Then Eunhye, who had indeed started dropping tears, pouted her lips at Yeonjo.

“I don’t like King Yeonjo! From when you first saw me earlier, you’ve been constantly displeased and keep scolding me and carelessly entering Uncle’s body!”

At that brazen behavior, Yeonjo was dumbfounded and could only blink his eyes while letting out a laugh.

[Hah… Ha. Hahaha! Hehehehe…]

Watching this, Gwangjo twitched his lips, trying to suppress the laughter that kept wanting to burst out. Then, after a moment, he lowered his head toward Eunhye, who was still pouting and looking up at Yeonjo.

[Child, how about this grandfather? Do you like this grandfather?]

[Hehe… Your Majesty!]

Eunhye glanced at Yeonjo, who called out to Gwangjo as if incredulous, and nodded her head greatly.

“Yes! I like King Gwangjo the most.”

Then Gwangjo, with a very pleased expression, asked with a face as if soothing Eunhye.

[Hehehehehe, yes, yes, that fellow is a bit inflexible. Even during his reign, there was much trouble because of that.]

Yeonjo looked at Gwangjo with an incredulous expression.

[Your Majesty! Why do you say such things to that young child!]

But Gwangjo, paying no heed to Yeonjo’s words, looked at the thoroughly upset Eunhye and asked again.

[Then tell this grandfather. Why do you suddenly want to go to the Crown Prince?]

Then Eunhye once again glanced up at Yeonjo as if glaring at him.

“Crown Prince won’t ignore my words like King Yeonjo does.”

At Eunhye’s words, spoken as if for Yeonjo to hear, Park Jeong-bin’s eyes widened.

Though he couldn’t hear what King Gwangjo and King Yeonjo were saying, his young niece was surely throwing a tantrum to the two kings about going outside the palace.

“Niece, please… listen to the words of the two late kings.”

Eunhye glared disapprovingly at Park Jeong-bin, who shook his head saying she must not go outside the palace.

Then Gwangjo, who just chuckled softly as if finding this amusing, asked in a kind voice.

[So what do you plan to say when you go to your brother?]

Then Eunhye, after glancing at both Park Jeong-bin and Yeonjo, opened her mouth with a matter-of-fact expression.

“I will tell him everything I’ve learned. ‘The Ministry of War and Lady Gyeongbin have commissioned the Miseondo Magistrate to bring rare poisonous mushrooms into the capital and are trying to bring them into the palace.’ Also, that mushroom is an odorless, tasteless deadly poison whose toxicity doesn’t disappear even when boiled or burned. Like this.”

Park Jeong-bin’s eyes grew wide enough to tear as he watched Eunhye speak clearly to Gwangjo.

How could Princess Eunhye, who only stays within the palace, know so much detail about the Cheongmyeong Cloud Mushroom!

Unlike Park Jeong-bin’s shocked expression and Yeonjo’s serious frown, Gwangjo smiled gently and nodded.

[And then? What do you think will happen if you say that?]

At Gwangjo’s question, Eunhye wiped her eyes with the back of her hand and continued in a clear voice.

“Then Crown Prince will surely not ignore my words and will find a solution together with me.”

Oh dear… what to do with this reckless young niece.

Unlike Park Jeong-bin, who held his forehead with one hand, Lady Park and Lady Han’s eyes grew wide as they heard all of Eunhye’s words.

Lady Gyeongbin did what with the Ministry of War? The Miseondo Magistrate and poisonous mushrooms?

If they hadn’t misheard, she was surely saying they were trying to obtain poisonous mushrooms and bring them into the palace, but how did the Princess know this?

While the three people had serious expressions due to their respective thoughts and amazement, Yeonjo suddenly moved his spirit forward and thrust his face toward Eunhye.

[Then when asked how you knew this, what will you answer? Will you say you heard it from the ghost servant of Miseondo in the Queen Mother’s garden?]

At Yeonjo’s question, Eunhye’s eyebrows drooped into a figure-eight shape again.

“That is… that is…”

Yeonjo clicked his tongue in displeasure at Eunhye’s inability to continue her words.

[Besides, how can you recklessly leave the Palace without even knowing where in the Capital City those poisonous mushrooms are located.]

Then Eunhye suddenly raised her head and spoke with a voice full of resentment.

“It’s not reckless! Didn’t King Yeonjo just say they’re at some apothecary in the Capital City!”

[How dare you raise your voice!]

At Yeonjo’s following rebuke, Eunhye’s lips trembled.

“Really… you King Yeonjo… waaaaah!”

Lady Park was startled and quickly embraced Eunhye as she suddenly burst into wailing tears.

“Oh my, Princess, why are you suddenly crying so sorrowfully?”

The two Late Kings were equally surprised, and Gwangjo began scolding Yeonjo with a displeased expression.

[Tsk, how can you be so heartless? You should understand how much this young child wants to go outside the Palace, instead of just intimidating her like that!]

Meanwhile, Park Jeong-bin’s face turned pale as if his soul had left his body, watching Eunhye suddenly wail while calling King Yeonjo’s name and the white smoke containing the spirits of the two Late Kings swirling like dancing.

I shouldn’t have come as my niece’s escort.

At this rate, I won’t live to see my natural lifespan!

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