The Ultimate Prodigal Son - Chapter 173

[Chapter 173: Pillow Wind Can’t Move]

“Xiao Shunzi, come in!”

The emperor finished lunch and was reading a book. He called for Eunuch Shun to come in.

“Your Majesty, I’m here!”

“Xiao Shunzi, how many years have you been with me?”

The emperor asked slowly while reading a book.

“I entered the palace at the age of eight and served the late emperor. When you were born when I was sixteen, I have been with Your Majesty. Now I am almost fifty years old!”

Xiao Shunzi didn’t know why the emperor suddenly asked this, but he still answered slowly.

“Oh, then you should be very familiar with the rules of this palace!”

The emperor asked with a smile.

Xiao Shunzi saw the emperor’s expression and knew that he must have done something to make the emperor unhappy. He

quickly thought about what was wrong with the rules recently, and suddenly thought of something, so he knelt down and said.

“I know I was wrong. I shouldn’t have allowed Lin Tian to act recklessly and disregard the law just because Your Majesty favored him. I shouldn’t have accepted private money. Please punish me, Your Majesty!”

“Okay, get up. You are also an old man in the palace. I trust you, but you should not waste my trust in you!”

The emperor just smiled, but it hit Xiao Shunzi’s heart like a thunderbolt.

He was indeed too relaxed. Serving the emperor is not something that can be ignored.

Fortunately, the emperor did not punish him because of their years of friendship, otherwise he would have been killed.

“Thank you, Your Majesty, for your grace. I know what to do.”

Then the emperor asked him to leave, and he was alone there thinking about something.

After Xiao Shunzi came out, he broke out in a cold sweat, and then went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to receive the punishment, which was a three-year salary deduction.

This was also a common practice in the past, but he had not been punished for more than ten years.

At night, the gray-clothed servant dressed as a eunuch and came to the harem through a secret passage.

“Rong Guifei, our master asked me to bring you a letter!”

The gray-clothed servant walked into a palace. On the bed in the palace, there was a beautiful woman in palace dress lying on the bed. Someone was serving her fruit and cakes.

“Oh, you have something to ask me so soon?”

The woman said after eating a grape peach.

“I have brought the letter. Goodbye!”

The gray-clothed servant left quietly.

The palace-dressed woman finished reading the letter, asked the maid beside her to burn it, and said to herself.

“Well, I helped him this time, so I don’t owe him anything anymore!”

Rong Guifei was originally an ordinary dancer. Later, she was favored by the emperor for some reason, and she was very favored. Among them was Sun Zhi.

“Go and tell the emperor that I made lotus seed soup for him and invited him to drink it!”

Rong Guifei said to the maid beside her.

After half an hour, the eunuchs outside were heard shouting.

“The Emperor has arrived!”

Concubine Rong stood up, and the maid next to her helped her to straighten her clothes. The Emperor just came in, and everyone knelt down to pay their respects.

“No need to pay your respects, no need to pay your respects, Rong’er, get up quickly.”

The Emperor quickly helped Concubine Rong up, saying lovingly.

“I miss Rong’er’s lotus seed soup so much!”

The Emperor was feeling irritable and the weather was hot, and Concubine Rong happened to invite him, so he just came.

“I have sent someone to bring it. These are the peaches that the foreign countries in the palace have paid tribute to. The Emperor is busy with government affairs, so he will definitely not have the opportunity to taste them!”

Concubine Rong said softly while being held in the Emperor’s arms, pinching the peaches with her jade hands and putting them into the mouth of Emperor Zhengde.

“Rong’er is worthy of being my beloved concubine. She thinks of me in everything.”

The Emperor scratched Concubine Rong’s nose with his finger and smiled.

The two chatted happily, eating delicious fruit cakes, and before they knew it, it was late at night.

“Your Majesty, are you staying in Yonghe Palace tonight?”

Xiao Shunzi asked softly.

“Well, you go and arrange it!”

The emperor responded softly.

After a while, the emperor dismissed his attendants, washed up and went to bed with the help of Concubine Rong.

After the two of them made love, Concubine Rong touched the emperor’s cheek and said something coquettishly.

It seems that Sun Zhi’s letter was probably for Concubine Rong to persuade him, and Concubine Rong also cleverly told the emperor.

“Well, I know, it’s getting late, let’s rest!”

After hearing what Concubine Rong said, the emperor hugged her to rest.

Concubine Rong thought that what she said did not disgust the emperor, and she didn’t care. Relying on the emperor’s favor, she still made a big mistake. Doesn’t

the emperor know?

Not really, it’s just that some things don’t need to be said explicitly. It is a taboo for the harem to interfere in the affairs of the previous dynasty.

Moreover, this matter involves the emperor’s own interests. Even if he favors her, he cannot touch the bottom line.

The next day, the emperor got up early and left.

Xiao Shunzi waited for Concubine Rong to wake up, and then greeted her and said to her.

“Your Majesty asked me to convey a message. Please kneel down and listen to the order!”

“Your servant Rong’er listens to the order!”

Concubine Rong just got up and found that His Majesty was gone, and she knew something was wrong.

Usually, His Majesty would accompany her to dress up. Why did

he leave so early today and kneel down to listen to the order. “The emperor’s order: ‘Concubine Rong has been ill recently, and she is allowed to move to Qingxin Palace to recuperate and cultivate her character to see the effect!’”

After hearing what Xiao Shunzi said, Concubine Rong fainted.

Qingxin Palace is not a place, it’s a cold palace!

It’s called recuperation, but in fact there is basically no chance to come out. Xiao

Shunzi asked someone to call the imperial physician, and then ordered that she should move to Qingxin Palace when she wakes up.

In the palace, if you take a wrong step, you will fall into the abyss and there is no turning back!

The next day, at the Sun Mansion.

“Waste, all of them are waste. They can’t even do this little thing well. I spent so much money and found so many connections, but nothing was done!”

Sun Zhi looked at the news from the harem and said angrily.

The gray servant beside him was silent and stood aside, not daring to speak. After all, it was his suggestion that the one in the harem was abolished.

“It seems that I still have to rely on myself. Fortunately, my son’s hand has been healed. I don’t know what the emperor thinks.”

Could it be that Lin Tian’s backstage is so strong that the emperor has to protect him.

At the same time, Lin Tian was also worried.

In the backyard of the Lin Mansion, Lu Wan’er and Gu Man’er were cultivating the soil there, thinking that they would plant some flowers and plants to pass the time when they had nothing to do.

But unexpectedly, it has been so long, and every time no matter what they planted, it would not grow!

The two did not believe in evil, and planted several different flowers and plants in succession, but they all failed to grow.

Today, Lin Tian happened to be free, so he was caught by the two.

They wanted to study why the tree couldn’t grow, and they also thought about cutting down the loquat tree to plant flowers, because loquat trees grow so well.

Hearing their ideas, Lin Tian certainly disagreed.

The loquat tree might be the previous owner’s yearning for his wife, how could he just cut it down, and it still grows so well!

“Why can’t it grow in other places?”