Chapter 1054 You Dare To Touch My Money?
Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui did not stay in the bathroom for long and came out quickly. Before going out, she took a type of anesthetic from the Gu Master and knocked the Emperor unconscious without being found out. From the point of view of an outsider, the Emperor was only sleeping more deeply than usual.
She dressed quietly and walked through the room door and gave a look to that Head Eunuch Wu Ying. Wu Ying immediately got a palanquin and carried Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui out of the palace courtyard.
Their destination was the place which managed the training of private mentors. When Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui reached, the servants inside were still asleep. She did not alert the others and asked Wu Ying to find an empty house, then summoned the Granny who was managing things.
That Granny had already heard about the Eighth Prince suddenly taking ill during the imperial banquet but did not expect that Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui would find her in the middle of the night. For a moment, she had a bad feeling and grew wary, kneeling in front of the Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui with a straight back, not daring to say more than she should.
Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui stared at this old lady and asked coldly: “When This One asked you to find a private mentor to teach that Feng family’s young master, what person did you find? What did you do to that person’s body?”
That old Granny trembled and did not understand what that question meant, so she could only answer honestly, saying: “She was raised in the palace since young! She has some basic martial arts background. She was chosen based on Your Highness’ instructions.”
“This One is not asking about this.” Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui forcefully suppressed her anger and asked again: “Did you do something to that woman’s body in order to gain favour with This One? For example, having that woman get infected and transmitting it to the Feng family’s young master?”
The old Granny shook her head repeatedly after hearing this: “No, no, definitely not, Your Highness did not give instructions to do so, This Old Servant does not dare to make my own decisions. After all, that Feng family’s young master is still Princess Yu’s younger brother, sending a private mentor already has This Old Servant feeling nervous, how can This Servant dare to tamper with other things. Your Highness, please investigate clearly!”
“You did not do it?” Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui frowned deeply. She was just thinking that this old person might make an effort to send an infected girl over to gain favour with her. Then that girl was actually sent to Sheng Palace and transmitted the illness to her Mo-er. But now the old lady said she did not do it, then what was the reason?
Seeing that Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui did not speak for a long time, that old Granny grew more fearful. When Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui stood up suddenly and walked outside without saying anything else, her nerves were already close to breaking point.
As expected, Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui’s front foot had just stepped outside when that Head Eunuch Wu Ying turned and ran towards her. She wanted to dodge, but how could she do so. Wu Ying was quick in his actions and was powerful, looping a rope around her neck in a few actions. That old Granny widened her eyes helplessly and with more air coming out than entering, she finally died under Wu Ying’s rope.
There were many places to deal with this sort of person, for example, an abandoned dry well, or finding a place to bury a deep pit. For this, Wu Ying handled things swiftly and Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui did not have to worry at all.
And Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui did not have the heart to worry about this kind of thing, her head was full of worry about Xuan Tianmo’s condition. She was even prepared for the worst. Once Xuan Tianmo was beyond saving, she had to be pregnant with the Emperor’s child as soon as possible then strengthen her control over the old Emperor, making him leave the position of crown prince to only her child, whether it was already grown up or still in her belly.
This time, no one was able to sleep properly, it was so for the people in the Imperial Palace, as well as for the people in the palaces.
Feng Yuheng sat up early and the sky had not even lit up, Xuan Tianming pulled her once and said drowsily: “There’s no need to attend morning court today, sleep for a while longer.”
“I can’t sleep.” She sighed softly, looking down to play with his fingers, “I did not sleep well at all tonight, it was all nightmares.”
When he heard this, he sat up and asked in a soft voice: “You’re thinking of those issues in the palace again?”
“Un.” She said honestly, “The incident with Zirui and what happened in the imperial banquet reminded me, the Eighth Prince’s side does not want to deal with the two of us only, but also the many people around us. Last night was Xiangrong and Feng Tianyu, who would be next?” She suddenly thought of something, “Say, would he suddenly get an urge one day and assign a secondary wife to you or something? Our Yu Palace is truly a little too quiet.”
“Alright!” Xuan Tianming shrugged, “But whoever Old Eighth sends over would definitely be someone from his side, so, no matter how many they send, we will keep them, then throw them to Song Kang for his living experiments.”
Feng Yuheng nodded, “That is a good idea, I happened to be busy recently and was unable to think about training my disciple!” She finally smiled, with regards to the matter of a secondary wife, Xuan Tianming’s answer satisfied her greatly. She still had an idea which was spinning in her head and said it out now to share with Xuan Tianming: “I really want to steal the national treasury! Completely empty the national treasury then watch Old Eighth sit on the throne, then see him with widened eyes as he stares at the empty national treasury, that scene would definitely be very comical. A pity! The national treasury is too large, even if I can steal everything inside, there is no place to store them, my Space is too small.”
She mentioned the issue of wealth and Xuan Tianming also had something to say about that. He said: “If we do not settle this matter as soon as possible, even within the capital would not be safe. The things you stored in the basement of the County Manor are too numerous and the Yu Palace is even more wealthy, if Old Eighth sets his sights on this, it would be fine if the old man doesn’t help, but once he helps, something bad might happen again.”
“What, he still wants to take my money away?” Feng Yuheng was anxious, “Fuck, he touched my people, touched my money and touched my delicious food, isn’t that enough? Xuan Tianming, I have to tell you this beforehand. I kept them alive because the Gu poison on Father Emperor has not been dispelled, thus I did not dare to act carelessly, afraid that I will harm Father Emperor instead. But people have a bottom line, if he dares to touch my wealth, don’t blame me for shooting him dead!”
Xuan Tianming did not know whether to laugh or cry hearing this, how did he marry such a greedy wife? “Don’t you forget, in your underground treasury, many of those things were stolen from Sheng Palace!”
“That is because he did not have the ability to protect his wealth. Since it was stolen, those are naturally mine, forget about asking me to return what has landed in my hands. Either way, I am leaving these words here, he can mess around however he wants, but he cannot touch my money, else I will really shoot and kill him.” Saying that, she emphasised once more, “I am not joking.”
“I know, I know.” He quickly brushed the fur of this puffed up small lion, “It won’t happen, I rather have him empty out Yu Palace and will definitely not allow him to touch a hair of your county manor.”
“Fuck! Yu Palace is no good as well! Yu Palace is also mine!” Someone blew up again! “What do you mean, Xuan Tianming? You think Yu Palace belongs to you, right? That it has nothing to do with me, right? Xuan Tianming, you have grown cocky!” Someone was anxious with anger and flipped around to straddle her husband, shouting: “Today, you should explain it clearly, do I have a share of this Yu Palace? We have married, shouldn’t the wealth be shared? Isn’t yours mine? And isn’t mine still mine? Speak!”
With one “Speak”, she was even so agitated that she grabbed his neck, choking Xuan Tianming until he coughed.
“Cough, cough! Damn girl, do you plan to kill your husband!” After saying this, he exerted the power of a man and flipped over, pinning on the woman on top of him, “This Prince belongs to you, not to mention a mere Yu Palace. You can take it as This Prince saying something wrong before, but wife, the rule of a husband being on top and you at the bottom, you still need to learn that rule!”
Feng Yuheng wanted to resist, but on this matter, she was fated to fail at resisting and could only helplessly curse as the husband on top of her ate her cleanly, leaving only the sound of crying.
Being toyed with so early in the morning, it was rather refreshing, Xuan Tianming thought about Old Eighth being abnormal at the imperial banquet and asked her: “The illness of Old Eighth, can the imperial physicians treat it?”
Feng Yuheng rolled her eyes and spoke gleefully: “The venereal disease virus I injected, other than me and Grandfather, no one else in this world can cure it. And the two of us will definitely not treat him, so let’s just watch, Old Eighth suffering so much that death would be better in comparison, it is quite exciting.”
Xuan Tianming nodded in satisfaction, but still reminded her, “You need to control the development of the illness, he cannot die before the dispelling of the Gu poison.”
“Don’t worry.” Feng Yuheng said, “I have calculated everything, this illness will not kill anyone quickly, but it will make that part of his rot away little by little, the process is very satisfying.”
The morning of the second day of the New Year, the cheer of the New Year was spread around the imperial palace. The Emperor had Imperial Concubine Yuan Gui keeping him company this year and his mood was good. Moreover, those three imperial physicians told him that the Eighth Prince did not have a serious condition and was only allergic to something he ate, causing him to relax.
It was just that this cheer did not spread to every palace courtyard. For example, Jing Ci Palace, there was still a heavy atmosphere. The Emperor even refused the servants’ suggestion to get a stroll in the garden.
However, Jing Ci Palace welcomed an unexpected guest today, that guest was no one else but an imperial physician from the Imperial Health Hall, Sun Qi.
The Empress did not have many interactions with the Imperial Health Hall, even for routine pulse examinations, she did not specially name a certain imperial physician and use whoever is available. After so many years, the Imperial Health Hall was used to it. In fact, it was those concubines and noble ladies in the imperial harem would had their own specialised person and it was the Empress who was the easiest to serve.
With Sun Qi coming today, the Empress did not think too much and said: “Today is the second day of the New Year, why are you carrying out a routine examination of the pulse? In the past, wasn’t this only done after the fifth day of the New Year?”
Sun Qi knelt in front of the Empress and said respectfully: “Because His Highness the Eighth Prince took ill suddenly, it was said that it was due to food allergies, therefore the Imperial Health Hall specially arranged for a pulse taking for the various Highnesses in the palaces this morning just in case. This lowly one just happened to be sent to Your Highness the Empress.”
“Oh, is that so.” The Empress nodded, holding out her wrist, “Then you can examine it!”
Sun Qi moved forward while still on his knees and placed a piece of cloth of the Empress’ wrist, then reached out to lightly take her pulse. A short while later, he put down his hand, backing up again and said: “There is nothing majorly wrong with Your Highness the Empress, it is just that you have been a little heaty lately. After returning, This lowly one will prescribe a medicinal tea for Your Highness to get rid of some of the heat, Your Highness should drink it often.”
“Being heaty huh!” The Empress shrugged, saying coldly: “With the palace right now, who wouldn’t be heaty? Drinking tea is useless, you don’t have to be concerned about this and there is no need to bring medicine over, This One is aware.”
Unexpectedly, that Sun Qi looked up, stared at the Empress and spoke suddenly: “The Empress is still the mother of the nation and should not be defeated by an Imperial Concubine Gui!”
The Empress was stunned, and stared at Sun Qi with a sharp gaze……