"It's her!" Consort Yi's face was extremely ugly.
"Does Your Highness know that young girl?" Jin Sui asked, somewhat surprised.
"Qi Yanchang married a widow in some remote mountain village. That widow has a daughter. I heard from someone last time that that brat knows some Taoist arts and sets up a stall in the south of the city. She's said to be very accurate at fortune telling, and since her fees are cheap, she's very popular with the common people. A few days ago, she even had some incredible luck and got a spirit beast." Consort Yi sneered as she spoke, "You said it's a young girl, and she has a golden eagle spirit beast with her. Who else could it be but her?"
Consort Yi didn't take the spirit beast seriously. People in the Great Yan Dynasty cherished spirit beasts, but as a princess of the Jiyuan Kingdom, she didn't think spirit beasts were anything special.
In her view, there was little difference between spirit beasts and demon beasts; it was just that people generally thought spirit beasts were better.
The monsters are still very powerful.
In the Kingdom of Jiyuan, demons roam freely. Their royal family has raised many demons for their own use. Before she got married, she had a demon as her maid, responsible for protecting her.
However, she later married into the Great Yan Dynasty, where keeping demons was forbidden, so her two maids didn't come with her.
Jin Sui's eyes widened upon hearing this.
A little girl who only knows some Taoist arts was able to subdue a spirit beast. Just as the Empress said, she really got lucky.
"Your Majesty, she killed the bird spirit Yunniang. I met Yunniang when I was ordered to return to Jiyuan Kingdom last time. She was a great demon whom the Emperor trusted very much and often helped the royal family deal with some tricky matters. Apart from being a bit lecherous, she had no other faults. I never expected that she would die at the hands of that little girl. And... and me, I am seriously injured and I'm afraid I won't recover. Your Majesty must avenge us." Jin Sui said angrily.
Even if that little girl is very strong, with the Empress here, she is nothing to fear.
The main point is that within the territory of the Great Yan Dynasty, there is no one the Empress cannot kill.
Even the once arrogant Empress and Crown Prince were eliminated by their own concubine. How could a little girl possibly cause any trouble?
"Don't worry, I will absolutely not let her off the hook," Consort Yi said in a deep voice.
"Your Majesty, the letter His Majesty wrote to you has been snatched away by that young girl. Your Majesty must strike first to prevent her from using that letter against you," Jin Sui reminded her.
"What was written in the letter?" Consort Yi asked in a deep voice.
"I heard from Yunniang that it's about elixirs," Jin Sui said quickly.
Consort Yi's face darkened immediately upon hearing this.
Of course, her elder brother would never give that old man a real longevity pill.
As long as her son becomes the crown prince and the old man dies, she can control the entire Great Yan Dynasty. Of course, she wouldn't give him a real elixir to keep the old man alive forever.
If the contents of that letter were truly related to elixirs, and the old man found out she had schemed against him, then she would be doomed.
"Come with me to see the Emperor." Consort Yi gritted her teeth and led several palace maids to find the Emperor.
It was already late, and the emperor was about to retire for the night when he heard that Consort Yi had arrived, so he let her into his bedchamber.
"Your Majesty, why don't you come and keep me company?" Consort Yi took the emperor's arm and leaned against him coquettishly.
"I have matters to attend to, so I won't be visiting you," the emperor said with a smile.
He'll be seventy next year, how can he go looking for women every day, especially Consort Yi? That woman is really scary. He thought she was good when he was young, but he definitely couldn't handle her now.
If I went to her palace every day, I'd probably be dead by now.
"Your Majesty, there is something you must do for me," Consort Yi said pitifully, squeezing out a tear.
"What happened?" the emperor asked hurriedly.
He still felt a little strange, after all... Consort Yi was now in charge of the harem, everyone was afraid of her, and no one dared to bully her.
Those people outside were even less likely to dare to do so.
"Your Majesty, my brother sent me a longevity pill, the one you've always wanted. Because the journey is long and fraught with danger, my brother sent a bird spirit instead. But it was killed as soon as it arrived in the capital, and the pill was stolen. Your Majesty…"
Before Consort Yi could finish speaking, the Emperor interrupted her: "Who is it?"
On the territory of the Great Yan Dynasty, who dared to kill the envoy sent by the Emperor of Jiyuan Kingdom and steal his longevity pill?
That was the elixir he had been longing for for over a year.
With that elixir, he could live to be at least a hundred years old.
"Your Majesty, it's your good son Qi Yanchang's stepdaughter. She relies on having a spirit beast and doesn't respect anyone else. She's not one of the Ten Great Daoist Sects, so it's none of her business what happens in the capital. But when she saw the demon beast appear in the capital, she killed it without any explanation. She also stole the elixirs the demon beast brought. Everything I've said is true. If Your Majesty doesn't believe me, feel free to send someone to investigate. After the bird spirit was killed, the small wooden box she brought fell into that wretched girl's hands," Consort Yi hurriedly said.
Upon hearing this, the emperor rose and looked out the window.
It was getting dark, but he couldn't wait any longer; he wanted to get to the bottom of things today.
"Someone, send someone to find Qi Yanchang and have him bring the Ye family's daughter to the palace to meet the Emperor," the Emperor said in a deep voice.
Consort Yi's expression turned somewhat unpleasant upon hearing this.
Even she couldn't remember that the family's surname was Ye, but the busy emperor remembered it clearly, which shows that the old man still cared about Qi Yanchang.
On the surface, he stripped Qi Jiu of his title and reduced him to a commoner, but he tacitly allowed the Prince Duan's family to take care of Qi Jiu and was fully aware of everything that happened around Qi Jiu.
He still cared about this legitimate son after all.
If she had known this would happen, she would have gone all the way and made the emperor think that Qi Yanchang wasn't his biological son either, and then killed him as well.
Consort Yi was filled with hatred, but on the surface, everything remained as normal.
...
Taoyuanju was doing good business today. When Ye Xianya and Qi Chengshuo returned, they found the place packed with people.
"Let's go to my fortune-telling room. It's empty over there. I'll take a look at your chest," Ye Xianya said as she went inside.
It was already getting dark inside, so Ye Xianya asked Furong to bring in a lamp.
"Take off your clothes," Ye Xianya said without turning her head, putting down the cloth bag she was carrying.
Qi Chengshuo was taken aback upon hearing this.
"What's wrong?" Ye Xianya turned around and saw him still standing there dumbfounded, so she quickly asked.
"I...you..." Qi Chengshuo didn't know what to say.
"Don't men and women have to touch each other? Most Taoist practitioners also study medicine. In the eyes of doctors, there is no distinction between men and women. Are you going to look at me or not? Why are you being so fussy, you big man? Do you think I, a young girl, would try to take advantage of you?" Ye Xianya asked, her eyes wide.
"No, that's not what I meant." Qi Chengshuo quickly shook his head, untied his belt, took off his outer robe, and then opened the collar to reveal his muscular chest.
Without saying a word, Ye Xianya reached out and touched it, then pressed it.
Qi Chengshuo blushed immediately.
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