Ji Yingying returned to the main seat and was about to sit down when the emperor asked, "What did you do with Eunuch Cao?"
"Bribe him so he won't keep calling me," Ji Yingying said with a smile, but in her heart she was thinking: [Aren't you angry? I've even figured out the Emperor's intentions and bribed Eunuch Cao, hehe~ Quickly issue an edict to banish me from officialdom forever.]
As a result, the emperor waved his hand and Eunuch Cao was not so easily bribed.
Not long after, Eunuch Cao returned and whispered a few words in the Emperor's ear. The Emperor immediately glared at Ji Yingying and then fell silent.
It was obvious that she was angry, but Ji Yingying seemed to pretend not to see it.
Today, some officials above the fifth rank dared not breathe a word, even after Ji Yingying sat down in her seat, they did not dare to breathe, let alone look up.
It is an honor to be able to enter the palace today, and I can even hear the legendary Ji Yingying scolding the emperor.
The emperor was already used to it. Everyone says you can't touch a tiger's backside, but he had long since gotten used to touching his tiger's backside.
"Your Majesty, this is delicious!"
Ji Yingying picked up a piece of chicken and had a maid serve it to the Emperor. After seeing the chicken, the Emperor pondered for a moment and asked, "What are you trying to say?"
"Your Majesty, I would like to ask for leave tomorrow?"
"reason?"
I wanted to say that it will snow heavily tomorrow, and besides, Chinese New Year is just a month and a half away, so it's time for a holiday.
"I am not feeling well and would like to take a day off tomorrow."
"Someone, please bring Judge Liu here."
"Your Majesty, I am a physician, and I am well aware of my own health."
It's snowing already, why do you still want me to go to work? I don't want to go to work, I want to take a day off...!
"My dear minister, don't be lazy. There are still many things for you to do in the court. I heard that there are already quite a few bok choy ready to be harvested at the estate. I'll have the Minister of Agriculture bring you a bunch of greens when the time comes."
No one can eat this green vegetable yet, so it won’t hurt to give her a handful!
[Heh, just empty promises. I don't lack vegetables.] Ji Yingying certainly didn't. Ever since supermarkets came along, she'd never lacked modern food.
"Your Majesty..." Ji Yingying called out, clearly unhappy. The Crown Prince, standing nearby, said, "Yingying, don't bother asking for leave. There are only a few days left until the holiday. The end of the year is the time for auditing accounts. You're good at math, so why don't you go to the Ministry of Revenue tomorrow and help with the calculations?"
"Prince, when did you start exploiting the working people?"
[It's over, even the Crown Prince has turned bad.] Ji Yingying was utterly shocked.
"What if we change the crown prince now? A crown prince who doesn't exploit me."
[No way…]
Crown Prince: ...This sister can still be kept after a wash!
"Yingying, how about this, tomorrow you go to the Ministry of Revenue to help check the accounts, and tomorrow I will have the Crown Prince prepare a delicious chicken dish and send it over."
Ji Yingying gave him a disdainful look: [Are you crazy? You think a delicious meal can kill me?]
Do you think you can fool me with just a delicious meal? You think you can fool me? You've got two dishes to work with.
Even the crown prince couldn't help but fake a cough; it was hilarious!
"How about two? We can take them away."
This person knows me so well!
【No, why are you taking leave? I don't believe you're saying you're sick. Don't lie to me, I don't believe you. And what you're doing is self-deception!】
[Okay, actually, I've been recommending a lot of storybooks lately. I want to read them all, even if it means staying up all night. I just checked my spatial dimension and realized I've accumulated so many storybooks in the last six months. This won't do; I want to read them.]
Ji Yingying feels aggrieved. It seems like she has to go out every day recently, always doing this or that.
Moreover, she didn't even have time to sleep, especially at the Ministry of Works. Sometimes she would be tricked into going to the government office and wouldn't be able to leave for a whole day.
Going to Zhuangzi was even worse. She was like Baidu Encyclopedia, being asked questions every day.
Don't be fooled by the fact that she can go back right after court; by the time she gets back, it will already be dark.
It's dark. What does that mean?
Since her brother passed the imperial examination at the beginning of the month, she hasn't had any time.
Her person was forcibly split into several pieces for use. Today she was in the Ministry of Works, tomorrow in the Court of Judicial Review, and the day after in the Ministry of Justice. These two officials from the Ministry of Justice and the Court of Judicial Review came to snatch her away every day. The time she spent in the Ministry of Justice was the same time she had to spend in the Court of Judicial Review.
The same goes for the Ministry of Rites, the Ministry of Revenue, and the Ministry of War. These six ministers don't treat her as a human being and come to snatch her away as soon as the court is over.
I know it's the end of the year, busy, auditing accounts, dealing with all sorts of things, but I'm just a kid too. Look at me today, I still have to socialize. I'm so tired, I want to climb over the wall, I'd rather not go out at all, I'm just going to give up!
[I've been so busy lately, I haven't had much time to follow the gossip. If I don't catch some soon, my 500 points will be gone, and I might not even have any snacks left.]
"I'll laugh at your sister!" Ji Yingying ate her food listlessly.
"Yingying, tomorrow, give yourself five days to rest and come back to court after five days."
"Thank you, Your Majesty. You're so kind." She then ran up to him eagerly and gave him a bag of spicy strips.
"Here, have this as a bribe. It's Weilong spicy strips, you deserve it. But you're an old man, so you can't eat too much. Just have one pack tonight. If it's too spicy and you can't handle it, call the imperial physician!"
Emperor: ...and bribe him with a bag of spicy strips?
Do you really think he has never eaten it?
Ji Yingying had Fu Yunjie open a snack shop that sold a lot of modern snacks. They were expensive, but delicious. He once sent someone to have Eunuch Cao buy some of them.
It tastes really good and is quite addictive.
"Your Majesty, you are such a kind person. You are just like my father, tough on the outside but soft on the inside."
[This old man is becoming more and more amiable, completely different from when I first met him. Back then, he was like... well, his energy was incredibly depleted.]
[Their national treasury is now overflowing, they have plenty of grain, there are no reports of people freezing to death in the winter, and they have powerful weapons. Tell me, isn't that old man happy?]
[He's so happy! He's so happy right now.]
That's right, when the old man is happy, he naturally becomes kind.
【I'm so unhappy. I feel like a vengeful ghost right now, filled with resentment.】Then it evolved into her becoming a vengeful ghost in red, enveloping everything around her, and there was also... a skull hovering in the sky.
In short, she imagined a plot in which a vengeful ghost destroyed the world.
Ji Yingying was very happy after having a five-day holiday. When she was happy, she held the Coke bottle and drank it, a sip of Coke and a bite of meat. She was so happy!
When Ji Yingying returned from the palace, she fell asleep, and it was Nanny Xia who carried her back home.
She slept soundly until dawn. Ji Yingying lay in bed in a daze. Xia Mama and Apple kept trying to persuade her to get up, but she couldn't. She was so hungry that she finally got up to eat. Then she started reading storybooks. She read almost one a day.
"Brother, why are you dressed so flamboyantly today?"
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