Chapter 145 You ask so many questions, but you can’t afford it
Before they even entered the hall, the emperor was almost choked by the huge pieces of cake she stuffed him with.
Thinking back on it, this girl's system seems to be really useful!
If she were placed in a border town, could she also be used to find out the enemy's details and then catch the turtle in the jar?
He narrowed his eyes slightly and ignored the first half of her words.
The Queen left the palace...what a joke.
She could only stay in the palace, by his side, for the rest of her life, and even after her death she would be buried with him.
Although Wang didn't dare to look around openly along the way, she secretly glanced at every place she passed.
Everything in this palace was far beyond her imagination, and it also made her desire for power and status rise even more.
On the way here, Lu Xinran talked to Lu Xinlan about the purpose of the emperor letting them enter the palace, and also talked about the reason why Wang was allowed to enter the palace.
At this moment, she looked at the booklet in the system and saw Wang's ever-growing ambitions, and couldn't help but sigh slightly.
In Yongshou Palace, the empress dowager finally woke up from her boredom and sat up straight, waiting for the palace maid to bring Wang in.
If it weren't for Lu Xinran and the so-called system, they would probably never know for the rest of their lives that the Miao border insects actually existed.
She looked at Wang, who walked in tremblingly behind the palace maid, her eyes passing over her collar, and she already had some guesses in her mind.
Wang didn't expect that the emperor was also here. Her legs trembled and she knelt on the ground subconsciously as soon as she entered the room.
The emperor looked down at her, his eyes sweeping across her lapels, and was obviously a little shocked by how shabby she looked.
The seventh-rank officials in the capital...can't they live a decent life?
After Lu Xinran and her sister bowed and paid their respects, the Empress Dowager skillfully gave them seats.
The two of them sat aside obediently, waiting for the emperor's questions.
"Ms. Zhang Wang, how much do you know about the Miaojiang insects?"
Wang was so shocked by this sudden question that she almost collapsed to the ground.
She had already had doubts in her heart when she had not seen her two granddaughters in the palace just now. When she heard the emperor's question, she thought that her plan had failed, and in panic she quickly thought about how to cover up the matter.
"Ms. Zhang Wang, you should know what the consequences of deceiving me are."
Wang's body trembled again and again, she didn't want to know!
Lu Xinran didn't expect the emperor to ask so directly, and he didn't expect that the emperor actually discovered the problems with Zhang Yuhe and her sister.
Is there anyone in this palace who is proficient in the art of witchcraft?
Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that the emperor discovered them as soon as Wang brought them out in public.
The emperor glanced at her calmly. There was indeed a capable person by his side!
Wang only struggled for a moment before she accepted her fate and told her in great detail how the Miao people in the mansion came to her and what kind of insects they had taught her to raise over the years.
Lu Xinran was very serious when she heard about the insect that can make people thin and beautiful.
She also wants one of this auspicious sign!
"So, raising maggots not only requires letting them devour each other, but also requires feeding them with various precious medicinal herbs?"
"Yes, the more powerful the insect is, the more medicinal herbs and treasures it needs to devour. I cannot afford to support it. Over the years, I have only raised two to feed my granddaughter."
The two she raised were just simplified versions of shrinking the water, after all, the Zhang family was too poor...
The emperor pondered, and his gaze once again drifted towards Lu Xinran without any expression. Seeing her looking into the void with bright eyes, he knew that she was digging up Wang's past.
[Found it, finally found it! ]
[This slimming and body-beautifying insect is surprisingly easy to maintain, and the cost is only one year of the person's life. ]
[It's only been a year! I can earn it back by eating more melons. The more I think about it, the more I earn! It's a huge profit, hahahahaha~]
In an instant, the emperor's ears were filled with the sound of laughter following ecstasy.
There is no other doubt in my heart that the past is not a lie.
He nodded sternly, "Write down all the ways you know to feed crickets!"
Wang nodded with trembling head, stood up with shaking legs and went to the side hall to write something.
The Queen Mother looked at Wang, who had confessed her mistake very quickly, and couldn't help but sigh and shake her head.
She didn't know what she wanted to sigh about, but she felt a little annoyed by Wang's obviously old clothes.
Is it really worthwhile to sacrifice basic decency just to raise crickets?
The side hall was close, and Lu Xinran never stopped flipping through the booklet.
[If the emperor wants to raise pigs, doesn't he also want to raise pigs? 】
[Hasn't he already been raising the princes as if they were insects, waiting for them to kill each other? Now he wants to raise real insects? ]
[But even he can't afford to raise them. All the species in the Wang Clan need to be fed with natural treasures.]
[The value of those treasures is enough for the imperial court to support the border soldiers for ten years.]
emperor:"……"
So he was busy for two days, but it was all in vain, right?
After Wang wrote the feeding plan and Eunuch Fu presented it to the emperor, the emperor finally understood what she meant by "can't afford to raise the child".
Thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, ten-thousand-year-old ginseng, black jade chalcedony from the depths of Kunlun, dragon tendons from deep-sea dragons... Use these to raise the Dragon King...
When the emperor looked at the two types written at the front, his face turned into that of an old man looking at his mobile phone.
Why would he feed such a rare tonic to a worm instead of taking it himself?
Moreover, the dragon tendon of the deep-sea dragon...what is this thing!
If there had been no defense in his mind, he would have thought that he had been deceived by this ignorant fool.
"These..."
He was about to ask when Wang seemed to have guessed what he was going to ask and knelt down with a thud.
"Your Majesty, I have asked and tried to find out the authenticity of the feeding list. The news from Miaojiang shows that these treasures are indeed needed to feed the Pig King."
Although she didn't know what some of the things on the list were.
The emperor clutched the list, stood up angrily and strode away as the empress dowager tried hard to hold back her laughter.
After two days of hard work, he came up with nothing. This made him look even more stupid and like a tyrant!
Someone in my heart laughed so loudly. Seeing the emperor, who is so high and mighty, make a fool of himself is definitely a very rare experience, and perhaps it will never happen again.
Wang was still kneeling paralyzed on the ground, all the ambition she had when she came here now turned into fear.
She didn't know whether she, her granddaughters, and all the Zhang family members would survive.
"Get up, Yuhei, and take a seat."
"Yes, madam."
A palace maid placed a soft stool next to Lu Xinran. Wang hesitated, then stood up trembling and sat down tensely.
[I wonder if her two granddaughters have charmed the emperor! ]
[But those two are still young, the emperor...isn't a pedophile! ]