“Your Highness, completing the formation for the three cities requires a total of thirty high-grade spirit stones.
These thirty spirit stones can ensure the formation will operate for ten years."
Ji Wan nodded and looked up to see Tuoba Feng still standing there reporting.
"Have you eaten? Sit down and have dinner together."
Tuoba Feng thought for a while, and seeing Ji Wan eating with such delightful aroma, he sat down as well.
Thousands of miles away, the imperial palace.
"Why didn't the emperor have dinner with the empress?" Looking at the emperor who suddenly appeared, the imperial concubine reached out and picked up a strand of her hair, and asked with a little curiosity.
"I don't like to go. You make me feel more comfortable here." She replied to the emperor in bright yellow clothes opposite her.
"Fuguang sent someone to deliver a letter today, my beloved. Did the child write to you as well?"
Ji Yuanheng walked up to Xiling Mingyue in just a few steps and reached out to hold his beloved concubine's soft little hand.
How could Xiling Mingyue let him succeed? She stepped back modestly and glanced at the emperor with her raised eyes.
Indescribable charm and femininity.
The emperor was so hooked that he almost lost his soul and his heart was lifted up.
"Fuguang is a filial child, of course he would write to me.
It was that child that made Mingyue feel really distressed."
The emperor also knew what was going on and reached out to pull Xiling Mingyue.
"Good Mingyue, I know you feel bad for Fu Guang, I will definitely help you deal with those servants in the Shanggong Bureau.
Those slaves actually picked so many people who didn't know the rules to help Fu Guang.
Don't worry, Mingyue. I will issue an order soon to severely punish those dog slaves. Beat them to death with sticks."
Now the emperor finally pulled the imperial concubine's soft and boneless little hand.
"Fu Guang is Ming Yue's only child, and also my own flesh and blood. After all, she is the princess I personally conferred upon her.
I will never forgive these dogs for bullying my Xiao Mingyue and my Fu Guang.
Come, pass on the decree: the maidservants of the Shanggong Bureau who have committed treason and disrespected the princess shall be beaten to death with clubs."
Xiling Mingyue glanced at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, isn't it too disheartening for your servants to be punished like this?"
It would be better if the emperor conducted a thorough investigation. If the maid in charge of the Shanggong Bureau really made a mistake, it would not be too late to punish her harshly.
Otherwise, if you treat your servants arbitrarily, they will criticize the emperor again."
Xiling Mingyue deliberately wanted the emperor to investigate so that the people in the palace and the queen would not use this name to embarrass Fu Guang.
They said she had misled the emperor and made false accusations without investigating the facts.
When the emperor heard this, he felt that it made sense. His beloved concubine was indeed thinking about him.
He ordered the eunuch behind him, "Go and investigate this Shang Gong Bureau thoroughly to see what's going on. If there's really a problem, drag him out and beat him to death."
The young eunuch bowed and said "yes", then slowly retreated.
Xiling Mingyue then showed a smile on her face and became more friendly to the emperor.
With a sway of her waist, she fell into the emperor's arms: "Your Majesty, Mingyue took countless risks to give birth to Fuguang. Now Fuguang has his own fiefdom, so he can be considered a grown-up child. More than ten years have passed in the blink of an eye."
The emperor also caressed his beloved concubine's waist with satisfaction. After hearing what she said, he remembered what happened.
It was just found out a few years ago that if the Queen had not drugged Xiao Mingyue, Fu Guang's child would not have been born with a disability.
As a result, he and his beloved Xiao Mingyue were separated for more than ten years due to misunderstandings and torture.
It was also the Queen's fault. Years ago, she had the audacity to secretly threaten him with the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, saying that only one of Xiao Mingyue and Fu Guang could come back to him.
He had no choice but to give up Fu Guang and let his young child suffer in the fiefdom.
Now, seeing his beloved concubine missing Fu Guang day and night, he couldn't help but feel distressed.
As for the news about the immortal cultivators that Fu Guang brought back, he didn't take it seriously at all.
A cultivator who has fallen out of the [realm] is nothing but trash and not worth worrying about.
Crown Prince Ji Qin received the news in the middle of the night.
A maid in the Shanggong Bureau was executed on the grounds that she had withheld the salary of Concubine Xiling Mingyue for decades.
At this moment, he was standing in his bedroom without even turning his head.
"Did the Emperor discover that the maid from the Shanggong Bureau was doing something?"
"Your Highness, the Emperor didn't realize it was the Fourth Princess Ji Fuguang who wrote a memorial to the Emperor, complaining that this maidservant had died."
The man behind him said without hesitation.
Ji Qin laughed out loud.
"Ji Fuguang? That broken-legged dog with a broken leg? What? That dead dog hasn't barked for so many years, and now it suddenly barks? Just as despicable as that slutty mother of hers."
Wang Changshou looked at the arrogant Crown Prince in front of him and knew that he was very angry at the moment.
The maid of the Shanggong Bureau has been a scapegoat for many years, helping His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to commit many evil deeds in the palace.
Even with the help of the maids in the Shanggong Bureau, the emperor and his concubines could have a romantic encounter with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
Now that the maid of the Shanggong Bureau is dead, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not be able to go to the harem for at least a long time. At least until the next nail is planted, His Royal Highness cannot go.
"Your Highness, calm down. I can help you put new nails in the harem as soon as possible."
"Hmph, then hurry up, I really want to taste the taste of Concubine Shu.
And what's so different about Xiling Mingyue's barbarian appearance that could make my father so fascinated by her?
But it doesn't matter. After I ascend the throne, Xiling Mingyue, Concubine Shu, and even the entire harem will all belong to me."
"All of this belongs to you alone? Prince, you are really too ostentatious.
How dare you say such words in front of me?"
A voice that did not belong to Wang Changshou appeared behind him. Ji Qin was frightened and turned around to see Duke Zhenguo Cui Renjie wearing a black robe.
Staring at him coldly, Wang Changshou stood aside in silence.
Ji Qin subconsciously restrained the arrogant expression on his face and returned to the appearance of a gentle and elegant young man.
"Uncle? Why is uncle here? Please take a seat. Wang Changshou, please serve tea."
Cui Renjie glared at the prince and ordered Wang Changshou, "Step back. You don't need to serve me here."
Then he turned to look at the prince, who was in a white nightgown, with his hair disheveled and looking a mess.
He slowly shook his head, sighed, and began his daily sermon: "Prince, you are the future emperor, and as an emperor you should act like an emperor.
This is unbecoming. If he continues to behave this way after ascending the throne, the civil officials will remonstrate with him."
Ji Qin nodded, looking willing to learn.
Seeing this, Cui Renjie didn't say anything more and just started talking about the main purpose of his visit today.
"I've taken care of the maid's family, so there's no need to worry.
I also ordered someone to secretly read the letter that Ji Fuguang wrote to the emperor, and she didn't say it was my fault.
However, the imperial concubine in the palace felt very aggrieved in front of the emperor.
But this imperial concubine has no prince, so it's not worth making a fuss about.
Although a nail was broken, we didn't lose much, so it doesn't matter.
When you ascend the throne, you will be nothing more than a concubine, and you can have whatever you want."
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