[Emperor Chapter 6] Punishing the Stubborn Slave That

night, outside the side hall of Qiu Xi.

"Hey, do you think we can catch him?"

"Of course we can. We can catch the bastard who saves the star of death!"

"Who do you think is so brave? Do you think your life is too long? How dare you help a prince who is even disliked by the emperor?"

"Haha, we will know after we catch him tonight."

"That's right! Hehe, don't tell me, the steamed buns yesterday were really delicious, much better than the meals delivered in the past. It's all thanks to the star of death!"

"See you steal the food from the star of death every day, you will get fat to death sooner or later!"

"You are not what I meant! Humph, we both put in a lot of effort to get into the Chuseok, but we ended up serving an abandoned prince, and he's so ugly. Alas, that face, we saw it every day, and we had nightmares every night at the beginning! What's wrong with eating something from him? Anyway, he's like that, maybe he'd die that day!"

"Yeah, why did the queen ask the emperor to keep him? He's so ugly, he doesn't look like the emperor's offspring. It would be better if he went with his mother."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, you're talking nonsense about the emperor, are you going to kill yourself!"

The winter night was cold and the night was getting darker and foggy. The crescent moon in the sky was covered by large dark clouds, reflecting only a hazy and dim light.

The two eunuchs chattered for a long time, breathing out cold air. Later, they stopped talking and squatted beside the palace wall, looking around with their heads hunched. A gust of cold wind blew by, and they both shivered at the same time.

"Do you think this man will come today? I'm almost freezing to death."

"Why are you in such a hurry? It's only midnight now. Didn't we hear the noise yesterday at midnight?"

"Hey, it's the middle of the night, I feel panicky..." One of the eunuchs, Xiao Dezi, shrank his neck, looked at the foggy palace corridor, and moved his ears. He whispered to his companion, "Little Li, did you hear any noise?"

"What noise?" Little Li shouted sharply, "Don't scare yourself!"

"Son... Prince... My... Prince..." A faint female voice echoed softly in the empty palace corridor, sometimes far away, sometimes close, the words were intermittent, making it difficult to hear clearly.

The two eunuchs looked at each other and got goosebumps all over their skin. Little Li said with a stiff face, "Who is playing tricks there? Come out! Be careful or we'll call the guards to arrest you!"

"My son... Achen... where are you... your mother is here to pick you up..." Following the voice, the two eunuchs raised their stiff necks. A woman in white clothes and disheveled hair was standing on the palace wall, facing them dimly. When

the name came out, Little Li's eyes widened, and his trembling voice revealed his nervousness: "Meng, noble lady Meng?"

"My son..." the woman's voice said dimly, and the voice seemed to echo beside the two of them, "Are these two servants the ones who left you with only one breath left?" What

scared Little Dezi and Little Li even more was that next to the woman in white was the sixth prince Jing Shen, who should have been lying on the bed!

"Yes, that's them..." His eyes glowed with a strange red light in the night, and his face, half wrinkled and half handsome, was pale and bloodless, like a dead person, and looked ghostly under the moonlight.

"They don't give me food or clothes... Mother... Take them away with you..." The child's voice was cold and emotionless.

"Okay, let them go to hell together and serve my prince..."

Hearing this, Xiao Dezi and Xiao Lizi suddenly felt that their necks were slowly strangled by something invisible, and they began to have difficulty breathing.

Little Dezi was so frightened that his legs were shaking. A puddle of water slowly formed on the ground. Little Lizi knelt down with cold sweat on his back and begged for mercy: "Mr. Meng, please spare my life! Sixth Prince, please spare my life! I was wrong! I will never dare to do it again! Please don't take my life!"

"Please spare my life! Mr. Meng, please spare my life! I deserve to die! No, no, no, I can't die. Mr. Meng, please don't take my life. I will pay tribute to you every day. Please spare my life!"

"Hmph," Chu Jiao, pretending to be 'Noble Meng', sneered, "You lowly slaves, how dare you abuse my son and snatch his food, leaving him on the verge of death. I will make sure you die!"

Little Li was smarter and immediately caught the flaw deliberately revealed by 'Noble Meng's' mouth, "On the verge of death? The Sixth Prince is not dead yet!?"

Chu Jiao snorted coldly, "The five souls and three spirits have left the body, and he is not far from death... I am here to pick him up..."

"Mr. Meng, please spare my life! I will go to the Imperial Hospital to ask for the imperial physician right away. Your Majesty, our death is a small matter. The Sixth Prince may still be saved!" Little Lizi said hurriedly, and Little Dezi also agreed. The two of them were now trying every possible way to survive. There was no trace of their previous arrogance.

Chu Jiao felt the strength of the child's hand holding hers, and she gently returned the hand, pinched him, and told him to be calm.

"Even if my son doesn't die this time, he may be harmed by you slaves tomorrow! It's better for him to follow me to the underworld..."

The two little eunuchs were scared out of their wits, "No! No! Your Majesty, don't worry, we will do our best to treat the Sixth Prince in the future, and we will never dare to overstep the line again!"

"Yes, yes, yes, if you break the oath, you will be struck by lightning!"

Chu Jiao stopped, "Hmph, just believe me for a while..."

Xiao Dezi and Xiao Lizi felt a pain in their arms, looked down, and saw a blood mark on their wrists, "I will take your blood, and I will know your movements... If you dare to harm my prince again, I will come to take your lives!"

The two eunuchs were shocked and scared, but they could only kowtow and promise that they would never do it again. Chu Jiao waved her hand and asked the two to go to the Imperial Hospital to ask for the imperial physician. The two ran out in a hurry, not daring to look back.

When everyone was far away, Chu Jiao jumped down from the big banyan tree with the children.

Just now, they took advantage of the time and place to scare the two villains.

"Sixth Prince, I have to take the necessary measures in this matter. I hope you won't be angry that I took advantage of your mother's name without permission."

Chu Jiao took off the white veil from her head and said to the child who was a head shorter than her.

Jing Chen shook his head, "Thank you, Dumpling."

How could I blame you? You saved me again. He said in his heart. And... if my mother was really as gentle and smart as you, it would be great.

My life wouldn't be so difficult.

Looking at the eunuch with his hair loose and his face as beautiful as jade in the moonlight, Jing Chen suddenly felt a little regretful.

Xiao Dumpling...it would be so nice if she was a girl.