Chapter 41

The street was crowded with people. Lin Nanjie followed closely behind Li Chenghuan, but was still pushed away by the crowd. He stretched his neck to look at Li Chenghuan's figure in front of him, but the crowd moved and he soon disappeared in the crowd.

Lin Nanqi couldn't help feeling a long-lost anxiety, and was surrounded by the crowd.

"Make way...please make way." Lin Nanjie said as he tried his best to move towards the palace.

At this moment, something unexpected happened. Suddenly, a strong and powerful middle-aged man's hand appeared in front of him and quickly covered his mouth and nose.

Then he felt the world spinning, his vision went dark, and he passed out unexpectedly.

[Fuck…]

While his consciousness was still remnant, Lin Nanjie was extremely shocked.

He actually encountered... kidnapping in public?

【God damn it! 】

【Who kidnapped the eunuch? 】

On the other side, Li Chenghuan was playing with the hairpin that he had taken from Lin Nanjie's hand. He glanced back, but there was no figure.

He suddenly turned around in the sea of ​​laughter and joy. The place where Lin Nanjie was originally following was full of unfamiliar faces, and he only heard an anxious heartbeat.

He stopped instantly.

"Father?" The little prince looked at him puzzledly.

Wang Dehai saw Li Chenghuan suddenly stop, so he also stopped. Seeing the solemn look on his face, he immediately asked, "Your Majesty?"

Why did you stop suddenly?

There was an urgency in Li Chenghuan's eyes that he himself was not aware of. His fingers were clenched in the wide sleeves of his robe, and his deep and long eyes were filled with fierceness as he searched the surging crowd.

The search was fruitless. Li Chengqian asked solemnly, "Where is Lin Nanjie?"

Wang Dehai searched everywhere and indeed lost any trace of Lin Nanjie.

He hesitated and asked, "Maybe there were too many people and they dispersed?"

It was getting late, and Wang Dehai was worried that something might happen if he stayed out too long, so he said, "Your Majesty, don't worry. The boy was probably separated by the crowd, and will probably return to the palace once the crowd has passed."

However, Li Chenghuan did not relax his brows because of Wang Dehai's words. He clearly heard Lin Nanjie's last words.

——Damn it, who kidnapped the eunuch.

They were visiting incognito today, he was not wearing a dragon robe, and Lin Nanjie was not wearing an eunuch uniform. Li Chenghuan remembered that he was only wearing a gray suit that was no different from that of an ordinary person, and no one could tell that he was an eunuch working in the palace.

Li Chengqian's eyes turned cold. Someone had kidnapped his person right under his nose.

What a courage.

Li Chenghuan's face turned pale, and he summoned the commander of the imperial guards, Ao Jingchuan, and said, "Lin Nanqi is missing, send someone to look for him immediately!"

When Ao Jingchuan was urgently summoned by Li Chengqian, he thought something big had happened, so he knelt on one knee and bowed his head to accept the order.

When he heard that it was a small eunuch who was missing, a look of surprise appeared on his face.

He thought for a moment and replied, "Your Majesty, there are many people tonight. Eunuch Lin may have been unable to catch up with the crowd and was dispersed. It should be fine. Call in, I will escort Your Majesty and His Highness back to the palace first."

Li Chengqian's deep voice revealed a hint of anger: "Go find it if I tell you to!"

Ao Jingchuan was shocked and didn't dare to say anything more.

"I will take people to look for him now!"

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After not knowing how long he had been unconscious, Lin Nanjie slowly opened his eyes. What came into view was a warm room. The room was very spacious, with a light gauze curtain hanging over the bed, and white jade and gold hooks hanging on the curtain.

Lin Nanjie was lying on a large bed which was much wider than the outer room, and his eyes were filled with unfamiliar sights.

If I hadn't remembered that I was dizzy, I would have almost thought that I had returned to the home of luxury.

I supported myself on the bed with my hands and was about to stand up when my head started spinning again.

"hiss--"

"What a powerful drug."

Lin Nanqi sat up on the bed and looked around the strange room in front of him, wondering what kind of place he was in.

He only remembered being separated by the crowd, and when he was about to catch up with Lee Seung-hyun, someone covered his mouth and nose. The person's handkerchief was soaked with sleeping pills, and he passed out after taking a whiff of it.

When I woke up again, I was here.

He felt under his body and found himself lying on an extremely soft and comfortable bed.

When Lin Nanjie saw the unfamiliar clothes on her body, she almost jumped out of bed!

The dress was gorgeous and thin, and was not at all the one she wore when she left the palace.

His clothes had been changed.

Lin Nanjie suddenly became nervous.

His identity as a fake eunuch won’t be discovered, right?

Lin Nanjie's heart suddenly started beating like a drum.

He hurriedly opened his collar and lifted the hem of his clothes, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the clothes inside were still the ones he was wearing.

It's okay.

He only took off his coat, not all his clothes.

In the midst of the chaos, someone suddenly pushed the door open. A woman dressed as a maid walked in and stopped beside his bed.

Seeing that he was awake, the maid said, "Master, are you awake? Please follow me."

Lin Nanqi was a little confused: "Where is this?"

The maid had a stern face, and seemed very reluctant to come on this errand: "Don't ask questions that you don't need to ask. Come with me quickly."

When you live under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.

Lin Nanjie is still unclear about the current situation and can only take one step at a time. He doesn't know whether the Dog Emperor will find out that he is missing and send people to look for him.

But he was just a little eunuch.

I guess there's little hope.

Lin Nan sighed, resigned himself to his fate, got out of bed, and followed the maid out of the room.

The house was already very grand, but when I left the house, I found that it was simply not worth mentioning. This mansion can be said to be full of carved beams and painted buildings, with a beautiful view every ten steps. I don’t know which noble man’s mansion in the capital is so grand.

Along the way, Lin Nanjie tried to strike up a conversation, but apart from the maid's name being Chanyi, he was unable to get any useful information out.

For now, we can only wait and see.

Finally, Lin Nanjie followed Chanyi to a magnificent courtyard, walked through the courtyard, and stopped in front of a water pavilion.

It was just after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and the weather was still very cold, but the water pavilion was warm as spring, with plum blossoms blooming around the pavilion, emitting a faint fragrance. Not to mention the many charcoal braziers placed around the pavilion, all burning smokeless silver charcoal, and pieces of light gauze hanging from the eaves, gently fluttering, like mist rising from the water, ethereal and moving.

There were figures moving quietly in the soft smoke, and in the middle was a woman's figure sitting.

Although the wealthy families in Beijing all wear gold and silver, it is a rare luxury to use so much silver carbon to make a water pavilion as warm as spring in such a cold weather.

Lin Nanqi couldn't help but secretly wonder whose house this was and why he was captured.

Chanyi gently raised his arms, lifted up the light gauze that looked like soft smoke, and said to the woman respectfully: "The Ninth Young Master has been brought here."

When Lin Nanjie heard this title suddenly, he was confused for a moment.

The Ninth Young Master?

Are you calling him?

At the maid's whispered urging, Lin Nan walked hesitantly into the soft gauze curtain, and saw a gorgeous woman with pearl hairpins and a bright face.

The woman had her hair in a bun, and her beautiful face was filled with a nobleness and a hint of arrogance that could not be violated. Her beautiful eyes were looking at him.

Chanyi followed in and reminded Lin Nanqi impatiently from behind: "You're meeting the princess, but you still don't show respect?"

The eldest princess?

Lin Nanjie looked at the gorgeous woman in front of him in amazement, and finally matched the person in his mind!

Da Qi had only one eldest princess, named Li Yunluan, who was Li Chenghuan's half-sister.

Li Yuanluan had been a darling since childhood, and after Li Chengqian ascended the throne, he also took great care of this eldest sister.

But the most famous things about this princess were, first, she married a lame prince consort, second, she took in many male favorites within three years of her marriage, and third, she was demoted to a commoner due to the seven reasons for divorce, and was despised by people all over the world.

Lin Nanjie thought of Chanyi's words "Ninth Young Master" and suddenly realized something, and his pupils trembled.

Has he become the eldest princess' ninth male favorite? ? ?

Lin Nanqi stuttered for a moment and lowered his head: "I...I have seen the princess before."

Li Yunluan's eyes look somewhat similar to Li Chenghuan's. She looks at people with an air of majesty without even getting angry. Her gaze falls on Lin Nanjie, and she says nonchalantly, "Raise your head so I can have a look."

Lin Nanjie had no choice but to raise his head.

After seeing Lin Nanjie's face clearly, Li Yunluan was slightly distracted.

The temperament of the man in front of me was between that of a teenager and a young man. He was wearing a light blue gauze dress, which outlined his slender figure, like a bamboo pole. He had a handsome face, especially his eyes, which were slightly peach blossom eyes and approachable. Even when he was not smiling, he looked like he was smiling, which made people want to get close to him. But his dark eyes were clear and cool, like a spring water in spring, without any impurities.

She originally thought he was just an ordinary man with some good looks, but this now piqued her interest.

"From now on, you will be called Jiu."

Before figuring out the situation, Lin Nanjie decided to hold back.

"Thank you, Princess, for the name."

"Ajiu, come over to me." Li Yunluan waved to Lin Nanjie.

Lin Nan was silent for a moment, thinking that he might have some problems with the Li family. It was okay for him to be exploited by the dog emperor on a regular basis.

She was kidnapped on the street and taken to the Princess's Mansion.

It's actually a male pet?

Is this an unspoken rule in the workplace?

Lin Nanjie became nervous instantly. What kind of relationship was this that was difficult to sort out?

He was Li Chenghuan's eunuch, and now he has become the ninth male favorite of the eldest princess.

...sister...sister-in-law?

Seeing Lin Nanjie's hesitation, Li Yunluan couldn't help but laugh out loud: "What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that I will eat you?"

Lin Nanqi: [I’m not afraid of you eating me, I’m afraid of your brother eating me. ]

[If the dog emperor knew that I had become his eldest sister's male pet, he would have to kill me. ]

Li Yunluan suddenly had a hint of doubt in her eyes: "What dog? Who is talking?"

Lin Nanqi's eyebrows twitched and he also showed a puzzled expression.

Chanyi looked around and shook his head: "To reply to the princess, no one was talking just now."

Li Yunluan pressed his eyebrows, poured a glass of wine and drank it: "Maybe I heard it wrong."

As the wine entered her throat, Li Yunluan felt the bitterness in her heart being suppressed.

Chanyi advised her distressedly: "Princess, the imperial physician said that drinking alcohol is not conducive to pregnancy, so you should drink less."

Li Yunluan sneered: "Nursing to get pregnant, how ridiculous. I am the eldest princess of the palace, and I have to beg him to have sex with me to get pregnant? It's simply a big joke!"

Chanyi bit her lower lip and said, "I am sorry to say something disrespectful. They have never treated you as a princess in all these years. Why do you have to be like this?"

"The medicine is delivered continuously, but the Prince Consort hasn't stayed overnight for a long time."

As she spoke, Chanyi's eyes became red. "Besides, the third young lady has already found someone, but the wedding date hasn't been set yet, and the old lady is in a hurry to say that the third young lady's dowry will all come from the princess. It doesn't make sense for the dowry of the younger sister-in-law to come from the sister-in-law's private storehouse."

"It seems that the princess's private vault is almost completely taken away by them."

"I have never suffered such injustice in the palace before."

Lin Nanjie watched from the side, thinking that since Li Yunluan had a male pet, she should be hot-tempered. But she didn't react at all after hearing what he said, and said woodenly, "Who made me owe him?"

Chanyi wiped away her tears: "It's just that the princess is kind-hearted. Who would care if it were someone else..."

"Shut up!" Li Yunluan yelled.

"Don't say it, I know it all in my heart."

"Maybe it would be better if I had a child."

Chanyi held back her tears and dared not say anything more. She picked up the soup beside her and said, "Princess, drink some nourishing soup while it's hot. This is what the Prince Consort asked the kitchen to make and send over."

The arrogance on Li Yunluan's face was slowly replaced by complexity. She slowly put down the wine glass, looked at the black medicine with closed eyelashes, brought it over, closed her eyes and was about to drink it all in one gulp.

Lin Nanjie looked at the black medicine and blurted out: "Sometimes it's the man's fault if he can't have a baby!"

Maid Chanyi: ...

Li Yunluan, who was about to take medicine, said: …

The prince consort who had just stepped into the yard: ???