Chapter 6

Lin Nanjie returned to the main room with the small bottle in her arms, feeling heavy-hearted. She had something on her mind and tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep well.

The brother who was sleeping in the bed next to him had already fallen into a deep sleep, snoring loudly, which made it even more impossible for Lin Nanjie to fall asleep. He stared blankly until the second half of the night, when he finally fell into a light sleep for two hours.

The next morning, Lin Nanjie woke up with dark circles under his eyes. He saw the person in the next bed getting up, and couldn't help but ask, "Can your snoring be cured?"

The eunuch in the next bed was called Ding Wen. He was quite fat and round, like a freshly steamed white flour bun, and even had two dimples on his face.

Ding Wen said embarrassedly: "Is it because I disturbed your sleep? Then I will wait until you fall asleep before I go to sleep tonight."

Although Lin Nanjie was a little unhappy because he didn't get enough sleep, he was also a person who was out of touch with the world, so he couldn't bear it, so he said, "It's okay, I'll plug my ears."

Ding Wen felt even more embarrassed: "Thank you."

The two of them left the room at about the same time, one heading east and the other heading west.

It was just getting light outside, with a few cold stars hanging in the sky, shining coldly and lonely. The silver moonlight sprinkled on the palace, like a layer of frost, and the deep red palace seemed to be covered with frost.

After entering the palace gate and taking the badge, Lin Nanjie headed straight for the Purple Palace. He walked quickly, holding the small bottle in his arms, and was full of thoughts, so he bumped into someone without noticing.

[If the dog emperor finds out, I won’t have enough heads to chop off… Ouch! ]

Then, a pair of soft little hands hugged his thighs.

Lin Nanqi looked down and met the eyes of a child of about three or four years old.

The child was very fair and had an outstanding appearance. He was wearing a red shirt and his nose was still red from the frost. It was obvious that he would grow up to be a very attractive child.

But now the child had a stern face, and looked at him with a pair of dark eyes with an extremely serious expression.

Lin Nanjie felt that the child looked familiar.

[Why do I feel like I look a bit like the Dog Emperor? ]

As their eyes met, a sharp and stern voice suddenly rang out:

"You are such a bold servant, you bumped into the prince and refused to kneel down!"

Lin Nanjie finally remembered who this was. There was only one child in the palace, the child of Li Chenghuan and the late queen, named Li Jingyu.

Next to him is the prince's wet nurse, Nanny Shi.

Lin Nanjie hurriedly saluted but was grabbed by the child.

Lin Nanqi: [? ]

What is this for?

The little prince said nothing, but just looked at Lin Nanjie eagerly.

Lin Nanjie didn't know whether to kneel or stand. He suddenly remembered that the little prince was privately called the Dumb Prince. When he was three years old, he had a serious illness that damaged his voice and he never spoke again.

Others thought that Li Jingyu would never be able to ascend the throne, because a mute person could not be the emperor. The imperial concubine had also planted people around him to prevent the prince from meeting the emperor more often.

Lin Nanqi smiled and said, "You have met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, but are you going to meet the Emperor?"

The little prince nodded.

The nurse quickly reminded him, "Your Highness, the Emperor is busy. Let's go back first. I'll make you something delicious when we get back."

Having said this, the wet nurse was about to forcibly take the little prince away.

Lin Nanjie saw the little prince frown and her thighs were hugged even tighter.

Lin Nanqi: [No way, the dog emperor is not the kind of person who would not even see his own son.]

He softened his heart a little: "There is still some time before the court session. The emperor should have time to see Your Highness."

The little prince's eyes suddenly lit up, and he was about to leave with Lin Nanjie in his arms.

The nurse was immediately speechless: "How dare you, a little eunuch, confront the prince?"

Lin Nan was surprised: "Your Highness is here, so why don't we go in and tell him? If the Emperor blames us later, no one can afford it."

The wet nurse's face changed, and she had no choice but to give up, allowing Lin Nanqi to take the little prince to the Zichen Palace.

In the Zichen Palace, Li Chenghuan had just finished changing his clothes and was a little surprised to see Lin Nanjie leading a child in.

Looking again, isn't this his own son?

Li Chenghuan stretched out his hand and beckoned the little prince to his front: "Yu'er, why did you wake up so early today? Let your father see if you have grown taller."

Li Jingyu cooperated and stood up straight to let Li Chengjian measure him.

A large, warm hand landed on my head, and I immediately smiled generously.

The little prince was so handsome that everyone in the Purple Palace smiled, not to mention Li Chenghuan, who immediately held the little prince on his lap and teased him.

Looking at the little prince's tender face, Li Chengqian sighed quietly.

He remembered that he was able to speak fluently when he was a child, but why was he silent now? He went to the Imperial Hospital for treatment and was told that he had no physical problems.

What could be the problem?

Li Chengqian felt that the biggest setback he had encountered in his life was that his son would not speak.

Lin Nanjie felt warm at heart as he looked at the happy scene between the father and son.

Suddenly a sigh sounded by his ear. He looked up and saw Wang Dehai looking at the little prince with red eyes.

Lin Nanjie: [Ah, this...]

[If these people knew that the little prince was unwilling to speak just because he was too noisy, would they be shocked? ]

[The little prince's personality was originally like that of the previous queen, he was quiet and happy, but after he fell ill, a bunch of people surrounded his bed every day to ask him questions. The concubines in the harem also took turns to want to adopt him, and they went to the East Palace every day to ask about his well-being and kept telling the little prince how much fun it was in their own palaces. ]

[As a result... the little prince injured him, and he has kept silent ever since.]

Li Chenghuan was originally immersed in the atmosphere of what to do with his son in the future, but he suddenly heard Lin Nanjie's heartbeat and raised his head abruptly.

Aren’t you unable to speak?

But don't want to talk?

Li Chenghuan looked at his son who was sitting obediently on his lap, his expression as if he had been struck by lightning.

I feel pity, guilt, and the urge to spank my child!

Do you want to stop talking?

He coaxed his son for so long, begging his grandfather every day just to get him to say a word, but the boy was so stubborn that he didn't say a word!

Li Chenghuan held his son's armpits with both hands and lifted the little prince up to his eye level.

"Yu'er, can you please call me father?"

The little prince looked at his father with a pair of eyes like black grapes and blinked.

It was as if to indicate that he heard it.

But he didn't speak.

Li Chenghuan continued to induce: "If you call me father, I will ask the kitchen to make your favorite candied haws."

Li Jingyu swallowed and still said nothing.

"And I asked you to draw a turtle on Wang Dehai's face."

Wang Dehai almost burst into tears.

This time Li Jingyu turned his eyes away and didn't even bother to pay attention to Li Chenghuan.

Li Chenghuan felt that he was ignored, especially by his own son.

Li Chengqian couldn't help but feel suspicious.

What if what Lin Nanjie said was false?

If Yuer really...can’t speak.

Li Chengqian suddenly felt a pain in his heart.

At this time, Li Jingyu struggled to get down from the ground, ran straight towards Lin Nanjie, and hugged her thighs again.

Lin Nanjie: [Oh wow! ]

Li Chenghuan looked at Lin Nanjie with a very unfriendly look. What did it mean that his son was hugging the eunuch's thigh and wouldn't let go? Wasn't it easy to hug his thigh, which was the biggest and thickest in Daqi?

Li Chenghuan: "Did you bring the prince in?"

Lin Nanqi: "Yes, I met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in front of the palace."

[The nurse was afraid that the little prince would disturb you from attending court, so she stopped you from seeing him. I won’t go into details about this, as it’s like bad-mouthing a colleague in front of the boss.]

Li Chengqian: ???

You should say more!

Lin Nanzhen bent down and said to the little prince, "Your Highness?"

【Are you sleepy? 】

[After all, the sun hasn't risen yet, and I don't know when the little prince got up. ]

Just as he was thinking about it, the little prince yawned.

The nurse immediately said, "I will take His Royal Highness the Crown Prince back to bed."

"Forget it." Li Chenghuan said to Wang Dehai, "Take Yu'er to my room to sleep."

The little prince didn't want Wang Dehai and still held Lin Nanjie's thigh tightly.

Lin Nanqi was also somewhat embarrassed and looked to Li Chenghuan for help: "Your Majesty, this..."

【Take care of your child. 】

Who knew that Li Chenghuan said: "Well, it seems that Yu'er likes you, then you can take Yu'er to sleep, and you don't have to go to court with her."

Just like that, Lin Nanjie suddenly broke into the emperor's bedroom and watched the little prince sleeping, and even didn't let the little prince's wet nurse in!

Lin Nanjie suddenly stood up. He was now in the emperor's bedroom.

【Ah, I don’t usually come here. 】

The small bottle in his arms suddenly became hot, and the copper incense burner was within reach.

Lin Nanjie; [Why did the Imperial Concubine choose me? Are you bullying me because I have no one to back me? If I don't give her the drug, will she kill me? ]

As luck would have it, these words fell into Li Chenghuan's ears.

Originally Li Chenghuan was talking to Wang Dehai.

"This little eunuch is just good-looking, but he managed to get Yu'er to be so close to him."

Wang Dehai followed behind Li Chenghuan, trying to guess what the emperor meant, and said, "Lin Nanjie has a good character, and his appearance is also good among servants. The prince is very young, but he is very accurate in judging people."

Li Chengqian chuckled: "You are good at flattering him, but he is still young, how can he know how to judge people?"

He then said with ulterior motives: "This Lin Nanqi is not bad, we can use him."

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard Lin Nanjie's earth-shattering words.

Li Chenghuan's face turned black.

"Has Lin Nanjie been to the Imperial Concubine's Palace?"

This sentence is spoken in an accusatory tone.

Wang Dehai didn't know why the emperor turned the topic to the imperial concubine, his face turned ugly, and his heart skipped a beat. It was not a good thing for the former attendant to be associated with the imperial concubine.

Thinking of Lin Nanqi sleeping with the little prince, Wang Dehai's expression changed: "I will go back to Zichen Palace to guard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Lin Nanjie was still guarding the bedroom, and the incense burner was burning with soothing incense to soothe his mind. But Lin Nanjie was thinking about something and didn't feel relieved at all.

Not long after, Wang Dehai came back. Lin Nanjie was a little surprised. Why didn't Eunuch Wang go to court today?

Wang Dehai checked on the little prince and said, "The emperor is worried about the little prince, so he asked me to come back and look after him."

Lin Nanjie: "Thank you for your hard work, Eunuch Wang."

Wang Dehai took a look at Lin Nanjie. This boy was indeed handsome, and even had a noble look. He had been mentioned more and more frequently in front of the emperor in the past few days, and he had a bright future ahead of him.

What a pity.

This kid has gone astray.