Chapter 6
The atmosphere suddenly became tense.
Luo Sanrong looked up at the person he bumped into and found that it was the man he pushed into the pit that day. Luo Sanrong felt guilty and wanted to escape.
Li Yin pulled her closer with a half-smile, "Young Master Zheng?" His tone was filled with the excitement of finding prey. He leaned close to Luo Sanrong's face, lifted her chin, and said with interest, "Nice to meet you, Young Master Zheng."
Luo Sanrong carefully pulled Li Yin's hand away, smiled flatteringly and said to him, "So you're fine. You don't know how worried I was about you after that day. I was so worried that I couldn't sleep all night... By the way, are you a guard in the palace? No wonder you look so handsome when holding a knife..."
Li Yin smiled and watched Luo Sanrong racking his brains to make up lies, finding it very interesting.
"Do you want to escape?" Li Yin moved closer to Luo Sanrong's face again, "There's no dog hole over there for you to escape!" After saying that, he looked at Luo Sanrong's evasive eyes.
Luo Sanrong smiled awkwardly: "What are you talking about? I don't understand at all. Speaking of which, when you fell into the pit that day, I specially found someone with super fast feet to rescue you!"
Upon hearing this, Li Yin's smile became even more hypocritical. "Yes, I'm very fast, but my hearing isn't very good! I had to shout at the top of my lungs before you could find me!"
Luo Sanrong felt even more guilty when he heard this. He had indeed instructed that person to wait until the people in the pit shouted ten times before pretending to hear. Luo Sanrong smiled awkwardly.
Li Yin looked at the package on Luo Sanrong's shoulder and asked knowingly, "Where are you going with the package on your back so late at night?"
"It's just...it's just...Lord Shang asked me to get a..." Luo Sanying explained hesitantly.
Li Yin pretended to suddenly understand and continued to watch Luo Sanrong act.
At this time, a warning voice came from a distance, "Who is it, who is it, there..." It turned out to be the eunuchs on duty in the palace on their daily patrol.
Following the sound, they discovered that the prince was talking to a man who looked like a eunuch. The eunuch on duty was about to kneel down to salute, but the prince stopped him in advance.
"It's me, Lord Li."
The eunuch on duty understood and followed the prince's lead, saying, "Master Li, what are you doing here? Why aren't you resting yet?"
Li Yin replied, "It seems the eunuchs have been extremely busy lately. It's really inconsiderate of Lord Shang to have someone run errands in the middle of the night."
"What?" The eunuch on duty expressed confusion and looked at Luo Sanying following the prince's gaze.
Li Yin continued, "I thought it was a brave eunuch who wanted to escape!" Then he laughed meaningfully.
Luo Sanrong was so frightened that he dared not move, thinking that he was doomed, as he had provoked a man who seemed to have a little power and was stingy. Seeing Li Yin waving for him to come over and hand him over to the eunuch on duty, Luo Sanrong suddenly had an idea: he might as well die now!
The eunuch on duty wanted to take Luo Sanrong away and punish her severely, but Luo Sanrong knelt down and hugged Li Yin's thighs, looking at him with tears in her eyes, begging him to kill her.
Unexpectedly, when Li Yin saw Luo Sanrong's tearful expression, he showed even more interest, but in the end he remained indifferent and let the eunuch on duty drag Luo Sanrong away.
The eunuch on duty dragged Luo Sanrong by the scruff of the neck and dragged her directly into a small dark room. He said to her in a ferocious tone, "Do you know what you have done wrong?"
Without waiting for Luo Sanrong's reply, he spoke directly, "First, you ran away. Second, you lied. Third, do you know who you offended? You offended the most petty and bad-tempered Tai...Mrs. In short, in a word, you're done."
Luo Sanrong trembled and said, "I... I'm just too scared to come to the unfamiliar palace..."
The eunuch on duty said sternly: "Don't worry, I will eliminate all your fears and make you the best eunuch... So, you can sleep here today." After that, he left with the lamp.
Luo Sanrong shivered in the complete darkness and did not sleep the whole night.
The next day, Luo Sanying, who had not slept all night, was woken up and asked to attend the eunuch mobilization meeting. This eunuch mobilization meeting was chaired by Lord Shang. At the meeting, the main duties and requirements of the eunuchs were explained, as well as their need to sacrifice everything and devote their lives to His Majesty and the Crown Prince.
All the eunuchs were trembling with fear. Some of the timid ones even wet their pants. The other eunuchs looked at them with sympathy.
Finally, the eunuch mobilization also explained that entering the palace does not mean becoming a qualified eunuch, but it is the first step. There are various inspections to check whether you are qualified. If you fail, you will be expelled from the palace immediately.
Luo Sanrong immediately became excited when he heard this. As long as he failed to meet the requirements, he would definitely leave the palace. Therefore, Luo Sanrong would try his best to make himself fail to meet the requirements.
The first examination was about to begin, and it was the one that made Luo Sanrong most frustrated: a physical examination.
"I am the eunuch in charge of your physical examination. Now, those whose names are called please come forward, go behind the curtain, and take off your clothes for inspection." The eunuch said seriously.
Luo Sanrong watched the people he called walk forward one by one, and he became more and more panicked.
Three people were placed in a row and had to undress for inspection. The imperial physician who was in charge of the inspection sat at the front and took a quick glance before stamping a pass or fail on the eunuch assessment form.
Luo Sanrong's turn came up. The two people standing beside her quickly removed their pants for inspection. The imperial physician quickly stamped their assessment forms with "pass." Only Luo Sanrong hesitated to remove her pants. She remembered what Lord Shang had said at the eunuchs' mobilization meeting: "If you do anything that brings shame or humiliation upon a eunuch, the only way to wash away the shame is death."
Thinking of this, she dared not move even more. After a long period of inaction, the imperial physician and the eunuch in charge of the examination looked at her suspiciously. They stood up and came down to examine her in person. At this time, a eunuch rushed in, panting, "Oh no, Imperial Physician Sun, the queen has fainted."
Upon hearing this, Imperial Physician Sun hurriedly packed his medical box and went to see the Queen, but he didn't notice that the seal that determined whether the eunuch's physical examination had passed had fallen on the passed part.
Luo Sanrong looked at the assessment form with the "pass" stamp on it, looked up at the sky, and felt like crying but couldn't. He sighed silently in his heart: "Do they want me to die or live?"
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A hearty laugh came from the prime minister's study, followed by the sound of talking.
"I rushed to the palace because I heard that the queen had fainted. I didn't expect that the queen was pregnant." The prime minister stroked his beard with relief.
The current queen, Ji Zelan, is the prime minister's eldest daughter. She entered the palace and married the current emperor five years ago. There has been no news about her for so many years. Unexpectedly, she suddenly fainted. After the imperial physician checked, it was found that she was pregnant.
Sun Xing, the Minister of Revenue who sided with the Prime Minister, said flatteringly, "We didn't dare to do anything to the Crown Prince before because His Majesty only has this one son. Now that the Queen is pregnant, as long as the birth of a prince goes smoothly, then the Queen's son will be made the Crown Prince..."
The current Crown Prince Li Yin is not the Queen's biological son. Li Yin's biological mother is the current Majesty's first queen. The current queen married His Majesty only after the first queen passed away.
Xu Jiang, the Minister of Rites who sided with the Prime Minister, echoed, "Look at Li Yin's arrogant attitude. If he wasn't the only son of His Majesty, he would have been deposed long ago..."
The Prime Minister took a sip of tea and said slowly, "It doesn't matter which prince it is! It's just that my Ji family has the best bloodline."
Minister of Revenue Sun Xing echoed this, while Minister of Rites Xu Jiang raised a question, "What if the Queen's unborn child is not a prince but a princess?"
Minister of Revenue Xu Jiang continued, "Since the decision has finally been made to depose the Crown Prince, it would be best if it were done before the Queen gave birth. That way, even if it's the Princess, there would be no other choice."
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