Even when she needed someone else's medicine, the Empress Dowager still acted like she was bestowing favors, with an air of superiority. She used her illness as a pretext to claim she needed to rest, without ever intending to offer them a meal.
Although it was his own mother, Emperor Shang Xiche couldn't help but shake his head inwardly and sigh, "It's a woman's perspective." However, he had been deeply affected by the previous night and had not yet recovered. He was also in a bad mood and had no appetite.
The emperor specially ordered Eunuch De to take Shang Xiye and Ji Fengyao to a meal, and then to the national treasury. The emperor then went to his study to brood.
What he was thinking was nothing more than: that Doctor Xiao was said to be so miraculous, I wonder if he could cure his hidden illness.
While taking a bath and changing clothes, Ji Fengyao used her soul power to extract a ten-cubic-meter storage stone. She then melted a gold hairpin with extreme fire and inlaid the storage stone, thus creating a simple storage ring.
Her spiritual power is currently low, and it is slow to replenish it after expending her soul power, so her complexion was not very good when she came out.
"What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?" Shang Xiye couldn't help but worry and pulled her into his arms.
"It's nothing, it's probably just too hot and I got a little heatstroke." Ji Fengyao thought he wanted her to play along again, so she didn't resist and obediently nestled softly in his arms, her eyes sparkling with excitement.
She whispered to him using telepathy, "Your Highness, if you see anything you like in the national treasury, just tell me quietly, and I'll take it all for you!"
Shang Xiye: "...Shun?"
"Yes, smoothly! Smoothly without anyone noticing!" Ji Fengyao's clear phoenix eyes sparkled.
"Don't be silly. The national treasury is heavily guarded. You can take a few medicinal herbs under the guise of the Empress Dowager, but if you take other things, you might not even be able to leave the gate," Shang Xiye said with a hint of helplessness and affection.
"Oh, you can trust me. If I say I can, I definitely can." Ji Fengyao turned over and hugged Shang Xiye tightly, leaving a small gap between them that only the two of them could see. "Your Highness, look."
Shang Xiye lowered his eyes without showing any emotion, his pupils widening silently: he noticed that the illusory stone in the little bandit's hand seemed a bit smaller, and the stone seemed to appear and disappear in her hand like magic.
"This is...?" Shang Xiye was somewhat surprised. He was so close, yet he couldn't discern the trick at all.
Or rather, this wasn't a magic trick at all.
"This is a storage ring, a spatial magic treasure that can store external objects; the Void Stone that I asked you to find is the only raw material used to make the storage ring. This kind of stone is very rare and precious," Ji Fengyao explained telepathically, close to Shang Xiye's ear.
Storage ring, a spatial magic item, and a void stone.
These unfamiliar words, when heard by Shang Xiye, were not as strange or difficult to understand as she had imagined.
Instead, it was the pretty little bandit girl's face so close to him, and the sweet fragrance emanating from her, that distracted him even more: "What the princess says is absurd and quite mysterious. If such a thing truly exists in the world, the princess should keep it a secret and not easily show it to others."
“Your Highness is no stranger; we are allies. I am always generous to my own people, and I will definitely share good things with Your Highness,” Ji Fengyao said with a smile that made her eyes crinkle, her gaze looking at Shang Xiye with a very suggestive tone.
So, considering how generous I am, how about we draft a new contract?
“I have always treated my own people well. It seems that on this point, the Princess and I share the same views,” Shang Xiye replied with a light smile, following her words.
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