ebookland Chapter 145: You ask so many questions, but you can't afford it
Chapter 145: You ask so many questions, but you can't afford it
Before he even entered the hall, the emperor was almost choked by the large pieces of pancakes she stuffed him with.
Thinking back on it this way, this girl's system seems to be really useful!
If she were sent to a border town, could she be used to find out the enemy's details and then catch them in the trap?
He narrowed his eyes slightly and simply ignored the first half of her words.
The queen left the palace...what a joke.
She could only stay in the palace, stay by his side, and be buried with him even after her death.
Although Wang didn't dare to look around blatantly along the way, she secretly glanced at every place she passed.
Everything in this palace was beyond her imagination, and it also increased her desire for power and status.
On the way here, Lu Xinran talked to Lu Xinlan about the purpose of the emperor letting them into the palace, and also talked about the reason why Wang was summoned into the palace.
At this moment, she looked at the booklet in the system and saw Wang's rising ambitions, and couldn't help but sigh slightly.
In Yongshou Palace, the empress dowager finally woke up from her boredom and sat up straight, waiting for the palace servant to bring Wang in.
If it weren't for Lu Xinran and that so-called system, they would probably never know for the rest of their lives that the poisonous insects in Miaojiang actually existed.
She looked at Wang, who was huddled into the room behind the palace maid. Her eyes swept across her collar and she already had some guesses in her mind.
Wang didn't expect that the emperor was also here. Her legs trembled and she subconsciously knelt on the ground with a plop as soon as she entered the room.
The emperor looked down at her, his eyes sweeping across her lapels, and was obviously a little shocked by how shabby she was.
The seventh-rank officials in the capital...can't they live a decent life?
After Lu Xinran and her sister bowed and paid their respects, the Empress Dowager skillfully offered them seats.
The two of them sat aside obediently, waiting for the emperor's questions.
"Zhang Wangshi, how much do you know about the Miaojiang Gu worm?"
Wang was so shocked by this sudden question that she almost collapsed to the ground.
She had already had doubts in her heart because she had not seen her two granddaughters in the palace just now. When she heard the emperor's question, she thought that her plan had been exposed, and in a panic she quickly thought about how to cover up the matter.
"Zhang Wangshi, you should know what the consequences of deceiving me are."
Wang's body trembled again and again, she didn't want to know!
Lu Xinran didn't expect the emperor to ask so directly, and she didn't expect the emperor to actually discover the problem with Zhang Yuhe and her sister.
Is there someone in this palace who is skilled in witchcraft?
Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that the emperor discovered them as soon as Wang brought them to officially appear in public.
The emperor glanced at her calmly. There was indeed a capable person by his side!
Wang struggled for only a moment before she resigned herself to her fate and told her in great detail how the Miao people in the mansion came to her and what kind of poisonous insects they had taught her to raise over the years.
Lu Xinran was extremely serious when she heard about the poisonous insect that could make people thin and beautiful.
She also wants one of this auspicious sign!
"So, raising Gu worms not only requires letting them devour each other, but also requires feeding them with various precious medicinal herbs?"
"Yes, the more powerful the Gu worm is, the more medicinal herbs and treasures it needs to devour. I, your servant, cannot afford to support them. Over the years, I have only raised two and used them on my granddaughter."
The two she raised were just shrunken and simplified versions, after all, the Zhang family was too poor...
The emperor pondered, and his gaze drifted towards Lu Xinran again without any expression. Seeing her looking into the void with bright eyes, he knew that she was looking up Wang's past.
[Found it, finally found it! ]
[This slimming and body-beautifying insect is surprisingly easy to raise. The price paid is only one year of the life span of the person who takes it.]
[Only one year! I can make it back by eating more melons. The more I think about it, the more I can make! It’s a huge profit, hahahaha~]
In an instant, the emperor's ears were filled with the sound of laughter after ecstasy.
There is no other doubt in my heart that the past did not lie.
He hummed majestically: "Write down all the feeding methods of Gu worms that you know!"
Wang nodded tremblingly, stood up with shaking legs and went to the side hall to write something.
The Queen Mother looked at Wang, who gave in so quickly, and couldn't help but sigh and shake her head.
She didn't know what she wanted to sigh about, but she found Wang's clothes, which were obviously too old, a bit annoying.
Is it really worth it to give up even basic decency just to raise poisonous insects?
The side hall was close, so Lu Xinran never stopped flipping through the booklet.
[The emperor wants to know how to feed the insects, doesn't he also want to raise them? 】
[Hasn't he already been raising the princes as poisonous insects, waiting for them to kill each other? Now he wants to raise real poisonous insects? ]
[But even he couldn't afford it. The species that Wang's family knew how to feed all needed natural resources and treasures.]
[The value of those treasures is enough for the imperial court to support the border soldiers for ten years.]
emperor:"……"
So he was busy for two days, but it was all in vain, right?
After Wang wrote down the feeding plan and Eunuch Fu presented it to the emperor with both hands, the emperor finally understood what she meant by "can't afford to feed the baby".
Thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum, ten-thousand-year-old ginseng, the black jade and chalcedony from the depths of Kunlun, the dragon tendons from the deep sea dragon... Use these to raise the Gu King...
The emperor looked at the two types written at the front, and his face had turned into that of an old man looking at his phone.
He could have just taken such a rare tonic himself, why would he feed it to a worm!
Moreover, the dragon tendons of the deep-sea dragon...what is this thing!
If there had not been no argument in his heart, he would have thought that he had been deceived by this ignorant and stupid woman.
"These……"
Just as he was about to ask, Wang seemed to have guessed what he was going to ask, and she knelt down again with a plop.
"Your Majesty, I have asked and tried to find out the authenticity of this feeding list. The news from Miaojiang is that these treasures are indeed needed to feed the Gu King."
Although she didn't know what some of the things on the list were.
The emperor clutched the list, stood up angrily and strode away as the empress dowager tried hard to hold back her laughter.
After two days of hard work, he got nothing in return, which made him look even more stupid and like a tyrant!
Someone in my heart laughed so loudly. Watching the emperor making a fool of himself was definitely a very rare experience, and perhaps it would never happen again.
Wang was still kneeling limply on the ground, all the ambition she had when she came here now turned into fear.
She didn't know whether she, her granddaughters, and all the Zhang family members would survive.
"Get up, Yuhei, and take a seat."
"Yes, ma'am."
A palace servant placed a soft stool next to Lu Xinran. Wang hesitated, trembling, and sat down with her whole body tense.
[I wonder if her two granddaughters have charmed the emperor! ]
[But those two are still young. The emperor...isn't a pedophile!]