Chapter 71
Chapter 71
After Liang Yun heard the report, he nearly did the splits on the spot.
“Who said that?”
Liang Yun reached out to steady himself against the wall and said in a trembling voice, “Who the hell did you hear that from?!”
His subordinate replied, “Everyone in Chonghua Palace is saying it.”
Liang Yun: “…”
If this rumor reached their master’s ears, then he, the head of Chonghua Palace’s hidden guards, might as well go die…
Liang Yun was so furious he cursed, “Do none of you use your brains before spreading rumors? Forget His Highness for a moment-just take Miss Ye. At her age, she’s already given birth to seven children? My heavens, even if she had one child a year, that would take seven years! How old would she have had to be when she started? Do the math yourselves. Does that make any sense?”
His subordinate said calmly, “Septuplets.”
Liang Yun: “…”
Fine. You win.
Liang Yun immediately began calling his men in one by one to investigate the truth.
In the end, he finally figured out the whole story. It turned out that Ye Piaoling had brought the Divine Physician consulting at Bing-le-me to Chonghua Palace for a walk around in order to help him out of a difficult situation.
The hidden guards in the palace were all single men. They were well-trained on ordinary days, but their lives were so boring that they loved gossip. The news had been spread like wildfire, embellished layer by layer, until the Regent King had somehow been turned into the father of eight children!
Fortunately, the hidden guards all obeyed palace rules. They only shared gossip internally and would never dare leak a single word outside Chonghua Palace.
Liang Yun collapsed into a chair, his hands trembling as he painfully lectured his subordinates:
“You are all mature hidden guards now. You must keep your mouths shut. Don’t go around saying things you shouldn’t!”
His subordinates all nodded in understanding like chickens pecking grain.
-Don’t worry, Lord Liang. We absolutely won’t tell anyone that the Regent King has eight children!
Seeing everyone nodding with all their might, Liang Yun figured they had realized their mistake.
Only then did he let out a breath of relief.
…
At the same time.
At the Duke’s Mansion, Xiao Mei smashed a teacup in a fit of rage.
“They actually managed to latch onto the Regent King!”
Since Ximen Wuming could go to Chonghua Palace to treat patients, naturally, no one would dare touch him anymore.
So infuriating!!
A guard said, “Princess, please calm down. With your status, why bother getting angry at a mere physician?”
Xiao Mei gnashed her teeth. “Of course I wouldn’t care about some old physician. I’m angry at that Ye Piaoling. She earned a bit of money and now thinks she’s above everyone else, refusing to sell me her donkey.”
The guard: “…”
The guard’s eyes shifted, and he said, “Princess, if you want her donkey, why insist on buying it from her openly? Just send someone to steal it.”
Xiao Mei froze.
The guard said, “If Princess trusts me, I can make the arrangements.”
Xiao Mei frowned. “My Duke’s Mansion is of noble, imperial blood. Wouldn’t we be mocked if we stole something?”
The guard said, “Princess, there’s no need to have anyone from the Duke’s Mansion do it. We can simply find some wandering thief from the martial world and have him steal it. When people ask questions afterward, Princess merely bought it from someone in the martial world. It has nothing to do with Ye Piaoling at all.”
Xiao Mei was delighted when she heard this. “Good idea! I’ll leave it to you. If you handle it well, you’ll be richly rewarded!”
In order to curry favor with Xiao Chengxu, she had to get her hands on the Divine Donkey!
…
The next day.
After finishing her cultivation, Ye Piaoling cleaned the library, then rode her scooter toward Chonghua Palace.
For the past two days, she had been paying money to spend the night in the Regent King’s bed. One thousand a night, and nothing had happened.
Although the System’s mission only required her to lie down for a bit to count, she had paid for it either way. It would be too much of a loss to only lie there for a moment, so she simply slept there the entire night. As a bonus, she could recharge…
As for Di Xiulan, every time, he accepted the Silver Banknote with a warm smile. He showed neither interest nor irritation toward her staying overnight.
It seemed he merely treated her as a small trinket that had appeared on the bed and didn’t take it to heart.
As Ye Piaoling rode past the Divine Weapon Pavilion, she stopped again to check on business.
Dusk was settling on all sides. The Divine Weapon Pavilion was not located in a bustling market, and there were few pedestrians on the quiet street.
As usual, Ye Piaoling parked the Little Yellow Scooter in front of the shop, went inside to chat with the shopkeeper for a while, then left ten minutes later.
The moment she stepped out of the Divine Weapon Pavilion, her eyes widened.
-What the hell? Where’s my electric scooter?!
The electric scooter had vanished into thin air!
The shopkeeper of the Divine Weapon Pavilion hurriedly asked, “Boss, what’s wrong?”
Ye Piaoling said, “My electric scooter is gone!”
After a pause, she quickly added, “I mean, the yellow Ancient Divine Donkey!”
The shopkeeper asked, “Could it have run off on its own?”
“That’s probably not it…”
Ye Piaoling clenched her fists. “It must have been stolen!”
She never would’ve imagined that after transmigrating to the Glazed Continent, she’d still run into someone who stole electric scooters!
The shopkeeper immediately summoned the assistants in the shop. “The boss’s Ancient Divine Donkey has been stolen. Did any of you see anyone suspicious?”
The assistants all shook their heads. None of them had seen anything.
Just then, a beggar walked over and said, “I saw it. Just now, someone flew over with a whoosh, picked up that monster at the door, and ran off with it.”
Ye Piaoling quickly pulled out a bit of silver and stuffed it into his hand. “Which way did he go?”
The beggar happily accepted the money and pointed in one direction. “That way.”
Without another word, Ye Piaoling took off after him.
The other party wouldn’t know how to start the scooter, so he could only carry it. He definitely couldn’t have gotten far.
Ye Piaoling chased through the secluded alleys for two streets. Relying on the mental connection she had with her electric scooter, she turned a corner and, sure enough, saw a figure up ahead carrying it.
The man had hoisted the scooter onto his shoulder, his head tilted to one side as he trudged forward under the weight. Yet he was still running astonishingly fast. Clearly, he was a professional.
Ye Piaoling silently swept forward and sat directly on the scooter.
First things first-get her hands on the handlebars…
The thief only felt the weight on his shoulder suddenly increase. He turned his head and saw that the electric scooter he was carrying now had an extra person sitting on it!
“Aaaah!!!”
He was so frightened that he screamed and threw the scooter away.
“Vroom-”
Ye Piaoling started the engine, made a spinning turn, and landed steadily on the ground.
Their eyes met.
Both of them were shocked at the same time.
“It’s you?”
“It’s you??”
Ye Piaoling was stunned.
This electric-scooter thief looked extremely familiar.
Wasn’t he clearly the assassin from Above to the Azure Sky, Below to the Yellow Springs, Ancient and Modern Number One Heartless Tower?
This assassin had once been entrusted by Concubine Liu to come to Falling Petals Courtyard and assassinate her. In the end, Ye Piaoling had beaten him up so badly that he fled in defeat…
She had thought this assassin had long since gone offline. Who would’ve thought he would make a comeback today and steal her electric scooter!
“Aren’t you a professional assassin? Why did you switch careers and become a thief?” Ye Piaoling couldn’t help asking.
The assassin said, “The murder business isn’t doing so well these days. I can only rely on stealing to barely get by, that sort of thing.”
Ye Piaoling: “…”
Ye Piaoling swallowed her anger and gritted her teeth as she questioned him. “When you were an assassin, you came to take my life. Now that you’re a thief, you come to steal my things. Do you have some kind of grudge against me?”
The assassin shook his head repeatedly and rubbed his sprained neck, looking deeply aggrieved. “The employer only asked me to steal something. If I’d known this thing was yours, I wouldn’t have done it even if you beat me to death!”
After all, the trauma from last time had been unforgettable.
With that, he turned and tried to run.
Ye Piaoling leaped in front of him and blocked his path.
“I already let you off once. I won’t let you off a second time! Come on, come on. Let me send you to the authorities!”
“Don’t!” The assassin hurriedly begged for mercy. “You’re a magnanimous person. Please don’t stoop to the level of a nobody like me. Spare me!”
Ye Piaoling was impartial and incorruptible. “Impossible!”
The assassin thought for a moment, then began negotiating with her. “Then how about I give you a treasure as an apology? Will that do?”
Ye Piaoling asked, “What treasure?”
The assassin said, “The ultimate treasure of our organization. It’s sealed inside a box, and even I don’t know what’s inside.”
Ye Piaoling grew a little curious. “Oh?”