You cause trouble and I collect your body, the little emperor’s aunt abuses the scumbag again

Xiaoxiao angrily recounted the events of the day, embellishing them with details. She focused on how she bravely escaped through the dog hole, how she debated with the Emperor in the Imperial Study, and how she even managed to extort money from him.

Sun Panpan was stunned for a moment, but finally couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"You're something else, you never seem to lose out anywhere."

She gently pinched Xiaoxiao's nose, then became serious and pointed to the complex set of instruments on the virtual screen.

"Stop arguing with them, business is more important. I've sent you this portable geological exploration instrument, and the instructional videos are also packaged up. Start learning as soon as possible."

Xiaoxiao went over to take a look and was immediately dumbfounded.

The thing had a peculiar shape, gleaming with a cold metallic light, and was covered with various buttons and screens. It looked even more incomprehensible than the most complex puzzle box in her father's study.

"Master, how do you use this thing?"

She stretched out her chubby little hand and poked a red button, and a series of symbols and warnings that she couldn't understand immediately popped up on the screen.

"Don't move!"

Sun Panpan slapped her hand away and opened the tutorial video.

An expert wearing a white coat and glasses appeared on the screen and began to explain how to operate the instrument in the simplest and most understandable language.

"...First, select the appropriate drill bit. Based on soil hardness, we offer three models: A, B, and C..."

Xiaoxiao sat cross-legged on the ground, one hand supporting her chin, her little head nodding as she watched.

His small stature and small hands made it look particularly comical for him to operate this instrument, which is considered sophisticated even by adults.

She kept putting the drill bit on backwards and then jamming the sample collection tube; her clumsy movements made her feel a little discouraged.

"Master, I'm so stupid."

"No nonsense."

Sun Panpan patted her head and encouraged her.

"You're already doing great. It takes me several days to learn this. Just practice a few more times and you'll get the hang of it."

With Sun Panpan's patient guidance and the video expert's repeated explanations, Xiaoxiao finally gradually got the hang of it.

From initial confusion to gradual mastery, confidence returned to her face.

Sun Panpan looked at her serious profile and pulled up a detailed geological map of the palace.

"Xiaoxiao, according to expert analysis, the area where we are most likely to find oil has the most stable geological layers and has been least disturbed."

Her slender fingers traced across the map, finally stopping at a gloomy corner.

"This is it, the Cold Palace."

Cold palace?

Xiaoxiao shuddered.

Although she had never been there, she had heard from the palace maids that it was a gloomy and terrifying place where concubines who had made mistakes were imprisoned, and some people even said that they could hear ghosts crying at night.

"Master, do we really have to go there?"

She was a little scared.

"That's the only place that's most likely."

Sun Panpan's expression was very serious.

"Xiaoxiao, I know this is difficult for you. But it's related to all our future plans and whether we can get the most important resources."

Looking at her master's serious face, Xiaoxiao thought of those black gold oil fields that could make the country take off.

She clenched her little fists.

What's there to be afraid of! It's just a ghost, right? She has a magic potion; if a ghost comes, she'll give it two ibuprofen pills!

For my master's country, and to make a lot of money to go home!

Fight!

"Master, I understand! I'll go tonight!"

Dark as ink.

Xiaoxiao confirmed that the new palace maid Chuntao was fast asleep, so she took out a set of dark-colored clothes from her small bundle and changed into them.

She then tore off a piece of black cloth and covered half of her face in a very professional manner, leaving only her large, black, grape-like eyes showing.

Once ready, she moved like a nimble kitten, silently opening the window and, using the branches of an old tree under the windowsill, slid down to the ground in a flash.

Just as her petite figure disappeared into the darkness, several dark figures flashed out from behind the artificial hill not far from Yong'an Palace.

"Follow."

The leader of the men in black made a gesture, and the others immediately followed like ghosts.

He was the emperor's personal bodyguard, ordered to monitor Xiaoxiao's every move 24 hours a day.

"She went in that direction, to... the Cold Palace?"

The guards were filled with suspicion and uncertainty.

What is this little princess doing in the middle of the night, not sleeping, but going to the Cold Palace with her face covered?

Could it be that all those treasures she mentioned are hidden in the Cold Palace?