Harem Daily Life

"What wish did you write?" Xuan Qing changed out of his Taoist robes and put on an ordinary long gown of a wealthy young man. His slender figure stood in front of the window, looking at the drizzle outside and asked in a deep voice.

A Taoist boy said, "What the lady wrote is: I wish to have the heart of one person, and we will be together till we grow old. May the years be infinitely good, and may our family be forever peaceful and healthy."

"Heh." Xuan Qing laughed sarcastically: "As expected, she is a noble lady who does not understand human nature. The emperor is ruthless, and she is really naive. Also, if the nest is overturned, how can the eggs remain intact? The side branches have been removed, how long can the main branch of the Shu family last?"

The Taoist boy said: "Our people have also investigated the Shu family in the capital, but have not found any evidence."

"If the emperor wants to punish me, I can be charged with deceiving the emperor just for knowing the truth and not reporting it. Besides, Empress Dowager Shu may have feelings for the Shu family's side branches. Her own son killed her cousin's family. Will she let it go? Haha, just wait and see!"

The Taoist boy continued, "The other young lady seemed illiterate, and a few strokes were missing. I half-guessed what she wrote: I wish I could have enough food and clothes, and someone would hold an umbrella for me when it rains; I wish I could meet someone warm and kind, and time would pass slowly without sadness and with joy; I wish I could enjoy my life to the fullest without regrets, and live in peace until the end."

Xuan Qing frowned: "The first part is quite sensible, what does the last sentence mean?"

The Taoist boy scratched his head, but couldn't explain it.

"Never mind. It doesn't matter. But I didn't expect that she was not dead."

Xuan Qing walked to the table and sat down, tapping the tabletop with one hand rhythmically: "At first, I thought that I had arranged for Prince Yong to fall into the water, and let her go to rescue him, so that she could be related to Prince Yong. If the concubine ran away with the prince, it would definitely cause the emperor and Prince Yong to turn against each other. But what I didn't expect was that even though I clearly told her that if she didn't go with Prince Yong, she would have a bad ending, she actually entered the palace anyway."

The Taoist boy said, "In order to fulfill your divination, after she was selected to enter the palace, we had no choice but to use the sixth senior brother in the palace to let her die unexpectedly. But..."

The Taoist boy asked curiously, "Why didn't Sixth Senior Brother kill her? Moreover, after Sixth Senior Brother completed the mission, there was no news from him again."

Xuan Qing snorted, "Isn't the fact right in front of us? The person is not dead, which means Xiaoliu failed. The reason why he didn't contact us is either that he is in danger, or he didn't complete the mission and didn't dare to contact us."

The Taoist boy asked, "Should we check the palace again to find out the whereabouts of our Sixth Senior Brother?"

Xuan Qing waved his hand and said, "No need. Xiao Liu has been abandoned. There is no need to waste energy on him. Besides, if he wants to hide, we may not be able to contact him. Let's just pretend he doesn't exist from now on."

The Taoist boy asked again: "Does this young lady need to do anything else?"

Xuanqing thought about the girl he saw during the day, her eyes were clear and bright, and he said, "She already had an accident, if she gets into trouble again, it's inevitable that she will reveal her flaws. I think this girl is also simple-minded, and she has long forgotten that we deliberately led her to rescue people. We linked everything together and did it secretly, and she has amnesia and a simple mind, so she can't think of so many things, so let's spare her life. My fate for her is: a lot of bad life. We don't have to worry about her in the future, and focus more on the things that the master has told us."

The Taoist boy said, "Yes, the news network is collecting news every day. The emperor's tour this time has attracted a lot of people's support just for the disaster relief. After hearing about it, Master was furious for three days and three nights. Who would have thought that they could avoid a natural disaster that only happens once in a hundred years? Our people found out through investigation that they actually dug a lot of huge pits downstream before releasing the flood. It only took ten days to deal with the flood, and there was no epidemic."

Xuan Qing pinched his brows and said, "Such a great disaster couldn't kill him. Could it be that he is really blessed by God?"

Xuanqing waved his hand and asked the Taoist boy to go out. He spread out the intelligence delivered every day on the table and began to analyze the relationships and mysteries behind the news.

In fact, he is not a prophet at all. He just knows how to read people's expressions and use various rhetoric.

Combined with the intelligence collected daily, he received a lot of information.

If the person who comes to ask for divination happens to have information, he will tell you a divination and charge you a considerable fee. If he does not have information, he will say that he has already told you three divinations today and cannot tell you any more, or that you and I are not meant to be together.

His Qingcheng Temple was well-known, so naturally no one knew that he was just being mysterious. Of course, no one knew that in order to make his divinations come true, he sent many people to carry out tasks behind the scenes to make what he said come true.

After the emperor and his entourage came down the mountain, Shu Fei was so exhausted that she went back to her room early to rest.

Tao Yanyan was sweating and felt the sweat sticking to his body, so he left early and went back to his room to wash up.

He Linzhang had just finished reading the two memorials when the previously inconspicuous guard came in to report.

After listening to Shu Fei's prayer, He Linzhang frowned, but did not say anything. After listening to the young talent's prayer, He Linzhang said, "Do you still remember her handwriting? Copy it down, and make it exactly the same."

The inconspicuous guard twitched his lips, found a piece of paper, took a pen, and went to the side to copy it. Soon he presented it to the emperor.

He Linzhang looked at the characters with missing parts and couldn't help laughing. He wondered how such characters could be written and he could even guess what they meant from the incomplete characters.

Also magical.

The inconspicuous guard saw the emperor smiling and thought that the emperor might be in a good mood. He hesitated whether to report another matter.

He Linzhang seemed to have eyes on his head. He did not look down on the guards and asked, "Just say what you want to say. Why are you hesitating?"

The inconspicuous guard said: "I found that the Taoist boy from Qingcheng Temple seemed to be interested in the prayers of the two ladies. I watched secretly, because the handwriting of Mr. Tao was difficult to read, so the Taoist boy looked at it for a long time before confirming it."

This inconspicuous guard is one of He Linzhang's secret guards. He is highly skilled in martial arts, meticulous, and has an ordinary appearance.

Such a secret guard could hide in the dark and no one would notice him, so the Taoist boy definitely did not appear there on purpose to confuse people.

"What unusual things have you found on Mount Qingcheng today?"

The inconspicuous guard thought for a moment and said, "There is no problem with security. General Qi personally led people to investigate. The only strange thing is that the Taoist boy is interested in the prayer words. However, is it possible that he simply thinks the characters are strange?" the guard analyzed.

He Linzhang thought, maybe it was because Tao Yanyan's handwriting was different from others?

At this time, Qi Yizheng was asking for a meeting outside the door. He Linzhang gave a look to the inconspicuous guard, and the guard left immediately, and Qi Yizheng came in instead.

"Your Majesty, I have something to report to you regarding the talented Tao."