The Marquise: I Earn My Own Worship

"Snapped!"

"I'm not dead yet, and you're all staring at the spot under my butt!"

The Emperor of Chu sat there with a gloomy face, his chest heaving with anger, and he looked like he could not breathe.

Xiao Degui's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he cursed the person who proposed to establish a crown prince a hundred and eighty times in his heart.

Instead of being a good person, he chooses to be a dog.

Xiao Degui held the Chu Emperor's chest and cursed in his heart.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. Please don't get angry. Your dragon body is more important!"

Xiao Degui tremblingly fed Emperor Chu a health-preserving pill and smoothed his chest, and only then did Emperor Chu calm down.

"I'm old!"

Xiao Degui felt uneasy when he heard this. He secretly glanced at the emperor's changeable expression and his mind turned.

"Your Majesty, what are you saying? I am not good at speaking and cannot express my gratitude to Your Majesty. The Emperor lived to be eighty-seven, and Your Majesty is only fifty-six now. I wonder if I will still be blessed enough to serve you for a few more years."

The Emperor of Chu took a sip of the warm tea that Xiao Degui handed him, and his anger eased a little.

Watching Xiao Degui busily serving tea and water, noticing that his legs and feet were not feeling well, he said in a gentle voice:

"Don't be so busy, just sit down and talk with me for a while, the palace maids will take care of the rest."

Xiao Degui put down the jade pot in his hand, and the little palace maid beside him brought an old sandalwood stool with a square shape and a round bottom, and Xiao Degui sat on it.

"Your leg has been hurting for quite some time, why isn't it getting better yet?"

Xiao Degui did not expect that His Majesty actually cared about his health. He was deeply moved and wanted to stand up, but the Emperor of Chu waved his hand and asked him to sit down.

"This is an old ailment of mine. Thanks to Your Majesty's grace, Doctor Wang examined me a few days ago and gave me two ointment stickers. I apply them to my legs every day and it has gotten much better now. I just still feel a little uncomfortable. Your Majesty, please don't despise me."

The Emperor of Chu looked at Degui, who had been by his side all his life, with a pitiful expression on his face, and his heart softened.

"When have I ever disliked you? Don't try to accuse me of something bad. You've been by my side my whole life. Do you think I'll just stop caring about you when you're old?"

Xiao Degui was selected when the Emperor of Chu was five years old, and he was only nine years old at that time.

If you think about it, it means you have been following me for a lifetime.

Xiao Degui thought about how His Majesty had treated him so well along the way. He felt that His Majesty's kindness was hard to repay and tears came to his eyes.

"That won't do, Your Majesty! Since I've been by your side, I've sworn in my heart that I'll follow you for the rest of my life. Please don't abandon me. I've served you my entire life, and even in death, I'll continue to serve you in the afterlife."

Only Xiao Degui dared to say this. If anyone else dared to threaten to die in front of the Emperor of Chu, he would have been dragged away long ago.

"You, you're so old and still crying. Aren't you afraid that your apprentice will laugh at you? Stop crying, here!"

The Emperor of Chu threw a handkerchief to Xiao Degui, who quickly caught it and wiped his face embarrassedly.

"I am not afraid of losing face. If I were, Your Majesty would have driven me away long ago."

Only the Emperor of Chu and Xiao Degui understood this. When Your Majesty was young, he made a mistake and was put in solitary confinement. The Queen Mother at that time was just a small talent. Not only did she not raise the child by her side, she also had no say.

At that time, the palace maids around the Emperor of Chu ran away, fearing that if they got too close, they would be angered by the Empress.

Only Xiao Degui was by his side. The King of Chu at that time saw through some people and felt that they were sinister.

As a result, he had a bad attitude towards Xiao Degui who was beside him, thinking that he had ulterior motives.

The King of Chu used harsh words to treat Xiao Degui, but he refused to drive him away and stayed by his side shamelessly.

"Your Majesty gave me a piece of mung bean cake that year, and I will remember it for the rest of my life."

The King of Chu felt somewhat helpless, and pretended to be angry as he looked at Xiao Degui's miserable old face.

"You say you're a eunuch after all, and a piece of cake is worth remembering for the rest of your life? Don't let those little guys laugh at you."

"This servant is blessed. Even if they were given this blessing, they wouldn't be able to obtain it."

Xiao Degui went ahead with a lick of the hand, and the Emperor of Chu felt both happy and secretly resentful.

What makes me happy is that I still have a confidant by my side when I am old, but what makes me angry is that even a servant knows how to repay a favor.

Some people receive high-ranking salaries but are not grateful and instead have evil ambitions.

"I know you're a good person, but some people aren't. That's human nature."

When Xiao Degui saw the face of the Emperor of Chu, he knew that some people were going to be in trouble.

As expected, the next day, the master of the Ning family was stripped of his official position for dereliction of duty. Xiao Degui had known about this for a long time and cursed in his heart that he deserved it.

To be honest, this Ning family member is really a genius, Xiao Degui thought to himself.

It is a great thing to have a golden phoenix in the family, but his family is useless.

Sometimes he wants an official position, sometimes he wants money. That's fine, but seeing that the imperial concubine is pregnant, he wants to send a woman to her.

Instead, he threatened the master.

This caused the imperial concubine to become estranged from her family. Knowing that the Sixth Prince was a sickly child and would not live long, she planned to send her cousin to live with her.

Concubine Ning was so angry that she simply refused to allow the women of the Ning family to enter the palace.

Well, now the situation is completely strained. In order to become rich and powerful, the Ning family sent their cousin to live with the Second Prince.

Okay, okay, the Ning family can’t sleep if they don’t cause trouble for a day.

Now that the cousin who married into the family had given birth to a child, the Ning family submitted a petition requesting the establishment of a crown prince.

Stupid! So stupid!

Who can't see what their family is thinking? It's fine if they rely on the favor of the imperial concubine in the palace, but even if you ask to make the Sixth Prince the Crown Prince, the Emperor of Chu won't be so angry.

He is a typical stupid pig who treats his cousin like a treasure. People who don't know would think that Master Ning is his biological daughter.

Not only the Emperor of Chu and the Imperial Concubine thought so, but other officials also secretly visited Ning's house.

"You say you don't support your own grandson, yet you go to flatter your crooked relative. You really don't know what you're talking about. Without the imperial concubine, the Ning family is nothing but a downtrodden family. Yet you really take yourself too seriously."

"The Ning family probably looks at the Sixth Prince..."

While saying this, the man was speaking in code. He dared not say it out loud. If it got out, he might lose his job.

"So he wanted to find a better wife, but he quietly sent his cousin to the Second Prince's residence. It's said that she's just an unknown concubine. If someone hadn't mentioned it yesterday, I wouldn't have known about it."

After hearing this, some people were puzzled and pointed to the place where Master Ning used to be.

"What do you think he was after? He rushed to marry a cousin and even paved the way for the Second Prince. Now, His Majesty has given him some respect because he is the Imperial Concubine's biological father. Otherwise, it would have been over long ago."

A group of people nodded in agreement. Duan Jing'an and Shen Xianli were not far away and heard what they were saying.

"Looking at it this way, the Second Prince...I'm afraid he has some thoughts."