Rebirth: Making a Fortune in Ancient Times

Upon hearing these words, the Grand Tutor realized the problem that had been troubling him for so long. He had always felt that Shen Luo resembled someone, but he just couldn't remember who it was. At this moment, it was as if a thunderbolt had struck him: Shen Luo looked very much like the Emperor when he was a child, even more so than the current First Prince.

Consort Jiang was about to ask Shen Luo's age when she heard the anxious voices of palace servants coming from afar.

"Help! The Crown Prince has fallen into the water! Help! The Crown Prince has fallen into the water!"

Hearing the palace servants' shouts, the Emperor and the Imperial Concubine were terrified, but they still ran quickly toward the Imperial Lake with the help of the palace servants, and the other palace servants followed.

"Make way, I can swim!" Suddenly, a child pushed aside the people blocking his way and ran like an arrow toward the direction where the palace servants were gathered.

"Luo'er, slow down." Changyun, who was following behind, didn't care about the palace etiquette anymore. He was afraid that Shen Luo would get himself killed instead of saving someone, so he hurriedly ran after him to catch up.

When everyone arrived, more than a dozen guards had already jumped into the Imperial Lake like dumplings being dropped into boiling water. Before Shen Luo could even go down to rescue him, some guards had already swum to the Crown Prince's side and pulled him out of the lake. Perhaps because he had inhaled water, the Crown Prince was not breathing when he was pulled out. When Consort Jiang saw her son was lifeless, she screamed and fainted.

For a moment, the Imperial Lake was in complete chaos, with people weeping for the Crown Prince, for the Imperial Concubine, for themselves, and running to fetch the Imperial Physician. When the Emperor saw his son lying motionless on the ground, he suddenly felt a heart-wrenching pain and staggered back a few steps.

Seeing the emperor's pained expression, the chief eunuch Li Dequan, who had been following him closely, quickly took out a small porcelain bottle from his sleeve, poured out two pills, and gave them to the emperor to take.

Everyone's attention was focused on the Emperor and the Imperial Concubine; no one paid any attention to the eldest prince lying on the ground. Shen Luo and Chang Yun exchanged a glance and decided to try the method Xia Yu had taught them to see if they could save the eldest prince.

Shen Luo knelt beside the eldest prince and patted him hard on the shoulder, but he didn't react. Chang Yun quickly tore off all the clothes from the eldest prince's upper body and cleared the foreign object from his mouth.

"How dare you! What are you doing? How dare you disrespect the Crown Prince! Guards! Seize these two!" Among the group of people busy attending to the Emperor and Consort, someone finally noticed the Crown Prince's group and witnessed the scene unfolding before them. The eunuch immediately ordered the guards to arrest the two men.

"Wait," Li Taifu said, stopping the guards who came to arrest the man.

"Let them try. They saved a drowning child using this method before," Grand Tutor Li said in a deep voice.

When the guard heard Li Taifu say that this method was to save lives, he was about to leave.

"How dare they! They stripped the Crown Prince of his clothes and even kissed him! This is not saving a life, it's blasphemy!" To everyone's surprise, the eunuch didn't believe Li Taifu's words and insisted that the guards arrest Changyun and Shen Luo.

While he hesitated, the emperor, having taken his medicine, finally recovered and spoke weakly.

"Listen to the Grand Tutor, let them give it a try."

At this moment, Consort Jiang was also awakened by the palace servants pinching her philtrum. When she opened her eyes, she saw her son's small figure lying on the ground, with two people kneeling beside him pressing on his chest.

"My son, don't abandon your mother!" Consort Jiang's piercing cry made the Emperor's heart, which had just calmed down, ache again.

Chang Yun and Shen Luo, who were rescuing the person on the ground, didn't care what others thought of them. They counted the breaths, one blowing air and the other performing chest compressions, focusing solely on saving the person.

"Cough cough... cough cough..." The eldest prince, who had been silent on the ground, suddenly coughed up a few mouthfuls of water and slowly opened his eyes.

"He's awake... he's awake... the Crown Prince is awake!" The palace maids who had been watching the situation excitedly shouted. They, who served him, were finally spared from dying.

"Jing'er, Jing'er, my Jing'er." When Consort Jiang saw her son open his eyes, she excitedly rushed over and hugged the eldest prince into her arms, afraid that something might happen to him if she didn't see him for a while.

At this moment, the person who went to fetch the imperial physician finally returned.

"Your Majesty, please put the First Prince down so that I may examine him," the imperial physician, who had rushed over, said to Consort Jiang, kneeling beside the First Prince without delay.

"My beloved consort, put Jing'er down and let the imperial physician examine her again," the Emperor advised.

"Your Majesty, I'm scared, I'm so scared!" Consort Jiang cried, but still obediently put the eldest prince on the ground. A guard nearby quickly took off his cloak and spread it on the ground for the eldest prince to cushion.

"Mother, he's the one who harmed me." The eldest prince, lying on the ground, suddenly pointed at the eunuch who had just ordered the guards to arrest him.

The eunuch who was being pointed at, upon hearing the eldest prince speak to him in this way, was so frightened that he knelt down with a thud.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness, please understand! How could this servant dare to harm the Crown Prince! This servant was just serving the Crown Prince, sob sob sob." The Emperor waved his hand, and a guard stepped forward and used a rag to block the eunuch who was still begging for mercy.

"Take him away and interrogate him thoroughly to see who sent him to harm the Crown Prince," the Emperor coldly ordered.

"Yes," the two guards said, carrying the young eunuch who had collapsed like a limp rag doll away. Since the eldest prince had personally identified him, it was undoubtedly this man. Now, the question was how much they could extract from him.

After the imperial physicians examined the prince and confirmed that he was fine and only needed a few days of rest, the emperor, the imperial concubine, and the palace servants were finally relieved.

After all the commotion, the Emperor was exhausted, so he ordered his chief eunuch, Li Dequan, to personally escort Grand Tutor Li, Shen Jingheng, and Shen Luo out of the palace.

At the palace gate, Eunuch Li smiled and congratulated Shen Jingheng.

"Young Master Shen is exceptionally brave and will surely bring glory to the Shen family in the future." He then smiled and said to Chang Yun.

"Young Master Zhang saved the Crown Prince today, and His Majesty will surely reward you later. I would like to offer my congratulations to Young Master Zhang in advance."