Chapter 5: The Storm in the Inner Palace
The next day, for some unknown reason, the Seventh Prince did not come.

In the library.

Su Chen breathed a sigh of relief instead.

He doesn't like trouble.

He also didn't like anyone coming to the library to disturb his life.

It’s just as well that the Seventh Prince is not coming.

After all, he was a eunuch. When a prince came, should he kneel down and salute him or not?

"Master Su."

"The bluestone bricks in this library are all cracked."

"It's so cold that even the bricks can be frozen and cracked. The craftsmen who maintain the library are really cutting corners. If Master Su gets frozen, I'll chop off the heads of those craftsmen."

Xu Xiaohan shouted and directed two black eunuchs to carry several bluestone bricks and replace the bricks that were crushed by the black-clothed envoy, a peak third-grade master, last night with new ones.

They probably could never have imagined that the corpse of a top third-grade master lay here last night.

In a blink of an eye.

The first floor of the library was completely renovated, with no trace of the fight left.

Outside the library.

The snow is getting heavier.

Winter is getting colder.

A few days later, the library returned to its former tranquility. It was too remote, and the roads were blocked by snow, so no one would come to the library on purpose.

Except Xu Xiaohan.

The weather gets cold.

Su Chen didn't even do the cleaning.

I spent the whole day wrapped in a quilt in a recliner, hugging the stove, feeling drowsy.

today.

December 27th.

It hasn't snowed for a long time.

The weather cleared up too.

Su Chen was lazily basking in the sun on a recliner, waiting for Xiao Hanzi to bring him food. This landlord-like life really made him feel comfortable.

Except for the fact that he could not bully men or women, it was exactly the fairy-like life he had always dreamed of in his previous life.

"call!"

Su Chen exhaled and opened his eyes.

The slowly growing immortality energy in his body finally reached its limit and stopped growing.

There were not the expected one hundred streams of immortality qi.

In his body.

There are only sixty-eight lines of immortal qi.

"what happened?"

"In his previous peak period, he was able to possess seventy immortality qi."

"Why are we regressing again..."

Su Chen was a little confused.

Just when Su Chen was worried.

Xiao Hanzi came back with a lunch box.

At this time, it was past dinner time. This was the first time in such a long time, but Xiao Hanzi looked extremely excited. He started shouting before he even stepped into the library.

"Master Su, it's done."

"I'm your godfather."

"He became the deputy chief steward of the palace."

Xiao Hanzi was very excited.

Even though he knew that the Imperial Concubine was supporting Zhang Gui, Su Chen still felt incredible when Zhang Gui really became the deputy chief eunuch of the Imperial Palace.

Zhang Gui's cultivation is an absolute flaw.

Even though he was extremely talented and close to being a martial arts prodigy, his quick-acquired double-peak fourth-grade realm, even if it gave him a combat capability close to that of the third-grade realm, was still only at the fourth-grade realm. A deputy chief eunuch of the imperial palace had to be at least at the third-grade realm.

What's more, he had to compete with several senior eunuchs of the third rank for the position of deputy chief steward...

"He became Luo's deputy?"

Su Chen asked.

Xiao Hanzi shook his head and spoke excitedly.

"The Fifth Prince personally bestowed the secret medicine to help godfather break through the third-grade marrow cleansing realm. What we are fighting for is not the position of deputy under the powerless chief steward Luo who only has a title, but the position of deputy chief steward who directly manages the Martial Arts Bureau." Xiao Hanzi was extremely excited.

The positions in the Shangwu Bureau, whether deputy general manager or manager, are higher than those of the same level. This is really a great joy.

Now Su Chen was even more confused.

The positions of the chief, deputy chief and general manager in the Shangwu Bureau are all filled, so where would the vacancies come from?

The Palace has been in operation for nearly three years.

It was just that recently, a chief eunuch was imprisoned and died, and a deputy chief eunuch was promoted to the second rank and automatically filled the position, so a deputy chief eunuch was vacant...

and many more.

Su Chen's eyes widened, and he subconsciously looked at the medicinal field where the black-clothed corpse was buried. He also touched the corroded, rough black iron token at his waist.

Could it be?

This token is actually the order of the Deputy Chief of the Imperial Palace? !

What the hell!

A eunuch deputy chief steward of the third rank?

as predicted.

Xiao Hanzi began to tell the story excitedly.

"Eunuch Xu, the deputy director of the Shangwu Bureau under the Second Prince, was ordered to leave the palace twenty days ago. After returning, he did not return to the Shangwu Bureau where he was supposed to be on duty. He simply disappeared."

"We searched the entire palace but found no trace of him. This position cannot have been vacant for more than seven days. The Second Prince and the Fifth Prince started to fight for it openly or secretly more than ten days ago."

"Now, I'm your godfather."

Twenty days ago, wasn’t it the night when Su Chen, the hidden chess piece, was activated by the man in black?

The time is right.

Su Chen asked two more questions.

as predicted.

This missing eunuch Xu is a top-level master of the third level of the Marrow Cleansing Realm. He can refine the golden body with one hand and is well-known even among the third-level masters.

While Xu Xiaohan was not paying attention, Su Chen secretly took out the token and polished it. As expected, he could vaguely see that it was made of Hanyue Iron, which was specially used for the waist badges of the third-grade practitioners in the palace.

In addition, I can vaguely see the word "Xu"...

Case solved.

It turns out that this black-clad eunuch is actually from the eunuch system, at the deputy general manager level.

Even if it's only unconscious.

Su Chen was still involved in the struggle, and boosted the power of the Fifth Prince's faction.

after all.

In today's imperial palace, the death of a chief eunuch has made the other chief eunuchs panic-stricken. They dare not have any contact with any prince. The deputy chief eunuch is the highest-ranking eunuch that a prince can win over.

However, these have nothing to do with Su Chen.

He didn't want to be involved anymore.

He just needs to live his life peacefully in this library.

soon.

The food boxes were unfolded one by one. This time it was no longer Bairu wine, but also roast chicken. Obviously, they were all dishes made by the chefs outside the palace. At the bottom of the food box were revealed the low-age medicinal herbs that Su Chen had ordered Xiao Hanzi to get.

"Master Su, I don't know what misunderstanding you have with Godfather, but Godfather hasn't come to the library these days."

"But during this period, Godfather has always had Master Su in his heart."

"Last night, when I passed by the library, my godfather stopped in front of the door for a long time. He didn't want to disturb your rest, so he didn't come in. The next day, I asked the boy to go out of the palace and get you a table full of all your favorite foods."

"Godfather also said that today is your birthday, so you should eat something good."

The dishes were very rich, including roast chicken, Su goose, and braised pork. Some of them were not cooked in this world, but were Su Chen's favorite foods in his previous life. He had mentioned them before, but he didn't expect Zhang Gui to still remember them.

As for the birthday, it was probably the original owner's birthday. Su Chen really couldn't remember what time it was. He didn't expect it to be today.

Su Chen took a taste and found it was not poisonous.

He ate a big chunk of it.

He is not afraid even if it is poisonous. A few days ago, he accidentally got the poisonous powder of ground herbs on his hands. When he was anxiously looking for the detoxifying herbs, he found that the immortality energy was running through his body.

The toxicity has long since dissipated.

He is not only an immortal monster, but also an immortal monster that is immune to all poisons.

This made Su Chen feel a lot more at ease.

after all.

Before he could master the horizontal training external skills, he had to deal with poisons. If he were to die suddenly from the poison, it would be a huge joke.

(End of this chapter)