Chapter 7: The Fake Emperor

Su Chen loosened the soil with his hands and looked outside the courtyard.

Outside the yard.

There was a handsome man who reeked of alcohol, dressed in brocade clothes, a fox fur coat, and holding an exquisite hand warmer in his arms. The handsome man was dressed in white, which matched the vast snow scene perfectly.

In the palace, only princes can wear white clothes.

The prince wore a white brocade robe with a dragon embroidered on it.

This is the rule established by the ancestors of Daliang.

But this rule had long been broken. In the last years of the dynasty, the old emperor was incompetent and actually bestowed the Yunjin dragon robe on three princes in succession, causing the three princes to fight over it.

The little eunuch who served Su Chen was so frightened that he fell to his knees on the ground.

But Su Chen did not kneel.

Su Chen was loosening the soil on his own. He already knew who the visitor was.

The seventh prince!
"How dare you not kneel before a noble?"

A shout was heard outside the yard, and two royal guards in silver armor reached for the swords at their waists and looked at Su Chen with fierce eyes.

The two of them are fourth-grade practitioners.

In Daliang, practitioners have a highly respected status. An ordinary prince who is unable to practice cultivation would probably not even be followed by a fifth-rank practitioner, unless his brother is the extremely powerful Second Prince.

"Are you here about perfume and soap?"

Su Chen suddenly spoke.

Hear the words.

The Seventh Prince raised his hand, and the royal guards who wanted to rush in retreated.

“How come you see?”

He wanted to ask a question.

Then, he sniffed the floral scent all over his body, burst into laughter, and sat down next to Su Chen.

"Do you know what Zhang Gui is doing now?"

"With perfume and soap, he won the favor of the imperial concubine. He killed the whole family of a wise official as a token of his loyalty. He received a badge from the criminal department and walked outside the palace. In just a few months, he managed to get a reputation as a eunuch who confiscated the property of a family and exterminated the family."

"I have heard of you. You are like me, without the talent for cultivation. Zhang Gui will just use people like you and then throw them away. Why don't you come to me and I will introduce you to my brother..."

The Seventh Prince hadn't finished speaking yet.

Su Chen seemed to understand something, turned his head and asked the little eunuch who was kneeling on the ground beside him.

"Did Zhang Gui set up a business and make a fortune selling soap and perfume?"

The young eunuch looked bewildered.

Also.

As a low-level eunuch, it was naturally impossible for him to know the news outside the palace.

On the contrary, the Seventh Prince frowned, obviously what Su Chen said was true.

otherwise.

Even a prince would not come in person.

But are these soaps and perfumes so difficult to decipher?

Su Chen thought about it and seemed to understand.

How could these ancient people who only knew how to practice cultivation understand the power of the technology tree? Zhang Gui kept it a secret, probably because they wanted to come to him to ask for the secret recipe.

"You want the secret recipe?"

"Correct."

The seventh prince nodded.

“Is this thing very profitable in the outside world?”

The Seventh Prince was silent.

It's more than just making money.

It's just a huge money-making effort.

From princes and generals to landlords and gentry, every nobleman and girl was extremely fond of this thing, and it even reached a balance that affected the fight between the two princes.

All along, relying on his money and the richest businessman in Daliang behind him, his royal brother has been able to suppress Concubine Zhang's faction. As a result, the situation now shows a trend of reversal.

In fact, it won’t be long before the richest businessman in Daliang will be replaced.

"It seems that you really don't know anything."

"Do you think that a precious pill that can help one reach the peak fourth level and break through the third level can be obtained so easily?"

"If Zhang Gui didn't have money, how could he obtain this third-grade opportunity?"

"Make a price."

“I want the recipe!”

Su Chen didn't say anything. He really had no shortage of money. If he could sell the thousand-year-old ginseng king hidden in the library, it would be enough to buy half of the imperial city.

"Zhang Gui, you are not kind."

Su Chen looked in a certain direction and suddenly spoke.

next moment.

A sedan chair, carried by four eunuchs in green robes, appeared in front of Su Chen.

He was dressed in a red robe, had a handsome face, a tall stature, and a pair of deep and cold eyes.

Today, Zhang Gui's demeanor in every move and gesture is no longer comparable to what it was before.

"You and I are brothers, why are you being so formal? What's mine is yours, isn't it?"

Zhang Gui spoke with a smile since he got out of the sedan chair. He did not show any of the majesty of the deputy chief eunuch of the imperial palace or the authority of a third-grade marrow cleansing expert.

"Zhang Gui..."

The Seventh Prince frowned and glanced at Zhang Gui, but he still couldn't curse him as a eunuch, and left in disgrace.

The only ones left in the courtyard were Su Chen, Zhang Gui, and his four trusted eunuchs who carried the sedan chair.

"Are you still getting used to it?"

"If you want to leave the library, I can have someone pave the way for you and let you be the blue-robed manager of the Martial Arts Bureau first..."

Zhang Gui sat down in front of Su Chen, just like before, smiling and holding two bottles of Bairu wine.

Only now.

The two people's identities and status are one in heaven and one in hell.

"The library is quite good. I don't have the cultivation level to be a blue robe manager. You know I like quietness and don't like being disturbed. The Seventh Prince is here and I'm already troubled."

Su Chen said.

The next moment, Zhang Gui grabbed Su Chen's arm, and his strong internal energy circulated in Su Chen's body, but found nothing.

The first-grade horizontal training technique.

Before activating the Six-foot-tall Golden Body Technique, Su Chen was no different from an ordinary person.

"You really have no cultivation?"

Zhang Gui frowned.

"Isn't it normal that I don't have any cultivation?"

Su Chen spread his hands.

"But someone outside the palace told me that your identity is not simple. One night he asked a friend to look for you, but that friend never showed up again..."

"You should know that he is a third-rank master."

Obviously.

The person outside the palace that Zhang Gui mentioned was the Black Lotus Saint, and the so-called friend was the former deputy general manager, the black-robed envoy, Eunuch Xu.

"What?"

"A third-rank master?"

"If I encounter it, can I still survive?"

"Isn't this a joke?"

Su Chen said with a smile.

Beside Zhang Gui, several eunuchs who were carrying the sedan chair all looked at Su Chen with contempt.

Kill the third rank?

How could this ant-like little eunuch deserve this!
They had all heard of the library and Su Chen. He was just lucky and saved Eunuch Zhang's life that night. But he dared to act like this in front of Deputy General Manager Zhang. He had no respect for superiors and subordinates and deserved to be killed.

Those who are unable to practice cultivation should have the consciousness of being useless.

Su Chen naturally felt these contemptuous looks, but he did not react at all.

Instead, Zhang Gui noticed these looks, frowned, looked at one of them, and said.

"Do you have anything to say?"

"Speak boldly."

The eunuch in green robe felt Zhang Gui's encouragement and immediately understood that Deputy Chief Steward Zhang also disliked this boy who was seeking repayment for his kindness. He immediately scolded Su Chen.

"Eunuch Zhang is the deputy chief steward. What is your status? A person who has been exiled to the library..."

puff!
next moment.

The eunuch in green robe was cut in half.

"I asked you to say it, and you really dare to say it."

Zhang Gui, his eyes were grim.

The other three eunuchs in green robes were so frightened that they knelt on the ground.

"roll!"

The three eunuchs in green robes crawled out of the library as if they had been pardoned.

Seeing that there were no outsiders at all.

Zhang Gui then returned to his original appearance, with his hands behind his back, looking at Su Chen with a pair of deep eyes. Su Chen also looked back at him with a smile. Unable to find any clues, he sighed.

"Do you want to go out of the palace and get some fresh air?"

"As the year draws to a close, some people are becoming restless."

"When the storm is too strong, it will sweep across the imperial city. I'm afraid that I won't be able to protect you in this palace!"

Su Chen raised his eyebrows.

"how?"

"You're going to do it."

"Not waiting to become the first warden of Purple Robe?"

Su Chen looked at Zhang Gui.

That night, when he was drunk, Zhang Gui said the heinous words of killing the emperor; near the imperial study, Su Chen rescued not the eunuch Zhang Gui who had suffered an undeserved disaster, but the eunuch Zhang Gui who was the assassin who wanted to kill the emperor...

Zhang Gui did not belong to any secret sect. He was truly brave. He castrated himself, ran away from the palace and tried to kill the emperor.

"really."

"I shouldn't have had those two drinks."

Zhang Gui looked at Su Chen deeply, then sighed.

A shocking statement!

"Why do you think that the one who is still alive today is really the old emperor?"

(End of this chapter)