Let's Squander A Billion First!-Chapter 545 - Difficult to be a Hostage (End)

Chapter 545 -545: Difficult to be a Hostage (End)

Chapter 545 -545: Difficult to be a Hostage (End)

The Emperor and Empress had been married for many years, and their affection for each other ran deep.

However, over all these years, they remained childless.

The court officials began to worry about the child issue again.

Send beauties?

Dare not, dare not.

The Empress was too fearsome, and these years the Emperor, apart from doting on the Empress more and more, had barely glanced at another woman.

They certainly didn’t want their own daughters to suffer by sending them in.

So the ‘Childbirth Urging Squad’ was thus established.

Every day, there would be a minister bringing up the issue of offspring.

Today, someone’s family had a big, fat baby boy.

Tomorrow, someone else’s big, fatty baby boy would have his full month celebration.

Attempting to awaken His Majesty’s longing and anticipation for offspring.

However, Lian Qiong’s reaction was a bit puzzling.

He could not be said to be happy, nor could he be said to be unhappy.

He looked at them with a smile that was not quite a smile and said.

After the court session, Lian Qiong could no longer contain his anger, “What do those old fools mean by this?”

“Your Majesty, mind your words,” Chen Fei reminded.

As an Emperor, should you be calling your own subjects that?

Lian Qiong huffed.

“Having children, do they just hate to see me childless?” All he wanted was to live a world of two with his Empress. Why would he need a child? Why would he need a child!?

“Your Majesty…” Chen Fei advised, “Right now, you are the Emperor, and the future requires an heir to succeed the great rule. You and the Empress need a child.”

“Why don’t you go have one!” Even after so many years as Emperor, Lian Qiong, when agitated, was as always unreasonable.

Chen Fei’s mouth twitched: “Your Majesty, I am a man.”

Lian Qiong walked forward with his hands behind his back: “Childbearing is so painful and risky, I absolutely won’t let the Empress go through that.”

Chen Fei carefully said: “So does Your Majesty plan to take concubines?”

Ordinary households would have three wives and four concubines, let alone an imperial one.

Chen Fei was simply thinking as any normal person would.

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Since he did not wish for the Empress to endure the pain of childbirth, the only alternative would be to take concubines.

“Chen Fei.”

“Your Majesty?”

The young Emperor turned around, his face carrying a hint of a smile: “If I hear the words ‘take concubines’ again, beware I don’t skin you alive.”

Chen Fei: “…”

–

Upon returning, Lian Qiong reported to Chuzheng.

He said that those old fools outside were pressuring him to have children, as if they expected him to be the one to give birth.

Chuzheng leaned against the soft couch, idly flipping through a book: “You don’t want children?”

“Not at all,” said Lian Qiong as he massaged Chuzheng’s legs, occasionally taking liberties: “After having a child, I’d have to share you with them. I don’t want that.”

Chuzheng set down the book, lifted Lian Qiong’s chin, and leaned over to kiss him.

Lian Qiong immediately became somewhat distracted.

Even though they were an old married couple, having done many intimate things many times over and unlocked all there was to unlock, every time she kissed him, it felt like the first time.

However, Chuzheng kissed him only briefly before letting go.

“The court officials won’t give up so easily. You better think of a solution soon,” Chuzheng leaned back and reminded him in a light tone.

Lian Qiong, of course, knew those old undying wouldn’t let the matter rest…

So he found something for them to do.

Thus, Lian Qiong went on to provoke Chu Country…

Despite it being a minor incident, Chu Country had a fiery temper.

In the past, when Jin and Wei went to war, Chu’s support without seizing the opportunity to loot had been unexpected to many.

But not long after Wei Country’s downfall, Chu Country frequently harassed Jin’s borders.

And they still had a princess over there… though it was said that Princess Yun Lan was living a miserable life.

But with the late Emperor and Empress gone, who would care for the life or death of a princess?

The harassment from Chu Country at the border were small incidents, but over time, they became annoying.

Lian Qiong gave the court officials such a task, and the daily topic turned to Chu Country.

Sure enough, no one mentioned the matter of children again.

Lian Qiong was satisfied monopolizing his own Empress.

The only hobby Lian Qiong had ever persisted in, and would continue to, was her alone.

–

Xiao Shanzi had now become the chief eunuch overseeing the entire harem.

That day, as he passed by the palace where Wei Country’s Hostage once lived, a thought struck him, and he turned to enter.

The palace was covered in dust, abandoned in haste long ago; many items had been left behind, not brought along. Later he returned, but never revisited the place.

Still, the familiar surroundings evoked some memories in Xiao Shanzi.

Had he not submitted and followed his current master, there’s no telling what he might have become now.

Alas.

Xiao Shanzi sighed inwardly and pushed a few doors open to look around.

In the room where Chuzheng had stayed, Xiao Shanzi suddenly caught sight of something on the ground.

He walked over, puzzled, swept away the dust, and saw a gold leaf on the floor.

Where did this come from?

Xiao Shanzi wondered, then noticed that there seemed to be more than one gold leaf.

And there were even more.

They stretched out beneath the bed.

Xiao Shanzi bent down, his butt sticking out as he peered underneath the bed amidst the dusty floor.

There was quite a stack of items, all covered in dust.

Xiao Shanzi dragged them out and looked inside: they were all wrapped in gold and silver jewelry, as well as some silver and gold utensils.

This…

Was this someone’s secret stash?!

There were over a dozen large and small bundles under the bed, all filled with valuable items.

What a bold thief?!

All this stuff…

Xiao Shanzi swallowed hard.

If he took them, no one would know, right?

Yet, in the end, Xiao Shanzi promptly reported his find to Chuzheng.

After all, those items were found underneath the bed where Chuzheng had once slept.

“Oh, that…” Chuzheng had forgotten: “You can have it.”

Happiness struck so fast, Xiao Shanzi almost stopped breathing.

Xiao Shanzi trembled, “Master… about those things…” There was so much! They could never have acquired that much gold and silver in several lifetimes.

“Hmm, I’m rewarding you with them,” Chuzheng said with complete indifference.

Latterly, Xiao Shanzi returned to his hometown adorned in those riches.

The child he had adopted asked curiously, “Foster father, does working in the palace pay well?”

Xiao Shanzi shook his head: “The palace doesn’t pay.”

“Then why are you so wealthy, foster father?” The child, still a youth, had eyes full of curiosity and inquiry.

They were the wealthiest family in town.

“Because foster father’s master is wealthy,” Xiao Shanzi reflected. “All these are rewards from the master.”

“Your master is very good to you, foster father.”

Xiao Shanzi smiled, “Silly boy, your foster father is just a eunuch who works as a servant; how could the master possibly be so kind to me?”

“But didn’t she reward you with so much?”

Xiao Shanzi felt helpless.

He certainly couldn’t tell him that the master didn’t bother with these things and just tossed them to him, could he?

It wasn’t just him.

Each servant who worked close to the master had gained benefits.

Countless were those who scrambled for a chance to serve in the master’s palace.

It was simply that he, serving personally, received a bit more than others.

“So… what kind of person is your master?”

“She…”

Xiao Shanzi looked into the distance.

Only after a long while did he shake his head.

“Foster father has never truly understood her in his life.”

She was a woman with inscrutable thoughts.

Her demeanor always aloof, as if there was little in this world she cared for.

Yet only toward His Majesty…

Although her attitude was also detached, they could all tell she indulged and spoiled His Majesty.