Chapter 963: Searching for Letters Chapter 963: Searching for Letters Editor: Atlas Studios Qi Xiuyuan stood up from his chair and glanced at the secret guard kneeling in the central hall before slowly sitting back down.
He took so ti to digest the news before asking, “You said that the Crown Prince brought the Second Prince out of the capital?” “Yes.” Qi Xiuyuan rubbed his thumb and index finger.
His first instinct was, “That kid escaped.” After a mont, he reacted and asked, “Which city gate did they use?” “East gate.” Qi Xiuyuan instantly understood.
He couldn’t help but grind his teeth and order, “Send an additional team of secret guards to protect them.
Don’t alarm them first.” Qi Xiuyuan paused for a mont before saying, “Bring along Imperial Physician Wu from the Imperial Institute of dicine.” After the secret guard left, Qi Xiuyuan said softly, “Co out.” His leader of the secret guards walked out of the darkness and knelt respectfully on the ground.
“Find out who that coachman is and why he’s helping the Crown Prince.” The leader of the secret guards retreated.
Qi Xiuyuan sat alone in the study for a while.
He recalled Little Treasure’s words the night before when he specially ca to request to sleep beside him.
“Royal Father, if I did sothing wrong, will you punish ?” Smiling, Qi Xiuyuan had replied, “Of course.
You have to be punished for your mistakes.” “Then will you beat up?” Using violence was the lowest form of education.
Feeling that Little Treasure had always been obedient, he figured he wouldn’t have to resort to this thod, so he told him with certainty, “No, Royal Father will reason with you.” At that ti, Little Treasure hugged Qi Xiuyuan’s waist and said with tears in his eyes, “Then, Royal Father, promise that if I make a mistake, don’t be anxious or angry, lest you damage your health.” ‘Geez what was I thinking at the ti?’ Qi Xiuyuan wanted to bang his head on the table.
At that ti, he’d wondered how his son could be so obedient and sensible… Qi Xiuyuan’s eyes flickered coldly.
He thought that if his son was in front of him now, he would definitely say to him, “Son, co here.
Royal Father promises not to beat you to death!” Qi Xiuyuan sat down and gritted his teeth before heading to the East Palace with a dark expression.
Eunuch Wan’s heart skipped a beat when he saw the Emperor walk out with a suppressing aura.
He hurriedly lowered his head and followed behind him respectfully.
Speaking of which, the Emperor was a relatively gentle person.
Other than when it concerned Prince Rong and the Duke of Peaceful State, the Emperor rarely revealed his emotions like this.
Was soone daft enough to impeach Prince Rong and the Duke of Peaceful State again?
Eunuch Wan followed behind the Emperor in confusion.
It took him a while to realize that they were heading in the direction of the East Palace.
Qi Xiuyuan went straight into his son’s bedroom and started rummaging through the box where he kept the letters.
Eunuch Wan watched with trepidation.
The Emperor, who had always doted on the Crown Prince, was actually searching the Crown Prince’s bedroom.
What treasonous thing had the Crown Prince done?
As the Emperor did not say what he was looking for, Eunuch Wan could only follow behind him with sweat all over his forehead and help him tidy up the ss.
Eunuch Wan felt that sothing was wrong.
Although the Emperor’s expression was dark and his eyes were filled with rage, he didn’t exude hostility.
Moreover, if he really wanted to raid the Crown Prince’s bedroom, he should have called the guards over.
He did not have to do it himself… Eunuch Wan was relieved.
It was fine as long as the palace did not undergo a massive change.
He started to tidy up behind the Emperor in peace.
After searching for a long ti, Qi Xiuyuan finally found a box in a secret compartnt on a bookshelf.
Ignoring his son’s privacy, Qi Xiuyuan took out the letters and placed them on the couch.
He took out the letter on the top of the stack and saw the words, “Are you ready?” Qi Xiuyuan could tell at a glance that it was Little Bear’s handwriting.
He gritted his teeth in hatred.
He knew that this matter had sothing to do with Little Bear.
According to the pattern of receiving a letter a day, he calculated the approximate ti of arrival of the letters.
Soon, he found the letter he wanted from the pile.
Although the letters written by Little Treasure weren’t here, he could tell what they had written to each other just by looking at Little Bear’s letters.
In the previous letter, Little Bear told Little Treasure that the next ti they were on break from school, their father would be bringing their family out to sea for an outing.
That’s right, it was an outing.
Other people would at most go to the lake or climb the mountain for an outing.
However, Qi Haoran was using a boat to bring his family to an island to play.
Not only were they going to swim in the sea and catch fish, but they also planned to eat hot pot on the island.
It sounded simply too blissful.
Reading this, Little Treasure was even more determined to leave the capital to play.
Little Treasure was very smart.
He knew very well that the older he was, the less likely it was for him to leave the capital.
Although he might have more ability to leave the capital when he grew up, the probability of being punished was higher and the punishnt would be greater.
Hence, they felt that it was better to do such a thing earlier than later.
Little Treasure decisively asked Little Bear to give him ideas.
You might wonder, how did Qi Xiuyuan know about that?
That was because the next letter was filled with all kinds of ideas suggested by Little Bear.
Obviously, they were all rejected by Little Treasure.
Otherwise, Little Treasure wouldn’t have adopted the thod of acting first and reporting later.
After searching for a long ti, Qi Xiuyuan finally found out that this thod was suggested by Little Lion.
This surprised Qi Xiuyuan because he’d assud that this lousy idea was most likely suggested by Little Bear or Tiger Head.
Compared to his big brother and third brother, the second-ranked Little Lion was a little more obedient.
At least, it was rare to hear him act in a bratty manner.
As it turned out, he was indeed Haoran’s son.
Qi Xiuyuan touched his teeth and continued reading the letter.
Gradually, he figured out what had happened.
Together with his pals, Little Bear ca up with many ideas for Little Treasure.
One idea was for Little Treasure to roll around on the floor and pester the Empress for her permission.
Or, requesting to go south under the excuse of missing his uncle and aunt.
Or, to make a great contribution and ask to go south as a reward.
Or, to on hunger strike.
Naturally, soone suggested he acted first and reported later, probably getting a beating afterwards… Little Treasure had used both the first two thods, but neither the Emperor nor the Empress agreed.
Unexpectedly, he skipped the many thods in the middle and went straight to the one provided by Little Lion.
Since Little Treasure had chosen a thod, what Little Bear and the others had to do was perfect this thod.
Needless to say, through continual experintation, the four children did manage to find a good way to go about it.
First of all, Little Treasure had to leave the palace.
This part was simple because he could leave the palace every ti he was on a break from school.
Secondly, Little Treasure had to shake off the attendants who followed behind him around and avoid arousing their suspicion for so ti.
This was impossible in the past, but it was not difficult now.
Because of the opening of the library.
When one entered the library to read and borrow books, they could not bring servants in.
This rule also applied to the descendants of the royalty and nobles.
Qi Xiuyuan had set this rule at the beginning because he was afraid that the sacred place would be ssed up by those noble descendants.
Who would’ve known that this rule would end up making it convenient for his son to carry out this plan?
Little Treasure’s attendants were thus left outside the library.
As he still had a secret guard by his side who had always been personally handling Little Treasure’s personal matters, the servants were never overly anxious about it.
In addition, once Little Treasure entered the library, he typically stayed there for an entire day.
Other than coming out to look for food halfway, he was almost always reading inside.
Therefore, the attendants were not suspicious.
Just like that, Little Treasure got rid of the servants on the surface.
Next was how to leave the library without being discovered by the servants outside.
This was also simple.
Since the library was built on the residence of the previous dynasty’s Left Assistant Minister of the Ministry of War, there must be a corner door.
Little Treasure had indeed found it, but the corner door was locked.
The four children unanimously agreed that Little Treasure should climb over the wall.
This was a small matter to the three Little Bear brothers and an ordinary matter to Little An.
However, it was an impossible task for Little Treasure because he had tried and couldn’t climb up the wall no matter what.
Thus, this simply wouldn’t work.
So they could only look for the key.
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