NOVEL WEB Chapter 8
Chapter 8: A Gift From a Kind-hearted Person
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However, when they turned the corner, he disappeared. Did they lose him?
The Golden Guards busied themselves with searching the area, but in the end, they found nothing. It was as if the cunning kid from earlier had never appeared at all, and everything was just an illusion.
They did not dare to report this to Emperor Yong Ning, so they could only keep looking.
Emperor Yong Ning did not even eat lunch. He had been waiting for news about this little rascal’s capture, but he did not hear anything yet.
He was a little impatient. He looked at his subject, Xiao Lizi, and spoke in a cold tone. He said, “Xiao Lizi, go and ask for the Golden Guards’ progress on the capture. Did they catch him?”
Xiao Lizi quickly went to ask around, and when he came back, he timidly reported, “Your Majesty, they didn’t catch him. They… They lost him.”
“We lost him?” Emperor Yong Ning snorted coldly. “These fools are useless. They can’t even catch a child. I’ve raised them for nothing. Return with them and have them be executed.”
Tyrant, a true tyrant!
Xiao Lizi was speechless for a moment. “Are you really, really going to execute them?” Xiao Lizi was so scared that he knelt down.
“Your Majesty, don’t!”
The dowager empress had been taking a walk nearby and came over when she heard the commotion.
She did not expect that she would hear such a shocking sentence the moment she saw the emperor.
After all, these Golden Guards were the scions of the great clans that had been selected after many rounds of scrutiny. It would be a pity to sentence them to death for such a small matter, but it was also a fact that they had not caught the culprit.
The dowager empress had convinced him. The Golden Guards were not immediately executed. Instead, each of them was punished with fifty slaps, so that they could reflect on why they had not been able to catch a child.
After Emperor Yong Ning returned to the palace, he sighed. “If that little brat was a little girl, she wouldn’t be so naughty.”
“You’re right, Your Majesty,” Xiao Lizi echoed.
…
Jun Ning had no idea how much trouble she had stirred up. After she arrived at home, she washed her face and handed her mother, Qiong Hua, one of the chicken legs she had brought for her.
“Mother, don’t work anymore. Hurry up and eat something. I… I brought you some delicious food.”
At this time, Qiong Hua had already finished cultivating the soil. She wiped her sweaty forehead and looked at the little kid who was holding up the chicken leg.
“Yiyi, where did you get this?”
She was taken aback by the chicken leg her child was holding. Her beautiful eyes instantly widened and were filled with disbelief.
“A kind person gave it to me,” Jun Ning answered after some thought.
“In The Cold Palace, everyone is considered lucky if they have enough to eat. What kind of good-hearted person would give you chicken legs?”
“Of course, someone outside The Cold Palace gave it to me,” Jun Ning explained.
“You went outside The Cold Palace?” Hearing this, Qiong Hua became frightened. She quickly looked Jun Ning up and down a few times to make sure that she was fine. She was just a little dirty. She was relieved.
Then, she asked again, “How did you leave? Did anyone see you?”
Jun Ning was stunned when she saw her mother’s worried expression. She had no parents in her previous life and was an orphan. This was the first time she felt loved and truly cared for.
She was touched but she did not want Qiong Hua to continue worrying. She threw herself into Qiong Hua’s arms and said, “Mother, don’t worry. I left through the dog-sized opening at the foot of the wall. No one saw me.”
Qiong Hua doubted her story now. “No one saw you? Then, where did you get your chicken leg?”
“A kind little girl. She saw that I was very hungry, so she asked me which palace I was from and even gave me a few chicken legs. She’s the only one who saw me. ”
“Really?”
“Really, really.” Jun Ning nodded vigorously.