Fake Eunuch: Discovering the Emperor is a Woman!-Chapter 74 - Giving You a Piece of Silver

74: Chapter 74: Giving You a Piece of Silver

74 -74: Giving You a Piece of Silver

Fortunately, the young Emperor’s resolve was extraordinary by now, having already developed a selective immunity to Lin Yi’s nonsensical ramblings.

Otherwise, who knows when he might have dragged this fellow out and given him a beating!

After the two returned to the Imperial Study Room and dismissed the attendants on both sides, the young Emperor’s tense face finally relaxed.

“Hehe, how about that?

I told you you’d make a fortune, and now you’ve really raked it in.

But this guy really went too far, embezzling so much Silver all by himself.

Alas, if you were to raid an official’s house every day, you would never run out of money in the future!”

Hearing these words from Lin Yi, the young Emperor rolled his eyes in annoyance.

“If Your Majesty really raided an official’s house every day, it would take no more than three days before someone would lead a rebellion against you, believe it or not?”

Lin Yi, who was still fantasizing about earning ten million taels a day, couldn’t help but give a wry smile upon hearing this.

Indeed, under such circumstances, people would be in a state of panic, facing certain death either way; rebelling might even give them a fighting chance for their future.

“However, Your Majesty didn’t expect to confiscate so much money this time.

But at tomorrow’s court meeting, after the officials find out, they will surely demand that all this money be put into the National Treasury.”

As he said this, a worried look suddenly appeared on the young Emperor’s face.

If all these Silvers were to be deposited into the National Treasury, then, given his current control over it, he felt it would be as good as irrelevant to him.

That was his concern.

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi also furrowed his brows.

After all, this was a sum comparable to the National Treasury.

With so much money on hand, who wouldn’t be covetous?

“This Silver must not be handed over to the National Treasury; doing so would be like sending sheep into the mouth of a tiger.

However, Your Majesty must not forget that you now control the Left and Right Martial Guards.

With this, Your Majesty’s voice is now much stronger than before.”

These words were like waking someone from a dream, and the young Emperor’s eyes suddenly lit up.

Indeed, he now commanded a force of twenty thousand men – a number that already gave him considerable authority within the Imperial City.

After all, without permission, Vassal Kings were not allowed to enter the capital.

“Well, let’s just proceed with this for now.

You go ahead and take care of the subsequent matters, and transfer all that Silver Coin to the Inner Hall.”

After discussing some more details, Lin Yi stood up and left.

He was heading not just anywhere, but directly to the Chen Mansion of the Right Martial Guard.

As for what he was going there to do, collecting evidence was one reason, but naturally, he was also considering his own private treasury.

About half an hour after Lin Yi left, a woman in white came to the young Emperor in the Imperial Study Room.

“How much did they take?”

The young Emperor, without lifting his head and continuing to look at the memorials in his hand, asked indifferently.

“Your Majesty, they took away one thousand one hundred seventy taels of Silver and one thousand three hundred fifty taels of Gold.”

The young Emperor, upon hearing this, looked up with surprise and asked:

“Oh?

That’s all he took?”

Watching the young Emperor’s surprised expression, the woman in white nodded and then said:

“Yes, Your Majesty, that’s all the Gold and Silver there was.

That was the limit of what Eunuch Lin’s clothes could hold.

Any more, and his clothes would have burst.

But Eunuch Lin also took away Your Majesty’s favorite Luminous Pearl.”

As soon as these words were spoken, the young Emperor, who had been smiling inwardly at the somewhat comical image of the young fellow, and was even considering whether to send him some more Gold and Silver, suddenly widened his eyes in shock.

With the memorial in hand, he couldn’t help but tremble slightly.

After his eyelids twitched a few times, he took a deep breath to calm his mood, and then waved dismissively:

“Your Majesty is aware, you may leave now.”

“Yes.”

Though his face showed no expression, the young Emperor was internally sending Lin Yi his ‘greetings’ with fervor.

The value of the Luminous Pearl was one thing, but more importantly, it was a gift from his father.

Thus, its sentimental value was far more significant.

Had he not been lacking valuable items to frame Chen Baicheng with, he would not have been willing to part with it.

However, since Lin Yi had taken it, he had no intention of retrieving it, only hoping that Lin Yi would cherish it.

It’s worth mentioning that after Lin Yi strolled around, he clearly looked chubbier.

He jingled with every step he took.

Fan Niu and others who witnessed this scene decided against greeting him and immediately turned away instinctively.

Even a fool could see that Eunuch Lin’s body was surely stuffed with plundered goods.

Seeing everyone’s reactions, Lin Yi was quite satisfied.

After brushing past them and wobbling back to his small courtyard in the Rituals Office, he saw an old man sleeping under a tree as soon as he entered.

This made Lin Yi roll his eyes.

It seemed like this fellow spent twenty-four hours a day sleeping, just like a pig.

However, upon hearing the clinking from his clothes, the old man surprisingly opened his eyes and looked his way.

Moreover, the old man actually spoke:

“Hehe, lad, you didn’t skimp on stuffing yourself, did you?

Seems like you’ve reaped quite a profit from that raid.”

Uh…

With a single sentence, Lin Yi was stunned on the spot; he hadn’t expected the old eunuch to already know about the raid.

But after a second thought, he came to terms with it.

After all, such a significant event probably spread throughout the palace by now.

Since the old eunuch had seen it, Lin Yi had no choice but to reach into his bulging pockets and take out a palm-sized Silver Coin.

He then tossed it to the old man while chuckling:

“Hey, old man, don’t talk nonsense.

How could I take anything from a raid?

What I have here, I picked up.

Ahem, seeing as you spend your days lying around here, you probably don’t have much money to spend.

Here, this Silver Coin is for you!”

Watching the palm-sized Silver Coin fly towards the old man, Lin Yi felt a pang of heartache.

He had brought these back with great effort, and his pants were nearly falling down from the weight during the journey. freewebnøvel.coɱ

Only he knew the hardships endured.

He would have liked to give a smaller coin, but alas, he had only taken large ones; this was already the smallest.

As for the worry that the large coin might hit the old man,

Lin Yi was not concerned in the least.

After all, the old man had demonstrated his skills to Lin Yi in the past.

This old man indeed had some tricks up his sleeve.

Therefore, after tossing the coin over, and because the motion was quite exaggerated, his clothes were on the verge of giving way, and he quickly made his way indoors.

But just as he turned around, a “duang” sound came from behind him.

…The end of the chapter…