The System Make Me Near With The Emperor
Chapter 34

By the time Xie Hongyi and the eunuch arrived at the Flower Palace, the guards there announced Xie Hongyi's arrival then opened the door of Huang Long's study.

Xie Hongyi walked into the study and stared at the contents. Like the workspace in general, in the room there are bookshelves, work tables and chairs, and some decorations such as flower vases and landscape paintings.

Xie Hongyi then looked at the figure sitting on the chair, kneeling down and saluting. "Greetings Your Majesty. Concubine Xie saluted."

"Wake up." Huang Long said flatly.

The room was silent for a moment. Seeing that Huang Long had no intention of speaking anymore, Xie Hongyi finally asked. "Why did His Majesty call me here?"

Huang Long's tone of voice sounded strange as he answered Xie Hongyi's question. "Zhen it hurts, why are you visiting other people?"

Whahuh? Xie Hongyi's brain became dysfunctional for a moment. Huang Long had called him here just to ask that? The corner of Xie Hongyi's mouth twitched slightly as he spoke. "Your Majesty, actually earlier after visiting Xiao Zhang, I will be visiting His Majesty. But by the time I was about to leave, suddenly the eunuch from the Flower Palace approached me."

Huang Long's forehead frowned slightly as he heard Xie Hongyi's words. Not for the reason that Xie Hongyi spoke of, but the name of the man he mentioned. "Xiao Zhang?"

Not paying attention to what was wrong, Xie Hongyi told Huang Long. "Yes. The man was a villager who happened to be kidnapped and sold to the black market."

Huang Long thought he was not that simple. The first time he saw Xiao Zhang, the man seemed to be a martial expert, felt from his breath that possessed powerful internal strength. In addition, Huang Long noticed that the man's injuries were caused by the scratches of sharp objects done by martial arts as well. So when Xie Hongyi said that he was a villager, Huang Long did not believe him. After this he had to get some people to investigate. "Forget over. Zhen told you to come here to ask you something." Then he looked at Xie Hongyi. "Do you know there's been a few things going on lately? What do you think of that?"

Although it was a bit clueless as to why Huang Long had given him such a question, Xie Hongyi still answered with his simple analysis. "I think the events are related to each other."

"Why do you think that?"

"The events that happened were not coincidences. I think the culprit who told them was the same person." Huang Long listened to Xie Hongyi's words carefully. In fact, he also had the same thoughts as Xie Hongyi. He deliberately asked Xie Hongyi's opinion on it in order to know something from him. And it turned out that the woman knew she had the same thoughts as him. If it was a woman who was raised in a noble family, she would not say anything similar to what Xie Hongyi had said. For that reason, he was increasingly curious about this woman.

"You can come out now." Huang Long said without sin.

That all? Alas, Huang Long turned out to be a bitch! "Your Majesty..." Xie Hongyi said as he gritted his teeth. And the reaction of Huang Long who immediately lowered his head to take care of the documents on his desk, made Xie Hongyi even more furious. The woman then quietly raised her middle finger before exiting the room.

Hearing the sound of the door closing, Huang Long raised his head and looked at the wooden door for a long time before he whispered. "Dugu An."

A shadow then fell before Huang Long. Dugu An who was kneeling then said respectfully. "Yes Your Majesty."

"You're right. Consort Xie is weird."

Dugu An did not refute Huang Long's words, but he then said carefully. "Your Majesty, isn't it bad to have Consort Xie leave just like that?" Dugu An saw clearly that it was Xie Hongyi who was angry after he was chased out.

"What do you care? Let it. Maybe he's grumbling all the way now." Huang Long said those words with a smile and amused eyes.

Huang Long's guess was correct. After Xie Hongyi walked out of Huang Long's study, he left with fierce stomping footsteps. His mouth was also pouting announcing words like Huang Long a fool, a heartless man, a annoying protagonist and other words of complaint.

Grumbling along the way, Xie Hongyi did not realize that he had reached the Lotus Residence. He then finally came to his senses after someone poured water on him.

"Mrs! I didn't know you were there. I'm sorry!" Yi'er shouted frantically then kowtowed before Xie Hongyi.

Last time after Ling'er returned, she prepared warm water for Xie Hongyi to take a bath and Yi'er helped her. But after a long time, Xie Hongyi did not return and then the temperature of the warm water dropped. He ended up throwing away the water while Ling'er prepared a new warm water. But the unexpected thing happened, he instead doused Xie Hongyi who had just come from outside.

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After taking a bath with the water Ling'er prepared, Xie Hongyi wandered around the backyard with Yi'er accompanying him. From then on, probably out of guilt, Yi'er said nothing and silently walked behind Xie Hongyi.

Xie Hongyi did not take any action to punish him even though Yi'er had forced him to give the punishment. Although Yi'er was grateful for that, Yi'er still felt guilty.

When they arrived at a bridge under which a small river flowed with a medium current, they saw a group of servants standing by the lotus pond. They then walked past the horde of servants, and when Xie Hongyi saw what was really happening, he became furious.

Xie Hongyi looked at Prince Jue who was being bullied by some servants. He even heard them say hurtful things that were inappropriate for a child.

"Who dares bully my Ah Jue?" Xie Hongyi said angrily.

The servants then stopped talking, then turned to see who interrupted them.

Prince Jue stood by the pool with a pitiful face and his eyes reddened holding back tears while looking down. When he heard Xie Hongyi's voice, he pitched and gave Xie Hongyi a puppy-like look that made the woman's heart soft.

Instead of realizing what they were doing, the servants showed no guilty look as they stared at Xie Hongyi. One of the servants then said arrogantly. "Oh turns out Consort Xie. We're not here to bully the Prince, but we're just giving him some advice."

Upon hearing the servant speak, Prince Jue immediately shouted in denial. "No! The mother they told me all was a lie! They said they wouldn't give me any more food."

These waiters are the waiters who take care of the kitchen and deliver food to all the residents in the backyard.

"Shut up! This is what happens if you don't respect the older ones. Looks like I'll have to give you some more advice." At the moment when the maid was about to do something, Xie Hongyi shouted. "Enough!"

"What is your attitude towards the royal family? You're not afraid of being punished if someone tells your attitude to the Emperor?"

Hearing what Xie Hongyi said, the servants giggled. Everyone in the Palace knew that Prince Jue was a Prince whom the Emperor disliked. It was evident with the Emperor who never cared about Prince Jue. During this time, they could be free to bully the child and no one had ever reported their deeds.

Xie Hongyi's reaction when he saw the servants laughing was to step forward and grab one of the servants' hair. How dare they bully my little dumplings! Oh, they are adults who don't know the rules and should be taught a lesson!

For some reason, lately he feels easily angry with anything. Maybe his monthly guest will be here soon.

The other servants who saw their friend being grabbed, tried to remove Xie Hongyi's hand from the servant's hair. But they were also picked up by Yi'er. Seeing her Lady being ganged up, naturally as a good servant Yi'er must have helped Xie Hongyi. Then there was a typical quarrel of women at the edge of the pool.

Prince Jue watched the incident with his mouth wide open. That was his mother? Why does his mother look like a ferocious baby cat?

The fight happened for some time. When one of the maids nudged Prince Jue who was standing by the pool, the, Xie Hongyi, who noticed it, quickly pulled Prince Jue and himself into the pool as a result of his back being pushed forward.

The lotus pond turned out to have into about 10 meters. Xie Hongyi vehemently struggled to return to the surface, but due to his long and heavy clothes, his efforts did not pay off well. This body also has a weak stamina so that it is almost out of breath. There was also a water plant at the bottom of the lake wrapped around Xie Hongyi's feet, so that he could not move freely.

At the edge of the pond, Prince Jue who saw his mother fall into the pond, cried loudly and continued to call out Xie Hongyi's name. Yi'er also shouted frantically while crying out to her Nyonya.

In the water, Xie Hongyi was still struggling. But his body had already reached its limit. The last thing he saw before everything went dark was a pile of white objects at the bottom of the pool. He wanted to say "What is that?" But his mouth let out water bubbles and then Xie Hongyi was unconscious.