Chapter 31: Learn the Cuckoo Bird’s Call

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In a concise and comprehensive manner, she explained that she needed Jun Yu to help acquire vegetable seeds.

“Boss, are you in a hurry to use them?” Jun Yu asked. “When should I give them to you?”

“I’ll be needing them soon. As soon as possible, the sooner the better. ”

“Then I’ll give it to you tomorrow.” This small task was not difficult for Jun Yu to complete. It was just a small matter. If he arranged for his subordinates to do it, it could be done in a day. “Boss, are we meeting here tomorrow?”

“It’s not safe here. Let’s go somewhere else.” Having learned her lesson from the last time, Jun Ning deliberately lowered her voice when she spoke to Jun Yu this time. When she mentioned their next meeting location, she spoke even softer. “I live in The Cold Palace. You can ask someone to help you deliver the vegetable seeds to The Cold Palace.”

“Alright, I’ll remember that.” Jun Yu hesitated for a moment before asking, “Then, can I go there to play with you sometime?”

“Sure.” Jun Ning stepped forward and whispered into Jun Yu’s ear, “There’s a small hole in the western corner of The Cold Palace. If you want to play with me, you don’t have to go through the main entrance. You can sneak in from there and make a cuckoo bird’s call. I’ll come to you once I hear it.”

“Alright,” he said. Jun Yu nodded his head heavily, indicating that he was committing all this to memory.

Jun Ning did not stay long after she finished speaking. She stuffed a fat and tender chicken leg into Jun Yu’s hands, then left the cave from the other exit with Qiong Hua. Qiong Hua had been standing guard a little ways away.

Jun Yu left after finishing his chicken leg.

Even as Jun Ning disappeared from Emperor Yong Ning’s line of sight, he still had no suspicions. He did not think that the boy would cross-dress just to meet Jun Yu. He was immersed in his sudden affection for the little girl for a long time.

Xiao Lizi could see it clearly.

There was something wrong with the little girl.

When he saw Jun Yu wiping his mouth as he exited the cave, he was even more convinced of this.

“Your Majesty, the seventeenth prince has come out,” Xiao Lizi said.

“What’s wrong with that?”

Xiao Lizi was speechless.

Was the little girl magic or something?

Did this tyrant lose his ability to make basic deductions?

Xiao Lizi coughed a few times and did not know what to say. He hoped that Emperor Yong Ning could come to his senses and figure it out, but Emperor Yong Ning seemed to harbor no suspicions at all.

“Xiao Lizi, go and find out which family the young lady belongs to. Which family’s daughter did the empress choose for Seventeen to study with?” he asked.

Xiao Lizi did not seem to hear what Emperor Yong Ning had said. He prompted him again, “Your Majesty, that little girl just now… I feel like something is wrong.”

Emperor Yong Ning was displeased.

“Yes.” Xiao Lizi was so scared that he broke out in a cold sweat again, and he began to stutter. “Your… Your Majesty, look at the seventeenth prince. After he came out of the cave… His… His face was bright and beautiful. There was no trace of sadness on his face… His aura… From this, it can be seen… that he, he has already met the person he had an appointment with.”

He was only supposed to meet the little rascal that the Golden Guards had been trying to find for so long.

“But the only people who entered the cave were the little girl and the palace maid.”

Could it be that…

Before this, Emperor Yong Ning had been confused by the little girl’s feminine appearance. However, now that Xiao Lizi had spelled it out for him, it became clear. If he still could not put two and two together, that the little brat had dressed up like a girl and swaggered into the cave right in front of him to meet Seventeen, he would have lost his throne long ago.

“Good on you, you little brat.” Emperor Yong Ning was so angry that his chest heaved up and down.