Chapter 245: Chapter 245: Violent Yet Cute (Thanks to "Qing Bu Zhi Suo Qi, Yi Wang Er Qing Shen" for the extra ticket votes)
Xiaosuisui stood obediently, allowing her to inspect her.
She kept a serious face.
"Pretty Big Sis, I’m fine!"
"HAHAHA! The People’s Princess personally appointed by the Emperor is actually an ugly little freak! HAHAHA!"
Lin Family scrambled up from the base of the wall, cackling as she mocked Xiaosuisui for being an ugly freak.
Xiaosuisui’s face filled with rage. She wanted to retaliate against Lin Family, but then she remembered Pretty Big Sis’s teachings: simply retorting in anger wasn’t enough to vent her frustration.
If you want to vent your anger, you might as well just punch them!
So, she slowly walked forward, rolling up her sleeves with each step. The tiny girl advanced until she stood before the towering Lin Family and, without hesitation, swung her little fist.
Seeing Xiaosuisui’s actions, Lin Family immediately recalled the kick she had received earlier and the ordeal her son and daughter had endured the day before. Her face instantly turned deathly pale.
She backed away, trying to dodge, but she couldn’t escape.
Xiaosuisui used the same moves she had used on Xie Yingying the previous day. One, two, three, four punches—and just like that, she had inflicted a devastating internal injury on Lin Family!
"PHEW! Finally got that out of my system."
After Xiaosuisui finished, she dusted off her small hands and took a deep breath. She finally felt the oppressive feeling dissipate, and her spirits instantly lifted.
"Pretty Big Sis, your method really works! After beating up annoying people, I feel so much better."
Zhu Xiuxiu and Huo Xing’Er both pressed their foreheads. Why does this little girl seem to be going further astray by the minute?
The young Emperor and the Ji brothers were, as planned, watching the show from the rooftop. During the dangerous situation earlier, none of them had stepped forward to help Xie Pan’Er!
"Your Majesty, are we just going to stand by and watch?"
Ji Youzhi had almost jumped down, but Xiaosuisui had moved faster than any of them. Later, when Zhu Xiuxiu and Huo Xing’Er arrived, he figured that since His Majesty was here to watch the show, the rooftop indeed offered the most amusing view. Especially his little niece—so adorable, yet so violent.
"You are a Divine Hunter, I am the Emperor, and Youze is the future Chief Imperial Secretary. Tell me, for such mundane matters of the inner chambers, which of us is it worth to intervene?"
The Emperor’s words left Ji Youzhi speechless for a long moment; in the end, he found he couldn’t refute any of it!
Actually, the young Emperor was very much aware. Since Xie Pan’Er was born with the Phoenix Destiny, she would need to master the skills for survival in the Inner Palace, regardless of whether she eventually became his Empress or was simply kept somewhere within the Palace to be looked after. The young Emperor could never forget how, ten years ago, his Father Emperor had indulged in carnal pleasures, neglecting the Empress Mother. In the Inner Palace, the Empress Mother had to evade countless overt and covert attacks and compete with numerous concubines for favor, all while trying to find ways to protect him. Ultimately, his Father Emperor died on a woman’s belly.
Later, when he first ascended the throne, he was merely a puppet, with imperial relatives and attendant ministers holding all the power. If it hadn’t been for Ji Youze’s strategies, Ji Youzhi’s tireless efforts, and a mysterious wealthy merchant who occasionally provided funds secretly through Ji Youzhi to deal with natural disasters, his reign as the young Emperor would have crumbled long ago. For years, he had neither appointed an Empress nor selected concubines, for two reasons. First, the National Master had said that the mother of the nation had not yet appeared. Second, he had vowed in his childhood never to become a licentious, promiscuous, and heartless man like the late Emperor! Ultimately, that man had almost brought ruin to the foundations of the Great Han.
Yes, in the young Emperor’s eyes, the late Emperor had indeed almost destroyed the foundations of the Great Han. Not long after he ascended the throne, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue had come to report that the National Treasury was empty. Income did not cover expenditures; they couldn’t afford to support troops for war, nor did they have grain for disaster relief. At that time, he had wondered if the reason foreign states didn’t dare attack the Great Han after the late Emperor’s sudden death was due to the lingering might of old General Ji. Yet, no one in the court had rebelled either. That was surely because the National Treasury was empty. Anyone who rebelled to become Emperor would also have to tighten their belt and live frugally!