Joy of Life: Starting by clinging to the eldest princess's coattails!

Li Yunrui felt sleepy again in the pavilion.

She lay on her side on the chaise longue, her pale yellow gauze palace dress rising and falling gently with her breath.

Sunlight streamed through the bamboo curtains of the pavilion, casting dappled patterns of light on her fair cheeks.

She squinted, her long eyelashes trembled, and she softly hummed, "Little Wu Zi... help me back to rest for a while."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Wu Feng and Chunmei immediately stepped forward and carefully helped her up, one on each side.

Li Yunrui was limp and almost leaning against Wu Feng.

The rich, cool fragrance, mixed with her body heat, went straight into Wu Feng's nose.

"Your Highness, please walk slowly," Wu Feng said softly, his arm firmly supporting her waist.

[Ding~ Mood points +100!]

Chunmei supported them from the other side, and the three of them slowly walked towards the bedroom.

Anita Mui had already gone ahead to make preparations.

When Wu Feng and Chunmei helped Li Yunrui into the bedroom, the brocade quilt on the phoenix bed had already been laid out, and the gauze curtains by the window had been drawn to block out the afternoon sun.

As soon as Li Yunrui touched the bed, her body went limp.

Wu Feng helped her take off her shoes, and Chunmei covered her with a thin blanket.

She fell into a deep sleep in no time, her breathing even and deep.

Wu Feng stood by the bed for a while before turning around and quietly leaving the bedroom with Chunmei.

As soon as the two left the bedroom, Shuying emerged from behind a pillar in the corridor.

She held a small bamboo tube in her hand and handed it to Wu Feng: "A message from Qingyutang via carrier pigeon."

Wu Feng took it, opened the bamboo tube, and pulled out the paper strip.

His brow furrowed slightly as he glanced at the words on the document.

It was a message from Ye Songnian.

Chen Pingping went to Qingyutang and specifically asked to see him immediately, saying that he had urgent business.

At this point in time... instead of going to see Ye Qingmei's child, Chen Pingping is in a hurry to see him?

Wu Feng crumpled the note in his palm and said to Chunmei, "I have to go to the palace."

Chunmei nodded: "I will keep watch over Your Highness."

Wu Feng changed into clean clothes, tidied himself up, and then quickly left Guangxin Palace.

There weren't many people on the palace road in the afternoon; only a few palace maids and eunuchs hurried by.

Wu Feng walked quickly, still pondering Chen Pingping's purpose in seeking him out.

As soon as I reached the main palace road leading to the palace gate, I saw a figure walking towards me from the direction of the palace gate.

It was Hong Sixiang.

The old eunuch was dressed in a dark-colored chief eunuch's robe, his body was bowed, and he walked rather quickly.

When the palace maids and eunuchs on the palace road saw him, they hurriedly stopped and bowed. Even the imperial guards who passed by bowed their heads in salute.

Wu Feng didn't stop walking and continued forward.

The two were about to pass each other, one on the left and one on the right...

"stop."

Hong Sixiang's voice rang out.

Wu Feng stopped in his tracks.

He didn't turn around, but simply raised his hand to straighten his clothes and moved the jade pendant hanging around his neck outwards, making it more conspicuous in the sunlight.

He then turned to Hong Sixiang, his face expressionless: "Is there something you need, Eunuch Hong?"

Hong Sixiang slowly turned around.

His narrow eyes fell on Wu Feng's face, then glanced at the jade pendant on Wu Feng's chest, and his gaze suddenly sharpened.

He naturally recognized the jade pendant.

The jade pendant identifying Princess Li Yunrui is so powerful that seeing the pendant is like seeing the princess herself.

But so what?

In this deep palace, neither His Majesty nor the Empress Dowager took Li Yunrui seriously.

Hong Sixiang served two generations of masters and was deeply trusted by them.

Now that His Majesty has awakened, he naturally no longer takes a princess who only temporarily holds power because her brother is in a coma seriously.

"If you're working in the palace, you need to know the rules," Hong Sixiang said coldly. "Didn't the etiquette instructor who taught you those rules tell you?"

Wu Feng smiled.

He took two steps forward, stood in front of Hong Sixiang, and pointed to the jade pendant on his chest: "Eunuch Hong, do you recognize this?"

"Of course I recognize it." Hong Sixiang said calmly, but his tone revealed a hint of disdain. "It's the jade token of Her Highness the Eldest Princess."

"Since you recognize her," Wu Feng's voice suddenly turned cold, "you should know that seeing the jade token is like seeing Her Highness the Princess. But Eunuch Hong..."

"As a servant, how dare you neither kneel nor bow before Her Highness the Princess's jade tablet?"

Hong Sixiang's old face stiffened for a moment.

Wu Feng continued to approach, his voice not loud, but clear enough for everyone on the palace path to hear clearly:

"Or do you believe that you, as the chief eunuch, have already surpassed Her Highness the Princess's royal status?"

After he finished speaking, the palace road fell into a deathly silence.

Hong Sixiang's face turned pale and then red, as if someone had forced a fly into his mouth and he couldn't swallow it; he looked extremely ugly.

His lips moved slightly, and his fingers tightened slightly inside his sleeve.

Wu Feng didn't give him time to react.

He raised his arm with lightning speed!

"Snapped!"

A crisp, loud slap landed squarely on Hong Sixiang's face!

The force wasn't strong, but the sound was loud enough to be heard throughout the entire palace corridor.

Hong Sixiang's face turned to the side after being hit, and he froze.

The surrounding palace maids and eunuchs stared in horror, while the guards gasped in shock.

Hong Sixiang suddenly turned around, his eyes flashing with a terrifying ferocity.

"This slap," Wu Feng's voice was frighteningly calm, his eyes sharp, "is for your lack of manners as a servant, for your disrespect for the royal family, and for your disrespect for Her Highness the Princess."

"Do you... have any objections?"

Hong Sixiang's hand, which was halfway raised, abruptly stopped.

He stared intently at Wu Feng, his chest heaving violently, and the muscles on his old face twitching.

But everyone on the palace path heard Wu Feng's words.

Hong Sixiang could not bear the charge of disrespecting the royal family.

Even if the Empress Dowager and the Emperor trust him, if this crime is proven true, he will not have a good end.

Hong Sixiang took a deep breath.

The terrifying pressure gradually subsided, and his raised hand slowly lowered.

He took half a step back and bowed to Wu Feng, or rather, to the jade pendant on Wu Feng's chest.

"...Old servant,"

"Greetings, Your Highness the Eldest Princess."

Seeing his bowed posture, Wu Feng took a step back and said calmly:

"Let it go this time. I hope that next time Eunuch Hong sees Her Highness the Princess, he will show her some respect."

Hong Sixiang, still bowing, gave another salute: "This old servant knows his sins."

Looking at his ashen old face, and at the barely suppressed anger and resentment in his eyes, Wu Feng suddenly laughed again.

His tone was somewhat mocking:

"certainly,"

"After you go back, you can act like a child who hasn't been weaned and cry to His Majesty or the Empress Dowager, saying that I, Wu Feng, hit you because I took advantage of Princess Chang's jade token."

"Or, you could have the Empress Dowager give you her identity jade token, and then use that to take revenge on me."

After saying that, Wu Feng stopped looking at him and turned to continue walking towards the palace gate.

Behind him, Hong Sixiang slowly straightened up.

He stared at Wu Feng's departing figure, a terrifying killing intent flashing in his narrow eyes.

His hands, hanging by his sides, were clenched tightly, and his knuckles made a slight "crunching" sound.

After a long while, he slowly spoke, his voice very soft, yet it sent a chill down the spine of everyone on the palace path.

"I do not wish for even the slightest word of what happened today to spread."

He raised his right hand, his five fingers forming a claw, and grabbed at the palace wall beside him!

"boom!"

A heavy brick shattered with a crack, turning into dust that fell in a flurry.

Everyone on the palace path suddenly knelt down, their voices trembling: "This humble servant dares not!"

Hong Sixiang didn't look at them again.

He took another breath, then bowed and continued walking towards Chang Le Palace.

This time, he suffered in silence.

As for complaining to His Majesty or the Empress Dowager? Then he would truly become the child Wu Feng described who hadn't been weaned.

Asking the Empress Dowager for an identity jade token?

That's even less likely.

Even if he was deeply trusted by the Empress Dowager, she would never give him her identity jade token.

This was the most humiliating moment he had experienced in his decades in the palace!

……

After leaving the palace and walking onto the main street outside the palace gates, Wu Feng carefully put Li Yunrui's identity jade token back into his pocket and hid it away.

He almost burst out laughing.

Hong Sixiang wanted to talk to him about the rules?

You never would have guessed that Li Yunrui's identity jade token was in his hands!

The first time I slapped someone, the other person was a ninth-rank master.

That's cool!

However, it's also because he possesses the incredibly powerful Flying Willow and Light Smoke Technique, so even if he can't win a fight, he can always outrun it.

Otherwise, he really wouldn't have dared to slap Hong Sixiang like that.

Wu Feng suppressed his smile and quickened his pace toward Qingyutang.