Starting with a cub, the superpower boss becomes the richest man by lying flat

Chapter 184 How can a person be perfect?

"Wow," Lin Xin exclaimed, speechless, "Is it really that ruthless?"

"These people are likely bodyguards kept by some powerful force, and they don't have clean backgrounds, so their appearances were automatically disfigured when they joined," Mo Ziyuan explained simply to her.

"Alright," Lin Xin didn't look at the scarred face again, and after thinking for a moment, asked, "So all those people outside were just playing with us, and these two are the real protagonists, right?"

"That's definitely not possible. The arrows they use are all coated with deadly poison. Even a tiny bit of it could be fatal. They're just playing around."

Lin Xin remained noncommittal. She genuinely thought those people were quite incompetent, but now she was more concerned about another question: "Did we achieve our goal today? Did we manage to trick them?"

"They should behave themselves for a while, since they need to spend time investigating your strength before they can take action against you," Chu Qingye said, walking up from behind with Chu Mingchen in his arms, answering before Mo Ziyuan could.

"I have met His Majesty!"

"Greetings, Your Majesty!" Lin Xin glanced at Mo Ziyuan and also curtsied, though her movements were somewhat awkward. Chu Qingye didn't mind, peeked at Eunuch An, and ordered someone to quickly summon the imperial physician.

"Greetings, Your Majesty!" Soon, a young imperial physician carrying a medicine chest arrived at the Imperial Study.

"Yes, let him take a look." Chu Qingye pointed at Eunuch An and said to the imperial physician.

Lin Xin clearly sensed a flash of surprise in the imperial physician's eyes, though it was quickly concealed, but she was convinced that her feeling was not wrong.

"Your Majesty, Eunuch An's injuries are not serious. It's just that the crossbow bolt pierced a blood vessel, causing him to bleed quite a bit. The medicine applied to his wound is very effective, and the bandaging technique is perfect. Eunuch An will be fine after resting for a while. If Your Majesty is still worried, I can also prescribe some blood-tonifying medicine for him," the imperial physician said to Chu Qingye after treating Eunuch An's injuries.

"Then prescribe a medicine!"

The same look of astonishment appeared in the imperial physician's eyes again, and Lin Xin raised an eyebrow.

After the imperial physician finished writing the prescription and left, Lin Xin was finally able to truly meet the emperor.

"Miss Lin, I am very grateful to you for raising Chen'er all these years." Chu Qingye looked at Lin Xin, who was particularly pleasing to the eye standing next to Mo Ziyuan, and did not adopt a haughty attitude.

"Your Majesty, you don't need to thank me. Mo Ziyuan and the others have actually helped me a lot too," Lin Xin said.

“Auntie,” Chu Mingchen had been restless in Chu Qingye’s arms for a long time, but his father had just said that the situation outside was dangerous and that he was not allowed to go out. Now that his aunt was right in front of him, he immediately began to make his presence known.

"Tao, Chenchen." Lin Xin gave him a warm smile.

"Daddy, can I go outside and play with Auntie for a while?" Chu Mingchen had a lot to say to Lin Xin, and looked at his father pitifully with his big, bright eyes.

"Alright, go ahead! Father will have the secret guards accompany and protect you." Chu Qingye agreed readily.

Lin Xin also felt uncomfortable staying in the Imperial Study, so she quickly used this opportunity to leave the office of the nation's highest leader. "Auntie, will you come to see me again?" Sitting on the small swing in the Imperial Garden, Chu Mingchen swung his little feet and asked Lin Xin in a low mood.

"What's wrong? Is Chenchen unhappy here?" Lin Xin asked.

"No, Father is very good to me. He takes me everywhere he goes. I just..." Chu Mingchen frowned and tried hard to express himself, but he was too young and couldn't come up with the right words. He was so anxious that he stammered.

Lin Xin looked around at the surroundings, then at the little swing under his bottom, and roughly understood what was going on. She tentatively asked, "Does Chenchen feel too stuffy in here?"

“Yes!” Chu Mingchen’s eyes lit up. “Everything here is square, and there are a bunch of people following me around all day. I… I don’t really like it…”

“Someone is following you to protect you. You’re so short, it wouldn’t be easy for someone to bully you. These people were sent by your father to protect you from being bullied. You can’t even think about how to escape from them!” Lin Xin said to him seriously.

It's clear that the palace isn't absolutely safe yet, and she's really afraid that Chu Mingchen might do something like trying to escape in a fit of anger or impulsiveness.

"I know, Father told me about it." Chu Mingchen brought this up with Lin Xin, clearly hoping to gain an ally. But Lin Xin actually sided with her father, and his mood visibly dropped. Even the two tufts of hair on his head stopped standing up.

"Chenchen, can you tell your aunt what you've been doing with your father in the palace these past few days?" Lin Xin ruffled his hair and changed to a topic he was likely to be interested in.

Sure enough, Chu Mingchen's eyes lit up, and he started chattering away.

"Auntie, you don't know, Daddy's singing style is really weird. It's completely different from the way you sing to me. Listening to it makes me even less sleepy!" Chu Mingchen complained.

Lin Xin: "..." Thank you so much! How could an ordinary citizen like me possibly know such royal secrets? Would the Emperor silence me if I did?
"Daddy even taught me to read, Auntie, do you know that? Daddy knows so much, even more than Mr. Meng, and his painting of Chenchen looks just like him. When we get back, we'll ask him to paint one for you too." Chu Mingchen was enthusiastically promoting his father.

Lin Xin's expression was indescribable. What were you thinking, kid? You actually wanted the emperor to paint my portrait? She thought that if her conversation with Chu Mingchen reached the emperor's ears, his forty-meter-long cleaver would probably be ready to strike!

"Chenchen, Chenchen, let's not talk about that anymore. You just said that your father also teaches you to read, right?"

Chu Mingchen nodded emphatically.

"What did he teach you? Can you recite it to your aunt?"

"Okay!" Chu Mingchen agreed excitedly, and then began to recite the book in a childish voice. Lin Xin listened carefully and realized that it was the Book of Songs.

Lin Xin propped her head up as she listened to him recite "The deer cry out, eating the wild apples" very fluently. She remembered how Lin Nan used to recite his lessons. It seemed that he could also recite many books when he was very young, most of which were the medicine classics and prescriptions taught by Master Cui.

"Were all children in ancient times this incredibly intelligent?" Lin Xin tapped her cheek lightly with her fingers. "It makes me seem a bit useless!"

But thinking about it carefully, she's actually quite strong! No one can be perfect!
That's right, that's it!