The Path of the Cannon Fodder's Counterattack

Chapter 20: A Need to See the Emperor

However, the pain he was waiting for never came. Lan Wei suddenly opened his eyes.

When he did, what he saw was Ling Xiao’s squinted smiling eyes. Lan Wei stared blankly.

Ling Xiao threw aside the sword and got up.

“I just remembered that before being castrated, you still have to fast. Otherwise, it would be so painful that you’d be within an inch of your life. Back then, you knocked me unconscious and directly sent me to the purification room. You didn’t even think about this question. Although you are not benevolent, I can’t be unrighteous. Right, why don’t I wait for you to fast two days, then have you come again…”

After saying that, Ling Xiao very meaningfully glanced at Lan Wei’s lower body.

Lan Wei’s body went rigid he clenched his teeth and tossed his head to the side. His two legs clenched together, as if this could obstruct Ling Xiao’s gaze that harbored malicious intentions.

Upon seeing this, Ling Xiao cheerfully laughed and took Lan Wei’s sword before standing up, once again taking out a thumb sized thick rope to tightly tie up Lan Wei.

The extremely exhausted Ling Xiao got up and kicked Lan Wei under the bed with a single blow.

In the end, he squatted down and said some words, “Young Master Lan Wei, you best be obedient in there. If you make some kind of sound and are discovered by the maids and eunuchs, I will hand you over to the Emperor.”

“……” Lan Wei with his mouth blocked could only glare hatefully at Ling Xiao.

That night, Ling Xiao slept well. On the second day, he took out the list.

Twelve people. Two Elders, three maids, and seven eunuchs, two of which were stockers.

Aside from Elder Lin, this was the first time Ling Xiao knew of these twelve people, whether it was his past life or the current one.

It looked like all the informers he had found in his past life were Lan Wei’s. The Prime Minister’s household had hidden themselves quite deeply.

Lan Wei, in this life, had only recently started to plant informers, so he didn’t have many.

As a result, this was all the informers of the Prime Minister’s household? Just twelve people?

Ling Xiao thought it over.

It wasn’t really hard to imagine. After all, the current Emperor did not have many concubines. The ones that had anything to do with the Prime Minister’s household were nonexistent, so, in this kind of situation, the Prime Minister really didn’t need to plant too many informers.

The main difference concerned the Ministry of Appointment Official. Of the Ministry of Appoint Official’s informers, Ling Xiao had found seven. These seven were, for the most part, all around the Ministry of Appointment Official’s daughter, Concubine Ran.

In Ling Xiao’s memories, of the three imperial concubines of the harem, only Concubine Li did not have anyone to rely on in this country as she was Gaoran Country’s princess.

The head of the three concubines, Concubine Xian, didn’t have any family background, so she also did not have many informers.

The informers over on Concubine Ran’s side should be the most numerous, but Concubine Ran’s nature was simple and willful. What she hated the most was having someone looking after her. In his past lifetime, the Ministry of Appointments Official would repeatedly arrange people to take care of her, and she had kicked them all back. As a result, there weren’t many informers arranged by her side.