The Path of the Cannon Fodder's Counterattack

Chapter 3: Beginning the Counterattack

If he wanted to do something to Mo Qi, wouldn’t he only need to do it while she only had Lan Wei to protect her?

People should know that after entering the palace, Mo Qi seemed to have some kind of magic power, allowing her to attract almost everyone’s attention. It made everyone want to protect her, allowing her to climb to the peak of her life.

Of course, all these people protecting her included him.

This seemed to be a characteristic of Mo Qi’s halo and golden touch.

Chu Xiu Palace wasn’t as rigorous as the other harem palaces, making it easier to place people inside than the other palaces. Ling Xiao carefully thought about where Lan Wei had placed the small eunuch as he walked, until he arrived at Chu Xiu Palace’s kitchen.

In this world, Chu Xiu Palace had an independent, small kitchen.

Lan Wei, Prime Minister Mu Chao’s son. His inherent quality was naive and frank. Before getting familiar with Mo Qi, most likely even he didn’t think that he would be placing an informer in the imperial palace’s harem. Therefore, the moment that Mo Qi entered the Emperor’s palace, his first purpose was to make sure that his informers would take care of Mo Qi well. Taking care of Mo Qi meant providing her with food, livelihood, jobs and so on. Mo Qi loved to eat, so what Lan Wei would influence the most would be this small kitchen.

As Ling Xiao had thought, there really was such a small eunuch.

Ling Xiao remembered that this small eunuch had been called Li Yuan, an avaricious and greedy little person. In his former life, in order to help Mo Qi, he had given him a lot of gold and silver jewels, and he had received plenty of disdainful looks.

Lan Wei had barely managed to bring such a small eunuch under his control. As for Elder Lin, if Ling Xiao remembered correctly, she was the prime minister’s people, so she obeyed the orders of the prime minister, not Lan Wei.

Just as he arrived at the small kitchen, Li Yuan went past him, carrying a small lunch box. Ling Xiao blinked, then turned around and seamlessly followed him.

The small eunuch took all sorts of turns, concealing himself more and more as he walked. Ling Xiao controlled his gaze and continued to follow him.

Finally, the small eunuch stopped at a rock garden, his eyes darting around, and Ling Xiao hid himself at once.

Not seeing anyone, the eunuch sneakily opened the lunch box. Inside was a large white pigeon, causing Ling Xiao widen his eyes.

Such good luck, being able to bump into the moment when the small eunuch was sending a letter on his first try?

Wasn’t this straight up giving him some blackmail?!

Thinking this, Ling Xiao wanted walk out, but he thought of something and stopped himself again.

This wouldn’t do. If he just walked out like this, the white pigeon wouldn’t explain anything. The small eunuch was one of the kitchen’s people, so when the moment came, and he only said that he was catching a white pigeon to make into soup, then it would make it look like he was trying to slander him, making all his planning go to waste.

Ling Xiao pursed his lips, continuing to hide on the other side of the rockery as he quietly approached the small eunuch with light footsteps.

The eunuch held the white pigeon in one hand, while his other hand went to his waist, taking out a letter in preparation of tying it to the white pigeon’s foot. Ling Xiao had been waiting precisely for this moment, and he suddenly jumped out, snatching the letter out of the small eunuch’s hand and smugly looked at him.

The small eunuch was frightened and shouted loudly, causing the pigeon to also respond by falling to the ground with a thud before it flew away.

“You… you you you… what are you doing?”

Ling Xiao evilly smiled, looking at the letter in his hand. “That is what I should be asking my fellow eunuch.”

He opened the letter, reading the content as he pleased before raising an eye at the eunuch Li Yuan.

“Heeeh… my fellow eunuch, you’re helping a Palace Woman secretly communicate with someone?”[footnote]Implied adultery, sexual relationship, or enemy[/footnote]

“You you you… You’re talking nonsense!” the small eunuch said to him and tried to snatch the letter out of Ling Xiao’s hands.

Ling Xiao dodged and coldly laughed, “Young Master Lan Wei, isn’t he the son of the Prime Minister? The son of the Prime Minister is secretly communicating with a Palace Woman? This is a criminal charge… tsk tsk tsk.”

“I tell you, this kind of talk can’t be randomly said!”

“All the evidence is right here! Would you like to see what would happen if I presented this to His Majesty?” This was, of course, merely a threat. If he were to actually present it to the Emperor, and the Emperor could help him take revenge, then he wouldn’t be here groundlessly blathering on to this small eunuch. The issue was that his words were unimportant, so he basically couldn’t even meet the Emperor. Ling Xiao didn’t believe that the previous ‘good luck’ would happen to him again. Furthermore, presenting this to the Emperor also had a huge risk. Whether the Emperor chose to believe him was one problem, and the other problem would be if the Emperor took notice of Mo Qi and started to regard her as important. If that happened, then the gains would not make up for the losses.

Mo Qi’s golden finger and halo had been both witnessed and experienced by Ling Xiao. In his previous lifetime, this Emperor had even wanted her to be his Empress! Although Ling Xiao didn’t think that a regular man would have a good opinion of a woman who was supposed to be his, after seeing her maintain secret ties with another man. However, after Ling Xiao experienced Mo Qi’s halo, he really didn’t dare to brave this danger! If Mo Qi really did get taken under the Emperor’s wing, then it would be difficult for him to avenge himself in this lifetime!

Besides, the Emperor was also one of those he wanted to retaliate against!

“You… what do you want!” After trying to get the letter many times without success, Li Yuan clenched his teeth and looked at Ling Xiao.

“What do I want…” Ling Xiao evilly laughed once.

“What do you want?” Before he could even speak, a deep and resounding male voice suddenly sounded from behind him.

Ling Xiao was distracted as he was immediately treated to the sight of the small eunuch trembling as he bent his waist and softly knelt on the ground.

“Long Live Your Majesty!”

The Emperor!