Chapter 94 (1/2)

Chapter 94 – Punishment (3)

That child spoke, “The finances of the Marquis’ Mansion have been doing rather poorly as of late. Why don’t you give her 10,000 taels of gold?”

This request was rather excessive.

In the Chang Kong Country, that sum of money would be the total amount earned by an official in his entire lifetime.

And the Marquis’ Mansion was now ownerless, so what was the point of giving them so much money?

Emperor Le Xuan felt a bit of heartache just thinking about it. He muttered, “This…”

That child glanced at him. “Is Your Majesty not willing? Could it be that in Your Majesty’s heart, the position of a princess is worth less than 10,000 taels of gold?”

Black lines appeared on Emperor Le Xuan’s forehead. Because he had assumed the child’s identity, he did not dare to refuse and could only grind his teeth and agree.

The boy also raised two more requests. The first one was that the ownership of the Chastity Testing Beast would be transferred to Ning Xuemo. The second one was to allow him to personally witness Ji Yunhao’s punishment.

Emperor Le Xuan agreed very quickly to the first request.

As for the second one, though he felt that it was stretching it a bit, he had no reason to not agree.

The face of Ji Yunhao, who was kneeling there, changed slightly.

Actually nearly everyone in the Imperial Palace was aware that this punishment of being struck with the Ting rod was rather special. The same 80 strikes could kill someone or it could simply bruise someone a bit. The difference was simply too wide…

Under a normal situation, the guards who were in charge of dealing out the strikes would hold back a bit when it was a member of the imperial family.

But with this child personally overseeing it, who would dare to hold back?

……

Ji Yunhao was bound to the punishment bench. The four guards in charge of the punishment held the black and red Ting rods as they stood next to him.