"Your Majesty, this child Suisui is indeed somewhat unique, which is why she has attracted unwanted attention.
As a commoner, I had no choice but to conceal her true birthdate details.
If Your Majesty truly wishes for the nationās prosperity, it would be best if you also kept her origins secret from the public!"
Ji Youyuan finally compromised. Little girl, you really almost got yourself killed!
"What do you mean by this? Are you trying to threaten me? Do you mean to say that if I were to punish your Ji Family, you would dare to kill her and thus affect the fortune of my Great Han Country?"
How audacious, daring to threaten me!
The young Emperor gritted his teeth in rage.
"Thatās not the case, Your Majesty. Do you know where the large number of children who have recently gone missing have ended up?"
Upon hearing this, the young Emperorās expression turned solemn as he seemed to make a connection. He sharply demanded, "Continue!"
As he spoke of this matter, Ji Youyuanās expression also became extremely serious.
"Before I discuss that, Your Majesty, allow me to mention another matter first."
"What is it?"
"Over a month ago, I received a message from my mother, urging me to return home before nightfall. She said my nieceās life was hanging by a thread.
When I returned, I learned that it was my nieceās own grandma who, having believed slanderous talk, declared Suisui a harbinger of misfortune, a reincarnated jinx, a solitary star fated to bring doom to all her kin.
She claimed that as long as Suisui was around, their Li Family would soon die out.
Therefore, her grandma found an excuse, beat Suisui, and then intended to bury her alive."
"Wait, youāve already mentioned this. What does it have to do with you asking me to conceal her birthdate details?
Is it because your niece didnāt die, youāre afraid word will get out, and the Li Family will come to harm her again?"
When the young Emperor asked this, his face held a hint of a smirk.
If what Ji Youyuan said was true,
he would die laughing! The renowned Ji Family, afraid of a mere peasant household?
"Your Majesty, do you know what I discovered when I investigated the mass grave where the Li Family attempted to bury my Suisui alive?"
"What was it?"
The young Emperor felt an inexplicable nervousness; a mass grave was certainly not a good place!
"The grave pit dug by the Li Family was like this!"
Ji Youyuan dipped his fingers in tea, drew a diagram on the stone table, and then wrote down the dimensions and orientation.
"A mass grave is a place of extreme Yin. Combined with such a grave pit, if a person is buried alive face down..."
"I know this! Itās the Fortune Transfer Technique!"
The young Emperorās face turned pale. "This technique is malicious and insidious! The caster must either possess exceptionally profound skills or pay with their own lifespan to perform it. How could a mere peasant family have someone capable of casting such a technique?"
Could this truly be an ordinary peasant family?
The young Emperor was deeply skeptical.
Ji Youyuan didnāt believe it either. That was why he had kept everyone from the Li Family alive, completely unharmed.
"I asked the Li Family, and they said this method was taught by a Celestial Master from the Sancai Temple."
"The Sancai Temple?"
"Yes, the Sancai Temple. I personally went to investigate it later.
Those so-called Celestial Masters at the Sancai Temple are all charlatans, fake Daoists who swindle food and drink. This makes the matter even more perplexing."
"So she..." The young Emperor paused, considering his words.
"I heard from Youzhi that Nanjiang intends to use forty-nine children from my Great Han Country for a celestial sacrifice. The main offering among them is even a child of great fortune!
Iāve also heard that another child from the Li Family is also one of great fortune, and she is on the list of those missing children!
What are your thoughts on this matter?"