Upon hearing those words, Eunuch Ling was terrified and quickly knelt on the ground to beg for forgiveness.
"I deserve to die! I deserve to die!" He forcefully slapped himself twice. Only then did he seem to recover his wits, his face a picture of misery.
"Your Majesty is just trying to scare me! How would I dare deceive the Emperor?
"What I said is the truth. I just received a message from Captain Long Wu that the Eldest Princess and Lord God Hunter went to investigate the case of the missing disaster relief silver.
"They ended up at Li's gambling house. The Eldest Princess, out of curiosity, tried her hand a few times and won over one hundred thousand taels of silver.
"The Eldest Princess has been saying that it's money she won for Your Majesty, her royal father, for disaster relief!"
Oh, the Emperor's little heart! It was pounding, his eyes sparkling with delight.
