Jun Mohan saw that Prince Qing and Duke Lin were looking at his consort with discomfort, so he leaned beside Leng Ruoli and whispered to get two sachets of itching powder.
When Prince Qing and Duke Lin passed by them, he flicked his long fingers twice, and the two sachets of itching powder fell separately onto the injured buttocks of Prince Qing and Duke Lin.
"Second Imperial Brother, it is inconvenient for this King and my uncle to salute you as we have just undergone punishment. We apologize!" Prince Qing said insincerely.
"It's nothing. As an elder brother, how could I be so petty?" Jun Mohan said magnanimously.
"Then thank you, Second Imperial Brother."
Prince Qing endured the pain and looked at Leng Ruoli with reluctance before being helped by the eunuchs to a nearby carriage.
Following that, Duke Lin also cupped his hands towards the King and his consort, and had the eunuchs carry him to his own carriage.
Then, Jun Mohan and Leng Ruoli also stepped into the palace gate and headed straight for the Imperial Study.
However, upon arriving at the Imperial Study, the couple found it empty. The imperial guards guarding the Imperial Study informed them that the Emperor had just gone to the Empress Dowager's Renshou Palace, so Leng Ruoli and Jun Mohan quickened their pace to Renshou Palace.
In Renshou Palace, the Emperor slowly walked into the Empress Dowager's private small garden. Although it was not as large as the Imperial Garden, every flower and plant here was personally tended by the Empress Dowager. The garden was filled with famous flowers from all over the continent, such as peach blossoms, cherry blossoms, azaleas, crabapples, winter jasmine, apricot blossoms, narcissus, poppies... a hundred flowers bloomed, butterflies played, and the fragrance was rich.
At that moment, the Empress Dowager was tending to two golden camellia plants that Prince Qing had found for her in her small garden.
The Emperor slowly walked behind the Empress Dowager. The young palace maids and eunuchs in the garden all bowed to the Emperor.
"Mother Empress, it's just two golden camellia plants. You can leave them to Palace Nanny and the others to tend to," the Emperor said helplessly.
"These two golden camellia plants have only been planted for a short time and are not yet accustomed to the soil environment in this garden. I fear they might accidentally kill them," the Empress Dowager replied to the Emperor without turning her head.
"Mother Empress, this garden is not large and not small. Isn't it very tiring for you to personally handle everything?" the Emperor said with helplessness.
"Doesn't that girl Li'er often tell me to move around more and exercise more? People who exercise frequently will be healthier," the Empress Dowager directly used Leng Ruoli's words as a shield.
As soon as she finished speaking, a melodious female voice came from a distance, "Imperial Grandmother, I heard what you said!"
The Empress Dowager immediately turned to look in the direction of the voice. She looked up and saw a slender girl, dressed in a snow-white, wide-sleeved, narrow-waisted long skirt inlaid with golden auspicious patterns, walking towards her with graceful small steps. The Empress Dowager's face immediately broke into a smile, and she beckoned to the girl.
"Haha, Li'er, come here quickly! Come to Imperial Grandmother," the Empress Dowager said with a beaming smile.
"Alright, Li'er, let me see what flowers Imperial Grandmother has planted now?" Leng Ruoli hurried towards the Empress Dowager.
As she approached the Empress Dowager and looked closely, she was immediately astonished by the two plants the Empress Dowager was tending, which were full of golden yellow, dazzling, and densely blooming small golden flowers.
These two plants were golden camellias, known as the magical Oriental Magic Tea in modern times, hailed as the "Panda of the Plant Kingdom" and the "Queen of the Tea Family," and were extremely rare.
Golden camellias had extremely high medicinal value. The flowers were rich in many trace elements, tea polysaccharides, tea polyphenols, total flavonoids, tea pigments, and so on, possessing numerous effects and functions, and were a rare find in modern times.
"Imperial Grandmother, where did you dig up these golden camellias?" Leng Ruoli asked curiously.
"This old woman doesn't know where Prince Qing dug them up, but he found two at once." The Empress Dowager smiled. Although her impression of Prince Qing was not very good, she was very satisfied with the two golden camellias sent by Prince Qing. This golden camellia was a flower seed that she had people search for a long time without success.
"Imperial Grandmother, do you know that these small golden flowers are treasures? They not only clear heat and detoxify, stop dysentery, astringe and stop bleeding, but also reduce fat, lower blood pressure, and lower blood sugar," Leng Ruoli said with a delicate smile on her rosy lips.
"Oh, this is the first time this old woman has heard that golden camellias have medicinal value." The Empress Dowager greatly admired Leng Ruoli's talent and knowledge.
It was truly fortunate for Han'er to marry this little girl. Fortunately, that brat Prince Qing broke off his engagement with Li'er, otherwise, such an intelligent, knowledgeable, and skillful young girl would have been cheapened by that brat.
"Imperial Grandmother, their flowers not only have medicinal value, but they can also be directly used to make tea or pastries," Leng Ruoli added.
"Good heavens, then isn't Imperial Grandmother guarding two treasures without knowing it? Hahaha..." The Empress Dowager burst into laughter upon hearing this.
"Imperial Grandmother, why don't I pick some small flowers and go back to my room to make two cups of golden camellia tea for you and Father Emperor to try?" Leng Ruoli suggested.
"Alright, I have eaten the food made by Li'er, but I have not tasted the tea you brewed. Today, I must taste it."
The Empress Dowager smiled with kind eyes. Every time she spent time with this girl Leng Ruoli, she felt twenty years younger.
Immediately, the Empress Dowager and Leng Ruoli picked a small basket of small yellow flowers and went to sit in a small pavilion in the garden, asking the palace maids to bring tea sets, boil water, and prepare to brew flower tea.
The Emperor and Jun Mohan were chatting in another pavilion in the garden.
"Father, Yu'er and Li'er found the headquarters of the Dark Night Pavilion the night before last," Jun Mohan said with a shocking statement.
"Where is the headquarters of the Dark Night Pavilion?" the Emperor asked in shock.
"Father Emperor, it is located at the foot of Wangya Mountain, not far from my capital," Jun Mohan replied.
"What? The headquarters of the Dark Night Pavilion is built at the foot of Wangya Mountain?" The Emperor seemed somewhat disbelieving upon hearing Jun Mohan's words.
This was because there was an imperial palace of his not far from the foot of Wangya Mountain. He would lead a group of ministers to hunt in that area almost every autumn, and he had not heard of any abnormalities in that place!
"Father Emperor, that place is hidden by formations. Anyone who doesn't understand formations wouldn't notice anything suspicious even if they went there," Jun Mohan explained the reason.
"No wonder? Since you have discovered the headquarters of the Dark Night Pavilion, I will entrust you with the task of eliminating the Dark Night Pavilion. What do you say?" the Emperor said calmly.
"Father Emperor, this subject and Li'er have already eliminated all the people hiding in the headquarters of the Dark Night Pavilion, and even blew up their underground city. However, the leader of the Dark Night Pavilion and the first assassin of the Dark Night Pavilion were not there," Jun Mohan said again with a shocking statement.
"Then were you and Li'er injured?" The Emperor was somewhat happy upon hearing Jun Mohan's words, but more worried about the safety of his son and daughter-in-law.
"This subject and Li'er are fine, but we discovered a big secret."
With that, Jun Mohan took out the mobile phone that Leng Ruoli had given him from his sleeve pocket.