The imperial guard’s expression was heavy as he hurried to report, "Grand Eunuch Cao, we searched the area, but Little Eunuch Xia has been knocked unconscious and stuffed into a night-soil bucket!"
Grand Eunuch Cao felt a buzzing in his head. He knew it! He knew it! Everyone in the Wutong Palace was wicked to the core!
He was a eunuch without heirs of his own, and as he aged, he naturally worried about his future. Little Xia was the godson he had hand-picked—filial, simple-minded, and the one he counted on to tend to his final rites. Yet, for their own selfish ends, the people of Wutong Palace had dared to threaten the boy’s life. A servant’s life might be cheap, but Grand Eunuch Cao could not swallow this grievance.
Chapter 153