Rebirth: Pampered by the Lord
Chapter 1040: Chaos in the Capital with Chickens Flying and Dogs Running

Chapter 1040: Chapter 1040: Chaos in the Capital with Chickens Flying and Dogs Running

However, it was indeed strange that aside from the Main Wife who had a few daughters, none of the previous eighteen concubines had given birth to a single child, boy or girl. The Prime Minister had been striving for decades, to the point of exhaustion. Every time he lay with a woman, he doubted whether he was akin to a breeding stallion, performing the act solely for the sake of siring a son, without a shred of pleasure between men and women.

But in his pursuit of an heir and at nearly sixty years old, the Prime Minister clenched his teeth and shakily took in the nineteenth concubine.

Originally, after decades of disappointment, he held little hope that the Nineteenth Aunt would bear him a son.

Who would have thought that at this moment of relaxation, the Nineteenth Aunt actually became pregnant, and after ten months, she gave birth to a son for him.

When the Prime Minister first held this son, he wept with joy, having his wish of many decades finally fulfilled by the Nineteenth Aunt, which shows how indulgently he doted on the mother and child.

The Main Wife was so full of hatred that she gritted her teeth, but what could she do when the child was already born? All she could do was glare helplessly.

In her idle moments, she would go to the Imperial Palace to pour out her grievances to the Empress.

The Empress, heart aching for her birth mother, would make a point of visiting the Prime Minister’s Mansion every so often to suppress the Nineteenth Aunt and the Prime Minister, hinting overtly and covertly that with her, the Empress, present, no one would dare to mistreat her mother.

This made the Nineteenth Aunt restrain herself quite a bit.

One day, as she took her son out for a stroll, he was unexpectedly killed by a hideously ugly dwarf.

On this child rested her entire lifetime of glory and wealth.

And now, he had been murdered.

Instantly, her world collapsed. Darkness fell before her eyes, and she knew nothing more, as she was carried back to the residence by the servants.

Upon returning to the mansion from the palace, the Prime Minister was met with this terrible news and immediately felt the world spinning; he collapsed into a chair.

"Who is it? Who has the audacity to kill my son? Are they tired of living?" The Prime Minister, upon regaining his senses, slammed his hand on the table and cursed angrily.

A dozen attendants who had accompanied the Nineteenth Aunt knelt shakily on the ground.

"Reporting to the Prime Minister, it was a dwarf with an unknown origin."

"You useless oafs, what were you doing when you were supposed to protect the Young Master?"

"Everything happened so suddenly that by the time we reacted, the Young Master had already fallen and was dead."

"Then why didn’t you die too? How dare you shame me by appearing before me!" The Prime Minister, in his grief and rage at the loss of his son, commanded the guards to drag the attendants away and behead them to appease the spirit of the Young Master in heaven.

The other servants really wanted to say, Prime Minister! They were just servants, not the enemies of the Young Master; someone else was responsible for the Young Master’s death.

However, with the Prime Minister in the midst of his wrath, no one dared to make a peep.

The lives of those dozen attendants were to be sacrificed in vain.

It was their misfortune.

To happen to accompany the Young Master on the day they encountered such an incident.

As expected by Xuexue that night, the Prime Minister’s Mansion, together with the Yamen Runners, turned the entire Capital City upside down, smashing countless goods in the search for the dwarf who killed the Young Master. In the process, some Shopkeepers, heartbroken over their destroyed merchandise, tried to intervene and were slain by the Prime Minister in his fit of rage.

All of the Capital City People were in a state of panic, scrambling away at the mere sight of people from the Prime Minister’s Mansion.

This incident caused a huge stir in Capital City, even alarming The Emperor.

However, taking into account that he was the Father-in-law of the Nation, and that he had just lost his only son, his overwhelming grief excused his momentarily uncontrolled emotions, The Emperor turned a blind eye.