Chapter 232 – Supervisor Zheng’s Gift (Big Chapter Seeking Monthly Tickets)

It seems to be an emergency. They’re Oro’s associates. Is it related to Oro?

Old Zhang, the concierge, bowed and nodded, “The three lords follow me.”

Nangong Qianru got up, and under the leadership of the concierge Old Zhang, walked through the front hall to the backyard. From afar, she saw a young child wearing a small cloth bag, with a look that could only be considered cute, being led outside by a long-skirted young girl with a stunning posture.

The boy deflated and followed suit with a reluctant look on his face.

The two sides fought, and the young girl stopped and scrutinized the three night watchmen in consternation.

“The three lords have something to see His Lordship.” Old Zhang, the concierge, explained.

Xu Ling Yue nodded haughtily and withdrew her gaze, tugging Little Dou Ding back to the side.

Xu Lingyin, with one hand being tugged by her sister, raised her other hand, her thick, short fingers, pointing at Nangong Qianlou, shouted:

“What a pretty sister, as pretty as Mother.”

Pretty sister? The expressionless Nangong Qianrou nearly broke, turning her head in disbelief, staring at Xu Lingyin, the corners of her eyes twitching unceasingly.

Is this kid stupid? Are his eyes for show?

He raised his head slightly to show the kid the knot in his throat. But the stupid kid didn’t comprehend him at all and yelled one way or the other:

“Sister you are as beautiful as my mother.”

She seemed to think that being as pretty as her mother was high praise.

Nangong Qianrou whisked his sleeve away, in other people dare to say that he is a woman, not dead also have to take off layers of skin. Just his hall of gold gong, lazy and childish general knowledge.

Xu Lingyue eyed the backs of Nangong Qianruo’s trio as they entered the hall.

“Why isn’t sister leaving?” Xu Lingyin raised her small, palm-sized face.

“It’s big brother’s colleague, let’s go to the school hall later.” Xu Ling Yue softly said, leading her sister back.

In the back room, Xu Pingzhi, who had just finished his meal, rose hastily and greeted him, a little bewildered, a little terrified, and clasped his fists, “Lord Jin Gong.”

It was something Xu Pingzhi hadn’t expected when the hallowed Golden Cauldron actually visited the Xu Mansion.

With the noble status of a golden gong, even if Xu Qi’an was as good as a fish in a night watchman’s yamen, it was impossible for him to condescend to the home of a gong.

Unless there’s something big and important.

This gold gong is born in a beautiful, far from looking thought it was a woman, not worse than the boys female phase of the Erlang ….. Xu Pingzhi thought to himself.

“Pretty sister.”

Little Dou Ding followed Xu Ling Yue back and stood at the threshold position, calling out as if to please.

This child is really annoying, later there will be a time for you to cry …… Nangong Qianlou frowned, thinking of Xu Qi an s death, her heart could not help but sink.

He swept his gaze over Xu Pingzhi to the gorgeous woman at the dining table, and what the child said wasn’t untrue, it was indeed a voluptuous woman.

“What is Lord Jin Gong’s instruction when he comes to my humble abode.” Xu Pingzhi asked.

Nangong Qianruo retracted her gaze, and after a moment of silence, she said in a deep voice, “Tongluo Xu Qi’an was martyred in Yunzhou, and this official is here to deliver the pension silver.”

With that, he unfolded his palms and the gong behind him looked silent as he handed over the silver.

Nangong Qianlou then handed Xu Pingzhi three hundred two shirts of silver, Xu Pingzhi did not accept, he stayed, like a stone carving, motionless.

Even his eyes were frozen.

Xu Qi An was martyred …. Nangong Qianrou’s words were like a thunderbolt exploding in Xu Pingzhi’s ears, blowing up his soul and his liver.

For a moment, it felt like the whole world had lost its color, and my mind was filled with bad news, and all thoughts were lost.

Xu Qi’an was his nephew, an elder brother’s orphan, he had raised him for twenty years, how different from his own son? No, he even loved him more than his own son.

Second Uncle Xu had always had a strong sense of responsibility for Xu Qi’an, as he was the only surviving orphan of his elder brother’s line.

Raising him up, seeing him marry and have children, and spreading the branches of the longhouse is Xu Pingzhi’s best wish in this life.

Now, this nephew is gone, just like that?

In a muddle, Xu Pingzhi suddenly heard a sound of falling, he turned around and looked, but it was his wife who had fainted.

“Sister, what is martyrdom?”

Xu Lingyin didn’t understand as she raised her head and looked at Xu Lingyue beside her.

Xu Ling Yue did not answer, she stood woodenly, like a lifeless paper flower, beautiful but pale.

Old Zhang, the concierge, cried out, “To die in the line of duty is to die.”

Nangong Qianlou sighed in her heart, put the silver on the table and said, “In three to five days, the bones will be sent back to the capital, so you guys prepare for the funeral in advance.”

The eight-hundred-mile expedited paperwork naturally arrived in the capital ahead of the corpse.

After saying that, Nangong Qianlou turned around and was about to leave.

“You’re lying!”

A small lion-like roar came from Xu Lingyin as she stopped in front of the three night watchmen, glaring aggressively at Nangong Qianru.

A six-year-old already knows what death is.

Nangong Qianruo didn’t bother, bypassed Xu Lingyin and continued to walk out. But Xu Lingyin refused to let him go, chasing him to death and beating him, while yelling, “You lied you lied …..”

Children’s thinking is very simple, as long as the fight to convince the liar, so that he retracted the words just now, big brother can come back, as long as the fight to convince the liar, big brother can come back ……

Nangong Qianlou had to speed up his pace, took two tongluo to leave Xu House, out of a long distance, he was uneasy to turn back.

That child actually persisted and chased out, standing alone in the doorway, wailing and crying, his little body trembling unceasingly.

Like an abandoned beast.

Nangong Qianruo suddenly had some regrets, he should have waited a moment longer, waiting for this child to go to school before relaying the news of Xu Qi’an’s death.

“Take her back and have her family take good care of her.” Nangong Qianrou sidled her head and instructed the gong on her left.

“Yes.”

Xu Mansion, carrying his fainting wife back to her room, Xu Pingzhi came to the front hall to look for his daughter, intending to offer a few words of relief, but Xu Lingyue sat silently at the table, her eyes empty and motionless.

Uncle Xu slowly exhaled a breath, summoned the concierge Old Zhang, and said in a deep voice, “Send someone to the academy to tell Erlang the news, and have him return to the house as soon as possible.”

Old Zhang wiped tears from his eyes and nodded, retreating.

In fact, there are not many subordinates in the mansion who can ride a horse, regardless of the importance of the matter, or the time perspective, Xu Pingzhi himself to go to a trip to Yunlu Academy is the right thing to do.

Old Zhang, the concierge, knew that His Lordship couldn’t ride a horse now.

……

From the capital to Qing Yun Mountain, a round trip would take two hours, and if the horsemanship wasn’t good enough, it would take even longer.

Xu New Year returned to the mansion at midday, alone, and the subordinate who sent the message was left behind by him.

Steering his horse furiously to the gate, Xu New Year violently pulled on the reins of his horse, which came to an abrupt halt, raising its front hooves high.

Before the horse’s front hooves fell, Xu New Year had already rolled over and dismounted, his face pale as he rushed into the door of his house, and when he crossed the threshold, he actually tripped and fell hard on the ground, breaking his forehead.

Out of nowhere, he staggered up and stumbled into the house, seeing his family in the back room, his tearful mother, and his sister with her empty, lifeless gaze.

And of course there was Xu Suzume, who was sitting alone on the steps outside the front room, scribbling on the ground with a dead branch.

When the bad news came, the adults were so immersed in grief that they ignored their children’s feelings. Xu Suoyin didn’t dare to ask, didn’t dare to speak, and could only sit alone on the steps without saying a word.

Xu Pingzhi s eyes reddened, looked at him, and whispered, “Erlang, your elder brother …. is gone.”

Xu New Year’s body swayed, and his eyes went black.

…….

When noon came, the sky clouded over and a cold wind raged. Immediately afterward, goose feather snow fell.

It was the first snowfall after the spring festival, and it fell in flurries. In no time at all, the snow covered the roofs, the treetops, the paths, and the whole world was covered in a thin coat of silver.

The Imperial Palace, the Imperial Garden.

The Crown Prince invited the Second, Fourth, and Sixth Princes, as well as the three Princesses to enjoy the snow at the Qingji Pavilion.

The charcoal fire was roaring, the table was set with wine and food, and the Crown Prince took a sip of wine and laughed:

“It snowed last year, and I thought I’d have to wait until the end of the year to see snow again. I didn’t expect the snow to come back just after the spring festival.”

The Third Princess laughed, “I heard the magician who set up the yellow calendar from the Divisional Superintendent of Heaven say that the bigger the snow falls before the beginning of spring, the better the harvest will be after the fall, I don’t know if it’s true or not. Although this snow fell after the spring festival, but at least it caught up before the beginning of spring.”

The Crown Prince smiled and nodded, then looked at the Fourth Prince and asked, “What’s going on with Huaiqing lately? Staying in her chambers all day without coming out, sending people to seek her out for a drink, she pushed back saying that her body was not feeling well.”

The Fourth Prince shook his head in a muffled voice, “I don’t know.”

Huaiqing hadn’t appeared for a while, and originally, he would still occasionally get together with his royal brothers and sisters, but since a while ago, he had directly closed the door.

Although the fourth prince and Huaiqing is a mother and sibling, but Huaiqing that character, pro brother and sister can not be pro up.

Hmph, it must be that I have no face to see people when my light shines ….. Prosper thought proudly as he took a sip of his wine.

With the wide circulation of the quintet, her Lin’an’s great name also shook the capital, try to ask, under the light of this princess so prosperous, the humble Huaiqing naturally only shrink in the house dare not go out.

Thinking of this, Lin An happily drank a few more mouthfuls, a reddish haze creeping onto her rounded face, her charming and amorous peach blossom eyes slightly mesmerized.

A few of the emperors couldn’t help but look a few more times as well, having a sister with excellent talent and appearance was a very pleasing thing to the eyes.

Well, the word “talent” is debatable, and the beauty is well deserved.

Framed in Xu Qi’an’s heart, in addition to fitting the image of the little queen of the nightclub, and then the kind of particularly beautiful, but scummy grades in the class when he was young and studying.

The kind of female schmuck who gets sad and keeps scratching her head when she’s doing math.

But being overly pretty and highly sought after by boys can make the other girls in the class hate it and privately bellyache about a sultry jian.

Huaiqing, on the other hand, is a high-strung female school bully, but because her character is too unimpressed, she won’t be liked by the girls, and she’s privately jealous: cut, what’s the big deal.

The only difference between the high-strung female school bully and the sultry female school slag is that the female school bully can play the other girls in the class to death. And the female scum can only pout in anger.

“This snow is auspicious, do you know about yesterday’s 800-mile expedited paperwork?” The crown prince pulled the plug.

“The matter of Zhang Xingying quelling the Yunzhou rebellion?” The Fourth Prince said.

The Crown Prince nodded, “The Minister of Public Works of the Qi Party colluded with the Witch God Cult to cultivate power in Yunzhou. Fortunately, Governor Zhang was capable enough to recognize the conspiracy and eliminate the rebellious party.”

After a pause, the Crown Prince looked at his sibling Lin An: “This case Xu Qi An took great credit, was posthumously awarded the Changle County son, but also worthy of the name.”

“That’s for sure, Xu Qi’an is my ….”

Originally, when Lin An heard her crown prince brother praise Xu Qi An, her heart was happy and she instinctively wanted to show off, but when she heard the second half of the sentence, she suddenly froze.

“Brother Prince …. You, what did you say?”

That charming and affectionate face, the sweet smile froze a little bit, the peach blossom eyes slightly widened, but the divine splendor was empty, staring straight at the Crown Prince.

“Oh, you still don’t know?” The Fourth Prince sighed:

“That gong Xu Qi’an was martyred in the line of duty, pity, pity.”

Bang…the glass shattered on the floor.

The crowd looked to Prosperity.

Lin An is blissfully unaware of her own disorder, her showy white hand tightly tugged on the crown prince’s sleeve, with a trembling sob, “Crown prince brother, don’t joke with me ….”

There was a crystalline light in her eyes, as well as a pitiful plea.

The Crown Prince froze for a moment, his face suddenly grimmed for a few moments, brushing away Lin An’s hand, and said in a deep voice: “This matter is true, Father has already drafted a decree, and when that gong’s corpse is transported back to the capital, he will descend to posthumously seal it.

“Advent, mind yourself.”

Dang Dafeng Princess, but for a subordinate’s martyrdom so out of shape, the Prince right to assume that Lin An is sentimental. He did not want to speculate deeper.

Prosper silently retracted his hand, got up without a word, and walked into the blanket of snow.

“Lin An, Lin An …..” The crown prince chased her to the edge of the pavilion and shouted at her back.

The red dress moved forward in silence, and snowflakes fluttered and fell on her hair.

The Crown Prince twisted his head toward Lin An’s personal palace maid and growled, “Why don’t you go and give the princess an umbrella.”

The palace maid happened to pick up the umbrella, ready to chase up, heard the words stopped, towards the Prince Fu Fu body, open the oil paper umbrella, sprinting after them.

Inside the pavilion, the royal sons and daughters hadn’t returned to their senses and looked bewildered.

On the other side, that courtesan who had been patted on the buttocks by Xu Qi’an, holding her umbrella, carefully surveyed Lin An’s side face, not daring to speak.

What a pity, that gong was martyred in the line of duty …… The palace maid sighed in her heart.

Suddenly, she heard a soft choking sob, and twisting her head in dismay, she saw that Princess Lin An had actually burst into tears.

“Princess?!”

The palace maid shuddered and called out, looking around in panic, fortunately the snow was heavy and no one was around, lowering her voice: “Why are you crying, is it, is it because of him?”

“This palace, this palace doesn’t know …..”

Tears slipped down in drops, and Prosper raised his hand and pressed it against his chest.

It’s empty here.

………

“It’s snowing then, I love snowy days, I should wait for the snow to stop so I can have a snowball fight with my senior brothers, and I can also build snowmen and snow horses.”

Huaiqing Princess residence, warm tea room, Chu Caiwei holding a cup of drinking tea, eating pastries, looking out the window at the snow.

She had light pearly whites and was enjoying a cozy afternoon with hot tea, delicious pastries, and watching the snow.

Princess Huaiqing wore a white palace dress, long ago the cold and the heat did not bother her, she wore a summer dress that emphasized her figure.

She paid no attention to the chatter of her bosom friend, holding her scroll in her hand while her eyes gazed at the snow.

“Princess Huaiqing, what’s wrong with you, you’re soulful these days.” Chu Caiwei felt that she was being disregarded and was angry in her heart.

In her dark eyes, reflecting a white snowflake, Huaiqing said quietly, “Caiwei, I’m afraid that the letter that this palace wrote on your behalf won’t be handed over to you.”

Chu Caiwei mindlessly ate her pastry and asked, “Why?”

“He was martyred in the line of duty.”

Chu Caiwei’s hand shook and the pastry fell to the ground.

…….

Stargazer Building, Bagua Terrace.

Chu Caiwei hung her head and stepped down the steps to the top floor of the Stargazer Building.

Goose feather snow drifting, gossip table accumulated a thin layer of snow, the supervisor is sitting in front of the case, three feet in a circle, a piece of snow does not fall.

Chu Caiwei stopped behind Supervisor Zheng and choked in aggravation, “Teacher …..”

“Ever since I was little, every time a senior brother bullied you, you cried and ran to Master’s place to complain.” Supervisor Zheng did not turn around and smiled as he drank a cup of wine.

“No senior brother bullied me.” Chu Caiwei deflated her mouth and cried out with a wow, “Xu Qi’an is dead, Xu Qi’an is dead, I’m so sad …..”

The Supervisor was silent for a moment, twisting his head to look to the south, seemingly looking at something intently, and suddenly let out a light laugh, “Good thing.”

Chu Caiwei cried even more fiercely, stomping her feet hard, cursing as she cried, “Bad old man, stinking old man, my friend died, and you still say good things, why don’t you go and die.”

“What did you tell the teacher? Teacher has lived for five hundred years and hasn’t lived enough to borrow another five hundred years from heaven.” Supervisor Zheng said angrily.

“Then, then what you just said is what you should say as a teacher.” Chu Caiwei cried out.

“When the Master says good things, naturally they are good things.” Supervisor Zheng said, “The year before last, the deliquescence pill that Master gave you, have you eaten it yet?”

“What a shedding pill.” Chu Caiwei wiped her tears.

“Dematerialization pills, dematerialization pills that only three are refined in a year. That boy Emperor Yuan Jing begged for a dematerialization digging pill that Master wouldn’t even give.” Supervisor Zheng became even more angry.

“Oh, it’s in my bag.” Chu Caiwei huffed, “I forgot about it if you didn’t tell me, and I can’t use that thing.”

The Supervisor nodded and laughed, “Remember, you gave the Deliverance Pill to Xu Qi’an.”

“I didn’t.”

“You delivered.”

“I don’t have it, it’s in my bag.”

“Shut up, you delivered. That’s what you’ll say if anyone asks you in the future.”

“Oh.” Chu Caiwei cried again, “Teacher, Xu Qi’an is dead.”

She had a habit of coming to the Superintendent to cry when she was sad. Just like a child who is aggrieved, she would come to her parents to cry.

“You just stepped into the Sixth Grade not long ago, so don’t go out these days.”

After Chu Caiwei left, the Supervisor was spreading out the palm of his hand, and an orange and yellow translucent elixir was lying quietly in the palm of his hand.

Then the supervisor was pulling off a strand of white beard and gently exhaling.

The wisp of beard fluttered in the wind, higher and higher, suddenly expanding and transforming into a large white bird.

The big bird screamed in a pale voice, circled in the air for a moment, swooped down, and took the deliquescent pill in the supervisor’s hand.

Chu Caiwei returned to her room, looking down and rummaging in the buckskin pouch at her waist.

“Why did the teacher suddenly talk to me about the deliquescence pill, and also said that it was given to Xu Qi An ….” She huffed and puffed as she searched and searched, but she couldn’t find the Deliverance Pill.

…….

“You trust Wei Yuan that much? Willing to tell him all the secrets on your body?”

In the dimly lit cabin, Yang Qianyi sat cross-legged with his back to the coffin.

The matter of Xu Qi’an being Wei Yuan’s illegitimate son, he knew that it was not believable after a little thought, Xu Qi’an was twenty years old, while Wei Yuan had already been a eunuch in the palace more than twenty years ago.

“Dad what a joke la, play terrier do you understand.” Xu Qi’an sighed as he lay in the coffin:

“Trust of course, Duke Wei treats me well and is very willing to cultivate me. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that he is gracious to me. But actually, I’m a bit resistant to telling him the secret.”

“Why?”

“How can I put it, Wei Gong’s mind is so deep that it calls out to you that you never know what’s going on in his mind. And then you also don’t know how he will react after telling him the secret.”

“That’s true, Wei Yuan, like my teacher, are both people with hearts so deep that it’s scary. Even a man like me, who holds the bright moon in his hands and picks stars, can’t see through them.” Yang Qianyi said in disbelief:

“Then how come you’re willing to talk to me about what’s on your mind?”

Xu Qi’an laughed, “Because Senior Brother Yang is a man with a heart of gold.”

Don’t care about anything other than the hobby of pretending.

Yang Qianyi nodded, and again felt that this is strange, “always feel that this is not a good word ….. Then have you ever thought about leaving the capital? Anyway, you’re already dead, the sky can go anywhere.”

“But my family is in the capital, of course I still have to go back if I can.” Xu Qi’an sighed:

“I’ve longed for the days when a green shirt and a sword traveled the world. But no matter where you go, there’s a home under the sky that you can go back to at any time, and you won’t panic. And once I leave the capital, I probably won’t be able to return in this lifetime.”

After a period of time together, perhaps too boring, the two first casually riffing, gradually began to say something from the heart.

“That’s true, when I’m out and about, as long as I remember that there’s still my senior brothers and sisters from the Sithian Supervisory Authority, and my teacher, I feel solid in my heart. It’s not really being homeless, just traveling outside.” Yang Qianyi nodded slightly.

Xu Qi An said on his lips that he would go back to ask Wei Yuan for advice, but in fact it was a perfunctory Yang Qianyi, and in his heart he was weighing the pros and cons of confessing.

Wei Yuan was good to him, he knew that. But after confessing, would Wei Yuan choose to reseal the divine Shush, or would he choose to turn a blind eye? Lacking a point of reference, Xu Qi’an didn’t dare to risk trying.

After all, it wasn’t Wei Yuan’s own son.

But he didn’t want to leave the capital, so he was in a dilemma.

In addition, Monk Shenshu had once asked him to keep the secret and not reveal his existence. Xu Qi’an couldn’t figure out how Monk Shenshu would react if he told Wei Yuan the secret.

You can’t really believe that a godly and demonic master is a Bodhisattva of great compassion just because he is always pleasant.

“Hey, forcing …. Senior Brother Yang, have you started a family?” Xu Qi’an asked.

“No.” Yang Qianyi shook her head, “Women are a liability, I don’t need one.”

In that case, I was wondering if you don’t allow your wife to look at your face when you perform intercourse with her as well? If so, then there are only two paths you can take: One, become a man who always stands behind his wife, just like Yashin of Yunlu Academy. Two, become a man of the Valley Road.

Thinking about it, Xu Qi’an couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

At this time, there came from outside the ship the cry of an unknown flying bird, pale and lonely, like the wail of a night lord.

Yang Qianyi first froze, then was shocked and blurted out, “It’s teacher’s aura.”

…….

PS: I’ll be back in the capital in the next chapter, so I’ll make changes before I go home from work and correct the typos.