Chapter 613 – Needle not poking (begging for monthly votes)

In the Imperial Study Room, Emperor Yongxing looked at the folders presented by the Cabinet, which contained various matters regarding the donations, including, but not limited to, how to promote the donations, set standards, and liquidate the properties of the officials who claimed to be clean and so on.

Sprawling over a thousand words.

Approving folders is not easier than reading a book, because many ministers submit folders with “traps” hidden in them.

If you don’t want to be treated like a monkey by the civil officials, the emperor has to be keenly aware of the traps in the folders.

No one can help in this regard, because after sitting on this throne, the whole court is an enemy.

Yongxing Emperor pushed for donations for the purpose of disaster relief, and could not afford to make a mistake at this juncture, so he looked extraordinarily serious.

“Your Majesty!”

At this time, the eunuch in charge, Zhao Xuanzhen, hurriedly entered the imperial study and whispered:

“The Taifu is sick.”

Yongxing Emperor moved his gaze away from the folds, pinched his brow, and then asked:

“Sick? Alas, Tai Fu is old and shouldn’t labor how he does. Go to the imperial apothecary to fetch some elixirs that replenish qi and vitalize blood to send to Tai Fu.”

Zhao Xuanzhen answered the promise, but did not leave and continued:

“The Taifu said that he would resign from his official position and would not teach the young masters, and asked His Majesty to find another position.

“He’s going to the Hsu residence as a teacher, to teach the scholar of the Hanlin Academy, the youngest sister of Hsu New Year.”

Ah? Emperor Yongxing was shocked and puzzled.

Zhao Xuanzhen, the eunuch in charge of the seal, said:

“What Tai Fu means is that he must educate that child wholeheartedly without any distraction, I hope Your Majesty will understand.”

Yongxing Emperor revealed a solemn look, his body slightly leaning forward, and asked after him in surprise:

“That child is so gifted and talented that he has caused Tai Fu to fall in love with his talent?

“Interesting, even the Huaiqing of that year, Tai Fu did not treat it like this. Tsk, you said that this Xu family is really full of heroes, in the front there is Xu Qi’an, in the back there is Xu Ruixu, I didn’t think that a small girl is not a pool animal.”

When he finished speaking, he saw Zhao Xuanzhen’s stiff face, not knowing how to explain his appearance.

“Hmm?” Emperor Yongxing used a nasal voice to express doubt.

“Your Majesty does not know, Tai Fu is angry ……..”

Zhao Xuanzhen whispered what happened in the upper study and relayed it to Emperor Yongxing.

……. Yongxing Emperor did not speak for a long time, falling into deep self-blame.

For a while, he said, “Send that girl child back to the Xu House, I write a folding to appease the Tai Fu, this time, do not let the Tai Fu leave the palace, take good care of it.”

Cho Hyun-jin answered and mumbled:

“What stays for a while doesn’t stay for a lifetime.”

Yongxing Emperor was silent for a long time and slowly said:

“I will give an order to the House of Xu, forbidding them to allow Tai Fu to come to their door.”

Sending Zhao Xuanzhen away, Emperor Yongxing took a sip of ginseng tea and slurped as he recalled what the eunuch in charge had just said:

“Incredible, incredible.

“I don’t believe that there is such a stupid talent in the world, I have to be free to try it myself.”

…………

The wheels clattered and stopped at the Xu Mansion, and Little Dou Ding, carrying a small cloth bag, jumped down from the carriage.

The small cloth bag was bulging and swollen and seemed to be filled with something.

These were the pastries she had begged from Huaiqing.

Xu New Year then leapt off the carriage and walked towards the mansion with an expressionless face.

With his hands pinned to either side of his back and his head down, the little peahen rushed into the House, tripped in the doorway position, and snapped to the floor.

“Ergo, I fell.”

She angled her face up and looked at Xu New Year.

Xu Erlang’s handsome face twitched, “And then?”

She patted herself on the back and stood up, nursing the pastries in her small cloth bag and looking cautiously at Erlang Xu.

? Heojiro frowned at her.

The little djinn took a cautious glance at Ergo and suddenly fled in fear.

Heojiro froze for half a day before reacting to the fact that he hadn’t given Suzume a good look along the way, and his stupid sister thought he was coveting the pastries.

The proof is that she didn’t help herself when she fell.

All the way into the inner courtyard, he saw mother and daughter staring wide-eyed.

The aunt gasped, “Why is she back, was she kicked out of the palace again?”

Jiro Xu nodded.

“You …….”

The aunt’s chest heaved violently with anger and she gritted her teeth, “What’s going on?”

Xu Er Lang said helplessly:

“Suzaku has made the Taifu sick with anger, heh, when tomorrow, her great name will spread throughout the officialdom and the Confucian world.

“All the readers will know that the Tai Fu, who is rich in learning and has one of the highest prestige in the Confucian world, was so angry with a childish boy that he became bedridden.”

The aunt’s body shook, instantly thought a lot, and blushed:

“How will Suzume marry in the future.”

Xu Er Lang also laughed in exasperation and complained:

“It’s not all Mother’s fault, it’s not like Suzumi is reading material, you’re not willing to do so, you’re so intent on making her read and write to become a talented girl.”

Auntie, in her grief, dumps on Uncle Two:

“Look at her, she’s just like your father, if she were like me, she’d already be good at chess, calligraphy and painting at a young age.”

“I studied hard.”

Suzume commiserated as she ate the palace’s delicious pastries.

Erlang Xu pinched his brow, he was worried about another thing, after this matter spread, Suzaku might become the meat and potatoes in the eyes of certain people who wanted to make a name for themselves.

Taifu with the identity of the State Council readers, warming up the righteousness, in the literary world is the leader of the position.

If a child who could not even be enlightened by the Taifu was successfully enlightened by any one of them, would he not become famous all over the world in one fell swoop?

No one would think they couldn’t handle a toddler until they actually met Suzaku, and then they would surely flock to the doorsteps of countless others.

“Stupid can be stupid enough to be famous in the capital, what’s all this about ……..”

Xu Erlang pinched his brow with a headache.

……….

Early the next morning.

Li Ling Su came and knocked on the door, in the sound of the wooden bolt scratching open, the door of the room opened, he looked in, Xu Qi An stood by the window sipping tea, Mu Nan Gardenia was sitting at the table, controlling the little white fox, and was taking a pig bristle toothbrush, brushing it’s teeth.

“Woohoo ……..”

The little white fox let out a pained sound, and its limbs stomped about every now and then.

“Don’t move, and brush your teeth properly or your mouth will stink.”

Munanjian said.

“I don’t stink ……. Oooh ……..”

The little white fox resisted a sentence out of habit, seemingly accustomed to such things with little resistance.

This is when the daughter raised ah ………. Li Lingsu said with a sigh of emotion in her heart:

“Elder Xu, the fellows have prepared breakfast downstairs.”

This “Elder Xu” was not as sincere as before.

The little white fox took the opportunity to get rid of Mu Nanjia and called out, “Hungry hungry hungry!”

Said the man as he spat out foam.

The group went downstairs and saw Miao Youfang already sitting at the table, eating his own morning meal.

One bowl of white porridge, three meat buns, two steamed buns and a stack of pickles per person.

Shengyi County was not rich, supplies were scarce, and the people were in a state of filling their bellies.

There were no wharves in the surrounding area, and trade exchanges were underdeveloped, so even if there was money, the inn couldn’t come up with anything better.

The crowd took their seats, bowed their heads and ate quietly.

Miao Youfang asked, “Senior, where are we going next?”

“Once we find the Dragon Qi host in Jiangzhou, we’ll go to Jianzhou.” Xu Qi’an said.

Jianzhou ……. Li Lingsu s face changed for a moment, and she was busy lowering her head to drink congee.

“Guest, staying or stopping over?”

The store assistant’s enthusiastic voice attracted their attention, and Miao Youfang looked sideways, his eyes glowing slightly.

The store assistant greeted a young woman with quite a good posture, wearing a plain colored short hit, stepping on cowhide boots, with an extremely slender figure.

She had clear features and a steely gaze that was characterized by an uninviting indifference.

“Stay!”

The woman said.

Eyes on the store assistant leading her upstairs, Li Ling Su snickered:

“Didn’t you say you were the one who slept with so many flower girls, and that’s all you’ve got?”

Miao Youfang retracted his gaze fondly and retorted:

“Can a flower leader and a jungle warrior be the same thing? Speaking of which, I had several warrior women hook up with me during my most glamorous month.

“It’s just that I cruelly rejected them.”

The most scenic month refers to the time when the dragon is possessed.

Li Lingsu was surprised, “Why?”

Miao Youfang sighed helplessly:

“You don’t understand, in the jianghu, women are always trouble. The prettier the woman, the more trouble.

“It’s not that there’s anything wrong with their character, but pretty warrior women always attract trouble. Sometimes when you meet a good female master, they want to sleep with you, and you simply don’t have the ability to refuse.

“Every martial artist cannot be expected to have a chivalrous heart like this lord.

“So, as a fellow traveler, what do you do? Stand up for her and risk being killed. If you don’t stand up for her, you’re too humiliated. So just go it alone.”

Li Lingsu and Xu Qi’an had a ‘taught’ look on their faces.

Whether it was the Heavenly Sect Sea King or the Capital City Sea King, neither of them had ever encountered this kind of thing.

Miao Youfang suddenly revealed a lewd expression and said, “Brother Li, you claim to have read countless women, and there is no shortage of high-grade martial artists among them, right? Are there any above the sixth grade?”

Li Ling Su nodded, “Naturally.”

Miao Youfang hemmed and hawed, “Little brother is just curious, a Sixth Grade Martial Artist with copper skin and iron bones, your embroidery needle, can break someone’s flesh?”

This angle is very clear ah ……. Xu Qi’an, who hadn’t slept with a martial artist above the sixth rank, also twisted his head to look at Li Lingsu.

“Crude!”

Li Ling Su didn’t know how to answer.

Xu Qi’an and Miao Youfang laughed “hehehe”.

Miao Youfang laughed, “Actually, I’ve figured out that fish scale armor is equally hard to injure with knives and spears, but embroidery needles will be able to pierce through the cracks.”

When he finished, he suddenly slumped headfirst onto the table, unconscious.

Li Lingsu held a soul in her palm, squinted her eyes, and laughed:

“Brother Miao, you’re very thoughtful.”

At that moment, a yellow-haired hyena ran in while the shopkeeper was away.

Li Ling Su snapped his fingers and pushed the soul into the earth dog’s body.

“Where’s the hyena, get outta here!”

The shopkeeper came downstairs and waved his stick to drive the yellow-haired hyena away and beat it a few times.

The smile on Li Lingsu’s face grew deeper and deeper as he threw out a meat bun, “Poor fellow, come, the great master rewards you.”

“Woof woof woof ……”

The yellow-haired earth dog, who did not want a meat bag, was outside the inn, barking furiously and rhythmically.

“He’s cursing you!” Xu Qi’an said.

“Cursing me for what?” Li Lingsu smirked.

“He scolded you for giving birth to a son with no py, I am a flower girl, all the women I slept with have a new love, and gave you a bunch of children, just waiting for you to go home and call out to your father.”

Xu Qi’an said.

……… Li Lingsu was dumbstruck, her face stiffened, “How do you know?”

“I can definitely understand the language of beasts.” Xu Qi’an said with a smile, then added another sentence:

“Oh, and he just said, you have a great ass!”

Li Lingsu was furious, rolled up his sleeves and got up, “I will skin it today and eat dog meat ……..”

He suddenly felt his back give a nod, and then, his Yuan Shen and mana were sealed as much as they could be.

The saint son’s face turned white as he twisted his head and looked at Xu Qi’an:

“You, what are you doing?”

Xu Qi’an smiled and said, “Let’s be fair, go ahead and fight.”

Soon after, the pedestrians on the roadside and the residents in the inn either stopped to watch or poked their heads out to observe a man and a dog biting each other in a fierce fight.

The crowd roared, sometimes cheering the man, sometimes applauding the dog.

Xu Qi’an and Mu Nanjian finished their breakfast in the pleasant air.

………..

Somewhere in the small city of Yuzhou, in the early morning mist, the Green House.

Ji Xuan took out the small bronze cauldron in front of a crowd of johns and girls’ horrified gazes, and put a man covered in blood and unconscious inside the cauldron.

He swept a glance at the shattered stairs, and the cracked floor of the tread, dropped a silver ingot, and turned to leave.

On the street outside the green house, by the stalls, the one-armed White Tiger, Xu Yuanfeng’s siblings, the flirtatious Liu Hongmong, and the colorfully robed Beggar Happiness Danxiang …….. were eating their morning meal with their heads bowed.

姬玄自顾自的坐下，让摊主端来一碗滚烫豆浆，他吨吨吨喝了半碗，满足的吐出一口气：

“The thirteenth Dragon Breath host.”

Liu Hongmong skimmed her lips, “It’s a pity that they’re all scattered dragon qi.”

Ji Xuan laughed:

“Accumulation of less becomes more, scattered dragon qi converge to a certain level, the attraction to other dragon qi will increase.

“I also have to thank Sister Yuanfang for her help, without the assistance of the Qi Looking Technique, how could it be so fast?”

Xu Yuanfang said indifferently, “The ones you should be thanking are the secret agents of the Heavenly Qi Palace, without their all-out efforts to gather intelligence, it would be impossible for you to gather the Dragon Qi so quickly.”

Ji Xuan was about to speak when he saw Xu Yuanxiang fumble out a note from the pouch at his waist and said:

“Latest intelligence, a Dragon Qi host has been discovered in Yuzhou, one of the nine vital Dragon Qi.

“Yuzhou’s spies didn’t dare to act rashly because the dragon’s qi has the ability to tend to good fortune and avoid evil, and they were afraid of spooking the snakes.”

Ji Xuan’s eyes glowed, “Yuzhou, ah, not far from here.”

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