Nightwatcher

In the Imperial Study Room, Emperor Yongxing looked at the booklet presented by the cabinet, which contained various matters concerning donations, including but not limited to how to promote donations, formulate standards, and conduct property liquidation for officials who claim to have a clean hand, etc.

I wrote more than a thousand words eloquently.

Reviewing notebooks is not easier than reading books, because there are "traps" hidden in the notebooks submitted by many ministers. .

If he doesn't want to be played like a monkey by civil officials, the emperor must be keenly aware of the traps in the book.

In this regard, no one can help, because after sitting on the throne, the civil and military forces of the whole dynasty are enemies.

Emperor Yongxing promoted donations for disaster relief, and he couldn't make any mistakes at this juncture, so he took it very seriously.

"His Majesty!"

At this moment, Zhao Xuanzhen, the palm print eunuch, hurried into the imperial study room and said in a low voice:

"Master Fu is ill."

Emperor Yongxing looked away from Zhezi, pinched the center of his brows, and asked:

"Sick? Alas, Tai Tuo is old and shouldn't be too tired. Go to the imperial pharmacy to get some pills for nourishing qi and promoting blood circulation and send them to Tai Tu."

Zhao Xuanzhen agreed, but did not leave, and continued:

"The Grand Tutor said that he would resign from his official position and stop teaching the little masters, please Your Majesty find another job.

"He's going to Xu's mansion to be a teacher, to teach the concubine of the Imperial Academy, Xu New Year's younger sister."

ah? Emperor Yongxing was taken aback and couldn't figure it out.

Palm print eunuch Zhao Xuanzhen said:

"The Tai Tuo means that he must wholeheartedly educate the child without any distractions. I hope His Majesty can understand."

Emperor Yongxing showed a solemn expression, leaned forward slightly, and asked in surprise:

"That child is exceptionally gifted and intelligent, which made the Tai Tuo love talent?

"It's interesting. Even Huaiqing back then, the Taifu never treated him like this. Tsk tsk, you said that the Xu family is full of heroes. There was Xu Qi'an in the front, and Xu Cijiu in the back. I didn't expect a little girl to be so different. Something in the pool."

After speaking, he saw Zhao Xuanzhen's face was stiff, and he didn't know how to explain it.

"Huh?" Emperor Yongxing expressed his doubts with a nasal voice.

"Your Majesty doesn't know something, the Taifu is angry."

Zhao Xuanzhen whispered what happened in the study room to Emperor Yongxing.

Emperor Yongxing didn't speak for a long time, and fell into deep self-blame.

After a while, he said: "Send that girl back to Xu's residence, and I will write a note to appease the Grand Tutor. During this time, don't let the Grand Tutor leave the palace, take good care of her."

Zhao Xuanzhen responded, and murmured:

"Stay for a while, but not for a lifetime."

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

"I will issue an order to the Xu family to prohibit them from letting the Taifu visit."

After sending Zhao Xuanzhen away, Emperor Yongxing took a sip of ginseng tea, recalled what the palm print eunuch said just now, and clicked his tongue repeatedly:

"Unbelievable, incredible.

"I don't believe there is such a stupid person in the world, so I have time to try it myself."

The wheels twitched and stopped at the Xu Mansion. Xiao Douding jumped off the carriage with a small cloth bag on his back.

The small cloth bag was bulging, and it seemed to be full of things.

This is the pastry she begged from Huaiqing.

Xu Nian then jumped out of the carriage and walked towards the mansion expressionlessly.

Xiao Douding put his hands on the sides of his back, lowered his head, rushed into the mansion, tripped at the door, and fell to the ground with a slap.

"Second brother, I fell down."

She raised her face and looked at Xu New Year.

Xu Erlang's handsome face twitched, "Then?"

She patted her buttocks and stood up, protecting the pastries in the small cloth bag, and looked at Xu Erlang cautiously.

? Xu Erlang frowned and looked at her.

Xiao Douding carefully glanced at his second brother, and suddenly ran away in fear.

Xu Erlang was stunned for a long time before he realized that he didn't give Lingyin a good look along the way, and his stupid sister thought he was coveting pastries.

The evidence is that she didn't help herself after she fell.

All the way into the inner courtyard, I saw the mother and daughter staring at each other.

My aunt said angrily, "Why did she come back? Was she kicked out of the palace again?"

Xu Erlang nodded.

"you"

Aunt Qi's chest heaved violently, and she gritted her teeth: "What's going on?"

Xu Erlang said helplessly:

"Lingyin made Taifu mad, heh, tomorrow, her name will spread throughout the official circles and scholarly circles.

"All scholars will know that the Taifu, who is well-educated and one of the most prestigious scholars, is actually bedridden by a childish child."

My aunt shook her body, thinking of a lot in an instant, and said with a pale face:

"How will Lingyin marry in the future?"

Xu Erlang also laughed angrily, and complained:

"It's not all my mother's fault. Lingyin is not suitable for reading. You are unwilling to let her read and write so that she can become a talented girl."

My aunt felt sad and blamed my second uncle:

"Look at how stupid she is, she followed your father. If she followed me, she would already be proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting at a young age."

"I have studied hard."

Lingyin said aggrievedly while eating the delicious pastries in the palace.

Xu Erlang pinched his brows. He was worried about another matter. After the news spread, Lingyin might become a favorite in the eyes of some people who wanted to make a name for themselves.

As a scholar of Guozijian, Taifu cultivated a noble and upright spirit, and he was like a leader in the literary world.

If a child who can't even be enlightened by the Taifu is successfully enlightened by someone, wouldn't he become famous all over the world in one fell swoop?

Before seeing Lingyin, no one would feel that they can't even handle a child. At that time, there must be swarms of people, and there will be countless visitors.

"Stupid enough to be famous in the capital, what are these things?"

Xu Erlang pinched his eyebrows with a headache.

next morning.

Li Lingsu came to knock on the door, the door opened with the sound of the wooden peg being pulled open, he looked in, Xu Qi'an was standing by the window drinking tea, Mu Nanzhi was sitting at the table, controlling the little white fox, holding a A bristle toothbrush, give it a brush.

"woo woo woo"

The little white fox made a painful sound, kicking its limbs from time to time.

"Don't move, brush your teeth well, or your mouth will stink."

Mu Nanzhi said.

"I don't stink"

The little white fox protested habitually, as if he was used to such things, and his resistance was not strong.

This is when a daughter is raised. Li Lingsu said with emotion in his heart:

"Senior Xu, the buddy has prepared breakfast downstairs."

His "Senior Xu" was not as sincere as before.

The little white fox took the opportunity to get rid of Mu Nanzhi, and shouted, "I'm hungry, I'm hungry!"

As he spoke, he spit out foam.

A group of people went downstairs and saw Miao Youfang sitting at the table, eating their own breakfast.

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

Shengyi County is not rich, there is a shortage of supplies, and the people are in a state of filling their stomachs.

There are no wharfs around, and trade exchanges are underdeveloped, so even if they have money, the inn can't produce better things.

Everyone sat down, bowed their heads and ate quietly.

Miao Youfang asked: "Senior, where are we going next?"

"When we find the dragon energy host in Jiangzhou, we will go to Jianzhou." Xu Qi'an said.

Jianzhou Li Lingsu's face changed, and he quickly lowered his head to drink the porridge.

"Guest officer, stay in the hotel or go to the top?"

The enthusiastic voice of the waiter caught their attention, and Miao Youfang looked sideways, his eyes sparkling slightly.

The waiter greeted a very pretty young woman in plain color shorts and cowhide boots, with a very slim figure.

Her facial features are delicate, her eyes are firm and determined, revealing the indifference that strangers should not enter.

"Stay!"

said the woman.

Watching the waiter in the shop take her upstairs, Li Lingsu joked:

"Didn't you say that you are a person who has slept with many courtesans, that's all you can do?"

Miao Youfang reluctantly withdrew his gaze and retorted:

"Can an oiran and a heroine be the same thing? Speaking of which, during my most glorious month, several heroines also hooked up with me.

"It's just that I rejected them cruelly."

The most beautiful month refers to the time when the dragon spirit possesses the body.

Li Lingsu asked in surprise, "Why?"

Miao Youfang sighed and said helplessly:

"You don't understand, in Jianghu, women are always troublesome. The more beautiful the woman, the more troublesome.

"It's not that there is anything wrong with their personalities, but that beautiful women always cause trouble. Sometimes when you meet a master womanizer, if he wants to sleep with you, you simply can't refuse.

"You can't expect every martial artist to be as chivalrous and courageous as this uncle.

"So, as a companion, what should you do? If you stand up for her, you may be killed. If you don't stand up for her, it would be too humiliating. So simply go alone."

Li Lingsu and Xu Qi'an had "taught" expressions on their faces.

Whether it is Tianzong Haiwang or Jingcheng Haiwang, they have never encountered such a thing.

Miao Youfang suddenly showed a wretched expression, and said, "Brother Li, you claim to have countless girls, and some of them are high-rank warriors. Are there any above rank six?"

Li Lingsu nodded: "Naturally."

Miao Youfang chuckled and said, "My little brother is very curious. For a sixth-grade warrior with copper skin and iron bones, can your embroidery needle break someone's flesh?"

This angle is very strange. Xu Qi'an, who has never slept with a warrior above rank six, also turned his head to look at Li Lingsu.

"vulgar!"

Li Lingsu didn't know how to answer.

Xu Qi'an and Miao Youfang "hehe" laughed.

Miao Youfang smiled and said: "Actually, I also want to understand. The fish scale armor is also hard to hurt, but the embroidery needle can penetrate through the gap."

After finishing speaking, he suddenly lay face down on the table, unconscious.

Li Lingsu held a soul in his palm, squinted his eyes, and said with a smile:

"Brother Miao, you have a lot of ideas."

At this time, a yellow-haired dog ran in while the waiter was away.

Li Lingsu pushed the soul into the earth dog's body with a snap of his fingers.

"Where's the earth dog, roll!"

The shop clerk came downstairs, waved the yellow-haired dog away with a stick, and beat it a few times.

The smile on Li Lingsu's face deepened, and he threw out a meat bun: "Poor guy, come, the uncle rewards you."

"Wow woof"

The yellow-haired dog doesn't want meat buns, and barks rhythmically outside the inn.

"He's scolding you!" Xu Qi'an said.

"What are you scolding me for?" Li Lingsu said with a smile.

"He scolded you for giving birth to a son who is not py, the old lady is an oiran, all the women he has slept with have new loves, and he gave birth to a bunch of children for you, and he will wait for you to call your father when you go home."

Xu Qi'an said.

Li Lingsu was dumbfounded, his face was stiff: "How do you know?"

"I can definitely understand the language of beasts." Xu Qi'an said with a smile, and then added:

"Oh, he just said, you have a great ass!"

Li Lingsu was furious, rolled up his sleeves and stood up, "I skinned it today and ate dog meat."

He suddenly felt a tap on his back, and then, all the primordial spirit and mana were sealed.

Shengzi turned his head with a pale face, and looked at Xu Qi'an:

"You, what are you doing?"

Xu Qi'an smiled and said: "It's fair, go ahead and fight."

Soon after, the pedestrians on the side of the road and the residents in the inn either stopped to watch, or poked their heads out to watch a person and a dog biting each other, and the fighting was fierce.

The crowd cheered loudly, sometimes cheering people up, and sometimes applauding the dog.

Xu Qi'an and Mu Nanzhi finished their breakfast in a pleasant atmosphere.

Somewhere in a small town in Yuzhou, in the early morning mist, there are brothels.

Under the horrified eyes of all the prostitutes and girls, Ji Xuan took out the small bronze tripod, and put a bloody, comatose man into the tripod.

He glanced at the shattered stairs and the cracked ground, dropped a piece of silver, and turned to leave.

On the street outside the brothel, beside the small stalls, the one-armed white tiger, Xu Yuanshuang's sister and brother, the charming Liu Hongmian, and Qi Huan Danxiang in colorful robes are eating breakfast with their heads bowed.

Ji Xuan sat down on his own, and asked the stall owner to bring a bowl of boiling soy milk. He drank half of the bowl, and let out a sigh of satisfaction:

"The thirteenth dragon energy host."

Liu Hongmian curled her lips: "Unfortunately, it's all broken dragon energy."

Ji Xuan smiled and said:

"A small amount makes a lot, when the scattered dragon's energy gathers to a certain extent, the attraction to other dragon's energy will increase.

"I still have to thank sister Yuanshuang for her help. Without the assistance of the hope technique, how could it be so fast?"

Xu Yuanshuang said lightly: "You should be grateful to the secret agents of Tianji Palace. Without their efforts to collect information, you would not have been able to collect the dragon energy so quickly."

Just as Ji Xuan was about to speak, he saw Xu Yuanshuang take out a note from the pouch on his waist and said:

"The latest information shows that Yuzhou discovered a host of dragon energy, which is one of the most important dragon energy in the Nine Paths.

"The spies in Yuzhou didn't dare to act rashly, because the dragon energy has the ability to seek good luck and avoid bad luck, and they are afraid of scaring the snake away."

Ji Xuan's eyes lit up: "Yuzhou, it's not far from here."

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