"Little Fox!"
Su Yan and Zhou You transferred from the front of the imperial city gate to a special van inside the imperial city, and arrived in front of the Taishi's Mansion. When they were about to enter the Taishi's Mansion, the clear and beautiful voice of Lord Luan Ming sounded like an oriole. came from behind.
Su Yan turned around and saw County Lord Luanming and Feng Shiqi Shi Shiran walking out of the forest path and saying hello to him with a smile.
"Sister Junxia!"
Su Yan stopped and turned around, waving his hand and saying, "We haven't seen each other for a while. How is uncle doing?"
Since the Lord of Luanming County returned to Xia Yu, he has been at home because his father, King Xuan, was seriously ill. He did not go to Wanhua Pavilion to have fun as before, nor did he have time to go to Ruchun Garden to flirt with the talented girl Yi. Or pet the fox.
Therefore, when Su Yan opened his mouth to say hello, he was the first to ask about the situation of the county lord's father.
"The magic power is still dissipating slowly as usual. The newly appointed Imperial Medical Office has improved the prescription and temporarily stopped the loss of magic power." County Lord Luanming shook his head and said: "It should be fine for the time being, but we still need to watch it next. In my father’s case, the medicine can alleviate the cultivation loss syndrome.”
King Xuan's own illness is not an illness, but a backlash of the Luanniao tribe's innate secret method. Princess Xuan's death was like a stone hitting an urn, knocking a crack into the foundation of King Xuan's immortality. The cracked urn would eventually fall apart as time went by.
There is no cure for this disease, unless there is no blood in Xuanwang's body, but the blood of the Luan Bird may be able to cure it.
The newly appointed Medical Fairy of the Imperial Medical Office has the method to cure King Xuan's pain, but she is afraid that King Xuan will not be willing to resist desperately.
"Where's Qingya? Why hasn't Qingya come yet?" Su Yan was sitting on the flower bed in front of the Taishi Mansion. Seeing that the time agreed in the letter was approaching, another group of four people and two Sanren came to the door of the Taishi Mansion. , but Qing Ya's arrival has not been seen for a long time. Su Yan couldn't help but feel a little anxious in his heart.
"Brother Su."
After Zhou You heard this, he was silent for a while, then slowly said: "Although Miss Qingya helped us a lot when we were in Flower City, Qingya was ordered by the Imperial Medical Office to go to the flower area. Investigating the ins and outs of the Immortal Sect is not an official outing trip. One member.”
"She should still be in the Imperial Medical Office now, right? How could she be here?"
Qingya did not participate in the imperial martial arts performance, nor did she attend Yongle Academy. She was not originally a member of the outing trip. The reason why they were on the same boat was just because he gave her a ride along the way.
"forget."
Su Yan was stunned for a moment, and after being reminded by Zhou You, he said with a look of sudden realization: "I used to be used to five people being arrogant in the Flower City together, and they all forgot that Qingya has always been affiliated with the Imperial Medical Office."
"Everyone."
Just when Su Yan lamented that he was forgetful, the previously closed door of the Taishi Mansion opened, and two girls dressed as maids walked out, looked at the ten people already waiting in front of the door and said:
"The master is already waiting for you in the lobby. If there is nothing else, we will lead you into the Grand Master's Mansion next. Please don't walk around the mansion at will, so as not to see things you shouldn't see or know. and lost his life.”
The two maids looked at the students who were about to enter the Taishi Mansion with warning expressions on their faces.
Su Yan didn't feel anything when he heard this, and followed the two maids directly to the courtyard. The layout and decoration of Taishi Jin's home were not particular at all. Stone decorations.
Including those on the ground and hanging from the ceiling, they are all precious woven crafts of spiritual plants. The style reveals a maximalist, gorgeous and complicated style.
It does not look cluttered, and the color collision between objects creates a visual shock.
Su Yan had only seen such a style of home decoration at the Dragon King's cold retreat in the West Sea. Of course, Father Long's aesthetics were also maximalist, but later Mother Fox found it inconvenient and threw them all away.
There are so many flashy things in the house that the maids cry and dare not touch them or clean them, for fear that if one of them breaks, she will have to work as a slave in Mother Fox's house for the rest of her life to pay off her debts.
Mother Fox just threw them all away, so when Su Yan was born, there weren't that many bells and whistles at home.
………………
Everyone walked on the colorful marble path, passed the small bridge and watched the sparkle of gems at the bottom of the pool, and then came to the hall where the Grand Master usually handled government affairs. Stacks of copywriting were piled on the ground casually, and Grand Master Sumire sat there. Behind the long table in the center of the hall.
Two slender shelves formed an encirclement, coming from behind Sumire Taishi. They were piled with objects. The roof of the upper storey of books was made of glazed tiles. The sunlight shining on the books enlarged the visual effect, giving people who just entered the door a sense of wonder. A feeling of oppression like a mountain collapsing.
"Everyone, sit down!"
Master Sumire was not at work, just sitting in her usual office position, and said calmly:
"I already know your demands. There is no need to talk about those things again. What I want to say is that you will get my guidance and teach you the general secret method of dragon clan to strengthen the human body."
"What do you think? Has anyone quit?"
Su Yan looked at Grand Master Jin quietly, slightly sensing that something was wrong, but couldn't put it into words.
Faced with Master Jin's affirmation of the previous reward, his willingness to guide everyone in their cultivation, and the gift of dragon clan secrets, everyone naturally had no objections. Even Zhou You, who complained a few days ago and ran away after getting the spirit stone, and continued to travel around the world of cultivation to create a book of all things in the world of cultivation, could not say a word "no" when faced with the increased reward from the grand master.
"Hahaha"
Grandmaster Sumire chuckled twice and said, "Let's all go to the garden on the left and start practicing!"
"By the way. Su Yan, please keep it for a moment. There is a file here that you need to send to the Ministry of Rites."
Su Yan not only knew the facilities inside the imperial city, but also owned a red jade hairpin sword, which allowed him to pass freely through most of the imperial city's boundaries. Therefore, Grand Master Jin asked Su Yan to stay and send a file.
"Why are your eyes so strange?" Master Jin took out a file and gave it to Su Yan, but she saw that Su Yan did not leave, but instead had a strange expression on his face that he was reluctant to speak.
"There is nothing to be surprised about. I don't like to keep attendants in my residence. The only ones who can live here for a long time are a dozen maids with no cultivation."
Master Jin smiled and said, "Next year Xia Yu will worship his ancestors in mid-January. Don't you understand yet?"
"oh!"
After Su Yan thought carefully, an exclamation point suddenly appeared on his head and said: "Xia Yu is going to close the account!"
What Grand Master Jin said may be a bit convoluted, but the truth is actually very simple. After a while, Xia Yu Hall will start collecting accounts, and all taxes and donations obtained by officials from various places will be gathered in Xia Yu City.
By then, the Ministry of Household Affairs will have to handle astronomical amounts of taxes, donations, and land from the Xia and Yu Dynasties without making any mistakes.
The Ministry of Personnel also needs to tour the country for guidance, and begin to assess low-level local officials based on the accounts given by the Ministry of Accounts.
The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Works also needed to prepare for the celebration, and at the end of the Xia Yu Dynasty, many officials died suddenly due to the number of accounts and touring the country.
Obviously, the six departments of Xia Yu's court were busy, so naturally Taishi Jin would also be busy.
Combined with the significance of the outing trip, which is to select young people who are loyal to Xia Yu to open a small stove, and Taishi Jin who usually dislikes the habit of serving as servants, we can draw a conclusion.
One of the reasons why Taishi Jin guided students to practice and taught the Dragon Clan how to strengthen their bodies was that the students who could pass the outing were all Xia Yu's own, and they could have some exposure to Xia Yu's internal affairs.
In this way, one month later, when the Xia Yu Dynasty became busy due to closing accounts, Grand Master Jin had already trained "soldiers" who could deal with it at any time, and there was a steady stream of vouchers collected by officials from the six departments.
To put it bluntly, the purpose of teaching secret techniques and instructing cultivation methods is to strengthen students' bodies, so as to prevent them from dying suddenly when dealing with high-intensity official duties.
"Don't worry. You are not included in this. Your parents are preparing for the wedding banquet right now. Maybe you will go home when the Xia Yu Dynasty is at its busiest." Grand Master Jin said, "You just need to practice well here. .”
Su Yan: "."
Are you a matryoshka doll? How do you say that you can receive the prize at the end of the outing trip, but now there are pits after pits?
Aren't you bullying students into being honest?
………………
Su Yan walked out of the Grand Master's Mansion full of slander, summoned the red jade hairpin sword from high in the sky, used the red jade hairpin sword to get into a carriage in the imperial city, got in the car and drove to where the Ministry of Rites was.
Although the words "three divisions and six departments" are often used in conjunction, the offices of the three divisions and six departments are not located in the same place on weekdays.
The Ministry of Rites occupies an extremely large area and is in charge of rituals, music, schools, religion, diplomacy, and later secretly assigned to Xia Yu by Taishi Jin.
Before Su Yan came to the Ministry of Rites, he had always thought that there were many talented women studying singing and dancing skills, rehearsing and performing, or teaching in the Academy of Rites and Music.
But Su Yan, who came to deliver the letter, did not go sightseeing in the thousands of houses in the Ministry of Rites, nor did he go to the lake next to the Rites and Music Academy to admire the talented women practicing their dance skills. Instead, he came to the department with the strongest revenue in the Ministry of Rites.
"Six rooms and six rooms! The gambling board of the Red Prince's Mansion, five black dogs challenge five red foxes, all in the flower area, little demon in the body refining period, no history of drug use, calculate the odds, three sticks of incense are needed to get the result."
In an enclosed building, a glass canopy was propped up above the open-air courtyard to block the sun and rain. The stage stood directly above the courtyard. There were more than twenty girls in beautiful dancer costumes standing on the stage, but they did not show any dance. Or singing voice, but instead each one listened with a bunch of sound-transmitting jade.
After listening to the information in the jade slips, the girls used their hard-practiced singing skills to open their mouths and sing smoothly and high-pitched:
"Four and six rooms, four and six rooms, a life and death situation. The second young master of the Jiang family in Qingcheng challenges the third son of the Hu family in the same city. There is no Qingcheng clan information in the Ministry of Rites and needs to be applied to the Ministry of Personnel. The winner needs to be calculated before the afternoon of the next day."
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
A little head poked out of the eighteenth room and copied the news from the announcer's mouth in triplicate. One was used to calculate the winning rate for the girls in the room, one was used for reporting when collecting materials, and the other was used to calculate the winning rate for the girls in the room. Keep a bottom, and use it to check and correct errors if the loss mechanism is triggered.
"Is this really the Ministry of Rites? Are you sure this place isn't called outrageous?"
Su Yan, who came to deliver the documents, listened to the sound of abacus coming from each room, and watched the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Etiquette speak with a dumbfounded expression on his face.
"Hahaha"
The Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites chuckled twice and said: "Here is the secret of our year-round profit in the handicap of the Ministry of Rites. We use metaphysics to determine the direction of bad luck, and then use mathematical algorithms to calculate the winning rate through special algorithmic formulas."
"Or we can use statistics to finally decide what rewards to give."
"Girls who can go to the Jiaofang Division are proficient in all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, flowers, tea, and eight arts. And there are not a few who know arithmetic."
Girls born in official families will be sent to the rites department if their elders break the law. Some girls who are good at singing and dancing will be sent to the music and science palace. If they are good at arithmetic and are proficient in singing skills, they will be sent to special training in arithmetic.
The remaining family members of death row prisoners, as well as family members of those who were exiled or imprisoned, were sorted out and assigned to prisons or brothels based on their character and skills.
Su Yanneng took Taishi Jin's documents and came to the inner building of the Ministry of Rites, so he must be one of his own.
Although the left minister of the Ministry of Rites had no free time and took Su Yan around for a walk, he still gave him a general explanation of what the girls in the Jiaofang Division were doing.
They are now working on spiritual stones and making excessive profits for the Xia Yu Dynasty!
Su Yan was dumbfounded throughout the whole process, and left the Ministry of Rites stunned to take a carriage back to the Grand Master's Mansion.
"Auntie, Xia Yu doesn't talk about metaphysics, but statistics. It would be better if you don't get involved in it in the future!" Su Yan's face was filled with shock after he came back to his senses. He had every reason to doubt what was going on inside the enclosed building in front of him. Even within Xia Yu's court, only a few people knew about it.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be such an official, and he would go to the handicap with a happy face.
……………………
On Su Yan's first day at the Grand Master's Mansion, he was so shocked that he fainted like a fox.
As soon as he got off work, Su Yan risked his wife's kiss and hug, rushed back to Ruchun Garden, pulled his aunt into the corner of the dormitory, and secretly told her not to gamble at Xia Yu Handicap in the future if she had nothing to do.
The Ministry of Etiquette's handicap doesn't talk about martial ethics, it's all about extra tricks!
"Losing? Auntie, am I still afraid of losing the bet?"
When the aunt heard this, she sneered, hugged the little fox and held it up high, saying, "Extraordinary moves? I'm afraid they have never seen what top-level luck is!"
"Little nephew! Let's go now and go to their rites department to kill their arrogance!"
The aunt held up the little fox and entered the door of the Ministry of Etiquette.
An hour later, the aunt and the little fox dragged four large sacks out of the Handicap Court of the Ministry of Etiquette.
………………
Time passed slowly. Su Yan, under the guidance of Grand Master Jin, occasionally ran errands to help deliver documents to the Sixth Department of the Xia Yu Dynasty, and actively began to prepare things to deal with the Nascent Soul Stage Heavenly Tribulation.
"Gududu"
As late autumn approached winter, the temperature in the Xia Yu Dynasty was about to rise suddenly, and there was a counterattack. Su Yan was so hot that he manifested his true form, and the whole fox jumped onto the steps of the gem pool in Taishi Jin's mansion.
Su Yan was lying on the steps of the gem pool. Most of his body was soaked in the mountain spring water. His little nose made a burst of small bubbles on the water surface with each breath. The right half of his body was hanging under the steps, swaying. .
"it's too hot"
Zhou You ran out of the hot and sunny garden, untied his belt, took off his thin gown and twisted it. The sweat dripped from his clothes and fell to the ground, where it all evaporated in a matter of seconds.
Zhou You glanced at Su Yan, who was soaking in the pool and spitting bubbles with a lifeless expression on his face, and then looked at Taishi Jin, who had cultivated to the point where he could withstand the cold and heat, but was slowly eating jam poured over shaved ice, and spoke. Asked:
"Master Taishi, is the temperature normal now? Early winter is coming soon, but it's so hot."
"The temperature rise is abnormal now. If you have any objections, you can try to pull out your sword, point it at the sun in the sky, and say "stinky black chicken."
Taishi Sumire, who was eating shaved ice, responded to Zhou You slowly and calmly.
Now in the Xia Yu Dynasty, the temperature at noon can easily reach more than 40 degrees. Even if the temperature rises, it will not rise to more than 40 degrees when early winter is approaching.
The reason why the temperature is so abnormal has to do with the nine-tailed fox and the three-legged golden crow.
They are using the power of heaven to dissolve the lingering cold air at the bottom of the North Sea Cliff, intending to pull the self-proclaimed nine-tailed fox god from the bottom of the cliff.
"Can you cool down by scolding?"
"If I curse you, you will die. After your death, your body should be very cool."
"."
Master Jin was smiling and telling cold jokes, which frightened Zhou You so much that he felt cold all over. Suddenly he no longer felt hot, and cold sweat oozed from his forehead.
"Gudududu."
Su Yan, whose belly was cold and the hair on his back was hot, silently turned over in the gem pool, letting his cold belly bask in the sun while the hair on his back was soaked in the water.
[Is the little fox coming? 】
【Give it a try! It’s really awesome.]
【call out--】
A strange sound and feeling appeared in Su Yan's mind.
It was gently teasing Su Yan, telling Su Yan the mystery of the Nascent Soul stage.
Su Yan has experienced such a strange situation twice since he followed Taishi Jin. The strange feeling that emerged in his heart was not that the voice or someone was tempting Su Yan, but that the blood in Su Yan's body was screaming. Desire to evolve to a higher level.
The blood instinct is urging Su Yan to summon the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation immediately and become a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Of course, Su Yan didn't pay much attention to it. In the words of Grand Master Jin, the disaster will come naturally when it should come, and there is no need to do extra things.
Unless you think your life is hard enough and want to make it more difficult for yourself to challenge the laws of heaven and earth.
[The calamity is due at noon on the second day. 】
Just when Su Yan ignored his instinctive temptation, he suddenly felt a sense of terror. A sentence appeared in Su Yan's mind, and every word was like a raging flame, imprinted in Su Yan's heart unforgettably.
Su Yan jumped out of the pool, looked at Master Sumire who was eating the second plate of shaved ice, and said in shock:
"Grandpa! I received a notice of being struck by lightning!"
Heavenly tribulation is a disaster for monks, but from the perspective of the rules of heaven and earth.
This is an equal trial given to all living beings. The winner will gain increased strength, while the loser will die.
Now, Su Yan received a trial notice and asked him to accept the test of the heavenly tribulation at noon tomorrow.
The Heavenly Tribulation is unavoidable. If you don't use some methods that damage your virtue or shake your foundation, the Heavenly Tribulation will come to your door and notify you to come out and accept the trial. It is not just a matter of time when the monks say you can overcome the Tribulation.
"Oh? It's a little earlier than expected." Master Sumire said without making any big moves: "But everything else is still as expected. The laws of heaven and earth always choose the time when the sun is the brightest at noon when it comes to testing water monks. , conducted when water vapor is at its lowest.”
"Brother Su, you..." Zhou You looked at Su Yan with a face full of surprise: "How come your cultivation level improved so fast?"
(End of chapter)
