Lu Zuo wiped his feet with a towel and said, "Did the Emperor want to talk to you today?"
"No!"
"What! No?" After hearing this, Lu Zuo put the towel in his hand on the chair next to him, then lowered his head and muttered to himself, "How is this possible? Did I guess wrong?"
Gao Jun looked at his elder brother questioningly, "What's wrong? Why does the emperor want to see me?"
As Lu Zuo put on his shoes, he thought, could it be that the candidate in the emperor's mind was not what he thought? After being silent for a long time, he said to Gao Yun: "Did the emperor meet with other ministers today?"
Gao Yun looked at his elder brother in confusion, "It seems that the emperor has only met you today! Brother, what's going on? Why did the emperor see me?"
"The emperor wanted to choose someone to lead the Western Expedition, and he asked me for something. Brother Wei only said that the emperor can choose someone he trusts. Originally, I thought he would choose you, but I didn't expect that he didn't find you today." Lu Zuo He was also quite puzzled. He stood up and looked up at the moon and thought.
Gao Yun also suddenly understood, "So does the Emperor have someone else in mind?"
"Not necessarily!" Lu Zuo shook his head, "Because the emperor did not meet with other ministers today."
"Brother, do you think the emperor will really do what you expect?"
Lu Zuo said noncommittally: "To be honest, I can't guess it right now. I can only find out when I enter the palace to meet the Saint tomorrow."
"Tomorrow? Tomorrow is still the day of rest. Will the Emperor see you?"
"If not, the prince and others will definitely get there first."
The next day, Zhou Zhongwang came alone outside Qianren Palace to ask for an audience with the Holy Emperor. Lu Zuo happened to follow him, and the two met at the foot of the stone steps. However, Zhou Zhongwang couldn't recognize who the person in front of him was. Instead, Lu Zuoxian stepped forward and saluted and said, "Uncle, do you still remember me?"
Zhou Zhongwang looked at Lu Zuo in confusion, not sure who he was for a long time, "Who are you?"
Lu Zuo said calmly: "Junior Lu Zuo!"
"Are you really Lu Zuo?" Zhou Zhongwang was so frightened that he took two steps back, "Is it really you?"
"Uncle, don't panic, it's this junior!" Lu Zuo bowed again.
"But...but..." Zhou Zhongwang couldn't believe his eyes and couldn't say anything for a long time.
Lu Zuo chuckled, "But I'm no longer like this, right?"
Zhou Zhongwang heard that Lu Zuo had reappeared today, but he didn't know how he could become like this, "Yes... yes, how could he be a different person?"
Lu Zuo smiled and said, "This is all thanks to your beloved disciple!"
"What? Mou'er?" Zhou Zhongwang became increasingly puzzled, "I heard that he severed your tendons and hamstrings. How did you survive?"
Lu Zuo then sneered twice, "Of course my life should not be cut off, God save me!"
At this moment, Zhang Cen, the emperor's personal eunuch, walked down the stone steps, came to the two of them, and interrupted their conversation, "The emperor said that I won't see anyone today. If you have anything to do, we can wait until tomorrow morning." , you two please come back!"
After hearing this, Zhou Zhongwang looked slightly disappointed.
Lu Zuo then asked: "My father-in-law, I am just a member of the Imperial Academy waiting for an edict. I can't wait tomorrow, and I can't go to the morning court, so can you please help me..."
"No, the emperor has already told you to come to attend the court meeting tomorrow!" Zhang Cen said and left.
At the bottom of the stairs, Zhou Zhongwang and Lu Zuo were left looking at each other. Thousands of thoughts in Zhou Zhongwang's mind came to his brows. He didn't expect that his apprentice would be so cruel. Although he didn't like Lu Zuo very much, he still didn't like it. He didn't want his disciples to be killed like this.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and Zhou Zhongwang suddenly remembered, why did Lu Zuo come to meet the saint? So he smiled coldly and said, "Why did you come so early today to ask for an audience with the Holy Sage?"
Lu Zuo was unmoved, "Old Marshal, why are you here, why are you here, junior!"
"Oh!" Zhou Zhongwang sneered, "I'm sorry for being stupid, but I don't understand this."
The weather was getting hotter. Lu Zuo didn’t want Zhou Zhongwang to hang around for too long, so he raised his hands and said with a smile, “I’m still busy with worldly affairs, so I’ll leave now!”
Zhou Zhongwang cupped his hands and looked at Lu Zuo's retreating back. He couldn't help but hesitate in his heart, so he quickly left.
In the afternoon, the sun was originally clear and sunny in the morning, but at some point the clouds started to cover outside. Soon there was lightning and thunder, and then it started to rain heavily.
Zhou Zhongwang was alone in front of the main room, staring at the water curtain hanging under the eaves in a daze. Just as he was lost in thought, a figure flashed out from the rain. In the rain, he could vaguely feel that Xun Mou was coming. Zhou Zhongwang turned around and walked into the main room again, and heard Xun Mou calling "Master" several times from behind.
Xun Mou came to the eaves of the corridor and put the paper umbrella in his hand by the door. When he stepped into the main hall, he saw his master sitting upright in the main hall, holding hot tea in his hand without looking up at him or speaking. Xun Mou became a little anxious in his heart. , staring at the master with a friendly expression, Shao Qing finally plucked up the courage to ask: "Master! Master, what's wrong with you? Just now, my disciple didn't say a word when he called you?"
Zhou Zhongwang still lowered his head and played with the tea cup in his hand. After hearing Xun Mou call "Master" three times in succession, Zhou Zhongwang put the tea cup on the table and glanced at Xun Mou. "You don't have to call me Master." !”
Xun Mou was stunned, then knelt on the ground with a "pop" sound, "Master, if my disciple has done something wrong, you can hit me and scold me all you want, but what exactly did my disciple do wrong? To make you so angry!"
Zhou Zhongwang said coldly: "You know what you do yourself!"
"This..." Xun Mou was also a little confused, "Master, where did you say this?"
"Let me ask you..." Zhou Zhongwang pointed at Xun Mou and asked, "Have you seen Lu Zuo now?"
Xun Mou seemed to understand what his master wanted to say. He felt embarrassed for a moment when he was scolded by his master, so he had to bow his head and remain silent.
Zhou Zhongwang pointed at Xunmou with his trembling hand and asked, "Answer me, have you seen him?"
"No... no!" Xun Mou hesitated, "But... I just heard his subordinates talk about him!"
Zhou Zhongwang stood up and was furious for a moment. He circled angrily around Xun Mou before sitting down again and said angrily: "Look at the way I am now tortured by you, how am I still like this person? He is completely different from the other two."
Xun Mou was so embarrassed by what his master said that he stayed aside for a long time without daring to answer.
After a long time, Zhou Zhongwang's anger gradually subsided, and then he slowly said: "Okay, get up!"
"Disciple...don't dare!"
"The matter has come to this, there is nothing to say, get up!" Zhou Zhongwang didn't want to say more about this matter, so that's about it, "I say so much for my teacher, I just want to say that since you are from the same sect, although you may not be incompatible with each other, you are not incompatible with each other. As for life and death."
