Chapter 433 Absurd

"Your Highness, Princess Rongyang has brought good news. Princess Rongyang divided the territory of Southern Yan except Jinling into three parts. She only took a small part for herself, and the rest was divided equally between Northern Zhou and Northern Jin." Tu Mi's steps were brisk and her tone was very cheerful.

After he finished speaking, Zhu Huaizhen had no reaction at all.

Ahem, Zhu Huaizhen was lying on a beauty couch surrounded by black lacquer and gold-painted scrolls of poetry and paintings, holding a round fan with a mahogany handle embroidered with pomegranates, cats and butterflies, and moving it from time to time, as lazy as a Persian cat, listening to "Peach Blossom Fan".

Orioles chirp at dawn in the jade trees of Jinling, flowers bloom early in the Qinhuai waterside pavilions. Who knew the ice would melt so easily? I watched him build his red mansion, I watched him entertain guests, and I watched his mansion collapse. Here, amidst the mossy, blue tiles, I once slept in a dreamlike state; I've witnessed fifty years of rise and fall. No one in Wuyi Lane is surnamed Wang, ghosts cry at Mochou Lake, and owls roost on Phoenix Terrace. Dreams of the ruined mountains are the most real, the old land hard to lose. I don't believe this map is changing manuscripts. I'll compose a lament for Jiangnan, and sing it until I grow old.

She had just finished eating Buddha Jumps Over the Wall and definitely didn't want to treat herself badly.

Sugar-heart abalone, pineapple sea cucumber, white shark lips, young deer tendons, claw meat, golden shark fin, ivory clam meat, spider fish glue, quail eggs, ham, pork ribs, clean winter bamboo shoots, king oyster mushrooms, chrysanthemum mushrooms, wild pine mushrooms, morels, snow bamboo fungus, Shaoxing wine, eighteen ingredients, eighteen delicious flavors. The moment you lift the lotus leaf covering the jar, the rich meaty aroma is so fragrant that even a Buddha would jump over the wall.

It was just an opera. She slowly turned her head and said, "Tu Mi, why is it so boring to fight Nan Yan?"

You know, when Zhu Huaizhen conquered Nanchu, he invested a lot of emotions and was coughing and struggling.

As a result, when she arrived in Southern Yan, she seemed to have no place to use her talents.

"Your Highness, do you want to work hard?" Tu Mi joked.

After hearing this, Zhu Huaizhen shook his head vigorously.

Then, she held her rosy cheeks and thought for a moment: "Tu Mi, write back to Big Sister and tell her to be patient. Emperor Xuan of Yan will die soon, including that Eunuch Gao."

So, Tu Mi was busy while Zhu Huaizhen continued to listen to the opera.

The sun and moon hang in the sky at dawn and dusk, and spirits wield the power of life and death. Heaven and earth, supposed to distinguish between the clear and the turbid, yet how could they have confused Dao Zhi and Yan Yuan? Those who do good suffer poverty and a shorter life, while those who commit evil enjoy wealth and longevity. Heaven and earth, seemingly coveting the strong and bullying the weak, yet they also seem to go along with the tide. Earth, if you can't distinguish between good and evil, what are you called Earth? Heaven, you misjudge the wise and the foolish, unworthy of being Heaven! Alas, all I can do is shed tears.

Just as Zhu Huaizhen finished listening to "The Injustice of Dou E", absurd news came from Jinling.

That eunuch Gao had been using queue rules to bully the palace maids and eunuchs.

For example, receiving soap nuts required queuing, so the maids who arrived later were unable to receive any, and ended up with rashes all over their bodies. Word of this spread from one to ten, and from ten to a hundred, until they were thrown into the cold palace to fend for themselves. These maids, disheartened, decided to go all out and sneak into Emperor Xuan of Yan's bedroom, intending to strangle Eunuch Gao to death.

Unexpectedly, Eunuch Gao was not there, but Emperor Xuan of Yan was.

These palace maids strangled Emperor Xuan of Yan to death without even looking at him.

Anyone who heard this would think that Emperor Xuan of Yan's death was absurd.

Upon learning they had killed Emperor Xuan of Yan, the maids initially burst into tears, prompting Eunuch Gao to intervene. Then, Eunuch Gao's hideous face emboldened them. They simply strangled him, too. Of course, Eunuch Gao was alive and kicking, making strangulation much more difficult than Emperor Xuan of Yan, who was dying from the aconite poison. However, the hatred surging within them was unstoppable.

"One should not be too absurd in one's conduct." Zhu Huaizhen sighed deeply.