Chapter 194: A Roundabout Way
With Lin Fu's distinctive voice of "attending court", the morning court session began.
Emperor Yongping sat on a high seat, surveying his ministers.
All officials have their positions arranged according to their ranks. If someone takes leave, his position will be vacant.
Emperor Yongping could tell who was there and who was not at a glance.
When Zhou Hongjing came to court, Emperor Yongping saw him at a glance and thought that he was too timid and could not stand being frightened.
He was not the only one watching the execution that day, but he was the only one who took the longest leave.
I don't know how such a timid person could sit on the position of Jingzhao Yin.
After the meeting began, officials who had things to report came out one by one.
Zhou Hongjing had nothing to report, so he just stood at his seat and listened to his colleagues discussing state affairs with Emperor Yongping.
But I feel at peace in my heart.
He can still stand in the court, and his status, position and mind are still his own.
After the court was dismissed, he waited for Matthew for a while.
I had thought that the two families were about to discuss marriage, and that they would be in-laws in the future, so it would be a good idea for them to visit each other more often.
But Matthew just snorted and walked away.
According to Zhou Hongjing's way of thinking, he could not figure out the real reason why Matthew Li ignored him.
Of course, no one else can figure it out either.
After all, few people knew what Matthew Li had done.
Zhao Zhixiong came out late. When he left the palace, he saw Zhou Hongjing still standing there, so he took the initiative to greet him.
"Master Zhou, are you waiting for someone?"
When Zhou Hongjing saw that it was Zhao Zhixiong, he quickly gathered his thoughts and greeted him, "It's Lord Zhao. I can't wait for anyone, but I feel a little weak, so I'll stand slowly."
Zhao Zhixiong didn't believe what he said.
I just stood for an hour in the morning court. Isn’t that enough?
If you want to relax, you should find a place to sit down. Standing at the door of the temple and being blown by the cold wind will only make you feel weaker.
"Oh, Lord Zhou, can you still stand? Do you need my help?"
Zhao Zhixiong asked the question but was not in a hurry to get started.
He was not the kind of person who liked to talk much with his colleagues. If he hadn't seen the conflict between Matthew Li and Zhou Hongjing, he wouldn't have bothered with this.
Matthew Li wanted Zhou Hongjing to die, but he refused to let him succeed.
The gangsters he hired with his own money were no worse than the secret guards in his Ma residence.
He was happy only when Matthew was feeling uncomfortable.
He and Matthew Li were in charge of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites respectively, so they had little overlap in official business.
If he wanted to deal with Matthew Li and make him pay for his daughter's life, he had to take a roundabout way.
"Thank you, Lord Zhao. I am now free."
Zhou Hongjing waved his hands to refuse.
It's not that he doesn't want to get close to Zhao Zhixiong, the Minister of War.
But Zhao Zhixiong's daughter was the crown prince's concubine, and she was in a different camp from the Ning Wang whom his daughter married.
If he gets too close now, he's afraid that people will say he's a fence-sitter.
Besides, the Crown Prince has already committed a crime, and Prince Ning cannot afford to make any more mistakes.
Seeing that Zhou Hongjing refused, Zhao Zhixiong said no more. He turned around and left after saying goodbye.
After Prince Ning left the Qinzheng Hall, Zhou Hongjing went up to him and said hello.
Prince Ning still had that naive look on his face, and his attitude towards Zhou Hongjing was no different from before.
Now Zhou Hongjing can finally feel relieved.
As long as Prince Ning still cares about his daughter, he still has hope.
Chu Qinshu didn't go to the valley today, but memorized her lessons in the space.
And Little Gourd is still struggling with the video.
If we say that the videos in that plot book are one after another of human struggles and power struggles.
The videos in this book of spirit beasts and birds are a series of battle dramas between the demon world and even the fairy world.
Love, hate, murder, and war, nothing is missing.
It looks very ups and downs, and breathtaking.
"Chuckle, chuckle"
“Oh oh oh”
The roosters' crows one after another distracted Chu Qinshu and Xiao Hulu from their own affairs.
"Does a rooster crow at any time?"
Little Gourd looked up at the sky, the sun was shining brightly.
The rooster crows at noon. Does it want to eat the severed head?
"Little Gourd, can the hens in space also lay eggs?"
When Chu Qinshu heard the hen clucking, she thought it was about to lay eggs.
She always brought eggs from the nest on the tree to Emperor Yongping, and she never asked Xiao Hulu whether these chickens had laid eggs.
Little Gourd didn't answer Chu Qinshu's question, but tilted his head and asked, "Master, did you really get a doctorate in your previous life?"
"Little Gourd, isn't education recorded in the Book of Life and Death?"
Chu Qinshu asked back.
"The underworld's book of life and death only records merits and demerits, and does not care about academic qualifications."
Little Gourd shook his head, and felt more and more that this time's master... how should I put it? Just a little... lacking common sense.
Even something as simple as a hen laying eggs requires us to ask it how it was able to skip grades in education and get a doctorate degree?
It had indeed never mentioned to its owner that the hens in the space laid two eggs every day.
But can't she see such a big pile of eggs in the warehouse and such a big group of fluffy chicks on the grass behind?
"Oh, is that hen that's been clucking about to lay an egg?"
Chu Qinshu scratched her head and realized that she might have asked a stupid question.
She then pointed at the hen that was causing the quarrel between her and Xiao Hulu so that they could not do their work and asked Xiao Hulu.
"Little Gourd, you don't know, how can a hen be so noisy? We have so many hens in our backyard, if they are all like this one, can we still stay here?"
It was the first time that Little Hulu heard the chickens in the yard making such a noise.
"Yeah, then why are it and the rooster looking at each other? That look looks weird."
Chu Qinshu kept staring at the two chickens not far away, and she agreed with Xiao Hulu's words.
"Forehead..."
After listening to Chu Qinshu's words, Little Gourd realized something was wrong, but it couldn't explain the problem.
This question was beyond the scope of this spiritual treasure's understanding.
"Go and drive them into the backyard."
When Chu Qinshu saw that Xiao Hulu didn't answer her question, she ordered it to run errands.
At this moment, the two chickens just looked at each other and made no other sounds.
"good."
Little Gourd agreed and left.
Chu Qinshu had already come down from the tree, so she decided to go out to drink some milk and then come back to continue memorizing.
"Master, run."
In the blink of an eye, the little gourd was already running back.
Chu Qinshu didn't even have time to dodge out of the space before she was dragged into the ancient house by Xiao Hulu.
After running into the old house, he turned around and closed the door, not forgetting to lock it.
"Little Hulu, what's wrong with you? Why are you running so fast?"
Chu Qinshu was dragged into the ancient house with a look of surprise on her face.
"Master, didn't you notice? That rooster has a murderous aura."
Xiao Hulu stroked his chest, trying to calm himself down.
"I didn't notice it. You were running so fast with me that I didn't even see the shadow of the rooster."
Chu Qinshu did turn her head to take a look, but there was no rooster chasing after her.
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