Zhao Chen heard Lin Zhiya's inner voice: [The palace is already very poor, so let's just forget about it and save some money.]
[Zhao Chen should be more frugal. Don't spend money recklessly after taking my gold mine.]
[I'm tired. I don't want to host a dinner party. Actually, I don't know how to prepare one... I have no experience.]
Lin Zhiya didn't know that she had already taken the initiative to tell Zhao Chen all her past, and she was still immersed in resentment, with a gloomy look on her face.
Hearing that Lin Zhiya didn't know how to organize a banquet, Zhao Chen felt pity and couldn't help but hold her thin shoulders. If he didn't have the ability to read minds, he might not have known Lin Zhiya's little thoughts.
Zhao Chen curled his lips and said calmly, "Let's not do it for now. I also think it's unnecessary. Let them live their own lives this year. They can relax."
Lin Zhiya nodded hurriedly and looked at Zhao Chen happily.
[Zhao Chen is still very thoughtful and is a person with independent thinking! ]
Lai Xi at the door heard it, his voice floating in the wind: "Your Majesty, you didn't say this in previous years... You said it should be a grand and lively event... It should have a sense of ceremony."
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...
Zhao Chen said coldly to the outside: "Go and count my private treasury. Don't come back if you haven't finished."
Lai Xi shuddered and walked away with his neck shrunk.
Lin Zhiya improved her literary attribute twice, and she could already understand the books on Zhao Chen's bookshelf. Lin Zhiya's eyes lingered on the bookshelf, reminding Zhao Chen again of the half page left of The Emperor's Strategy.
Zhao Chen pursed his lips, feeling a little unwilling. He put his hands behind his back and walked slowly in the imperial study.
Why didn't Lin Zhiya give him another copy of the Emperor's Strategy? How many times did Lin Zhiya get the treasure? What was the opportunity?
Zhao Chen sat down at the desk as if nothing had happened, picked up half a page of the Emperor's Strategy, and said to Lin Zhiya, "My beloved concubine, do you think what Grand Tutor Sun said is true?"
Zhao Chen pricked up his ears, wanting to hear Lin Zhiya's thoughts, but Lin Zhiya didn't think about anything and responded to him as a matter of course: "Master Sun, you must be dreaming. I didn't see any book."
It seems that Lin Zhiya had made up her mind to keep it a secret from him from the beginning.
Zhao Chen was helpless and hinted, "Grand Tutor Sun wrote out the contents of half a page of the book. It doesn't seem like he could have thought of it. I doubt that my imperial study can grow books. When do you think it will grow?"
Lin Zhiya pondered for a moment and said innocently, "I don't know whether books can grow, but if the emperor doesn't allow palace servants to dry books, mushrooms will definitely grow."
A word popped up in Zhao Chen's mind, and he winked at the blind man, "..."
Lin Zhiya yawned lazily. Zhao Chen looked at Lin Zhiya's back, raised his hand and used a little strength to press on the acupoint under her ribs.
Lin Zhiya was caught off guard by the pain and cried out, covering her back with tears in her eyes.
She thought to herself: [Zhao Chen knows how to give massages, let’s do it again.]
Zhao Chen held his forehead, he was really amused by Lin Zhiya, after a moment he restrained his expression, "Come on, don't blame me."
Lin Zhiya was reluctant to leave and was pushed up by Zhao Chen.
Zhao Chen: "I am still busy, you go back first, I will come to see you on Qixi Festival."
Lin Zhiya stared with eyes wide open. She was actually driven away by Zhao Chen. How long had it been since she had received such treatment?
Lin Zhiya left. Zhao Chen flipped through the memorials, most of which were for the relief of the floods, filled with the sincere hearts of the ministers and words like "Zhao Guo Yongchang".
Zhao Chen had to read it, because he didn't know if there would be an important sentence mixed in among the nonsense.
Prime Minister Liu had done this before. He first expressed great concern for Zhao Chen's health and the weather in the capital, and in the middle he briefly described the fact that because of his mistake he had to pay an extra one million taels of silver as a gift to the foreign country.
Zhao Chen became annoyed after reading for a while. His eyes fell on the bookshelf and he was surprised to find that a book was about to fall off.
He took the book down. It was a book Zhao Chen had never touched before—a novel.
Zhao Chen tried to turn a page. His interest grew stronger. He threw the memorial aside and started reading the martial arts novel openly.
This book has a fascinating plot with twists and turns.
The protagonist is a lame poor boy, but his actual identity is the only son of the former leader of the martial arts world, and someone has taken over his family.
He only had one piece of bread left, but out of kindness in his heart he gave it to a dying old beggar. The old beggar passed on to him the incomplete secret method of cultivation. When the poor boy was confused, he was hunted by the evil cult and had to hand over the method.
Fortunately, he is a peerless genius. He hides in the wilderness and practices peerless martial arts. He competes for the leader of the martial arts world with his true identity, which causes a great stir in the world.
Just when he was about to fight the villain who pretended to be him, he learned that his father was not dead, but was imprisoned underground by the villain and became emaciated...
Later, Lai Xi lit a lamp, and the bright yellow light shone on Zhao Chen's face.
Lai Xi smiled apologetically: "Your Majesty, I have counted all the things in the private storehouse. What kind of book are you reading? It is not as fast as me counting the storehouse."
Zhao Chen glanced at him coldly, curled his lips and said: "If you feel relaxed, I will ask you to order it again."
Lai Xi: "...My waist is about to break."
Zhao Chen closed the book "Jianghu Zhengba". Although he was still not satisfied, Zhao Chen frowned and thought that he really had to review the memorials this time.
Zhao Chen looked at the sky outside which was gradually getting dark, but he had no heart to do anything serious. One moment he was thinking about the plot in the martial arts world, and the next moment he was thinking about Lin Zhiya.
Lin Zhiya didn't agree verbally, but Zhao Chen found the book as soon as she left. Zhao Chen's heart was beating fast, it seemed that Concubine Wan was still thinking about him.
The book is not the emperor's strategy. It is a miraculous book that can change the government and the world, but it cannot conceal Lin Zhiya's true heart.
Zhao Chen stroked the cover of Jianghu Hegemony with a smile. Seeing it was like seeing Lin Zhiya.
The protagonist of the book can fly over eaves and walls, knock away a dozen enemies with one palm, and cut off flowing water with a weapon.
Zhao Chen felt lost. Why didn't such magical skills exist in real life?
Of course Zhao Chen had learned martial arts, but it was far from what he learned in the books, and the battles for supremacy in the martial arts world aroused his distant youthful spirit.
Zhao Chen suddenly became excited: "Lao Xi! Have someone make a big bow that can only be pulled by three people. I want to use it in the hunting next month."
Lai Xi was horrified, "Your Majesty, what are you...doing?"
Is the Emperor crazy?
Lai Xi shivered all over and wanted to run away. He called the imperial physician to check Zhao Chen's brain.
Zhao Chen scolded: "Go if I tell you to. Once it's built, I can naturally pull it."
He wanted to talk to Lin Zhiya and ask her to give him some magical skills to shock all the officials during the hunting trip, Zhao Chen thought with burning eyes.
Lin Zhiya has been silently treating him well. As long as Zhao Chen expresses his expectations, the magical power will naturally be within his reach.
Zhao Chen was moved again as he thought about it, and said to Lai Xi, "Send the things you counted today to Wanpin."
Lai Xi was speechless, "Send them all away? The emperor has been accumulating them in his private treasury for seven years!"
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