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Chapter 192 Sunshine
The Ministry of Households, in ancient times, was the administrative unit in charge of all matters such as land, taxation, finance, and household registration.

According to modern parlance, this is the Ministry of Finance, which specializes in money management.

Therefore, working in the household department is a very beautiful job, because as long as you have a little relationship, you can make money in the household department. How much you earn depends on your own ability.

Liu Ruqing arranged her grandson Liu Chengde to be the head of the household department, not only to make a transition for Liu Chengde to climb up, but also to let Liu Chengde not worry about eating and drinking.

And Liu Chengde did not let Liu Ruqing 'disappointed', he did earn a lot of pocket money for himself through this position, which reduced Liu's family's expenses.

But now, Liu Chengde's head of the household department has been dismissed, even if it's just a simple eighth-rank official, the meaning it represents is completely different.

"Bastard! Why do you think you messed with that kid from the Gu family!"

Liu Ruqing blew his beard and stared angrily at home, but when he looked at Liu Chengde who was kneeling on the ground, he felt a little angry.

Liu Chengde's official position was dismissed, which was a trivial matter. After three months of confinement, Liu Ruqing had the ability to let Liu Chengde go to another place.

The key is that Concubine Liu was demoted from Concubine Concubine Shu to Concubine Shu.

Although the imperial concubine and concubine Shu are on the same level in terms of official positions in the harem, even if they are equal, the meanings they represent are completely different.

The status of the noble concubine in the harem is second only to the queen. It can be said that in the harem without a queen, the noble concubine is the well-deserved master of the six palaces.

Originally, the Liu family could rely on Concubine Liu Gui in the palace to say something nice in Emperor Qi'an's ears.

But now it's a good thing, Concubine Liu Gui has been demoted directly to Concubine Shu, which means that she has fallen out of favor from the emperor.

Not to mention that there is another Concubine Bai in the palace who confronted Concubine Liu Gui and gave birth to a dragon son for Emperor Qi'an.

Concubine Liu Gui is losing power at this moment, God knows if she will beat the dog who is in the water.

One wrong move, and the whole game is lost.

The Liu family's management in the harem for many years has been brought to this point by Liu Chengde alone. Liu Ruqing has not taken a guy to beat Liu Chengde to death at this moment, and she already loves this grandson very much.

"Grandpa, I... I don't know what's going on, I just think that girl from the Gu family is very annoying, and then..."

"The girl of the Gu family? Gu Ningshun?"

Liu Ruqing frowned.

Although it was rumored that the Gu family, Gu Ningshun, was a woman, it was just a rumor after all. Although Liu Ruqing had heard similar words from Emperor Qi An, he was wary of the Gu family, and always felt that it was a smoke bomb put by the Gu family.

It's just that even Liu Chengde believed it.

But regardless of whether the Gu family is a girl or a kid, Liu Ruqing doesn't think about it now, what he really needs to care about is another thing:

"Even if it's not pleasing to the eye, you can't hit her! It's good now! Your aunt has been implicated by you, and her status in the harem has plummeted. The Gu family probably found a reason to trouble us! You...you..."

When Liu Ruqing said this, she raised her hand and wanted to slap Liu Chengde.

But after raising her hand, Liu Ruqing couldn't bear to put it down again.

He sighed helplessly, sat on the seat and said:
"Forget it, this is the end of the matter, you...you should stay at home honestly, and I will find a way to send you out after three months."

"Send me... out?"

Liu Chengde was stunned: "Send me out of the capital?"

Liu Ruqing said: "Now the situation in the capital is unclear, and the end of the spring hunting also means that various forces have begun to plan, not to mention that there will be a royal ancestor worship ceremony in a few days, if you stay here, God knows what trouble it will cause me .”

"..."

Liu Chengde didn't speak this time.

The current situation in the capital is complicated, and anyone can see that Emperor Qi'an, who has not held the ancestor worship ceremony for many years, suddenly asked for the ancestor worship ceremony this year, is planning something.

But seeing it doesn't mean you can know what Emperor Qi'an is doing, everyone is staring at Emperor Qi'an, Gu Dang's people, Bian Wang's people, even Liu Ruqing herself is also staring at Emperor Qi'an.

He is the leader of the Liu party and a loyal royalist. No matter what other people do, Liu Ruqing must do a good job in protecting Emperor Qi'an.

If not, once Emperor Qi An loses power, Liu Ruqing will be the first one to die.

So Liu Chengde, who was prone to bad things, had to leave the capital, not only to protect Liu Ruqing himself, but also to protect Liu Chengde.

At least once something happened to Liu Ruqing, the blood of the Liu family could still be passed on.

Liu Chengde didn't understand these things, his mind was full of lust and wealth, he only felt that he had fallen out of favor in front of his grandfather, and he looked rather sullen.

Seeing this, Liu Ruqing felt angry and heartbroken.

Looking at the unicorns of the three generations of the Gu family, and looking at her grandson Liu Chengde, Liu Ruqing couldn't help but feel that people are more deadly than others, and goods are more expensive than goods.

Waving his hands weakly, Liu Ruqing said:
"Okay, go back and stay for a while, ground your feet properly, don't think about running out, if you let me know that you want to run out, I'll turn around and someone will break your legs!"

"...I can't even go out."

"You bastard! This is the Holy Majesty's will! If you resist the will, then everyone will be in trouble!"

Seeing that Liu Chengde still dared to complain, Liu Ruqing was so angry that he threw the teacup on the table to the ground.

Liu Chengde was taken aback, he didn't dare to make a sound anymore, and retreated out in desperation.

Liu Ruqing's chest heaved in anger.

He was already old and couldn't bear it, but Liu Chengde made these things, which made Liu Ruqing feel that his life span had been shortened by several years.

But Liu Ruqing knew that this was just the beginning, and he had to face other things next.

Sure enough, when Liu Ruqing was asking his servants to bring up new teacups, a message came from the porter:

"Master, the Gu family... the adults of the Gu family came to put it up, saying yes... saying that they want our Liu family to give them an explanation..."

"I knew it, they came very quickly, all right, let them come in."

Liu Ruqing, who had already been prepared, let out a long breath, ready to welcome the people of the Gu family.

……

"Tobe? Hmm..."

Gu Chengye, who knew what happened to Chunshou from Gu Chen, hesitated for a moment and said to Gu Chen:
"Hubu is the territory of the Liu family. What does the Holy One mean?"

If you want to reward Gu Chen and arrange a small official position for Gu Chen, the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Industry who are close to the Gu family can all be assigned.

Even if it is arranged in the neutral punishment department, it is better than in the household department.

As a result, Emperor Qi'an chose to arrange Gu Chen in the household department. Gu Chengye would not believe it if he didn't do it on purpose.

"It's just an ordinary eighth-rank official, there shouldn't be...no problem?"

Gu Chen asked softly.

The head of the household department was only an official position of the eighth rank in the Great Qi Dynasty. His main job was to pass on news from top to bottom and handle some less important documents.

In other words, it is equivalent to a senior secretary.

The biggest feature of this position is probably the ability to say something in front of high-ranking officials, and use one's own power to be a little greedy for pocket money.

The position is not big and the power is not high. If our young master goes in to do things, he can do nothing and just rely on a position.

Yoo Sung Duk did just that.

Although he is the head of the household department, he has never worked, and wanders around the land of romance every day, pursuing the princess Zhao Muqiu.

Although Gu Chen was not from the Liu family, he was from a wealthy family anyway, so even if he entered the household department, those people would not dare to do anything to Gu Chen.

At least there will be no such things as stumbling and causing trouble.

Gu Chengye thought for a moment and said:
"That's right, although the household department is close to the Liu party, the officials who can contact you don't have much background, and they dare not do anything to you... Besides, the most important reward this time is actually the entry and exit. Palace."

"Regarding this point, I still want to ask my adoptive father, will I often go to the palace in the future, or..."

"You don't need to go in on purpose. If there are no special circumstances, try not to get close to the palace unless... the princess invites you."

Gu Chengye replied quickly.

It is a good thing for the Gu family to gain the right to enter and leave the palace, but at the same time, it must be treated with caution.

The inside of the palace is no better than the outside world, even the eunuchs and maids must be careful, after all, no one knows which concubine these eunuchs and maids belong to.

No one knows which concubine will be favored by the emperor.

Be careful in every word, deed, and every action. Once you are careless, you will be dismissed from office or even lose your head.

This is exactly in response to the sentence, accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger.

Gu Chen nodded, responding to Gu Chengye's words.

Gu Chengye looked at Gu Chen standing in front of him, the more he looked, the more satisfied he was, with a smile on his face, he said:
"Okay, it's nothing serious, you can go back and rest, and find a time to work in the household department. In addition, the spring hunting is not over yet, if the princess invites you again, you don't have to refuse, just follow."

"Yes, Ning Shun knows."

After talking with Gu Chengye, Gu Chen turned around and went back.

During this spring hunt, the first meeting between Gu Chen and Emperor Qi'an left a general impression in each other's hearts.

Gu Chen didn't know how Emperor Qi'an viewed Gu Chen, but in Gu Chen's view, Emperor Qi'an was indeed a difficult person to get along with.

Gu Chen was a little uncertain about his thoughts.

Don't talk about anything else, just explain that you can tell Gu Chen's gender, but you want to refer to men as women, Gu Chen can't figure it out.

and……

Emperor Qi'an himself is definitely a capable person, at least he definitely wears a treasure that can make Gu Chen feel threatened.

Regarding this point, Gu Chen actually hoped that Emperor Qi'an would wear strange treasures or even magic weapons, because if Emperor Qi'an really didn't wear anything on his body...then the meaning it represented would be completely different.

Thinking about this, Gu Chen returned to his room.

In the room, Liu'er and Jiebiao Danxi were playing chess, and the old mother at the side saw Gu Chen coming back, stepped forward to greet him and said:
"You're back, miss."

"?"

Gu Chen frowned, and looked at the old nanny expressionlessly:
"It's a mistake."

"Uh... Gu... Fourth Master Gu said, let this old slave address you as Miss in the future, this..."

The old mother was also taken aback, and said anxiously.

Gu Chen frowned tightly. He thought about Emperor Qi'an's attitude towards him, and then thought about the words Gu Chengye deliberately said to the royal guards in the restaurant, and suddenly thought in his heart.

"You still call me Young Master outside, so you don't have to listen to Fourth Master Gu."

"This is!"

The old mammy nodded in response, then turned around and went about her own business.

When Gu Chen walked into the courtyard, both Jie Biao and Liu Er saw Gu Chen, and Jie Biao greeted him casually:
"Yo, you're back? How did you play?"

"It's okay, you guys...are you playing chess?"

Gu Chen looked at the pieces of the same color connected in a line on the black and white chessboard, and asked strangely.

Jiebiao Danxi smiled and said:
"I don't know how to go, and neither does Liu Er, so I taught her how to play backgammon, how about a game?"

"... Jiebiao, where's your weight loss plan?"

"That's not in a hurry, anyway, I don't see how fat I am now."

Jie Biao waved his hand casually, looking completely messed up.

The corners of Gu Chen's mouth twitched. He thought of Jie Biao Danxi's appearance a few days ago when he was still swearing that he would lose weight, and then he looked at the appearance of the salted fish playing chess with Liu Er, and he couldn't help but hold his forehead immediately.

It was Gu Chen's fault for letting Jiebiao Danxi grow fat at home. Now it's all right. The leader of the dignified Academy City, who used to work with Accelerator in the Anbu of Academy City, has been formed by Gu Chen at this moment. Salted fish that can't turn over.

Sighing, Gu Chen stepped forward to pat Jie Biao Danxi on the shoulder and said:
"...Wait until you're too fat to lose weight, and you'll be done."

"Let's talk about it when the time comes." Jie Biao said indifferently, and then said: "By the way, Tuanzang is waiting for you in your room."

"Danzo...? What is he doing here?"

"Apply for a housekeeper, now he is your housekeeper, I don't know exactly how."

Jie Biao Danxi doesn't care about these things, she doesn't have that much desire for power, she will do whatever Gu Chen asks her to do.

Now Jiebiao Danxi is Gu Chen's secretary, responsible for spreading the word within the organization, so Jiebiao only needs to do her own thing well, and she won't and doesn't want to know about the rest.

"..."

Although Gu Chen really hoped that Jie Biao would take the initiative to find something to do, but seeing the other party's appearance, Gu Chen knew that this was probably an extravagant wish.

Sighing helplessly and shaking his head, Gu Chen asked Liu Er to accompany Jie Biao before entering the room.

In the room, wearing a blindfold and wrapping his arms in black bandages, he looked like Danzo of a blind old man, half kneeling on the ground and said to Gu Chen:

"Master President."

"You are my companion, there is no need to salute like this, get up, what is going on, let you come over in person?"

Gu Chen asked Danzang.

In fact, the suggestion of letting Danzo be his housekeeper and personal protection was something that Gu Chen discussed with Danzo before entering the capital.

It was just because Danzo felt that it was too ostentatious to go to the personal butler once he arrived in the capital, and it would make other people's eyes fall on Danzo, which was not conducive to him hiding himself.

So this proposal was put on hold for the time being, and Gu Chen didn't mention it again.

But now, Danzo came to Gu Chen's side at the risk of being discovered, which meant that something must have happened in the middle of it, so that Danzo had to come here.

Danzo got up, and under Gu Chen's signal, sat on the chair opposite Gu Chen, and said to Gu Chen in a solemn tone:
"Something happened to Pinghu Division."

"Oh? What do you say?"

"The weirdness I found in the alley has not been dealt with until now, and the Pinghu Division has lost two police officers and a guardian... Now that the Pinghu Division is under martial law, my people have no way to find out what happened inside ,"

Danzo told what happened recently.

Gu Chen was a little surprised: "Even the guardian is missing?"

"Yes, it seems that the weirdness that appeared in the capital is not an ordinary weirdness, and I have a hunch that this matter may be related to Emperor Qi'an."

"Even if it's not him, it can only be him."

Gu Chen said something convoluted.

But Danzo could understand what it meant.

Today, all the big and small things that happen in the world are related to Emperor Qi'an. Even if he didn't do what happened in the capital, Gu Chen would still place the blame on Emperor Qi'an.

Furthermore, nine out of ten oddities are indeed related to Emperor Qi'an.

Knowing what Gu Chen meant, Danzo stopped asking, but talked about another matter.

"One more thing, my lord, Zheng Hong and Liu Yuan from Ningzhou disappeared, just two days ago."

"what happened?"

Gu Chen frowned.

Danzo said:

"The two of them were asked by Lord Bai to come to the capital to assist you because of their connection with you, but before they left the city, they disappeared without a trace, and our people couldn't find them. We don't know what happened. what's going on."

Hearing this, Gu Chen narrowed his eyes slightly:
"Besides this, there should be other news, right?"

"The other thing...is that there is no news about Miss Gu Yu. Ever since they entered Yuezhou, there has been no news. Lu Niang's Eternal Night City cannot reach there, and there is no way to pass the news through Eternal Night City. "

Gu Yu is in charge of dealing with Yuezhou's affairs, and according to Gu Chen's request, turns Yuezhou into Gu Chen's power.

But until now, Gu Chen doesn't know what's going on with Gu Yu.

Originally, with Gu Yu's strength, there was a familiar created by Shantou using the blood ghost technique by his side, and he could pass messages through the familiar and spiritism.

As a result, there has been no movement until now.

This means that Yuezhou has indeed become a closed place, and even extraordinary power cannot pass through it.

Gu Chen is not worried about Gu Yu. Her strength lies there. If she can enter the Twelve Ghost Moons, she is at least a top-six existence.

Gu Chen meant to judge according to the current strength of Twelve Ghost Moons.

This standard already belongs to the extraordinary in this world. With this strength, even if Gu Yu encounters a problem that cannot be solved, his life will not be in danger.

Gu Chen repeated one by one, seeing that Tuanzang was silent and let himself think, Gu Chen suddenly thought of something, he was startled, and asked:

"Wait a minute, do you mean that there may be a connection between these few things?"

People at the level of the Pinghu Division's guardian envoy disappeared, and Zheng and Liu, who were far away in Ningzhou, also disappeared.

Gu Yu from Yuezhou couldn't be contacted, these incidents happened almost at the same time, Danzang may be hinting to Gu Chen that there may be a connection between these incidents!

Danzo sighed slightly, and said in a low voice:

"This is also the reason why I came here to protect you, my lord."

The situation in all parts of the world suddenly became incomprehensible. As the only human power in the city that Gu Chen could use, Danzang had to come and protect Gu Chen personally.

Even if it will be noticed by others.

……

"Wow, what is this, what is this!"

Yuezhou... perhaps, it is in Yuezhou.

Inside a city, Gu Yu stood under the sun, staring at the sky with wide eyes:

"It's sunshine! Sunshine!! I can stand under the sun!!"

Beside Gu Yu, Zhang Shouchen couldn't help but smile when he looked at the happy Gu Yu.

As a patient who went to the Juexin Medical Palace to seek medical treatment, Gu Yu said that the disease he mentioned was that he could not see the sun, and his body would burn when he saw the sun.

Zhang Shouchen had no doubts, so he didn't have the slightest doubt about Gu Yu's happiness at seeing the sun at this moment.

He just stretched out his hand and put it under the sunlight, and said to Gu Yu:

"Miss Yu, although I really don't want to spoil your mood, but...but...this doesn't seem to be sunshine."

"Haha, of course I know."

Gu Yu turned his head, looked at Zhang Shouchen with a sickly smile and said:

"If it was the real sunshine, I would be dead by now... Ah, it's better to say that the people who can come here are all dead, right?"

When Gu Yu said this, he turned his head to look at the people passing by on the street in the distance, and under Zhang Shouchen's shocked gaze, Gu Yu dexterously jumped onto a house, and shouted to the people passing by below:

"Am I right? You're all dead, right? 'Dead people'?"

Gu Yu smiled sweetly, looking like an innocent child.

But Zhang Shouchen felt a chill, but the horror was not aimed at Gu Yu, but at the group of pedestrians shouting below Gu Yu.

Just after Gu Yu shouted this sentence, the footsteps of all the pedestrians below stopped at almost the same time strangely.

Those small merchants who were selling something also stopped their movements.

Everyone raised their heads to look at the roof, and at Gu Yu who was smiling like a child above the room.

In Zhang Shouchen's eyes, the eyes of these people really looked like dead people.

Frightening.

(End of this chapter)