Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 397: Who is the boss between the two of you? Who is the junior?

The military generals were pondering Chu Pingsheng's strength, while the civil officials, some went to comfort Prime Minister Lin, some discussed the emperor's attitude towards Chu Pingsheng and his apprentice, and some stared at Xin Qiwu who was lying on the ground with indescribable strange expressions.

This guy relied on these two pieces of cake to be promoted from the fifth-rank Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple to the fourth-rank Qing of the Honglu Temple.

"Master Xin, congratulations, congratulations."

The two people who were obviously from the prince's lineage smiled and congratulated him.

Xin Qiwu's eyes blinked and blinked, and it took him a long time to force out a smile that was uglier than crying.

On the surface, he was the biggest winner of this court meeting, but in reality he felt like he had been to the gates of hell several times.

At the beginning, seeing Chu Pingsheng being so bold and arrogant and forcing him to join in the fun, he was very scared. Later, the officials were very angry and asked His Majesty to punish Chu Pingsheng. He was even more worried, fearing that he would be implicated.

Later, Chu Pingsheng refuted those who impeached him one by one, and His Majesty also expressed his support. He was happy, thinking that the sky was clear, the rain had stopped, and Xin Shaoqing was fine again.

As a result, this happy mood flew away in the time it took to drink a cup of tea, and he was almost scared to death by the yellow of the human philtrum.

This brat Chu Pingsheng actually dared to bully His Majesty at the court meeting!

Yes, he was promoted, and it was a three-level promotion. The problem is that Chu Pingsheng fought for this position for him. What will happen to him if the relationship between the Grand Master of Western Hu, Bai Feng, and Emperor Qing becomes sour one day?
As the saying goes, serving the emperor is like serving a tiger, and the same is true for serving a foreign envoy like Chu Pingsheng.

Now he is scared to death.

……

After a stick of incense.

The court officials in Taiji Hall dispersed one after another.

Crown Prince Li Chengqian and Second Prince Li Chengze were the last to come along, one with his sleeves hanging down, walking in a free and easy manner, while the other had his sleeves held together, looking steady and reserved.

"Second brother, what do you think about Fan Xian being Ye Qingmei's son?"

"What does your highness think?"

"I...of course I feel very good about it."

"That's a good idea, too." Li Chengze blew away the strands of hair covering his left eye and looked at his half-brother with a smile.

"Is it?"

Li Chengqian moved closer, tilted his head, covered his mouth with his hand, and whispered, "The Niulanshan assassination was not done by me, and Lin Gong has nothing to do with me."

Li Chengze frowned and paused.

"Second brother, be careful. I heard that Ye Qingmei has a grandmaster by her side... Since he is Ye Qingmei's son, that grandmaster... should be by his side, right?"

Li Chengqian walked away with his head held high and his sleeves swinging.

Li Chengze stood there for a long time, looking in the direction of Guangxin Palace, then he rolled up his sleeves again and walked towards the South Gate.

……

That night.

Royal Villa.

Across the long road is a big locust tree that is fifty or sixty years old. In late spring in June, many of the small white flowers on the tree have withered. The night breeze blows by, carrying the faint fragrance of half the tree, passing through the porch, turning over the floating bridge, and running to the yard where two crabapple trees are planted, mocking the spring red that comes and goes in a hurry.

Ye Ling'er ran across the wooden floor corridor like a fiery red pepper, quickly climbed the stairs, pushed open the tightly closed door, and appeared in the princess's boudoir with flying gauze.

"Didn't the doctor say that your condition has worsened and you should stay out of the wind?"

She placed the long sword with a red tassel on the hilt on the table and went to close the window. The gauze curtain blown by the wind fell down gently, scattering the fragrance of locust flowers all over the ground.

Lin Wan'er, half lying on the bed, just shook her head and said nothing.

cough cough...

cough cough cough.

"Look at you, you're coughing again."

Ye Ling'er walked to the bed and sat down, looking at her best friend with annoyance, her face was pale and there was a trace of sadness between her brows.

"Wan'er..."

"Are you here to tell me the results of today's court meeting?"

"Hey, how did you know?" Ye Ling'er looked surprised.

"Fan Xian just left for a while."

"Wan'er..."

Ye Ling'er held the pair of small hands that were as transparent as jade and as cold as jade, not knowing how to comfort her.

With Prime Minister Lin's status in the court, and the fact that he brought all the ministers to report Chu Pingsheng but failed to change the emperor's mind, one can imagine how important Master Bai Feng and his disciple are in Li Yunqian's mind. Judging from this trend, if nothing unexpected happens, Lin Wan'er will most likely marry Chu Pingsheng, the Western Hu villain.

“It’s okay. I can hold on.” Lin Wan’er patted her hands and smiled, “Look at your depressed expression. When I die one day, if you do this again… cough, cough, cough…”

"It's all because of that damn Chu Pingsheng. If it weren't for him, you wouldn't be so worried and weak. I don't know where my great uncle went. Why is there no news from him? If he was in Kyoto now, how could Master Bai Feng and his apprentice be so arrogant? Do you think there is no one in my Qing Kingdom?!"

Ye Ling'er suddenly grabbed Lin Wan'er's wrist and said, "Wan'er, I think you should... elope with Fan Xian? Go far away, to Danzhou, Huizhou... or even Nanzhao. Otherwise, going to Dongyi City... No, Fan Xian killed Si Gu Jian's disciple, and we might get into trouble."

"Ling'er, Ling'er..."

Lin Wan'er pushed her hand away: "I won't leave."

"You're not leaving?" Ye Ling'er said, "If you don't leave, do you really want to marry that bastard?"

Lin Wan'er: "..."

In fact, Fan Xian came here just now, not only to tell her what will happen in the court today, but also to test her attitude and see if she wants to escape from Kyoto together.

Her answer at that time was the same as her answer to Ye Ling'er now.

"Wan'er, are you crazy?"

Ye Ling'er suddenly jumped up from the head of the bed, her eyes almost popping out with incomprehension and anger. She felt this was a betrayal.

That’s right, betrayal of Fan Xian was also betrayal of her.

……

at the same time.

At the Protocol Courtyard, diagonally opposite the Honglu Temple, servants took down the lanterns hanging at the door, lit the candles inside and hung them back up. The dim light dispelled the darkness and illuminated the bluestone road that was impenetrable. Chu Pingsheng walked into the Protocol Courtyard under the cold moonlight. Before he passed the screen wall, he caught a glimpse of a pair of green lights wandering in the air. He looked closely and couldn't help but laugh. It turned out to be the black cat that meowed when it saw him.

Uh...

Uh...

"Hei Wuchang, you have to know that my patience has its limits."

Chu Pingsheng snapped his fingers and a brick of the screen wall burst open, with fragments splashing onto the black cat. The cat let out a scream, kicked its hind legs, and quickly jumped onto the high wall next to it and fled away.

Meow.

Meow.

Accompanied by a different kind of cat meow, a white cat ran out of the yard, with its tail raised high. It walked to his side with light cat steps, rubbing its head against his legs.

"It's you who can bend and stretch, and please others."

Chu Pingsheng picked up Bai Wuchang and stroked him gently twice.

At this time, there were the sounds of footsteps in the yard. Turning sideways, she saw Si Lili, who was wearing an apricot-yellow shirt, walking towards her.

"You're back."

"Ah."

He agreed and walked towards the yard carrying the cat.

"Is Hei Wuchang here to look for it?"

"You mean the black cat?"

Si Lili was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. Yesterday, Chu Pingsheng brought back a white cat from outside and named it Bai Wuchang. He also named the black cat that came to the Protocol Courtyard to steal food every day Hei Wuchang. She didn't know what Wuchang was, but she was sure that these two names were not nice.

"of course."

"Yes, they came to look for it, but I drove them away." Si Lili sighed: "I don't ask you to give them names like Feixingxue and Moxiang, even black glutinous rice and white sugar cake are good. Black and White Impermanence, don't you think this sounds bad?"

"I remember that the Second Prince had two study companions, one was Xie Bian and the other was Fan Wujiu, right?"

"Seems to be."

"These two people and the Black and White Impermanence are a perfect match."

"Where is it matched?"

Chu Pingsheng put the white cat in her arms, without explaining in detail the connection between the two things, and walked straight to the west wing.

When he parted the beaded curtain that kept out flies and insects and walked into the room, he saw lychee shells piled up like a small mountain on the round table in the middle.

"So you like lychees so much."

"Not really."

Si Lili placed the white cat on the cushion next to the bed and sat on the bed covered with a bamboo mat.

"This afternoon, the official from the Vegetable Inspection Department sent a basket of mangoes to me. I then remembered the lychees that were soaking in water. After checking them, I found that some of them had become soft. I was worried that they would go bad if I left them alone. Anyway, I had nothing else to do, so I ate them all."

“I can’t communicate with you.”

"What do you mean?"

"This isn't the lychee I'm talking about..."

"If it's not this, then what is it?"

"You'll be told later."

Si Lili always felt that there was something improper in Lord Chu's eyes when he said this.

"By the way, I heard that you were besieged during the court meeting this morning?"

"Eh." Chu Pingsheng was surprised: "Who told you?"

"It was around evening. Ye Ling'er came here."

"What is she here for?"

"What else can I do? Of course I want to convince you to give up your engagement with Lin Wan'er."

Chu Pingsheng picked up the teapot on the tea tray, poured half a cup of herbal tea into the cup, took a sip, and said lightly: "Dream on."

"You and Lin Wan'er... have a grudge?"

It has been a few days since she came out of the Overwatch Council. Although she has not wandered around, she has heard some information from the people in the Honglu Temple. She knows that this lecherous man in front of her not only stole her blood, but also forcefully intervened in the marriage of Fan Xian and Lin Wan'er, and stole the girl from the great talent Fan.

To be honest, Si Lili had a very good impression of Fan Xian.

"No grudge."

"Have a grudge?"

"No complaints."

"There is no hatred or resentment between us, so why did you deliberately expose our relationship? I don't believe you don't know what impact this will have on her."

Chu Pingsheng put down the cup and smiled at her: "Just for fun, are you satisfied with this answer?"

Just for... fun?

Si Lili was stunned by his answer, but when she thought about it carefully, when the Second Prince, the Crown Prince, Prime Minister Lin, Fan Xian... all of them wanted to make a fuss about her, Chu Pingsheng massacred the Supervisory Council just to sleep with her, the top performer in Zuixianju. If it was just for fun, it seemed possible that he made up a big news that would embarrass the royal family and tease Princess Chen, who was famous in Kyoto, to make fun of her.

Then she thought of Ye Ling'er's description of the events of the morning court. For some reason, she suddenly had a feeling that Chu Pingsheng, the Western Hu envoy, came to Kyoto to mess up the capital and turn the court politics of Qing Kingdom upside down.

So if his enemy is Li Yunqian...it seems that all his willful and unreasonable behavior makes sense.

Si Li thought of the revenge for his parents. His hands on his knees clenched slightly, and his eyes changed from simple shock to a melancholy that was difficult to express in words.

"Ye Ling'er said... Lin Gong was killed by your master Bai Feng. Is this true?"

Chu Pingsheng's eyes narrowed slightly: "Do you care who killed Lin Gong?"

"No...I just..."

Si Lili clenched her hands together, her expression very unnatural.

(End of this chapter)