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Chapter 253 Return to Beijing (Please subscribe and vote)
The harem, Evian Palace.

Fan Ruoruo was wearing a translucent silk gauze dress and holding a short flute made of green bamboo, playing a complex flute piece with all her heart.

After winter came, the palace sent a lot of winter supplies. At this time, Evian Palace placed a lot of incense burners and braziers for heating, but these were not enough to completely drive away the severe cold.

The thin gauze dress that seemed to be non-existent on her body did not make Fan Ruoruo feel any warmth at all. Her slender body shivered from the cold from time to time.

However, this little bit of coldness was far less than the coldness of her heart!
For Fan Ruoruo, who was taught many modern ideas by Fan Xian since childhood, this kind of dissolute behavior of trying to please and fawn on men was something she used to find disgusting.

However, for the sake of her father, Aunt Liu, and her younger brother Fan Sizhe, she had to put aside her dignity to please the man who had ruined her beautiful hopes for the future.

And it happened under the gaze of outsiders, which made her feel even more ashamed.

The sound of Fan Ruoruo's teeth chattering as she shivered disrupted the rhythm of the melody, causing Mu Sheng, who was listening intently, to frown.

"Given your behavior, I really cannot agree to your request!" Mu Sheng said unhappily.

"Your Majesty!" Fan Ruoruo swallowed a mouthful of saliva anxiously, and hurriedly held Mu Sheng's thigh and begged:

"Please have mercy on my Fan family, Your Majesty. My father was just deceived by Chen Pingping. He didn't really want to rebel.

Ruoruo will serve Your Majesty wholeheartedly in the future, please show mercy!"

Having said that, Fan Ruoruo hurriedly started her performance again, looking up at Mu Sheng from time to time.

The uneasy look in his eyes was like that of a frightened deer, and his slender body shivered from the cold from time to time, giving off a sense of brokenness that made people want to protect him.

It’s a pity that this is of no use to Mu Sheng, who has a heart as cold as iron.

Seeing that he had no reaction, Fan Ruoruo could only try harder in order to convince Mu Sheng to forgive the Fan family's crime of treason.

"Your Majesty, I think Sister Ruoruo has already realized her mistake. Please give her a chance." Sang Wen picked up a grape and stuffed it into Mu Sheng's mouth, pleading for Fan Ruoruo.

Fan Ruoruo didn't expect Sang Wen to plead for her, and she quickly looked at her with gratitude.

"Well, since Sang Wen pleaded for you, I will give you another chance, as long as you do this... and do this again..." Mu Sheng stated his conditions.

"As long as you can do this, I will spare the lives of Si Nanbo and his family and send them to labor reform!"

Hearing Mu Sheng's words, Fan Ruoruo's face suddenly turned red, and then she started coughing violently.

"Your Majesty, this... this is too..."

"Why? Your father Fan Jian risked his own infant son's life to save Fan Xian, and you have done so many things for him.

Fan Xian is not even willing to make this little sacrifice?"

Mu Sheng said coldly: "If you can't do it, the whole Fan family will be beheaded tomorrow. If you want, you can die together!"

Hearing such cruel words, Fan Ruoruo was immediately overwhelmed with grief. She was just a weak woman who loved reading, why should she be forced to endure such suffering!
"Ruoruo will convince your brother," Fan Ruoruo uttered a few hoarse syllables with difficulty after a while.

"That's right, his thing is useless anyway." Mu Sheng smiled and hugged Fan Ruoruo: "Hey! Why are you sweating so much? You say no, but your body is quite honest."

"Sang Wen, come and help her wipe it."

"Ah! Me? I've never done this."

"It's okay if you don't know how to do it. I'll teach you."

A few days later, a young eunuch named Fan appeared in Evian Palace.

Since then, Mu Sheng has stayed overnight in Evian Palace more frequently, and he especially likes to let Eunuch Fan keep watch outside when he is favoring Fan Ruoruo and Lin Wan'er.

For a time, the other concubines became extremely jealous of Fan Ruoruo and secretly cursed her for being shameless and for doing such a thing just to win favor.

Even if they wanted to imitate him, they couldn't, after all, their brothers were not willing to make such a sacrifice.

After beheading people for more than half a month, when the ground in Caishikou was soaked with blood and turned black and red, the execution of rebels finally came to an end.

Chen Pingping, the former president of the Supervisory Yuan, had his limbs and head tied tightly with five ropes, and the other ends of the ropes were tied to five horses.

"Snapped!!!"

As the whip was swung down fiercely, the horse, stimulated by the pain, immediately exerted force in five different directions.

With a swish sound, the life of the King of Darkness came to an end.

"Eh! How cruel!"

Mu Sheng seemed unable to bear to look at it, so he buried his head in Lin Wan'er's arms. Then he felt a little uncomfortable on his head, so he raised it up again.

In fact, he didn't have much hatred towards Chen Pingping, so why would he have to do such a thing as dismembering him.

But in the original novel, Chen Pingping was rebellious. Emperor Qing had him tortured to death. If I just beheaded him, wouldn't I be outdone by Emperor Qing and become an honest man who repays evil with kindness?

This won't do. Mu Sheng would rather become impotent than be an honest man.

There is no other way but to let Chen Pingping inconvenience.

After watching the five horses dismembering a corpse, Mu Sheng took Lin Wan'er and others to the labor camp to visit their families, and only set off to return to the palace when the sun was about to set.

On the way back, Lin Wan'er and the other two daughters all had tears in their eyes. I wonder how miserable their families were going through.

"Why are you crying? It's just a hundred years of labor reform. It will pass quickly if you close your eyes and don't open them again."

The three girls looked at him in disbelief. A hundred years! This is longer than a person's entire life. Can this be passed in a blink of an eye?

Wait, you closed your eyes? Are you talking like a human?

"What? Is there something wrong with what I said?" Mu Sheng looked at the angry eyes of the three women and said righteously.

It's only been a hundred years. Thinking back to the hundred years he spent in the world of giants, he must have had such a happy time.

"In the labor camp, they went to bed early and got up early every day, ate organic food they grew themselves, and had people interpret current political events for them every morning and evening.

I don’t know how fulfilling my life is. How many young people work so hard, but their lives are not as comfortable as theirs. What is there to cry about?”

You know, in today's more technologically advanced world, many people consider labor reform as a way out.

"Eunuch Xiao Fan, don't you think this is the case?" Mu Sheng asked Xiao Fan, who was driving the carriage outside.

"Your Majesty is right, that's the truth," Eunuch Fan replied obediently.

He no longer has the high spirits of the time traveler he once had, and no one knows what he has been through.

Fan Xian: ???
This made Mu Sheng feel a little bored, and even when he was with the Bull Head, he felt uncomfortable.

There were a few times when Mu Sheng even thought about asking him to help him push it, but in the end he felt that these behaviors were too perverted and gave up.

"Oh, my moral standards are too high!"

"Why can't you change your bad habit of being so kind? You can't do this, Mu Sheng. It's easy to suffer in this world where the strong prey on the weak!"

Mu Sheng secretly made up his mind to be a bad guy in the future. A few months later, when the ice and snow melted and the flowers bloomed in spring.

Mu, the Imperial Master of Northern Qi, the Emperor of Nanqing, the Leader of the Divine Religion, Sheng, once again returned to the city of Shangjing where he had been away for a long time.

Qinglan Mansion, backyard, rapeseed field, pavilion.

Haitang Duoduo looked at Mu Sheng smacking his lips and sipping tea, as if she was back to the time when she first met Mu Sheng last year.

It was also in this pavilion that she was attracted by the stories told by Mu Sheng and kept pestering him to tell her stories.

He even did something that made her blush when she thought about it now.

Although she knew at that time that Mu Sheng was no ordinary person, she did not expect that he would take over both Qi and Qing countries in just one year.

This gave Haitang Duoduo a dreamlike sense of unreality, as if all this was just a dream of hers, and when she woke up it was actually still a year ago.

"Ha~", Haitang Duoduo shook her head with a smile, then turned her head to look at Mu Sheng.

"Why didn't you go to the palace? Ever since the news of your return to Kyoto came back, the Queen Mother has sent people to ask me when you will return every day.

We even held a beauty contest in Qi State, recruiting 180 beauties, fearing that you would stay in the gentle land of Nanqing and not come back."

"The palace's affairs are not urgent. How are you?" Mu Sheng asked.

As soon as he saw Haitang Duoduo, he discovered that the true energy in her body was constantly flowing out, and her whole temperament was becoming more and more natural.

It has a bit of the flavor of the unity of man and nature like Kuhei, but it has not been completely integrated into nature. It is more like a half-step grandmaster.

"I don't know, let it be!" Haitang Duoduo said indifferently.

She was not a martial arts fanatic by nature. The reason she had the strength she has today was due to her good talent and Mu Sheng’s hard work in instilling in her.

It is her non-compulsive character that makes her more suitable for the practice of Tianyi Dao.

"It's not convenient to stay like this all the time, let me give you a hand!"

As Mu Sheng spoke, he flashed to Haitang Duoduo's side, then put his arms around her waist, stepped lightly over the rapeseed field, and flew high into the sky in a few steps.

Looking at the Shangjing City getting smaller and smaller beneath her feet, watching the white clouds floating by, and listening to the strong wind whistling in her ears, Haitang Duoduo couldn't help but cheer.

It was the first time she experienced the feeling of flying in the sky, and she quickly fell in love with this feeling of freedom.

After a stick of incense, the two figures appeared on the top of a mountain.

“Wuhu~” Haitang Duoduo ignored her messy hair and pulled Mu Sheng’s arm and said, “Do it again, do it again!”

"Uh!" Mu Sheng looked at Haitang Duoduo speechlessly with an excited look on her face. She knew that he was going to help her break through to become a grandmaster, right?
How come you don't care at all and are addicted to flying?

"I really can't do anything about you. This is the last time!" Mu Sheng said as he hugged Haitang Duoduo and jumped.

"Ah Wuhu! This feels so good~"

"It's great! There's something even better!"

Mu Sheng, who was hundreds of meters in the air, suddenly loosened his hands and pushed Haitang Duoduo out.

"Huh?" Haitang Duoduo was stunned at first, but then she was not afraid anymore. She let herself fall under the influence of gravity, and stretched out her hands and feet and started paddling as if in the water.

"I'm flying! I can fly! Wu~~"

"What a foolish and bold woman, ha~", Mu Sheng couldn't help but become interested when he saw Haitang Duoduo's happy expression.

Afterwards, he stopped using his light body skills and fell in the direction of gravity. In the blink of an eye, he caught up with Haitang Duoduo.

Then, when he was about to hit the ground, he grabbed Haitang Duoduo's waist, and the true energy in his body instantly began to circulate, and the falling bodies of the two suddenly stopped.

It must be that the two of them had extraordinary martial arts skills, otherwise this sudden stop alone would have cost them half their lives.

"Hahaha, this is fun, let's do it again, and this time let's go higher!"

"OK, no problem!"

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Then the two of them started flying in the sky over the countryside.

After a long time, the two people, who had had enough fun, stopped and landed on the top of the mountain.

"Puchi! Your hair, hahahaha", Haitang Duoduo couldn't help laughing when she saw Mu Sheng's hair blowing up like the Lion King.

"You're still laughing at me. Take a look at yourself first," Mu Sheng took out a mirror from behind his butt and threw it to Haitang Duoduo.

After the latter took the mirror and looked at it, he laughed even louder.

"It's been a long time since I laughed so happily." After a while, Haitang Duoduo's laughter stopped.

“Come on!” Haitang Duoduo sat cross-legged on the ground and looked at Mu Sheng curiously: “How are you going to help me break through to the Grandmaster level?”

"Luck, concentrate!" Mu Sheng also sat down cross-legged and put his palm on her back.

After gathering the martial arts of the four great masters, Mu Sheng's understanding of nuclear radiation qi became more and more thorough.

A stream of true qi that was purer and more natural than Ku He's Tianyi true qi flowed along his palm into Haitang Duoduo's body, and started her true qi circulating.

At the same time, Mu Sheng used the method of mind reflection to instill his understanding of Tianyi Dao into Haitang Duoduo's mind.

Soon, the true energy in Haitang Duoduo's body began to transform, her meridians became tougher and wider, and her body became more energetic.

Until it reached a certain critical point, the vitality of heaven and earth around the two of them suddenly became agitated, and then rushed into Haitang Duoduo's body frantically.

"Such violent energy, is this the reason why a grandmaster can easily kill a ninth-grade warrior?"

At this moment, Haitang Duoduo truly realized the power of the Grand Master.

As more and more energy poured in, just when Haitang Duoduo thought she was going to burst, Mu Sheng's true energy appeared again and calmed the restless energy of heaven and earth in her body.

After a stick of incense, as the vitality of heaven and earth on the mountain returned to calm, Haitang Duoduo successfully broke through to the grandmaster level.

"Is this the Grand Master?" Haitang Duoduo sensed the changes in herself with joy, and then looked at Mu Sheng with burning eyes.

"Want to come?"

"Come!"

Faced with Haitang Duoduo's invitation to fight, Mu Sheng did not hesitate at all, and soon the two of them started fighting on the top of the mountain.

From long-range Qi confrontation, to medium-range fighting skills competition, to close-range hand-to-hand combat, and finally to negative-range sitting and discussing.

　I'm still feeling listless today, and I still owe three more chapters. I guess I'll have to make up for them in the next world.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)