Super Hero Monk: Hormones Journey to the West

Chapter 43: A Reckless Man Goes to Court
The next day.

Li Xian slowly woke up under the dripping eaves, only to find that the snow that had accumulated last night had been melted away by the sunlight, as if it were a dream.

Thinking of the ridiculous things that happened last night, she really hoped that it was just a dream and regretted that she did not refuse it sternly.

At this moment, the fragrance drifting in the wind caught her attention.

She sat up and looked towards her feet, where she saw Chen Xiaoke and three maids roasting a leg of animal in front of an open kitchen counter specially set up on the terrace.

The flames licked the meat, making a hissing sound, and the fat gradually seeped out during the grilling process, dripping onto the charcoal fire, making an attractive crackling sound.

Chen Xiaoke squatted in front of the charcoal fire, yawning while controlling the heat and constantly coating the meat evenly with special seasoning.

Li Xian knew that it was a large white-browed tiger with hanging eyes that was delivered yesterday.

Tang Xuanci liked to eat these, so Chen Xiaoke often went to Guanglu Temple and had been practicing in the Shangshi Bureau for two and a half years, trying hard to make all kinds of rare ingredients taste good.

She got up as early as Li Shimin every day, almost without fail, and had to make breakfast for Gege herself.

Thinking of this, Li Xian felt that Tang Xuanci's behavior last night had a bit of a beaver nature.

But what's the use of this? The court must be in an uproar.

"Hongrui, change your clothes."

She called over her personal maid who was staring at the barbecue in a daze, and quickly dressed herself and walked towards the kitchen counter.

When Chen Xiaoke saw her, the corners of his mouth immediately rose, revealing three parts of joy, three parts of intimacy, and four parts of a sweet smile. After hesitating for a moment, he shouted:
"Sister, are you awake?"

Hearing that the little girl no longer called her Madam Xian as before, but called her sister like last night, Li Xian was really embarrassed and annoyed, and secretly cursed that dead man Tang Xuanci a billion times.

But last night, they were like sisters, not sisters, but sisters. She could only pretend that she heard nothing and asked seriously:

"Where is he, in the gym?"

"No, Gege has finished training her muscles and is now training in the furnace in the chemistry lab. I guess... she won't be out for a while."

Chen Xiaoke leaned over and sniffed, then sprinkled a handful of chives and sesame seeds on the fragrant barbecue.

"This one is almost done, quickly bring the mint and lotus leaves.

"Sister, do you want to try a piece of tiger leg meat?

"I promise this time it's not fishy or sour at all, it's absolutely delicious."

Li Xian was speechless. It did smell delicious, but apart from Tang Xuanci, who else would eat something like this so early in the morning?

After a while, the two sisters came together to the spacious hall named "Chemical Laboratory".

The temperature inside is at least 10 degrees Celsius higher than outside, and the furnishings look like a combination of an alchemy room and a blacksmith shop.

Seeing them come in, the three people who were tinkering with metal materials in the room immediately stepped forward to salute them.

The leader was a black man, thin as a nail.

He was originally the fire slave of Xie Yezi, a well-known swordsmith in the martial arts world. He learned many smelting methods from his father.

Later, Xie Yezi went crazy and was almost thrown into the furnace as a living sacrifice to make a sword. Fortunately, he was rescued by Tang Xuanci, inherited the name of Aqian, and worked in this laboratory.

Li Xian walked straight to a huge alchemy furnace, looked at the blazing flames at the bottom of the furnace, felt the heat coming towards her, frowned and asked:

"How long will it take for him to come out?"

"This time it's taking longer than before, but Master Tang went in and ordered that if he doesn't knock three times inside, don't open the furnace."

"What? What if he's fainted from the heat and can't knock those three times?"

Li Xian was originally shocked by Tang Xuanci's almost perverted training methods. After a moment of doubt, she immediately said:
"Open it and take a look!"

"Yes, please Madam and Mrs. Chen step back a bit."

A Qian immediately called two strong Tang Dynasty blacksmiths to open the iron bolt, pull the chain, and use the fixed pulley principle to pull the heavy furnace cover up.

Moment~
The sound of air pressure roared, and heat waves intertwined with the air, mixed with thick steam and spread out.

"Ge Ge, are you okay?" Chen Xiaoke shouted in fear.

"Tsk, who told you to open it?"

As the words echoed off the iron wall, a blurry figure jumped out of the furnace.

When the steam dissipated, a red steel body appeared before everyone.

The pectoralis major and latissimus dorsi are as thick as armor, and the biceps and triceps are as thick as dragons, but they do not appear stiff at all, and are full of dynamic beauty of the moment of explosion.

Li Xian's heart was moved, and her lips opened slightly. She couldn't help but recall the feeling of being dragged into a cave by a wild beast and ravaged last night.

"Gege, your hair is burned again~"

"It's okay, we'll be able to come out at night." Tang Xuanci walked to the large water tank next to him, turned over and lay in it, causing mist to rise from the water surface again.

Li Xian saw this and thought:
"This isn't body forging, it's more like forging iron.

“I wonder how strong this guy is?

"He was already a Grandmaster two and a half years ago. Could it be that he has already reached the legendary...Jiedan stage?
"But doesn't the path to forming an elixir require the cultivation of internal energy? He has never practiced internal energy at all. Every day he seems to be practicing the most basic external martial arts in the martial arts world.

"According to the profound Buddhist and Taoist texts in the Imperial Ancestral Temple's Sutra Library, it's impossible to cultivate to the Grandmaster level of spiritual harmony, let alone achieve the Formation of the Core."

While she was distracted, Tang Xuanci came out of the sink with a "whoosh".

After cooling down, the skin becomes white and rosy, the muscle circumference is reduced, and the golden ratio is restored.

After putting on his clothes, he took the tiger leg and medicinal food handed to him by Chen Xiaoke, and asked Li Xian while eating:

"What are you doing here? Did you have a good time last night?"

"..."

Li Xian glared at him, asked Ah Qian and the others to leave, and said unhappily:
“What am I here for?
"Someone just reported that there were so many impeachment memorials against you that the desk couldn't hold them all.

"Hundreds of ministers in the court and officials in the opposition have come together to seek an audience with Your Majesty to denounce your atrocities.

"These people are not just the Cui family, almost all the aristocratic families have united.

“The Qingliu Party and some neutral officials you’ve offended are all taking the opportunity to step on you, demanding a thorough investigation into what happened last night and severe punishment according to the law.

"I'm telling you, don't think that just because you're the emperor's younger brother, the Saint won't punish you!

"Think about it~"

Suddenly he stopped talking and didn't continue.

"Think about the Xuanwu Gate Incident, right?"

Tang Xuanci smiled indifferently:
"Don't worry, the two he killed were just fake brothers. We are real brothers. He can't really do anything to me."

After saying this, I added in my heart:
Even if we are just fake brothers, he should know who is more important, me or those stupid families, right?
Seeing his attitude, Li Xian became even more worried.

At this time, someone suddenly came to report from outside the door that a senior eunuch and a thousand-bull guard had come to the palace, and they ordered Tang Xuanci to go to the Taiji Hall for an audience immediately.

When Li Xian heard that they were going to the "Tai Chi Hall" where all officials held court meetings, rather than private chat places like the imperial study or office hall, she immediately felt something was wrong.

After quickly weighing the pros and cons in her mind, she took advantage of Tang Xuanci changing into his official uniform and asked:
"If the Emperor asks you to explain what happened last night, what will you say?"

"Don't worry, I've already thought about it~"

Tang Xuanci said:

"Just say that Xiaoke was beaten by them last night, and I brought a dozen people to their house to argue.

"As a result, the other party was extremely arrogant and didn't take me, the emperor's younger brother, seriously at all. He even didn't take the emperor seriously in his words.

"What's even more outrageous is that they wanted to fight me over a disagreement and sent dozens of people to attack us with Mo Dao. Among them was even a master who was known as the Sword God!

"Luckily, I worked overtime at the arsenal yesterday, researching how to improve the craftsmanship of muskets, and I happened to have a few experimental guns with me.

"Otherwise, my life will be lost!
As he spoke, he began to believe it himself, and said excitedly:

"Damn it! Is there still law? Is there still law?! I haven't even gone to the palace to file a complaint yet, and these bastards from the Cui family are already blaming me."

Li Xian was so upset after hearing this that she said seriously:
“No, don’t say that.

"Listen to me~
"Why don't you just act like a complete reckless man and say you brought two hundred men and dozens of guns and stormed into Cui's house to exact revenge and save face."

Ah this?

Tang Xuanci was stunned, thinking, "This... isn't it the same as admitting guilt? If everyone in the hall hears it, it will be completely disadvantageous to Li Shimin's protection of me."

He was about to raise a question when he heard a delicate and serious voice in his head:

“What she proposed might indeed be better.

"Looking back at the history of our home planet over thousands of years, most emperors didn't really care if their trusted ministers were corrupt or guilty. They were more concerned with whether they were under their control..."

Tang Xuanci realized it and cursed in his mind:
"Fuck, why didn't you tell me earlier? When I asked you to come up with a plan last night, you were completely paralyzed."

After scolding, he nodded and accepted Li Xian's suggestion.

He put on his purple official uniform, tied a gold and jade belt, rode the Taihang horse bestowed by the emperor, and rushed towards the imperial city, charging all the way.

It looks like he is going to fight rather than to pay homage to the emperor.

(End of this chapter)