Starry Sky Railway: The Slacking Sword Saint is Keeped by Fu Xuan

At this moment, Yu Chen slowly turned around and glanced at him.

"Aren't you tired of saying that? I've beaten you up more than once or twice, and you say it every time. I've never seen you actually want to break up with me."

"Hey!"

General Jingyuan's face flushed slightly, and his expression became somewhat unnatural.

He quickly took two steps forward, walked up to Yu Chen, and poked him with his elbow.

"A bunch of juniors, give me some face!"

His extremely low voice reached the ears of everyone present clearly.

Yanqing tactfully turned his face away and whistled, while Xingxuan watched him with a smile.

As for Fu Xuan, his expression became increasingly subtle.

"Give you face? You son of a bitch! Before I went into seclusion, he got me drunk, then tricked me into going to the Imperial Apostles' Office, and the worst part is he even moved my house!"

You didn't even ask me!

"You've made me so badly illiterate that I don't even recognize the road in front of my own house anymore, and now you expect me to give you face?"

Yu Chen got angrier and angrier as he spoke, and looking at him made him want to punch him again.

"Hey, hey, let's talk this out, don't resort to violence all the time!"

Jing Yuan quickly jumped back a step, moving away from him.

This guy was stronger than him even before he went into seclusion, and by more than a little. Now that he's come out of seclusion, he, who has been a general for so many years, has not become complacent.

But if we actually try, we'll probably be crushed and left to languish.

"Oh, it's just that I didn't want to bother you! So I had your house moved over. I figured someone as magnanimous as Yuchen wouldn't mind such a small thing, right?"

"Heh, let me tell you, if you don't show some sincerity, I'll live in your general's mansion and the first thing I'll do every morning is punch you!"

Yu Chen chuckled dismissively, crossed his arms, and looked at him.

"Oh, I know, I know! Just the other day a merchant gave me two jars of Yuheng wine, how about I give you one?"

Jing Yuan looked at him with a smile. After more than a hundred years of friendship, didn't he know this man well?

Yu Chen glanced at him sideways and silently held up two fingers.

Jing Yuan smiled and shook his head, looking helpless. "Alright, alright, you can have them all. Both jars are yours."

"Now you're finally calm, right?"

Yu Chen nodded in agreement, then asked, "Jing Yuan, you didn't keep anything secret, did you?"

"How could that be? I've been incredibly good to you!"

Jing Yuan vehemently denied it, patting his chest with an air of righteous indignation.

Ha, of course I kept it all for myself. Did you really think I'd let you swallow it all?

It's quite a beautiful thought.

The two men exchanged sly glances in the air, then tacitly skipped over the topic and stopped discussing it.

Fu Xuan frowned upon hearing this.

"General, you've accepted a bribe?"

Jing Yuan looked at her and said, "Fu Qing, what are you saying! I didn't give him any benefits. He offered it to me himself. How can that be considered bribery?"

There was no exchange of benefits involved.

"No, accepting gifts for free is against the rules! You have to hand over all those things!"

Fu Xuan looked at him seriously and said, "Finally, we've caught a weakness; of course, we can't let it go!"

But now it was Yu Chen's turn to panic, because the spoils he had just divided... ugh, this tribute!

He was about to be taken away by her; how could he possibly be willing to do that?

That's Yuheng Brew! It's no ordinary wine, and there are two jars of it!

We absolutely cannot let this woman take it with just a word.

Yu Chen looked at Fu Xuan with a quiet gaze and said, "Miss Fu, aren't you being a bit too domineering? This isn't some kind of power or interest transaction; it's just something someone simply gave to Jing Yuan as a reward for his hard work!"

What right do you have to take it away?

"Hard work? Rewards? Ha!" Fu Xuan couldn't help but sneer, questioning Yu Chen, "Why don't you ask him how many tasks I've handled for him?"

Those who spend all day slacking off, drinking tea, and playing with ink deserve no reward, and dare to call themselves hardworking?

What a huge joke!

Upon hearing this, Yu Chen raised an eyebrow and looked at Jing Yuan beside him with a strange expression.

General Jing touched his nose somewhat awkwardly and turned his head away.

Good heavens, you really turned the general into this?

Yu Chen carefully examined the guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and sighed inwardly.

"Well, anyway, those things don't involve any interests. Even if they did, Miss Fu, as the Grand Diviner, it wouldn't be appropriate for you to interfere, would it?"

Fu Xuan looked at him with a cold smile: "Then what's your hurry? You really don't want me to take your wine away, do you?"

"Ha, what a joke! Me, afraid of this? It's just a few jars of wine. If you don't want it, then don't!"

I simply can't stand Lord Fu's arrogant and domineering manner!

Seeing this, Yu Chen no longer stood on ceremony. Although he was very grateful that Yu Chen had brought him to the General's Mansion, he decided to repay Yu Chen later.

"Hehehe~ Bullying others by relying on power?" Fu Xuan laughed, a beautiful smile appearing on her pretty and cute face.

"Who can bully this General Shence with his power? Is there anyone in the entire Luofu who has a higher status than him?"

I was merely following the rules!

Yu Chen's eye twitched; he hadn't expected this little girl to be so difficult to deal with.

Jing Yuan stood aside, watching the show with amusement, wondering who would ultimately prevail.

Chapter 6 Go to hell!

"Rules? What rules? What gives you the right to use these rules?"

Yu Chen crossed his arms and looked at her coldly, asking a question.

Fu Xuan sneered and said, "Heh, what rules? The laws of the Immortal Ship explicitly prohibit all staff members of the Six Departments from accepting any form of gift. You can't be unaware of that, can you?"

"Even so, so what? No matter how capable you are as a diviner, this is not something you should interfere in!"

“We can’t interfere, but we can just tell the people from the Earth Balance Division about this.” Fu Xuan paused, his two pink lips pursed slightly, his bright yellow eyes darted around, and his gaze fell on Jing Yuan.

"They'll probably be quite interested in the fact that the dignified General Shence Army is accepting gifts in violation of regulations~"

"Ah…"

Yu Chen chuckled dismissively. A normal junior official might have indeed arrested and investigated them arbitrarily.

But a general...

Could this Fu Taibu really be so naive as to think that the Earth Balance Division would dare to do anything?

It's true that it's prohibited, but wherever there are people and society, even the strictest laws and the most meticulous procedures will be enforced.

What cannot be avoided will ultimately be unavoidable, and even...

Some things have been tacitly understood by everyone for a long time, but now that you, the Grand Diviner, have brought them to light, perhaps the Earthly Balance Bureau has no choice but to act.

But what about tomorrow?

He dared to say that if Jingyuan's few jars of wine were confiscated, more merchants and officials would send over even more and more precious wines tomorrow.

So why bother?

"I simply can't stand seeing some people get the benefits."

Fu Xuan suddenly said something in a cryptic way.

Yu Chen frowned. What did that mean?

"You've been eating all that salary from me, the Grand Tutor, yet you're utterly useless and haven't done a single job. How can anyone bear to see you profiting from all this?"

Fu Xuan's cold voice rang out.

"Salary? My salary is now paid by the Grand Diviner?" Yu Chen frowned and looked at Jing Yuan.

He nodded and said, "Since it belongs to the Imperial Divination Bureau, their salary will naturally be paid by them."

"Hehe..." Yu Chen glanced at him with a strange cold laugh, then looked at Fu Xuan with a hint of mockery.

“I say, Fu Taibu, my few coins are not a small amount, but they are not much more either.”

Is it worth arguing with me over such trivial matters? In such a vast institution as the Grand Apostolic, surely you can't even pay the salary of a lowly guard?

Or…

"You, Fu Taibu, are too petty; you won't even give me this little bit of money?"