Spiritual energy resurgence? My former empress wife has also revived!

With the moon high in the sky, Wang Shu sat listlessly in the inn, waiting for Qin Zijun to return.

She looked up at the moon in the sky, calculating the time, wondering if it was midnight and if that bastard had been arrested again.

As midnight approached, Wang Shu heard a knock on the door.

"Why are you only coming back now?"

Wang Shu looked pleased, but complained.

She looked at the cold dishes on the table, stood up and said, "The food is cold, let me heat it up for you."

Qin Zijun stopped her, saying, "I've already had a meal in the palace."

"This is an inn, why are you cooking for yourself? Just let the cook here do it."

Wang Shu pouted: "I was just worried you wouldn't like their cooking."

Qin Zijun was taken aback. After so many years, Wang Shu's skills could no longer be described as having improved.

Even though Qin Zijun has gone through so many reincarnations, Wang Shu's cooking skills are still among the best he has ever encountered.

This mysterious ancient moon goddess is truly a master chef with exceptional talent.

Have you eaten?

Qin Zijun asked softly.

"no."

"Then go heat up the food, and I'll have another meal with you."

"it is good."

Wang Shu happily borrowed the kitchen from the inn and reheated the food.

Under the candlelight at midnight, the two enjoyed a meal with a little wine, a nutritious and uniquely flavorful feast with plenty of vegetables and meat.

"I never expected that Chu Jingshan would actually ask me to stay overnight at the palace and have a long talk with him by candlelight."

"But thinking that you were waiting for me, I didn't agree."

Qin Zijun recounted her experiences in the palace.

After finishing her meal, Wang Shu sat quietly to the side, listening.

"Chu Jingshan even wants to marry his daughter to me."

"You agreed?"

Wang Shuxin felt nervous and subconsciously gripped the corner of the table.

"Of course not."

Qin Zijun smiled and said, "I promised you I wouldn't get married, so how could I go back on my word?"

"But you know what, I'm actually a little tempted. Chu Jingshan said his daughter is well-educated, skilled in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and also very beautiful."

Wang Shu retorted unhappily, "Am I not knowledgeable in manners and etiquette?"

She paused for a moment, then added, "Music, chess, calligraphy, painting... find someone to teach me. I'm so smart, I can master them all!"

She memorized Chu Jingshan's name.

You actually want to marry your daughter to this bastard?

God has remembered you this month!

Qin Zijun said, "Alright, I'll find some teachers for you to teach you music, chess, calligraphy, and painting."

"You can learn these things to pass the time. I'm very busy every day and can't always be with you, so I don't want you to be bored."

Wang Shu smiled and said, "I don't find it boring at all. I think you're the one who's very boring."

"You handle those boring official duties, and I just stay by your side. Isn't that you keeping me company? I'm very happy with this kind of life."

Qin Zijun was taken aback, then softened his tone: "Really? I'm glad you don't find it boring. But you can still learn these arts like music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. It's always good to learn more."

"By the way, we're leaving first thing tomorrow morning."

As Wang Shu was clearing the table of dishes, she asked, "Leaving tomorrow? Not staying here anymore?"

"Yes, the king has given me a house in the capital city. From now on, we will have a home here."

Qin Zijun said with a smile, "After that, we will rest in the capital for a month. After a month, we will have to go to a faraway place again."

"However, this time, it's quite close to Shoushan County."

Under the moonlight, Qin Zijun sat on the edge of the bed, talking about many things.

Wang Shu deftly cleared away the leftover plates, her crystal-clear ears twitching as she listened to Qin Zijun's soft whispers.

……

A month later, Qin Zijun and Wang Shu set off again to take up their posts as the Prefect of Jiangbei Circuit.

Jiangbei Circuit includes Tongzhou, and Tongzhou includes Shoushan County.

Qin Zijun's return home in glory can be considered a triumphant return. At the young age of twenty-five, he became the highest-ranking official in the prefecture where his hometown was located.

In no time, Qin Zijun's name spread throughout the Chu Kingdom once again.

The youngest scholar, the youngest top scholar in the history of the State of Chu, has now become the youngest prefectural governor.

Jiangbei Road was the most prosperous road in the State of Chu.

After Qin Zijun took office, she didn't need to do anything extra.

The relationships between the prefecture and the county are more complicated than those between the prefecture and the county, but Qin Zijun handled them one by one without much difficulty.

He quickly secured his position as the governor of the prefecture through his abilities, reformed the corrupt practices within the prefecture, and governed by non-interference. He did not carry out any major reforms in Jiangbei Prefecture, but the government remained efficient and the people lived in harmony.

Sometimes, doing nothing is actually letting things take the best course of action.

Anyone could see that this was Qin Zijun, a young talent supported by the king, undergoing his final gilding in Jiangbei Province.

When he leaves Jiangbei Province, it is estimated that he will enter the central government and become a high-ranking official who will influence the country's affairs.

During his time as the governor of Jiangbei Circuit, Qin Zijun also traveled around to investigate the local conditions.

In his third year in office, he took on two disciples.

Both disciples came from poor families, lost their parents at a young age, and ended up on the streets.

They were young and homeless, unable to remember their own names, and had no talent for cultivation. Anyone who saw them would think they would die young.

Qin Zijun saw that their eyes were bright and their people were intelligent. Although they could not cultivate themselves, they could learn her Confucian methods.

Moreover, the Confucian doctrines must be passed down, and there is an even greater requirement for teaching and educating people.

then,

He took two young children as his disciples, naming them "Zilu" and "Zimo".

During her peaceful time as the governor of Jiangbei Circuit, Qin Zijun wasn't idle.

He is writing books and plans to write two works.

One is called "Virtue" (德), and the other is called "Reason" (理).

Qin Zijun opened a private school in her mansion and personally served as the private tutor.

However, unlike ordinary private tutors, he was very busy, and the private school was only opened occasionally.

While teaching his two students, he also taught and lectured children from poor families for free, without asking for money. If you did well in your studies, he would even provide you with a meal.

Occasionally, Qin Zijun would give away the pastries that Wang Shu made that she didn't finish.

Of all these students, her favorites were undoubtedly the two formal disciples accepted by Qin Zijun.

The reason is quite simple—

"Thank you, Master's wife!"

Zilu and Zimo were not old, but under Qin Zijun's tutelage, they were extremely respectful of etiquette.

They knelt and kowtowed respectfully to Wang Shu, then stood up and, like true children under ten, happily ate the pastries.

Wang Shu looked at them with a smile, occasionally saying, "Eat slowly."

These two children were the first to call her "Master's Wife," and they truly regarded her as such, which Wang Shu naturally appreciated.

Qin Zijun also cultivated to the level of Dongxuan while holding a position in the Daoist temple.

He thought he would live out his life in the prefecture peacefully, but he did not expect that four years later, when he was thirty years old, Jiangbei Prefecture would suffer a great disaster.