Daqian Night Emperor
Chapter 204 Six-Line Divination
Chapter 204: The Art of Hexagrams
Inside the Prime Minister’s Mansion.
Wu Yong had just returned from the palace. As soon as he entered the mansion, the housekeeper came to him to report the news.
"Sir, today, the Minister of War, Lord Lu, came to your house in person, but you were not there. He left a letter and left."
The butler respectfully informed Wu Yong of these matters, which made him frown: "Lü Huachang? Is he here to lobby?"
Lu Huachang was one of the few officials in the court who had no faction, or was a "neutral" person.
In his early years, he was an old subordinate of Dingbo Hou. With the disbanding of the navy, Dingbo Hou was recalled to the capital and brought back many maritime generals of the time, including Lu Huachang.
Later, Dingbo Hou resigned and returned to his hometown, and Lu Huachang stayed in Kyoto to serve as an official.
Up to now, although he holds the position of Vice Minister of War and is considered a powerful official in the Daqian court, he is old and does not want to get involved in the fight between the princes. He just wants to protect himself and retire after working for a few years. That is why he is one of the few neutral officials in the court.
Because of his age, no one forced him to take sides. They were just waiting for the official position to be vacant after he resigned.
For this reason, Wu Yong's first reaction to the sudden visit of Minister Lu was to think of Ruan Yu, the Zhao family's worshiper.
There was actually no grudge between Wu Yong and Ruan Yu. The biggest reason why he targeted Ruan Yu was because he was from the Zhao family's main branch in Donghai!
In his eyes, it was because the East China Sea Zhao family placed their bets on the Second Prince that the Second Prince was showing signs of slipping out of control.
Especially after Ruan Yu came to Beijing, he made friends with dignitaries in Kyoto City. It seemed like... it was a sign that the Zhao family from Donghai wanted to officially settle in Kyoto City.
This made Wu Yong feel vaguely threatened.
But he had not thought of breaking off relations with the Zhao family of Donghai. Now, the actions he ordered his subordinates to do were just insignificant, which were actually more of a deterrent to the Zhao family.
But he didn't expect that the Zhao family's worshiper from the East China Sea would actually ask someone to come to him to act as a lobbyist.
Could it be that this guy couldn't understand my hint?
With this thought in mind, Wu Yong said to the old butler beside him, "Where's the letter?"
The butler respectfully took out the letter from his arms and handed it to Wu Yong.
When Wu Yong took the letter from the housekeeper, he opened it and glanced at it. His eyes gradually widened and he was stunned by the content of the letter.
The old butler was originally waiting with his head bowed, but after a long time without any further instructions from Wu Yong, he could not help but glanced at his master in confusion, but he did not expect to see a look of astonishment and surprise on his master's face.
This made the old butler curious. His master was the prime minister of the current dynasty. What kind of storms and waves had he not seen?
What on earth was in the letter that could make my master lose his composure like this?
Wu Yong's full attention was on the contents of the letter, and he couldn't help but mutter absentmindedly: "Zhao Qi'an could actually be..."
Halfway through his words, he seemed to realize that he shouldn't have said this. He came to his senses and noticed that the old butler beside him was glancing at the letter in his hand. So he closed the letter in his hand and asked, "Has anyone else read this letter?"
The old butler bowed his head and said, "Master's letter, I dare not let anyone else see it. I can guarantee that after Minister Lu handed the letter to me, no one else has read it. Master was the first one to read it."
Wu Yong then nodded.
The old housekeeper lowered his head and continued, "Minister Lu also said that if the master has read the letter and has anything he wants to bring to him, he can ask someone from the Xiangfu to tell him."
"Then tell him..."
Wu Yong put his hands behind his back, narrowed his eyes slightly, and slowly said four words: "Words are not enough!"
Words are not enough?
The old butler silently repeated these four words in his heart, not understanding their meaning.
Wu Yong looked at him and said, "Just take these four words to Minister Lu."
"Yes, sir."
The old butler bowed and accepted the order, then turned around and was about to leave.
But Wu Yong thought about it and called out to him, "Wait."
"Master, do you have any other instructions?"
"Go tell the servants to prepare the carriage for me." The old butler was a little surprised and looked outside: "It's curfew, are you still going to the palace?"
Wu Yong shook his head: "No. Go to the Astronomical Observatory!"
……
The Astronomical Observatory, inside the top floor.
Shui Yuexian was still wearing the same plain white dress that she had worn for thousands of years, with her bare feet underneath her skirt, stepping on a wool blanket.
But today, there is an incense table in this originally empty room.
A red mirror was placed on the table where the incense burner was originally placed, and six green ink copper coins were placed on a white porcelain plate in front of the mirror.
Two incense sticks stood on both sides of the incense table, and in the middle was a small and exquisite copper basin filled with clear water.
She walked to the incense table, raised her hand, and touched the red candle with her slender green jade fingers. A wisp of flame danced on her fingertips.
Then, the two fingers that were originally pointing upwards turned over, and the flames on the fingertips "slid" into the water in the copper basin.
When this fire without source came into contact with the clear water in the copper basin, it did not extinguish, but instead drilled into the water and turned into a fire dragon.
The fire dragon is only an inch long and extremely small, but it looks lifelike as it swims underwater.
When the scene of water and fire blending occurred, the blue-ink copper coins in the white porcelain plate began to stand up one by one and began to rotate in the porcelain plate.
"Still stunned..."
The copper coins made a friction sound against the porcelain plates, and finally fell down one by one.
When the six blue-ink copper coins were placed back on the white porcelain plate, Shui Yuexian lowered her head.
When the fire dragon in the copper basin dissipated, her expression was obviously stunned for a moment.
The Liu Yao divination technique that she was most proud of had lost its effect.
"If you can't see the past, you can't predict the future..."
"Zhao Qi'an..."
Shui Yuexian silently repeated the name Zhao Qi'an several times in her heart.
She didn't find any clues about Zhao Qian'an.
But even the Liu Yao divination can't predict Zhao Qi'an's past and future, which is enough to show that Zhao Qi'an is not an ordinary person.
Shuiyuexian became more interested in Zhao Qi'an.
She tilted her head, as if she was thinking about something.
Since there is nothing to be gained directly from Zhao Qian'an, let's count the people who know his past.
Shuiyuexian cast a spell again, and the copper coins in the plate on the incense table stood up again, turned on their own, and finally fell down one by one, revealing the hexagram.
But this time, when she noticed the hexagram, she couldn't help but let out a light exclamation.
"Right here?"
Before she finished talking to herself, there was a knock on the door.
Someone outside the door said respectfully:
"Master Imperial Master, Prime Minister Wu requests to see you."
(End of this chapter)
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