Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 217 Oh, I did it!
In fact, the income from the imperial fields and farms alone is hardly enough to cover the family's expenses.

The shortfall would naturally be made up from the Zhao family.

Their whole family was like a few ticks, always clinging to the huge body of the Zhao family and sucking their blood.

Not lethal, but disgusting enough.

More than one person under Zhao Qi'an had suggested taking action against Yu Zhen's family, but they were all suppressed by him.

Because they are useful in the blueprint planned by Zhao Qi'an.

The Yuzhen siblings and Concubine Zhen are both "bridges" between Zhao Qi'an and Emperor Tianwu.

There are too many secrets about His Majesty.

For example, the stunning and stunning sword move he made in the East China Sea that year has been unforgettable to Zhao Qian'an to this day.

That one cut changed a lot.

It also made Zhao Qian'an curious about what secret Emperor Tianwu had hidden.

Having said that, Zhao Qi'an's attitude towards Fuyan Palace is no longer to let it go and allow anyone to take or ask for anything.

When he starts to "move", everything will become different.

……

"In this case, Jingdu Zhao Xing is willing to give 6,000 taels of silver every year, half of which will go to Fuyan Palace and the other half to Taihe Palace. How do you think?"

In the end, Luan Nu gave the conditions she was willing to give.

Ji Qingkong hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, but I have one condition."

"Your Highness, please speak."

"Every year, 40% of the money given by the Zhao family goes to Fuyan Palace, and 60% goes to Taihe Palace!"

Ji Qingkong took Concubine Zhen's share without any hesitation.

Luan Nu looked at him in surprise, but Ji Qingkong didn't blush or breathe heavily, as if it was a matter of course.

She nodded: "I can make the decision and agree to this matter."

Ji Qingkong said: "Okay, in that case, tell me, what do you want me to do?"

"It's just a few little things..."

Luan Nu came closer, with a serious look on her face, and whispered a few words in his ear.

After she finished explaining the words in detail, Ji Qingkong looked at her in astonishment: "Are you sure? Is it that simple?"

Luan Nu gave an affirmative answer: "It's that simple."

Ji Qingkong smiled immediately: "I thought it would be something difficult... It's just a small thing, when can I do it?"

"Your Highness, please return to the palace and wait. Someone will inform you when to take action."

"it is good!"

……

Not long after Ji Qingkong left, Luan Nu breathed a sigh of relief and sat down to rest.

She had just poured herself a cup of tea and before she could take a sip, Zhao Qi'an came over.

Luan Nu stood up hurriedly: "Master."

Zhao Qi'an was still looking towards the door and asked, "Ji Qingkong is gone?"

"Yes, the Fourth Prince just left."

"how?"

"Everything went smoothly. He was satisfied with only six thousand taels. However... His Highness the Fourth Prince requested a 40:60 split between Fuyan Palace and Taihe Palace, and he wanted 60%."

Zhao Qi'an was surprised, then he sneered and shook his head.

This is consistent with his usual impression of Ji Qingkong.

He nodded slightly towards Luan Nu: "You did a good job."

Just one word of praise made Luan Nu's cheeks blush and her heart was excited.

After Zhao Qi'an praised, he looked outside again with a deep look in his eyes: "Since everything is going well, let's get everyone moving."

Luan Nu bowed and accepted the order: "Yes."

……

"My Lady Concubine, your belly is so big now, you don't have to go and pay respects in person every morning and evening. If you don't miss a day, the Empress will understand."

In Chengping Palace, Qin Muwan, who was pregnant, came back from outside with the help of a maid in blue.

Chengping Palace is not very big, but it has four entrances and exits. The gate that Qin Muwan led people through is called "Golden Phoenix Gate", which leads to the backyard of the palace.

Qin Muwan heard the maid's complaints and stroked her big belly, smiling and said, "How can I not pay my respects? The Queen is also the biological grandmother of my baby, and she is also very concerned about my belly."

The maid in green grumbled, "But this journey... is so inconvenient, and His Highness won't let you show yourself in front of others."

Qin Muwan's face was full of happiness. She said, "Although His Highness asked me not to tell anyone, he sometimes behaves like a child. He couldn't help but brag to the ministers he had a good relationship with that he had a child. In fact, the news had already spread. It's okay."

While the two were talking, they entered the threshold of the Golden Phoenix Gate.

"My lady, be careful with the threshold."

The threshold was quite high. When Qin Muwan stepped over it, the maids accompanying her all looked nervous, and the maid in green even bent down and stared at her the whole time.

After entering the door, Qin Muwan wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked up to see a group of eunuchs trimming the vegetation in the courtyard.

She didn't care too much about it. Accompanied by the palace maids, she walked towards the bedroom like a star surrounding the moon.

But she didn't notice that after she passed by, the eunuchs who were trimming the vegetation were looking at her intentionally or unintentionally.

One of the eunuchs even took out a charcoal pencil from his sleeve and poked black dots on the clean part of his sleeve.

These black spots may seem chaotic, but in fact they follow a pattern. However, if you want to decipher them, you need a "secret book".

After deciphering it, the words left on it are:

"From 2:00 to 3:00 of the morning hour, at the Golden Phoenix Gate, rain or shine, no matter what happens."

……

In the western suburbs of Kyoto, there is a mountain next to the Jingyun Canal, called Wenyun Mountain.

At the foot of the mountain, there is an academy called Bailu Academy.

Outside the academy, the roads are connected and the sounds of chickens and dogs can be heard.

In the fields, there was a farmer taking a nap leaning against a straw pile, holding a three-foot-long scripture in his hand, and reciting "zhihuzheya" with his head shaking.

Occasionally, when pedestrians met on the road, they would stop and greet each other, calling each other "senior brother" or "junior brother". They were all elegant scholars.

Inside the academy, the sound of reading aloud can be heard everywhere.

This academy, covering an area of ​​one thousand acres, accommodates more than three thousand scholars, all of whom are students of the Bailu Academy.

From the young children whose baby teeth have not yet grown out, to the high-spirited young men, to the old men with silver hair... these people are all students of Bailu Academy. Zhao Nishang supported the old eunuch Wei and walked in the academy.

Students along the way stopped to salute from time to time and respectfully addressed the old eunuch Wei:
"Master Wei."

"Mr. Wei."

The old eunuch Wei's expression, which had always been gloomy, now became much brighter. He smiled and nodded one by one. From time to time, he would call out the names of a few students and stop to talk to them.

After talking with a student, the old eunuch Wei couldn't help but sigh: "I have been a slave for a lifetime. I never thought that I would be called 'sir' when I was half buried in the ground. If there is an afterlife, I will be a teacher and teach children to write. Why would I ask for fame and fortune?"

He shook his head in self-mockery, feeling that the past was unbearable.

Zhao Nishang said: "It's not too late now. If the teacher likes it, just be a teacher in Bailu Academy."

The old eunuch Wei laughed and said, "Forget it, forget it. All I have learned in my life is to raise a little troublemaker like you. I have already provided a successor. As for the others, they have only learned the basics."

He originally thought that all his abilities were harmful to others and he wanted to take them with him into his coffin.

But his boss told him that his ability was not only to harm people, but also to save people.

He didn't believe it at first, but later he saw with his own eyes that Zhao Qian'an cut open the stomach of a patient with a rotten heart and removed a piece of it, and he really saved the patient.

This made him believe what Zhao Qian'an said, and he spared no effort to use his skills to train his apprentices.

It’s a pity that the only one who truly inherited his teachings was Zhao Nishang.

But old eunuch Wei is already content.

I have lived for more than eighty years, but only the last six or seven years can be considered as having truly lived.

Old Eunuch Wei was indeed old. Over eighty years old was already a long life for an ordinary person who had not practiced martial arts. He was out of breath after walking a few steps and had to stop to rest.

Zhao Nishang frowned and said, "Foster father, you are right. Building this temple here is really too much trouble for you to go back and forth."

Old eunuch Wei smiled and explained, "This is what you don't understand. The temple was built here, and the temple's worshippers were asked to come to the White Deer Academy to teach. This was the condition for the host to invite the dean to come out of retirement."

"Do you really think that the boss agreed to help Dean An revive the White Deer Academy just to help buy a piece of land and build a few houses?"

"Half of the teachers in the White Deer Academy are servants invited by the owner. Half of the students in the academy are talents carefully selected from the charity halls of the Zhao family in various places. When these people enter the official career in the future, the owner will have a firm foothold in the court."

Zhao Nishang simply sat on the stone pier to take a rest. After hearing this, she said, "How can the students of Bailu Academy pass the imperial examination if Prime Minister Wu doesn't fall? Many deacons of the company are worried about the annual expenses of Bailu Academy and Gongfengyuan."

Old Eunuch Wei just smiled and said, "Who can predict the future?"

As the two were chatting, they heard a loud bang from the back mountain, like a bolt of thunder out of the blue.

The sudden noise startled the old eunuch Wei so much that he almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Zhao Nishang was quick to pull him up.

She supported the grinning old eunuch Wei and looked in the direction of the explosion in confusion.

I saw that in the direction of the back mountain, there was an area in the dense forest that had been deliberately cut down and left bare, and it was that area that was now emitting thick smoke.

In the thick smoke, a man with a dusty face ran out, shouting excitedly as he ran:
"Hahahaha, Master Dao, I did it, I did it!"

As he shouted, he ran towards the Bailu Academy.

When they got closer, Zhao Nishang only took a look and screamed "Ah", covered her eyes and turned her head away.

He was a slovenly old Taoist, his body covered in ashes from the explosion, his face as black as the bottom of a pot, his Taoist robe tattered and most of his black buttocks exposed.

The most horrifying thing was that half of his arm was missing, and the bloody wound exposed the white bones.

But he seemed to be completely unaware of the pain, his face full of excitement.

The old eunuch Wei opened his mouth and cursed, "Niubizi, what the hell have you become? Nichang is here, aren't you ashamed?"

After he cursed, the crazy old Taoist seemed to come back to his senses and noticed the two of them.

But the crazy old Taoist was still excited, and he raised his broken arm towards the old eunuch Wei, as if he was showing off his medal of honor instead of the wound: "Old eunuch, look, look... This time, the elixir of my elixir can even injure a warrior in the supernatural realm!"

"Give me some more time, I will definitely be able to create the treasure that the boss said can be used by ordinary people to kill celestial warriors!"

But the excitement soon faded, and the crazy old Taoist squatted on the ground again, scratching the ground with a stone, muttering in a mysterious way: "But the explosion is wrong this time, why did it explode so early, and the power is not concentrated... Didn't I add enough dragon bones? When will the boss hunt a real dragon for me?"

Zhao Nishang covered her face and said helplessly: "Master Huang, can you at least put on some clothes first?"

Fortunately, many people at the academy heard the explosion and ran out.

Among them, there was a group that was the most special. They seemed to have been prepared. They came with clean clothes and put them on the crazy old Taoist.

The group immediately noticed some incomprehensible "pill recipes" scribbled on the ground, and became fascinated by them, discussing them with their classmates from time to time.

"The quality of the keel is not good enough, not because too little was added."

"But it's already at the Jiaolong level."

"Maybe we can add some whale oil..."

The crazy Taoist priest was immediately dissatisfied. He patted the head of the student who had raised the issue and cursed: "What's the point of adding whale oil? You have learned everything I taught you!"

He stood up and was the first to shout excitedly: "We want a real dragon!"

"I want a real dragon!"

"I want a real dragon!"

The other apprentices also raised their fists and shouted excitedly.

The current scene is like an old madman with a group of little madmen.

Zhao Nishang just felt it was weird and shrank her neck with a chill. Then she supported the old eunuch Wei and pretended not to see it. She prepared to send the old eunuch Wei back to the worship temple on the mountain first.

Just as she was about to run away, the crazy old Taoist noticed her and called out to her, "Nichang girl, wait a moment."

Zhao Nishang had no choice but to stop and turned around to ask, "What instructions does Mr. Huang have?"

The crazy Taoist was about to put his hand into his sleeve, but then he remembered that his left hand was blown off, so he could only point to his right sleeve and say, "Your godfather just sent someone to ask me for an elixir, but I was in seclusion refining the elixir and had no time to deal with it. It's a good opportunity for you to come now, so you can take it back to your godfather."

Zhao Nishang's whole face suddenly wrinkled, and her face was full of reluctance.

Others eat the elixirs they make, but once Huang Gongfeng takes one of the elixirs, he will ascend to heaven on the spot.

Ascension in the physical sense.

If it is not necessary, this Huang Gongsheng doesn't want to touch anything. You never know which thing will give you an unexpected "surprise" at any time.

Huang Gongsheng's arm was blown off, but she was able to regenerate a limb. However, she is not even a celestial warrior, so if an arm is really blown off, she won't be able to grow a new one.

But after all, it was her adoptive father who specifically requested it, so no matter how reluctant Zhao Nishang was, she had no choice but to go and get it.

After a while of groping, Zhao Nishang took out a white pill, the size of a soybean, covered with a layer of amber-like crystal wax paste.

Zhao Nishang was curious about why her adoptive father came to Mr. Huang to ask for the elixir, so she asked, "What is the effect of this elixir?"

"Throw it into the water, and the wax coating will melt when it comes into contact with water. After about an hour, the pill inside will come into contact with water, and once it comes into contact with water, it will explode."

After the crazy Taoist explained its purpose, he looked disdainful and said, "This thing is useless except for concealment. It is just a little thing to scare people. I don't know what your godfather wants it for."

Hearing that it didn't have much power, Zhao Nishang felt relieved.

But she was even more curious about why her godfather wanted such a "magic pill".

Could it be... that it was used to scare people?
(End of this chapter)