The Demon-Slaying Grandmaster

Chapter 36 Kirin Service (Seeking monthly ticket to read)
Eunuchs are often portrayed as negative characters, and they have indeed brought harm to the country and the people. However, Li Jingxiao came from later generations and knew that many of the evil things done by eunuchs were just scapegoats for their masters.

Moreover, this group of people are more grateful and righteous than scholars.

The probability of ungrateful people is obviously lower than that of scholars.

Li Jingxiao now gave the credit for command to Xia Shouzhong without hesitation.

Xia Shouzhong thought to himself, if I don’t promote such a sensible and capable person, who else can I promote?

The imperial guards and officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Works who came to support were envious, but at the same time they had to admire Li Jingxiao.

He knows how to share the credit with others. At this moment, Xia Shouzhong would never allow others to steal the credit from Li Jingxiao.

If this matter is reported to the Emperor and the Supreme Emperor, their Majesties will certainly reward us handsomely.

Needless to say, these mountain ghosts appeared outside the imperial tomb of the retired emperor.

Whoever dares to touch it will die.

On the other hand, whoever protects the safety of his mausoleum will naturally make a great contribution.

The emperor would also give generous rewards for filial piety, so as not to arouse the dissatisfaction of the emperor emeritus.

Even the emperor himself would think that once his mausoleum was built and no one guarded it carefully, if something went wrong, he would be the one in trouble.

After a hundred imperial guards and a dozen militiamen had loaded the dozen or so mandrills with shattered heads or broken necks onto two carriages, Xia Shouzhong gave the order to set off back to the capital.

Li Jingxiao was naturally pulled along by Xia Shouzhong.

After the team set off, Xia Shouzhong, sitting in the sedan chair, slightly lifted the curtain several times and looked at the back of Li Jingxiao sitting on horseback.

I couldn't help but feel secretly happy, but at the same time I envied Li Jingxiao for having acquired so many skills at such a young age.

If I could help the emperor make Li Jingxiao his confidant, then I would be considered to have made a meritorious recommendation.

Moreover, Li Jingxiao was not from the imperial examination background, so naturally he could not get along with the civil servants.

Then you can only be loyal to the royal family.

Even if the retired emperor showed favor to him and rewarded him with a small official position of eighth rank, he would still be considered a member of the retired emperor's side.

But who can blame him for being only 15 years old?

No matter how stupid Li Jingxiao was, he knew that his wealth and glory for the next few decades would ultimately depend on the emperor.

We arrived outside the capital smoothly. It was late at night, and no matter how important the military information was, the gates of the capital would not be opened.

The only way is to sit in a hanging basket and be lifted up from the bottom of the city.

So this large group of people could only rest in a larger inn outside the city.

Xia Shouzhong took Li Jingxiao and several centurions and general flags of the factory guards, and sat in the hanging basket and entered the city first.

I plan to report this matter before the emperor's morning court.

When they arrived at the imperial palace, it was already past 3 a.m. Many officials had already arrived outside the palace in sedan chairs or carriages, waiting for the morning court.

Seeing Xia Shouzhong being brought into the palace in a basket, he suddenly became curious or worried.

Li Jingxiao and several other guards were waiting outside the palace.

After the ministers finished discussing Xia Shouzhong, Li Jingxiao and others became the focus of attention.

However, no one was foolish enough to come forward and ask.

Li Jingxiao simply walked to a roof outside the imperial city, sat cross-legged on the cold ground, closed his eyes and meditated to practice qi.

The 'Eternal Youth Kung Fu' is extremely strong and yang. When practicing, traces of heat are emitted from the body, meeting the cold air in the early morning of winter.

After a while, layers of mist appeared around Li Jingxiao. From a distance, he looked like an immortal meditating.

The guards, imperial guards, palace guards and civil and military officials who were watching were stunned.

As the palace gates opened and the ministers were allowed in, many of them reluctantly turned back to look at Li Jingxiao. Several of the guards had witnessed Li Jingxiao's killing of over a dozen mandrills the previous night, and now they saw him displaying such extraordinary prowess.

He immediately put his hand on the hilt of the knife and stood guard beside him.

We sat there for more than four hours and it was already dawn.

Only after his proficiency in the Eternal Spring Technique increased by 3 points did Li Jingxiao stop practicing.

I wondered if tigers and black bears could be considered "monsters" among the "demons and monsters."

Just as he was thinking about it, he heard footsteps and a group of Jinyiwei walked out of the palace and walked quickly towards the north gate.

Soon, two carts of mandrill corpses covered with canvas were brought into the palace.

Li Jingxiao guessed that it was not only the emperor who wanted to see with his own eyes what the mandrill looked like.

All the civil and military officials in the court should also be curious about why this thing is called a mountain ghost.

Sure enough, soon there were bursts of surprised sounds in the palace, and then a young eunuch came running over and summoned Li Jingxiao to the palace.

Li Jingxiao's green official robe was a little messy, and many parts of his arms were scratched by branches, leaving them frayed and broken.

The young eunuch originally wanted to change him into an official robe, as there were many requirements for attire when the emperor summoned him.

But Li Jingxiao was not willing to change his official robe and boots.

The more embarrassed he was at this moment, the more difficult it seemed to be to kill those dozen mandrills.

Chasing the escaped mandrill was even more difficult.

Moreover, I chased after him with bare hands, which showed my courage.

As for not being like a civil servant, but more like a military officer, it was because he was not from an imperial examination background.

If I were to become a civil servant, I would not be good at it, or even not be able to do it.
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After entering the palace, Li Jingxiao was surprised to find that the emperor was not sitting in the Golden Palace, but was holding court outside the Taihe Gate and the Imperial Gate.

It’s a nice summer, and the weather is still quite cool at three or five in the morning.

But when winter came, the ministers felt uncomfortable.

Even the emperor himself felt quite cold.

After some formalities, the emperor asked Li Jingxiao to stand up first.

Seeing his handsome appearance and slightly childish face, I suddenly wondered how such a young boy could have killed more than a dozen mountain monsters by himself?

The emperor didn't believe it, and the ministers present also felt that eunuch Xia Shouzhong was too outrageous.

Even if Li Jingxiao saved him, there was no need to force such a great credit on a young man.

Jia Zheng, Qin Ye and Shen Boping, who were qualified to attend court but ranked in the middle and back positions, were also a little worried at this time.

I thought to myself, could it be that this damn eunuch Xia Shouzhong is repaying kindness with enmity and playing a trick of 'openly praising but secretly criticizing'?

Fortunately, Li Jingxiao’s previous experience of curing illnesses and saving lives could not be faked.

The eldest son of the second branch of the Rongguo Mansion was saved by this kid in the end despite the help of many imperial doctors.
Naturally, no one would bother Li Jingxiao if there were no conflicts of interest.

So even though a group of ministers felt that Li Jingxiao was too young and probably not as powerful as Xia Shouzhong said, no one jumped out to refute it.

Moreover, this matter involves the retired emperor and the imperial mausoleum, no matter whether it is the retired emperor's former ministers or people on the emperor's side.

At this time, everyone knew that if the emperor did not reward them, the emperor emeritus would still reward them.

When the time comes, it will be the emperor who gets slapped in the face.

Maybe, the emperor would call him to the Daming Palace and scold him.

Therefore, in order to maintain the relationship with the retired emperor and avoid turmoil in the court, the emperor personally awarded Li Jingxiao the Qilin robe.

(End of this chapter)