bookrebus Chapter 709: Each has a reward, the Snake Spirit Case will begin
Chapter 709: Each has a reward, the Snake Spirit Case will begin
Wu Yanhao could no longer bear to hear about the great victory in the Western Regions and the expansion of the Great Zhou Dynasty to strengthen the country and the people.
His mind was filled with the joy of becoming the Duke of Liang.
After the court is dismissed, the people from the General's Office will go to his mansion to replace the plaque, and from then on his place will be the Mansion of the Duke of Liang.
No one in the three generations of the Wu family has ever had such an honor.
His position in the court was also moved up a lot because of this.
It was not until the end of the grand court meeting that the serious Wu Chengsi burst into laughter and directly invited a few good brothers from the Wu family to have a drink.
Wu Yanhao woke up from his joy and followed Li Cunxi and Hu Jinghui out of the Linde Hall.
The sun is shining outside, adding a bit of warmth to this cold winter.
Wu Yanhao stretched and said:
"Cunxi, Brother Jinghui, come to my house tomorrow and have some food and drinks to celebrate."
Li Cunxi and Hu Jinghui certainly had no intention of refusing and agreed immediately.
"Okay, clean the copper pot and buy some more meat."
"I'm going to eat all day long," said Hu Jinghui.
"Of course we must." Wu Yanhao scratched his head. "I heard that Lord Di fainted from anger earlier. Let's go and check on him."
"Then let's go together and buy some cakes on Suzaku Street first."
……
A few days passed in a flash and the Spring Festival was about to arrive.
Li Cunxi went to visit the demon spirit and learned what happened to him. He thought it was a ridiculous thing.
Wei'er fell in love with Mo Ling, and Mo Ling almost killed her.
hiss.
It’s exciting to think about.
However, in a sense, men like Mo Ling who do more than talk can indeed attract women's attention, especially since Mo Ling has real skills.
After thinking about it all night, Li Cunxi asked Yingzi to take Mo Ling to play in Yanliu Lane for two days the next day, and instantly forgot about Wei'er.
This honest man still couldn't resist the entanglement of those bad women. Although he didn't fall into them, he still understood a lot about the matters between men and women.
To put it bluntly, the reason why he developed feelings for Wei'er was simply because he had met too few women, and he fell in love with them.
Perhaps because he was thinking too much, Mo Ling hadn't had a good night's sleep for two days.
At the Prince Qin's Mansion, Li Cunxi watched the striptease without changing his expression. As the last part was about to come, Li Cunxi's eyes widened. Suddenly, the dancers stopped and saluted Li Cunxi.
"Go on, go on!" Li Cunxi said anxiously, "Why don't you continue?"
The leading dancer acted quite innocent and said, "Your Highness, the Prince of Qin, Steward Ma told us not to dance the last part in front of you, or he would beat us all out with sticks."
Li Cunxi's expression froze.
What did Ma Rong say?
"Has he seen it?"
"One time, when Master Xu asked us to dance, Butler Ma came in and said Master Xu was being reckless. He was afraid that it would affect the young master, so he didn't allow us to dance the last part."
"This is really..."
Li Cunxi was speechless.
Ma Rong did this undoubtedly for his own good.
However, there were only so many entertainment activities in ancient times, and they were cut short, so you couldn’t even watch the last half. How could it be fun?
No wonder every time I watched it before, I would start over again at the last part. It turns out there are these things happening in the middle.
"Your Majesty."
Just when Li Cunxi was still feeling deeply emotional, Ma Rong swaggered in from outside.
"I heard from Master that you were looking for me?"
Xuguzi followed in timidly, lowering his head and not daring to look directly at Li Cunxi.
"Ah, well, Ma Rong, I'm looking for you because I have something for you to do..."
"Hey, Taoist priest, what's wrong with your eyes? How come your eye sockets were blackened by someone's electric cannon?"
Xuguzi, who had managed to raise his head halfway, immediately lowered his head again when he heard this.
The dark circle around his left eye looked quite pleasing.
Li Cunxi was amazed. He could easily tell that this was a beating, but he didn't know whether it was done by Ma Rong or Qiao Tai.
Ma Rong was very honest and said, "Your Majesty, I was just instructing the servants in the front yard when this old Taoist priest came over and told me that you wanted me to come to the second hall."
"I knew immediately that you were up to no good in the Second Hall. There were no customers today, so you must be watching a striptease. And when I saw the old Taoist priest, I knew it must have been him who suggested it."
Li Cunxi raised his eyebrows: "So you gave him an electric shock, so bad that even his mother couldn't recognize him?"
Ma Rong nodded gloomily.
Li Cunxi laughed dumbly, looked at Xuguzi who was suffering beside him, and said:
"You took that punch in vain."
Xuguzi did not hide it and said:
"I wanted to watch it myself, but you were here and I couldn't watch it without you, so we watched it together. I was thinking I'd find an excuse to eat and send you away so I could watch it myself, but I didn't expect..."
He touched his left eye again and felt a burning pain.
He never expected that Li Cunxi would ask him to call Ma Rong.
What a miscalculation.
"You guys go down first."
Li Cunxi turned around and asked the dancers to leave first.
The dancers had been listening with their heads held high, but upon hearing these words they felt as if they had been pardoned and hurried away together.
"What does the prince need me to do?" Ma Rong asked.
"It's nothing, just come closer and listen."
……
The Spring Festival passed quickly. Li Cunxi only went to the Prince's Mansion, Di Mansion and Prince Wei's Mansion to pay New Year's greetings, and spent the rest of the time at home.
While the officials in the court were still fighting, Wang Xiaojie and Fang Zhe, who had returned to the court, were also rewarded.
Ever since Yao Chong took office as the Minister of Personnel, the position of Minister of War has been vacant. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is to make way for Wang Xiaojie.
As expected, after Wang Xiaojie returned to the court, he was immediately appointed as the Minister of War, and was also given the title of Tongfengtai Luange Pingzhangshi.
At the same time, Yao Chong, the Minister of Personnel, Yao Ting, the Minister of Revenue, and Yao Yan, the Minister of Justice, were also appointed as Fengge Luantai Pingzhangshi.
Yao Yun and Yao Ting were brothers. They both climbed to the position of prime minister at the same time, and they were considered two outstanding people from the same family.
However, Li Cunxi didn't have much impression of these two brothers. He only knew that both of them were famous prime ministers, but Yao Ting's achievements were higher than his brother Yao Yun.
Li Cunxi had no idea what Fang Zhe's reward was. He only knew that after receiving the order, he led his troops to the Western Regions, and no news was ever sent back to the court.
What followed was dealing with government affairs day after day. The nine-member team of the Political Affairs Hall went online together and was busy every day.
Time flew by and it was June 26th. One day, Li Cunxi climbed out of the government hall, got on the carriage, and took the fruit wine handed to him by Ma Rong.
"My Lord, the time is ripe."
"There's news from the Snake Spirit that Jin Mulan hopes to open the Liuzhou case and bring that person out."
Ma Rong lowered his voice, his eyes full of excitement.
Li Cunxi was stunned: "So fast?"