It was in early February, the beginning of spring, when the imperial convoy of the Eastern Depot arrived at Qiling, the last county in Jiangan.
The snow had stopped for quite a few days. The cold wind was gone, and the sun appeared in the sky. The temperature gradually rose, spreading some gentle warmth.
Gu Yunxi lifted the thick curtain of the carriage and looked out of the window into the mountains and withered trees. The warm sunshine on her face made her feel very comfortable.
"Master, we are reaching Qiling."
Gu Yunxi squinted languidly. She was fully enjoying the sunlight, with her sweet voice filled with joy.
Suddenly something occurred to her. She retracted into the carriage and took the Master's arm intimately,
"Master, as I know, Feng Yunheng, the prefect of Qiling County, is notorious and corrupt in Jiangan. This time, in the name of disaster relief, can the Eastern Depot take any action?"
Being annoyed at Leng Qingtang's words, Prefect Feng looked bewildered and frustrated that the flabby muscles on his mouth corner twitched. He squeezed out a fake smile with his square face."Oh, you're quite welcome. It's not a big deal. At the beginning of the disaster, heavy snow crushed many houses. My subordinate and I came to the scene to help rescue the victims from the collapsed houses. I guess our clothes were worn by bricks, tiles, and timbers... and something like that.""Oh?"Leng Qingtang narrowed his eyes, shrewd. An ironic smile appeared at a corner of his lips imperceptibly.His straight sitting posture and appearance that as handsome as an immortal, together with his light blue official suit embroidered with four pythons, made up an elegant picture, provoking boundless imagination.Worn by bricks and timbers? Well, he wasn't born yesterday.In fact, as they were entering the gate of Qiling
In the Prefect's Mansion of Qiling County.The secret guards' report astonished Gu Yunxi.It made sense that a man broke his arm and head due to the slippery road, but he wouldn't change his disposition no matter how badly he fell.Therefore, her conjecture was right.Who was this fake Prefect Feng?Leng Qingtang remained silent. Eyes closed, no one could see anything from his imperturbable face."Have you been to the post house and Feng's Mansion?"A secret guard answered, "When I arrived at the post house, the manager told me that the post house is not open to the public because of the imperial envoy. I'm afraid of being spied on, so I didn't contact the third captain and the tenth captain to not alert them.""Well done!" Leng Qingtang praised the guard without lifting his eyes.Another secret guard replied, "I watched carefully outside Feng's Mansion. It was weird
Qiling, Donglai post house.Qinger returned to the hall and sat at the table gloomily."Asked for a snub again?"The third captain, Zhao Wuji, turned his head and asked Qinger in a low voice, with contemptuous eyes darting across the fierce guard at the door.Qinger looked unhappy, answering harshly,"Definitely! It doesn't make sense. We got in the post house but can't go out easily, and we have to listen to the prefect. I just miss our Lady. I can't even go and keep her company!"Xiao Xiaoshen took the teacup and sipped. He smiled at Qinger with his eyebrows slanting,"Do you think she needs your company? Just stay in the post house. Don't always sway like a candle between her and the Master.""Pooh!" Qinger shook her head and scolded, "You are a candle. Your whole family members are candles!"Xiao Xiaoshen stopped smiling at once. He glanced at the door of the post
Qinger crawled out of the dog hole and dusted herself angrily. Seeing how Yuan Qian and Xiao Xiaoshen couldn't hold their laughs, she rolled her eyes at them,"This is your good idea? Teaching me how to crawl out of a dog hole?"Xiao Xiaoshen crossed his arms and held his chest. He looked down at Qinger who was much shorter than him. He smiled and asked,"Who taught you Kungfu? You can't even climb over a wall? How can you protect Yunxi?"Qinger was not convinced. She smiled coldly and countered him with what he said to her in the post house,"Lady is with the Master. Does she need our protection? What are you thinking?""Huh? I...""Are you two finished? We have a business to do!"Yuan Qian was impatient. He interrupted their quarrel, turned back, and glanced at the end of the alley vigilantly.Qinger arched her back and asked quietly, "The tenth captain, are we real
A room at the Prefect's Mansion in Qiling.Prefect Feng was seated in the center, surrounded by several guards.Glaring, one guard swore to him,"Sir, we are all ready. The signal will be sent at nightfall. Our men will hit both the post house and the Prefect's Mansion to kill all of them!"Slowly raising his head, Prefect Feng's face went from bright to solemn. His piercing eyes became empty, in the depth of which was inexplicable gloom and sadness.His right fist clenched so hard that his finger joints snapped as loud as his emotions."Eleven years! It's time... to collect the blood debt for Lord Protector Zheng..."One guard looked at the window when a worrying thought struck him."Sir, the young guard by the eunuch's side was a sly one! Ever since they arrived, he's never stopped working with the Eastern Depot Master to make trouble for us."Prefect Feng retracted
She didn't know how long she had slept. When she rose from unconsciousness, she saw darkness all around her.Flame leaped. The shallow shadow moving on the wet black brick wall gradually became clear in Gu Yunxi's sleepy eyes.No sooner had she moved than she felt pain all over her body. This was the aftereffect of having been knocked down by the fake prefect.She was suddenly shocked.She found herself lying on the cold brick floor, bound with twine. With her face against the floor, she couldn't avoid the foul smell in the secret room, which made her retch.She opened her eyes to look around and found Feng Yunheng, who was covered with blood, lying a few steps away from her.He was asleep, perhaps. His back against the wall bent from torture, his head lowered still, and his shriveled body rose and fell rhythmically with his breath.Someone came with quick footsteps.Gu Yunxi twis
It was in February, Qiling. Lightning pierced the sky, and thunder roared."Rumble..."Lightning split down from the dark night sky, tearing it in two parts with its bright cold light.The deafening sound of thunder followed.Around the Prefect's Mansion and Donglai post house were in chaos. People were woken up by the great change. They ran outside and saw a red, burning world. Panic, anxiety, confusion, and bewilderment appeared in their eyes looking at the tragedy on the earth.In the Prefect's Mansion, after the fake prefect revealed his face, Gu Yunxi pointed at him and shouted,"Master, it's him! He shut the real Feng Yunheng away in the Prefect's Mansion's secret room underground!"The wind brought Gu Yunxi's excited shouts to them. Leng Qingtang and the fake prefect both turned their heads to her.When he saw Gu Yunxi, Leng Qingtang rose his dashing eyebrows. His face ligh
At night, the wind blew and the fire spread. In the sky above the Prefect's Mansion, the thunder roared and the lightning exploded."Don't be scared, Ruo. Hold on tight! You have to hold on tight!"Gu Yunxi stared at Wenren Junzheng, who was stepping back. Her eery and cold look softened and gradually warmed up.She faintly remembered the nightmare that had troubled her since she was little. In her dream, there was a man who called out to her anxiously and painfully. He hid half of his face under the half-worn bamboo hat. Was it him?But why was he the enemy of the Eastern Depot? Who was him?She stared at Wenren's empty sleeve that waved in the air. She tried to fill in the blank of her memory. She struggled to piece it up.She was torn inside. Wenren Junzheng looked at Leng Qingtang. Tears emerged in his woeful eyes. He had a pathetic and angry look."Why did you do this? Leng Qingtang, answ
Terra Nova's ninth year of the Daedalic Years, early spring.Kamakawa Yusui is shocked and annoyed when he receives news of a coup at the Imperial Palace and the imminent ascension of Prince Fuchi Yasutaka to the throne as the next Emperor.Since the Kunhuang Island and Huananhe lost a battle, Kamachi sailors suffered a heavy blow, Kamakawa was forced to take the remaining troops retreated to the south of Kunhuang Island, Tsuneoshima stationed.Unexpectedly, just when he was trying to avoid the previous shame and had been intensifying the study of the new combat program, the country had a great turnaround.Can't think too much, Kamakawa by water immediately point all 10,000 Ying army, lead five Anzai ship and a number of ships, with enough artillery Furlong machine fire speed back to Ying, swore to fight with and Shigeru cuts a high and low winners and losers.One night, as Kamakawa's fleet secretly approached Mizumura Harbor in Kyoto, a thick fog sudde
In the banquet hall of the palace, the fire and candles were bright, four dancing girls lined up, green silk buns, colorful makeup, silk sleeves fluttering and swaying, dancing in a slow and rhythmic dance.Two or three male musicians are not far from them, playing strings, flute, drums, each person's face is calm and solemn, but in the eyes of God duh, seems to have the essence of the aura of a hidden flash.The dinner was organized to celebrate the fifteenth birthday of Emperor Fuchi Masaharu, but due to the defeat of the Terra Nova army in Weihai, many of the entertainments were temporarily canceled, and only the traditional Yehime songs and dances were retained.Profound Ya Qing was the main character of tonight's banquet, at this time he was wearing brand new scarlet damask silk clothes kneeling above the chief belonging to him, looking quiet and enjoying the songs and dances.On the seats to his left were the former Emperor's side consort, Daiji, with h
Terra Nova, Kyoto.As night falls, in a short house in the civilian area, the blind man is anxiously waiting for his mother-in-law to return home from work.She hadn't been back for a day and a night, and that definitely hadn't happened in the past.Could it be that the Ninth Princess has encountered something on her end?Rustling footsteps stopped unexpectedly at the door.The blind man's sense of hearing is much more sensitive than normal people, his eyebrows slightly gathered, and without moving, he got up and lightly rubbed his steps to the wooden cabinet, and touched a sharp dagger from the top of the cabinet and quietly hid it in the sleeve of his coat.The door of the room opened, and by the sound of the footsteps coming in there should be two of them."You're Suigo Show's man, aren't you?"The one who asked the question in Terra Nova was a young man.The blind man turned his head sideways, carefully recognizing the source
A cold wind cut through the long, narrow corridor, and the lights flickered dimly.The man's ragged gasps continued to spill out of the closed wooden lattice barricade door, accompanied by the occasional few hushed cries of pain from the woman."Haru, come on, I'll accompany you to your room."Looking at Yuan Ya Qing's stagnant and godless clear face, Yun Shi's heart seized more than just pain as she tugged on one of his arms.The commotion in the room was in no way suitable for a teenager to be listening in.The teenager's eyes were lax as he took two steps with her, speaking quietly in Chinese: ."...Master, you have to trust me as well...it wasn't Mother and I's idea to march into Da Yi."Yun Shi suddenly became miserable inside, opened and closed his nose and said."I believed you, never had a doubt, and it was for that reason that I traveled across the river and across the sea to meet you in person in Terra Nova."The two co
"Yue Xilou, you traitor shall not die!"Qi and blood surged, and a strong hatred that had never been felt before invaded Yun Shi's consciousness.She jumped up with her eyes heavy with red and lunged at her enemy with all her might, reaching for his neck.Yue Xilou laughed scornfully and kicked her backwards with a flying leg.Yun Shi fell out onto the hard floor a few feet away, choking on blood and letting out a pained _groan_.Wamochi stretched his neck to look at it, grinning imploringly.Tsukishiro looks at the samurai on either side :)"Don't just stand there, take her down and keep her under good guard, she'll be of great use in the future.""Slow down ......"Yun Shi forced to endure the pain of bones about to break trembling climbed up, far away from looking at the abyss Ya Qing, the expression of desolate:"Your Majesty, I have something to say to you, please send the counselor."Empress Yuanya immediately s
The fact that the mute applicant, Yun, who was originally scrubbed out of the test, has been recognized by the Emperor as the Imperial Chef, shocks the entire Grand Cookhouse early the next morning.The cooks and handymen who had looked down on her earlier were now gathered in front of the stove in the cooking room, watching intently as she operated it herself.Even in the past days always rigid board a big white face of apricot leaf female master, this time all people before and after chasing after Yun Shi everywhere running, flattery, mouth like a river, all do their best to please. At sunrise, Yunshi was wearing a green coat and pants, put on a large apron to the stove to do the work.With white flour rolled out and crabmeat and shrimp mince and red fish roe in the filling, the meat buns are pinched out with absolutely thirty-three folds.Chicken breast, corn and green beans are sauteed in oil, thickened with soy sauce and pan-fried wine, and wrapped in so
He is, after all, the Emperor!Following the direction of Master Apricot Leaf's kneeling, Yun Shi looked at the teenager, his eyes filled with astonishment.The standing tasseled crown and the yellow coat are indeed the symbols of the imperial nobility of Terra Nova.But, this young man, he is actually the Emperor."Mute, why don't you kneel down!"The apricot leaf matron raised her eyes to the unresponsive Gu Yunshi and chided."Eh, forget it, forget it ...... Master Chief, you get up too."Meeting Yun Shi's eyes, the teenager's face flushed red and blushed as he explained: ."Granny, I don't mean to deceive you ...... I, I didn't eat well in the evening meal, and I was really hungry just now."Yun Shi's complexion returned to normal, pursed her lips and waved her hand, indicating that she didn't mind.Heh, how could she mind?She was begging for it!The hostess rises obsequiously and comes up to nod at the tee
The night fell slowly, blotting out the last rays of red light in the sky.The entire Western Garden was silent.Cloudseeker stood in the tiny compound under the endless sky, raising his head to look up at the dark inky colors of the night sky.In the field of vision, that heavy darkness seems to carry some kind of adsorption magic, only teaching people to look at a glance, want to look through.She failed the test to become a chef and lost her chance to enter the palace and meet the Emperor.Such a result directly disrupted all her latter plans.After losing her temper for a while, she thought of Hua Nanhe, who is still fighting in the battlefield, Yingyu, who is trapped in the palace of Dayi, and brother Mu Xiu, who is waiting for them to return home.Yun Shi's eyes burned as she quickly regained her fighting spirit.Now is not the time to be discouraged, since one way does not work, then find another way.The hour was already
Terra Nova, outside the Abyssinian Palace, West Court.The large cooking room was busy with players in white shirts and blue pants around wooden cases and stoves.In five days, Emperor Fuchiya's fifteenth birthday will be celebrated, and not only will there be a large-scale celebration dinner at the palace, but an all-day parade and festival will be organized throughout Kyoto."Faster, faster, the hour for the king to pass the meal is almost here, and later on your handmade delicacies will be the basis for whether or not you can stay as a loose cook."The woman in charge, Apricot Leaf, is in her thirties, with a purple shirt and pants, wandering around every corner of the cooking room with a stern look, urging the contestants with her mouth, and repeatedly scrutinizing their cooking techniques with her cold and warm gaze.The twenty casual chef applicants came from Terra Nova folk, both men and women, and most of their referrals were cooks and assistant