You can hear a pin drop in the Haoyue Palace.
The emperor lay on the dragon bed with his eyes closed, his clothes open, his entire upper body including his head was pierced with gold needles, but his feet were bare.
Shaoyao stood at his feet holding a small knife. Lai Fu looked at her nervously, afraid that the knife would stab the wrong place.
Old Yu nodded at Shaoyao. Shaoyao stared at her master's hand solemnly. When the golden needle came up, she raised her knife and cut a gash on the sole of her foot. A stream of black water splashed out and fell to the ground. It was sticky and thick, like blood, but not like blood.
Shaoyao stared at the wound closely, and only bandaged it when the blood gradually faded from black. Over there, Old Yu had collected all the golden needles and sat there to rest. "How is it?"
"It will take at least three more bleedings to drain it all."
"As long as it works." They have tried several methods to excrete these toxins, each one more risky than the last, but fortunately they finally found the right direction.
Gu Yanxi felt relieved. Looking at his uncle who was getting older day by day, he asked softly, "When will the uncle wake up?"
"He has been in a coma for three days. We must wake him up today." Otherwise, he might never wake up. The master and disciple looked at each other and swallowed the rest of the words tacitly. They gained a lot this time. If the patient was not the emperor, they would have wanted to do something else.
Gu Yanxi nodded. Now that someone deliberately spread the rumor that the emperor was no longer able to do his job, his uncle the emperor had to show up in order to appease the officials. It was not that his Qishusi could not suppress it, but there was no need to suppress such things. It had not come to that point yet.
Coming out of the Haoyue Palace, Fu Gang stepped forward to report, "The Third and Fourth Princes wish to see the Emperor."
"Can't stop it?"
"yes."
"Let them in tomorrow when they come again."
"Yes." Fu Gang's expression relaxed. He was not the leader of the Seven Stars Division and he had no way to deal with these chosen ones. He had already used up all his abilities to hold them off for three days.
Gu Yanxi's face behind the mask was full of sarcasm. The third and fourth brothers were too impatient, but the second brother who spread the rumors might not be able to keep his cool.
Arriving at the Imperial Study, Gu Yanxi issued an order, "Tang Qingyuan is guilty of corruption and bribery, and he is dismissed from his post as Minister of Rites. The Second Prince is to be sent to reprimand him."
The Tang family is the second prince's maternal family, and Tang Qingyuan is his biological grandfather. The leader of the Seven Stars attacked the Tang family at this time. Everyone who knew about it knew what was going on. What's even more outrageous is that he actually let the second prince reprimand them, and the second prince couldn't refuse. This move was really vicious.
The second prince was so angry that he smashed everything in the room. Although the Ministry of Rites did not have as much power as the other ministries, it was still the biggest card in his hand. Now it was gone just like that. After feeling resentful, he felt a little frightened. He knew that this was a warning from the leader of the Seven Stars Division, and the things he had done had not been hidden from the Seven Stars Division.
Thinking of the fate of the eldest brother, the second prince felt nervous and immediately ordered his men to withdraw all the prepared moves. Now he did not have the capital to fight against the Seven Susi. Not only him, but also the third and fourth brothers did not have the capital.
One day, one day, he will make sure that the Seven Stars Division will no longer exist in the Daqing Dynasty, the Second Prince was swearing in his heart.
Gu Yanxi didn't have time to care about his thoughts. When he got the news that there was a new face at the Hua family, he put down what he was doing and went to the Hua family.
At that time, Hua Zhi was having a pleasant conversation with Zheng Zhi.
Hua Zhi didn’t really like reading at first, but she didn’t want to go out and she had so many books at home, so she gradually found the fun in it and felt uncomfortable if she didn’t read for a day.
The books she read most were miscellaneous books. She couldn't finish reading anything that was too serious or too difficult.
"If Mr. Zheng were to ask me about something from the Four Books and the Thirteen Classics, I might not be able to answer it."
"You don't need to take the exam, so why should I ask you that?" Zheng Zhi sneered, "Studying blindly is worse than having no books. What else can they do without books? Do they know the price of salt? The price of grain? If they don't know anything, they will be incompetent officials."
Hua Zhi has been in this world for sixteen years, and this is the first time he has seen someone being so disdainful of scholars. What's more, he himself is also a scholar. This is really interesting.
"Then I hope Mr. Zheng can teach the Hua family's children how much salt and grain are worth, things that are not in the books."
"Aren't you afraid that I might teach them the wrong things?"
"I also don't want them to be bookworms who study hard all the time."
Zheng Zhi laughed, "The Hua family won't do that. You don't know if you don't go out often. All the scholars in the world know that there is such a Hua family standing there. Even if it collapses now, it will not affect the status of the Hua family in their hearts. It has accumulated for a hundred years. How can it be ordinary?"
Hua Zhi stroked the edge of the teacup. "I actually never understood why the Hua family was once highly regarded by scholars. Now that the Hua family has been convicted, those scholars don't seem to care about it. Don't they think the Hua family's reputation has been ruined?"
"You said that Mr. Hua was involved in party disputes and formed a clique for personal gain?" Zheng Zhi smiled sarcastically again, "Who among the civil and military officials in the court is not involved? Is there anyone who is a lone minister? Mr. Hua just said a word for the weak prince, but he actually wiped out the efforts that the Hua family had made for more than a hundred years to stabilize the Gu family. Students all over the world felt chilled. I thought at the time, if I were a member of the Hua family, I would probably not be able to figure it out."
Hua Zhi's throat seemed to be blocked by something, making her feel uncomfortable, but she didn't show it at all, and even kept smiling. "I don't know if I should advise Mr. Zheng to be careful with his words, but apart from Mr. Zheng, I probably won't hear such words from anyone else. Thank you."
"It's just my heart." Zheng Zhi shook his hand, as if he should have some wine and peanuts at this time, "Mu Qing is not bad."
"Before the Hua family collapsed, there were nearly twenty teachers in the Hua family. Only Mr. Mu came back without any hesitation. It's true. The men of the Hua family should learn from him."
There were colleagues who satisfied him, a host who he had a good chat with, and a group of children who seemed to be eager to learn. Zheng Zhi felt that everything was clear to him at this moment. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was so. He stood up and walked out, "I'll come again tomorrow morning."
Hua Zhi hurriedly stood up, and the two of them walked out of the study one after the other and saw Gu Yanxi standing in the corridor.
This was the first time the two men had met, and they looked each other up. Zheng Zhi thought, he doesn't look like a useless person, he must be quite strong, and come from a military family? Gu Yanxi thought, we need to have someone check his ancestors!
The two nodded to each other and passed each other.
Hua Zhi escorted the person out of the courtyard and asked housekeeper Xu to escort the person out of the Hua family on her behalf. She also instructed Nanny Su to greet the servants so as not to accidentally offend the new master. She was also petty and added a sturdy old woman to the second gate.
PS: Maybe I have written too much recently and have a severe headache. I slept all day today, so there is only one update today, and three updates tomorrow.