Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 453 Chu Pingsheng: I am the big boss in Joy of Life
What is Xin?
Only then did Chu Pingsheng realize that he had become obsessed with practicing the Tianyi Dao. After returning to the capital of Qing Kingdom, he went home to meditate in seclusion without even seeing Li Yunqian, hoping to master the profound meaning of the Tianyi Dao and the unity of man and nature.

Mrs. Chu, who is still in name only today, loves to bicker with him on a daily basis, but unexpectedly, she is quite reliable at the critical moment and has been guarding him outside.

"Is that Xin Qiwu who's talking outside?"

"Yes, it's me, Lord Chu."

Hearing the voice in the room, Xin Qiwu responded in a hoarse voice. The flattery was so strong that it irritated people even from two miles away.

"Haitang, Lord Xin is my old friend, let him in."

After a while, accompanied by the sound of footsteps, the door was pushed open from the outside, and Mrs. Chu, who was wearing a white waisted gown and holding a long sword, and Xin Qiwu, who had a smug smile on his face, walked into the room one after another.

Lord Xin was holding an exquisite wooden box in his hand, which he placed on the round table in front of the bed the first thing he did after entering the room.

"Lord Chu, His Majesty heard that you were not feeling well, so today he specially ordered me to deliver some bird's nests and Ganoderma lucidum tribute from other places. These are good things for replenishing qi and blood."

Chu Pingsheng smiled and said, "Your Majesty is thoughtful."

Haitang Duoduo said with a rare hint of worry: "Are you really alright?"

"Well, you just need to recuperate for another day or two, and it should be fine."

He was in seclusion for a breakthrough, but he told the outside world that he was not feeling well and had to retreat to heal his injuries. Haitang Duoduo took it for granted that he was too impatient to practice Tianyi Dao. It would take more than half a month to get from Shangjing City to Kyoto City if one walked quickly. She had never even heard of anyone who could push the progress of a top-level technique like Tianyi Dao into the forbidden area in more than half a month, let alone see it.

So when Chu Pingsheng told her before entering the city that he had some health problems and had to go into seclusion to recuperate, she was not surprised, but very angry, because she had advised him to practice slowly and not to be impatient all the way, but he didn't listen. What happened now? Something must have happened.

"I'm glad that you're okay, sir. I'm glad that you're okay." Xin Qiwu also breathed a sigh of relief.

He was not stupid and knew how he got the position of Minister of Rites. As long as Lord Chu was still alive and had not fallen out with Emperor Qing, he would be able to keep his position. But if anything happened to Lord Chu, his career as an official would come to an end and he might even be in a worse situation.

"Master Xin, don't be nervous. When I was a child, the old immortal in Nanhua Mountain told me that I have a strong life and can live at least 200 years. You should do your job well and work until you die of old age."

The corners of Xin Qiwu's mouth twitched: "Ha, ha, ha... Lord Chu is joking."

"Why? You don't believe I can live to be two hundred years old?"

"I believe it, of course I believe it. Two hundred years is not enough. Master Chu must be immortal and live as long as the sky."

"Haha, Lord Xin said it well. I like to hear that."

Haitang Duoduo looked at the guy who was a flatterer and the other who accepted everything, and finally understood why the two of them could become friends.

On this point, she really blamed her husband wrongly.

What is the purpose of cultivating immortals? Isn't it to transcend the five elements and achieve immortality? Chu Pingsheng cultivated magic, and his pursuit of nature is even higher than cultivating immortals. Immortality and living as long as the sky, how normal it is.

"Master Xin, I'm curious what Li Yunqian would think if he knew what you said to me."

When Xin Qiwu heard this, he broke out in a cold sweat.

He shouted "Long live Li Yunqian, long, long live Li Yunqian" in the court, which means Chu Pingsheng will live as long as heaven. It is obvious that he puts the latter in a higher position than the former. If Emperor Qing really knew about it, what good would it do?

"Sir, please don't scare me. I'm timid and can't stand being scared. If you do this a few more times, I'll die."

"Okay, enough of the small talk. Did Li Yunqian send you here to deliver some supplements?"

"Oh, that's right. The Emperor named the eldest prince as the Prince of Peace this morning and decided to hold a banquet in Qingyun Palace a week later to celebrate the eldest prince's marriage to the eldest princess of Northern Qi. Let me ask Miss Haitang if your injury has healed and whether you can enter the palace to attend."

"The eldest prince has returned to the capital?"

In the TV series, the First Prince and Fan Xian's convoys returned to the city at the same time, causing quite a stir. But that didn't happen here. It's not because the Second Prince was under house arrest and no one was causing trouble, nor was it because Chu Pingsheng had a bad reputation and no one dared to trip him up. It was because something happened to the border troops and Li Chengru, as a prince, could not leave.

"Yes, when Lord Chu was in seclusion, the eldest prince had already returned to Kyoto."

"Tell Li Yunqian at the morning court tomorrow that I will attend the banquet seven days later on time."

"Hey, good."

Xin Qiwu didn't care about how he addressed Emperor Qing, because he was used to it. He looked at Haitang Duoduo, then at Lord Chu who had recovered from his injuries, smiled wickedly, turned around and walked away. However, when he was about to reach the door, he stopped, took something out of his arms and handed it over.

"This... I almost forgot."

Chu Pingsheng took it in his hand and took a look at it. He was delighted to find that it was a silver note with a face value of two thousand taels.

"Lord Chu and the Saintess got married in Northern Qi. I was far away in Southern Qing and could not attend. This banknote... is just a gift from me. I hope Lord Chu will accept it."

"Xin Qiwu, you have quite a lot of money, as much as two thousand taels... You know, after the death of Lai Mingcheng, the Left Censor-in-Chief of the Second Rank, his son wanted to stay in Kyoto, but he couldn't even come up with three hundred taels of silver. You've given me two thousand taels, tut tut." Chu Pingsheng raised his eyebrows at him: "It seems you've made a lot of money over the years."

When Xin Qiwu heard this, his eyes drooped, his nose wrinkled, and his face, which came with its own background music, seemed to be laughing and crying: "Sir, this... I borrowed money from everywhere to get this amount."

"Oh?"

"The eldest princess got ten thousand taels, a winery outside the city, the crown prince got five thousand taels, a pair of South China Sea coral trees, and the eldest and third princes got a little less, but still around four thousand taels. Considering the friendship between me and Lord Chu, I should get at least three thousand taels, but... but... Lord Chu, I'm not afraid of you laughing at me now. My seventy-year-old mother's coffin is in there." When Xin Qiwu said this, his eyes turned red.

Chu Pingsheng thought about it for a moment and understood.

Xin Qiwu was originally a fifth-rank Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple, with little real power and no benefits to be gained. However, because of his connections, he was promoted all the way up and is now a third-rank Minister of Rites. This promotion was too fast, and he had no chance to build good relationships with his colleagues, cover up for each other, or make some extra money.

When he married Haitang Duoduo, the eldest and third princes of Nanqing were given 4,000 taels of silver. Everyone knew the relationship between Xin Qiwu and him. It was normal for officials of the same rank or first rank to be in the same rank. Two thousand taels of silver was indeed a little too little.

"Take it back."

Chu Pingsheng waved the banknote lightly, and the banknote flew back into Xin Qiwu's arms as if it had gained weight.

"Sir, this is... what I feel..."

"You also said it was a token of your heart, so I have received your heart, but I won't give you something as mundane as silver."

"grown ups?"

"Do you want me to tell Li Yunqian about this in seven days and ask him to send someone from the Dali Temple to investigate you?"

Xin Qiwu quickly put the banknote into his sleeve and said with a smile: "Then I will not bother you anymore."

"Get out of here now."

"Hey."

The guy responded quickly, swung his arms, moved his legs, and walked away happily.

Chu Pingsheng smiled and shook his head, then turned to look at his wife.

“How much money did we receive?”

She said nonchalantly, "Yes, the gifts and banknotes are still piled up in the hall in front."

"Ten thousand taels, plus a winery. The princess is so generous. If you don't know, you would think I married her daughter."

"By the way, she also left a letter for you."

When Haitang Duoduo heard him mention the eldest princess, she took out a letter from her arms and handed it to him.

"You didn't see it?"

"Why should I read a letter your mother-in-law wrote to you?"

Chu Pingsheng laughed dumbly: "Are you jealous?"

Haitang Duoduo rolled her eyes at him.

Chu Pingsheng turned around to read the letter and frowned after a moment.

"No wonder she's like this."

"what happened?"

"After Fan Xian returned to the capital, he presented to Li Yunqian the evidence that Shen Wan'er had obtained of her using the inner treasury to smuggle and profit with high-ranking officials of Northern Qi. Li Yunqian was furious and told her to hand over the inner treasury and get out of Kyoto as soon as possible and go to her fiefdom of Xinyang."

"So she went to Xinyang. Since she couldn't manage her business in Jingdu, it was just going to be wasted anyway, so she decided to take advantage of the situation and use this as a way to befriend you and take revenge on Fan Xian?" She sighed heavily, "This mother, for her own sake, even disregarded her daughter's happiness. She is really a lunatic."

"Who told you that I can't give Lin Wan'er happiness?" Chu Pingsheng said, "Do you regret following me?"

"I regret it."

"The main door faces south, please."

Haitang Duoduo winked at him, made an angry face, waved her fist, and left angrily.

"This girl."

Chu Pingsheng got up from the bed, gently patted his palm with the envelope, and looked thoughtful.

Li Yunqian sent Xin Qiwu to deliver supplements. On the surface, it seemed that he cared about him, but in fact, he wanted to spy on him. Although there was no evidence of the changes in the border army of Qing State, with Li Yunqian's intelligence, he should be able to guess that it was him who did it. He should be further tested at the banquet to celebrate the victory of Prince Li Chengru seven days later.

After all, he was practicing domineering Qi. The more he practiced, the greater the damage to his body.

"It will be a very tense wedding banquet, and with such a loving mother-in-law, how can I bear to see you leave Kyoto?"

As his palms became redder and redder, the letter suddenly ignited and turned into ashes in the blink of an eye.

(End of this chapter)