I have the best bloodline.

Since the Lord of Luanming County returned to Xia Yu, he has been at home because his father, King Xuan, was seriously ill. He did not go to Wanhua Pavilion to have fun as before, nor did he have time to go to Ruchun Garden to flirt with talented girls. Or pet the fox.

Therefore, when Su Yan opened his mouth to say hello, he was the first to ask about the situation of the county lord's father.

"The magic power is still dissipating slowly as usual. The newly appointed Imperial Medical Office has improved the prescription and temporarily stopped the flow of magic power." County Lord Luanming shook his head and said: "There should be no serious problem for the time being, but we still need to watch it next. In my father’s case, medicine alleviated the loss of cultivation.”

King Xuan's own illness is not an illness, but a backlash of the Luanniao tribe's innate secret method. Princess Xuan's death was like a stone hitting an urn, knocking a crack into the foundation of King Xuan's immortality. The cracked urn would eventually fall apart as time went by.

There is no cure for this disease, unless there is no blood in Xuan Wang's body, but the blood of the Luan Bird may cure it.

The newly appointed Medical Fairy of the Imperial Medical Office has the method to cure King Xuan's pain, but he is afraid that King Xuan will not be willing to fight to the death.

"Where's Qingya? Why hasn't Qingya come yet?" Su Yan was sitting on the flower bed in front of the Taishi Mansion. Seeing that the time agreed in the letter was approaching, another group of four people and two Sanren came to the door of the Taishi Mansion. , but Qing Ya's arrival has not been seen for a long time. Su Yan couldn't help but feel a little anxious in his heart.

"Brother Su."

After Zhou You heard this, he was silent for a while, and then slowly said: "Although Miss Qingya helped us a lot when we were in Flower City, Qingya went to the flower area under the order of the Imperial Medical Office, and investigating the ins and outs of the Immortal Sect is not an official outing trip. a member.”

"She should still be in the Imperial Medical Office now, right? How could she be here?"

Qingya did not participate in the imperial martial arts performance, nor did she attend Yongle Academy. She was not originally a member of the outing trip. The reason why they were on the same boat was just because I gave her a lift at that time.

"forget."

Su Yan was stunned for a moment, and after being reminded by Zhou You, he said with a look of sudden realization: "I used to be used to five people being arrogant in the Flower City together, and they all forgot that Qingya has always been affiliated with the Imperial Medical Office."

"Everyone."

Just when Su Yan lamented that he was forgetful, the previously closed door of the Taishi Mansion opened, and two girls dressed as maids walked out, looked at the ten people who were already waiting in front of the door, and said:

"The master is already waiting for you in the lobby. If there is nothing else, we will lead you into the Grand Master's Mansion next. Please don't walk around the mansion at will, so as not to see things you shouldn't see or know. and lost his life.”

The two maids looked at the students who were about to enter the Taishi Mansion with warning expressions on their faces.

Su Yan didn't feel anything when he heard this, and followed the two maids directly to the courtyard. The layout and decoration of Taishi Jin's home were not particular at all. It was just a pile of materials. Everywhere he looked were precious handicrafts and a lot of clever materials. Stone decorations.

Including those on the ground and hanging from the ceiling, all are precious spiritual woven crafts. The style reveals a maximalism, gorgeous and complicated.

It does not look cluttered, and the color collision between objects creates a visual shock.

Su Yan had only seen such style of home decoration at the Dragon King's cold retreat in the West Sea. Of course, Father Long's aesthetics were also maximalist, but later, Mother Fox felt it was too much, so she threw them all away.

There are so many flashy gadgets in the house that the maids cry and dare not touch them or clean them, for fear that if one of them breaks, she will have to work as a slave in Mother Fox's house for the rest of her life to pay off her debts.

Mother Fox just threw them all away, so when Su Yan was born, there weren't that many bells and whistles at home.

………………

Everyone walked on the colorful marble path, passed the small bridge and watched the sparkle of gems at the bottom of the pool, and then came to the hall where the Grand Master usually handled government affairs. Stacks of copywriting were piled on the ground casually, and Grand Master Sumire sat there. Behind the long table in the center of the hall.

Two slender shelves formed an encirclement, coming from behind Sumire Taishi. They were piled with objects. The roof of the upper storey of books was made of glazed tiles. The sunlight shining on the books enlarged the visual effect, giving people who just entered the door a sense of wonder. A feeling of oppression like the collapse of a mountain.

"Everyone, sit down!"

Master Sumire was not at work, just sitting in her usual office position, and said calmly:

"I already know your demands. There is no need to talk about those things again. What I want to say is that you will get my guidance and teach you the general secret method of dragon clan to strengthen the human body."

"What do you think? Has anyone quit?"

Su Yan looked at Grand Master Jin quietly, slightly sensing that something was wrong, but couldn't put it into words.

Faced with Master Jin's affirmation of the previous reward, his willingness to teach everyone how to practice, and the gift of dragon clan secrets, everyone naturally had no objections at all. Even Zhou You, who complained a few days ago and ran away just to get the spirit stone, and continued to travel around the world of cultivation to create a book of all things in the world of cultivation, could not say a word "no" when faced with the grand master's increased reward.

"Hahaha"

Grandmaster Sumire chuckled twice and said, "Let's all go to the garden on the left and start practicing!"

"By the way. Su Yan, please keep it for a moment. There is a file here that you need to send to the Ministry of Etiquette."

Su Yan not only knows the facilities inside the imperial city, but also has the Red Jade Hairpin Sword, which allows him to travel freely in most of the imperial city. Therefore, Master Jin asked Su Yan to stay and send a file.

"Why do you look so strange?" Master Jin took out a file and gave it to Su Yan, but saw that Su Yan did not leave, but looked strange and hesitant.

"There is nothing strange. I don't like to keep servants in my residence. Only a dozen maids without cultivation can live here for a long time."

Master Jin smiled and said, "Next year, Xia Yu will worship his ancestors in mid-January. Don't you understand it now?"

"Oh!"

After Su Yan thought about it carefully, an exclamation mark suddenly appeared on his head and said, "Xia Yu is going to close the account!"

Master Jin's words may be a bit confusing, but the truth is actually very simple, that is, after a period of time, Xia Yu Hall will start to collect accounts and gather all the taxes and donations obtained by officials from all over the country to Xia Yu City.

By then, the Ministry of Revenue will need to deal with the astronomical amount of taxes, donations, and land of the Xia Yu Dynasty, and no mistakes can be made.

The Ministry of Personnel also needs to conduct a nationwide tour of guidance, and start assessing low-level local officials based on the accounts provided by the Ministry of Revenue.

The Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Works also need to prepare for celebrations, and at the end of the year, many officials of the Xia Yu Dynasty died suddenly due to the number of accounts and the tour of the country.

Obviously, if the six ministries of the Xia Yu court are busy, then the Grand Tutor Jin will naturally be busy.

Combined with the significance of the outing, which is to select young people who are loyal to Xia Yu for special treatment, and the fact that Grand Tutor Jin usually does not like to use attendants, we can draw a conclusion.

One of the reasons why Grand Tutor Jin guides students to practice and teaches the dragon clan how to strengthen their physique is that the students who can pass the outing are all Xia Yu's own people, and they can get in touch with some of Xia Yu's internal affairs.

In this way, a month later, when the Xia Yu Dynasty is busy with the closing of accounts, Grand Tutor Jin has already trained "soldiers" and can deal with the vouchers collected by officials from the six ministries at any time.

To put it bluntly, the secret methods and cultivation methods taught now are all for students to strengthen their bodies, so as to prevent them from sudden death when they are handling official duties in a high-intensity manner.

"Don't worry. You are not included in this. Your parents are preparing for the wedding banquet now. Maybe you will go home when the Xia Yu Dynasty is the busiest." Grand Tutor Jin said, "Just practice well here."

Su Yan: "."

Are you a nesting doll? How come you can receive the prize after the outing, but now there are pits after pits?

Aren't you bullying the students to be honest?

………………

Su Yan walked out of the Grand Tutor's Mansion with a lot of complaints in his heart, summoned the Red Jade Hairpin Sword from high above, and used the Red Jade Hairpin Sword to hit a carriage in the imperial city, and got on the car to drive to the location of the Ministry of Rites.

Although the three divisions and six ministries are said in succession, the three divisions and six ministries are not in the same place for work on weekdays.

The Ministry of Rites covers a very large area and is responsible for rituals, music, academies, religion, diplomacy, and later, the function of opening a betting office secretly given to Xia Yu by Grand Master Jin.

Before Su Yan came to the Ministry of Rites, he had always thought that the Ministry was full of talented women from the Jiaofangsi who were studying singing and dancing skills, rehearsing for performances, or teaching in the Palace of Rites and Music.

But Su Yan, who came to deliver a letter, did not visit the thousands of houses in the Ministry of Rites, nor did he go to the lake next to the Palace of Rites to appreciate the talented women who practiced dancing hard. Instead, he came to the department with the strongest revenue in the Ministry of Rites.

"Sixth room, six rooms! The betting plate of the Red King's Mansion, five black dogs challenge five red foxes, all in the flower area, small demons in the body refining period, and useless medicine history. Calculate the odds, and three incense sticks are needed to get the result."

In a tower, a glazed sky curtain was propped up above the open-air courtyard to block the sun and rain. The stage stood right above the courtyard. More than 20 girls dressed in beautiful dancers' costumes stood on the stage, but they did not show their dance or singing voices. Instead, they held a bunch of sound transmission jades and answered the phone.

After listening to the information in the jade slip, the girls used their hard-trained singing skills to sing a steady and high-pitched voice:

"Room 46, Room 46, life and death game, the second young master of the Jiang family in Qingcheng challenges the third son of the Hu family in the same city. The Ministry of Rites does not have the information of the Qingcheng clan, so we need to apply to the Ministry of Personnel. The winner needs to be calculated before the afternoon of the next day."

"Ah, okay, okay."

A little head popped out of Room 18, and the news was told by the announcer in triplicate. One copy was used to calculate the winning rate for the girls in the room, one was used for reporting when collecting materials, and one was kept as a backup. If the loss mechanism is triggered, it will be used to check the account and correct errors.

"Is this really the Ministry of Rites? Are you sure it's not outrageous here?"

Su Yan, who came to deliver the documents, listened to the sound of the abacus coming from each room, and looked at the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites with a stunned face and complained.

"Hahaha"

The Left Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites chuckled and said: "Here is the secret of our Ministry of Rites' long-term profit. We use metaphysics to determine the direction of good and bad luck, and then use arithmetic to calculate the winning rate through a special algorithm formula."

"Or we use statistics to finally decide what rewards to offer."

"The girls who can go to the Jiaofangsi are proficient in the eight arts of music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, flowers and tea, and there are not a few who know arithmetic."

Girls born in official families will be sentenced to the Ministry of Rites if their elders break the law. Some of them will be sent to the Music Theory Academy if they are good at singing and dancing, and those who are good at arithmetic and proficient in singing skills will be sent to special training in arithmetic.

The remaining family members of death row prisoners, as well as family members of those who were exiled or imprisoned, were sorted out and assigned to prisons or brothels based on their character and skills.

Su Yanneng took Taishi Jin's documents and came to the inner building of the Ministry of Rites, so he must be one of his own.

Although the left minister of the Ministry of Rites had no free time and took Su Yan around for a walk, he still gave him a general explanation of what the girls in the Jiaofang Division were doing.

They are now working on spiritual stones and earning excessive profits for the Xia Yu Dynasty!

Su Yan was dumbfounded throughout the whole process, and left the Ministry of Rites dumbfounded to take a carriage back to the Taishi Mansion.

"Auntie, Xia Yu doesn't talk about metaphysics, but statistics. It would be better if you don't get involved in it in the future!" Su Yan's face was full of shock after he came back to his senses. He had every reason to doubt what was going on inside the enclosed building in front of him. Even within Xia Yu's court, only a few people knew about it.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be such an official, and he would go to the handicap with a happy face.

……………………

On Su Yan's first day at the Grand Master's Mansion, he was so shocked that he fainted like a fox.

As soon as he got off work, Su Yan risked his wife's kiss and hug, rushed back to Ruchun Garden, pulled his aunt into the corner of the dormitory, and secretly told her not to go to Xia Yu Handicap to gamble if she had nothing to do in the future.

The Ministry of Etiquette's handicap does not talk about martial ethics, but uses extra tricks!

"Losing? Auntie, am I still afraid of losing the bet?"

When the aunt heard this, she sneered, hugged the little fox and held it up high, saying, "Outside moves? I'm afraid they have never seen what top-level luck is!"

"Little nephew! Let's go now and go to their rites department to kill their arrogance!"

The aunt held up the little fox and entered the door of the Ministry of Etiquette.

An hour later, the aunt and the little fox dragged four large sacks out of the Handicap Court of the Ministry of Etiquette.

………………

Time passed slowly. Su Yan, under the guidance of Grand Master Jin, occasionally ran errands to help deliver documents to the Sixth Department of the Xia Yu Dynasty, and actively began to prepare things to deal with the Nascent Soul Stage Heavenly Tribulation.

"Gududu"

As late autumn approached winter, the temperature in the Xia Yu Dynasty was about to rise suddenly, and there was a counterattack. Su Yan was so hot that he manifested his true form, and the entire fox jumped onto the steps of the gem pool in Taishi Jin's mansion.

Su Yan was lying on the steps of the gem pool. Most of his body was soaked in the mountain spring water. His little nose made a burst of small bubbles on the water surface with each breath. The right half of his body was hanging under the steps, swaying. .

"it's too hot"

Zhou You ran out of the hot and sunny garden, untied his belt, took off his thin gown and twisted it. The sweat dripped from his clothes and fell to the ground, where it all evaporated in a matter of seconds.

Zhou You glanced at Su Yan, who was soaking in the pool and spitting bubbles with a lifeless expression on his face, and then glanced at Taishi Jin, who had cultivated to the point where he could withstand the cold and heat, but was slowly eating jam poured over shaved ice, and spoke. Asked:

"Master Taishi, is the temperature normal now? Early winter is almost here, but it's so hot."

"The temperature rise is abnormal now. If you have any objections, you can try to pull out your sword, point it at the sun in the sky, and say "stinky black chicken."

Taishi Sumire, who was eating shaved ice, responded to Zhou You slowly and calmly.

Now in the Xia Yu Dynasty, the temperature at noon can easily reach more than 40 degrees. Even if the temperature rises, it will not rise to more than 40 degrees when early winter is approaching.

The reason why the temperature is so abnormal has to do with the nine-tailed fox and the three-legged golden crow.

They are using the power of heaven to dissolve the lingering cold air at the bottom of the North Sea Cliff, intending to pull the self-proclaimed nine-tailed fox god out of the bottom of the cliff.

"Can you cool down by scolding?"

"If I curse you, you will die. After you die, your body should be very cool."

"."

Master Jin was smiling and telling cold jokes, which frightened Zhou You so much that he felt cold all over. Suddenly he no longer felt hot, and cold sweat oozed from his forehead.

"Gudududu."

Su Yan, whose belly was cold and the hair on his back was hot, silently turned over in the gem pool, letting his cold belly bask in the sun while the hair on his back was soaked in the water.

[Is the little fox coming? 】

【Give it a try! It’s really awesome.]

【call out--】

A strange sound and feeling appeared in Su Yan's mind.

It was gently teasing Su Yan, telling Su Yan the mystery of the Nascent Soul stage.

Su Yan has experienced such a strange situation twice since he followed Taishi Jin. The strange feeling that emerged in his heart was not that the voice or someone was tempting Su Yan, but that the blood in Su Yan's body was screaming. Desire to evolve to a higher level.

The blood instinct is urging Su Yan to summon the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation immediately and become a Nascent Soul cultivator.

Of course, Su Yan didn't pay much attention to it. In the words of Grand Master Jin, the disaster will come naturally when it is supposed to come, and there is no need to do extra things.

Unless you think your life is hard enough and want to make it more difficult for yourself to challenge the laws of heaven and earth.

[The calamity is due at noon on the second day. 】

Just when Su Yan ignored his instinctive temptation, he suddenly felt a sense of terror. A sentence appeared in Su Yan's mind, and every word was like a raging flame, imprinted in Su Yan's heart unforgettably.