Chapter 84 Friends
When the unusual aroma of food wafted from the Imperial Cuisine Room, outside the Southern City Gates there was a line of people entering the gates at this time at a rapid pace.
“Shizi, should we return to the residence first or go into the palace first to meet the Emperor?”
The guard accompanying the rear of the leading date-red horse loudly asked the handsome youth in front of him amidst the sound of the horse’s hooves.
“Face the Emperor first! The Emperor is definitely waiting for us!”
As the resounding words fluttered in the wind, the group had sped far ahead again.
The emperor had only finished approving the folders at hand when he himself hurriedly came in, “Your Majesty, Marquis Qingyun’s son has returned!”
“Oh?”
The emperor immediately stood up at his words, “Where is he?”
“Just outside the palace gates!”
“Quickly summon him in!”
The emperor said as he walked to the main hall, and not long after, the youth who had previously straddled a jujube-red horse and traveled to the capital in dusty conditions was striding through the hall doors, “Subject Zhao Sum, see you, your majesty!”
“Get up!” The emperor stepped forward and after sizing him up twice said, “Come and sit!”
Zhao Corner stood up and followed him into the west wing, and then unclasped a bag he was carrying, “Finally, I have not dishonored my mission, I went south this time, and accomplished all the things that the emperor had explained to me.”
He unwrapped the bag and flipped out a bunch of dossiers.
The emperor casually picked up a book to look at, and turn over another book. After doing so for three or four times, he said, “In that case, under the influence of the sea transportation, the atmosphere around the south is indeed more open than that of the Central Plains.”
“Indeed.” Zhao Sum said. After saying this, he flipped out two more volumes from his bag, “This is the state of the people’s customs recorded by the king’s own handwriting, as well as some information about the academies around the region. The other book is the general situation of the scholarly clans in the south.”
The emperor also took it in his hand and flipped through it. Then asked, “Does second brother have anything else to explain?”
“His Highness just said that it may not be impossible for the Emperor to select a scholar from a cold family, and he will help keep an eye on the situation. He will help keep an eye on the situation. He will watch over the sea transportation for the emperor, but the salt inspectors will still face a lot of temptation, so please make sure that the emperor strengthens the supervision in this area. The sea transportation can not be chaotic, a chaos within the court will also follow the chaos.”
The emperor mused, “In that case, the salt inspectors have already had problems in this area.”
Zhao Sumi nodded in agreement.
“It’s been a long journey and hard work. You first go back to your home and settle down, another day I will look for you to talk in detail.”
Zhao Corner thanked him. However, he said, “I heard that Sister Su has come to the Qianqing Palace as an errand boy? Where is she? I want to go see her.”
The emperor glanced at the eunuchs carrying food boxes outside the hall door as they streamed in, raised an eyebrow and said, “Right now, about has gone to the Forbidden Guards Department, right?”
……
Zhao Su simply didn’t want to see the emperor.
In accordance with the standard of the usual imperial meal, she made him three meat and three veggies, a soup and a staple food, and handed it over to the eunuchs to carry it to the Qianqing Palace, then she headed to the forbidden guards department on her own. Here are all good-looking handsome, to them than to the evil capitalists much better!
Speaking of which, this is also thanks to the blessing of crossing the border, before crossing the border she had never had such good luck, and was able to work in a place where handsome men were piled up!
“I’m back!”
After entering the door, the group was eating.
“Come over and sit quickly!”
Pei Zhan and the others waved to her, Zhao Su took out her own lunch box, took a stool and sat over.
Just as she sat down and picked up her chopsticks, the guards who had gone out on patrol returned. Suddenly someone said, “Where is the stool I put here earlier? Who sat on it?”
The group turned their heads. They saw that the one who spoke was Liang Ying, and the place where he pointed his finger was exactly where Zhao Su had taken the stool.
So it looked like Zhao Su should be the one who took his stool.
In fact, this stool was also the stool of the Forbidden Guard Department, not his personal stool. So Zhao Su didn’t let up and only said, “I’m sorry, the stool under the door is the one I took in sitting, I’ll put it back immediately after dinner.”
Liang Ying immediately glanced this way, her face pulling down.
Pei Zhan couldn’t help but say, “There are plenty of stools next to it, why don’t you drag another one out?”
Liang Ying glared at him, “I brought out this stool, why should I bring out another one if she sits on the one I brought out?”
Liang Ying’s voice was already a bit high when he said this, although Zhao Su thought that it was not too much for a stool, but he had already raised his voice, so let’s put it to rest! She stood up, “Okay, I’ll go get it myself.”
Pei Zhan was the first to stand up: “The stools are all in the public, when did it become a rule that whoever gets the stool belongs to whoever gets it? Even if there is such a rule, can’t we talk properly? If it’s clear that we want to start a fight, then we’re not afraid of it!”
Zhao Su didn’t want to start a fight because of herself. She could care less about Liang Ying, but Pei Zhan couldn’t care less about them, could he? His father, General Pei, had to bow his hand in front of Liang Ying’s father!
“Forget it Pei Zhan, it’s just a matter of a stool, it’s not necessary!”
After saying this, she thumped out the door to find a stool.
In fact, she also felt that Liang Ying’s attitude is a little strange, according to reason, even if she despises her uneducated, there is no need to target it everywhere, right? She looked as if she had offended him.
But no matter, she shouldn’t have been lazy and taken this stool.
“Where are you going?”
Just after stepping out of the threshold, she met a person face to face.
Zhao Su looked up, then her mouth opened wide, in front of her stood a man who resembled Marquis Qing Yun by seven or eight degrees, his brows frosty as he scanned her, then coldly scanned the group of people behind her.
“World Son?!”
The crowd of guards arched their hands in salute one after another. Liang Ying, who was arrogant and impudent just now, also collected his form at this time and silently clasped his fists.
“Brother …… brother?”
Zhao Su was dumbfounded! This was her brother! Her own brother! He actually chased him to the Forbidden Defense Department!
Zhao Sum lowered his eyes and said, “I haven’t seen you for a while, so you’ve learned how to crow like a chicken?”
God damn chickens crowing!
She was surprised and lost control of her vocal cords, okay?
I knew he would be back in the next two days, but I didn’t know he would come to the Defense Department!
“When did you come back?”
“Just now.” After saying these two words Zhao Sum raised his head, “Everyone is very lively, I seem to hear you guys talking about what stool, what stool?”
Pei Zhan twisted his head to look at Liang Ying.
Liang Ying hung her head and didn’t say anything.
“There’s nothing going on, let’s just discuss what stool is good to sit on.” Zhao Su rounded off the discussion, looking at the fact that all these people present were somewhat afraid of Zhao Sum, she didn’t want to bully others with her power.
“Really?” Zhao Sum glanced at her. “Then what exactly is a better stool to sit on?”
Zhao Su scratched her head.
Zhao Sum retracted her gaze, then she pulled her mouth and smiled with the group, “This sister of mine is rare, our entire Marquis of Qingyun’s residence is only such a young lady, at home, my father and I don’t want to speak to her out loud, here, if you don’t do well on official business, you guys can just report to the Emperor, don’t ever be polite.
“But outside of official business if there is any inconsideration, then we can only ask you all to bear a little more.”
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