Xia Ningzhu exclaimed and said: "Don't call me 9527! Well, the words you scolded are similar to what my father usually scolds. My father always complains that the law limiting the number of guards is nonsense. It's just a waste of money. Government money."

Shen Yue was not interested in the bad governance of the imperial court and just complained about it casually. He then asked: "What is Cheng Yun's status in the Taiyue Sect?"

"What, are you scared?" Xia Ningzhu winked slyly and said with a smile.

Shen Yue said with disdain: "9527, don't tease the master at will! Oh, I have nothing to be afraid of. If I were afraid, I would have killed you and silenced you long ago."

Xia Ningzhu was startled when he heard this. He didn't bother to correct the code name of 9527, and said timidly: "You...you won't let me kill you after I finish building the house...kill me to silence me." ?”

Shen Yue rolled his eyes at her and said, "I'm not as cowardly as you think. I keep my word. As long as you be honest, the task is completed and you can go wherever you like!"

Xia Ningzhu curled her lips and said: "Who knows what you think, if you still want to kill me after finishing the work, I would be unjust!"

"Why do you always remind me to kill people and silence them?"

"How can I, uh... Let's talk about that Cheng Yun. His master is the elder of Taiyue Sect, and he is an old friend of my father. But I think what you really have to worry about is not his sect, but It's his father."

Xia Ningzhu deliberately stopped talking and took a slow sip of the mushroom soup. She felt that it tasted very good and took another sip.

"Don't be too pretentious and say it quickly." Shen Yue tried to grab the bowl in her hand.

Xia Ningzhu quickly covered her hands and said: "His father is Fuyang Hou Chengming. Although he has no real power now and only holds a casual position. But Cheng Ming's mother is the late emperor's biological sister, Princess Changqing! In other words, Cheng Ming is your majesty's current wife. Dear cousin!"

Shen Yue was very surprised. He didn't expect that Cheng Yun had such a prominent family background, but he immediately thought of a question and wondered: "Are you talking nonsense? With such a prominent family background, how could he come to your house to be a guest? ?How can you get an official position for free?"

Xia Ningzhu rolled her eyes mischievously and said: "Let me just say you are a savage from the mountains! You really don't know anything about the situation in the court today! Now that the Queen Mother's relatives are in power, for such serious relatives of the emperor, How could it not be suppressed? Cheng Minggui could only hold a casual position as Fuyang Marquis, let alone his son! However, Cheng Ming seemed to have always wanted to find a position for his son, so he had to turn a corner and join the Taiyue Sect. He sent his information to my father, hoping that my father could help him."

Shen Yue looked at Xia Ningzhu in confusion and said: "I said, how come you know so much about these messy things? As a stupid young lady, it doesn't match your personality!"

Xia Ningzhu snorted. Although she didn't quite understand what "personality" meant, she thought it was not a good thing to say. She pouted and said angrily: "What are you talking about? You are so stupid! I have learned everything from ancient times to modern times." , you are not those delicate eldest ladies in the capital. My aunt, I have been practicing outside since I was a child, how could I not know anything! I usually like to listen to these things about the court, and my father often tells me about them!"

"Then when I first met you, why did you act so arrogant and otherworldly?"

"Well, I can just pretend. You are a savage. If I want to kill you..."

She stopped what she was about to say, but Shen Yue understood the meaning of the second half of her words: Although she was not raised in a boudoir like some wealthy ladies, she still had a habitual indifference towards people of low status. For her, killing A savage living in the mountains is nothing more than a small matter.

Shen Yue was silent for a while and said: "I hope you will remember this sentence in the future. Only when you treat others as human beings will you truly be considered a human being!"

Xia Ningzhu regretted what she just said. When she heard what Shen Yue said, she thought about these two sentences again and again and nodded silently.

Seeing that the atmosphere was getting tense, Shen Yue changed the subject and said, "Let's continue what we just said. The Cheng family is really complicated. Your father should be planning to give him an official position, right? Otherwise, he wouldn't agree to accept him as a guest."

Xia Ningzhu hurriedly answered: "You are right, my father is indeed planning to let Cheng Yun work hard for one year and then promote him to the position of a hundred households in the Tailing County garrison. However, Cheng Yun has not been there since he arrived. I had been on duty, but the two missions were a mess, and my father was a little unhappy. This guy also realized that he was not doing well, and then he always followed me and wanted to please me. This time he also encouraged me to run away secretly. Came out to play."

Shen Yue looked at Xia Ningzhu's soft and charming face and said to himself: This is the transformation into a dog licker. It really complied with the saying "licking a dog will not lead to a good death"!

Xia Ningzhu saw Shen Yue staring at her and said slightly warily: "Why are you staring at me?"

Shen Yue rolled his eyes and said helplessly: "I'm not a licker, so stop being so sentimental!"

"What is dog licking?"

"...a kind of person destined to die a bad death...a monster."

..a kind of human being destined to die a bad death...a monster."

That night, Shen Yue and Xia Ningzhu chatted for a long time. Xiao Huan felt bored and fell asleep early.

The conversation between the two basically follows the pattern of Shen Yue asking Xia Ningzhu.

Shen Yue learned that the entire Hongguo court could be described as centrifugal. Not only were there vassal towns and Jiedu envoys who ruled each side, but the imperial power was also suppressed by foreign relatives, and state and county officials were working in their own way.

In Shen Yue's previous life, as an archaeologist who was mainly engaged in research on the Han and Tang Dynasties, he felt that Hongguo was simply a combination of various shortcomings in the late Han and Tang Dynasties!

Out of professional hobbies, he really wanted to study this living specimen in depth, but in such a chaotic situation, for a small person like himself, he had better save his life! After all, it is not easy to travel through time, and it is safer to stay in the mountains.

Shen Yue took out the pile of spiritual weapons and flying knives and asked Xia Ningzhu to give him some knowledge, but Xia Ningzhu was mostly confused about these things and was not as concerned about political gossip as she was.

She only knew how to use most of these things and didn't know what they were called. But she knew the flying knife very well.

According to her, it was indeed a magic weapon. It even existed in the "Treasure Instruments Manual" and was named "Zhu Yan", ranking fifty-sixth in the "Treasure Instruments Manual".

It is recorded in the genealogy that more than a thousand years ago, the Lihuo Sect in the South accidentally obtained a Vermilion Bird Feather deep in a volcano, mixed it with the essence of underground lava, and after more than ten years of forging and smelting, it finally took shape.

Later, the sect gradually disappeared, and Zhu Yan was acquired by Xia Ningzhu's father. Xia Ningzhu broke through to the third level the year before last. Her father was very happy, and specially gave Zhu Yan to her on her eighteenth birthday, and also taught her She developed her fighting skills specifically to coordinate with flying knives.

Due to the great power of the Zhu Yan and the violent energy of the fire spirit contained within it, in order to prevent it from accidentally injuring his beloved daughter, Xia's father deliberately sealed part of the aura of the sword. This approach was quite similar to what Qi Yang Hou Huang Quan did to Long Hua.

After hearing this, Shen Yue complained in his heart: These dignitaries are simply child's play. They give their children such precious treasures to defend themselves, but they are afraid of hurting their children. As a result, they have made castrated versions of themselves, resulting in their children being unable to exert the power of the magic weapon when they really face the enemy. Instead, I suffered a big loss!

After the chat ended that night, the two of them went back to their houses to practice. Shen Yue had already given up on banning Xia Ningzhu: This girl is not bad in nature, but she is too unruly, and her life is too smooth, so she has no scruples. It would be good for her and the people around her to sharpen her temper.
Chapter completed!