Chapter 253
"Besides, the mission belongs to both of us. Tell me, isn't it awesome to get points just by eating melons and enjoying the gossip?"
The system thought about it and agreed. Furthermore, their persona was that of immortals descending to the mortal realm to experience trials. If the host was too approachable and did too much, it really wouldn't be appropriate.
The current situation was just fine. It immediately flattered her, [Host, the emperor and all the officials are acting as your beasts of burden. You are so incredibly awesome!]
Yue Fuguang tilted her head up, put her hands on her hips, and said arrogantly, "Of course. Working for anyone is still working, but the most important thing is that I pay them well!
Also, the map you displayed today was much clearer than the one during the potato sacrifice. Has your data recovered a bit more?"
[Host, it's not data recovery. I leveled up again!]
"You leveled up? Why didn't you say so earlier? Hurry up and tell me what new functions you have."
The function to see merit and luck that appeared last time had been fun for a while. After looking at all the civil and military officials in the court, she had long since gotten bored of it.
[The Gossip System's inner voice can now cover a radius of one kilometer, and it can be directed at up to three hundred people. The Merit System can now show a person's specific merit value.
It is much more precise than at level three, when you could only see the color of their merit and luck.
Most importantly, there is now a live-streaming function!] Although this live-streaming had some restrictions, having it was better than not!
Not bad, not bad. For a crippled system to get new functions with every upgrade, Yue Fuguang was already very satisfied!
The number of targets for the directed inner voice leak had grown from one hundred and fifty to three hundred, doubling in size. In the future, when encountering grand occasions, she could develop even more usable believers!
As for the live-streaming, she could use it to show off when the opportunity arose, giving these backward ancients a little shock!
The next day, just as Yue Fuguang finished her morning classes and had lunch, she was preparing to take a short nap.
Then she saw the Crown Prince walk in.
"Crown Prince, shouldn't you be preparing for your grand wedding? How do you have the free time to come to the Hongwen Pavilion?"
For the Crown Prince's wedding, although the Ministry of Rites handled the procedures, as the groom-to-be, he still needed to learn the wedding etiquette.
After all, it was his first time getting married, and he had no experience.
The last time the Great Yan Dynasty had such a grand occasion was when his parents got married, which he didn't have the chance to witness himself, so of course he had to learn!
The Crown Prince smiled and said, "It's raining today, so the afternoon equestrian class is canceled. I just happened to have some free time, so I came to invite the Junior Preceptor to stroll through my royal father's private storehouse with me."
Upon hearing the Crown Prince's words, never mind Yue Fuguang, the surrounding princes, princesses, and study companions all gasped in shock.
Stroll where?
His Majesty's private storehouse!
Was that a place just anyone could go?
The Crown Prince even used the word 'stroll', which was quite audacious.
Yue Fuguang stood up, instructed her two older sisters to return to the manor first, and then said to the Crown Prince, "Alright, let's go see what good things His Majesty has hidden away."
Seeing her relaxed demeanor, as if she were going for a stroll in her own backyard, everyone was a bit dumbfounded!
These two, truly one dared to suggest it, and the other dared to agree!
Did His Majesty even know you were going to his private storehouse?
Emperor Mingxi: I didn't know? Could this son who favors outsiders even get in otherwise?
He would never admit to death that, in order not to be looked down upon by these two "ancestors", he had secretly ordered Eunuch Qian yesterday to place some of his favorite treasures into the private storehouse to keep up appearances.
[Master, what is there to see in a mortal's private storehouse? There are no immortal herbs, spiritual materials, precious artifacts, or immortal pills. Taking them is useless!]
"Little Zhu, I am currently a mortal little girl. Don't you think it would be strange if I didn't like these things?"
Xie Zhiyan: It truly is a grievance for these two ancestors!
[Master, should we tell the Crown Prince and the Emperor that Shen Dongxue is Luo Xue's daughter?]
"Of course we have to tell them. Otherwise, once Feng Yang finds out about Dongxue's existence, he will definitely make a move against her so that his grandson can inherit the Luoxia Villa.
I don't want to worry too much about it, so the imperial court will have to pay a little attention and help keep an eye on Luoxia Villa."
Xie Zhiyan silently committed this to memory. Understood. He would pass down the orders to have people help the Junior Preceptor keep an eye on things.
[Does Master want to use the Emperor's hand to eliminate Feng Yang?]
"What else? If we just strike him dead with lightning right away, Luo Feng and Luo Yu alone wouldn't be able to uproot all the other strongholds of the Wind and Rain Pavilion in Great Yan."
[Are there strongholds that Luo Feng, the young pavilion master, doesn't know about?]
"Feng Yang will definitely hold something back. However, how much they can dig out will depend on the interrogation methods of Wei Ping and Cai Xian.
Little Zhu, can you confirm where Feng Yang is hiding right now?"
[Master, Feng Yang is currently hiding in Fahua Temple, a hundred miles outside the capital city of Shangjing. You would never guess what his current identity is.]
Yue Fuguang's lips curled up. "I guess he is either the abbot, the gatekeeper of the Sutra Pavilion, or an inconspicuous sweeping monk."
Here it comes, here it comes, what a classic trope!
[Master, you actually guessed wrong this time! Feng Yang is currently neither a sweeping monk nor the monk guarding the Sutra Pavilion.
He is now just an ordinary old lay Buddhist who is temporarily residing in the temple, devoted to Buddha.
However, the abbot of Fahua Temple is his Left Protector, and the gatekeeper of the Sutra Pavilion is his Right Protector.
The sweeping monk is his armed guard.
What they are guarding is not the scriptures inside, but the massive amount of treasure in the secret chamber beneath the Sutra Pavilion, all obtained by the Wind and Rain Pavilion through years of murder and robbery.]
Xie Zhiyan nodded inwardly. He noted it all down. As soon as he got out of the private storehouse, he would notify the two ministers, Wei Ping and Cai Xian, to arrest them.
He would just say that Luo Feng confessed it. Otherwise, if they waited for the Junior Preceptor to remind them, Feng Yang might run away upon seeing the bad situation, and it would be hard to catch him!
While Xie Zhiyan was thinking about how to arrest them without alerting the people in the temple, Yue Fuguang started chatting with the system about other things.
[Host, how should we deal with Luo Feng's two children?]
"If it were me, I would prefer the approach from my hometown: pull up the weeds by the roots to leave no future troubles. After all, having one story of the Orphan of Zhao is enough."
[Do you have the heart to do that? Have you forgotten how you died?]
"How is that the same? A saying I have always praised is, 'If they are not of our kin, their hearts must be different.' These two children have always been raised by Feng Yang and his daughter.
In fact, they are Western Qiang people. Besides, didn't you check that the lives of these two are worth eight hundred points in the system's mission bar?
With lives worth eight hundred points, you don't even need to look at the original history to know they deserve to be killed!"
Yue Fuguang's words left System 07, whose Merit System had temporarily gained the upper hand due to the upgrade, completely speechless.
The two of them walked all the way to the main entrance of the private storehouse.
From the outside, it was a tall and sturdy building, looking like it had about eight or nine rooms.
The walls were thicker than elsewhere and looked very new with a gray hue, probably because they were coated with cement.
The main doors were three meters high, made of an unrecognizable wood that felt incredibly solid. A massive iron lock hung on them, and the windows used iron bars for lattices.
As for the security forces, there were two guards at the door, and guards stationed at the surrounding intersections.
There were also two squads of guards patrolling back and forth, with ten men in each squad.
Just as the two stopped at the entrance, two minor officials in green robes ran over. After inspecting the warrant Xie Zhiyan handed them, one signaled the other to help open the storehouse doors together.
"These two minor officials in green robes must be people Emperor Mingxi trusts very much to be able to guard his storehouse doors."
[Of course they are trusted by the Emperor! It's just a pity that the Emperor's blindness when it comes to judging character remains as stable as ever.]